#and Sam; Max; and Bosco from Sam and Max

[britishsass]

I'm procrastinating, so that means it's time to post au fanart with no context outside of "no this isn't for the main au crossing over these properties, I'm making my own"

anyway. point and click games and psychonauts. because I felt like poking Guybrush Threepwood and thinking about his mental world post-MI2, and instead I got a bunch of ideas that aren't really related to much except for being fun to think about.

(no this isn't wild-card, sorry to the people who enjoy that au, I'm trying to avoid being in your tags, but it's really just me thinking about the same characters in the same vague setting)

[artfartt]

HIIII OOMF anyways... may I request 1 dr momma bosco TNAK YOUUUUU

Just one? Imma make this one count

[kucka-g]

Some pictures from the Sam and Max stw and btas game files

their pictures

max's bulletin board drawings

top of their desks

post-it notes

bosco's photos

[the-knife-consumer]

GRINNNSSSSS OKAY.

1. He kind of does? Vaguely. Sometimes certain actions or words make him remember things, but in a hazy way. There ARE a few things he can remember clearly though: the sensation of being shot at, the feeling on his hands that would come from smashing buildings, Sam waving corndogs in front of his face (mainly remembers the frustration of Sam refusing to share), that he lost control of his body and was guided to electrocute himself (pain is a really easy thing to remember, turns out.), And that something happened to Sybil that made him worry. (Sybil is half happy half guilty about this. Because of what she called him.) (ALSO MAX IS UNAWARE OF WHAT SUPEREGO HAD DONE. Or that se even exists)

2. The scales have stopped growing! But they kind of suck.

3. YES a bunch of people fucking hate him now. But pretty much everyone already did what with him being president and all so it's not too different.

4. Yeah Grandpa stinky is still a gorilla and he is very mad about it. Girl stinky is also still alive (has her own restaurant! Yay!) (It's not on earth! Boo!) (Skun-ka'pe still thinks they're a thing when they never will be in a million years! She's going to kill him.) And Bosco stays in Vegas but he sends letters sometimes mostly to momma b. Reads them and pretends she didn't see the begging for money part.

[bovineblogger]

How are you feeling about cow Bosco from Sam and Max beyond time and space? Sorry in advance

VIDEO GAME: SAM AND MAX

why did you make me look at this

PERSONAL RATING:

im. abstaining.

[lizardtheartist]

I PRESENT YOU ALL, SAM AND MAX: THE PLUSH AU

Sam and max are at most 2 feet tall in this by the way

Much important needed info about the au down here :)) (be prepared to read)

So

Geek is a 8 year old kid who invents things in their bedroom, one day, Geek invents a device that makes toys come to life! What better toys to use this device on than all of the toys in Geeks room?

So they do just that, Geek brings all of their favorite toys to life, especially their favorite stuffed animals, Sam and Max. This universe’s Sam and Max are adorable little stuffies, who go on many adventures with the mini time traveling elevator that Geek built themself.

In Geeks bedroom, the neighborhood we all know and love resides, or in this case, a collection of wacky little toys and doohickeys that Geek has collected over the years. The whole cast of characters we all love are reduced to tiny little toys, who all have the smarts of an 8 year old. (Think of a Winnie the Pooh)

Think of this being the most wholesome of the AUs that I’ve made, because plushie Sam and Max just love being the purest of little babies. The only catch to this AU is that all the toys need to keep their sentience secret from geeks unknown parents, but that’s an easy thing to do.

The toys that everyone is: Sybil is a small figure who comes with a dollhouse similar to her shop in the games. Girl Stinky and Grandpa Stinky live in the carry-along diner. Bosco is a ripoff Lego figure who resides in a no-instruction built inconvenience store. Momma Bosco is a brand new barbie doll who Bosco claims is his mother. Flint paper is a beat up action figure who Sam and Max still swoon over. The commissioner is a half torn trading card. Superball is either an armyman toy or an agent action figure. Sammunmak is a (Not historically accurate) kids book about ancient Egypt. Abe Lincoln is a poorly made sculpture project made by Geek for school. And many more toys that I haven’t thought of yet!!

