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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Spy fiction parody from The '60s created by Mel Brooks with (not "and") Buck Henry. Definitely a Sitcom. It starred Don Adams as CONTROL agent 86 Maxwell Smart, a bungling but perpetually optimistic secret agent who always managed to save the day and defeat the bad guys despite his own efforts. His partner, Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), was a slightly daffy secret agent who never let Max realize she could have saved the day without his help. They received their assignments from CONTROL's hapless chief (Edward Platt).Offered a tremendous number of Catch Phrases, largely at the insistence of star Don Adams, who knew they would help make the series succeed. The series ran from September 1965 to September 1970, a total of 138 episodes in five seasons, with the first four airing on NBC and the fifth on CBS.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); }) Was revived three times: The Nude Bomb, a feature film released in 1980. Executive Meddling hurt it; the producers wanted a titillating plot involving a bomb that dissolved clothing, allowing PG-appropriate nudity. The writers were so angered at the imposition that they were banned from visiting the set. Did not feature Feldon, who reportedly was not exactly crushed by the omission, although said omission was probably the leading cause of Fanon Discontinuity. Get Smart, Again!, a 1989 TV movie following the adventures of old, married, retired Max and 99. Much better received than "The Nude Bomb" (by fans of the original series, at least). A short-lived 1995 revival series focusing on one of their twin offspring (played by Andy Dick) following in Max's footsteps. Don Adams and Barbara Feldon were still around, except this time Max was Da Chief, running CONTROL.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })In June of 2008, a Get Smart feature film remake was released, starring Steve Carell as Max and Anne Hathaway as 99. | |
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Literal Surveillance Bug | |
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Literal Surveillance Bug: CONTROL once developed a spy fly, which Max accidentally swatted. A bee got into the Chief's office. When Max requests the cone of silence, the bee gets trapped along with Max and the Chief, and they can't hear each other talk due to the buzzing. Max then assumed it was a snooping KAOS bee. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: In, "The Girls from KAOS," Miss Formosa shoots her two comrades, and not only do they not bleed, they don't appear to experience any kind of pain or agony from their fatal wounds: one of them manages to shoot her in return, which kills her on contact, and again, she doesn't bleed at all. The series lacks blood in general, actually. Sometimes it's acceptable, such as gunshots that send someone falling over quickly. Sometimes less so, such as when someone gets a knife in their back or arm and not a drop leaks out. | |
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Mirror Routine | |
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Mirror Routine: A rather unconvincing one when Max has to converse with another CONTROL agent in a department store by pretending to try on clothes. | |
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I Don't Pay You to Think | |
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I Don't Pay You to Think: In "Smart the Assassin," Devonshire tells someone "KAOS doesn't pay you to think, you men were sent here to obey." | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Compared to other sitcoms at the time. While the series was never violent or bloody, nonetheless it was a sitcom in which people got killed, sometimes at the hands of the heroes. That doesn't seem unusual today, but it wasn't something that really happened on 60s televiion. One particular episode that stands out is “Island of the Darned” while itself a spoof of The Most Dangerous Game it plays the human hunting elements surprisingly straight. Despite possessing several jokes (especially at the beginning) the majority of the episode involves Max and 99 on the run through the jungle from a sociopathic hunter, who wants to kill them and mount their heads on his wall, with the danger they are in played one hundred percent straight. To stay alive they’re forced to resort to several noticeably more brutal and dirty tactics than normal, such as building a concealed spike pit to skewer one of the hunter’s heavies, which at the end leads to 99 wondering if they’re really any better than the people they fight. Max disagrees. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: Played with in one episode, when Max gets into a fight with a KAOS film director on a movie studio; in the western set the fight is a bar brawl, in the oriental set the fight is a karate match, and in the medieval set it's a swordfight complete with flynning. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Often at the end of the episode's intro. Averted and Lampshaded in "Strike while the Agent is Hot" | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Various stars appeared on the show, but one that stands out is Johnny Carson doing a rare guest-acting turn as the conductor on the episode "Aboard the Orient Express". | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: A bunsen burner phone makes an appearance in an episode. A hotline, as Max lampshades. | |
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In the Back | |
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In the Back: A knife in the back is a common way KAOS targets get disposed of. | |
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Actually Not a Vampire | |
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Actually Not a Vampire: In "Weekend Vampire", the eponymous vampire isn't a vampire; he uses a musical Blowgun to blow two small Poison Darts that he aims at his victim's neck. But he still has a Creepy Castle and uses a coffin as a bed (and secret stairway to his underground lair). | |
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Drowning Pit | |
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Drowning Pit: One episode revolves around a villain who uses a booby-trapped water-fillable phone booth to kill people. Leading to the priceless line "I'm sorry, sir, your party has been drowned." | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: This also came up in one of the books, when it turned out that KAOS' sinister "Doomsday Plan" was in fact the "Dooms Day Plan" — that is, a retirement party for longtime KAOS agent Arthur Dooms. | |
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Curtain Camouflage | |
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Curtain Camouflage: Subverted and double-subverted in "Dear Diary": The first time Max notices a pair of feet under a curtain, he tackles it, but it turns out that it was just an empty pair of shoes and that someone is hiding behind the other curtain. Later, when 99 notices another pair of feet, Max tackles the other curtain, only to find there's nobody there and the shoes did in fact belong to someone hiding behind the first curtain. | |
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Nebulous Evil Organisation | |
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Nebulous Evil Organisation: KAOS | |
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Laugh Track | |
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Laugh Track | |
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Door Judo | |
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Door Judo: Done at least twice. Once when Maxwell Smart and 99 are trapped in a corridor with two villains trying to break down the doors on either side. Our heroes open each door in turn so they knock themselves out, where we find that CONTROL agents know this as the "Double Door Deception Trick." Another time, Smart and the Chief are breaking into a cabin from opposite ends, when KAOS agents simultaneously open both doors. Smart and the Chief run past each other and out the opposite doors, and two KAOS agents shoots at them - missing and shooting one another instead. | |
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IdenticalLookingAsians | |
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Identical-Looking Asians: Inverted when an Asian KAOS villain, The Claw, keeps kidnapping blonde women because to him all Americans look alike. Played straight when a CONTROL computer can't tell the difference between several Taiwanese women. | |
