It was really an Al Mundy impression, Wagner's leading character from the hit "Cool Guy" TV 📺 show It Takes a Thief from the late 1960s. His full attire in this scene (minus the eye patch) would have worked perfectly on that show.
@@KingYuma_ I find that hard to believe seeing as it so closely resembles the 'cry while i bounce a basketball off your face'-scene from The Great Santini ua-cam.com/video/MxDtKTClKGI/v-deo.html Perhaps the gaffe was 'improvised' in the sense that it wasn't preconceived and they decided to play it out on the spot
Those guys were all high, of course they were laughing, he maybe started crying but then bursted into laugh, and the directors didnt even cared lol Watching this shit high is literally breath taking. Watch the bathroom scene, its impossible to not laugh till your lungs run out of air
@@lonedruid1791 The whole scene was ad libbed and Rob Lowe came up with the whole throw the ball at me. Kills me everytime i see it and i saw this movie when it first came out as a kid lol
I doubt it. Number 2 doesn't really care about world conquest in the traditional sense. If Dr. Evil followed Number 2's advice he'd wind up as one of the richest men on Earth, with a thriving evil corporation. Number 2 is more about standard corporate evil, as opposed to taking the world by force.
They lost this amazing chance to over extend the joke's reach. Maybe that was cut from the original script, for me particularly it is imposible that they let this one pass.
@@Deadpool_64 To be fair, they used the Parsons joke in that one scene, and Hedy Lamarr's name was used multiples times as a running gag at her expense without getting her permission and was pretty stupid and disrespectful. Can you imagine a movie using Johnny Carson's name as a running gag throughout a movie without his permission? He would have sued them so badly they would have had to edit every scene with his name in it or he would have owned the movie. I don't think you realize that Hedy Lamarr wasn't just a great actress, she was one of the most respected and brilliant people of her time. She was an absolute genius who held patents for several inventions, one of which was rejected by the US military during WW2, but then later stolen by the Navy and used to encrypt radio communications. This invention(co-invention technically) led directly to the development of WiFi. Yes, the very WiFi you are using right now, is directly due to Hedy Lamarr's huge brain. So maybe take a pause the next time you want to basically call Hedy Lamarr an asshole......
I was the only person in the theater who laughed at The Alan Parsons Project prior to the joke being explained. People were looking at me like I was crazy.
@@morganchatsworthiii9178 actually, that's a good question. I seem to recall 'Alan' being mentioned in the movie, but I don't know why it would be cut from this clip if that were the case.
Honestly, if I hadn't been so young when this came out I would've laughed hysterically too, I grew up listening to all sorts of bands/musicians (still do) and so I know some pretty obscure ones by now. That's cool you sing jazz (I presume by your name lol), I play saxophone :)
That's not the biggest problem with that bit of the scene. The laser was invented by the noted Canadian physicist Theodore Maiman. Unfortunately, there weren't any bands, progressive or otherwise, which used his name, so I guess the joke wouldn't have worked
@0:36-0:47 Dr.Evil: Death Star (Scott Evil Snickers) Dr Evil: What? Scott Evil: Aw Nothing, Darth Dr. Evil: What did you Call me?! Scott Evil: No, Nothing (Says this to Make it look like a Sneeze) Rip-Off! Dr.Evil: Bless You.
Watched the movie in 2002 when I was in Junior High, didn't know what Alan Parsons was. Fast forward to now, heard a friend talk about the band and it instantly reminded me of this scene.
Given Dr. Evil is playing with a globe, it's also an hommage to Charlie Chaplin as "The Great Dictator" also playing with a globe in the namesake 1940 movie.
That's right, with Robert Duval's title character of The Great Santini, bouncing a basketball on the head of the actor who played a caddy on Caddyshack that same year, after a major haircut.
*I never noticed but in this same scene Dr Evil starts to bully his number 2 & uses the globe to keep hitting his face with (its basically a ball) anyway they had to add Rob Lowe's audio as if he was crying because you can tell from what's onscreen it doesn't match up as Lowe is actually laughing.*
Yes, Alan Parsons Project was a great prog rock band, but when I first saw this in the theater, I thought he was going to make a reference to Jack Parsons, noted rocket scientist who was also a Thelemite occultist, which would be in-line with Dr. Evil!!!