[saltysaltdog]

It's super funny how trans-coded Sam and Max are in the telltale games. Max is the more obvious one since there's men, women, and max symbols on the toilets in the bathrooms, but Sam as his own that are more subtle but stronger in my opinion.

In no particular order:

He has a stated fear of public bathrooms, in hit and run he goes behind a screen to put on a bungee jumping harness and helmet, he had a voice coach and a therapist, he describes his family reunions as awkward, says he feels jealous of other men's stronger jaw bones, he scolds Max for asking if Bosco was transformed into a girl cow, he's apparently incredibly sweaty with a strong smell, and his clones were described as "Zaftig" which is another way of saying voluptuous or womanly, which Sam didn't like. Also went to stewardess school???

Anyways. To me, this indicates that Sam is taking testosterone, as that causes excess sweating and new smells as second puberty occurs. But I don't think he's very consistent with it, he doesn't get the same results from exercise and his diet as Max does, and while it could just be max is max (and supposedly uses protein powder) low testosterone can cause weight gain and reduce muscle.

Not to mention, the neighbourhood they live in is supposedly 3 to 1 ratio of men to women, which is just meta commentary on their lack of introducing female characters. But including featherly as a rooster who can lay eggs, this indicates, if not new York itself, then their neighbourhood is known for having a lot of ftm transitions, which is funny to me. They accidentally coded the entire neighbourhood as transmasc. Though, considering most the neighbourhood is robots, this shouldn't be too surprising.

[cherrytastiq]

why do you hate sam x max

okay heres the thing. i dont hate sam x max but i Do hate how the fandom portrays them. actually i just hate the fandom in general😭 the lack of media literacy here is Insane, people dont focus on the humor in 204 they focus on future sam angst. they dont focus on the racist undertones in momma bosco they focus on max liking women. they dont focus on season 3s antisemitism they focus on noir sam and the ending. and whatever dicussion there is about sam & max's relationship and dynamic is mischaracterized or completely misses the point of the series being a comedy first and foremost. take a hint from 305 and learn to move on from angst

[mousetail101]

Lagomorph rant :'3

Idk if this was intentional or not, but I love how many traits Max shares with actual lagomorphs/rabbits.

The biting-Lagomorph teeth are always growing, so they chew and bite to keep then down to size, and some of them might just enjoy it.

Also their colorblind, they mostly see in grays, and greens and blues. (So it makes sense he's unfazed by the coffee being green in boscos inconvenience. He might not be the same kind of color blind as actual lagomorphs, but still)

Also his dislike for his fur being messed with. Rabbits will spend HOURS grooming their fur, and hate it being messed up. In the telltale games, any time you try to make sam mess with maxs fur, max gets annoyed and even angry.

He also obviously adores and wants children. (Technically he does have children. Geek, john, litterly any other kids him and sam decide to adopt that week) Rabbits have the instinct to have and raise kits. And they are extremely good parents. Most people misinterpret them as neglectful due to them barely bonding or spending time with their kits, but their actually extremely protective of them and do this to keep predators from finding their kits. (Basically they want there to be a higher chance of them dying over their kits dying)

Also, rabbits are very good at acting. Any sign of pain-physical and emotional, maybe even mental-must be hidden. so nothing or no one can cause them more harm or find that weak spot.

Max does seem to ignore these things or barely talk about his feelings. And if he gets physically hurt he's unfazed (then again, he seems masochistic)

Also rabbits are social animals and normally live in bonded pairs that do almost evreything together. Max is clearly emotionally attached to sam, so in rabbit terms, I suppose they'd be considered a bonded pair.