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Mall Santa | |
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Mall Santa: One CONTROL agent is disguised as one. So it's completely inconspicuous when Max sits on his lap in order to get information from him. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: The poor Chief. Even 99 had her moments. | |
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Big Little Man | |
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Big Little Man: In the pilot episode, KAOS is run by the mysterious "Mister Big" (as opposed to Siegfried). It's only when Mr Big and Maxwell Smart are in the same room do we realise that Mr Big is actually a dwarf. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: Comedian Joey Forman twice appeared as the Charlie Chan-based character, Harry Hoo. | |
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Generation Xerox | |
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Generation Xerox: Zach Smart is a bumbling CONTROL agent who has romantic tension with his glamorous female partner, Agent 66. In one episode the villain turns out to be the daughter of Siegfried. This leads to a lovely Shout-Out, when she tells him for years she thought her father was really a doctor on a cruise ship. | |
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Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born | |
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Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born | |
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Prisoner Exchange | |
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Prisoner Exchange: In "A Spy for a Spy", Max and Siegfried kidnap important members of each other's organizations, and then try a traditional swap. When they double-cross each other, and continue abducting each other's staff, it escalates to the point that they eventually kidnap all the agents of the other side except each other. Max and Siegfried then hold a meeting, and try to exchange employees according to their own organizational deficiencies. | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: While Max does have occasional moments of genius, 99 fits this trope to a T. Max was (usually) the better hand-to-hand combatant, but 99 almost always had a good idea to hand. | |
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Orient Express | |
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Orient Express: "Aboard the Orient Express" | |
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Mistaken for Cheating | |
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Mistaken for Cheating: Max harbors Dr. Canyon in his apartment while 99 is away on assignment in the episode "One Nation Invisible". However, the good doctor was invisible when first Max met her, and he didn't realize she would turn out to be a Hot Scientist. Naturally, 99 comes in and discovers the suddenly-visible Dr. Canyon in their bed and jumps to conclusions. | |
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Seadog Peg Leg | |
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Seadog Peg Leg: In "Ship of Spies", the captain of the ship has a peg leg which makes a distinctive "clip-clop" sound when he walks — but so does practically everything else on the ship. | |
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Invisible Wall | |
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Invisible Wall: Max has one in his apartment. Ostensibly it's used to protect him or anyone else from all forms of attack, but most of the time it's there for him to run into. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: In The Nude Bomb, Max's co-agent starts to ask him something, but he interrupts her and explains that while he understands, it's a firm rule of his never to have sex with his co-workers during a mission. It turns out that, yes, that was exactly what she was going to ask for. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Parodied when a KAOS agent says that he may be a murderer, but he's no Peeping Tom (when it comes to birds at least). And when a doctor about to give Smart a lethal injection tells his nurse to sterilize the hypodermic: "I may work for KAOS, but I'm still a doctor!" | |
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Kinda Busy Here | |
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Kinda Busy Here: Probably the Trope Maker. | |
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Government Agency of Fiction | |
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Government Agency of Fiction: CONTROL | |
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Wall of Blather | |
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In Get Smart, Again! the Cone of Silence has finally been ditched and replaced with Hover Cover, which involves standing on a rooftop between three hovering helicopters (causing the participants to get blown off their feet) and the Hall of Hush which only leads to a Wall of Blather. In the end the Chief tosses the CONTROL regulations in his waste bin and insists Max just talk to him normally. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: The Brain. | |
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Hammerspace | |
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Hammerspace: The only way poor Agent 13 could possibly have fit into some of those hiding places. | |
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Weird Trade Union | |
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Weird Trade Union: Both CONTROL and KAOS agents have unions. KAOS agents have a better union, or at least one able to give them better benefits. This becomes a plot point a number of times. Imagine CIA agents going on strike for greater benefits! | |
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Hastily Hidden MacGuffin | |
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Hastily Hidden MacGuffin: Max has to smuggle some plans hidden in a tooth cap in the "The Whole Tooth and..." episode and when he is nearly caught by KAOS agents, he puts it on the tooth of sleeping man at a train station. After he and 99 take care of the agents they discover the man was a convict being transported to prison and spend the rest of the episode trying to get in and retrieve the plans. | |
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Sherlock Scan | |
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Sherlock Scan: Max may be The Ditz, but he can nonetheless correctly deduce that, say, a bomb has been planted in a vehicle by the position of leaves on the windshield, or that a villain is planning an attack using knockout gas based on a comment he makes about how a flower smells. | |
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Armed Legs | |
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Armed Legs: The sea captain in "Ship of Spies" had a gun concealed in his wooden leg. He had a spare leg that contained a hidden blade. | |
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Smart Ball | |
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Smart Ball: Let's face it, for an Idiot Hero, Max certainly has his moments of brilliance. When he does, it's generally a moment of awesome by default. | |
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Everything's Better with Monkeys | |
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Everything's Better with Monkeys: The Brain's trained chimp. | |
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What Could Have Been | |
| Get Smart / int_453871ec | comment |
In the 1995 series Zack's twin sister is never mentioned.note Apparently, if the show had lasted longer, the plan was to reveal said twin as the hidden head honcho of KAOS. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
| Get Smart / int_4604fd4d | comment |
Worthy Opponent: Hinted between Siegfried and Max: whenever the two meet, Siegfried always gives Max a formal salute to which he replies (usually damaging his Shoe Phone in the process). Then again, maybe Siegfried does this to trick Max into breaking his phone, as he explicitly counted on Max breaking his shoe phone at least once when on a submarine. | |
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ThemeTuneCameo | |
| Get Smart / int_4638d8fd | comment |
Theme Tune Cameo: At the end of Part 2 of "The Not So Great Escape". | |
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MadLibsCatchPhrase | |
| Get Smart / int_485011b | comment |
Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "That's the second [adjective]est [noun] I've ever seen!" and "This is KAOS! We don't [action] here!" | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