"When the Moon reaches its appropriate lunar alignment, it will destroy Washington D. C. You see, I have turned the Moon into what I like to call a Death Star."
I read something online that Rob Lowe actually convinced Mike Myers to hit him in the face with the globe ball, and make it a scene in the movie where Dr. Evil bullies Number Two. So they did it and it became one of my favorite scenes in The Spy Who Shagged Me.
I love the way Dr. Evil just always dismisses Scott's insults. So funny.
JL2715 I don’t think he dismisses his insults. 😂
Nothin, Darth.
Time Travel is not easy! Especially for an Evil Organization set on Complete and total World Domination
Bless you!
I think they kill him slowly on the inside.
I've just realized that Rob Lowe's Robert Wagner impression is fucking amazing. He NAILED it.
It's the best fucking shit ever
Apparently there was a couple of times on set where crew legit thought Lowe was Wagner. After assuring that Lowe was not Wagner, they would giggle
It was really an Al Mundy impression, Wagner's leading character from the hit "Cool Guy" TV 📺 show It Takes a Thief from the late 1960s. His full attire in this scene (minus the eye patch) would have worked perfectly on that show.
He dated one of Wagner's daughters. Got good at doing at doing an impression of him. That's the story anyway.
@@linkbiff1054 ... there were* a couple of times
I bet his crying wasn't scripted. That was just Lowe giggling.
Did you ever notice in the first movie Alotta Fagina loses her composure and laughs during the sharks with laser beams scene?
Confirmed by Rob Lowe the whole earth basketball scene was unscripted and was Rob's idea.
@@KingYuma_ I find that hard to believe seeing as it so closely resembles the 'cry while i bounce a basketball off your face'-scene from The Great Santini
ua-cam.com/video/MxDtKTClKGI/v-deo.html
Perhaps the gaffe was 'improvised' in the sense that it wasn't preconceived and they decided to play it out on the spot
@@shwilly It was all ad libbed Rob Lowe literally said so himself
@@shwilly He ad libbed it as an homage to Great Santini.
The Alan Parsons Project is a great band!
+LittleLion93
Ahhh, but remember, it's 1969... they don't exist yet, So it';s not copyrighted if it doesn't exist yet... heheheh!
+DakariKingMykan nice 1
I find it ironic that Kanye West samples Ammonia Avenue for Heartless and uses the line how could you be so Dr. Evil!!!
Yes it is
LittleLion93 the Alan Parsons Project is a progressive rock band in 1975
We shall call it the Alan Parsons Project. On the Death Star moon.
i think he's actually laughing not crying lol
I think so too....it just sounds like getting hit in the face with a huge exercise ball just made him laugh
Those guys were all high, of course they were laughing, he maybe started crying but then bursted into laugh, and the directors didnt even cared lol
Watching this shit high is literally breath taking. Watch the bathroom scene, its impossible to not laugh till your lungs run out of air
@@lonedruid1791 The whole scene was ad libbed and Rob Lowe came up with the whole throw the ball at me. Kills me everytime i see it and i saw this movie when it first came out as a kid lol
@@chrisarbour did he really? Because that shit is fucking hilarious and I respect his comedic wit even more now.
I think he definitely was laughing. Look at the 1:55 mark, slow it down and look at Rob's face. He's laughing and I love it
Wow, you can hear Robert Wagner's iconic voice intonation in Lowe's performance (remembering that Rob is the younger version of Wagner's character).
Therefore, we shall call it "The Alan Parsons Project."
*starts laughing*
Why don't you just call it Operation Wang Chung?
@@kevint1719 I’m sure Operation Bananarama’s gonna be huge
"What if God was one of uuuuuuuuuuus." I wrote that." -Dr. Evil
@@Jake-rc4xi OH my God hahahahaha
Back when movies were so much more fun. Absolutely hillarious!
Yeah, things were better in the before time!
"Nah nothin darth"
"What did you call me?"
"Nah nothin.. RIP OFFFFFF!"
"Bless you"
😂😂
Yeah those are the words said in the video. Good job transcribing them for us. Ass
If Dr Evil took number 2's advice the world would have been taken over long ago
I doubt it. Number 2 doesn't really care about world conquest in the traditional sense. If Dr. Evil followed Number 2's advice he'd wind up as one of the richest men on Earth, with a thriving evil corporation. Number 2 is more about standard corporate evil, as opposed to taking the world by force.
