Great memories of going over to our grandparent's house on summer evenings & watching these shows IN COLOR! We had black & white TV at home all through the 1960's. I think my grandparents had beautiful wood encased Zenith or Quazar. Finally obtained a color set in the mid-1970's
Chief to 99: "Don't you want your child to grow up in a country free from strife, where all men are equal and where there is brotherly love in the very air we breathe? 86: "Of course she does. What country is that?" So funny and great writing! As true today as it was in the 60s.
It's not well know but Don Adams was a marine. He was in in the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942 and later was a Drill Sergeant if one can imagine him as that.
My favourite quote from this show: Max is bring sent on a suicide mission - "Chief, if I don't come back from this, I don't want a big funeral. I'd just like a few of my close friends to get together and try and bring me back to life."
Wow! I just realized something. Don Adams used that same line at a tribute to him when he was old and people were giving him some sort of "Man of the Hour" tribute show. Sorry, I can't find the link to that show right now. I tried. It's on UA-cam.
Brotherly love in the air you breath, says Chief, then Max replies “What country is that?” So ominous it’s scary to think it’s was funny stuff 50 years ago.
Sadly it was Reagan who turned California into shit, when he gave amnesty to all those illegal aliens as President. Ever since that time California has been turning into a backward 3rd world shithole.
@chris Barnett I don't know why you are asking me that. It turned to shit because of all the illegals that became citizens magically. When you have massive immigration from a shithole it usually turns into a shithole.
You missed my favorite quote. The episode where they had to protect the "Beruvian" prime minister so he could collect a bunch of money from the government. Somebody asks what would be so bad if the US government didn't give him the money and Max says something like "If we didn't give other countries money, they wouldn't hate us and then how would we know who are friends are." Great way to sum up US foreign policy.
@@brettnelson7518 It's a joke because a lot of the countries that the US has given foreign aid to hate us, yet we still continue to give them money. What's even more hilarious is that while it was true back then, it's still true today.
I worked at a high class animal hospital in new York when I was younger... Barbera feldon walked in With two tiny dogs..as I fill out the form and asked for their names, she said 86 and 99...I held in my laughter..had to remain professional..
@@robertromero8692 I didn't comment about the joke itself ... that was indeed funny. Nice attempt at blame switching though. And perhaps you should understand that not everyone lives in your conservative-infested country.
@@godfreypigott Your use of the phrase "conservative-infested country" reveals the true motivation behind your comment: You don't like a negative characterization of the IRS. You LIKE what they do.
i seem too recall one very cool episode where the chief was telling max and 99, kaos now had some nukes and threatened to destroy key US cities were out best brains where? Max replied,"we'll at lest washington DC is safe!" Lol, best show ever....
When you've seen an episode 12 times and still laugh, that can only be comic genius! And it was so clever and original, and you didn't have to send the kids out of the room with the tasteless, sorry excuse for humor on today's sitcoms. Get Smart was decades ahead of its time! There's a link with 99 telling about the show, and the CIA contacted the creators asking about those crazy devices, so they could be real. Well, it only took them half a century to make the shoe phone real! I don't know if they made a compact phone and I doubt there's a silver dollar coin that can get signals all over the planet. The movie a few years ago was a waste.
Arguably television's greatest comedy, certainly if it is not, it is in the conversation. The writing is comic genius. Don , Barbara and Ed were the perfect actors in the lead roles.
Kaos agent with gun on Max & 99. Max- "Right now this place is surrounded by a dozen control agents!" Kaos agent- "I find that very hard to believe Mr Smart.." Max- Would you believe.... "an angry boy scout?"
@@1musichombre Somewhere around here I've got a copy of the 1968 version of _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ starring Judi Dench as Titania, Helen Mirren as Hermia, and Diana Rigg as Helena. Oh, and Ian Holm as Puck and Ian Richardson as Oberon. Most of the other elves were played by children, and Judi Dench is basically naked throughout the movie. Dressed primarily in makeup and a few leaves, not necessarily strategically placed. Dench, Mirren, and Rigg were all _gorgeous_ back then. Helen Mirren remarkably still is, over fifty years later. Some people just age remarkably. It's an amazingly cast version of the play. Particularly Ian Richardson and Helen Mirren.
