Chariots of the Dogs - plot speculation!

[Mysterysheep]

Let the good times roll! :D

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

I can't really think of anything, the only thing I noticed are spirits in 201, 202 and 203. I hope they're going to reveal what happened to real Stinky! This sub-plot, together with Bosco's paranoia being more than reasonable, is making Season 2 even funnier and curious. I'm sure we'll see other spirits/ethereal characters in the near future.

[Dangerzone]

ill bet it starts with yet another attack on sam and max's neighborhood :rolleyes:

[Mysterysheep]

Bosco Rescue Mission.... ;)

[RobD]

Alien's abducting people? Ethereal entities? Bosco on a secret mission to thwart a plot by T.H.E.M? :P

I have a feeling that we won't be able to guess yet, as it feels like that there's going to be more plot twisting.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

I hope it's gonna be a mission given by the commissioner... not for any particular reason, but 203 was the first episode of Season Two in which the commissioner phoned and it accidentally was the best episode yet :D

[Zeek]

I just hope the cold opener is a parody of all those primetime dramas.

"Last time on Sam & Max: Season 2..." Shows the end of 203 starting at the point where Flint fires a hellstorm of bullets at Jurgan's Monster. End with a title card using Flint's silloette.Cut to Opening Credits.

[Dangerzone]

no.. it would be even funnier if they did a "previously on sam and max..." but they show things that were never in any of the games... and fill it with random action garbage

Narrator: Previously on sam and max...

*Explosion*
Flint: run!!
Sam: Flint no!!!
Max: that was awesome!!!
*Another random explosion*
Flint: Die beast!!!!
Sam: hes alive!!!
*Explosion*
Sam: never mind...
Max: look! the explosion missed the propane tank on that hot dog cart!
Sam: Max no!
*Explosion*
(the smoke clears to reveal flint covered in soot and monster blood, and max gnawing on a hot dog)
*Explosion*
*Explosion*
*Explosion*
*Gunfire*
*Explosion*
* A random woman screaming*
*Explosion*
*Tribal drumbs*
*Explosion*
*Explosion*
*Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explo sion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion** Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explos ion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**E xplosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosi on**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Ex plosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosio n**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Exp losion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion **Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Expl osion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion* *Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explo sion*

Narrator: and now... the conclusion

*Boom*
*Crash*
*Bang*
*Explosion*

Narrator: im serious this time...

*Explosion*
*screeching tires*
*Orgasmic Moan*
*Explosion*

Narrator: gee... last episode was amazing wasnt it?... lets watch that again

Flint: Die!!!...

[Mysterysheep]

no.. it would be even funnier if they did a "previously on sam and max..." but they show things that were never in any of the games... and fill it with random action garbage

*Explosion*
Flint: run!!
Sam: Flint no!!!
Max: that was awesome!!!
*Another random explosion*
Flint: Die beast!!!!
Sam: hes alive!!!
*Explosion*
Sam: never mind...
Max: look! the explosion missed the propane tank on that hot dog cart!
Sam: Max no!
*Explosion*
Similar to "Next time on... Arrested Development":)

[Mysterysheep]

All Episodes had a title featuring an exclusive character to that episode:

Ice Station SANTA

MOAI Better Blues

Night of the Raving DEAD

...

Chariots of the DOGS ?

Bosco's been kidnapped by DOGS!

Intergalactic DOGS!

Dun dun DUUUUUUUUN! :D

[Dangerzone]

we go back in time to ancient rome to combat a gang of dyslexic gods...

EDIT: and damn you quick posters... you quoted me before i finished *growl*

[sam&maxfan]

Here's an idea. What if the episode has something to do with Cerberus, the three-headed dog from Greek mythology?

[Eater]

I speculate bosco's in an orbital bunker hiding out and it will have a pit of death and at some point he will say
THIS IS BOSCO'S!!!

also I would also like to throw in it has been my long time theory that the masterminds behind the series are the mariachis, sorry to let it slip if I am right but it didn't stop bliss so.

[SloppyJimbo]

Sam and Max won't be in the game at all. You play as Flint.

