Sam & Max Freelance Police - The Complete Series | 
 enlarge | Director: Steve Whitehouse
Actor: Harvey Atkin And Robert Tinkler
Studio: Shout Factory
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 11398
Format: Animated, Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 300
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: MCMDSF10672D
UPC: 826663106725
EAN: 0826663106725
ASIN: B0012680AI
Release Date: March 11, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 03/11/2008
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police was a cheeky, comically perverse Fox animated series with a brief run on television in 1997, based on a comic book by Steve Purcell. Sam and Max are lifelong friends, the former a six-foot dog in generic-looking detective clothes, while Max is a short, unclothed rabbit (or, as he is often called, "rabbity thing") with a maniacal grin. Together, they set about writing wrongs and generally getting into well-meaning mischief, often receiving cryptic instructions by a never-seen Commissioner and working closely if warily with a child inventor called the Geek. The Complete Series includes 12 half-hour episodes, most of those divided between two short but imaginative tales that unabashedly derive inspiration from pop culture touchstones. (The very relationship between Sam and Max is reminiscent of the friendship between Gilligan and the Skipper on Gilligan's Island). Opener "The Thing That Wouldn't Stop" is like a wacky Scooby Doo adventure, in which the unflappable Sam and unhinged Max enter an alternative universe through Geek's refrigerator, where a green monster is pulling fridge repairmen to the other side. "Dysfunction of the Gods" is a very funny episode in which our heroes try to stop an apocalypse by repairing the romance between Zeus and Hera on Mt. Olympus. (They turn to a very modern idea to get the job done: putting Zeus and Hera on a Jerry Springer-like talk show that they personally host.) "A Glitch In Time" is one of the best stories, in which Sam and Max fool around with history's timeline by making little tweaks in the past and checking out present-day consequences. Much of what they see is rewardingly funny, but things go too far when they're separated: Sam becoming a horse groomer and Max a lab animal undergoing experiments. "The Trouble with Gary" is a variation on The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life," in which Sam and Max try to help a boy with the power to alter anything (including people) in his environment. Two more Twilight Zone storylines are quoted in episodes "The Invaders" (which recalls a TZ program of the same title) and "Sam & Max Vs. the Uglions from Outer Spacer" (echoing TZ's famous "To Serve Man"). Special features include an interview with Purcell, in which he explains that Sam and Max were born in his parodies of his brother's comic drawings. There's also a trio of very funny Sam & Max shorts from Fox days, and another short that mocks the infamous "alien autopsy" film allegedly suppressed by the federal government. --Tom Keogh
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 Before its time August 9, 2008
This is a series that was far ahead of its time. If it were on today, this would be a headliner on Cartoon Swim. It is full of good-natured violence, ridiculous fast-paced prose, zany antics, and detailed artwork that makes it stand out from the crowd. I love cartoons, but there are few that hold up as well as this does. Strongly recommended.
Love It July 19, 2008
Hilarious Great Jokes Amazing Writting Weird Crazy Stories And I Couldnt of asked for more Buy It You Will love it and hopefully not dump it in your dvd collection after a week
Fantastic Item, Arrived Very Fast, Just like we Remembered it June 30, 2008
THis is just like we remembered it when we first watched it. It's as enjoyable now as it was then.
 Dissapointing on so many levels. June 18, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was always told that if I looked into the box of happy childhood TV memories, all I'd find was a bag of disappointment. Ignoring that, I rewatched several cartoons from the 80s & 90s only to discover that they're not as cool as I remember them. This ranks as high as SatAM Sonic on the disappointment scale.
Like the way reading the Sonic comics will ruin your ability to ever enjoy the cartoon again, or your contempt you feel for the Series of Unfortunate Events or Queen of the Damned movies after reading their books, playing the awesome episodic games by Telltale disintegrated the beergoggles on this series for me. If Sam & Max seasons 1 & 2 are tequila, S&MFP is Zima. It's so watered-down that the the main characters are scarcely themselves; Sam is supposed to be a gun-waving, bad driving, crank calling kleptomaniac & Max is supposed to be sadistic, violent, threatening, & HE'S the one who's supposed to be trying to eat everything.
The problem with this cartoon is that they targeted it for children & put it on fox. It SHOULD have been targeted at teenagers & put on either Nickelodeon or MTV. With the new games out & inappropriate for anyone under 13 to play, I can only recommend this series to players' 12-&-under siblings.
 Merry Mayhem Made for Minors May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a long time fan of Steve Purcell's comic book, and having played Hit the Road all the way through (the only computer game I've bothered to play), I enjoyed this interpretation of the characters. Sam and Max have been made kid friendly, but the merry mayhem that makes them who they are is still very much present.
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