Make a Scene with Telltale at PAX 2010

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"Not on the first date, detective!"

The audience of PAX got to help Telltale discover who committed a murder at The Inventory. Man, is there anything PAX can't do?

Cast (in order of appearance): General Skun'ka-pe, Pedro, Marty McFly, Dank, Reginald Van Winslow, Nelson Tethers, Sam & Max, Flint Paper, Mr. Featherly, Constable Dibbins, Sal, Tycho, Morgan LeFlay, Theodore Dudebrough, Marzipan, Strong Sad, Sam, Velociraptor

Places: The Inventory

Date: Friday, September 3, 2010

Running Time: 1:50

Transcript

{Music plays, while the camera pans across the inventory. General Skun'ka-pe and Pedro are shown at a table. Marty McFly, and Dank are shown at the bar, while Reginald Van Winslow serves them behind the counter. Nelson Tethers and Max are sitting at a table at the back. Flint Paper is standing in front of a table, rubbing the back of his neck. Mr. Featherly and Constable Dibbins are on the stage area, with Sal standing at the other side talking to Tycho, who is sitting at a table. Morgan LeFly is standing beside him. Theodore Dudebrough and an unknown character are sitting at a table with drinks in front of them. Marzipan is sitting at the next table.}

{Cut to a close shot of Strong Sad laying sprawled out on the ground. Screams are heard, and blood runs out from his body.}

{Cut to Sam, in his noir outfit from They Stole Max's Brain!.}

SAM: It was a Kafkaesque and stormy night. There was a cone of silence around the joint.

{Cut to Sam in front of the bar, talking to Van Winslow.}

SAM: Who is your daddy, and what does he do?

{Cut to closeup of Van Winslow.}

VAN WINSLOW: Well sir, I do fancy myself a map.

{Cut to the other side of the bar, where Sam is talking to Mr. Featherly, who is standing on counter.}

SAM: You look dirtier than a muddy box of chicken strips. Why did you cross the road tonight?

{Cut to closeup of Mr. Featherly.}

MR. FEATHERLY: I got nothing.

{Cut to Sam walking towards Marzipan, with the camera aimed at the back of Marzipan's head.}

SAM: Put your arms where I can see them, murderer!

{Cut to closeup of Marzipan.}

MARZIPAN: Not on the first date, detective!

{Cut to Sam walking towards TYCHO, with the camera aimed at the back of Tycho's head.}

SAM: OK, you're clearly up to no good, put the d20 on the ground, slowly.

{Cut to closeup of Tycho.}

TYCHO: Look here, you odious lout! I haven't killed someone in... at least two days. [1]

{Cut to Sam walking towards TYCHO, with the camera aimed at the back of Tycho's head.}

SAM: I doubt that!

{Cut to closeup of Tycho.}

TYCHO: It looks like the jig is up! And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for this meddling PAX panel!

{Tycho pulls at his face. Everyone screams. Cut to Van Winslow who is shown screaming, with a shocked expression on his face, then to General Skun'ka-pe, who also has a shocked expression, then to Mr. Featherly who jumps up in the air and flutters his wings.}

{Cut to Tycho's table, where a velociraptor is seen jumping off the table.}

VELOCIRAPTOR: It was I, a velociraptor!

{The velociraptor opens its mouth with its tongue hanging out, makes a slightly higher pitched laughing noise, and runs towards the camera with its teeth bared.}

Footnote

1. In the video, the given line skips around to produce "at least— at least two days" with different stuck frames. Fault in recording or uploading is not assumed.

Fun Facts

Explanations

• PAX, originally Penny Arcade Expo, is a series of gaming events organized by the creators of the web comic Penny Arcade. This event took place at "PAX Prime" (now "PAX West") in Seattle.
• Kafkaesque is an adjective that means something evokes feelings of the work by writer Franz Kafka.

Remarks

• Though given the time frame the panel probably had to work with the short, lipsyncing notably is out-of-sync at times.

Trivia

• During the "fan-made" scene, there are constant laughs. They're quite hard to hear because of their low volume.

Inside References

• This is another instance of Strong Sad's death.
  • His death was apparently caused through excessive bleeding.
• Sam's exchange with Marzipan spoofs her lack of visible arms.

Real-World References

• Sam, Max, General Skun'ka-pe, Pedro, Sal and Mr. Featherly are from Telltale Games' Sam & Max games.
• Dank and Nelson Tethers are from comics by Graham Annable. Dunk is a web comic on Telltale's website, and Nelson Tethers is from the Telltale puzzle game Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent, which was based on Graham Annable's Grickle comics and cartoons.
• Reginald Van Winslow and Morgan LeFlay are from Tales of Monkey Island, which was created by Telltale Games and licensed by LucasArts.
• Tycho is from the webcomic Penny Arcade. His model used here is an early, unfinished version of the model from Poker Night at the Inventory.
• Marty McFly is from Back to the Future, specifically Telltale's Back to the Future: The Game. This is the first time the Marty model was shown to the public, albeit only from the back.
• The velociraptor is from Telltale's then-upcoming Jurassic Park video game.
• Theodore Dudebrough is from Telltale Games' Telltale Texas Hold'em.
• The "cone of silence" was a device meant to keep people from hearing conversations that was often used but rarely worked in the television series Get Smart.
• "Who is your daddy, and what does he do?" is a quote from the film Kindergarten Cop.
• A d20 is a 20-sided die used in Dungeons & Dragons.
• Sam asks Mr. Featherly why he crossed the road, referring to the old joke, Why did the chicken cross the road?
• "I would have gotten away with it too" is a line often said by the villains in Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo cartoons.

See Also

• Make a Scene with Telltale: Strong Bad Edition

External Links

• view the PAX crowd watching the toon