Show about when ziegfreed says To max i quit the spy bisness and im going straight and max asks what Will You do now he replies im going To be a tv repairman and max replies i thought You said You were going straight
How about the one on nuclear disarmament? Max says "we should demand every country on Earth does away with nukes." "What if they wont do it, Max?" "Then we should blast them! You can't be too careful, 99!"
@@anneb889 I mostly agree, but we used to be able to laugh at ourselves, not take everything so seriously. I blame late night TV. Bring back Craig Ferguson :)
Newbie Gamelover - You didn't get the joke, did you? Only the politically correct creatures who live to destroy comedy in the world, would make that tasteless/humorless alteration to a joke. [Actually, the original joke was funny, while your unnecessary addition/remake, was not - remember, Get Smart had talented writers; and you are not a talented writer, nor are you a talented thinker]
@@JaneSt.Valentine we get it. "Trump bad. Trump not human". Y'all really love demonizing and dehumanizing people because tv tells you to. Try thinking for yourself for a change.
@@JaneSt.Valentine Bold of you to assume I like Trump either. I simply meant you seem hellbent on dehumanizing and demonizing him without thinking twice, going so far as to think the man wouldn't laugh at something like Get Smart of all things.
It is comedian/impressionist John Byner playing a KAOS agent who impersonates LBJ to destroy CONTROL. This episode also features Don Adams' real brother as Brady; the family name is Yarmey.
It's worse than you think, KAOS has managed to subvert your democracy make the President of the United States a man with Russian organized crime connections and no ethics whatsoever.
at 0:57 of video Smart questions, "Shrewd, determine men who have been trying to get control of this country for a number of years perhaps you heard of them". She answers: Oh, the Republican. Slightly prophetic, very funny.
This was a brilliant series. It was perfect for the time and it still is very cool. In some ways similar to a contemporaneous piece Rocky and Bullwinkle. One thing these both have in common is they have been duplicated and redone and remade and they'll never be as good as the originals. It's all about the je ne sais quoi...
Mel Brooks only worked on a few early episodes. He was focused on his film career. Buck Henry was story editor in season 2, then he left, as well. The show ran for 3 more years without either of them.
Mel Brooks was hardly involved with the series at all, and Buck Henry was only there for the first couple of years. Please give the real writers credit, not just the two guys who came up with the idea.
I wonder if one should just let a friendly foreign government set up an investigative committee of it's own, and able to choose it's own members. that's the best solution, for the people at least..
Remember when Max and the Chief are held prisoners and one of their group (an African American actor) says he tried to escape but the electric fence was too powerful. Max says you looks okay now and the Chief busts in with "when he started this mission he was white." (Or some thing like that.) Now, you could not say that today.
We should remember that the respective nomenclature for the two opposing groups was wrong. Totalitarians want control, and Freedom Lovers tolerate chaos.
When Get Smart first hit air in 1965, Edward Platt had not even turned 50 years old! By the time the last episode aired in 1970, he was only 54 years old, but easily looked to be in his mid-to-late 60s all through the series. Sadly, he suffered from severe depression and took his own life in 1974 at the age of 58.
Chief : All we know is that they threatened to wipe out the city containing our finest intellectual minds and greatest leaders. Maxwell Smart : Well at least Washington is safe.
Context of the time. Reagan had just won Gov. in one of the hugest states in the country with no previous political experience, and was even being talked about as a Presidential candidate.
The older it gets, the more ahead of it's time it becomes.
the more revealing!
Except ... WHERE'S MY CONE OF SILENCE???
Joseph Erhardt Apparently the cone of silence was a real CIA invention. It worked about as well as it did in the show.
Get Smart is one show where I never get tired of watching the repeats, I still get a good laugh every time, the writing was superb.
OK boomer
Great memories of going over to our grandparent's house on summer evenings & watching these shows IN COLOR! We had black & white TV at home all through the 1960's. I think my grandparents had beautiful wood encased Zenith or Quazar. Finally obtained a color set in the mid-1970's
My family got our first colour set in January 1967, and "Get Smart" was the first show we watched on it.
