Little known fact: larabee had a twin brother. Looked exactly the same. He was my baseball coach. His name was Mr. Karavelas. Great guy. All of us kids loved Get Smart. Larabee was don adams' cousin. Funny thing was that coach karavelas never watched the show so all of our impersonations and quotes from the show were lost on him. When other teams came from out of town we would tell them that our coach was larabee. They would swarm him for autographs. He took it in stride. Nice man. Btw he was a cameraman for wide world of sports. Would tell us stories about the Olympics, etc. God bless him.
WHAT....? What a story..! Coach Larabee II never watched his own brothers cutting edge network TV sit/com..... Whaaaa? OR Just "missed IT by that much" AND The Agony of DeFEET......!
I heartily concur ! The actor who played Larabee (Robert Karvelas) was Don Adams' real life cousin (their mothers were sisters). Everyone on the classic 60s series was perfectly cast !
It was done so effortlessly! The writing and the actors are what made this a timeless classic. Honestly, I burst out laughing when they ended the dialog. What an incredible scene. Thanks for posting!
I agree with all you guys. Even my aloof dad would come in to watch Get Smart with all of us. You always knew if he liked something it was good . . He was a big fan of Buck Henry and Mel Brooks.
Remember the scene where Max and The Chief were using the Cone of Silence and Larabee walks into the room and holds up a flash card to the Chief saying "Call, Chief". The Chief then pulls out a flash card from his card file saying "Call Back", and Larabee responds with a illustration of a hand giving the "ok" sign. Freaking hilarious!!! Then there was this: "Hold it, Larabee. Who wrote Little Women?" Larabee: "The book or the movie?" lololol
My favourite Larabee scene was when after saving Max from being poisoned by Kaos agent impersonating 99, the Chief instructs Larabee to help the real 99 with Max. The camera cuts to Larabee wolfing down same desert that poisoned Max and proclaiming "how good it was". Followed by close up of Max & 99 looking bewildered at just how stupid Larabee is. You can see it here near the end here ua-cam.com/video/KJ1cOkxG1sI/v-deo.htmlsi=tXcr6oahzXmHxOkl
The first thing the Chief would say to Max when he demanded the Cone of Silence was, "It doesn't work." Max would counter with regulations and the Chief had to capitulate.
Another ludicrous thing about the Cone of Silence: when the two cones came down on the desk, there was plenty of air/space on the underside of the cones. Any spy coulda heard-EXCEPT Max & Chief!
We didn't realize at the time just how much of a comedic genius Don Adams was. I feel the same way about Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, and Tim Conway. And the same about Don Knotts, Jim Nabors, Howard Morris, and George Lindsey. We didn't appreciate back then that we were watching the all-time greats at their all-time best.
It was the same with Gilligan's Island and many others which fell under the category of zany comedy. Take the Three Stooges, for instance. The thin plotlines placed second to the gags and pratfalls. I guess all of that came from vaudeville in the '20s and '30s. That's where Bob Hope, Jack Benny, George Burns, etc. got their start.
There are several episodes where Larabee doesn't speak much or at all. I don't know if those were when he was first on the show and they didn't know what they had but thank goodness they started giving him speaking parts. They were always brilliant.
Larrabee was more clueless than Max. He was a great supporting actor. My favorite scene was when he was supposed to contact president LBJ, but the phones were down. So, Larrabee opens the Chief's window and screams, "Good morning, Mr. President!" The Chief is flabbergasted, until they hear a reply, "What do you want?!"
Mel Brooks thought up the ideas, but didn’t write them down. It was Buck Henry’s job to write them down. Hence the credit “series created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry”.
Radio, until the 1950’s, was basically TV without the pictures. Once TV took all the scripted shows, the radio genre was in absolute panic. Playing records has kept it going another 70 years. But, now that youngsters are streaming music, it’s a case of déjà vu.
I've been looking for this scene for a few years. It's already funny that the chief says that he's in his forties, but hearing Larabee voice what we're all thinking is the icing on the cake.
My absolute favorite get smart scene is Max and the Chief at the opera stuck in the Portable Cone of Silence, which unfortunately didn't work as well as the one in the chef's office..... Oh, wait a minute, that one didn't work either!!!
