Bosco
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[edit] Character Detail
Bosco's business style appears to be based around overcharging for any item so he can afford his elaborate high-tech, homemade security systems, as well as selling his personal brand of "BoscoTech equipment", which are generally rudimentary at best, but cost extraordinary amounts of money (like a hundred million dollars for a "Truth Serum" - which turns out to be a bottle of Vodka). Throughout Season One, his paranoia causes him to dress up as different people (such as an English man, a Russian man, and even his own mother). These disguises usually involve nothing more than Bosco wearing a hat or make-up. He still wears his ordinary clothes, and even his name tag saying his name (though he does add "Mama" to his name tag when disguised as his mother).
At some point between Seasons One and Two, Bosco uses the money he made selling his BoscoTech items to Sam & Max to equip his store with even better security measures and various detection apparatus. He also covers the windows in aluminum foil, dims the lighting to a red glow and stops selling things. This is mostly because of his newfound fear of being abducted by T.H.E.M., which turns out to be justified as they do abduct him sometime between Moai Better Blues and the end of Night of the Raving Dead. He is found relatively easily, but it takes Sam & Max the episodes Chariots of the Dogs and a significant part of What's new, Beelzebub? to completely save him.
Bosco has a peculiar relationship with his mother, Momma Bosco. In Chariots of the Dogs, Bosco inadvertently travels back through time and causes a mess in her store. While Sam & Max manage to repair most of the changes to history this causes (including Bosco being a cow), this nonetheless makes her seek revenge and enlist Flint Paper to try to track him down, unaware that he is actually her own future son. The truth about all of this only comes out after she dies in What's new, Beelzebub?. At the time she also mentions how she sent Bosco an alarm clock every Christmas, which he always took to be a bomb and promptly disposed of.
One of the first test-tube babies, Bosco was "born" in a machine, rather than his mother's womb. It is implied that his father is John F. Kennedy, which may explain his paranoia and obsession with conspiracy theory.
During the entire Devil's Playhouse arc, Bosco was vacationing in Las Vegas together with Bluster Blaster, using the money that (in Momma Bosco's words) 'some idiots gave him' (AKA, Sam and Max). When Sam and Max later meet Bluster Blaster in Beyond the Alley of the Dolls, he tells them that Bosco managed to use up all the money and even get himself in deep debt in the process, forcing him to stay in Vegas to work as a male stripper.
In Beyond the Alley of the Dolls, Momma Bosco implies that Bosco's first name is "Roscoe".
[edit] Role throughout the seasons
[edit] Sam & Max Save the World
Bosco first appears in the first episode of the season Culture Shock, and S&M are told to go to his convenience store to "solve" a problem with malfeasance. Sam and Max discover that Bosco is freaking out because Whizzer, one of the Soda Poppers; is doing the opposite of shoplifting, shopdropping; forcing items for sale in the store. He also is revealed to have a B-TADS (Bosco-Tech-Anti-Delivery-System) in the store preventing items from being stolen. He also sells a Salad Shooter filled with onions to the duo for 10,000. Bosco later helps Sam out by giving him an anti-hypnosis helemt letting him defeat Brady Culture, the adversary of the episode.
Later, in Situation: Comedy, Bosco makes a brief role dressed poorly as a British; he has his store attacked and his shaving cream stolen by the Skinbodies, though Sam and Max reclaim it and use it to get into WARP. Later, he sells a helium balloon (which he calls a Bosco-Tech Voice Modulator) for $1,000,000 worth of Food Stamps to Sam and Max. He also has an anti-shopdropping system.
In The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball, dressed as a French man, Bosco later sells, for 10,000,000 tokens of Ted E. Bear's Mafia-Free Playland & Casino, a listening device which is really a bug. Despite just being a bug, it is revealed to be quite useful. Later the Toy Mafia demand the duo to shopdrop Ted E Bear items on the sale table at his store. Tricking Bosco and exposing the weakness of Bosco's B-TADS (Part 2), they manage to deliver the items to the store.
Bosco appears in the latter half of Abe Lincoln Must Die! in which he has disguised himself as a Russian. When it is revealed that he has weenies millions of years old, they pay him 100 million dollards for what he claims is a truth serum; a bottle of VODKA! He also has made an anti-missile system to eliminate those targeting him. It is revealed that Bosco has a homing beacon in his store that a missile can target; this missile will be destroyed if fired. Sam and Max later move the beacon from Bosco's store to Abraham Lincoln, destroying him.
Reality 2.0 has Bosco dressed as a half-elf. He has moved his store and bank account to the online world at BancoLavadero.com in which Sam and Max can invest a Billion dollars into it and becomes a massive player of Reality 2.0; he later takes the goggles playing it off and later reveals that the billion dollars Sam and Max worked so hard to invest will be traded for a... snot rag. Despite being of absolute no-use in the real world, it becomes a reality-2.0-destroying-virus later.
In the finale of the season, he gives Sam and Max an "Earthquake Maker" which simply crashes into the moon for the Deed to the United States. He is later brainwashed by Hugh Bliss, though saved by Sam and Max.
[edit] Sam & Max Beyond Time & Space
Bosco closes his store and transforms it into his HQ between the end of season one and the start of two.
In Ice Station Santa, the introductory episode of this season, Bosco (after saying "Holy SH--" when seeing the Maimtron 9000 in the earlier part of the episode) is not only disguise-less but has his stored lighted exclusively by red lights. He states that he is not only extremely paranoid of an unknown group called T.H.E.M., but a package he has on the counter may be a bomb, and that he should dispose it with his bomb-disposal unit; though he is reluctant to do this due to how his package may be a billion dollars. He later gets a time stopwatch package courtesy of Sam and Max; while he disposes it, Sam and Max take his original package; one of the 4 hoursmen they've been looking for.
Bosco later helps Sam and Max freeze a Bermuda Triangle and Sam and Max later pretend to be T.H.E.M. to scare Bosco out so they can steal his Banang. Scared to hell by his call from S&M pretending to be T.H.E.M., his store is left completely locked and completely inaccessible in Night of the Raving Dead. This is also the only episode in the 1st 2 seasons which he doesn't appear.
After missing for a complete episode, Flint Paper employs the two of them to break into Bosco's store in the beginning of Chariots of the Dogs; Bosco is apparently nowhere to be found, making the only place he may be the then-inacessible bathroom. They break into the bathroom, and after setting off a model volcano, are picked up by a spaceship!
Sam and Max discover Bosco has turned into a cow, and that the elevator in the ship has a horrible consequence. They enter an elevaor on the ship and find themselves in Ms Bosco's, his mothers, store! Attracted to Max, she chooses not to have a baby, making Bosco never born! He may later become the son of Superball, though when Sam and Max tweak with their younger selves into making Max interested in girls and by getting Bosco's father (the then-preisdent)'s spit, he is brought back to normal. Tragically, he is later killed by T.H.E.M. and sent to hell.
In What's new, Beelzebub?, Sam and Max witness Bosco's shocking hell; him being naked on stage in front of Sybil, T.H.E.M. & his mother! When Sam temporairily sacrifices his soul in a trade with Satan, his soul, along with all the others who had their souls lost, are freed. He later holds Abraham Lincoln's bachelor party at his store and attends his wedding.
[edit] Date of Birth
According to the episode Chariots of the Dogs, Bosco was born on October 25th 1963.
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[edit] Trivia
- Since the president of the 1963, according to Chariots of the Dogs, is Bosco's father, his father could be John F. Keneddy.
- It is interesting to note that in Bosco's hellish nightmare, Sybil was present; this may hint an attraction or care to her.