| Get Smart / int_48d9e12d | comment |
"Zis is KAOS. Ve do not [onomatopoeia] here!" | |
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Yellowface | |
| Get Smart / int_4a78cc96 | comment |
Yellow Face: Most notably, Leonard Strong as "The Craw". Also Joey Forman as "Harry Hoo", though somewhat justified in that it was a parody of Charlie Chan. | |
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One Head Taller | |
| Get Smart / int_4bc2095b | comment |
One Head Taller: Barbara Feldon was taller than Don Adams, requiring the use of every trick in the book to create the illusion of the opposite. On the bright side, this made Agent 99 probably the only woman in all Spy Fiction to wear practical footwear, as she almost never appears in high heels. | |
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Signed Up for the Dental | |
| Get Smart / int_4c083756 | comment |
Signed Up for the Dental: A few mooks. | |
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Glass Smack and Slide | |
| Get Smart / int_4e5c2fb2 | comment |
Glass Smack and Slide: In one episode, Max's apartment gets booby-trapped because someone is out to kill him. This includes an invisible bulletproof wall that comes down from the ceiling. When Max sets it off, he later walks into it and his face becomes mushed on the glass. | |
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Drugged Lipstick | |
| Get Smart / int_4f76831e | comment |
Drugged Lipstick: Once a bad girl wears some and tries to kiss Max; once 99 wears some and uses it to knock out (not kill) a bad guy who was about to kill her and Max. | |
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Playing Drunk | |
| Get Smart / int_502b147b | comment |
Playing Drunk: Max has to pretend to be an alcoholic in one episode. He is issued a pill to keep under his tongue that absorbs all the alcohol he drinks. As he puts it, "I'll look drunk, act drunk, even smell drunk, but I'll be stone sober!" Then he accidentally swallows the pill, causing all the alcohol it absorbed to be introduced into his system at once. | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy | |
| Get Smart / int_50b9b3d0 | comment |
Crazy Jealous Guy/Clingy Jealous Girl: Max or 99 become one of these whenever the other is assigned to be a Honey Trap. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
| Get Smart / int_50f66629 | comment |
Crazy-Prepared: Max apparently keeps plastic lips on his person at all times, just in case some beautiful KAOS killer tries to kiss him with poisoned lipstick. | |
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The Walls Are Closing In | |
| Get Smart / int_5581b443 | comment |
The Walls Are Closing In: Max and 99 fall into and escape this trap in "Dr. Yes". It was in a mobile home, so the trap was portable, too. | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
| Get Smart / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: When it's do or die and the fate of the world is in the balance, the usually-bumbling Max can become unstoppable. | |
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Driving a Desk | |
| Get Smart / int_56725578 | comment |
Driving a Desk: A literal example in The Nude Bomb - Max has a high speed chase in a car disguised as an office desk. | |
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Glamour | |
| Get Smart / int_57df9056 | comment |
Glamour: Simon the Likeable. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
| Get Smart / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: In one episode, Max and Siegfried team up against a man conspiring to destroy the world, since if he succeeded they would have nothing to fight about and would be out of a job. | |
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RecycledINSPACE | |
| Get Smart / int_59aa1d0b | comment |
Recycled INSPACE: The animated Inspector Gadget was basically Get Smart with wacky gadgets and a little girl to save the day. Inspector Gadget was even voiced by Don Adams. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
| Get Smart / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
99, too - it's a running gag. In one episode where she was about to marry a KAOS agent Agent 99 says her name is Susan Hilton...then later when Max calls her Susan tells him that was an alias. In another episode Max calls her by a name and 99 replies he never used that name for her..."...if only that was my name!" When Max and 99 are married, when they're about to say 99's name, the camera cuts away to a man snoring on the floor when it's said. In one episode where 99's mother appeared, she was addressed as Mrs. 99. And in the last season, the Smarts being married at least a whole year, someone asks Max why he called her '99'; he matter-of-factly replies "I don't know her name." In the sequel, 99 has been elected to Congress... and her name is STILL withheld from the viewers. | |
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Flirting Under Fire | |
| Get Smart / int_5a65ba8c | comment |
Flirting Under Fire: In a late episode, Max and 99 are caught in a death-trap with no apparent means of escape. Thinking they are about to die, Max realizes that he's in love with 99 and declares that if they could get out he'd marry her. She immediately thinks of a way to escape and they get married a few episodes later. | |
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Friendly Enemy | |
| Get Smart / int_5aa8d3d8 | comment |
Friendly Enemy: Max's "good friend and bitter enemy" Siegfried. | |
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With My Hands Tied | |
| Get Smart / int_5b979c61 | comment |
With My Hands Tied: Played with in one episode, where Max and his friend Sid are shackled by their hands in front of a deathtrap. Max frees himself by releasing the fake hands that were bound by the shackles. | |
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Ruritania | |
| Get Smart / int_60cc14ba | comment |
Ruritania: Max is a dead ringer for the King of Coronia - leading to an elaborate Whole Plot Reference to The Prisoner of Zenda. | |
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Fictional Counterpart | |
| Get Smart / int_61066d95 | comment |
Fictional Counterpart: CONTROL and KAOS. | |
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Almost Dead Guy | |
| Get Smart / int_61356a74 | comment |
Almost Dead Guy: Spoofed regularly, usually along the lines of Max leaning over to hear the dying man's Last Words. | |
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Heel–Face Mole | |
| Get Smart / int_617bbf81 | comment |
Likewise, in two episodes ("Double Agent" and "Cutback at CONTROL") Max becomes a Heel–Face Mole. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
| Get Smart / int_61b8f9e2 | comment |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Max is remarkably proficient despite his Genius Ditz personality. | |
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Cyanide Pill | |
| Get Smart / int_6363937b | comment |
Cyanide Pill: "It will kill in nine seconds." "But how do I get them to take it?" In one episode, KAOS and CONTROL have pretty much captured all the agents from the other team. Max and Siegfried meet to discuss trading. As they strip themselves of their weapons, Max pulls out a Cyanide pill, says it's "Raspberry flavored this month," and offers Siegfried a taste. Siegfried counters that he has a suicide ring: If he takes it off, his wife will kill him. In another episode Max admits he's taken Cyanide Pills, but "only two or three times, as a favor to the Chief." | |
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Thriller on the Express | |
| Get Smart / int_63b34edb | comment |
Thriller on the Express: "Aboard the Orient Express" | |
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Flynning | |
| Get Smart / int_65331274 | comment |
Flynning: Whenever Max gets into a sword fight, as in "Leadside" and "A Man Called Smart". | |
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Instrument of Murder | |
| Get Smart / int_655d406a | comment |
Instrument of Murder: Different episodes had a gun hidden in a violin, and a double-barrelled flute that acted as an airgun. | |
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I've Heard of That — What Is It? | |
| Get Smart / int_6581611a | comment |
I've Heard of That — What Is It?: One of Max's many catch phrases is "The X! Of course, the X! Just one thing... what is X?" | |
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Grievous Bottley Harm | |
| Get Smart / int_67792344 | comment |
Grievous Bottley Harm: On the occasions when Max wants a sharp broken-off bottle as a weapon, the bottle refuses to break. | |