I remember one scene where Max asks for the Portable Cone of Silence. It looked like some dumbells with a hollow tube between the balls on the end. You put your head into the balls on the end of the Portable Cone of Silence and then have your secret conversation. After an unsuccessful conversation (Surprise!), Max gets out, but the Chief's head is stuck in the Portable Cone of Silence and he falls down some stairs. Grand Comedy! Whoever wrote that must be a genius. Anybody remember the Episode?
Does anybody remember the episode in which the cone of silence was out for repair, so instead they had to use the closet of silence? They ended up getting locked in. Max took out his gun to shoot the locked door handle so they could get out. The bullet ricocheted and hit the chief in the foot or something like that.
@@renaissanceman21c I don't remember that one. Are you suggesting that The Chief and Maxwell Smart were clumsy enough to lock themselves in The Closet of Silence and that Max then shot the chief accidentaly? I find that hard to believe. More likely, he would have "missed him by that much" perhaps knocking his hat off without injury but really getting the Chief upset enough to eat nails.
Don Adams wanted to stay close to his real life cousin: Robert Karvelas who played first little bit parts on "Get Smart and evolved into the credited role of the Chiefs dim-witted assistant Larabee. This led to the humorous insider joke where the Chief would often ask Max, on the show ......."Are you sure you two aren't related?"👁🔎
@@zzyzxx13 I'm old enough to remember the first run of this episode!...Still one of my favorite shows....My favorite line though is from "Anatomy of A Lover" (about Hymie the Robot): [Max has been ordered to disassemble Hymie] Max: Why I can't do that to Hymie, Chief, Hymie is my friend. Why, he saved my life once. He's like a brother to me. Chief: Max, Hymie is a Cybernaut! Max: What's his religion got to do with it?
I read your comment with Don Adams as my inner voice. And you provoked my imagination of another line in Adams’s voice: Chief, that’s the second funniest scene I’ve ever watched.
99 was my favorite too. She was always clever and clear thinking, but she didn't seem to notice that Max was an idiot. A perfect foil and she could really scream on cue! Chief really showed his frustration with his nincompoops. You could really tell that he was about to explode at any minute. Great acting.
@@karlfisher1864 My favorite Chief’s scene. Max goes to the office to see the Chief after a scientist under his protection is killed by Kaos. He hears a lot of shouting from Chief’s office so Max asks Larabee, what is going on with the Chief & whom is he yelling at? Larabee says in a very calm demeanor, oh no one Max. The Chief is practicing for the meeting with you. Fantastic. See if any moron in Hollywood can come up with an idea like that today. Instead they just add sex, profanity, violence, drugs to cover their lack of ideas.
One of my favourite "Larabee & the Chief" scene involves the following exchange: Chief: "Where's the key to the chest, Larabee?" Larabee: "The key is in the book." Chief: "But the book is in the chest!" Larabee: "The key is in the book." 🤣
The entire show was absurd. It seemed hilarious back in the day. Of course, we didn't have a lot of choice. Unfortunately, it's unwatchable today. Full cringe.
Sorry, but the most absurd scene is when the Chief asks Larabee to call the president. Larabee opens the window and shouts "Hey Mr. President!". The Chief gets mad and says "Larabee, that' not the way to call the president!" and then the president shouts back "What do you want?"
It's more absurd when you recall that Chief stating that his office was several floors underground in an earlier episode! Shows back then weren't super great about continuity! 😆
Sad but true. After Max & 99 married & they had a baby, the series went downhill fast. After NBC cancelled the show, CBS picked it up for one last lackluster season.
It was hilarious if you were 10 years old in 1965. Keep in mind that at the time, we had such dreck as "Mr. Ed," "The Munsters", "My Mother The Car", etc.
I named my dog Larabee. No one gets the reference and I’m ok with that.
But did they know what you meant or did you think they knew what you meant?
great name - well done! 😊
Is Larabee dumber than Max?🇺🇸🙏🧸
We don't do that at Kaos
Great idea, wish I'd thought of that.
