Sam and Max 204 Logic
I realize this is a little late, but oh well.
In Chariots of the Dogs, when Sam and Max meet their past selves and the past selves go back into the time machine leaving present S&M to go through the past year and a half again, the past S&M take the recording contract with them, which is needed for the Present S&M to go through the past year and a half again. When the Future S&M get the Recording Contract from the Past S&M, the Past S&M go back to continue their lives. But to do that, Past S&M need the Recording Contract that Future S&M has. Also, Past S&M somehow know that they need to go to the moon, even though the Past S&M are from the events of Episode 2, and S&M don't learn that they have to go to the moon until the begining of Episode 6.
How is any of this possible! Could someone please explain?
In Chariots of the Dogs, when Sam and Max meet their past selves and the past selves go back into the time machine leaving present S&M to go through the past year and a half again, the past S&M take the recording contract with them, which is needed for the Present S&M to go through the past year and a half again. When the Future S&M get the Recording Contract from the Past S&M, the Past S&M go back to continue their lives. But to do that, Past S&M need the Recording Contract that Future S&M has. Also, Past S&M somehow know that they need to go to the moon, even though the Past S&M are from the events of Episode 2, and S&M don't learn that they have to go to the moon until the begining of Episode 6.
How is any of this possible! Could someone please explain?
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Yes, but remember that Sam and Max go through that twice, and Bosco only has one Recording Contract.
Maybe they used their future knowledge to get in some other way?
How do the changes to Max's personality wear off? Did past Sam and Max getting the time elevator cause little Sam and Max to change their minds about going to the prom? Or something?
If Bosco's paranoia came from his mother unknowingly stalking him all his life, and the time travel came from Bosco's paranoia, isn't that a paradox?
Why did past Sam and Max want to go to the moon? They don't need to until 106, and they're from 102. And why does past Sam suddenly doubt that it's possible to drive to the moon? He did it in Bad Day on the Moon, and Bad Day on the Moon happened, because there was a picture from it on the wall of the office.
Yes, I am aware that the answers to these are "because it's funny". I just like nitpicking. This stuff doesn't keep me awake at night or anything.
Bosco's paranoia also has something to do with who his actual father was. Believe it or not, there are an obscene number of conspiracy theories revolving around his untimely death.
But they didn't drive in Bad Day on the Moon. True, they took the Desoto, but it wasn't running on engine power.
The only thing that REALLY bugs me are the Pedros. They're basically the same guy from different points in his life. And yet they don't seem to remember the destruction of the time machine, even though two of them were there before. Even more annoying, they were trapped in time by the destruction of the time machine within a 3 month period of each other. Surely they could have met up later to compare notes?
The mind boggles.
Wait, it's Superball's birthday, isn't it?
It's also Christmas and the Soda Poppers' birthday. That means it's September 6th, December 25th and December 21st at the same time.
I attribute it to the whole Hell freezing over thing.
I can solve that by saying that a lot of time passed during the episode. Wait, when is it ever said that it is christmas?
It's christmas because in Episode 201 Sam and Max restore 3 christmases and the pit scene is one of them.
That one's easy, someone must playing around with the presidential calendar without us knowing. Either that or all that time traveling in 204 screwed up time and space more than we thought >.>
To be mysterious.
acctually by sam+max logic, I think this makes sence....
Also Max's personality did change permanently, if you notice in several scenes from the later games, he does show an interest in women (i.e. momma bosco and even the Statue of Liberty! (I think others too))
No one knows yet.
The whole bosco paranoia is obviously not about his mother after him, when he found out about his mother, he assumed everyone else was with her.
Of course since sam and max had to relive a year and a half, it didnt affect that time stream
Sam even noticed the whole I need to get to the moon was wierd.
Superball, is superball so we dont know anything about that.
I always just figured this was a conspiracy to keep Max from reproducing and bringing about the birth of the Anti-Christ.
As for the moon, I dunno, maybe they wanted to grab an Elvis-shaped decanter?
Original Sam and Max simply looked for the Director and asked her for another copy of the contract. If the contract was an unique item, grabbing it from their past selves would have caused a catastrophic temporal paradox.
Past Sam and Max, having scored a time machine for themselves, go to the spaceship because they simply don't know how to operate it. They can choose a destination from the cards, but they don't want to go there. They want to go to the MOON because they want to change the events in Bad Day On the Moon so they can prevent Max's first death from happening.
So when they ask "how do we get to the Moon" they don't want to drive there, they want to use the time machine.
How's that?
And it made him sooo angry and bitter he became abusive and with a tendency to yell and stuff.
Also Max likes girls but he can't be bothered to pursue them. So it's pretty much like he was before
This makes so much sense XD
This I suspect is true.
...unless he secretly has the hots for Sam... <.< ... >.>... I cant believe I just said that...
As for the recording Contract...
A Wizard did it... With Magic... That's all you need to know! (lol I know, I need to get off that site, I know...)
You're tapping on pandora's box with that remark around these parts
I always figured that Max was polyamourous, yet asexual. He has constantly expressed interest in other women, but he has also expressed interest in other men. If you need proof of this, pick up the engagement ring in 301 with Max around, and talk to Abe on the moon about wrecking his love life. At the same time, Max abhors the thought of looking at naked man, most notably wanting to gouge his eyes out if he saw Sam' "junk" (The Big Sleep), and his reaction to naked Bosco in 305. For all we know, Max could find naked women revolting as well.
In short, Max can find both men and women attractive, but sex and sexual organs disgust him.