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Wimp Fight | |
| Get Smart / int_688238d6 | comment |
Wimp Fight: In the 1989 TV movie, a sidekick and a Mook grab decorative swords to fight each other, but they can barely lift them above waist level. Truth in Television: Unlike actual swords for combat, which tend to be only a few kilograms at most, decorative swords can be as heavy as the particular maker likes. | |
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ExpoDump | |
| Get Smart / int_68cac7cb | comment |
[after an Expodump] "Would you mind repeating that last bit?", "Which bit?", "That bit after 'Ok, now listen here, Max...'" | |
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No Sense of Direction | |
| Get Smart / int_69987960 | comment |
No Sense of Direction: Max once got lost in The Pentagon. Then again, The Pentagon has a total of 17.5 miles (28.2 km) of corridors with a very confusing layout, so for once Max probably deserves a break for that. | |
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Knight of Cerebus | |
| Get Smart / int_6a47a1e2 | comment |
Knight of Cerebus: With a few exceptionsnote Siegfried, The Craw, Simon the Likeable, and others the majority of the KAOS agents were played straight and menacing, with little if any comedy derived from them. One agent that really stands out is Hans Hunter from “Island of the Darned”. For a parody of an Egomaniac Hunter, he is a surprisingly dark villain especially for this series. A Sociopathic mad man with a passion for hunting people, he’s introduced chasing another agent like an animal, before killing the helpless man. He then has his body stuffed and sent back to CONTROL. Capturing Max and 99, he reveals he plans to kill Max and mount his head on the wall with his other hunting trophies. The majority of the episode involves Max and 99 on the run from this deranged lunatic, and being forced to use several surprisingly dirty tactics to survive. | |
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Adipose Rex | |
| Get Smart / int_6b1caa93 | comment |
Adipose Rex: The episode "Survival of the Fattest" featured a fat Arab prince who had to maintain his weight to maintain his rulership. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Get Smart / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: 86 is slang for "get rid of, throw out" and comes from New York State Liquor Code 86 which allows a patron to be refused service or "removed from the premises". The reason why the third spy network was called ACB is as easy to see as ABC. Inverted in the case of Fang. Co-Creator Buck Henry has stated that he insisted that the dog's agent number NOT be K-9. | |
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A Foggy Day in London Town | |
| Get Smart / int_6f9da277 | comment |
A Foggy Day in London Town: London is depicted with fog so thick in the "That Old Gang of Mine" episode that Max and 99 can barely see where they are going. At one point, they meet someone in what appears to be a foggy backstreet but it turns out to be a hotel room. | |
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Oblivious Mockery | |
| Get Smart / int_6fca80fd | comment |
Oblivious Mockery: | |
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Death in the Clouds | |
| Get Smart / int_721cf5db | comment |
Death in the Clouds: In "Closely Watched Planes", Maxwell Smart manages to lose the courier he's protecting on an airplane in mid-flight. Da Chief is not amused, and puts Max on the next flight so he can solve the mystery or become the next victim. | |
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Shoe Phone | |
| Get Smart / int_7230cfe | comment |
Shoe Phone: Trope namer, from Smart's literal shoe phone. | |
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HotScientist | |
| Get Smart / int_77b79db0 | comment |
Hot Scientist: CONTROL employed solely this type of gadget-making scientist in Seasons 3-5. All 3 of them also worked undercover as showgirls, with their lab hidden in their dressing room. | |
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Prosthetic Limb Reveal | |
| Get Smart / int_78c4e567 | comment |
Prosthetic Limb Reveal: In "Little Black Book Part 2" Max uses the old false hands in the chain trick to make his captors think that he has been chained to a wall, and then when they leave he gets out easily. | |
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Japanese Ranguage | |
| Get Smart / int_79b16b48 | comment |
Japanese Ranguage: The Craw...err Claw talks like this, which makes it difficult to get his name across. | |
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Hollywood Magnetism | |
| Get Smart / int_7ae52fff | comment |
Hollywood Magnetism: Siegfried used a giant magnet to pull the entire Seventh Fleet to his island. | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation | |
| Get Smart / int_7c4f6612 | comment |
Comic-Book Adaptation: Dell Comics did a title based on the series for several issues, with art from Steve Ditko. | |
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Road Trip Across the Street | |
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Road Trip Across the Street | |
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I Can't Hear You | |
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I Can't Hear You: The Cone of Silence is meant to keep anything said while it's lowered strictly confidential. This it does very well, provided that the other guy in the Cone is the guy you want to keep secrets from. Nevertheless, it does have its uses; in one episode, Smart mentions he likes when the Chief uses the Cone in hot weather, because it's twenty degrees cooler inside. Max is meeting his contact in a record store, so he plays a record up high in case they're being bugged. They end up shouting so loudly everyone in the store can hear what they're saying. In Get Smart, Again! the Cone of Silence has finally been ditched and replaced with Hover Cover, which involves standing on a rooftop between three hovering helicopters (causing the participants to get blown off their feet) and the Hall of Hush which only leads to a Wall of Blather. In the end the Chief tosses the CONTROL regulations in his waste bin and insists Max just talk to him normally. | |
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Spy Speak | |
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Spy Speak: Several gags can often be described as "fun with signs/countersigns". | |
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Almost Kiss | |
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Almost Kiss: Between Max and 99, the first time he really notices her. Fang interrupts them. | |
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Pink Means Feminine | |
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Pink Means Feminine/Red Is Heroic: In a combination of these two tropes, 99 has a red revolver. No other CONTROL or KAOS agent has a special-looking or oddly-colored gun, unless it's a gimmick weapon. | |
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To Be Continued... Right Now | |
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To Be Continued ... Right Now: Before the third season, episodes would be wrapped up before a final humorous scene after a commercial break. However, starting early in the third season, many episodes would have a cliffhanger before the final break, which would be resolved immediately when the show's final scene resumes. | |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors | |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors: In "The Impossible Mission", Max and 99 (both dressed as Charlie Chaplin) do this routine while being chased by a couple of KAOS mooks. | |
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Covert Group with Mundane Front | |
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Covert Group with Mundane Front: Max pretends to be in the greeting card business. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: Unlike actual swords for combat, which tend to be only a few kilograms at most, decorative swords can be as heavy as the particular maker likes. | |
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Stiff Upper Lip | |
| Get Smart / int_88a97dd4 | comment |
Stiff Upper Lip: The British spy in "Aboard the Orient Express" holds a fairly casual conversation before mentioning that he has a knife in his back, which is quickly followed by him collapsing and dying. | |
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Designated Girl Fight | |