Well ok, Sam has a short cameo.

[Dangerzone]

ill bet we see max's soul somewhere in the office... pinned to the dartboard or something, the soul mater will probably be in the closet... and one of the undead fish from the club in the watercooler... oh and they have got to keep the bolt cutters

[Zeek]

Here's an idea. What if the episode has something to do with Cerberus, the three-headed dog from Greek mythology?

Sam: "Look behind you! A three-headed dog!"
Max: "That's... not really all that impressive."

[Mel]

Sam: "Look behind you! A three-headed dog!"
Max: "That's... not really all that impressive."

Cerberus (http://www.dl.ket.org/latin1/mythology/1deities/underworld/images/cerberus_.jpg)!

Edit: Ignore this. I read Zeek's post but didn't carefully read who he was quoting (sam&maxfan). D'oh.

[splash1]

i bet it's about the end of 202 & 203 at the very end when the Moais were taken above
and when Jurden (did i spell that right?) at the end of 203 was taken above as well
i got nothing

[RyanMon]

no.. it would be even funnier if they did a "previously on sam and max..." but they show things that were never in any of the games... and fill it with random action garbage

They did this on Family Guy at the beginning of the second episode of a two-parter. It was one of the funniest things i ever saw. The episode was Brian Does Hollywood (the first episode being The Thin White Line) and they just made fun of those cliffhangers that Hollywood loves to give us.

[Zeek]

i bet it's about the end of 202 & 203 at the very end when the Moais were taken above
and when Jurden (did i spell that right?) at the end of 203 was taken above as well
i got nothing

You also see that in 201 during the exorcism. Seems a lot of different objects like to be beamed up. Toys, vampires, armless golems.

[Jake]

They did this on Family Guy at the beginning of the second episode of a two-parter. It was one of the funniest things i ever saw. The episode was Brian Does Hollywood (the first episode being The Thin White Line) and they just made fun of those cliffhangers that Hollywood loves to give us.

They did this on an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast as well. I suspect many things have done that joke... it's frequently funny, though!

[Guybrush Threepwood]

This episode better have a lot of Bosco in it... or else...! ;)

[Chuck]

They did this on Family Guy at the beginning of the second episode of a two-parter. It was one of the funniest things i ever saw. The episode was Brian Does Hollywood (the first episode being The Thin White Line) and they just made fun of those cliffhangers that Hollywood loves to give us.
The "Clerks" animated series did it before that (and IMO did the best version of that gag ever).

[Kefky]

They did this on an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast as well. I suspect many things have done that joke... it's frequently funny, though!

The "Clerks" animated series did it before that (and IMO did the best version of that gag ever).

Venture Bros. did it too. :)

[marsan]

I remember an episode of The Simpsons too that did it, an Halloween special

[langley]

The "Clerks" animated series did it before that (and IMO did the best version of that gag ever).

Ah yes, I agree. The brilliance of doing a clip show on only their second episode. So funny that it was canceled immediately.

[RobD]

IIRC the first episode of the Sam & Max TV series started like that with monsters and them getting married and such. Although I agree that the first episode of Clerks did it the best:

"Previously on Clerks..."
*Colour bars and long beep*

[Harald B]

Also the last episode of the Sam & Max series was a parody of the usual season review episodes, "looking back on" a lot of scenes that were actually never in the show.

"Hold it, Sam. Is this turning into one of those shows where we sit around and reminisce, thereby recouping 80% of the episode costs via the use of clips and archive footage?"
"Yes it is, Max. Now stop talking, stupid, it's costing money."

[Laserschwert]

"Clerks is drawn in front of a live studio audience."
and
"Clerks is drawn by a live studio audience."

Priceless!

[Lars]

Ah, yes. Much needed "Clerks: Animated" love.

[flipperthepriest]

Back onto plot speculkation on 204 however... I have honestly no idea. Except for maybe the desoto breaking down and getting a b-grade replacement.

[Mel]

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/Melanie68/med_dog_cart.jpg
Sorry, I thought this was cute.:) I just hope the dog was treated well.

