SAM & MAX FREELANCE POLICE
THE COMPLETE ANIMATED SERIES

"Slap the sleeper on them and make them say uncle!"

The Thing That Wouldn't Stop
It The Geek calls in Sam & Max to handle a problem that the refrigerator repairmen cannot handle.

The Second Show
Ever It's Career day at school and Sam and Max show up to join in the fun!

Max's Big Day
A tribe believes Max to be their chosen one, and make him their king.

Bad Day On The Moon
The mayor of the moon asks Sam & Max to investigate the disappearance of some of the inhabitants of the moon.

Dysfunction Of The Gods
Sam & Max take the role of freelance marriage counsellors to the gods, but failure will result in the duo being turned into geriatrics.

They Came From Down There
Sam & Max investigate the disappearances en masse at Bo-hunk Lagoon.

Big Trouble At The Earth's Core
Sam & Max travel 60 miles beneath the earth's crust to investigate what is causing an increase in the temperature of the earth's core.

The Friend For Life
Hero worship is taken to a dangerous new height when "Lorne", Sam and Max's greatest fan, starts getting just a little too close for comfort. Lorne's over-zealousness results in chaos for the boys' crime fighting efforts, and almost in their personal demise!

A Glitch In Time
Sam and Max get a magical watch. When they use it, they get transported to different times.

That Darn Gator
Sam & Max have trouble handling an alligator.

Christmas Bloody Christmas
While visiting Sam's Granny on Christmas Eve, Sam and Max join her on an impromptu visit to her former place of employment to bring the joy of the season to some of the shut-ins. Well, actually, the "cage-ins", as Granny turns out to be the retired warden for the Blood Island Correctional Institute, home for society's most hardened criminals. Their goodwill mission shortly takes on dangerous overtones when some of the cons stage a daring attempt at a jailbreak! Only Granny's personal knowledge of the layout of the facility, and various martial arts disciplines stand between the criminals and freedom. Oh, Sam and Max are also obstacles, but only if they can keep up with Granny's blistering pace!

We Drop At Dawn
Sam and Max go on a top secret and dangerous mission to... find the commissioner's lost keys?

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / The Monkeys from O.N.C.L.E.
Sam & Max are entrusted with a microchip which evil minions are after.

It's Dangly Deever Time
Sam and Max fiddle with an experimental television set in The Sub-Basement of Solitude, and disaster results. This TV only receives signals of long forgotten programs, including an old kiddie show from the '50s hosted by a marionette named Dangly Deever. When a power surge brings Dangly to life in present day Manhattan, he takes a shine to the old (well, new to him) town and runs amok! Can the boys return Dangly to his former black and white home in time to avert the greatest programming catastrophe since Sonny and Cher? Let's pray, and don't touch that dial!

Tonight We Love (Have a Heart)
St. Valentine's Day has become a traditional day of celebration for Sam and Max as they rejoice in the fact that they have absolutely no romantic commitments, responsibilities, or inclinations! This year, however, they are dragged into all the garish trappings and emotional instability of the day when during the course of an emergency mission to transport an artificial heart to a super secret recipient in Washington, D.C., the DeSoto is stolen!.

Our Baby!
The irony deepens when their search for the kidnapped car and heart leads them to "Loveland" an Amusement Park for Lovers only. Only their devotion to duty and their beloved DeSoto can inspire them to wade into a crowd of dewy-eyed saps, and retrieve that which they cannot live without. Now that's true love.

The Glazed McGuffin Affair
A casual trip to the supermarket turns into a nightmare for Sam and Max when they learn that their most favourites snack food ever, Glazed McGuffins, have been banned for sale by the government! The boys go from shock to despair and finally to rabid crusaders as they organize a huge petition signing campaign to bring an end to the embargo. Needing only one more signature to push them over the top, they encounter a holdout that refuses to sign! It is now Sam and Max's mission in life to convert this pagan and return the hallowed dough balls to their rightful home on the country's grocery shelves.

The Tell Tale Tail
Sam & Max tell the tale of Max's tail being reanimated. The Trouble With Gary Sam & Max help Gary with anger management.

AAIIIEEE, Robot!
Sam and Max are not happy when the Geek comes to dismantle The MEGAMAX 3000, a giant Max-shaped robot seems to have outlived its usefulness to the crime-fighting duo. What can they do to save it from rusting in the street?

The Invaders
Two Tiny aliens bent on destroying Sam and Max show up at Sam and Max's door, and they just won't stop!

Sam and Max Vs the Uglions from Outer Space
Uglions have landed at Grover's Mill. What could they want?

Little Bigfoot
Sam & Max try to set free a little bigfoot and return him to his own kind.

The Final Episode
Nearly every villain from the series' short run collaborate to finally destroy Sam & Max. Somehow their evil plot involves tying Sam & Max up in the cockpit of a jet, and numerous flashbacks to the TV series, comics, and some totally fake, eerily corny flashbacks that somebody made up.

When it comes to defining the cult animated TV series of the 90s, there is one show that would make most people's top ten and that show is 'Sam & Max Freelance Police'.

Based on the beloved comic books by Steve Purcell, Sam and Max shot to fame in the 1993 point-and-click graphic adventure 'Sam & Max Hit the Road' and now because of their return to the PC in new episodic adventures interest in the Dog detective and his hyperkinetic rabbity thing sidekick has never been so great. Back in 1997, the pair hit the small screen with their own TV series and with their own unique take on popular culture.

At a time when quirky characters such as 'Ren & Stimpy', 'Freakazoid', 'Animaniacs' and 'The Tick' ruled the animation airwaves, 'Sam & Max Freelance Police' fitted right into that mould. Sam is an old school detective using his skills to be a freelance policeman, hired to investigate or cover those cases that the law won't touch. Extremely laid back and prone to using far too many words to explain a very simple point, Sam is the brains of the pair and loves an ice cream sandwich. Max on the other hand is madness personified. His crazy grin and pointy teeth, he loves violence and serves up some very unusual suggestions when it comes to solving the case.

Over seen by creator Steve Purcell, the animated series is filled with classic Sam and Max moments that fans will revel in. Watching Sam and Max drive around in their police car around Grover's Mill, given jobs by the Commissioner is a joy for fans of the comic book and the video games alike. Classic episodes include the brilliant 'The Glazed McGuffin Affair', the very seasonal 'Christmas Bloody Christmas' and the very funny 'Big Trouble At The Earth's Core' but there is plenty here to savour. The only sad thing is that there was only one season of the show, twenty-three episodes in all because this is classic animation at its very best.

'Sam & Max Freelance Police: The Complete Animated Series' is a must for all fans of the crime busting pair. Animation from the 90s showed what the medium could do and 'Sam and Max' are the personification of how far 2D animation can go and how surreal it can be while still been extremely funny.

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