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Originally Posted by Olaus Petrus
I would say that there are two timelines which have differences. In original "Situation: Comedy" Sam & Max didn't meet their future selves, but in the "Chariots of the Dogs" Sam and Max of "Situation: Comedy" meet and interact with the Season 2 Sam & Max. As these changes don't seem to be affecting to the present of Sam & Max there must be alternative timeline. From the "Chariot of the Dogs" meeting onwards future of the past Sam & Max changes more and more from the original timeline and events of the alternative past lead to situation where Sam was destroyed instead of Max. If there is no split in timeline, but there is only one reality where Sam & Max travel in time and space, then eventually Max must return to moment of his death and Sam can't avoid being turned into a giant monster in the future.
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This is saying that Sam and Max follow the Novik self-consistency principle that any event caused by traveling back in time was part of history anyway, I can see this working if they allowed multiple timelines because that is the only paradox that doesn't make sense, we can see the events they cause in there own time like the bottle of vinegar, I think Grandpa Stinky's death is somehow caused by them, and all there pardoxes were sorted out in the end.
As I'm writing this I notice the theory doesn't work with giving Max a sense of romance, if it was predetermined for him to go back and change himself he would have been that way from the present he set off from.