Sam and Max Hit the Road (1993)

Two screwball detectives are hired to track a couple of human oddities that went missing from a local Tourist Trap.

Directors:

Sean Clark, Michael Stemmle

Writer:

Steve Purcell (characters)

Stars:

Bill Farmer, Nick Jameson, Marsha Clark

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Bill Farmer	...	Sam / Psychic / Flambe / Vanuatoo (voice)
Nick Jameson	...	Max / World of Fish fisherman / Various (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marsha Clark	...	Trixie the Giraffe-Necked Girl / Evelyn Morrison
Denny Delk	...	Shep Kushman / Burl Kushman / Lee Harvey
Irwin Keyes	...	Bruno (voice)
Tony Pope	...	(voice)
Beth Wernick	...	(voice)

Storyline

The year is 1950 and Sam and Max are a pair of detectives somewhere in New York. While Sam is a no nonsense, dry humored, drab individual, his bizarre life is kept interesting by partner Max, a perverse and sadistic midget with a psychotic sense of humor, violent tendencies and a swearing fetish. Living in a rundown office building/office, they pass through life day by day off of saved money from their glory days, and spend time watching TV and participating in other strange activities as they wait for an assignment. One day, after a dry spell of employment, Sam and Max are called to the scene of a kidnapping at a local tourist trap. It seems two human oddities, a Bigfoot and a giraffe necked girl, have been kidnapped, and the Siamese twin brothers, who are no stranger then the oddities they promote, are paying a large cash sum up front for the return of their prized possessions. From there Sam and Max must travel across country in search of the two, as well as contend with a rock and...

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Plot Keywords:

midget | character name in title

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Mystery

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Details

Official Sites:

Lucasarts, creators of the game

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Sam & Max

Company Credits

Production Co:

LucasArts Entertainment Company

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The nebbish, bespectacled fisherman at the World of Fish Museum is a caricature of Woody Allen.

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Goofs

Sam and Max both claim to be colorblind when discussing the Snucky's Paint-By-Numbers Book, yet they're still able to solve the colored magnet puzzle at the Mystery Vortex.

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Quotes

Sam: So let me get this straight. You want us to go traipsing all over the country looking for a soggy bigfoot?
Max: I've never been traipsing before. Does it hurt?

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Connections

References The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (1990)

User Reviews

Funny, Fantastic game

Pretty old game but there are not much games with this kind of humer. The graphics are cool, not the graphics we are used to these day's. This is truely an golden oldy. The story is about two animal detectives, a dog and a rabbit who has to solve a crime. They travel trough america to find a lost circus freak en his beloved who works also i the circus. I think i like this game cause lucas arts makes such specific humoristic games that i love. Like in the humor in great movies only then in the games.

check it out