[kadji-kun]

Keep in mind, S&M still has to end up on a small piece of rock in the middle of molten lava at some point. Speculation will lead to the fact that S&M are underneath the earth (Personally, I thought that scene was going to be in 202.)

Despite the speculation that THEM are aliens, you also think of what Flint said in 203. He can't find Bosco on earth's surface...bosco can still be underground.

[Harald B]

Yes, I still think Bosco has just locked himself up inside his secret laboratory/bunker, deliberately or otherwise. He's certainly the kind of guy to rush into a months-long lockup and not think twice about it until the door closes.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Keep in mind, S&M still has to end up on a small piece of rock in the middle of molten lava at some point.

They don't have too. :)
(Best. Avatar. Ever. Harald.)

[Zeek]

They don't have too. :)
Yeah they do. They set us up for it, and a handfull of us do want to see what that looks like from the other side.

[Marty]

i actually enjoyed the absense of Bosco. He's an awesome character and all but it was a welcome break from the usual

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Yeah they do. They set us up for it, and a handfull of us do want to see what that looks like from the other side.

Suppose so. Everyone will be angry otherwise. :D

[Xianis]

Suppose so. Everyone will be angry otherwise. :D

not necessarily angry, just flooding the forums with "why didn't they end up in the lava?" :)

also if things were set it the center of the earth, why were things brought UP into the beam of light in other episodes?

[RobD]

They could be saving the scene with lava for any other season after this one. It might only re-appear in 50 years time from now. ;)

[Laserschwert]

Mh... yeah, after all it was the future CHRISTMAS... so, it might be 301...

[Masta23]

no.. it would be even funnier if they did a "previously on sam and max..." but they show things that were never in any of the games... and fill it with random action garbage

Narrator: Previously on sam and max...

*Explosion*
Flint: run!!
Sam: Flint no!!!
Max: that was awesome!!!
*Another random explosion*
Flint: Die beast!!!!
Sam: hes alive!!!
*Explosion*
Sam: never mind...
Max: look! the explosion missed the propane tank on that hot dog cart!
Sam: Max no!
*Explosion*
(the smoke clears to reveal flint covered in soot and monster blood, and max gnawing on a hot dog)
*Explosion*
*Explosion*
*Explosion*
*Gunfire*
*Explosion*
* A random woman screaming*
*Explosion*
*Tribal drumbs*
*Explosion*
*Explosion*
*Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explo sion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion** Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explos ion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**E xplosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosi on**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Ex plosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosio n**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Exp losion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion **Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Expl osion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion* *Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explosion**Explo sion*

Narrator: and now... the conclusion

*Boom*
*Crash*
*Bang*
*Explosion*

Narrator: im serious this time...

*Explosion*
*screeching tires*
*Orgasmic Moan*
*Explosion*

Narrator: gee... last episode was amazing wasnt it?... lets watch that again

Flint: Die!!!...


I take it youve seen that family Guy episode then (the one where Brian leaves)?

[Randulf]

As a side story: the bizarre love triangle between Sybil, Lincoln and Zombie Lincoln

[Blehboy]

The beaming up is an obvious set up for something. I'm real curious as to what they'll do since they were on the moon in the finale of season 1. It seems like going to space would kind of be the same thing.

Perhaps they go to a cloud city or something, maybe make fun of star wars with their city. They could do a Greek Gods sort of thing too with a city in the sky, since 204 is doing a chariot sort of thing.

[Blehboy]

Ey has anyone else noticed the foreshadow that happened in 201 for 203?

Santa: Ohoho Max! You and Sam will be dead soon enough!

And then you die in 203! Just thought that was pretty tricky of them, planned or not.

[Zeek]

Ey has anyone else noticed the foreshadow that happened in 201 for 203?Actually, there are several items in the previous episodes that talk about the subjects in the episodes to follow. Bosco talking about his scismograph detecting zombie uprisings and the moai head you can send as a Christmas gift.

Makes me wonder if I missed something in 203 that talked about 204...

[Blehboy]

Good call Zeek!

