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These are some memorably awesome moments from what many consider the Telltale Sam and Max's greatest adventure yet. For moments related to the previous seasons in the series, look here.

Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.


Episode 301: The Penal Zone

Episode 303: They Stole Max's Brain

  • Noir Sam and the whole interrogation sequence. Especially when you use Noir in the right moment with Skun-ka'pe's Minion.
  • Sam finally beating the crap out of that damned Skun-ka'pe.
  • Max managing to defeat Sammun Mak... using the salutes and oaths that Sammun Mak himself created!
    • This deserves elaboration. Max, who, as a brain in a jar with no Toys of Power to help him or Sam, who is loyal to Sammun-Mak in this alternate universe and refuses to fight them, uses the salutes and oaths to make Sam, who still has the brainscrew in hand, kneel, and accidentally TAKE OUT SAMMUN-MAK'S BRAIN.

Episode 304: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls

  • Three words. MAX VERSUS CHARLIE HO-TEP. (All right, four words.) Of all the episode endings and final confrontations Telltale has done so far, this is just the most epic in its presentation (and still one episode in the season to go). Compared to the final encounter of the 2nd season where you banish the Soda Poppers in a pedestrian looking office with the Granny Weatherwax theory of witchcraft ("use whatever's handy even if it's not very impressive, it'll work just as well") you have Max, glowing with the Power Limiter off, in the sky, amid swirling winds, above the demonically-twisted Statue of Liberty locked in psychic battle, with the Sam clones marching in rows to their doom below, set to spooky chanting and organ music, with Sam below trying to help in any way possible. And then there's how it ends... Max takes Ho-Tep's own form, causing him to turn into the Cthonic Destroyer to destroy the disguise, only for Max to use Ho-Tep's OWN VENTRILOQUISM ABILITY to project the voice of Norrington telling Ho-Tep that Junior never loved him onto the Devil's Toybox, causing Ho-Tep, still in the form of the Cthonic Destroyer, to blow up the Toybox, to his own horror.

Episode 305: The City that Dares Not Sleep

  • Abe's Rousing Speech to an army of Maimtron 9000's.
  • Sal's Heroic Sacrifice. It turns out that the concept of cockroaches being immune to radiation was an Urban Legend, but Sal knew this anyway. He just figured that if his last act could be used to do some good, his death wouldn't be in vain.
  • If you try to shoot the Narrator in 305, instead of making an excuse about why he can't use his gun like he normally would, Sam whips it out and aims. The Narrator assumes he's bluffing and laughs it off, asking if he really wants to fire a gun in his partner's mind. Sam responds by pressing it to his forehead, finger on the trigger. They both stare at it for a moment before the Narrator snaps, "Okay, really, Sam, cut it out" and Sam puts it away, smirking.
  • Sam successfully baiting Sammun mak's brain into opening the doors on his own ship. By saying "Rabbit season", no less, as if mocking Sammun Mak for his lack of pop culture savvy.

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