That's the joke
"I don't like that insolent tone. " 😄 Used that line many times on co workers over the years.
Hahaha same! 😂
I thought the "laser" was meant to be installed on "the dark side of the moon"
I'll see you there, if i remember to bring a torch 🔦 😉
They lost this amazing chance to over extend the joke's reach. Maybe that was cut from the original script, for me particularly it is imposible that they let this one pass.
@@yeisonalvarez5776 if the laser was on the dark side of the moon it would never point at Earth.
@@XtremiTeez You mean the back side of the moon. There is no permanent dark side of the moon. The moon's day is 28 days.
You're right. There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.
LOL and Alan Parsons responded by recording an album and calling it "Time Machine".
Jeremy Wissel
which includes a version of the opening theme with Dr. Evils dialogue:)
no way lmao
Nice to see people who can take a joke, unlike Heady Lamar, who sued Mel Brooks over the "IT'S HEADLEY" gag.
@@BlaneNostalgia ua-cam.com/video/4-CeOWDBoFg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=BenLiebrand
@@Deadpool_64 To be fair, they used the Parsons joke in that one scene, and Hedy Lamarr's name was used multiples times as a running gag at her expense without getting her permission and was pretty stupid and disrespectful.
Can you imagine a movie using Johnny Carson's name as a running gag throughout a movie without his permission? He would have sued them so badly they would have had to edit every scene with his name in it or he would have owned the movie.
I don't think you realize that Hedy Lamarr wasn't just a great actress, she was one of the most respected and brilliant people of her time. She was an absolute genius who held patents for several inventions, one of which was rejected by the US military during WW2, but then later stolen by the Navy and used to encrypt radio communications.
This invention(co-invention technically) led directly to the development of WiFi. Yes, the very WiFi you are using right now, is directly due to Hedy Lamarr's huge brain.
So maybe take a pause the next time you want to basically call Hedy Lamarr an asshole......
I was the only person in the theater who laughed at The Alan Parsons Project prior to the joke being explained. People were looking at me like I was crazy.
Did they leave out the part about why it was called "Alan" in this clip?
@@morganchatsworthiii9178 actually, that's a good question. I seem to recall 'Alan' being mentioned in the movie, but I don't know why it would be cut from this clip if that were the case.
No you are not the only.... I am a huge fan of Alan PARSONS project AND this scene in México was hilarius!!!
Honestly, if I hadn't been so young when this came out I would've laughed hysterically too, I grew up listening to all sorts of bands/musicians (still do) and so I know some pretty obscure ones by now. That's cool you sing jazz (I presume by your name lol), I play saxophone :)
@@ianelliott5403 i only play the CD player, but i love Alan Parsons music
better call it = eye in the sky project
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LMAO
I see what you did there
😂
How on Earth do they do this & NOT DIE LAUGHING😂😂 I couldn't even be an extra...I'd get fired for ruining all the takes.
It'll be forever a mystery
Lmao I wouldn’t be able to make it past one joke without dyin
Scott laughing at "alan parsons project" never fails to make me laugh
Well, Dr. Evil is from some other place, some other time after all.
This actually got me into one of my now all time favorite bands.
God I love this scene. I came here because I AM listening to Alan Parsons Project and had to come here for a sec LOL
Me too!!
same lol
So do I! :D
Me three.😅
I love when dr evil sort of has a fuck yeah sort of moment after the ball landed where he wanted it to
probably genuine. I wonder how many times they filmed the scene and if he missed
@@ZeRo-yc7zf probably way too many times
1:13 You can really hear the Chris here.
'No! I've had enough of you pushing me around!'
The Alan Parsons Project are from 1977 to present
Did they kidnapped you from the past and bring you into the present?! That why he is *Evil*
But 1982 was when they were at their peak
@@movie-mandanRemember The turn of a friendly card from 1980.
@jonathanbirch2022 Yes, i'm talking about from their first album.
Sorry for the mistake.
Greetings from 🇲🇽
@@sumhung5942 Did they kidnap* you ...
I can't believe how old Austin Powers' movies are. People in their 20s dont even know who he is.
Because they were not born in the “90s”
Some people in their twenties know about these movies, all my friends children who are in that age group are well aware of Austin Powers.