I completely forgot about the other two, although I recall them now. I'm trying to think of things that could have talked about 204, but I'm hitting a wall. Looks like I better head back and look a little closer :)

[TrogLlama]

Actually, there are several items in the previous episodes that talk about the subjects in the episodes to follow. Bosco talking about his scismograph detecting zombie uprisings and the moai head you can send as a Christmas gift.

Makes me wonder if I missed something in 203 that talked about 204...
You very well may have, but most foreshadowing that's properly done doesn't make itself apparent until you already know what it's foreshadowing.

[jaden551]

Actually, there are several items in the previous episodes that talk about the subjects in the episodes to follow. Bosco talking about his scismograph detecting zombie uprisings and the moai head you can send as a Christmas gift.

Makes me wonder if I missed something in 203 that talked about 204...

Another christmas gift was the pirahna foot bath related to the fountain of youth

[Mooshiiii]

In 203 Stinky says something about "dead" stinky being made into a god, maybe he'll come back in 204

[Zeek]

In 203 Stinky says something about "dead" stinky being made into a god, maybe he'll come back in 204

We kind of thought that from the dialouge in 202, which proved to not happen. I doubt we will see the REAL Stinky at all this season.

But we did see the return of the rope sack! :D

[jaden551]

wtf is the rope sack?

[splash1]

i was just about to ask the same thing

[Harald B]

First used in Bone: The Great Cow Race, the rope sack is that bag-like thing with a rope texture on it wrapped around Stinky. It also featured in 101 and 103.

[Jake]

Weird to hear the forums talk about the rope sack, as that's a pretty inside joke among the team. I think it's talked about on the team commentary track for 103, when Leonard is tied up. Possibly also in 101 when Max is tied up.

[Zeek]

Weird to hear the forums talk about the rope sack, as that's a pretty inside joke among the team. I think it's talked about on the team commentary track for 103, when Leonard is tied up. Possibly also in 101 when Max is tied up.

That's what you get for letting your inside joke out into the public. :D

[splash1]

*nods head in agreement*

[tobar]

Yeah we're well informed about the rope sack. Well....most of us anyway. :p

[Marty]

rope sack for the win!
now, where were we?

[splash1]

um i think were talking about chocolate fudge cake, or was it talking about
Sam & Max 204?

[jaden551]

Iam the god of ep 204 the plot will be like in the tv ep ( like most episodes) where sam and max go to mount olympus and battle the great gods there and also brady culture will make an apearance.



Nah just messin, but what if that did happen?

[Mirko]

Iam the god of ep 204 the plot will be like in the tv ep ( like most episodes) where sam and max go to mount olympus and battle the great gods there and also brady culture will make an apearance.



Nah just messin, but what if that did happen?

Actually i am wondering when Brady Culture will reappear, trying to take revenge...

[TrogLlama]

um i think were talking about chocolate fudge cake, or was it talking about
Sam & Max 204?
Delicious cake.
It will be available when testing is completed.

[jaden551]

Does noone care that I am creator of sam and max?
Lucas Arts stole it from me, But the guy you wre to control was everything else and sam and max would react and kill themselves but I only made a demo of the game then lost it...

I smell spin off!

[TrogLlama]

Does noone care that I am creator of sam and max?
Lucas Arts stole it from me, But the guy you wre to control was everything else and sam and max would react and kill themselves but I only made a demo of the game then lost it...

I smell spin off!
I somehow doubt that you are Steve Purcell or Dave Purcell.

[jaden551]

I somehow doubt that you are Steve Purcell or Dave Purcell.

Can`t you take a joke?

[TrogLlama]

Can`t you take a joke?
I couldn't tell you were joking. Odd grammar and spelling (no offense) often go hand in hand with things that should be jokes but aren't.

[Kazu]

Like stupid attempts at sarcastic humor?

*Goes back to lurking*

[Zeek]

Actually i am wondering when Brady Culture will reappear, trying to take revenge...

Yeah... when will Bald Brady Culture come back? His Chia Pet incarnation in the office, while funny, is only good for sight gags.