You were lucky. My folks waited 12 years for their B&W set to finally die and got a color TV in 1980....I was 20 and not living at home at the time.
Wow, I didn't realize Reagan was that high profile in the 60s
He was the governor of California, so he was known nationwide.
Get Smart was once considered comedy.
Now, it is documentary.
Excellent observation sir, lol
Get Smart is comedy
@@balzito OK. So why aren't you laughing at our jokes??
Mel Brooks, dedicated progressive
Chief to 99: "Don't you want your child to grow up in a country free from strife, where all men are equal and where there is brotherly love in the very air we breathe? 86: "Of course she does. What country is that?" So funny and great writing! As true today as it was in the 60s.
How cynical…
Barbara Feldon was a hottie back in the day.
those bangs! I'm such a fool for bangs...
she was classs
Nicholas Maude Still is
As we used to say, "Hubba hubba!"
Can't believe she wrote a book about living alone. What's wrong with the men in New York, Barbara Feldon is a babe!
@J Can du OK boomer
Would you believe I have only watched one episode of Get Smart? Would you believe 2? How about I never stopped watching them! Believe it.
roger sowers
I find that difficult to believe. You must have also watched inspector gadget.
You missed it by THAT much.
Ed Platt's delivery is perfect. He was so important to the show.
But Dana Elcar was very good as his replacement in the film The Nude Bomb.
he committed suicide adams drove him nuts 😳
Edward Platt's performance is DEFINITELY one(1) of my favorite aspects of the show..
It's not well know but Don Adams was a marine. He was in in the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942 and later was a Drill Sergeant if one can imagine him as that.
Don Adams as a drill sergeant? OMG. This comedy skit writes itself! :)
Yes Mr Yarmy was a vet. Unlike 45
@@zapkvr 45! How dare you, Sir?
I find that hard to believe. :)
Would you believe he was a girl scout?
Watching of this video outside of the cone of silence is prohibited.
I remember when this show was new!
FATHER THOMAS Hah..god one, that faulty cone was classic ,line I still use once in while.. but those who get it,, are becoming rare... Shalom
@RollinRat ohhh, a CONE of silence. I have been using a SCONE of silence. I jam it in my mouth and try to talk. Nobody has a clue what I'm saying. :)
Outside of the Confessional as well
What?!! 👂🏼🤚🏻
"The governor of California put a ten cent tax on water."
Yep, that sounds about right.
Well, you win some .. you Newsom
@@ColonelStrakerthe irony is that they were joking about Reagan...the leader in deficit growth, secret government, and cultural drug war
Barbara Feldon, every mans dream and grace and sexuality oozing from her beautiful style...
A lot of hot women on Get Smart. My fave was Dr. Steele.
Still not bad for 89.
My favourite quote from this show: Max is bring sent on a suicide mission - "Chief, if I don't come back from this, I don't want a big funeral. I'd just like a few of my close friends to get together and try and bring me back to life."
Wow! I just realized something. Don Adams used that same line at a tribute to him when he was old and people were giving him some sort of "Man of the Hour" tribute show. Sorry, I can't find the link to that show right now. I tried. It's on UA-cam.
😅
The Chief was such a consummate straight man!
@cosmicVox13 His straight delivery made it all the more funny...
As George Washington said in his farewell to his troops, "Farewell, troops."
Do you know who the actor is saying that? Thanks
@@watchtonight6178 Comedian/actor Stu Gillam.
@@bikefixer Thanks again!
👆 Here's the guy that always turns up and posts a comment that's a line we all heard the first time. 😑
@@bikefixer you beat me to it. I recall he had been in a number of sitcoms and game shows as a panelist. Was a funny guy.
Brotherly love in the air you breath, says Chief, then Max replies “What country is that?” So ominous it’s scary to think it’s was funny stuff 50 years ago.
Funniest lines in this video!
even the every man is equal stuff: not much equality has ever been going on in America.
barbara feldon was a babe
even then Mel Brooks was an absolute genius
Excuse me, sir, Mel Brooks has always been a genius. And he will remain one.
Old agent: "Who are you."
99: "I am 99"
Old guy: "You sure don't look it."
