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Zeek · 01/22/2007, 07:16 am

Besides the obvious, I found a throwback to Vanawatu from Hit the Road that apparently went over my head until just now.

It's Myra when she goes into her blah-blah-blah loop!

I'm sure by now everyone has seen Jesse James' hand, the fate of the old Desoto, the swearing in long hand, and even the referance back to the John Murr (sp?) vegetable.

But what other throwbacks have you found to Hit the Road so far?

Maratanos · 01/22/2007, 08:59 am

Whack-the-rat in episode 3... (which is visible in screenshots, before you start asking)

Lysandus · 01/22/2007, 10:12 am

A little obscure, but Sam makes a comment about the mailbox outside the office that's very similar to the mailbox outside the office in Hit the Road.

I don't think I found out the fate of the old Desoto, though, where do you find that?

Tale · 01/22/2007, 11:02 am

I only caught the Jesse James's hand. What's the rest?

Harald B · 01/22/2007, 11:32 am

Bosco's dates back from HtR as well, though there it was simply called "Bosco's: Guns, Liquor, Baby Needs". You can even walk in there and save Bosco from being robbed. Also note that in HtR there is a place saying "really bad food" at the same place where the diner is in Season 1

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ShaggE · 01/22/2007, 01:22 pm

This isn't an HtR throwback, but am I the only one who hears Myra laugh a little in mid-blablabla? It sounds like the voice actor couldn't keep herself from chuckling lol

Ebeeto · 01/22/2007, 01:46 pm

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Originally Posted by ShaggE

This isn't an HtR throwback, but am I the only one who hears Myra laugh a little in mid-blablabla? It sounds like the voice actor couldn't keep herself from chuckling lol

Noticed that as well... Should probably have been edited out, but what the heck...

Keir · 01/22/2007, 06:03 pm

i noticed that too - it's very noticeable as it's quite a short loop

octochan · 01/22/2007, 07:05 pm

I wish I could remember all of Vanawatu's variations on 'blah blah blah' from HtR. I recall 'ubida ubida ubida' and 'yib yib yib', but I'm sure there were more.

Zeek · 01/22/2007, 07:07 pm

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Originally Posted by Lysandus

I don't think I found out the fate of the old Desoto, though, where do you find that?

Look at the bent parking meter next to their office where their car used to be park in Hit the Road. The tone of the script as well as the emotion animations is better in Episode 2 than in Episode 1, just so you know. It's one of those famous "implied jokes" where you can fill in the blanks based on what Sam & Max say.

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Originally Posted by Tale

I only caught the Jesse James's hand. What's the rest?

Most of them are around the office, both inside and out, but several of them are scattered throughout the episodes like with the Wak-a-Rats game and the swearing in longhand when you look at the Myra! text above her set's door.

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Originally Posted by octochan

I wish I could remember all of Vanawatu's variations on 'blah blah blah' from HtR. I recall 'ubida ubida ubida' and 'yib yib yib', but I'm sure there were more.

There was "bow bow bow" which always gets me laughing.

Zeek · 01/23/2007, 03:40 pm

Found another that was in plain site but missed it entirely until Max's office close up was in the right spot!

They have a poster of one of the freaks from the Freak Show tent at the Chushmen Circus. The Human Enigma!

hyperkinetic · 05/11/2007, 11:05 pm

I love how much effort Telltale is putting in to please old time fans.

I think I remember another reference... Oh, the phone number of the white house telephone is 555-1984. Not quite a reference, but...

tobar · 05/12/2007, 04:57 am

What I find funny though is that in HtR Sam refers to Bosco as "Old Mr.Bosco"

Badwolf · 05/12/2007, 06:01 am

After beating Bliss for the tenth time now (love that 'battle') I just spotted another HtR reference.

If you use the saw on Hugh (instead of the box he's in) Sam will cut his head off and say something along the lines of "I'm quite the expert on decapitation now". I just thought it was a reference to knocking the president's head off at first, but then I remembered the start of HtR where they take off the mad scientist's head too.

octochan · 05/12/2007, 06:31 am

This is kind of an obscure one, but if you look at the old case file box repeatedly in ep. 6, the dialogue is a lot like what you get when you repeatedly try to make Sam pick up something un-pick-up-able in HtR.

Dangerzone · 05/12/2007, 07:11 am

you can try to stuck the hundred trillion into jimmys rathole in episode 6

sam says....... "That rathole is nit FDIC insured"

**Jake** · 05/12/2007, 09:11 am

I like that in Episode 6 the implication is made (via the spoon bending talisman dialog) that the long-hand cursing wrench-bender in Hit the Road might be a very early follower of prismatology.

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Originally Posted by tobar

What I find funny though is that in HtR Sam refers to Bosco as "Old Mr.Bosco"

Surely Sam is referring to Bosco's dad. I might have just made that up though.

purple_monkfish · 05/12/2007, 09:34 am

I noticed the wrench reference too! um.. lesse.. the poster for the sequal to swan lake and the comment "sequals to much love classics are always better than the originals!" or something to that effect.. oh how I giggled.

cowking · 05/12/2007, 10:41 am

If the wrench bending long hand cursing guy was an early follower of Prismatology, how was he also able to bend a screwdriver into a corkscrew, a screwdriver "isn't spoony enough" as Sam would say. I'm just kidding, I know it's put in there just for fun.

jmm · 05/12/2007, 10:52 am

Maybe he took that power to the next level. Though I find a lot more curious is why he never left, or fix, the *%#@! restaurant or even more curious is where he is now and what else can he bend now.
And even more, what happened to him when he was blissified and maxified

Hi, I'm &#%*! Hugh Bliss

01/22/2007, 07:16 am	#1
Zeek Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,127	Hit the Road Throwbacks - Which have you found? Besides the obvious, I found a throwback to Vanawatu from Hit the Road that apparently went over my head until just now. It's Myra when she goes into her blah-blah-blah loop! I'm sure by now everyone has seen Jesse James' hand, the fate of the old Desoto, the swearing in long hand, and even the referance back to the John Murr (sp?) vegetable. But what other throwbacks have you found to Hit the Road so far?