Little known fact: larabee had a twin brother. Looked exactly the same. He was my baseball coach. His name was Mr. Karavelas. Great guy. All of us kids loved Get Smart. Larabee was don adams' cousin. Funny thing was that coach karavelas never watched the show so all of our impersonations and quotes from the show were lost on him. When other teams came from out of town we would tell them that our coach was larabee. They would swarm him for autographs. He took it in stride. Nice man. Btw he was a cameraman for wide world of sports. Would tell us stories about the Olympics, etc. God bless him.
WHAT....? What a story..! Coach Larabee II never watched his own brothers cutting edge network TV sit/com..... Whaaaa? OR Just "missed IT by that much" AND The Agony of DeFEET......!
Different time in the country. No social media, etc. People just living their lives.
Robert Karvelas, who played Larabee, had a twin brother named William Karvelas.
You can tell by their delivery and tone that they were cousins. Almost like siblings.
All of that in one unbroken take. Outstanding.
I heartily concur ! The actor who played Larabee (Robert Karvelas) was Don Adams' real life cousin (their mothers were sisters). Everyone on the classic 60s series was perfectly cast !
It was done so effortlessly! The writing and the actors are what made this a timeless classic. Honestly, I burst out laughing when they ended the dialog. What an incredible scene. Thanks for posting!
How would you know how many takes there were? Were you there?
@@gsau3000 Get out, Larabee.
@@gsau3000 one unbroken take not on the first take, Karen.
Larabee made Max look - well, smart.
Yup. In this scene calling Max is actually the good idea vs talking to Larabee.
Not quite, but I think his rather stolid unemotional stupidity was probably intended to act as a foil to Max's more flamboyant stupidity.
I agree with all you guys. Even my aloof dad would come in to watch Get Smart with all of us. You always knew if he liked something it was good . . He was a big fan of Buck Henry and Mel Brooks.
The scenes with the Chief and Larrabee were pure comic gold.
John Pazell-Larrabee was just as dense as Max was. 😄😄😄😄😄😄
@@kevinmiller6380 After this scene I certainly believe that.
Ok, that was weird.
Remember the scene where Max and The Chief were using the Cone of Silence and Larabee walks into the room and holds up a flash card to the Chief saying "Call, Chief". The Chief then pulls out a flash card from his card file saying "Call Back", and Larabee responds with a illustration of a hand giving the "ok" sign. Freaking hilarious!!! Then there was this: "Hold it, Larabee. Who wrote Little Women?" Larabee: "The book or the movie?" lololol
My favourite Larabee scene was when after saving Max from being poisoned by Kaos agent impersonating 99, the Chief instructs Larabee to help the real 99 with Max. The camera cuts to Larabee wolfing down same desert that poisoned Max and proclaiming "how good it was". Followed by close up of Max & 99 looking bewildered at just how stupid Larabee is. You can see it here near the end here ua-cam.com/video/KJ1cOkxG1sI/v-deo.htmlsi=tXcr6oahzXmHxOkl
Larrabee and Don Adams were cousins. Their comedic timing was brilliant.
Cousins in real life, or only on the show?
@@stevenrussell5340 in real life.
Yes indeed ! Their mothers were sisters.
That’s probably one of the funniest scenes!
And of course he plays the only character in the series who is dumber than Smart ...
I remember the chief threatened to fire Max, and Max reminded the chief who was next in line, Larrabee and the chief relented (shaking both fists)
I remember that episode very well.
Just look at any Get Smart clips with the "cone of silence" - Max often demanded it - but the chief hated it - he knew it would always end badly.
And so did we!
The first thing the Chief would say to Max when he demanded the Cone of Silence was, "It doesn't work." Max would counter with regulations and the Chief had to capitulate.
You’d think the Chief would get the regulations changed. But nooooo...
I *loved* the Cone of Silence!
Another ludicrous thing about the Cone of Silence: when the two cones came down on the desk, there was plenty of air/space on the underside of the cones. Any spy coulda heard-EXCEPT Max & Chief!
R.i.p. Edward Platt, you cheered my childhood. Greetings from Italy.
And Donny Adams
There is not a single episode of this series that didn't crack me up. They didn't miss my funny bone by
--->
….would you believe ….?
