I don't remember the exact words, but that scene where Max wants a tattoo of a slit on his head and two eyes on his butt so that it looks like he's upside-down... That was funny! Someone get me the exact quote! I don't have a saved-game at that point in the game...
I like the video camera and Sam's comment about voyeurism.
Also, there's something where Max says "Don't I?" in response to a comment from Sam. Can't quite remember what it was, but it made me laugh out loud.
Also, I like how Bosco says "HELLO" in the intercom when they rock up at the store, when he's like 5 feet away. LOL.
So so many.
Also, Max saying into the loudspeaker when driving a car, something like "Pull over or we'll be forced to shoot you." It was obviously a lot funnier than that, when you hear him say it, uh...
By the way, I was a FIERCE critic of the voices at first, and I'm a total convert. I love the new voices even a bit more than the previous game HIT THE ROAD. My mouth has been shut on that issue. Even Sam, whom I thought might prove tricky with his ultra-deadpan voice, came across beautifully. Exquisite voice-work. Max has a kind of subtle maniac undertone in his voice. Superb.
Then of course, I love Sam's over-verbose (over-verbose - is that a word?) comments when he's excalaiming something, like instead of "Gadzooks!" He'd say "Holy flea-infested varmint auspiciously posing as the vile lice that surrounds me!"
But, uh, it's better when Sam says it *cough*
Yes, so many superb quotes, so little time.
I also REALLY liked how Sam SMACKS Max out of the way when he gets in his path. THAT made me LOL big time.
Sam: "Why'd you stop giving tattos?"
Sybil: "A guy came in here and asked me to put a ship on his chest, and I misheard him and... Well, I decided to hang it up after that."
Sam: "Why'd you stop giving tattoos?"
Sybil: "A guy came in here and asked me to put a ship on his chest, and I misheard him and... Well, I decided to hang it up after that."
If only the guy had asked for a "pirate ship" and she had misheard him due to a tongue piercing...
Max has been kidnapped by Culture.
If you try to interact/examine any hotspot, Sam refuses to do it and says things along the lines of:
"Max, is that you? I think I'm allucinating."
"That's exactly the kind of thing Max would look at."
These took me by surprise, I only noticed them when beating the game the second time around. I still laugh when I think of Sam who says
"You know who would have loved that? Max." when looking at the dumbest things!
Bosco: "Remember... we never had this conversation."
Max: "What conversation?"
Bosco: "The conversation we just had!"
Sam "No, see, he was just acting like he'd already "forgotten" the conversation."
Bosco: "What conversation?"
Max "Oh brother."
and
Sam: "Will a make-do antenna do as a make-do antenna?"
Possibly my biggest laugh (though it's hard to pick just one) was when Sam pulled out his gun and Sybil exclaimed "Violent reaction! Violent reaction!" and then Max said, "You should see him at Thanksgiving!" I don't quite know why that's funny, but man, it is.
Other great ones:
MAX: Let me pry open his skull and look for a conscience, Sam.
SAM: Hey, where's the rest of the noose collection? MAX: It's a surprise!
Does anyone remember the one about barber shop fatalities?
I'm not a native english speaker and while I understand most I don't understand some of the jokes.. Especially cause the sentences are so weird..
I always like Sam's OMG lines.. something like: Smashed car on a camera on a stick!! That's the ugliest tomato head I've ever seen.
Possibly my biggest laugh (though it's hard to pick just one) was when Sam pulled out his gun and Sybil exclaimed "Violent reaction! Violent reaction!"
i loved max answer when sam asks about the dried out plant in their office:
"i'm teaching it to fetch water" or like this.
damn, I nearly fell from my chair. although there are better placed and more humorous jokes, this one just gave me the right push over the sanity threshold.....
and i was crackin, had to stop playin for a few minutes.
Yeah, basically it's Sam's way of saying "thingie" as in "what's that thingie doing here?", where the object in question has no apparent vocabulary word connected to it.
Narrator on TV: "Coming up next, the soda popper known for a really big part of his anatomy!"
(he's talking about the one with the eyes, BTW)
Also,
Sam: "A cheese sign on an empty table"
Max: "The tantalizing promise of cheese, crushed by cruel reality"
The Telltale team seem to be into cheese in a big way, huh? Maybe the secret subplot of the season: 'Why is there so much cheese?'
Sam: "Why'd you stop giving tattos?"
Sybil: "A guy came in here and asked me to put a ship on his chest, and I misheard him and... Well, I decided to hang it up after that."
Anybody could explan these jokes for me? English is not my native language so I do not understand these:
This game must seem very different to someone who is not a native english speaker -- would you mind sharing some of your experiences?
Is it just because you have the same nickname or what does Squinky mean?
In that context, "Squinky" would be understood by an english-speaker to be slang for "anus".
I do not really understand what he mean with netherlands.
"Nether" can be taken to mean "below" -- so he is making a pun relating the "Netherlands" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherland -- to his "nether" (lower) "lands" (parts).
It's juvenile, and also hilarious.
I hope I don't get in trouble for using "anus" in my first post on these forums.
In that context, "Squinky" would be understood by an english-speaker to be slang for "anus".