Im a fan of them and 26
Operation Bananarama DID turn out to be a huge success haha!
The Alan Parsons Project was a progressive rock band long before 1982, son. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alan_Parsons_Project
That's not the biggest problem with that bit of the scene. The laser was invented by the noted Canadian physicist Theodore Maiman. Unfortunately, there weren't any bands, progressive or otherwise, which used his name, so I guess the joke wouldn't have worked
Back in 1999, I didn’t catch the Wang Chung or Bananarama references. I thought it was nonsense. I was 10.
votekyle3000 ????
Bananarama just released a new album! They are still around 20 years after this movie!
Gotta love Rob Lowe's corpsing when he was suppose to be crying
@0:36-0:47
Dr.Evil: Death Star
(Scott Evil Snickers)
Dr Evil: What?
Scott Evil: Aw Nothing, Darth
Dr. Evil: What did you Call me?!
Scott Evil: No, Nothing (Says this to Make it look like a Sneeze) Rip-Off!
Dr.Evil: Bless You.
Yeah, we watched the video too.
"You will be divided into Moon Unit Alpha, and Moon Unit Zappa."
What about Omega!
@@Railfan-uf9mw That wasn't in the script
Watched the movie in 2002 when I was in Junior High, didn't know what Alan Parsons was. Fast forward to now, heard a friend talk about the band and it instantly reminded me of this scene.
Man, I love Rob Lowe :D
Stroya How many Films have they been in together?
Ronaldo de Lima Fan for sure "Wayne's World"
seiph80 that’s right, and tommy boy between, it’s interesting in retrospect how many familiar movies this guy has been in
Oh, yeah? Wait until you guys see him in the new Super Troopers movie.
Stroya - Anne Perkins!
The crying and bouncing off the globe was a reference to The Great Santini basketball scene…classic
Robert Duval at his best
Given Dr. Evil is playing with a globe, it's also an hommage to Charlie Chaplin as "The Great Dictator" also playing with a globe in the namesake 1940 movie.
Today I learned!
Yes, the music of the 80s references! Operation Wang Chung!
The Alan Parsons Project is a progressive rock band in 1982!
...even though they existed before '82.
@@hypnotised-clover I think the reason Scott singles out 1982 is because that was when they released their biggest hit
When he sunk the globe like a basketball that was all ad-libbed and it happened in one take
Really?
adlibbed?
google it?
This is not an English essay, just call it improvise..
Wow, one 7 sec take, with one actor in frame? Genius!
The "you gonns cry?" lines. Directly from Great Santini.
That's right, with Robert Duval's title character of The Great Santini, bouncing a basketball on the head of the actor who played a caddy on Caddyshack that same year, after a major haircut.
1:53 Rob Lowe isn't Crying..... He was laughing! I think this Scene was Unscripted but it too Funny NOT TO Cut!
*I never noticed but in this same scene Dr Evil starts to bully his number 2 & uses the globe to keep hitting his face with (its basically a ball) anyway they had to add Rob Lowe's audio as if he was crying because you can tell from what's onscreen it doesn't match up as Lowe is actually laughing.*
Yes, Alan Parsons Project was a great prog rock band, but when I first saw this in the theater, I thought he was going to make a reference to Jack Parsons, noted rocket scientist who was also a Thelemite occultist, which would be in-line with Dr. Evil!!!
Lol
“Want to wear the daddy pants?”🤣🤣🤣.
What about Operation Duran Duran?
wiisalute Or Operation Ziggy Stardust!
It was defeated by The Wild Boys in Rio, with a view to a kill...
It was replaced by Operation Spandau Ballet.
Win.
Or "Jefferson Starship"
The ending of Dr. Evils dancing haha! 🤣
The moon only rotates the earth halfway then stops
Joseph Brooks Don't expect Dr Evil to know that
i dont like that insolent tone
Woah almost like that was intentional for comedic effect...
After all these years, I did not realize that was Rob Lowe.
If you find Scott’s voice any familiar, keep in mind that he was played by Seth Green. Yes, Chris from Family Guy
"When the Moon reaches its appropriate lunar alignment, it will destroy Washington D. C. You see, I have turned the Moon into what I like to call a Death Star."
😅
What?
Na-nothing Darth.
What did you call me?
Na-nothing. 🤧Rip off!
Bless you.