01/22/2007, 08:59 am	#2
Maratanos Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 851	Whack-the-rat in episode 3... (which is visible in screenshots, before you start asking) __________________ I'll combine your MOM with those items!

01/22/2007, 01:22 pm	#6
ShaggE Deep Mushroom Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 3,316	This isn't an HtR throwback, but am I the only one who hears Myra laugh a little in mid-blablabla? It sounds like the voice actor couldn't keep herself from chuckling lol __________________ "This grass feels funny. It feels like... pants." - Kirby A song. Also a song.

01/22/2007, 06:03 pm	#8
Keir Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 19	i noticed that too - it's very noticeable as it's quite a short loop __________________ it is what it is

05/12/2007, 06:31 am	#15
octochan cephalopod of DESTINY! Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 192	This is kind of an obscure one, but if you look at the old case file box repeatedly in ep. 6, the dialogue is a lot like what you get when you repeatedly try to make Sam pick up something un-pick-up-able in HtR. __________________ You remind me of the game. What game? The game with the power. What power? The power of voodoo. Who do? You do! Do what? Remind me of the game.

01/22/2007, 10:12 am	#3
Lysandus Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 33	A little obscure, but Sam makes a comment about the mailbox outside the office that's very similar to the mailbox outside the office in Hit the Road. I don't think I found out the fate of the old Desoto, though, where do you find that?

01/22/2007, 11:02 am	#4
Tale Grumblecakes Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 50	I only caught the Jesse James's hand. What's the rest?

01/22/2007, 11:32 am	#5
Harald B Egregious Philosopher Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,448	Bosco's dates back from HtR as well, though there it was simply called "Bosco's: Guns, Liquor, Baby Needs". You can even walk in there and save Bosco from being robbed. Also note that in HtR there is a place saying "really bad food" at the same place where the diner is in Season 1 .

01/22/2007, 07:05 pm	#9
octochan cephalopod of DESTINY! Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 192	I wish I could remember all of Vanawatu's variations on 'blah blah blah' from HtR. I recall 'ubida ubida ubida' and 'yib yib yib', but I'm sure there were more.

01/23/2007, 03:40 pm	#11
Zeek Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,127	Found another that was in plain site but missed it entirely until Max's office close up was in the right spot! They have a poster of one of the freaks from the Freak Show tent at the Chushmen Circus. The Human Enigma!

05/11/2007, 11:05 pm	#12
hyperkinetic Third Largest Monkey Join Date: May 2007 Location: California Posts: 5	I love how much effort Telltale is putting in to please old time fans. I think I remember another reference... Oh, the phone number of the white house telephone is 555-1984. Not quite a reference, but...

05/12/2007, 04:57 am	#13
tobar Blue Blazer irregular Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 694	What I find funny though is that in HtR Sam refers to Bosco as "Old Mr.Bosco"

05/12/2007, 06:01 am	#14
Badwolf cannon restraint rope Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 837	After beating Bliss for the tenth time now (love that 'battle') I just spotted another HtR reference. If you use the saw on Hugh (instead of the box he's in) Sam will cut his head off and say something along the lines of "I'm quite the expert on decapitation now". I just thought it was a reference to knocking the president's head off at first, but then I remembered the start of HtR where they take off the mad scientist's head too.

05/12/2007, 07:11 am	#16
Dangerzone Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,048	you can try to stuck the hundred trillion into jimmys rathole in episode 6 sam says....... "That rathole is nit FDIC insured"

05/12/2007, 09:34 am	#18
purple_monkfish Dread Pirate Necromancer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: UK Posts: 462	I noticed the wrench reference too! um.. lesse.. the poster for the sequal to swan lake and the comment "sequals to much love classics are always better than the originals!" or something to that effect.. oh how I giggled. __________________ "you ignorant fools! Do you comprehend what you have done? None of us can pass across this rift your weaver mischief has so blindly created! Your pious meddling has brought the end of my dream! You will hear, for all eternity, the cries of those you have abandoned, Bobbin Threadbare! You will always know that you have left them under my rule!"

05/12/2007, 10:41 am	#19
cowking Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 9	If the wrench bending long hand cursing guy was an early follower of Prismatology, how was he also able to bend a screwdriver into a corkscrew, a screwdriver "isn't spoony enough" as Sam would say. I'm just kidding, I know it's put in there just for fun.

05/12/2007, 10:52 am	#20
jmm Fremen Fedaykin Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Arrakis (also known as Dune) Posts: 1,177	Maybe he took that power to the next level. Though I find a lot more curious is why he never left, or fix, the %#@! restaurant or even more curious is where he is now and what else can he bend now. And even more, what happened to him when he was blissified and maxified Hi, I'm &#%! Hugh Bliss

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