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Designated Girl Fight: Usually, if there's a female KAOS agent, it's 99 who has to fight her (such as Zelinka in the pilot "Mr. Big"). This is averted on at least one occasion, though, when 99 punches and knocks out a male enemy agent. | |
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Ultimate Job Security | |
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Ultimate Job Security: Max does not fear being fired. If he is, CONTROL's seniority regulations will force the Chief to promote Larabee into Max's job. | |
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Swapped Roles | |
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Swapped Roles: When Max is temporarily made Chief, the real Chief goes back to his old job as Agent Q. He then plays the bumbling fool Max usually is. | |
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Egomaniac Hunter | |
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One agent that really stands out is Hans Hunter from “Island of the Darned”. For a parody of an Egomaniac Hunter, he is a surprisingly dark villain especially for this series. A Sociopathic mad man with a passion for hunting people, he’s introduced chasing another agent like an animal, before killing the helpless man. He then has his body stuffed and sent back to CONTROL. Capturing Max and 99, he reveals he plans to kill Max and mount his head on the wall with his other hunting trophies. The majority of the episode involves Max and 99 on the run from this deranged lunatic, and being forced to use several surprisingly dirty tactics to survive. | |
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Prison Episode | |
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Prison Episode: In "The Not-So-Great Escape" two-parter, CONTROL agents are being kidnapped and held in a KAOS prison (located in New Jersey). Max goes undercover as a KAOS official, but after getting found out, he leads repeated breakout attempts. | |
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Knife-Throwing Act | |
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Knife-Throwing Act: Max is going undercover in a circus when his identity is blown. The circus strongman seizes him while the knife-thrower chucks his knives, but as he's trained himself to just miss the target they miss Max and stick in the arms of the strongman holding him. Max naturally responds with his Catch-Phrase, "Missed me by that much!" | |
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Weather-Control Machine | |
| Get Smart / int_8f10ec79 | comment |
Weather-Control Machine: The Hottentot Formula in GET SMART! AGAIN! | |
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Karmic Death | |
| Get Smart / int_90d44f44 | comment |
[after a KAOS agent meets a karmic death]: "If only he used his talents for good/niceness, instead of evil." | |
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Gadget Watches | |
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Gadget Watches: Max's cumbersome shoe phone gets replaced with a wristwatch communicator. | |
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TheNotSecret | |
| Get Smart / int_915bac57 | comment |
The Not Secret: Just about all of CONTROL's and KAOS' "top secret information" is common knowledge to the other. | |
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Revival | |
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Revival | |
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The Tape Knew You Would Say That | |
| Get Smart / int_9350a0b9 | comment |
The Tape Knew You Would Say That: One episode has Max receive his orders from the Chief on a prerecorded message. It replies to a couple of things Max says. | |
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Inflationary Dialogue | |
| Get Smart / int_9356365b | comment |
Inflationary Dialogue: Maxwell Smart is a big fan of these. It usually starts with him telling something impressive. As the other party finds it hard to believe, he changes it to a slightly less impressive, asking if they'd believe that. As they don't, he changes it to something lame. In later episodes, they STILL don't believe him, and he changes it to something that is somehow even lamer. | |
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D.I.Y. Disaster | |
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D.I.Y. Disaster: Maxwell Smart would have cars with crossed wiring, so a button meant to operate one thing instead operated another. His apartment was also crosswired that way. This turned out to be a subversion, since only Max knew which switch did what, meaning he alone could effectively negotiate his own home. | |
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Safety in Muggles | |
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Safety in Muggles | |
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Be as Unhelpful as Possible | |
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Be as Unhelpful as Possible: Agent 13 almost never gives out the information necessary for stopping an evil, possibly life- or world-threatening scheme until he's suitably complained about his cramped quarters and been asked five or six times. For example, when Max goes to him to borrow some skeleton keys, Agent 13, in order: doesn't talk to him until he inserts a penny into the weight machine he's hiding in, moans about developing claustrophobia* Even though - while probably just a goof - you can see a nice open room behind him, tries to give Max his weight and fortune, makes a crack at his expense instead of answering questions, demands to be paid for lending his keys, refuses to take Max's watch as collateral (forcing Max to just angrily grab the keys), then complains about having a rotten night. Expect any civilian bystander to end up doing this if they get a speaking role. Granted, it has to do with not knowing Max is a spy, but they still come off as a major jerkass and cause a lot of problems as a result. | |
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The Professor | |
| Get Smart / int_97c4763 | comment |
The Professor: Carlson. | |
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"Seinfeld" Is Unfunny | |
| Get Smart / int_99764674 | comment |
Compared to other sitcoms at the time. While the series was never violent or bloody, nonetheless it was a sitcom in which people got killed, sometimes at the hands of the heroes. That doesn't seem unusual today, but it wasn't something that really happened on 60s televiion. | |
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Invisibility | |
| Get Smart / int_9a3285c | comment |
Invisibility: In "One Nation Invisible", a Dr. Canyon invents an invisibility spray. | |
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Bandaged Face | |
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Bandaged Face | |
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Springtime for Hitler | |
| Get Smart / int_9c4a7090 | comment |
Springtime for Hitler: In order to infiltrate a KAOS plot, The Chief orders Max to play at a KAOS gambling hall and lose money. The plan was to make it seem like Max was in dire need of funds, and that a significantly large sum would make him defect to KAOS. Unfortunately, try as he might, Max kept on winning money on slot machines and poker games. | |
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Public Secret Message | |
| Get Smart / int_9d0f2549 | comment |
Public Secret Message: The Chief (disguised as a singing waiter) communicates a message to Max and 99 by slipping code phrases into the song he is singing. | |
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Intimidating Revenue Service | |
| Get Smart / int_9d5a2cdf | comment |
Intimidating Revenue Service: There are a couple of gags where the Bureau of Internal Revenue are portrayed as torturers worse than any intelligence agency. | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl | |
| Get Smart / int_9df812ad | comment |
Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Don Adams was two inches shorter than Barbara Feldon. In one retrospective interview, Feldon joked that she was the only actress in Hollywood who had calluses on her ankles, since she would roll her ankles, throw out her hip, bow her head, anything she could do to make the height difference less obvious. | |
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Fridge Logic | |
| Get Smart / int_9dfd7154 | comment |
The episode "Washington 4, Redskins 3" had its title changed to "Washington 4, Indians 3" for reruns and for the DVD, also curing a bit of Fridge Logic in the process. The only pro sports team, then or now, called the Redskins was the NFL's Washington Redskins. The replacement title makes more sense, evoking a game between Washington's baseball team at the time, the Senators, and the Cleveland Indians. | |
