Switching on a Time Machine much like Fred Edison's, Nintendic briefly cover the history of Sam and Max from 1987 until their arrival to the Nintendo Wii, in an article made twenty times more awesome for mentioning the words "Sam and Max". In case you're some kind of loser who still hasn't gotten around to mentioning the awesomness of those words, I'd get to work before you are drowned in a sea of their awesome.
Source: Nintendic
And Sam and Max work across the board because they're 'cute' but they're also savage.