- YES.
- Plus, even though they both hate being separated, the most Sam will do is try to reunite by looking for Max. Max, on the other hand, is apparently willing to kill for Sam, making him something of a Yandere, as exhibited in "What's New, Beelzebub" when he ripped out the kidneys of the demon trying to take his place. (Although it's possible that this might just be his naturally violent tendencies.)
- Not so sure about that; When Max's brain is stolen in season 3, Sam flies spectaculary of the handle, turning into something out of Sin City: He pulls Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique on everyone he meets, threatens friends with his revolver without provocation, and keeps spewing Noir lines at random.
- This could explains the sometimes questionable nature of their relationship. It's never going to progress, it's never going to turn into anything more meaningful then a few iffy jokes, and the Ho Yay theories are never going to become canon, because it's unrequited.
- Except whenever people in the games seriously mention the possibility, they become disgusted.
- It's mostly Sam who seems to horrified, though, while when Max just shows mild surprise. For instance, in "Chariots of the Dogs," when Momma Bosco accuses Sam of wanting to keep Max for himself, Sam becomes offended and denies it, while Max turns to him idly and says that he "never knew he felt this way."
- The general pattern is that when they're Mistaken for Gay, Sam tends to be much more defensive and deny it whereas Max tends to take it in stride and doesn't seem to mind, even gleefully going along with it in some cases. However, Sam is the one who's shown to be much reliant on and protective of Max, and tends to go crazy or get incredibly depressed whenever Max is gone, whereas Max usually doesn't mind being without Sam nearly as much (though there a couple of exceptions both ways).
- Except whenever people in the games seriously mention the possibility, they become disgusted.
- When disguises are necessary in the cartoons, Max almost invariably dresses as a girl. his costumes including a frilly pink swimsuit, a stewardess outfit, and a dress and heels to pose as Sam's girlfriend in "We Love Tonight."
- Plus, Sam and Max become the surrogate parents of a baby crocodile in the episode "That Darn Gator," raising it like a child instead of a pet, with Max taking on the role of the mother.
- Sam and Max are apparently married. You see this during the recap at the beginning of the first episode, with Sam as the bride and Max as the groom. This is never mentioned again, although you do see a wedding photo in the background of "The Final Episode." It might have just been a throwaway gag, but still. That's probably worth something.
- Apparently the exactly same day as their Creator◊
- Plus, Sam and Max become the surrogate parents of a baby crocodile in the episode "That Darn Gator," raising it like a child instead of a pet, with Max taking on the role of the mother.
Also, he's working with the molemen. They were building something at the end of season two.
- The molemen thing got Jossed. Apparently molemen guard ancient artifacts hidden under offices.
If they're not the same person, they're at least both extradimensional omniscient phone entities.
- But the Scout is also Ness' dad according to the Team Fortress 2 and EB WMG pages, which ties nicely into TF2 canon as well as EarthBound. It would explain Scout having the Lugermorph; Scout and Engineer had it first, and it was given to M Ax on his first mission. Then Max lost it in time and the Scout and Engineer got it.
- He hasn't figured out how.
- Sam and Max aren't his customers.
- Then there's their poor attempts at disguising themselves.
- Though you know, in the last episode, if you mention Sal, she starts acting a little...shifty....
- Who is Sal?
- The cook that Stinky shouts orders to.
- This is taken a little farther in The Penal Zone. If asked, she'll denied Sal ever existed and insists that she's been working by herself. She also refuses to let Grandpa Stinky into the kitchen and starts getting apprehensive when he asks.
- (Original poster) Well, God damn it. That destroys my theory altogether.
- As it turns out, Sal does exist, is a 6-foot-tall cockroach and is now a security guard at the Museum of Mostly Natural History.
- Who is Sal?
- Jossed. But I can't link you the proof because is in, at the moment, private forum for pre-order people. But Jossed anyway.
- Sammunmack is an Egyption Pharoah as it turns out, not a hideous fish-headed mobster.
I'm not leaning on Status Quo Is God with this one; I have my reasons. Remember Episode 204 when they visited their far-future office? It didn't look anything like an alternate-dimension prison for criminals.