[dj2slugs]

The Devil's Playhouse ending hits a lot harder when you realize 301 - 304 all take place in the same day At least for me it does :P (spoilers and me rambling like a mad woman under the cut :P)

Like Sam literally went from having a fairly normal adventure with Max trying to send Skunkape back to the penal zone (and not to forget getting trapped in there with Max with a bomb that almost not only killed them, but wiped them both from existence), to witnessing Max get a surprise lobotomy, to getting chased by his own dogglegangers and seeing them get blown and torn apart by Max and Stinky, to getting knocked out and used as a puppet by Charlie, to witnessing Max turn into a rampaging monster that starts destroying the city all in the same day.

And then in the coming week Sam holds out hope that he can still save Max only for him to get hit by the last robot and before either of them can really process it, Max since he knows he's going to die waves goodbye to Sam one last time before teleporting into space and taking both Stinky and Skunkape out with him so they can't cause any more trouble and Sam tries for who knows how long to bring Max back in the same way they brought Mama Bosco back to her corporeal form and it fails because Max's dna is too chaotic to replicate and then Sam walks like a sad kicked puppy, not bothering to try to stop any crimes so he can go look at the statue of liberty, which was the last place he saw Max as himself before disaster struck and-

*slaps top of Sam's head* This dog can fit so much trauma in him

Also I lowkey thought Sam was just gonna toss himself over the edge and into the water in that scene

Also lil theory/headcanon thing:

The opening menu where you choose the episode you're going to play is clearly alt timeline Max right? I headcanon that he's holed up in the office and has been collecting all the stuff that's in the office as our Sam and Max go about their adventure cause he just can't help himself since that's what he's always done for their adventures

He's probably been doing that for a while, waiting for his chance to swoop in should something happen to Max...

Also headcanon that the time machine can go to all kinds of different timelines/universes :P

[pandemikz]

TAROT NUMBER TWOOO! ok so for my momma bosco card I decided to be obscure and use her design in the queen card from the sam and max card pack in telltale poker night 2 please bare with me here yall my reference image was BLURRY

[mikejudge]

my sam and max oc idea named ray. everyone thinks theyre friends with sam and max (or somehow related to max??) just because it's another cutesy marketable animal and that gets on S&M's NERVES they hateee ray. sam also cant stand ray for being a cat and max hates that ray is exactly ONE inch taller than him. it's a one sided beef though lol.

ray isn't a detective or anything people just assume they are and they kind of just stumble into cases because why not. kind of like a nermal from garfield type character. i mainly made this character because momma bosco flirting with max/liking sam in hot pants was funny so like why not give her a little buddy boo thang she clearly wants one.

[hallow-weeni]

I was gonna save this for pride month but I didn't wanna wait...

What I would imagine would happen if Lumpy came out to the (From who I can remember) Sam and Max Telltale cast with little to no explaination:

Max:

Sam:

(I hc that Sam and Max unofficially adopted lumpy, but either way I still think he would say some variation of it like: "Hi gay, I'm Sam.")

Sybil:

Jimmy Two Teeth:

Bro's likely not gonna care, Either way he's gonna want that damn swiss cheese.

Bosco:

Similar Explanation to Jimmy two teeth, All he cares about is that you aren't robbing him or are affiliated with a group that's against him, he's got nothing against the rainbow mafia.

The Soda Poppers/Hugh Bliss/Everyone with a celeb status (Besides Sam and Max):

Jurgen:

This was probably the most obvious one...

Part two soon Maybe???

Probably with the characters I forgot and a few from the cartoons if I can...

[almightytuba]

imagine all of sam and max from bosco’s pov like your client base is two cops who need to rig an election against the sentient statue of abe lincoln, a supremacy group of rats called the skinbodies, assumedly woman in a career crisis, and three underdeveloped man-children former child stars. and you sell prehistoric hot dogs and incriminating plantable evidence. also you’re a paranoid fucking supergenius and test tube bastard child of JFK but everyone overlooks that

anyways he deserved more characterization instead of being played off as a stereotype for laugh bc im so serious he was the smartest person in this series. i love you roscoe bosco

[sammunmak]

Specs & Max Freelance Police in: Hells-A-Poppin'!

