Editing Sam & Max Hit the Road (section)

==Plot==
Sam and Max, the Freelance Police, are two [[comic book]] characters created by [[Steve Purcell]], who act as [[private detective]]s and [[vigilantism|vigilantes]]. ''Sam & Max Hit the Road'' follows the pair on a case that takes them from their office in [[New York City]] across the [[United States]]. The game starts in a similar way to many of the comic stories, with Sam and Max receiving a telephone call from an unseen and unheard [[Police commissioner|Commissioner]], who tells them to go to a nearby [[circus|carnival]].<ref>{{cite video game|title=Sam & Max Hit the Road|developer=[[LucasArts]]|date=November 1993|platform=PC| level=New York office|quote='''Sam:''' Hello? Yes? Yes? Yes! No! Really? Well, the same to you, Mac! / '''Max:''' Another confused census taker? / '''Sam:''' Actually, that was the Commissioner with another idiotic and baffling assignment. / '''Max:''' Does it involve wanton destruction? / '''Sam:''' We can only hope. Due to the arbitrarily sensitive nature of the mission, we'll be meeting a bonded city courier out on the street.}}</ref> At the carnival, they are told by the owners that their star attraction, a frozen [[bigfoot]] called Bruno, has been set free, and fled, taking their second attraction, Trixie the Giraffe-Necked Girl.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Sam & Max Hit the Road|developer=[[LucasArts]]|date=November 1993|platform=PC|level=Kushman carnival|quote= '''Burl Kushman:''' This used to be our main attraction. / '''Max:''' Your main attraction was a block of ice? / '''Burl Kushman:''' Don't be dense! / '''Shep Kushman:''' Our main attraction was a genuine, authentic, real-life bigfoot, on ice! / '''Sam:''' Let me get this straight ... You want us to go traipsing all over the country looking for a soggy bigfoot? / '''Max:''' I've never been traipsing before. Does it hurt? / '''Shep Kushman:''' But Bruno must be returned to us! / '''Burl Kushman:''' He's a brutish, ignorant beast with no sense of right or wrong! / '''Sam:''' Hey, who isn't? / '''Shep Kushman''': Besides, he's kidnapped our second main attraction. / '''Max:''' Is that the block of ice? / '''Burl Kushman:''' Naw, it's Trixie the Giraffe-Necked Girl from Scranton.}}</ref> Sam and Max set off to find Bruno and Trixie and bring them back. As the duo investigate the carnival, they learn that Bruno and Trixie are in love and that Trixie freed Bruno. The Freelance Police leave the carnival to pursue leads at various [[tourist trap]]s throughout the country, such as [[Biggest ball of twine|The World's Largest Ball of Twine]], a [[vortex]] controlled by giant subterranean [[magnet]]s, and [[bungee jumping]] facilities at [[Mount Rushmore]].

[[File:Sam & Max outside Snuckey's.jpg|thumb|left|Sam and Max outside a "[[Stuckey's|Snuckey's]]"; Americana sites and parodies like this are a core part of the game's setting.]]

The pair learn that two other bigfoots used as tourist attractions in other parts of the country have been freed by Bruno, and that Bruno has been captured by [[Liverpudlian]] [[country western]] singer Conroy Bumpus, a cruel animal abuser who wishes to use Bruno in his performances. Sam and Max travel to Bumpus' home and rescue Bruno and Trixie, but Bruno then departs with Trixie to join a bigfoot gathering at an inn in [[Nevada]].<ref>{{cite video game|title=Sam & Max Hit the Road|developer=[[LucasArts]]|date =November 1993|platform=PC|level=Bumpusville|quote='''Max:''' Well, back to the circus with you. / '''Sam:''' I'm feeling a little morally conflicted about taking Bruno back to the circus. / '''Max:''' I'm not. Let's go, you big lug. / '''Trixie:''' Stay away from him, you malefactor! / '''Max:''' I'm not a malefactor, I'm a lagomorph! / '''Bruno:''' Look, I'm not going back to the circus, and I'm late for a party.}}</ref> Following them, Sam and Max disguise themselves as a bigfoot to enter the party. Eventually the party is gatecrashed by Conroy Bumpus and his henchman Lee Harvey, who hope to capture the bigfoots. However, Sam manages to fool Bumpus and Harvey into donning their bigfoot disguise, and Max locks them in the inn's kitchen freezer.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Sam & Max Hit the Road|developer=[[LucasArts]]|date=November 1993|platform=PC|level=Savage Jungle Inn|quote='''Sam:''' Hey Max, why don't you make yourself useful? / ''Max closes and locks the door to the meat freezer where Bumpus and Harvey are changing into a bigfoot costume'' / '''Sam:''' That was fun. / '''Max:''' Now future generations will be able to enjoy his atonal warblings.}}</ref>

Chief Vanuatu, leader of the bigfoots, in recognition of the pair's actions, makes the Freelance Police members of the bigfoot tribe and tells them of a spell that will make the world safe for bigfoots again, preventing their capture by humans. However, the chief requires help deciphering the spell's four ingredients, and asks for Sam and Max's help. Eventually, they discover that the ingredients are a vegetable resembling [[John Muir]], [[baldness treatments|hair restoration tonic]], the tooth of a [[dinosaur]] (or one from a mechanical one as is used), and a vortex contained within a [[snow globe]]. Combined with a live bigfoot sacrifice—which Max substitutes for frozen bigfoot-clad Bumpus and Harvey—the ingredients cause large trees to spring into existence, destroying towns and cities and covering the bulk of the west United States in forest. Content that their work is done,<ref>{{cite video game|title=Sam & Max Hit the Road|developer=[[LucasArts]]|date=November 1993|platform=PC|level=Savage Jungle Inn|quote='''Vanuatoo:''' You boys should be proud of what you've helped us achieve here today. / '''Sam:''' You mean the wholesale destruction of the symbols of modern civilisation in the Western United States? You bet we are! / '''Max:''' Do we win a prize?}}</ref> Sam and Max take the frozen ice block containing Bumpus and Harvey to the carnival. Believing that Bruno has been returned to them, the owners give a large reward of [[skee ball]] tickets to the Freelance Police, who then spend the end credits shooting targets at a carnival stall with real firearms.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Sam & Max Hit the Road|developer=[[LucasArts]]|date= November 1993|platform=PC|level=Kushman carnival|quote='''Burl Kushman:''' I hope you're happy. With those two idiots on the case, we'll probably never see Bruno again. / ''''Shep Kushman:''' Oh, lighten up, Burl. Hey, they're back! / ''Sam walks into the tent / '''''Burl Kushman:''' Did you find Bruno? / '''Sam:''' Of course! / ''Max pushes the large ice cube containing Conroy Bumpus and Lee Harvey wearing the bigfoot costume into the tent / '''''Burl Kushman:''' Bruno! / '''Shep Kushman:''' How can we ever repay you? / '''Sam:''' The blank looks on your faces are the only reward we need. / '''Max:''' That, and a big fat check. / '''Burl Kushman:''' Would you settle for three thousand SkeeBall tickets? / '''Sam:''' Close enough. Let's go, Max! / ''The two walks to the exit / '''''Sam:''' You know, Max. I can't stop thinking that we've foolishly tampered with the fragile inner mechanisms of the little spaceship we call earth. / '''Max:''' Gosh, Sam. If a few hundred years of civilization have to be totaled just to ensure that a bunch of smelly quasi-human creatures have a safe haven for their disgusting lifestyles then so be it! / '''Sam:''' You crack me up, little buddy! / ''The two walk out of the tent / '''''Shep Kushman:''' Burl, did Bruno always have four arms?}}</ref>