- According to Word of God, Rule of Funny goes first than continuity between Seasons, when asked the same. But, in The Penal Zone there's a Vision of the Future of Sam and Max talking inside the building, in their Office.
- But remember that in the "original" future, Sam and Max trap the general in the Penal Zone whilst on his ship, and their office was never destroyed. It was only after Skun'ka'pe used the future-vision toy to change the future that they had to come up with the new plan that involved destroying their office. So the vision of the future as seen in episode 204, as well as the ones earlier in episode 301, may no longer be true.
- Technically, it's already back to normal thanks to Papierwaite, because he stole the power source of the new Penal Zone, ejecting Skun-ka'pe in the process!
- I don't know. When you see Maximus (Max's great-grandfather, who is essentially him wearing clothes) in The Tomb of Sammun-Mak, "cute" isn't exactly the first adjective that comes to mind.
- It...It's not?
- Don't listen to him, he's just jealous that he doesn't look as adorable in newsboy caps as Maximus did.
- The phrase that comes to mind is "hobo rabbit".
- It...It's not?
- Don't talk so casually about time travel and Sam and Max! My head is still reeling from Chariots of the Dogs!
- The Engineer's Dispenser appears in 304.
- Partially confirmed, it seems, by Poker Night at the Inventory. And Homestar Runner and Penny Arcade with it.
- The narrator is probably Conroy Bumpuss (from Hit The Road). Both are apparently British. Their hair looks the same. Also, the Narrator's cape looks like something Elvis would have worn. Makes sense that Conroy would want something like that too.
- Oddly enough, confirmed.
- The Narrator being Conroy Bumpus is Jossed, the part about being the Big Bad is confirmed.
- Jossed, but he does do something heroic near the end.
What does this all add up to? Well, Max, being smaller and (apparently) cuter, is more popular with the ladies and Sam knows this. Rather than allow Max to enjoy the attention, Sam derails these moments in any way he can. If Sam were either to get a girlfriend or become a ladies man himself, he'd probably let the little guy have his fun.
- 2 things: 1- We have never seen what's happens when Max get his "girls" and, knowing him, who's knows what could happen and 2- Why can Sam not get a girlfriend? He looks somewhat handsome with glasses =P (and kilts). Of course, probably that's a mild case of Memetic Mutation
- I'd always just figured that it was like Momma Bosco said, and he wanted to keep Max to himself. But that's because I'm a Yaoi Fangirl, and I just can't accept two guys being friends without SOME homoerotic subtext. Even though it does kind of make me feel squicky when I think about Sam and Max in that light.
- While I'm pretty sure Norrington is voiced by the same guy who voiced Human Le'Chuck.
- Dammit, beat me to the punch.
- He could have been Cast as a Mask.
- Jossed. Dr. Norrington is Yogg-Sothoth, of all people.
- Doesn't mean he isn't also the Narrator using a human disguise.
- That's jossed, too.
- Doesn't mean he isn't also the Narrator using a human disguise.
- Jossed. Except the cloning bit.
- In Episode 304, its been revealed that Grandpa Stinky actually fired Sal prior to Season 3 and Girl Stinky didn't find this out until maybe Episode 303. Grandpa never had problems with NORMAL roaches, but he CERTAINLY has problems with roaches that are six feet tall and sentient. The firing may also stem from some inherent knowledge that Sal might have been making passes at Girl Stinky even without knowing the two were having a full-blown affair. Grandpa might hate Girl's guts for stealing his spotlight, but she's still family.
- ...kinda? I mean, Max did wind up turning into an Eldritch Abomination at the end of 304. So maybe.
- It probably won't work out the way originally imagined, but I can still see this happening. Since Max is a total monster now, Sam will probably have to enter an "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight with him.
- Just played through it and I'm still not sure whether this is confirmed or jossed.
- To elaborate: Max turned into a monster and started rampaging through the city, but Sam was determined to save his friend no matter what it took - the rest of the episode stemmed from there. But in the end, Max chose to sacrifice himself to save the city, making everything Sam did meaningless.