I'm not sure what YOU mean, and yet.......maybe.........missed IT by that much....!
We didn't realize at the time just how much of a comedic genius Don Adams was. I feel the same way about Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, and Tim Conway. And the same about Don Knotts, Jim Nabors, Howard Morris, and George Lindsey. We didn't appreciate back then that we were watching the all-time greats at their all-time best.
All of the scenes in Get Smart were absurd. That was the charm of the show.
Yes, very charming.
It was the same with Gilligan's Island and many others which fell under the category of zany comedy. Take the Three Stooges, for instance. The thin plotlines placed second to the gags and pratfalls. I guess all of that came from vaudeville in the '20s and '30s. That's where Bob Hope, Jack Benny, George Burns, etc. got their start.
@@randyjordan5521 Definitely a Marx Bros. influence running through there.
There are several episodes where Larabee doesn't speak much or at all. I don't know if those were when he was first on the show and they didn't know what they had but thank goodness they started giving him speaking parts. They were always brilliant.
I think it was when he first started in the show,I remember a few years later he stared in a short lived TV series, but I can't remember the name
That is a great scene.
I totally agree !
It will always be a great show, my brother and myself watched it every afternoon after school. Oh, the shows for kids were so good and humorous.
Dick Gautier's Hymie character was the best "prop" in any scene. Better than Max's shoe phone or the cone of silence.
Doctor to Hymie: "Do you drink?" Hymie: "Only the best oil". Doctor: "Do you smoke?" Hymie: "Only when I don't use the best oil". lololol
"Only when I use cheap oil." love it
A great show with moments of pure genius!
Larrabee was more clueless than Max. He was a great supporting actor. My favorite scene was when he was supposed to contact president LBJ, but the phones were down. So, Larrabee opens the Chief's window and screams, "Good morning, Mr. President!" The Chief is flabbergasted, until they hear a reply, "What do you want?!"
😂
I guess the point of the whole thing was to make fun of how dumb the average federal employee is.
@@randyjordan5521 True that!
That scene was pure comedy gold, just like so many in all the episodes of this wonderful show.
Soooo funny. Absolutely hilarious with no foul language or rudeness. Just pure unadulterated comic genius.
It's interesting now to watch the earlier episodes where Larabee was just an extra with no lines.
This is when Hollywood had writers.
And actors.
The series was the brain child of Mel Brooks.
@@Eyes-of-Horus was it a stillborn?
Mel Brooks thought up the ideas, but didn’t write them down. It was Buck Henry’s job to write them down. Hence the credit “series created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry”.
And when you were a kid, all the old people thought the same thing 😂😂
Spy Larabee at 0:31 "Everybody knows radio's dead Chief."
That joke was 50 years before streaming actually killed radio.
It's one of those brilliant bits of writing that went over my head at age 6 but kept my dad in the room watching.
Radio, until the 1950’s, was basically TV without the pictures. Once TV took all the scripted shows, the radio genre was in absolute panic. Playing records has kept it going another 70 years. But, now that youngsters are streaming music, it’s a case of déjà vu.
Well, at least talk radio is still doing okay.
Remember video killed the radio star!
I've been looking for this scene for a few years. It's already funny that the chief says that he's in his forties, but hearing Larabee voice what we're all thinking is the icing on the cake.
I feel like The Chief a lot when talking to my girl friend.
My absolute favorite get smart scene is Max and the Chief at the opera stuck in the Portable Cone of Silence, which unfortunately didn't work as well as the one in the chef's office..... Oh, wait a minute, that one didn't work either!!!
I don't suppose they ever considered just whispering.
Imagine doing the Cone of Silence with Larrabee.
WHAT??
looks so much better in high def. As a child, I used to watch these on an old black & white television
This was always one of the greatest things on television.
That was hilarious. the age difference. 🤣🤣
I remember one scene where Max asks for the Portable Cone of Silence. It looked like some dumbells with a hollow tube between the balls on the end. You put your head into the balls on the end of the Portable Cone of Silence and then have your secret conversation. After an unsuccessful conversation (Surprise!), Max gets out, but the Chief's head is stuck in the Portable Cone of Silence and he falls down some stairs. Grand Comedy! Whoever wrote that must be a genius. Anybody remember the Episode?
