The Street
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The Street or "The Neighborhood" is where Sam & Max's office is located. The known streets are Straight and Narrow. Other than the apartment building, there are some businesses close by. Stray cats and drunk pigeons roamed it in Hit the Road. Random foot traffic and shady people populated it in the comics and animated series. It is oddly void of showing any inhabitants roaming it (with the exception of the Rats) in the TellTale games.
At the beginning of Sam & Max Season Two, Maimtron 9000 goes on a rampage that ends up significantly changing the layout of the street.
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[edit] Exactly on The Street
[edit] The Office
Where Sam & Max's and Flint Paper's offices are located, and also where "unsavory" punks like to loiter around. Its address is 1313 Straight Street.
[edit] Esperanto Bookstore
A bookstore that appeared between The Apartment Building and Bosco's Inconvenience in the Telltale games. It was used by Hugh Bliss to promote Prismatology in Abe Lincoln Must Die!, but other than that it's an abandoned shop.
After Maimtron 9000's rampage in Ice Station Santa, the bookstore disappears underground, leaving the office building directly next to Bosco's Inconvenience (not unlike the arrangement in Hit the Road). It is later seen in the subway in pieces in What's new, Beelzebub?.
[edit] Buhalis's
It was a shop of unknown purpose in the animated series. The Esperanto Bookstore occupied its location in the Telltale games.
The name is likely a reference to L. Lois Buhalis, who did the lettering for almost all of the Sam & Max comics.
[edit] Bosco's Inconvenience
Main: Bosco's Inconvenience
[edit] Stinky's Diner
Formerly named "Really Bad Food" (in Hit the Road). In Telltale's Season 2, the boastful and highly suspicious Girl Stinky ran the counter while Sal (never seen) cooked in the kitchen. After freeing Grandpa Stinky from Hell, he and Girl Stinky seemly co-own the restaurant. Sal's whereabouts or even existence is put into question in the last episode of Season 2 until he was seen in They Stole Max's Brain!.
[edit] Sybil's office
The place from which Sybil conducts her various activities. Not unlike Sam & Max's penchant for keeping souvenirs of previous cases, Sybil likes to keep objects related to previous professions around her office. At her rate of changing jobs, this leaves her office littered with a variety of vaguely identifiable items.
At the start of Season 2, Maimtron 9000 relocates Sybil's office, putting it on the street between Bosco's Inconvenience and Stinky's Diner.
At the start of Season 3, Sybil's office is destroyed when General Skun-ka'pe lands his ship on it.
[edit] Lefty's Tool Rentals
Lefty's is a derelict shop at the dead end, adjacent to Sybil's and across the street from The Apartment.
Sam was disappointed to see it closed. Max was known for terrorizing the owner, Mr Lefty, and might be a reason why he closed shop.
The C.O.P.S. used Lefty's as their hideout in Reality 2.0. It didn't survive Maimtron 9000's rampage in Season 2, which may be why the C.O.P.S. relocated to Pimp Le Car.
[edit] Pimp Le Car
Pimp Le Car is a car garage The C.O.P.S. opened up in Ice Station Santa and ran throughout Season 2. It is adjacent to Stinky's.
[edit] Maimtron 9000
After Sam & Max take out Maimtron 9000, an organization of Rats quickly make a boxing casino. Boxing Betty, a device used by Sam and Max, defeated the championship boxer, Jimmy Two-Teeth.
Sometime prior to the events of What's new, Beelzebub? the boxing casino closes, thus giving Jimmy the opportunity to make it into a family laser show. Sam and Max foil his plans again when they use the boxing betty remote to take control of the Maimtron 9000, killing all the Rats in it and putting Jimmy Two-Teeth on his deathbed.
[edit] The Subway to Hell
It is revealed in What's new, Beelzebub? that right under The Apartment Building, there is a subway that connects straight to Hell. Sam was disgruntled to learn this while Max was disappointed by not knowing about it sooner.
[edit] Somewhere in the neighborhood
[edit] Brady Culture's Home For Former Child Stars
Main Article: Brady Culture's Home For Former Child Stars
Main HQ of Brady Culture.
[edit] Ma & Pa's (Corner Grocery)
Or as Sam calls it, "Ma & Pa's Corner Grocery and Stickup Emporium." As Sam's nickname implies, the store gets held up all the time and the owners are considering "sell[ing] out to Seven-Eleven." It is run by an elderly couple. They have a pet rhesus monkey that sits on the cash register.
Its location isn't clear (or maybe it was replaced by Bosco's). Wherever it is, it is within walking distance of The Apartment Building.
[edit] Greece "E" Spoon
There's a "verbally impaired" short order cook named Theristis who works there. It is safe to say the diner serves Greek food like hummus (a paste-like dip accompanied by pita bread). There's a sign at the entrance stating that the staff will not serve anyone who doesn't have a shirt, shoes, and/or souvlaki.
This restaurant was only shown in the animated series' The Dysfunction of the Gods, but apparently Sam & Max have been there a few times before.
[edit] Slothmart
Sam & Max need to use the DeSoto to get to Slothmart (also known as "Slothmart Grocery World"). But it is where they do some of their grocery shopping, so it can't be too far away. It's the setting in Beast from the Cereal Aisle and was featured in the beginning of The Glazed McGuffin Affair. It was mentioned briefly in Telltale's Season 2. Sal Manella works here.
[edit] Meesta Pizza
A pizzeria chain with 142 locations in New York. Can be phoned in Abe Lincoln Must Die! and appears in The Penal Zone.