+ sam’s vices !!

this is basically an au idea i had for the alt timeline! i wrote out all the changes to the first two seasons, but it's a bit on the longer side so i'm sticking it under the cut.

this takes place immediately after sam and max steal the elevator from their future selves. there’s no obvious changes at first. the director gives them another contract after telling her they misplaced the first one, but not without threat of not giving them another one if they manage to misplace this one. once they wrap up the case and free myra stump from the hypnosis, they take the elevator (and their music contract) with them and put it away in storage, vowing to never speak of the possibility that they just killed their future selves again. ah well, knowing themselves, they probably survive. everything else afterwards is pretty much the same, though when sam and max see superball for the first time sam asks max if he looks familiar. max takes one look at him and proudly declares nope, not at all, and that’s the end of that.

the first major change happens in 106.

hugh: for in all the universe, there’s only one force chaotic and destructive enough to stop me now! but you wouldn’t do that, would you max?

max: who, ME? well, i’m- i’m flattered, but-

hugh: no you wouldn’t, not without your trusty partner, at least.

max: huh?

sam: what exactly are you implying?

hugh: i’m going to… drumroll, please… [drumroll] separate your bliss!

max: really?

sam: what does that even mean?!

hugh: it means i chop off every part of you i don’t like! it’s like circumcision, but double the laughs.

max: he-ey!

sam: quiet, knucklehead.

sam gets split into 3 vices. gluttony, greed, and wrath. wrath is formed from sam’s right ear, greed is formed from sam’s left hand (it even keeps the wedding band!), and gluttony is formed from. well, the stomach. max loses all romantic interest he had in hugh bliss in that moment. 

max is very annoyed about the whole situation. he never has to do work on their cases, and suddenly he’s being forced to figure everything out on his own! but seeing sam’s awful blissed-out state is worse. blissed-out sam is basically just a big puppy. all smiles, completely clueless about everything around him, and has to be led around by his remaining hand if max wants him to go anywhere. max considers shooting him every time he makes a comment about hugging trees or something sentimental crap like that, but one look at that big dopey grin on sam’s face and he just can’t do it. he needs to turn sam back quickly, he’s turning into a sap just being near this… shell of his partner.

wrath is in the sanctuary, threatening the COPS for information on max’s whereabouts (yes it’s just noir sam lol). when max and bliss sam finally make their appearance, wrath almost immediately tries to shoot bliss sam. max stops it, of course. it seems like max is the only person wrath won’t lash out against. max has to open one of bluster blaster’s side panels, then get wrath close enough to it to shut the panel on his ear, pulling it off wrath when it tries freeing itself.

once sam gets his ear back, he seems to randomly decide to shoot at max.

max: what was that for?!

sam: i dunno, it just felt right.

when max walks into bosco’s store, he immediately makes eye contact with gluttony sam, who’s sitting on the floor eating a giant tub of ice cream. it doesn’t seem very interested in eating actual people (haha foreshadowing?) in the freezer are a bunch of popsicles. max can grab one and give it to gluttony, who’ll chomp it down wrapper and all. max has to put jimmy two-teeth into one of the wrappers in order to get gluttony to eat him, then pull out jimmy and sam’s stomach with the magic hat.

sam: anyone else suddenly got a hankerin’ for a fudgie freeze?

max: you don’t know how glad i am to hear you say those words.

greed is inside the office, hoarding just about everything in there and more. somehow there’s items in here max didn’t even know they had. or maybe greed just grabbed everything not bolted down to the floor on the way back to the office.

max has to buy bosco’s invention (which is just a big magnet), then use the spoon bending talisman to pull the spork out of the hugh bliss statue’s hand, give it to greed, and then use the magnet to drag its ass towards him and just yank sam’s hand off it.

sam: are you using that magnet?

max: nope! it’s all yours.

upon collecting all 3 vices, sam returns to normal, and they can now go fight hugh bliss. cue world of max :)

not much else changes until 204.

once they enter momma bosco’s store and accidentally reveal max’s lack of interest in girls, momma bosco becomes infatuated with him. sam and max try and argue against this for a while, until max tells her that he’s a married man.

ms b: i don’t see a ring on your finger.

max: well check again!

max flashes his left hand, revealing a bare ring finger. oh. he didn’t put on his ring today. sam is missing his ring as well. seems they got a bit excited when flint invited them on a case with him and forgot them.

