Never cared much for Get Smart but the man fought at Guadalcanal. Hats off.

Guadalcanal? Yikes!

Loved the Cone of Silence.

A Marine and a drill sergeant, so I just read.

That was as surprising as learning James Doohan was forever embarrassed on-screen because one of the shots he took on Normandy beach took off a finger.

These guys did such amazing things and we knew them for the pretty stupid things they went on to do in later life.

And at some point, Don Adams worked as a cartographer at the Defense Mapping Agency (now called the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency), which wasn't mentioned in his obituary, but was basically the most interesting bit of trivia at DMA (where I once worked on an internship myself.)

I think my favorite catch phrase was "..and loving it"!

Gilligan then Maxwell Smart. They always go in threes - I think we need to keep an eye on Barney Fife. He's gettin' on up there too.

Well, Butch from the Little Rascals bowed out today, too. I don't know if he counts.

Don't forget he was also the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo, which cartoon was the source of the philosophy I have used to guide my life: If we dress like weathermen, and we talk like weathermen, we can get jobs as weathermen.

My favorite Don Adams -Get Smart exchange involving a secret password

Maxwell to agent - Who wrote Little Women?

Agent - The book or the screenplay?

Maxwell looking totally suprised - There was a book?

Don't forget that Tennessee Tuxedo's pal the Professor presaged the computer age with the 3-D blackboard!

While we might stand on the opposite shores of a wide ideological sea, Ace, we are united in our love for Get Smart.

That nose gag at the end slayed me as a kid.

The excretable late 90s version with Andy Dick doesn't count of course.

When they showed The Nude Bomb on TV, they murdered one of the catchphrases: they changed "missed it by that much" to "missed the bone that much".

Sigh. Between that, the evil change they made to Scotty in The Wrath of Khan, and the commercials, I've simply given up on network TV.

When I was a kid you had to watch the show just to find out what the next catch phrase would be, or you were totally uncool.

OK, I was totally uncool anyway but I loved the show.

Rest in peace, Don Adams.

[I mean, I played a frigging clarinet in a Boy Scout marching band, that's how uncool I was. That's the sort of uncoolness that can lead to seriously aberrant adult behavior. Like, say, blogging in a Batman suit, just to give a random hypothetical example.]

Michael,

Sorry about that!

I blame it on the 3DBB. And Chumley. That fat walrus bastard Chumley. Sort of a proto O-Dub, that Chumley.

And Instapundundit has this post via the Corner.

BLACKWATER FEVER, a disease occurring in tropical countries and elsewhere, which is often classed with malaria (q.v.). It is characterized by irregular febrile paroxysms, accompanied by rigors, bilious vomiting, jaundice and haemoglobinuria (Sambon). .... , while the black urine from which Blackwater Fever derives its name is equally rare in countries with yellow fever..

According to the modern school of tropical parasitology, blackwater fever is neither a form of malaria nor produced by quinine, but a specific disease due to a protozoal parasite akin to that which causes the redwater fever of cattle.

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Almost dying from a disease named after the color of your pee ... bleh.

God speed, Agent 86 - My only wish is that I had that gun that blew holes the size of garbage can lids in your enemies.

I loved him in this role. We need more like him to battle the day to day KAOS aslo known as Democrats. Cindy Sheehan needs the "cone of silence wrapped around her fat ass!!!"

One of the best things about the show was the cleanliness. Sure, there was some inuendo but nothing like what you see today. There are no shows for kids from 7 to 99 (sigh...99)..where was I. Sorry about that. Oh, yeah. Mel Brooks and Buck Henry were the original writers. At least they wrote the pilot and several others and won an Emmy for their work. They set the tone and it was completely in tune with the FAMILIES of the day. Now we get comedy shows aimed at the 20somethings and that's about it. Name one situation comedy you could sit down to watch with your small children.

One of my favorite Maxwell Smart lines came from the Nude Bomb (costarring Sylvia Kristel). The scene setup takes too long to explain, but the payoff line was, "Wait a minute, I can explain anything! I mean, I can explain everything!"

Wasn't he also the voice of Inspector Gadget? Or was that just a Don Adams impersonator?

Sorry about that!

Brewfan:

I think it's my turn, right?

Eat me.

I mean, eat me eat me eat me.

How dare you pity me!

I am now a supercool professionally successful person!

*Michael takes a deep breath, redrapes cape over his shoulders*

Michael.
This is Ace's place.
You don't have to tell us how cool you are now.

It really doesn't matter.
Homo

Homo

Laura:

I love you too.

BTW, have you allowed your pussy-whipped husband to build a spud gun yet?

Michael, I used the occaison of your coma-inducing comment to make a pop culture reference germaine to this thread.

P.S. Oh, and since you reminded me: eat me raw, f*ckface!