- Then Past Max popped out of nowhere with the time machine from season two, claming that the exact same thing happened to him and Past Sam, with Past Sam being the one to die in the end, prompting him to set out looking for a replacement. With nothing better to do, they team up, and Sam decides to look the other way and act like nothing happened.
- Just played through it and I'm still not sure whether this is confirmed or jossed.
- Jossed.
- Hard to believe it, but confirmed.
- Jossed. But Sam does blurt out Harry's name as a throwaway gag.
- Here's a quick plot: A ton of villains get together with a dimensional portal to round up and kill as many alternate Maxes as they can for some meaningless, yet satisfying (for them) revenge. It'll come to a head when S&M summon all the Sams who had their Maxes killed, resulting in an army of Noir Sams zerg rushing the villains.
- And by gods you mean the Telltale Games writers, right?
- This troper is going to take it a step further: Sam and Max aren't so much individuals as they are the physical manifestations of chaos. They were not so much born as they came into being as there must will always be a Sam and Max in some shape or form. They're completely unaware of it, but they exist purely to prevent the end of the universe by any means possible — including creating the universe in the first place. "Sam and Max" are not so much individuals as they are mythical figures in their world, remember: Almost every single doomsday prophecy on the planet involves them in some way, shape, or form. This doesn't even apply to just them, but their entirely "family tree", which of course doesn't exist at all. This also handily explains how they managed to exist in spite of both grandparents having been implied to be permanently single right up until they died.
Meanwhile, Max is the actual straight man of the group. He goes along with Sam and acts crazy in Sam's presence because it makes Sam calmer. In real life, Max is clinically depressed and only barely able to keep away from the point of breaking himself. He's forced to work at his dead-end job even longer than before to support himself and Sam (Sam, wanting everything to be perfect for his little buddy, imagines Max's job to be President of the United States) and is so busy trying to keep Sam happy in his spare time that he's abandoned almost all his relationships with other people. (Because he has to spend so much time caring for Sam, Max can never have a girlfriend, a fact Sam's mind translates into "Max doesn't even like girls.") He's often attempted abandoning Sam entirely, but after witnessing Sam's reaction when Max isn't around, he's realized he has no choice but to stay.
Sam's former mind had a brief return to control during the events of "Chariots of the Dogs." In an attempt to make himself return to reality, Sam imagined himself and Max in the future: Sam a deranged man with the best years of his life behind him muttering nonsensical phrases to himself, and Max forced to sacrifice all his time trying to make him as comfortable as possible. It didn't work.
- As an possible extension, Season 3 featured Sam escalating his "adventures" with Max to the point of some newsworthy, extremely dangerous accident (305), possibly involving a fire/gas explosion, in which Max sacrificed his own life to save Sam and other people caught in the debris/blast. Sam's mind turned this into saving the entire city from psychic phenomena, and turned the subsequent funeral into the failed cloning attempt from the game. He went into a BSOD-like slump and wandered the city as a dazed, depressed hobo. Eventually his mind broke completely and he hallucinated that Max had come back (in the time machine), using an implausible excuse to detach completely from reality and spend the rest of his life imagining adventures with his dead friend.
- Sam hates being called McGruff, almost as much a pink bellies.
"In case anyone needs a recap at this point:There were three Sams. Our Sam, the Sam mentioned at the end of City that Dares not Sleep, and another Sam that was created during the second Sam's time travel adventures.
The second Sam is dead after transforming into a giant monster that the second Max blew up.
The third Sam, however, is Commissioner Sam. Commissioner Sam is, of course, the Commissioner that we know and love. But he isn't THE Commissioner. The Commissioner is Commissioner Sam's superego. Whenever The Commissioner witnesses a crime through Commissioner Sam's eyes, he takes control of Commissioner Sam. Unlike Max, Commissioner Sam has little willpower, and his superego can take over easily. The Commissioner then makes Commissioner Sam call up our Sam, who then takes out the bad guys. Commissioner Sam doesn't know that he even has this superego, however. He occasionally just wakes up next to a payphone with no idea of how he got there or why.