(not gonna lie this whole puzzle isnt fully fleshed out. the whole plan would be that they have to go back to their prom and essentially crash it in order to help max realize he doesn’t like girls. i did also have the idea of superball printing marriage certificates instead of patents, which they’d need to grab one from him and hang it on the corkboard in the near future, then go to the distant future and take their wedding rings from their future selves. if i do ever have an idea of how exactly this all pans out i’ll make it into a fic or something. for now tho this is the best i could come up with.)

max is very proud to show off his new wedding ring to momma bosco.

later on, sam is glad he kept that music contract on him, once one of the pedros asks for one.

of course, despite keeping their past selves from boarding the UFO, the elevator is still oddly enough missing when they run back to it.

max: hey, the elevator’s gone! what gives?

sam: hmm… remember what got us into this whole mess, the temporal anomalies and whatnot? maybe it’s another one of those? maybe this is the universe’s way of trying to correct the timeline, and we have to leave the same way our future selves did, since we’re-

max: alright, alright! less talky more- figuring out how to get off this dang ship!

ah well, having two elevators seems a bit overkill anyway. 

not so long later, in 205:

sam: you better release our pals’ souls from hell, cause my excitable little friend is getting angry.

max: and i’m angry, too!

satan: there’s no need for that kind of talk. i’ll gladly release your friends. just sign this release.

max: hold on sam, i got this!

sam: …you sure, max? 

max: positive! watch this. [he pulls out a crayon and scribbles his name on the contract]

satan: and that’s that.

sam: well that was pretty easy.

satan: now just do me a favor and think of the most horrible thing you can imagine.

max: ooh, that might take a second, there’s so many- oh, maybe- wait no, i’ve got it!

satan: good. now off you go!

[max disappears]

sam: sweet summering sausages sweltering on a busy sidewalk, what did you do?!

satan: he traded his soul for that of all your friends. they never read the fine print. now max will spend eternity in his own personal hell!

max: back in the office? where’s my partner?

specs: i’m over here!

max finds himself stuck inside a now very tidy office with specs, the neat freak of the soda poppers.

max: so where’s my REAL partner?

specs: what are you talking about, i AM your real partner.

max: uh, no. last i checked my partner was a six foot tall dog in a suit, not… you.

specs: oh, max. clearly you’re confused. you’ve always had a terrible memory. but don’t worry, i’m here to keep everything in order for you.

max is just about ready to start ripping out patches of his fur when he sees sam, sticking his big nose through the hole in their office wall. after a bit of arguing, max remembers the key card. he yells at sam to use it so they can kick demon’s spec’s ass together. when sam gets in there they do just that, ending in sam throwing the demon out the open window. with max’s personal hell defeated and leonard’s soul free they leave and finally go and confront satan.

as a bonus, a fun change to a piece of dialogue in 201:

sam: how long do you think it’ll take for one of us to kick the bucket?

max: i dunno, but i think if one of us were to go, the other would follow very close behind. maybe not even by choice!

sam: does that mean if i go first, i can take you with me?

max: sure does! in fact, i encourage it!

[c0smic-v0mit]

I was thinking about the Poker Night at the inventory series and remembered that there was a Sam & Max themed card set for the game and I had to draw Sam, Max and Momma Bosco in their outfits which were the drawings on the cards.

(The final image in this post are the cards from the game that I used as a reference for my drawing :D)

Sorry if my drawing of momma Bosco isn't really good, I don't draw people very often so I have no idea how human proportions work lol