Chariots of the Dogs

Sam & Max: Chariots of the Dogs
The GameTap title card for "Chariots of the Dogs"
Developer(s)	Telltale Games
Publisher(s)	Telltale Games GameTap
Designer(s)	Chuck Jordan Brendan Q. Ferguson Dave Grossman Heather Logas Steve Purcell
Series	Sam & Max: Season Two
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Wii, Xbox 360 (XBLA)[1][2]
Release date(s)	USA March 13, 2008 (GameTap) March 14, 2008 (Online)
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: T
Media/distribution	Download

"Chariots of the Dogs" is the fourth episode of Sam & Max Season Two created by Telltale Games and published by GameTap. It was released on March 14, 2008.

Plot

Sam & Max encounter their 2006 selves.

Bosco has vanished and Flint Paper, who has been tracking him for 40 years, needs Sam & Max to help him find him. They enter his shop to find it deserted and then the bathroom, where they find baking soda and vinegar, as well as several model volcanoes. Combining baking soda and vinegar, they produce an explosion which prompts a space ship to come over and beam them on board. There they find Bosco, as Boscow, a half man half cow. He explains that he entered an elevator which turns out to be a time machine and then found himself this way.

Sam & Max enter the elevator and find themselves in 1963's version of Bosco's shop, run by his mother. She, an avid feminist, explains that she will make her baby herself using saliva from herself and a random man from the White House with her baby-maker. The baby-maker has milk dripping in the male-sample unit, which explains why Bosco is a cow. When Sam & Max want to leave, she is turned on by Max's attitude (hating girls) which adds the problem that Bosco will never be born. In the White House they encounter a younger Agent Superball, looking no different from his future self. Thinking him the father, they use his sample but it does not work as expected.

They use a sample from President Kennedy and are able to recreate Bosco, who still is a paradox, not having been born. They go to Stinky's Diner in the 80s to manipulate their past selves' view about girls which makes Max a womanizer. Ms. Bosco does not love him anymore once he shows her his new attitude which allows Bosco to be born as intended. Back on the ship they go to look for T-H-E-M, who turn out to be a trio of birthday Mariachi singers who travel through space and time singing for birthdays and, as a part time job, collecting and crushing souls. The surprise is too much for Bosco and he dies of a heart attack, his soul being slowly crushed into smithereens.

Sam & Max manage to lure all three Mariachi singers away from the ship and thus can save Bosco, but Max accidentally steps on the "suck"-button and Bosco's soul is sucked up into the Bermuda Triangle. After extending the bridge to the soul-crusher area, Bosco's body is placed there by accident, which prompts the ship to start a self destruct sequence. This forces Sam & Max to flee through the Bermuda Triangle, taking Bosco's body with them. The space ship comes to the beginning of time and crashes into the gravitational singularity, causing the Big Bang and creating the universe.

See also

• Ice Station Santa
• Moai Better Blues
• Night of the Raving Dead
• What's New, Beelzebub?

References

1. ^ "Sam & Max Season 1 and 2 Officially Coming to XBLA". 2009-02-26. http://n4g.com/News-285349.aspx. 
2. ^ "Sam & Max Confirmed for XboxLIVE! Arcade". 2008-02-26. http://www.electronictheatre.co.uk/articles/archive/2009/sam-max-confirmed-for-xbox-live-arcade-07260209/. 

External links

• Information page