Sam & Max Episode 2: Situation: Comedy
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Talk show host Myra Stump is holding her audience hostage, so Sam & Max travel down to the local TV studio to see what is going on. However, the director will not let Sam & Max into the shows unless they pass an audition by acting out the last scenes from a film called Old Yeller. For the role Sam must act as a rabid dog, and so he goes to Bosco's to purchase some shaving cream. On arrival he discovers that Bosco has disguised himself as a stereotypical Englishman. When questioned, Bosco explains that he is hiding from T-H-E-M and how he is having problems with a gang of rats called the Skinbodies. The latest craze in the Skinbodies is shaving off all their fur, and so they've taken Bosco's cream to do so. Sam & Max eventually get the cream and pass the audition.
The director now wants Sam & Max to film an episode for the studio's latest sitcom, Midtown Cowboys. The show is all about the tale of two people living in an apartment with a "herd" (actually a single cow due to the studio's budget), and the antics they get up to while trying to keep it secret from the nosy apartment manager, Mr. Featherly. Sam & Max have to ad-lib their way through the script, making sure they slip in a product placement while doing so. Once they finish filming, the director allows them to explore the rest of the studio. They approach Myra, but she won't let them into her show until they become famous. This involves a clip from a TV show they were in, a recording contract and a big news scandal.
While roaming the sets, Sam & Max meet Hugh Bliss, a cheerful (and slightly odd) magician who is trying to sell his books on Emetics, a system he invited to help people feel good based around colours. Using this system, Hugh Bliss can turn himself into any colour that he wishes. Sam & Max make Bliss turn himself green and have a picture taken with him. They then take this to Sybil, who is looking for a picture of a green alien getting romantic with someone for publication in her newspaper called The Alien Love Triangle Times. Doing so completes the second requirement for entering Myra's show.
Filming nearby is Embarrassing Idol, a singing show with two of the Soda Poppers as judges, and Max as the third due to Peepers competing in the show. Sam auditions with his banjo to back him up to try and win the prize, a recording contract with Bin Bottom Records, but the two Soda Poppers aren't voting for him. Specs doesn't think that Sam's voice is up to scratch, while Whizzer says he will only vote for his brother, as no-one except him remembered his birthday.
Back in the neighbourhood, Bosco is selling his latest Boscotech invention which gives you a deeper voice, but he will only part with it for $1 million. To get the money Sam has to compete in the game show Who's Never Going to be a Millionaire, in which he win s after rigging the questions. Again due to the studio's low budget, the prize is actually 1 million food stamps, but luckily Bosco accepts it. Next Sam goes to the Cooking Without Looking set and cooks Whizzer a lovely birthday cake covered in tomato ketchup, a sauce which makes the Popper rush to the toilet. Sam gives the cake to Whizzer, but he has to abandon his post leaving only two judges left - Peepers and Max. Sam auditions with help of the Boscotech device, and wins the recording contract.
Now that all three requirements have been filled, Myra lets them into her show, but shoves them on the guest coach for interview. Sam & Max notice that an odd looking teddy bear on her desk seems to be hypnotizing her. The Freelance Police manage to electrocute the bear by putting Myra's sparking (due to over-use) microphone in water, thus breaking the hypnotic hold the bear had and solving the episode. The camera pans down under the desk to reveal that the bear had come from the Toy Mafia, leaving questions up in the air for their next case.
Talk show host Myra Stump is holding her audience hostage, and it is up to Sam & Max to save the day.
Story
Entering the studio
The director now wants Sam & Max to film an episode for the studio's latest sitcom, Midtown Cowboys. The show is all about the tale of two people living in an apartment with a "herd" (actually a single cow due to the studio's budget), and the antics they get up to while trying to keep it secret from the nosy apartment manager, Mr. Featherly. Sam & Max have to ad-lib their way through the script, making sure they slip in a product placement while doing so. Once they finish filming, the director allows them to explore the rest of the studio. They approach Myra, but she won't let them into her show until they become famous. This involves a clip from a TV show they were in, a recording contract and a big news scandal.
While roaming the sets, Sam & Max meet Hugh Bliss, a cheerful (and slightly odd) magician who is trying to sell his books on Emetics, a system he invited to help people feel good based around colours. Using this system, Hugh Bliss can turn himself into any colour that he wishes. Sam & Max make Bliss turn himself green and have a picture taken with him. They then take this to Sybil, who is looking for a picture of a green alien getting romantic with someone for publication in her newspaper called The Alien Love Triangle Times. Doing so completes the second requirement for entering Myra's show.
Filming nearby is Embarrassing Idol, a singing show with two of the Soda Poppers as judges, and Max as the third due to Peepers competing in the show. Sam auditions with his banjo to back him up to try and win the prize, a recording contract with Bin Bottom Records, but the two Soda Poppers aren't voting for him. Specs doesn't think that Sam's voice is up to scratch, while Whizzer says he will only vote for his brother, as no-one except him remembered his birthday.
Back in the neighbourhood, Bosco is selling his latest Boscotech invention which gives you a deeper voice, but he will only part with it for $1 million. To get the money Sam has to compete in the game show Who's Never Going to be a Millionaire, in which he win s after rigging the questions. Again due to the studio's low budget, the prize is actually 1 million food stamps, but luckily Bosco accepts it. Next Sam goes to the Cooking Without Looking set and cooks Whizzer a lovely birthday cake covered in tomato ketchup, a sauce which makes the Popper rush to the toilet. Sam gives the cake to Whizzer, but he has to abandon his post leaving only two judges left - Peepers and Max. Sam auditions with help of the Boscotech device, and wins the recording contract.
Now that all three requirements have been filled, Myra lets them into her show, but shoves them on the guest coach for interview. Sam & Max notice that an odd looking teddy bear on her desk seems to be hypnotizing her. The Freelance Police manage to electrocute the bear by putting Myra's sparking (due to over-use) microphone in water, thus breaking the hypnotic hold the bear had and solving the episode. The camera pans down under the desk to reveal that the bear had come from the Toy Mafia, leaving questions up in the air for their next case.
Trivia
- The shows in the studio are obvious parodies of real ones, such as Who Wants to be a Millionaire and American Idol.
- Bessy the Cow looks strikingly similiar to that of the animal in Bone: The Great Cow Race.
- Myra Stump is based on US talk show host Oprah Winfrey, and the time Oprah gave away free cars to audience members.
- While in the cooking show, one of the ingredients on the rack is Red Dye Number 2, a reference to one of the components of grog in the Monkey Island series.
- A table-top with the Telltale Games logo can be seen tucked away behind one of the sets in the studio.
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Jan. 5, 2007
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