GameBoomers Walkthroughs and
Solutions Sam & Max Episode 1: Culture Shock
by telltale games
Walkthrough by MaGtRo October 2006
Gameplay: Click on the gear at top left of screen to show the Menu bar. It has Save/load, options, new game and quit selections. At options menu, see the graphics selections (full screen, quality and resolution), sound volume level selections (music, voice and effects) and the subtitles and stuff selections (subtitles, popup text and warp drive).
Note: Be sure to click on all dialogues to not miss out on the funny quips. You might replay certain scenes with different variations to see the treats done by the developers and writers. Have fun!
Mission for the Freelance Police
Office: The rat is holding the telephone hostage. Check out all of the active items in the office. It will help later.
Pick up boxing glove from window sill and bowling ball by file cabinet.
Where's the cheese: Find the place you store things.
Open the closet.
How to get Swiss cheese: Remember what a Swiss cheese looks like. Sam can help you.
Get Sam to shoot at the pile of cheese.
How to get the phone: Interrogate the rat and find his weakness.
Get Max to threaten the rat and he will complain of headache. Then get Sam to ask about his headache. Click on Max to do his thing.
After the phone call, click on door.
Meet the Soda Poppers
Outside: Go right and talk to Specs doing graffiti. Learn about the Soda Poppers, Brady Culture and Eye-Bo.
Bosco's Inconvenience: Go right of the block to the corner store. Note the van parked around the corner.
Enter and talk to Bosco completely. Learn what he has to sell.
Check out all of the active items in the store. Look around and see all the funny signs and items in the store.
Pick up Brady Culture's Eye-Bo videotape from stand left of counter and cheese from table by door.
Talk to the second Soda Popper, Whizzer completely. Go to the bathroom.
How to disable the munchkin terrorist: Remember what Bosco said about his security system and what happened when Max went to the bathroom.
Click on bathroom door and Max will go to the bathroom. This will get Whizzer to go also. He leaves his basket free. Immediately place the cheese in the basket. Watch what happens.
Office: Exit the store and go back to the office. Use the videotape on the VCR. Save by the popcorn urge. Watch Jimmy Two Teeth.
Take the videotape out of the VCR and watch TV. Click on TV after each segment of the show to learn about the Soda Poppers: Specs, Whizzer and Peepers and the Child Star Who Never Was, Brady Culture. This qualifies as a baffling mystery.
DeSoto: Exit the store and go to left side of block. See the DeSoto police car. Pick up the spray paint atop the back of the car behind the De Soto.
Ride the DeSoto. During the driving sequence, see gun, megaphone and horn at the side. See what happens when you use all those 3 items.
What to do during the driving sequence: Remember what Sam said on a way to pay for Bosco's tear gas grenade launcher and where they were going to go - 'arrest lawbreakers'.
Use the gun and Sam will target cars. Place the cross hair of the target on the taillights of the car in front of you. Fire the gun to break a taillight.
Then use the megaphone to arrest the driver. Watch and get 10 thousand in a bag.
Go back to the office by clicking on the building at lower right of screen.
Sybil's Psychotherapy: Go across the street from the DeSoto and enter Sybil's.
The closet door rattles. Meet the third Soda Popper, Peepers. Talk to Peepers completely.
Open the closet door and meet the real Sybil. Talk to Sybil completely and learn how to cure hypnosis.
How to remove Peepers' hypnosis: Prevent Peepers from running and render him unconscious.
Go to Bosco's Inconvenience and give Bosco the money to get tear gas grenade launcher.
Use the grenade launcher on Peepers. Then use the boxing glove on him.
Specs: It's time to cure Specs.
How to cure Specs: Remember that Specs doesn't like his work of art messed up. Find a spot where he can be properly 'cured'.
Use the spray paint on the graffiti left of the stairs leading up to the office. Enter the building and drop the bowling ball from the window.
Whizzer: It's Whizzer's turn to be cured. Also find out where Brady Culture's Home for Former Child Stars is located. Go to Bosco's Inconvenience and click on Whizzer.
Find the location of the Home for Former Stars
Note: The character for this part depends on which one of the last 2 Soda Popper gets cured.