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Flock of Wolves | |
| Get Smart / int_9e74f33 | comment |
Flock of Wolves: In "The Double Agent", Smart is assigned to infiltrate a KAOS cell which turns out to consist entirely of other double agents, the real KAOS man who founded it having since died. | |
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Murderous Mannequin | |
| Get Smart / int_a25b0db9 | comment |
Murderous Mannequin: The animated wax dummy of Jack the Ripper in "House of Max". | |
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Jail Bake | |
| Get Smart / int_a3556278 | comment |
Jail Bake: 99 bakes dentist tools that into a cake in the "The Whole Tooth and..." episode so Max can retrieve nuclear power plant plans hidden in the tooth cap of a prisoner. | |
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Circus Episode | |
| Get Smart / int_a4f81481 | comment |
Circus Episode: In "The Greatest Spy on Earth", CONTROL sends 86 and 99 into a circus to look for a smuggling operation. | |
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Disintegrator Ray | |
| Get Smart / int_a590182a | comment |
Disintegrator Ray/Frickin' Laser Beams: Every so often laser weapons show up in the show. While they're called lasers, they more often act like disintegrator beams, utterly destroying whatever they hit leaving no residue or trace. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
| Get Smart / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Larabee's only dialogue for the first couple of seasons was always something similar to "Right, Chief." Later on, his character was expanded into the only employee at CONTROL that's dumber than Max. | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
| Get Smart / int_a806691d | comment |
Casanova Wannabe: As KAOS is well aware, Max thinks he's a James Bond-level Charmer. | |
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Like a Son to Me | |
| Get Smart / int_a8adc5a0 | comment |
Like a Son to Me: While under the influence of Truth Serum in the episode "Smartacus," the Chief tells Max this is the only reason he hasn't fired him. The Chief also says this regarding Max in the episode "The Mess of Adrian Listenger". After he says this, Max adds, "More than that, the Chief is like a father to me!" | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
| Get Smart / int_aa07ca54 | comment |
Obfuscating Disability: The crippled Portugese polo player in "Ship of Spies". Who "isn't crippled, isn't Portugese, and probably isn't even a polo player." | |
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Slept Through the Apocalypse | |
| Get Smart / int_aa6c24ee | comment |
Slept Through the Apocalypse: Larabee apparently remained at CONTROL headquarters after it was shut down sometime after the cancellation of the original series until Max picked him up partway through Get Smart, Again, having failed to notice that CONTROL had been disbanded. He did this because he had been given an executive order to remain at his post. This order had been issued by President Nixon. The movie takes place at either the very end of the Reagan administration or the very beginning of the G. H. W. Bush administration. | |
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MegaCorp | |
| Get Smart / int_aa8dcc21 | comment |
Mega-Corp: KAOS, Inc. | |
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Art Attacker | |
| Get Smart / int_ab19d173 | comment |
Art Attacker: One villain uses "Dorian Gray" paint — he retouches photos of his victims (adding gray hairs and wrinkles) to make them rapidly age and die. | |
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Agents Dating | |
| Get Smart / int_ab8bc2fe | comment |
Agents Dating: One of the most iconic cases (and possibly the Trope Maker), with Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 dating from a certain point onwards (which is referenced with some regularity), and falling in love with each other at a certain point. Everybody in the Agency seems to know this: | |
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Acronym Confusion | |
| Get Smart / int_ac8cc568 | comment |
Acronym Confusion: In "A Man Called Smart", Max is looking for someone known only as 'T.B.O.'. While standing at a catering truck, this exchange occurs: | |
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My Horse Is a Motorbike | |
| Get Smart / int_aca2516b | comment |
My Horse Is a Motorbike: The medievel-themed biker gang which jousted on motorbikes. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
| Get Smart / int_acecb17d | comment |
Chekhov's Skill: Early in "The Hot Line", the Chief breaks a mirror with his voice. He later uses this skill to break the glasses of a KAOS agent holding him, Max, and 99 hostage. | |
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Window Watcher | |
| Get Smart / int_ad0071e7 | comment |
Window Watcher: Max in "Greer Window". | |
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| Get Smart / int_ae050352 | type |
Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind | |
| Get Smart / int_ae050352 | comment |
Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: Courtesy Agent 99 in "Hoo Done It." | |
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| Get Smart / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Get Smart / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Max, of course. | |
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Parody | |
| Get Smart / int_ae853f28 | comment |
Parody: Get Smart was purportedly a parody of The Man From Uncle, itself supposedly a parody of James Bond movies (ironically, James Bond was originally meant to be a parody itself, of even earlier so-called "serious" spy films). And according to some quarters, Get Smart was in turn parodied by Inspector Gadget! It's a chain of parodic proportions! | |
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| Get Smart / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
| Get Smart / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catch-Phrase: MANY. Including: "Sorry about that, Chief." "Missed it by that much." "Would you believe...", a more complex one that signals a form of inverted Inflationary Dialogue. For example: In one late episode, it was subverted in that the Chief actually HAD surrounded the building with CONTROL agents! "Of course! It's X! It's obvious it's X! Uh, just one question, Chief... What is X? At one point, the Chief actually recites that last part with him. "[insulting crack about x]"; Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...; "I hope I wasn't out of line with that [insulting crack about x] comment..." [following a statement like "We'll be in mortal danger every second of this mission."] "...and loving it." Reversed in "Casablanca" when Max is made to take a vacation: "Oh, Max..." [by 99, usually in a disappointed or dismayed tone after Max has fouled up yet again] "That's the second biggest [whatever] I've ever seen." "99, don't tell me [something bad has happened or is about to happen]" "[Statement of that explicit thing which has happened or is about to happen.]" "I asked you not to tell me that, 99." "Zis is KAOS. Ve do not [onomatopoeia] here!" "If you don't mind, I'd like to handle this, 99." Followed by a repetition of whatever she just suggested. [after an Expodump] "Would you mind repeating that last bit?", "Which bit?", "That bit after 'Ok, now listen here, Max...'" "Of course, the old [incredibly specific description of what just happened] trick!" "That's the second time I've [or 'they've'] fallen for that this month/week/year!" Variants of the following conversation: Common responses from Max being "I demand the Cone of Silence!" and reminding the Chief about CONTROL regulations. (The joke, of course, is that the Cone of Silence never works properly.) Except once... and the Chief is trapped inside it at the time, so no one can hear him when he yells for help! [after a KAOS agent meets a karmic death]: "If only he used his talents for good/niceness, instead of evil." | |
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Retcon | |
| Get Smart / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retcon: Siegfried was not orignally KAOS' leader, just one of its' high-ranking agents, like Max note In fact, unlike CONTROL, KAOS didn't have a set leader and was shown to have different leaders in different episodes. However, it seems that the movie and other sources pretty much establish him as the group's leader. | |