OK boomer
I went "Green" back in the 1960s... (but I didn't inhale)
99 is soooo damn fine!
Old enough to be your Grandmother. You've got good taste!
Smokin'
@@charlesroberts3650 gilf
Ronald Reagan was Govenor of California when this show was on tv. A great place to live during those days.
It was greater when Jerry fired his ass
Sadly it was Reagan who turned California into shit, when he gave amnesty to all those illegal aliens as President. Ever since that time California has been turning into a backward 3rd world shithole.
Russians talking here.
@chris Barnett I don't know why you are asking me that. It turned to shit because of all the illegals that became citizens magically.
When you have massive immigration from a shithole it usually turns into a shithole.
@chris Barnett Are you aware of a thing called "reproduction" or the concept that not everything happens at once?
You missed my favorite quote. The episode where they had to protect the "Beruvian" prime minister so he could collect a bunch of money from the government.
Somebody asks what would be so bad if the US government didn't give him the money and Max says something like "If we didn't give other countries money, they wouldn't hate us and then how would we know who are friends are."
Great way to sum up US foreign policy.
Thankfully President Trump is turning that around.
Wth? "if we didn't give them money they wouldn't hate us". Why would they hate the country that gave them money?
@@brettnelson7518 - Ask Iran.
@@brettnelson7518 It's a joke because a lot of the countries that the US has given foreign aid to hate us, yet we still continue to give them money. What's even more hilarious is that while it was true back then, it's still true today.
@@brettnelson7518 Gratitude is a hair shirt that chafes and itches over time.
I worked at a high class animal hospital in new York when I was younger... Barbera feldon walked in With two tiny dogs..as I fill out the form and asked for their names, she said 86 and 99...I held in my laughter..had to remain professional..
Did you reply to Barbara "Would you believe a little dinghy ?"
You mean you prevented the goodness of life from happening.
Barbara Feldon was a beautiful lady!
And had IMO the sexiest voice of any woman who ever spoke.
and she was loving it! Max.
Whenever I watch these shows I find myself asking the same question : Why the comedy of today is about nothing but filth ?!
You're just an old fart
Nour Mourad Nobody know how to be creative anymore.
Because Republicans turned everything to s**t
Because there is no creativity.. Everything is politically correct... People have no sense of humor...
Morality, I'd love to take a time machine back to the early 60s or mid to late 50s and stay foever.
99 was a hottie
We always called her 69.
"standard issue for all terrorist organizations". "Where did you get these?" "The Internal Revenue Service". LOL
It is sad how people quote jokes looking for likes.
@@godfreypigott What's sad is your lack of a sense of humor. Or perhaps you admire the IRS so much that you hate the idea of someone making fun of it.
@@robertromero8692 I didn't comment about the joke itself ... that was indeed funny. Nice attempt at blame switching though. And perhaps you should understand that not everyone lives in your conservative-infested country.
@@godfreypigott Your use of the phrase "conservative-infested country" reveals the true motivation behind your comment: You don't like a negative characterization of the IRS. You LIKE what they do.
@@robertromero8692 Do explain the "logic" you applied which led to that conclusion, especially as I have no idea what the "IRS" is.
Great man, he served and was lucky to get out alive, Great comedian. I sure miss him/
Agent 99. This explains my prediction for tall slender brunettes with bangs.
I think you mean *predilection*
@Jeff G. OK boomer
Yeah sure. I could blame it on auto correct, but that would mean I spelled it wrong and then didn't proof-read. Good catch.
"Dial a cow" phone. I'm pretty sure Devin Nunes has one.
Art Vale ... Trump 2020 MAGA !!!
Still so funny after all these years... great scripts, great actors... and no bad language!
Well... bad language is subjective.....
Agent 99 = YUMMY ;)
Hard to believe that 99 is now 85.
R. Blakehole She will be Max next year.
And still a looker! ;-)
That’s nothing; 86 is dead.
She's been 99 since '65. Only 46 more 'till she's been 99 for 99.
@@g00gleminus96 In 79 it will be 99 that she's been 99 since '99.
i seem too recall one very cool episode where the chief was telling max and 99, kaos now had some nukes and threatened to destroy key US cities were out best brains where? Max replied,"we'll at lest washington DC is safe!" Lol, best show ever....