:)

Oy! occaison = occaision

me not type good!

clarinet?

as we say in Texas, I wouldn'ta told that.

Praise be to Allah (puke) and his great prophet Mo (puke repeat)...for the great Maxwell Smart.

His foot is still healing a broken bone, but I expect he'll be back to himself any week now.

The problem with the potato gun is we have a neighbor who subscribes to Neighbor Law magazine. And tater guns is LOUD. It really sucks because pretty much everybody else down the street is cool, and wouldn't mind us launching spuds at the coyotes which haunt everybody's yards in Winter.

Crazy broad, too. Before I met my husband, she called the town to complain that he was 'harboring' poison ivy and it was spreading to her yard.

The town guy had him chemically defoliate a big ugly swath between the yards.

Behind both our backyards, and everybody down the street, is forest and swamp. You can't throw a stone without hitting a clump of poison ivy anywhere around here. One of the town streets is lined by trees covered with poison ivy vines, with leaves as long as your forearm hanging down.

And anyway, though poison ivy spreads vegetatively, it is mainly propagated by birds.

Its a good thing he wasn't married to me then, because I would have started a jihad against that crazy bitch.
She would have won, of course. Nothing is as tenacious as nucking futz. But I would have given her sleepless nights, anyway.

One time, at band camp...

I think we need to keep an eye on Barney Fife.

Especially since Knotts was also a Marine drill instructor. And according to lore, a feared one at that.

Michael, I used the occaison of your coma-inducing comment to make a pop culture reference germaine to this thread.

Brewfan:

C'mon, I got the reference, of course.

It's my turn. I'll save it for later.

Good night, and God bless you and your family.

And tater guns is LOUD.

No, they're not. That's just a lie. Spud guns are more of a whoosh than a bang. You're just trying to make up excuses for why your poor pussy-whipped husband can't have a spud gun to keep those coyotes off the premises.

What I always thought was funny was how much the beginning of the Get Smart theme song sounded like the beginning of LZ's Immigrant Song (or vice versa).

I saw one in action, and it was way too loud for my neighborhood. It didn't whoosh. It boomed.

I never missed Don Adams' Screen Test either. Great television.

And dare I say it? Probably the precursor for such extravaganzas as Dancin' With the Stars.

As for Agent 99, what adolescent boy didn't fantasize about a threesome with the Barbaras Eden and Felden?

What I always thought was funny was how much the beginning of the Get Smart theme song sounded like the beginning of LZ's Immigrant Song (or vice versa).

cardeblu:

I listened to both tracks. I'm guessing some chemical help is necessary to see the connection. Got any suggestions?

I think a Midori spritzer works well for your kind.

I think a Midori spritzer works well for your kind.

What's not to like about the flavor of a ripe green melon? C'mon.

So, I love you too, Laura. My best regards also to poor pussy-whipped hubby when you tuck him in.

;-)

No, no, no....

I tried to find a wav file with just the beginning of Immigrant which would have worked better (although it does have the same musical run in the middle in that clip). You really can't hear the same note progression in Plant's voice as what the brass is playing in the beginning of Get Smart? It was pointed out to me years ago, and I can't help but think of the similarity whenever I hear one or the other.

(sigh...99)

Friend, I was 13 in 1965: I know exactly what you mean. Just checked IMDB.com: Barbara Feldon (Agent 99) is now 73. God, I hate growing old!

My world has just been turned upside down. Barney Fife and Maxwell Smart were both drill instructors? Too funny for words.

At any rate, I loved both those guys, but I really loved Agent 99. Whatever happened to her?

Of course! The old Survive Blackwater Fever And Return To The States To Become A Drill Instructor trick. It'll never work!

(Don Adams levels spectral M1 at wiseass commenter's head.)

But then, it's certainly worth a try.

Gilligan then Maxwell Smart. They always go in threes - I think we need to keep an eye on Barney Fife. He's gettin' on up there too.

Oliver Wendell Douglas died in May. Max makes three.

99, I've been waitin' so long. / Oh, 99, where did we go wrong? / Oh, 99, I love you.

I ASKED YOU NOT TO TELL ME THAT SORRY ABOUT THAT CHEIF,WOULD YOU BELEIVE?

Of course Barney Fife and Maxwell Smart were feared as drill instructors. They used sarcasm. Sarcasm and... punchlines. And irony. Oh God, the irony! [drops into fetal position] And catchphrases! Always the catchphrases! I've seen grown men bite their own heads off rather than face another "Would you believe?" routine!

From Get Smart, remember these characters:

Maxwell Smart
Agent 99
Conrad Siegfried/Prof. Helmut Schmelding
Hymie
Larrabee
Shtarker
Nicholas Dimente
Cmdr. Drury
Maj. Waterhouse
Beamish
Agent 13 (
Dr. Denton
Hottentot
Lisa

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