Favourite quotes from Ep1: Culture Shock

[baardhimself]

Max: "The Cheese was innocent!"

[SurplusGamer]

Malfeasance? That's my second favourite feasance!

[GiantHaystax]

Psychotherapist woman " A weenie in a rat hole? Nope, no symbolism there"

[Squinky]

You can sign my butt! Make it out to "Squinky". :D

[Hero1]

"patience is a sharp razor to swallow"

[Lagomorph]

"I don't say this much sam, But I love you... Now Go Wash My Car!"

[PriyanPhoenix]

I'm with Inso (http://www.meewella.com/fragments/culture-shock.php).

Max: Multiple reports of malfeasance across the neighbourhood.
Sam: Oh joy! That's my second favourite feasance!

[leChuckie]

"No, I do not like the balls"

[ShiratoriNinjaBrat]

child star syndrome includes romantic notions of your mom,
a violent impulse to dentistry
and an infatuation with money.

[MeaningOfLife]

It's between Max: Move it to the left, move it to the right, pull to anywhere you want just fight, fight, fight.

Max: I like my coffee green, just like how I like my men.

[AGA]

Become... the videotapes!

[ken830]

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...

[Laserschwert]

Max: "The Cheese was innocent!"

- "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!

[Bas]

NOT SEAN PENN?

[mikdog]

Man, so many great quotes.

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.

[Lyris]

Max: "Maybe I can get a map of the Netherlands tattooed on.... my netherlands!"

[DoubtedEdwardo]

Sam: Not'chos
Max: Their mine, not'chour's

[Bas]

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.


"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.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

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."

[tabacco]

I always get a laugh out of Sam's phone song in the first scene

[numble]

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...

[Diduz]

I like every remark Sam does after that
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! :D

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

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?"

[Sir Lemming]

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?

[Pretender]

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.

They just make no sence lol

[Optimaximal]

Sam: "I can't believe we get PAID to do this!"
Max (on window sill, ready to push bowling ball): "God bless America"
*THUNK*

[Hero1]

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 that :D :D :D :D

[elsenator]

I love any sentence from Sam that contains the word "thingamabob". I love that word, and i need to use it more often.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

What the hell does "thingamabob" mean, anyway?

[mothra]

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.

[Maratanos]

What the hell does "thingamabob" mean, anyway?

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.

[elsenator]

What the hell does "thingamabob" mean, anyway?

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. :)

[Johnny Walker]

I loved just about everything with Bosco, but as a graphic designer, this one really tickled me:

SAM: Is this art, or is it advertising?
MAX: Is there really any difference?
SAM: Good point, little buddy.

[Pvt._Public]

Ahem,

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?'

[Mack Daddy]

"They're mine, not'cho's..."

[pheeph]

I like this one

Max: Pull to the left! Pull to the right! Pull anywhere you want, just fight! Fight! Fight!

[Jasua]

"They say graffiti is the poetry of our time"

"Just what we need, More lame poetry"

!

[Vog]

Anybody could explan these jokes for me? English is not my native language so I do not understand these:

You can sign my butt! Make it out to "Squinky". :D

Is it just because you have the same nickname or what does Squinky mean?

Max: "Maybe I can get a map of the Netherlands tattooed on.... my netherlands!"

I do not really understand what he mean with netherlands.

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."

[ScribbleJ]

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.

[tabacco]

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.

[Maratanos]

Same here...

[ScribbleJ]

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.

Well, color me embarrassed.

I would maintain it's funnier my way.

[Vog]

This game must seem very different to someone who is not a native english speaker -- would you mind sharing some of your experiences?

Well, it's all a question of your vocabulary :D . Sometimes there could be a sentence which you don't understand completely but you could guess what it means. A disadvantage is that you couldn't understand words which have no translation or slang because you simply never learn such words. Before I played Sam & Max I didn't know what a soda jerk is... a jerk yes... but soda jerk. But there are also some jokes which would never work in my language (german) like the one with "not'chos" there is even nothign similar which would work with this word. So, the dialog there would be just nonsense.
Finally it's very interesting to play games in another language. ;)

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

Anybody could explan these jokes for me? English is not my native language so I do not understand these:

..................................


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."


Sybil makes a veiled reference to the word "shit", I think.
Seems like she tattoed that one instead of the ship:D

[Johnny Walker]

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.

Indeed, "just call me Squinky" was a very random (but hilarious) line from Monkey Island 1. I guess we now know who was responsible for that joke, and the "second biggest" lines from MI, too!

[thebob]

Great thundering jellyfish on the squishy road to mayhem Max!

[MussKatt]

Just you, me, and the authority from 7 states :)

[Maratanos]

But those were quieter times...

[Sp0tted]

Sam: Who do you think was on the phone?
Max: Ooh! Maybe it was the Governer calling about my plan to secede from the union

Brilliant.

[Meowzy]

I liked that symbolistic thing Sam says after Max 'explains' why Dentists loved the Soda Poppers!
I think it was something like... "Oh Max, your unbridled sarcasm is like a well-deserved gust of fresh air on a crowded highway." or something like that...

Also...
Sam: Mustard, Ketchup and... strange purple stuff.
Max: As vaguely referred to on TV!

And let's not forget...
*looks at bent parking meter*
Sam: Remember our old car, Max?
Max: I said I was sorry!

And...
Max: Hey Sam, since you're crazy, can I drive?
Sam: Jumping vehicular homicide, no!

[Maratanos]

Oh Max, your unbridled CYNICISM is like a BREATH of fresh air IN a crowded SUBWAY.

[Meowzy]

YES! That one! I only saw it once, and it passed by so fast... ^^'

Also, for some reason, Mr. Spatula makes me laugh. I don't really get why...