Seth Green is so funny in this movie XD
yes he is
Howling Burd19 nah he’s a douche
@@sebastianmaregatti Entourage ruined it for me. I really hope he's not like that in real life.
To be fair to Dr. Evil, he wasnt around for all the pop culture hes accidentally referencing
this joke honestly went over my head. lol
RIP Verne Troyer
Charles Cornner yeah so sad!
Forgot how much I love these films.
Rob Lowe is so funny in this scene
My pops explained the joke to me and it got me into their music
We loved this joke. Miss ya pops
Huh you gonna cry? You gonna cry? 🌍💥OH!!! You gonna cry? You gonna cry?🌍💥OH!!! -YOU GONNA SQUIRT SOME?🌍💥 -😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
“I don’t know phases.” already sent me 💀
Little did they know alan parsons did not invent the lazer. He was a sound engineer.
"Nothing. I'm sure Operation Bananarama will be HUGE!"
Gotta love the references to the 80s bands😂❤....alan parsans project, wang chung and bananarama❤
If you look carefully at number 2 crying, you can see Rob Lowe smiling, meaning that was laughter
Alan Parsons Project is coming to Boise, ID tomorrow. Can't wait!!
That line in the desert sand is a big one, princes must be furious!
So bloody funny......easily Mike Myers best work in my opinion. But I also love "So I Married an Axe Murderer".
SCOTT: Rip off
DR. EVIL: Bless You
SCOTT: Not that im sure operation bananarama would be huge.
For a doctor, Evils plans are ridiculously laughable 😂
Pretty sure that Lowe's crying, too, is actually him laughing his ass off.
Nice nod to The Great Dictator with the Earth Balloon.
Took me a while to realize that was a parody of the basketball scene in "The Great Santini"
I read something online that Rob Lowe actually convinced Mike Myers to hit him in the face with the globe ball, and make it a scene in the movie where Dr. Evil bullies Number Two. So they did it and it became one of my favorite scenes in The Spy Who Shagged Me.
You see, I've turned the moon into what I like to call a "Death Star".
Well, now I know where the idea for Majora's Mask came from
Who else is a huge Alan Parsons Project fan?
I'm a huge Alan Parson's Project fan lol love the raven 😁😎
Me
@@luffyplasticman4371 True. I can't forgot that song NEVERMORE NEVERMORE NEVERR
Me! Got to see them play I Robot front to back at Burning Man twice, in 2018.
I love the band ever since I was a kid The Album based on Edgar Allan Poe's work is a classic...
1:52 he’s laughing crying
I have it on good authority that Alan Parsons said he would have happily done a cameo if they'd actually thought to ask him.
Love that hole in one ending
What's funny about a laser on the Moon aiming down, The Alan Parsons Project had a song "I Am The Eye In the Sky".
'Don't Answer Me' is my favorite song of Alan Parsons. I recommend it. Great song.
Bro when dr evil bounces the earth mini me’s head moves up and down with it 😭😭
Correction: Alan Parsons Project formed in 1975.
The dialogue is fucking amazing in the Austin Powers movies.. So ridiculous, yet so clever.
1:01 His high pitch laugh 😂😂
I'd forgotten how fucking great this film was.
Scoty zip it...... zip it good.
Great Santini
The one man, Dr. Evil, that could make Chuck Norris cry.
Cancer hasn't been treated yet so yeah
"Operation Banana-Rama would be huge!"
Dr evil doesn’t know Alan Parsons, but knows Internet address syntax?
Sadly, really few people know that awesome band
I thought the Alan Parsons Project was a hovercraft of some sort.
So funny the Alan’s Parson’s Project you got to love Scott’s laugh operation want chu ASS! So funny
0:37, people's reaction to Starcrash
Every time I hear "Operation Warp Speed", it makes me think of this!
Dont answer me, dont break the silence dont let me win
Any Alan Parsons fan knows that one does not compare the Project to the likes of Wang Chung and Bananarama.
Dr. Evil is so lovable lol!
Poor Number 2, always the smarts one that been rejected by Dr Evil
Love the groovy music in the back
R.I.P mini me
Therefor we shall call it ‘the Alan parsons project’ hahahah
More like NEVERMORE NEVERMORE NEVERR
bless you
Anyone hear the background music! Sounds more like a sales presentation than an evil villain scene!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