Night of the Raving Dead

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“Night of the Raving Dead”
Telltale episode
Episode # 203
Villain Jurgen
Release date February 14, 2008 (GameTap), February 15, 2008 (Telltale Shop)
Sam & Max Season Two
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Night of the Raving Dead is the third episode of season two of the Sam & Max video game series by Telltale Games. In this episode, Sam and Max must discover the mystery behind a zombie apocalypse.

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[edit] Synopsis

The game starts with Sam & Max being caught in an elaborate death-trap, with Max wondering how they got to this point. A flashback starts off the first part of the game:

Sam and Max are in the middle of dealing (or actually, not-dealing) with a zombie attack when the Commissioner calls about a zombie attack. By talking to the C.O.P.S. they find out that the zombies are coming from The Zombie Factory, a nightclub in Stuttgart, Germany. The club turns out to be located in an old castle and run by the vampire Jurgen.

Jurgen is far too powerful to confront directly, but by using holy water, uv light and garlic clove cigarettes Sam and Max manage to destroy his source of power: his popularity. They pursue him to his back room, where they have the most impressive fight of their career. Since Max remembers that part, the flashback ends and the story is back at the scene in the introduction, with them stuck in the trap after losing the fight. Unfortunately, they've now spent so much time reminiscing that it's too late to escape and the trap snaps shut.

After a "You are dead!" screen, the pair wake up in the graveyard reborn as zombies. They return to the back room but find Jurgen gone and their souls trapped waiting to be shipped off to hell. To make things worse, their souls don't even want to reunite with them. The Soul Mater Sybil got on the Internet is just what they need, but she needs it herself to find a date after having broken up with Abe in Moai Better Blues. Sam and Max eventually manage to turn Jurgen's Monster into the perfect date and grab the Soul Mater.

When they get back to their souls, though, a malfunction makes them end up the each other's bodies. Meanwhile Jurgen has returned for a final confrontation. In the end they beat Jurgen by using the Monster's body, and in his dramatic exit he stumbles into his own trap and has his soul taken to Hell. Just when Sam gets his own soul back (Max gets his back between episodes), Flint Paper arrives with bad news: Bosco has gone missing!

In a scene after the credits, a still zombiefied Max gives a press conference.

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Unlike every other episode in Season One and Two, Bosco doesn't appear in this episode due to how he was scared off by Sam and Max's prank radio calling in the previous episode.

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[edit] Notes

  • After Sam and Max are killed in Jurgen's machine, "You Are Dead" appears on the screen in a similar fashion to the Resident Evil video game series. The typewriter ribbon Sam and Max find in the nightclub is another reference to Resident Evil. After picking up the ink ribbon, Max comments that they really need healing herbs, a common healing item in Resident Evil. Later on, a zombie tells you that he worked for a drug company, but that an accident had happened, referencing the fictional Umbrella Corporation, which is also from Resident Evil.
  • One of the buttons in Jurgen's DJ booth plays a recorded voice saying "Sub Zero", in allusion to the Mortal Kombat video game series. Another button plays the phrase "Pure Energy," referring to a prominent sample in a 1980s dance song by Information Society.
  • When Sam unscrews the bulb from Stinky's sun lamp, Max says "Did you just get déjà vu?" This refers to Sam & Max Hit the Road where, at one point in the game, Sam unscrews a bulb illuminating a signpost in the office closet.
  • Curt, one of the C.O.P.S., explains that S.O.L. (Stuttgart On Line), (which is a play on AOL, America On Line) their new Internet service provider, is "so simple, even a zombie could use it", a possible reference to an AOL TV ad from several years ago that used the phrase "So easy, even dad can use it." and/or a reference to the famous GEICO "caveman" ad campaign.
  • Jurgen lets out a "Wilhelm scream" as he's crushed by the Soul Sucker.
  • The driving game developed by the C.O.P.S. in this episode is an allusion to the 1984 Atari video game, Paperboy.
  • The horse call whenever Agent Superball's name is mentioned is a running gag from the film Young Frankenstein.
  • When getting the holy water, Max declares 'Sim, Sim, Sala beem!", the catchphrase of Hadji from Jonny Quest.
  • At the Beginning you can find a Beer Stein as a reference to Resident Evil 4, because the first treasure you can find is a beer stein, However Sam only says "so the Zombies drink Beer"?
  • The episode icon features Jurgen (who was the main villain of the episode) and has the colour background of the episode is blackish, purple. Strangley enough though, in The Tomb of Sammun-Mak (Episode Two, Season Three) Jurgen appears as a human but then slowly turns into a vampire meaning that he was turned into a vampire around the 1900's.

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