I remember all the episodes ,as I saw all of them multiple times
Does anybody remember the episode in which the cone of silence was out for repair, so instead they had to use the closet of silence?
They ended up getting locked in. Max took out his gun to shoot the locked door handle so they could get out. The bullet ricocheted and hit the chief in the foot or something like that.
@@renaissanceman21c I don't remember that one. Are you suggesting that The Chief and Maxwell Smart were clumsy enough to lock themselves in The Closet of Silence and that Max then shot the chief accidentaly? I find that hard to believe. More likely, he would have "missed him by that much" perhaps knocking his hat off without injury but really getting the Chief upset enough to eat nails.
What I loved about the Cone of Silence was that everyone except Max and the Chief could hear what they were saying to each other .😅
If the bug is working, anybody listening would have to listen to all that.
Mel Brooks god tier television
Buck Henry was no slouch either. ;-)
The cone of silence.🤣😂🤣🤣😂
Don Adams wanted to stay close to his real life cousin: Robert Karvelas who played first little bit parts on "Get Smart and evolved into the credited role of the Chiefs dim-witted assistant Larabee. This led to the humorous insider joke where the Chief would often ask Max, on the show ......."Are you sure you two aren't related?"👁🔎
Keen observation! I never knew Max and Larabee were cousins in real life, but the Chief's inside joke now makes it that much funnier.
@@zzyzxx13 I'm old enough to remember the first run of this episode!...Still one of my favorite shows....My favorite line though is from "Anatomy of A Lover" (about Hymie the Robot):
[Max has been ordered to disassemble Hymie]
Max: Why I can't do that to Hymie, Chief, Hymie is my friend. Why, he saved my life once. He's like a brother to me.
Chief: Max, Hymie is a Cybernaut!
Max: What's his religion got to do with it?
The most absurd Get Smart scene ever...and it doesn't even have Maxwell Smart in it.
He's 42 and he hasn't changed since high school.
I loved Larrabee , you had to laugh
Indubitably !
Chief,Would you believe All of GET SMART was? That's why it was funny? Great interaction & chemistry with the crew 👏 & cast?
I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion !!
@@jubalcalif9100 "Chief....? Would you believe? "
I read your comment with Don Adams as my inner voice. And you provoked my imagination of another line in Adams’s voice: Chief, that’s the second funniest scene I’ve ever watched.
I loved Larrabee, but my favorite is agent 13.
Was that Victor French? He was hilarious on the train episode with the blind guy and Johnny Carson. He's unrecognizable to me in Highway To Heaven.
So funny love the old showes
“Radio is dead” sounds funny in 2023, when millions of people get their news and entertainment through their ears 😊
Never ask someone how old you look.
I have to side with Larabee on Chief’s age. 😄
My favorite characters on Get Smart in order of priority:
1. Zigfried & Starker.
2. Larabee.
3. Chief.
4. Hymie the Robot.
I think Bernie Koppel really enjoyed being that sneering, swaggering villain continually let down by incompetent underlings ...
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104
Much better than his phony character on Love Boat but we all have to feed our families.
99 was my favorite too. She was always clever and clear thinking, but she didn't seem to notice that Max was an idiot. A perfect foil and she could really scream on cue! Chief really showed his frustration with his nincompoops. You could really tell that he was about to explode at any minute. Great acting.
@@karlfisher1864
My favorite Chief’s scene.
Max goes to the office to see the Chief after a scientist under his protection is killed by Kaos.
He hears a lot of shouting from Chief’s office so Max asks Larabee, what is going on with the Chief & whom is he yelling at?
Larabee says in a very calm demeanor, oh no one Max. The Chief is practicing for the meeting with you.
Fantastic. See if any moron in Hollywood can come up with an idea like that today. Instead they just add sex, profanity, violence, drugs to cover their lack of ideas.
See my comment above about the "Portable Cone of Silence". If you don't remember that one, follow my new comment above. It's a gut buster.
Edward Platt. He was in "Rebel Without A Cause".
And a thousand westerns.
Radio isn't dead-50 years later.
