Poor Sam
Everywhere on the Internet, I've read many disparaging comments about Sam. I often read stuff like, "Max is the funnier one," "Sam is boring! Why him?" and "Sam is too much of a straight man."
I seem to be late to the party, but since when was Sam considered lame? I always firmly believed that you can't have Sam & Max without, well, Sam & Max. They're both funny in different ways; to say "Sam is the unfunny one" is, to me, a load of hogwash. Believe it or not, I prefer Sam a little more than Max.
Am I the only freak who thinks this?
I seem to be late to the party, but since when was Sam considered lame? I always firmly believed that you can't have Sam & Max without, well, Sam & Max. They're both funny in different ways; to say "Sam is the unfunny one" is, to me, a load of hogwash. Believe it or not, I prefer Sam a little more than Max.
Am I the only freak who thinks this?
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Sam is probably my favorite straight-man ever. He breaks the stereotype of being the long-suffering, sarcastic, jerkish dude who just rolls his eyes at his comic foil and makes scathing remarks. Sam just rolls with anything. He's cool with whatever.
See, that's your mistake, you went to places like IGN and Kotaku!
Anyway, Sam & Max are a duo, when either of them goes solo, there's always something missing.
Personally I love Sam more than Max, but Max is easier to draw. And I love it when they're together, their banter, and how they provide each other with punchlines.
This exactly. Sam has the even temperament of a straight-man, but as it turns out, his impassive nature coupled with his pretty much blatant disregard for most people makes him arguably even more unpredictable than Max. You mostly just expect Max to be dangerous, but Sam is the kind of guy who will have several friendly chats with you, seem like a nice, stable person, then turn around and casually screw you over or even kill you because it benefited him in some way. Or because he felt like it. All without ever breaking that blitheness.
I have no clue how people don't think that's an awesome personality to have at a poker table.
Shhh...it's a fangirl thread! Just play dead and it can't hurt you
I can just imagine Max putting on a Batman impersonation while beating the tar out of the mole.
Yeah, IGN and Kotaku suck, but I can't help myself when looking around for news. Guess I should just shun the comments. :P
RPS, mate. RPS.
Or Flint Paper is both Sam's and Max's imagination of the ideal detective they would like to be.
They're all visions in an autistic child's head while he stares longingly at a photo of a dog.
But, as it all turns out, Bosco was actually imagining it all while he was in a coma in Las Vegas.
*activates Superball sunglasses*
Now I get it.