# Sam and Max: The Animated Series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481 "2003-04-27T12:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/1 "2003-04-27T12:53:31Z")
So anyone remember Sam and Max - the animated series? We have it on tape and its the kids current favorite. Had me rolling yesterday: “Can we have your word?” Max: “Sure, but my word is unctious, you won’t get much use from it.” Ah, those halcyon days of Saturday morning TV - The Tick, Sam and Max… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/2 "2003-04-27T12:55:21Z")
I remember the Tick. But Sam and Max - nope. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/3 "2003-04-27T13:18:00Z")
I only saw one episode – but it was great! It’s like a half hour of the computer game with better graphics :). ---
**Author:** ![irkenDoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@irkenDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irkenDoom)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/4 "2003-04-27T13:23:59Z")
Ahh, yes, Sam and Max, and Earthworm Jim… My dad even watched those shows. Thanks for reminding me, because now all there is to watch is crap like _Fighting Foodons_… 😕 How 'bout that episode where the entire city blew up and all that was left of everybody were charred skeletons? I think that’s what happened, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/5 "2003-04-27T15:47:55Z")
A link to the tapes, and a episode synopsis: [http://www.samandmax.net/main.php?section=thetvseries&page=buystuff](http://www.samandmax.net/main.php?section=thetvseries&page=buystuff) ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/6 "2003-04-27T21:45:38Z")
Excellent cartoon. Right up there with The Tick and Big Guy and Rusty as “things that really shouldn’t have been taken off Fox Kids ever.” There’s a line I remember when Sam and MAx are made into gods of some sort, and after someone finishes rattling off a list of how magnificent they are, Max says, “ooh! I’ll have to change my stationary!” Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/7 "2003-04-27T21:51:59Z")
_Sam And Max_ was based on an indy comic book series of the same name. If you’re interested, check out Amazon, [http://www.budplant.com/](http://www.budplant.com/) , & other sources. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/8 "2003-04-27T23:02:55Z")
The cartoon series never really did it for me. It was as if they’d read the comics and were huge fans, but couldn’t quite repeat it. There was one great moment, though, as Sam & Max are trying to get into a bad guy’s secret base: VOICE: What’s the password? NARRATOR: The password is… “haggis.” MAX: Boiled… SAM: Haggis! But again, the comic book was beyond brilliant. I wish they would re-release _Sam & Max Surfin’ the Highway_. Maybe they will if the rumors about the new videogame are true… ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/9 "2003-04-28T05:09:45Z")
**SolGrundy** : they are indeed making a new video game, for PC, PS2, and X-Box. The LucasArts website has a press release. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/10 "2003-04-28T06:00:17Z")
I’ve got the entire series on tape!(\*) And I finished the computer game! And I’ve got the “Surfin’ the Highway” collected comics softcover! And I even have scans of some of the _Sam and Max_ cartoons from the various “Fox Kids” mini-magazines! How’s **that** for thorough? (\* = Actually, I’m missing one episode, the one with Sam’s grandmother and thanksgiving. I don’t know of anyone else who has it, though… ☹ ) _Sam and Max_ animated trivia: According to Steve Purcell, Fox wouldn’t let the cartoon show Sam and Max using handguns on the job, for fear that kids would grab real-life firearms and emulate the two gumshoes. In response, the writers simply upped the firepower to bazookas and grenade-launchers – which fits perfectly with Sam and Max, but put Fox Kids out of danger… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-and-max-the-animated-series/171481/11 "2003-04-28T15:44:14Z")
Didn’t see too many eps, but it was a great intelligent cartoon. Sam (holding a bag of ash that was once Max before getting zapped by a laser): “Once he was my best friend, now he’s just a bag of chum.”