When you've seen an episode 12 times and still laugh, that can only be comic genius! And it was so clever and original, and you didn't have to send the kids out of the room with the tasteless, sorry excuse for humor on today's sitcoms. Get Smart was decades ahead of its time! There's a link with 99 telling about the show, and the CIA contacted the creators asking about those crazy devices, so they could be real. Well, it only took them half a century to make the shoe phone real! I don't know if they made a compact phone and I doubt there's a silver dollar coin that can get signals all over the planet. The movie a few years ago was a waste.
+Scott FoxL
In the very first scene of the very first episode, Max is at the opera and his cell phone---I mean shoe phone---rings, annoying everyone.
@@scottfoxl7431 Timeless, still be playing in 2065
Imagine you're a Marine boot camp recruit in WWII-- and DI Donald Adams is your sergeant. Yup, Don Adams was a gyrene.
I thought that was Don Knotts. But Don Addams does make more sense.
Timeless! Get Smart keeps getting smarter!💕🍀
You win. The highest form of intelligence is humour. That's why there's no such thing as military intelligence. Carry on.
Ever heard of Millitary humor? The Reading digest used to have a page "humor in uniform" every month
@@zapkvr darn I missed that never got to read that. I bet it was funny
Get Smart never dies. Thanks for the compilation.
Arguably television's greatest comedy, certainly if it is not, it is in the conversation. The writing is comic genius. Don , Barbara and Ed were the perfect actors in the lead roles.
Kaos agent with gun on Max & 99.
Max- "Right now this place is surrounded by a dozen control agents!"
Kaos agent- "I find that very hard to believe Mr Smart.."
Max- Would you believe.... "an angry boy scout?"
don't forget his dog
I had such a crush on 99 .. 3:17
but that was the plan!
Richardms1961
Calling the opponent Chaos resonates so strongly with our situation in the 21st century.
KAOS
more like the last 4 years.
99, Maryann, and Jeannie! Perfect trifecta.
Mrs. Peale
I agree with Frank!
@@1musichombre Somewhere around here I've got a copy of the 1968 version of _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ starring Judi Dench as Titania, Helen Mirren as Hermia, and Diana Rigg as Helena. Oh, and Ian Holm as Puck and Ian Richardson as Oberon. Most of the other elves were played by children, and Judi Dench is basically naked throughout the movie. Dressed primarily in makeup and a few leaves, not necessarily strategically placed.
Dench, Mirren, and Rigg were all _gorgeous_ back then. Helen Mirren remarkably still is, over fifty years later. Some people just age remarkably.
It's an amazingly cast version of the play. Particularly Ian Richardson and Helen Mirren.
FranktheDachshund ... add Lucille Ball... 🥳🤩🥳🤪
Elizabeth Montgomery as well.
I always loved that show.
It was like a friend died when Max died a few years back.
Show about when ziegfreed says To max i quit the spy bisness and im going straight and max asks what Will You do now he replies im going To be a tv repairman and max replies i thought You said You were going straight
Except that this never happened in Get Smart. 🙄
I cried after Don Adams passed away. :(
There should be a laugh track like this on CNN.
Just as relevant now as it was a few minutes ago.
How about the one on nuclear disarmament? Max says "we should demand every country on Earth does away with nukes." "What if they wont do it, Max?" "Then we should blast them! You can't be too careful, 99!"
Maybe blast their nukes?:P
That's militant pacifism
Why does this seem more timely
now than when it was aired?
BILL MURRAY tells a lot about the government today
Nothing really changes. We can take some comfort that everything we think/feel has happened many many times before.
@@anneb889 I mostly agree, but we used to be able to laugh at ourselves, not take everything so seriously. I blame late night TV. Bring back Craig Ferguson :)
We were asleep
Smart: How long would that take?
99: 3 months.
Smart: What if it was an emergency?
99: 4 months.
Me: More like 7 months.🤣
Newbie Gamelover
- You didn't get the joke, did you?
Only the politically correct creatures who live to destroy comedy in the world, would make that tasteless/humorless alteration to a joke.