That's news to me, and I've spoken English all my life. It's a reference to either Monkey Island or our intern Deirdra (whose username is Squinky), depending on which one you think Dave and Brendan were thinking of at the time.
Comments
Max: Multiple reports of malfeasance across the neighbourhood.
Sam: Oh joy! That's my second favourite feasance!
a violent impulse to dentistry
and an infatuation with money.
Max: I like my coffee green, just like how I like my men.
- "I think not."
And very clever to keep the "Can't do"-responses in the dream-sequence appropriate:
"That doesn't even work in a dream."
Plus stuff like: "You know who would've loved that? Max."
Priceless!
I like the video camera and Sam's comment about voyeurism.
Also, there's something where Max says "Don't I?" in response to a comment from Sam. Can't quite remember what it was, but it made me laugh out loud.
Also, I like how Bosco says "HELLO" in the intercom when they rock up at the store, when he's like 5 feet away. LOL.
So so many.
Also, Max saying into the loudspeaker when driving a car, something like "Pull over or we'll be forced to shoot you." It was obviously a lot funnier than that, when you hear him say it, uh...
By the way, I was a FIERCE critic of the voices at first, and I'm a total convert. I love the new voices even a bit more than the previous game HIT THE ROAD. My mouth has been shut on that issue. Even Sam, whom I thought might prove tricky with his ultra-deadpan voice, came across beautifully. Exquisite voice-work. Max has a kind of subtle maniac undertone in his voice. Superb.
Then of course, I love Sam's over-verbose (over-verbose - is that a word?) comments when he's excalaiming something, like instead of "Gadzooks!" He'd say "Holy flea-infested varmint auspiciously posing as the vile lice that surrounds me!"
But, uh, it's better when Sam says it *cough*
Yes, so many superb quotes, so little time.
I also REALLY liked how Sam SMACKS Max out of the way when he gets in his path. THAT made me LOL big time.
Max: Their mine, not'chour's
"You don't have a tattoo!"
"Don't I?"
Being Dutch, that map of the Netherlands joke made me chuckle loudly. I'm going to refer to my Netherlands at every minor opportunity now.
Sybil: "A guy came in here and asked me to put a ship on his chest, and I misheard him and... Well, I decided to hang it up after that."
If only the guy had asked for a "pirate ship" and she had misheard him due to a tongue piercing...
SPOILER
Max has been kidnapped by Culture.
If you try to interact/examine any hotspot, Sam refuses to do it and says things along the lines of:
"Max, is that you? I think I'm allucinating."
"That's exactly the kind of thing Max would look at."
These took me by surprise, I only noticed them when beating the game the second time around. I still laugh when I think of Sam who says
"You know who would have loved that? Max." when looking at the dumbest things!
Max: "What conversation?"
Bosco: "The conversation we just had!"
Sam "No, see, he was just acting like he'd already "forgotten" the conversation."
Bosco: "What conversation?"
Max "Oh brother."
and
Sam: "Will a make-do antenna do as a make-do antenna?"
Other great ones:
MAX: Let me pry open his skull and look for a conscience, Sam.
SAM: Hey, where's the rest of the noose collection?
MAX: It's a surprise!
Does anyone remember the one about barber shop fatalities?
I always like Sam's OMG lines.. something like: Smashed car on a camera on a stick!! That's the ugliest tomato head I've ever seen.
They just make no sence lol
Max (on window sill, ready to push bowling ball): "God bless America"
*THUNK*
I loved that
"i'm teaching it to fetch water" or like this.
damn, I nearly fell from my chair. although there are better placed and more humorous jokes, this one just gave me the right push over the sanity threshold.....
and i was crackin, had to stop playin for a few minutes.
It's a metasyntactic variable. It refers to something else that, say, you don't know what to call, so you call it a thingamabob.
Yeah, basically it's Sam's way of saying "thingie" as in "what's that thingie doing here?", where the object in question has no apparent vocabulary word connected to it.
SAM: Is this art, or is it advertising?
MAX: Is there really any difference?
SAM: Good point, little buddy.
Narrator on TV: "Coming up next, the soda popper known for a really big part of his anatomy!"
(he's talking about the one with the eyes, BTW)
Also,
Sam: "A cheese sign on an empty table"
Max: "The tantalizing promise of cheese, crushed by cruel reality"
The Telltale team seem to be into cheese in a big way, huh? Maybe the secret subplot of the season: 'Why is there so much cheese?'
Max: Pull to the left! Pull to the right! Pull anywhere you want, just fight! Fight! Fight!
"Just what we need, More lame poetry"
!
Is it just because you have the same nickname or what does Squinky mean?
I do not really understand what he mean with netherlands.
This game must seem very different to someone who is not a native english speaker -- would you mind sharing some of your experiences?
In that context, "Squinky" would be understood by an english-speaker to be slang for "anus".
"Nether" can be taken to mean "below" -- so he is making a pun relating the "Netherlands" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherland -- to his "nether" (lower) "lands" (parts).
It's juvenile, and also hilarious.
I hope I don't get in trouble for using "anus" in my first post on these forums.
That's news to me, and I've spoken English all my life. It's a reference to either Monkey Island or our intern Deirdra (whose username is Squinky), depending on which one you think Dave and Brendan were thinking of at the time.