Season 4 Speculation/Suggestion Thread

[StrongBrush1]

Originally Posted by Hatley

Maybe 401 could deliver fanservice by somehow making the toys of power reappear, but Sam prime and Max X decide the best thing to do is use them to send Yog-Soggoth back to the dark dimension (or destroy them, whatever floats your boat), meanwhile, Satan is making sure everyone who died in season 3 is there in hell, but when he sees Max, he releases him as a mark of tribute to all the people he and sam sent to hell. But because he's SATAN he also releases all the villains. So the episode could be about Sam and both Maxes trying to stop Skun'kape and the other villains getting the toybox, while also trying to destroy it or use it to send yog-soggoth home. It could be called "Sam & Max 401:The Twin Lagomorphs"

Wouldn't Satan also want to release Sam X, too? Nitpicking aside, That sounds pretty cool.

[Hatley]

Originally Posted by StrongBrush1

Wouldn't Satan also want to release Sam X, too? Nitpicking aside, That sounds pretty cool.

I don't know, but it could be explained in an episode where Sam, Max and Max X try to bring Sam X back.

[Nintendo Boy1]

Originally Posted by Gohaku

THAT'S IT!!! I can't take it anymore!!! What's gonna happen next!!! I need to know!!! Do Sam and this Max get along? Maybe .....
Are all who died REALLY DEAD? Why are there 2 endings??? WHAT DOES THAT FREAKIN BABY LOOK LIKE???
Why does my mind feel so thoroughly F****D?!?!
?

I found out there were to ending because Jake (the director) and Chuck (the designer) had to diffrent view on an ending so they just implented both. I would doubt those who died are REALLY dead. For all we know they'll somehow come back. (I'm certain Sal is.) Just think positive.

[Bunnyman]

Also while we're at it, Chuck said [paraphrased] Max has a hive mind and shares the same thoughts and feelings as any other instance of Max. We don't need to be concerned that "this Max" is different than the other.
I don't think Telltale is going to spend a season trying to undo/redo the events of the past season. Although I can see a bit of dialogue in 401. Also I think many of the characters who died are popular enough to return (i.e. Sal, Stinky)

Max: "It's too bad I don't have any unexplainable physic powers to help with the case, Sam"
Sam: "But didn't having those physic powers cause you to... you know...
Max: "What is it Sam?"
Sam: "Nevermind."

[Gohaku]

Originally Posted by Nintendo Boy1

I found out there were to ending because Jake (the director) and Chuck (the designer) had to diffrent view on an ending so they just implented both. I would doubt those who died are REALLY dead. For all we know they'll somehow come back. (I'm certain Sal is.) Just think positive.

Originally Posted by Bunnyman

Also while we're at it, Chuck said [paraphrased] Max has a hive mind and shares the same thoughts and feelings as any other instance of Max. We don't need to be concerned that "this Max" is different than the other.
I don't think Telltale is going to spend a season trying to undo/redo the events of the past season. Although I can see a bit of dialogue in 401. Also I think many of the characters who died are popular enough to return (i.e. Sal, Stinky)

Max: "It's too bad I don't have any unexplainable physic powers to help with the case, Sam"
Sam: "But didn't having those physic powers cause you to... you know...
Max: "What is it Sam?"
Sam: "Nevermind."

Well I'm glad some people found my old dusty post worth replying to! Thanks! So Chuck's the designer, huh? I did not know that at the time, otherwise I would've taken that post more seriously! A hive mind... That's kind of a bland deus ex machina but unique.... Now I've gotta go in a different direction with my developing fanfic.

I still can't wait to see how the team is going to continue the series, though. Whatever they do, I'm sure it's going to be most excellent.

[Gohaku]

Also, this whole hive mind business should be addressed in the series at some point! Seriously!
That 305 ending nearly scarred me for life.

[Mr Nutt]

Well I think season 4 would be a good time to bring back Sam & Max's "arch-nemesis" Mack Salmon but since the games Telltale makes now seem to be slowly getting more darker and edgier (not that it's a bad thing) things might not be as simple as usual for Sam & Max to get away from him. I'd say more but my imagination is dead sleeping right now.

[tabstis]

I had some ideas in my head for a fourth season. It basically starts off with Sam and Max saving the city from a brand new villain (who then turns out to be the villain of episode 3) and then it turns out they are famous.

New characters include a reporter following them, an obsessive Max stalker, an evil rich nemesis, a mad scientist who lives between dimensions and a girl who is looking for her father.

Episode 1 revolves around some paradoxes that are appearing across the city as the result of meddling. Sam and Max spend the two episodes searching for the cause behind these and some other shady plots involving the reporter as the villian of the first episode.

At the end of episode 2, an apocalypse occurs as a result of Grandpa Stinky's actions and the whole city is destroyed. Sam and Max meet the scientist guy and spend Episode 3 putting it right, discovering that the first villain is behind it.

In Episode 4, everything is back to normal before the apocalypse and Sam and Max must confront a returning villain in the form of a vengeful General Skun-ka'pe. The episode ends as Max's stalker finally blackmails him into marrying her, creating a union of pure evil.