[Actually, the original joke was funny, while your unnecessary addition/remake, was not - remember, Get Smart had talented writers; and you are not a talented writer, nor are you a talented thinker]
@@justplainbrad7713 It's an obvious joke. Obvious joke are hard to make funny. I never claimed to be a pro.
"The governor of California just put a ten cent tax on water." 55 years ahead of its time!
Knowing his sense of humor, Reagan definitely would have laughed at these.
More than we can say about the current president...
@@JaneSt.Valentine This is a comedy show. Trump would definitely laugh at these as well! It’s not like he doesn’t have a sense of humor.
@@JaneSt.Valentine we get it. "Trump bad. Trump not human".
Y'all really love demonizing and dehumanizing people because tv tells you to. Try thinking for yourself for a change.
@@batknight2014 Bold of you to assume that not liking Trump _isn't_ thinking for one's self...
@@JaneSt.Valentine Bold of you to assume I like Trump either. I simply meant you seem hellbent on dehumanizing and demonizing him without thinking twice, going so far as to think the man wouldn't laugh at something like Get Smart of all things.
My favorite line "Missed it by that much."
Sorry, Chief
would you believe it's WOULD YOU BELIEVE????????????????????????
@@gertraba4484 I find that hard to believe.
@@blisterbrain"so tell me what would you believe so I can accomodate the story"
Twice.
Barbara Feldon!
I see a lot of "C.P.O. Sharky" in Don Rickles' performance in this one.
I thought I was the only one who remembered that show.
50 years after its run and many of these jokes are still as sharp as ever
So many of the Texas jokes about LBJ were again relevant with GWB. Political comedy is apparently timeless.
3:38, I'm guessing that is supposed to be LBJ...hilarious...
Yes, it was LBJ on the cow horn phone as he was from Texas.
Yes. Doesn't look like LBJ, but sounds like him, the cattle horns...
It is comedian/impressionist John Byner playing a KAOS agent who impersonates LBJ to destroy CONTROL. This episode also features Don Adams' real brother as Brady; the family name is Yarmey.
Screw the camera-I've always wanted the shoe-phone I was implicitly promised- until now. Longhorn phone please!...
One of my favourite shows ever
my favorite- "the craw"? "not craw- CRAW!
I remember the Chief even called him "the Craw".
Lefty?
das raycis
Definitely!
That was politically incorrect even in its own time--which helped to make it all the more fun.
Control lost, kaos has taken over Washington
Julian Crooks Could we call
Agents of SHIELD?
Julian Crooks bwaa.😺😺😺
I know they put a Clown in charge
It's worse than you think, KAOS has managed to subvert your democracy make the President of the United States a man with Russian organized crime connections and no ethics whatsoever.
Julian Crooks and his name is Donald Trump
1970 get smart = california sinks into ocean = tragedy.
2019 california sinks into oceam = sigh of relief from the world
halburd1
Don’t forget the tax on water lol
Very good! The episodes with Don Rickles were hilarious!!
Rickles was Bill Burr before there was Bill Burr. He and Dangerfield were from the Jewish Borsch Belt/Catskills scene.
@J Yeah, he can be forgiven for that. "We can't all be perfect". Line from "Independence Day" ~{ : D }=
@J YEAH! He IS perfect, Don Rickles WAS a JEW! Wikipedia! (I am not a Jew and I approve this message.) ~{ : D }=
@Robert Kiwan I don't understand what you said, but I assumed it good, Shalom!
I guess political humor has never changed! Haha!
if one thinks about this carefully, maybe people ought to start get a bit worried..
@@Iason29 Absolutely!
at 0:57 of video Smart questions, "Shrewd, determine men who have been trying to get control of this country for a number of years perhaps you heard of them". She answers: Oh, the Republican. Slightly prophetic, very funny.
Demonstrating there fear!
Yes agent 99 was very sexy .
The good old days. Don Adams' last speech before his death is a masterpiece. Check it out.
"Check it Out!" was the name of a series he starred in from 1985-1988; it was another chapter in that very thin book "Great CTV Sitcoms."