Hahaha I do this stuff to my wife… she now knows it and plays along.
Greatest comedy show ever made; just beats the Beverly Hillbillies.
Larabee was off the chart hilarious. There was never a scene with him I didn’t laugh.
Laraby says, "radio is dead". Anyone know what the joke was about? Maybe radio switching from AM to FM around that time?
Radio was an enormous entertainment vehicle, but TV displaced it.
Absurd...yes.....but in the superlative.
Groovy Guru was pretty absurd, too😏😏
HAHAHAHAHAHA! for some reason I never saw that scene before. Good ole Larabee.
I had forgotten how darn funny this show was. Thanks algorithm!
One of my favourite "Larabee & the Chief" scene involves the following exchange:
Chief: "Where's the key to the chest, Larabee?"
Larabee: "The key is in the book."
Chief: "But the book is in the chest!"
Larabee: "The key is in the book."
🤣
😂
Larrabee was actually Don Adam's cousin
Our Man Larabee.
The entire show was absurd. It seemed hilarious back in the day. Of course, we didn't have a lot of choice. Unfortunately, it's unwatchable today. Full cringe.
All right Larrabee. Why do you have a sandy apartment?
Cuz my wife wanted to know what it would be like to live on the beach.
Larrabee was the cousin of Don Adams.
One of the funniest shows ever.Real comedy.Proper comedy.Million times better than those other popular shows.
Platt was the “Olivier” of comedic exasperation.
Amazing! He talks & sounds exactly like Max! 🤔
here in Australia as a young aussie kid in the 60's and 70's this was pure gold - my kids love it too
“Larabee, how old you do think I am?” Lol 😂
Huh I didnt even know there was a show
Sorry, but the most absurd scene is when the Chief asks Larabee to call the president. Larabee opens the window and shouts "Hey Mr. President!". The Chief gets mad and says "Larabee, that' not the way to call the president!" and then the president shouts back "What do you want?"
It's more absurd when you recall that Chief stating that his office was several floors underground in an earlier episode! Shows back then weren't super great about continuity! 😆
They surely weren’t banking in reruns (and later, DVD releases) into perpetuity!
Classic Mel Brooks
Chief is only 42!?!?!?!?!
FYI, Edward C. Platt, the actor who played the Chief of Control, was 53 when he appeared in this episode.
Classic
Those two are so funny 😅
"Get out, Larabee!" LOL
that is excellent.
Didn't the Chief drive a Shelby Mustang?
Laugh 😂
ahahahahahhahaaa two straight men,, making very funny music ahahahahha
The actor who played Larabee was Don Adams cousin in real life.
Only Larabee could outSmart Maxwell Smart. Karl
I loved this show even at 11 years old
I Like the Cone of Silence
which episode is this one? Larabee and the chief? can any one help me ?
Season 5 was horrible except for a few episodes. Best of 5…”Widow Often Annie”
The show went on at least 1 season too long
Sad but true. After Max & 99 married & they had a baby, the series went downhill fast. After NBC cancelled the show, CBS picked it up for one last lackluster season.
That's what you think.
It’s true. The show got way too silly. It was shown an hour earlier. Perhaps the plots were geared toward children?
Adams said that he knew it was time to shut it down when the writers started repeating old plotlines, but just tweaking them a little.
When I was a kid, I used to watch Get Smart and I loved it. Now when I see an episode, I wonder how I could've ever liked something so dumb.
What a load of rubbish. No wonder they had a laughter track. Not funny at all
One of the most popular and iconic TV series in history. So your little youtube comment doesn't count at all. Why would you even bother.
@Mick Irving not in the u.k. it wasn't
“If only he had used his sardonic wit for good instead of evil” 🥹
It was hilarious if you were 10 years old in 1965. Keep in mind that at the time, we had such dreck as "Mr. Ed," "The Munsters", "My Mother The Car", etc.
Very funny!!!!!! Some episodes in season 5 sucked like Apes of Wrath!!! And why was Dodger Maury Wills in it !!?????
Love that show. Got all 5 seasons on DVD.
Chief committed suicide in 74
Microphones don't work in the CONE OF SILENCE, Duhhhh