Chase the Van: Ride the DeSoto and chase the van.
Disable the van: Drive the car as close as you can to the van by swerving away from the boxes. When close enough use the gun and aim for the tires.
Brady Culture's Home for Former Child Stars: Look around and check everything.
Take an admission form for patients with artificial personality disorder. Learn and take note what are the symptoms of the disorder. The symptoms differ in each game.
Try to insert the form in the form reader under the monkey at the ticket booth.
Get the admission form signed by a licensed psychiatric professional
Sybil: Go back to Sybil and give her the symptom form. Talk to Sybil completely and then take the test.
Pass the 3 tests for Artificial Personality Disorder given by Sybil: Remember that the symptoms differ in a new game.
During the ink blot test, select the answers that correspond to the first symptom - an obsession.
During the free association, be violent on words that match the second symptom.
During the dream analysis, select the matching multiple choice with the third symptom.
Inkblot: First symptom could be about money or fame.
For money - select answers that have pennies, opulent mansion, wallet, stock exchange and debit card.
For fame - select answers that have Emmy, marquee, autograph, cheering crowd and flashbulb.
Free Association: The second symptom could be violent reaction to hair styling or dentistry. Click on Sybil for a selection of answers.
About dentistry - When the words like: drill, crown, fluoride, polish, filling or any dentistry connected words are mentioned; use the gun or boxing glove on Sybil.
About hair styling - When the words like: comb, dryer, teasing, shampoo, tint or any hair styling connected words are mentioned; use the gun or boxing glove on Sybil.
Dream analysis: In the dream office, check all the active items. The third symptom could be subconscious desire to marry your mother or to see one's peers age.
If subconscious desire to marry your mother - Click on the ?black silhouette and select Sybil. Click on the donut box and select wedding cake.
If subconscious desire to see one's peers age - Click on the ?black silhouette and select Max. Click on the donut box and select birthday cake.
Click on door to exit the dream analysis.
After passing the tests, Sybil signs the symptoms form.
Meet Brady Culture
Home for Former Stars: Use the DeSoto to go to the Home. Insert the signed symptoms form on the form reader and the gate to the right opens.
Enter and meet Brady Culture. Oh No! Sam becomes video deliveryman.
Cure Sam part 1: Sam delivers videotapes to Bosco's Inconvenience store.
On the way out after dumping the videotapes, take the cheese from the table.
Boing! Sam goes into a dream sequence.
Cure Sam part 2: Look around and see that there are 4 Brady Cultures. Max' head is floating up in the ceiling.
Remember Sybil's next step in the cure - destroy the intruder in your dream.
Brady in the closet - Open the closet and see the rat look at Brady cheese. Immediately and while Brady is talking - use the bicycle pump to inflate rat. Watch.
Brady as a light bulb - Use the light switch right of door.
Brady on TV - Take the coat hanger used as antenna.
Brady as Max - Check the loose one way sign right of door and see that the room turns upside down dropping Max' head on the floor. The one way sign flips back reverting to the original room state.
Use the gun on the nail of the one way sign. Sam catches Max' head.
Place Max' head on Brady's head. Oh My!
Sam's cured but Max is in trouble. Talk to Bosco and learn that he tried to make a hypnosis blocker.
Get a hypnosis blocker - Go talk to Sybil in her office. She will give you a helmet diagram.
Go to your office and take the coat hanger.
Go back to Bosco and give him the helmet diagram. Later, give him the coat hanger and get anti hypnosis helmet.
Final meeting with Brady Culture
Home for Former Stars: Use the DeSoto to go to the Home. I'm coming Max!
Enter the right gate and Sam automatically wears the helmet.
Talk to Brady and then the Soda Poppers arrive.
Stop Brady Culture: The Soda Poppers are controlled again and they attack Sam.
Click on the Soda Poppers and get a dialogue selection.
Select: become - Brady Culture. Click on the Soda Poppers and get a dialogue selection.
Select: worship - me. Click on the Soda Poppers and get a dialogue selection.
Select: attack - me. Hah! Tricked him!
Watch what happens.
Well, that's that!
I can't seem to stop watching for some reason.
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