Our Sam knows all of this, and keeps it from Max to protect his fragile psyche. This is why Max can never answer the phone. When Max answered the phone in What's New, Beelzebub?, Commissioner Sam heard his voice and quickly grabbed the voice modulator, which he had gotten from Bosco, and used it to disguise his voice.
During Our Sam's bathroom break in The Tomb of Sammun-Mak, the Commissioner Sam was driving down Straight & Narrow when he got into a car accident, killing him. Our Sam witnessed this, and has since taken up the role of the Commissioner for himself. This is why the Commissioner never called Sam & Max after The Penal Zone.
- Jossed. She died at the end of episode 305.
- That didn't stop Hugh Bliss from coming back... in Hell.
For example, when you try to read his mind, he says that his thoughts are classified. At one point he states that he has to notify his higher-ups, and when Max tells him that HE is his primary higher-up, he vaguely agrees. I don't think his higher ups are humans at all.
By the end of episode 4, Sam and Past Max from both dimensional splits are at roughly the same point, and so the events of episode 5 — saving Max from the flagship, preventing his death, and destroying Skun-K'apes flagship — could apply to either of the universes. With original Max saved, Past Max gets into the time-travelling elevator and finds another place to reside.
During season 5, the energies that acted on Sam during his time travel journeys begin to take hold and fester in him. Gradually, so slowly it's hard to notice, Sam begins to turn into Past Max's electromagnetically-powered monster. Max tries to save him but fails, and in an attempt to find his best buddy again, he jumps into a time-travel elevator and goes back to when he was supposed to be dead. The circle closes.
They time-travel back to see their parents, Samuel and Maximillian, in action. They realize their parents are stumped with one of their cases, and use time-cards to hop back and forth to various points in the case, retrieving evidence and placing it where their parents can find it. The player will be given the option to switch between Sam & Max and Samuel & Maximillian, each pair removing obstacles for the other pair. Sam & Max will be able to hop through different scenes of the case, retrieving important objects and droppping them in the proper time, whereas Samuel and Maximillian will only be able to go through the case chronologically. At the end, Sam will see kid versions of himself and Max, and make up his mind to find and save Original Max.
Season 3 ended with two irreconcilable different endings, and a Sequel Hook that may just have been And the Adventure Continues. One of the main characters is dead, and returning would severely cheapen his sacrifice. That's it, show's over, go home.
- How are they irreconcilable? Either they go adventuring or fight crime, but those aren't mutually exclusive, nor do they need to do the same thing forever. Also, one of the main characters came back from the dead, he just doesn't remember the last two and a half seasons - which isn't abnormal for him anyway.
They're both white men in suits that show (almost) no emotions, have both been shown teleporting on-screen, they're both almost always present, as G-Man appears throughout every Half-Life game and Superball appears in most episodes since his first appearance. They both have other powers such as hypnosis with Superball's memory wipe and the G-Man making Alyx speak for him to her father.
In the final episode of Season 1, "Bright Side of the Moon", Sam and Max kill the Season's main antagonist, High Bliss, and following that the Commissioner doesn't give them a single call for the first two episodes of Season 2. Could it be possible that Hugh Bliss was the commissioner the whole time, putting Sam and Max into very dangerous cases, which would most likely get them killed, to prevent them from foiling his plans as he knows that Sam and Max can't be hypnotized? It's totally possible.
Or something like that. The point is that when she saw how simultaneously repulsive and gay he was, she wanted to marry him as a beard while she worked to transfer his thought pattern into every male on Earth, simultaneously freeing women from the control of men by destroying mutual attraction and turning the world into a female utopia with her baby machines.
And taught him how to be even more obnoxious by letting him observe the football bros getting shot down.
The wheel of power (or whatever it's called) only has 16 sections on it. Only 6 are coloured in, but that's because Max can useing a maximum of 6 per episode.
Also the other wiki lists 16 Toys of Powers, the 9 we use plus 7 "unused toys".
Of course, what the remaining 7 do is another matter. some possibilities:
- Orb of unending bounciness - Gives the user super jumping.
- Disk of Madness - Possibly hypnosis.
- Paddle Ball - Allows Max to accurately calculate the proper tips at restaurants. It's a very practical power Sam, they can't all be showstoppers