This was a brilliant series. It was perfect for the time and it still is very cool. In some ways similar to a contemporaneous piece Rocky and Bullwinkle. One thing these both have in common is they have been duplicated and redone and remade and they'll never be as good as the originals. It's all about the je ne sais quoi...
I dont know what that is.
You’re right. I looked forward to the remake and it was like a watching a play put on by little kids compared to the original.
Both Mel Brooks and Jay Ward are masters of satire. Their insightful social commentary is as relevant today as when these films were made.
This Show was always GREAT
One of the All-time best comedy shows!
Don Rickles would be in comedy jail with a life sentence today
What country is that ?
lol the good old days ....
The genius of Mel Brooks is quite evident here.
Mel Brooks only worked on a few early episodes. He was focused on his film career. Buck Henry was story editor in season 2, then he left, as well. The show ran for 3 more years without either of them.
Typical Mel Brooks humor with Buck Henry sprinkled in for flavor....
Great stuff...You can see 'em coming, but they're still funny....
Mel Brooks was hardly involved with the series at all, and Buck Henry was only there for the first couple of years. Please give the real writers credit, not just the two guys who came up with the idea.
"What country is that?"
Doesn't get an answer...
"What country is that?"
"California just put a 10-cent tax on water."
I just LOVE the time we find out that KAOS is a Delaware corporation. :) :) :)
And their POW camp was in Passaic, NJ.
RIP Buck Henry 💕
Talking to LBJ.
the war criminal ?
The man behind the JFK assassination!
LBJ ruined America.
Strange! A Senate Investigating Committee Investigating the Senate Investigating Committee Just what we need now.
I wonder if one should just let a friendly foreign government set up an investigative committee of it's own, and able to choose it's own members. that's the best solution, for the people at least..
This was once considered COMEDY!
It still is comedy. Lot better than the stuff they call comedy today
@@BrianSeaySr oh, i AGREE with you 100%.
Remember when Max and the Chief are held prisoners and one of their group (an African American actor) says he tried to escape but the electric fence was too powerful. Max says you looks okay now and the Chief busts in with "when he started this mission he was white."
(Or some thing like that.)
Now, you could not say that today.
Well, since he was apparently turned black-their inference not mine-African-American gives it more texture don't you think?
Kevin, you sure know your stuff. Yes African American means black. What's the problem ?
In fact, that line is cut out when the episode is shown on syndication. The DVD edition still carries it.
Yes you could
That episode was Not-So-Great Escape, Part 2. Siegfried tried to electrocute Max the same way. 🤣
I always enjoyed this show. Too bad they keep on screwing it up every time they put that title on a new show or movie.
We should remember that the respective nomenclature for the two opposing groups was wrong. Totalitarians want control, and Freedom Lovers tolerate chaos.
When Get Smart first hit air in 1965, Edward Platt had not even turned 50 years old! By the time the last episode aired in 1970, he was only 54 years old, but easily looked to be in his mid-to-late 60s all through the series. Sadly, he suffered from severe depression and took his own life in 1974 at the age of 58.
So sad, because he was also having severe financial problems...he was typecast after Get Smart.
Loved Get Smart. 3.40 . Hell, they even predicted Bill Clinton.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to edit out all the canned laughter?
"What country is that?" Unfortunately that never gets old.
Chief : All we know is that they threatened to wipe out the city containing our finest intellectual minds and greatest leaders.
Maxwell Smart : Well at least Washington is safe.
Barbra Feldman . I saw gs 😁 . I was too young to understand the humor and it lost my attention .
Ronald Reagan was not yet president! 5:57 Max mentions Reagan!
Pretty sure he was Governor of California at the time.
Max Mel Brooks, Buck Henry, and the other riders were ahead of their time fortune tellers future teller soothsayers
Context of the time. Reagan had just won Gov. in one of the hugest states in the country with no previous political experience, and was even being talked about as a Presidential candidate.
Back long before comedies and sitcoms went from being funny and enveloping to bein trash
I thought of Get Smart as very cool as a kid. I particularly thought the phone in the shoe was novel.
The last one is my favorite of all time.
It was a really good show.
Nice cut! One of my all time favorite shows!
I like how they give the black guy all of the really hard lines haha