[Harald B]

Brady was just a loser who only got anything done because of those hypno-goggles. The only way he'll escape is if some shady mastermind smuggles a new toy into his jail to further his own agenda.
The guy I'm wondering about is Chuckles. He was shown having survived the blast in a "tune in next week" kind of ending that absurdly enough was never resolved. What's up with that?

[Maratanos]

Chuckles didn't survive Episode 4, did he?

[Harald B]

Hmm, just looked at that cutscene again and looks like I got it mixed up with the 103 ending. Still, he's nowhere near as vaporised as some people assume, just lying in the rubble. He could've survived a lot worse.
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[NHJ BV]

I agree that the title Chariot of the Gods makes it likely (hey, a guy can dream) that it'll be set on Mount Olympos in Greece. Would make for a fun setting, in my opinion :)

[jaden551]

Also a joke could be sam and max get stuck in the middle of a colleseum and the people who own it send out a cougar un assembled (as seen in the list of presents in 201) and then they send out DOGS instead.

[wefeelgroove]

Keep in mind, S&M still has to end up on a small piece of rock in the middle of molten lava at some point. Speculation will lead to the fact that S&M are underneath the earth (Personally, I thought that scene was going to be in 202.)

Despite the speculation that THEM are aliens, you also think of what Flint said in 203. He can't find Bosco on earth's surface...bosco can still be underground.

In addition to that, didn't Sam tell Flint that he and Max would help "dig him up" at the end of 203? Hmmm.

So far this season has dealt with lots of weird supernatural stuff including but not limited to demons, the undead, and spirits. My guess is that in 204 they end up in Hell, the underworld, Robot Hell or something like that. It'll keep with the weird supernatural stuff theme and might also fill the "Sam and Max end up stranded in the middle of a cavernous expanse full of lava" quota.

Although none of the above speculation takes into account all of the stuff that's been beamed up into the sky for no apparent reason. :/

[TrogLlama]

In addition to that, didn't Sam tell Flint that he and Max would help "dig him up" at the end of 203? Hmmm.

So far this season has dealt with lots of weird supernatural stuff including but not limited to demons, the undead, and spirits. My guess is that in 204 they end up in Hell, the underworld, Robot Hell or something like that. It'll keep with the weird supernatural stuff theme and might also fill the "Sam and Max end up stranded in the middle of a cavernous expanse full of lava" quota.

Although none of the above speculation takes into account all of the stuff that's been beamed up into the sky for no apparent reason. :/
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[Molokov]

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[dg10050]

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[jmm]

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[dg10050]

10 Sin
20 Goto Hell
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40 Print "you Are In Android Hell"

[AussieEvil]

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"i SeE yOu"

[Jake]

So you guys know, the 204 teaser trailer goes live sometime Wednesday morning (pacific time). I hope it will start to answer some of the questions swirling in this thread (and a few other threads as well). We're all very excited about 204 -- it's a cool episode, and we're going to be trying pretty hard to keep it's events under wraps. Hopefully the trailer will explain why!

[Hero1]

10 Sin
20 Goto Hell
30 Lbl Hell
40 Print "you Are In Android Hell"

geeks! haha

[splash1]

So you guys know, the 204 teaser trailer goes live sometime Wednesday morning (pacific time). I hope it will start to answer some of the questions swirling in this thread (and a few other threads as well). We're all very excited about 204 -- it's a cool episode, and we're going to be trying pretty hard to keep it's events under wraps. Hopefully the trailer will explain why!

i knew i was gonna love 204 when it came out :D

[Lord-z]

Ah yes, I agree. The brilliance of doing a clip show on only their second episode. So funny that it was canceled immediately.


Even funnier, the first episode never aired, thanks to ABC. So, as far as people knew, that was the first episode, calling back to something that they had never seen.

[Xianis]

What I find tricky is that telltale (as of this moment) hasnt released the name of the 5th game yet. more than likely to keep the story plot under wraps, but still.

[Zeek]

OR it is spoiler-ridden, as was the cast last seaon.

I'm just wondering what movie title will be parodied.

[tredlow]

The internet in Reality 2.0 reminds me of GLaDOS

Also, what if B-TADS gain self-conciousness and became rampant?

I am not a geek.