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Posted by emily November 8, 2006
If you've been reading our forums lately, you may have seen Jake's reference yesterday to a paper bag puppet gallery that has taken up residence in the new conference room (a.k.a. the Romper Room). This reminded me that we made paper bag puppets over lunch three weeks ago and no one ever posted a blog about. So here you go!

We started with a package of construction paper, 100 brown paper bags, and a dog-eared copy of Surfin' the Highway. Oh, and lunch, but there was far more artsy-crafty time-wasting than lunch-eating.

It's funny how quickly construction paper causes you to regress. We ran short on white paper so some of us had to get creative.

Lessons learned: ten adults are not good at sharing two pairs of scissors. Also, glue sticks have nowhere near the nostalgia quotent that flour paste would have had, but what can you do?

The finished puppets are now a fixture in our new conference room, which we have lovingly dubbed the Romper Room. This most excellent room came into existence when Dan moved out of his office into another office on the other side of The Wall. (It may have been knocked down but it's still with us in spirit.) It was supposed to have become somebody else's office, but before it could be claimed, comfy chairs started showing up in there, then a coffee table, then a mangled-up pinata (empty, unfortunately) that we scavenged when the American Cancer Society moved out downstairs, and then a weird retro standing hairdryer that Kevin claims he brought all the way from Florida when he moved here.

It is unquestionably cooler than the regular conference room, and there have already been a few scuffles regarding who gets to use it when. Dave and Brendan have a sneaky habit of slipping in while the rest of us are arguing over it and closing the door behind them, leaving us peering longingly at them through the window. They claim they're writing episode 5, but we know they're just using that room for the comfy chairs. In fact, they're in there right now, at this very moment, doing some of that so-called work and lounging around in the comfiest of comfy chairs. Not that I'm bitter.

Anyway, here's the gallery... it's like a little Max puppet army!

So, here are our Max puppets. Where's yours?
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An army of Sam & Max puppets... I'm stunned =) Anyway where are the Sam & Max plushdolls? I want one of max after the first episode.. he's so cute :P

Nice puppets! // JK
Comment by JK1985
November 8, 2006, 3:38 pm
Don't make Sam & Max plushdolls! Learn from Garfield's mistakes! (Man, that strip sucks.)
Comment by Guy
November 8, 2006, 4:50 pm
It's...beautiful.

*tear*
Comment by Metallus
November 8, 2006, 4:59 pm
Sam and Max plush dolls? As cool as an idea as that sounds do you really want Max next to you while you're in bed at night...alone...asleep...and vulnerable to attack?

Oh and gnarly paper bag puppets. Now get back to giving us more episodic Sam & Max goodness, if you please.
Comment by patronise
November 8, 2006, 8:54 pm
I love you guys just for posting that comic. *treasure treasure treasure*
Comment by Sir Lemming
November 8, 2006, 8:56 pm
I love them all but whoever put Max in pink pigtails gets bonus points!
Comment by Mel
November 8, 2006, 9:29 pm
> Whoever put Max in pink pigtails gets bonus points!

That was Kim, one of the artists (can't you tell?!) The Sam puppet was also hers.
Comment by Emily
November 8, 2006, 10:45 pm
It took me a while, but now I get it: it's pacman eating a baddie!

And left of it is a beautiful metaphor for season one -- weird, creepy, cute, somehow cool, but most of all, still a lot of work to do! My vote for most artsy nonsense goes to that... eh thing. With my heart!
Comment by Kejero
November 9, 2006, 12:59 am
If I ever lose my job, I wanna work at Telltale Games.
Comment by Giglio
November 9, 2006, 1:00 pm
You dirty, dirty torrenters, you!

I recognize that scan. What, Purcell couldn't stock you guys with an extra room of Surfin' The Highways?

Best telltale blog title evar.
Comment by jesstech
November 9, 2006, 1:31 pm
I did notice one of the bag puppets pinned to the noticeboard in Culture Shock, though.
Comment by The Tingler
November 9, 2006, 1:52 pm
Ahh, but we were working from an actual copy of Surfin the Highway. The scan was just for the benefit all you readers out in blogland.
Comment by Emily
November 9, 2006, 4:18 pm
Oh, that Pac-Mac puppet totally reminded me of this fantastic chart;

http://themot.org/gallery/d/58721-1/pacmanchart.png
Comment by jp-30
November 9, 2006, 11:15 pm
Oh, that Pac-Mac puppet totally reminded me of this fantastic chart;

http://themot.org/gallery/d/58721-1/pacmanchart.png


My question is:

How could you make the chart resemble pac man by 100%?

Think about it...
Comment by DanH
November 10, 2006, 9:22 am
Add some eyes. Duh?
Comment by Kejero
November 10, 2006, 4:07 pm
Ah, multi-layered pie chart, BRILLIANT!
Comment by Flake
November 13, 2006, 1:46 am
Man, I remember making one of those when I was but a wee scrap of a lad. Good times...
Comment by mrjuju
November 16, 2006, 4:56 pm
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