Episode 5 involves Sam attempting to break up the wedding before it can occur but fails - resulting in a scene where he breaks into the church to stop it when they are interrupted by Papierwaite.

Papierwaite blames Sameth and Maximus for all the bad things that have happened to him, and with Norrington finally gone and Max busy, he has won the election and is president. Papierwaite sends Sam and Max to the dark dimension as he prepares to destroy the planet and escape on Skun-ka'pe's ship.

There, they must make their way back as the mad scientist is revealed to be the girl's father, General Skun-ka'pe discovers he has a son on his home planet, the evil rival perishes and Sal and Stinky meet again in a parallel universe. Finally, with help from Satan, they return and stop Papierwaite.

At the last moment, Papierwaite is backstabbed by none other than the original Max who plans to destroy the world anyway, bitter at being replaced. At the last moment, the Sam from the alternate timeline shows up and leaves with him, solving the paradox and sealing the dimensions.

Thus, all the loose ends are tied up. Papierwaite is put in the dark dimension with Norrington again, much to both of their dismay and locked there for eternity.

But that's just all my ideas...

[funnybone567]

I'm kind of seeing Season 4 (or at least an episode of it) revolving around Sam and Max in the time machine, picking up past versions of themselves (comics, cartoon, Hit the Road, etc,..) to fight some new villain that they can't take down on their own.

[crfh]

Season 2 ended kind of ominously with Satan hinting that he'd be a future problem for Sam and Max, but then it simply was forgotten.

I'm perfectly happy with either mundane or epic shenanigans, but since we're throwing out ideas:

Chuckles is vicepresident now, and he's evil, and planning to kill Superball so he can become president.

Aditionally, Momma Bosco falls for Superball, and they have a baby that will look like the Alternate Bosco in Chariots of the Dogs (the one that had Superball as a daddy)

... I think I squicked myself.

[tabstis]

Just clearing up the Satan thing.

SATAN is the Devil - when he says he'll be seeing them soon, it's because they'll die within the next hundred years or so.

[lombre]

So I was thinking, and if they decide to do a time-travel thing for Season 4, I would love to be able to go back to 1971 and cause the cancellation of Culture's Clubhouse. It'd be hilarious if Sam & Max were the ones to not only ruin Brady's show, but also secure that the Soda Poppers show continued without competition.

[queen_of_the_lobsters]

Originally Posted by lombre

So I was thinking, and if they decide to do a time-travel thing for Season 4, I would love to be able to go back to 1971 and cause the cancellation of Culture's Clubhouse. It'd be hilarious if Sam & Max were the ones to not only ruin Brady's show, but also secure that the Soda Poppers show continued without competition.

That would require the Soda Poppers showing up again. No thank you!

[lombre]

Originally Posted by queen_of_the_lobsters

That would require the Soda Poppers showing up again. No thank you!

The Soda Poppers were on a completely different network. You could visit the Culture's Clubhouse studio and mess things up without bumping into the Soda Poppers even once.

[Ashton]

I loved the idea above about using the "forotten hat" as a tutorial.

Personally I see some events that are coming to a head that most of you seem to have forgotten... it seems Agent Superball is at the point where he can unleash whatever twisted scheme he has been working on. Remember all the odd occurrences when Superball shouldn't have been around, and he never explained them? and isnt it strange that he became president when it should be the VICE president (aka Sam) who takes over when Max is incapacitated? I think superball has some heinous scheme up his sleeve and it will finally be revealed!

Originally Posted by tabstis

Just clearing up the Satan thing.
SATAN is the Devil - when he says he'll be seeing them soon, it's because they'll die within the next hundred years or so.

"whaddaya want? an exxxxxtension?" (sorry but that popped into my head when I read that post) And who's to say S+M will be able to be contained in Hell, after all they already wreaked havoc there once, and if only 1 of them dies the other will save him ALA 205 Max releasing Sam.

[funnybone567]

Didn't Max make Mr Spatula VP?

[jaden551]

yes he was but then he let superball take over after spatula died

[Ashton]

Originally Posted by jaden551

yes he was but then he let superball take over after spatula died

Didnt S+M kinda kill Mr Spatula...? and in what epp did Superball become VP?

[Gohaku]

Originally Posted by Ashton

Didnt S+M kinda kill Mr Spatula...? and in what epp did Superball become VP?

This also confuses me. I think I may have missed something, but how did he become the VP?

[Scnew]

I really don't want to see the season be about finding/resurrecting the original Max, or Sam and the new Max not getting along, or anything like that. Half of this season was already like that. 302 barely had the real Sam and Max. 303 started with Sam alone, then Sam and Sammunmak, then Sam and Max's brain. 305 didn't have the real Max in it at all. A lot of these suggestions sound like you want episode 306 instead of 401. I fully expect (and want) the next season to start with a call from the Commisioner like nothing was ever wrong. References to Season 3, of course, but not a whole new season built around the last one.