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Fake Defector | |
| Get Smart / int_b35e77ee | comment |
Fake Defector: Both Max and Siegfried have pretended to switch loyalties to the other side. | |
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Spy Cam | |
| Get Smart / int_b479b298 | comment |
Spy Cam: Parodied in an episode where Professor Carlson, a Control scientist, is giving Max and 99 equipment for their next assignment. | |
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Easy Sex Change | |
| Get Smart / int_b53ba00f | comment |
Easy Sex Change: By implication. In Get Smart, Again! Max is surprised to learn that Marcus Hottentot used to be Marcia Hopkins. ("Looks like he changed more than his NAME.") | |
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| Get Smart / int_b5f4e0a5 | type |
Funny Robot | |
| Get Smart / int_b5f4e0a5 | comment |
Funny Robot: Hymie has No Sense of Humor but gets a great deal of laughs from being too Literal-Minded and not knowing his own strength. He tends to malfunction a lot too, adding more laughs. | |
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Poison Ring | |
| Get Smart / int_b8bf00fd | comment |
Poison Ring: Max has one loaded with a paralysis drug. | |
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Dueling Scar | |
| Get Smart / int_b99fce86 | comment |
Dueling Scar: Siegfried has a large scar on his cheek, revealed in The Movie to be from a duel with his brother in Heidelberg. | |
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Glass-Shattering Sound | |
| Get Smart / int_baeb2d6f | comment |
Glass-Shattering Sound: Da Chief uses his voice to break a mook's glasses. | |
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| Get Smart / int_bd29e069 | type |
PreciousPuppies | |
| Get Smart / int_bd29e069 | comment |
Precious Puppies: Fang aka Agent K-13. | |
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Torture Is Ineffective | |
| Get Smart / int_bf3e372 | comment |
Torture Is Ineffective: A retired spy living at an Old Spy Home is tortured for the whereabouts of his diary, in which he has written down many secret things, but he successfully resists. 99's mother is captured by KAOS agents and tied to a rack. The torture is ineffective because she doesn't know anything about CONTROL, and she thinks the rack is a chiropractic device. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Get Smart / int_c1d5b78 | comment |
Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: Max does this when he tries to infiltrate a KAOS-run play. | |
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| Get Smart / int_c25c7890 | type |
Fun with Acronyms | |
| Get Smart / int_c25c7890 | comment |
Fun with Acronyms: Subverted, as CONTROL and KAOS don't actually stand for anything. The third Spy network the ACB (Atrocities, Cruelties, Brutality) does stand for something, but not the main two. This is really only supported by Smart's reasoning that anything so Atrocious, Cruel and Brutal must be the work of ACB. Played straight in "The Man from YENTA", where Max and 99 meet up with Jewish/Israeli Agent 498. YENTA stands for Your Espionage Network and Training Academy. In The Nude Bomb, CONTROL is instead named PITS, for the Provisional Intelligence Tactical Service. | |
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Irony | |
| Get Smart / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: In an episode when the Chief gets demoted and Max ends up in his position, Max comments on the former Chief's work with the line "Give a man an inch, and he immediately thinks he's a ruler." The irony is such a statement only applies to Max himself. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
| Get Smart / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: 99 (Barbara Feldon) not only doesn't appear in The Nude Bomb, Max's dialogue (and to some extent his personality) imply that she doesn't, and never has, existed (combine that with inexplicable renaming of CONTROL to PITS, and it seems likely 'The Nude Bomb is in some sort of alternate continuity). She did return in Get Smart, Again, which seemed to ignore The Nude Bomb'' itself. In the 1995 series Zack's twin sister is never mentioned.note Apparently, if the show had lasted longer, the plan was to reveal said twin as the hidden head honcho of KAOS. | |
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Slow Doors | |
| Get Smart / int_c4b910bf | comment |
Slow Doors: In the final credits Max leaves CONTROL headquarters and all the doors that opened in the Title Sequence slam shut behind him, except the last one. When Max goes to close them manually, they shut on his nose. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Get Smart / int_c75df49a | comment |
In one episode the villain turns out to be the daughter of Siegfried. This leads to a lovely Shout-Out, when she tells him for years she thought her father was really a doctor on a cruise ship. | |
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Breakup Breakout | |
| Get Smart / int_ca49d764 | comment |
Breakup Breakout: For Don Adams and Bernie Koppell. The others... not so much. | |
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No Name Given | |
| Get Smart / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: Agent 99 and Da Chief. The Chief's first name is given as Thaddeus eventually, although his last name remains a mystery. However, he frequently uses the alias "Harold Clark". 99, too - it's a running gag. In one episode where she was about to marry a KAOS agent Agent 99 says her name is Susan Hilton...then later when Max calls her Susan tells him that was an alias. In another episode Max calls her by a name and 99 replies he never used that name for her..."...if only that was my name!" When Max and 99 are married, when they're about to say 99's name, the camera cuts away to a man snoring on the floor when it's said. In one episode where 99's mother appeared, she was addressed as Mrs. 99. And in the last season, the Smarts being married at least a whole year, someone asks Max why he called her '99'; he matter-of-factly replies "I don't know her name." In the sequel, 99 has been elected to Congress... and her name is STILL withheld from the viewers. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Get Smart / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: In the short-lived 90's revival, right after the end of the Cold War and before the War on Terror, KAOS didn't have anything to be but an evil, mostly-legitimate business out to rule the world through financial domination. In Get Smart, Again KAOS has been taken over by a corporate raider... who turns out to be a publisher, out to use the Weather-Control Machine to create massive bad weather so people will have nothing to do but read his books and publications. | |
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Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... | |
| Get Smart / int_cd3a1755 | comment |
Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Max is infiltrating a camp of desert nomads when he bumps into a massive guard | |
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| Get Smart / int_cddc61ac | type |
Fake-Out Make-Out | |
| Get Smart / int_cddc61ac | comment |
Fake-Out Make-Out: Known at CONTROL as Emergency Park Procedure R-17. | |
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| Get Smart / int_ce1c73e2 | type |
Just Plane Wrong | |
| Get Smart / int_ce1c73e2 | comment |
Just Plane Wrong: In "Closely Watched Planes", CONTROL couriers are being disposed of by surreptitiously giving them too much coffee, and then dumping them through a trap door out of an airplane. A commercial passenger jet would have serious airflow out of the plane when a hole is opened in the fuselage, but no such suction happens when the trap door is opened. | |
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| Get Smart / int_cf511248 | type |
All Part of the Show | |
| Get Smart / int_cf511248 | comment |
All Part of the Show: A KAOS plot to pass on secret information through a play leads to Max and 99 infiltrating the play as terrible actors. At the climax, when the Chief and several CONTROL agents move in to arrest the KAOS members, the audience laughs as it were a comedic ending. They roll with it, even going through two curtain calls with guns trained on each other. | |
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| Get Smart / int_d026cad8 | type |
Sigil Spam | |
| Get Smart / int_d026cad8 | comment |
Sigil Spam: Anything that Max can put an "86" on, he will. | |
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| Get Smart / int_d13d746 | type |
This Page Will Self-Destruct | |
| Get Smart / int_d13d746 | comment |
This Page Will Self-Destruct: Inverted in the episode named (what else) "The Impossible Mission"; the tape message from the Chief is supposed to self-destruct, but instead most of Max's surroundings blow up, leaving the tape recorder intact. Max tries to break the tape recorder, which is loudly repeating its message, but it is apparently indestructible. | |
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| Get Smart / int_d2566b32 | type |
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game | |
| Get Smart / int_d2566b32 | comment |
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game and Egomaniac Hunter, parodied yet still treated with a surprising amount of seriousness ("Island of the Darned"). | |
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Where Do You Think You Are? | |
| Get Smart / int_d3bf2f55 | comment |
Where Do You Think You Are?: Again, "This is KAOS! We don't [action] here!" | |
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| Get Smart / int_d609b01a | type |
Carnival of Killers | |
| Get Smart / int_d609b01a | comment |
Carnival of Killers: "Someone Down Here Hates Me" | |
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| Get Smart / int_d62ecf67 | type |
Motorcycle Jousting | |
| Get Smart / int_d62ecf67 | comment |
Motorcycle Jousting: In "The Mild Ones", Max has to infiltrate a biker gang called the Purple Knights. The initiation test is jousting on motorcycles. | |
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| Get Smart / int_d8adce44 | type |
Invincible Incompetent | |
| Get Smart / int_d8adce44 | comment |
Invincible Incompetent: Max. He once disarmed an atomic bomb by getting his tie stuck in the timer. | |
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| Get Smart / int_d9c2434 | type |
Amusing Alien | |
| Get Smart / int_d9c2434 | comment |
Amusing Automaton: Hymie | |
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| Get Smart / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
| Get Smart / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: 99 didn't see a lot of physical combat, but she could fight her way out if the situation called for it. | |
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| Get Smart / int_db39ccfd | type |
Battle Couple | |
| Get Smart / int_db39ccfd | comment |
Battle Couple: One of the most memorable. | |
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Newspaper-Thin Disguise | |
| Get Smart / int_db69b32c | comment |
Newspaper-Thin Disguise: Max hides his face behind an upside-down newspaper when meeting another agent who also hides behind an upside-down newspaper. | |
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Argentina Is Nazi-Land | |
| Get Smart / int_dc3e1299 | comment |
Argentina is Nazi-Land: The "glorious fatherland of South America". This is also given a nod when Siegfried mentions he orders a scale working model of the plane the Red Baron uses from a hobby shop in Argentina. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
| Get Smart / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: In Tequila Mockingbird, a figure wearing a sombrero can be seen slumped against a wall before the climax. When a shootout starts, the man turns out to be the Chief when he pulls a gun. | |
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The Nudifier | |
| Get Smart / int_ddac33c8 | comment |
The Nudifier: It's in the title of The Nude Bomb. | |
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Bad Guys Play Pool | |
| Get Smart / int_de414a38 | comment |
Bad Guys Play Pool: Kaos agent Leonard Nimoy in one episode. | |
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Artificial Outdoors Display | |
| Get Smart / int_def7c6ec | comment |
Artificial Outdoors Display: The Chief's underground office has an obviously fake window showing the Washington DC skyline which actually hides a wall safe. | |
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Manchurian Agent | |
| Get Smart / int_e070ebe6 | comment |
Manchurian Agent: In one episode, Agent 66 is brainwashed to assassinate the foreign dignitary she's assigned to protect. | |
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"Rear Window" Homage | |
| Get Smart / int_e12c0ab2 | comment |
"Greer Window" has Max convalescing at home, and takes up spying on nearby Greer Industries out of boredom. | |
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The Ditz | |
| Get Smart / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Larabee is the proto-The Ditz. | |
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Yiddish as a Second Language | |
| Get Smart / int_e2e4edb2 | comment |
Yiddish as a Second Language: The entire show can be taken as a riff on Jewish stereotypes of the time being applied to the spy genre - almost everything from the name of the robot (Hymie) to Max's "Would you believe...?" is, in essence, taken straight from the Yiddish-speaking Borscht Belt comedians. (though Adams had already used the "Would you believe...?" shtick for his character on The Bill Dana Show.) No surprise at all, given that the show was created by Mel Brooks. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
| Get Smart / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole Plot Reference: "Greer Window" has Max convalescing at home, and takes up spying on nearby Greer Industries out of boredom. "Casablanca" evokes the feel of the film when Max decides to defy the Chief's orders and go to the titular city. | |
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The Fool | |
| Get Smart / int_e3d2f2 | comment |
The Fool: However as The Nude Bomb lampshades, while he's an Idiot Hero who's Born Lucky, Smart does have some smarts, enough to figure out the Secret Identity of the masked Big Bad. | |
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Expy | |
| Get Smart / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Writer Alan Spencer loved this series growing up and 20 years later created Sledge Hammer!, a similar concept with a Dirty Harry type policeman instead of a secret agent. A Shout-Out in Sledge's pilot episode has a suspect in room 86 of a motel. In the show, KAOS agents Snead and Neal. Also Harry Hoo, a dead ringer for Charlie Chan. | |
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Steven Ulysses Perhero | |
| Get Smart / int_e8a56ee7 | comment |
Steven Ulysses Perhero: The Brain's real name is Brian. | |
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Talking the Monster to Death | |
| Get Smart / int_e92841f | comment |
Talking the Monster to Death: See Warrior Therapist trope below. | |
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Exact Words | |
| Get Smart / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: Hymie, regularly. | |
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You Are Number 6 | |
| Get Smart / int_ea6f361f | comment |
You Are Number 6: Both agents, but applies to 99 much more than 86, given that the former's real name is never said once in the whole series. | |
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The Vamp | |
| Get Smart / int_eae41a | comment |
The Vamp: If there's a female KAOS agent, she's probably one of these. 99 also talks about "vamping" targets. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Get Smart / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Expect any civilian bystander to end up doing this if they get a speaking role. Granted, it has to do with not knowing Max is a spy, but they still come off as a major jerkass and cause a lot of problems as a result. | |
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Human Head on the Wall | |
| Get Smart / int_eb93f774 | comment |
Human Head on the Wall: Maxwell Smart has an Oh, Crap! moment when the Villain of the Week is into Hunting the Most Dangerous Game, and has a plaque already set up for Max's head. | |
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Honorary Uncle | |
| Get Smart / int_eba4e300 | comment |
Honorary Uncle: One of Max's colleagues from the original series makes a cameo appearance and is addressed by Zach as "Uncle Agent 13". Considering that Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin had the numbers 11 and 12 respectively, this also makes him an Honorary U.N.C.L.E. | |
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Resignations Not Accepted | |
| Get Smart / int_ebb900a7 | comment |
Resignations Not Accepted: Not from KAOS, that is. | |
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Identical Stranger | |
| Get Smart / int_f27ec906 | comment |
Identical Stranger: Used a couple of times: In one instance KAOS was seeking to replace CONTROL agents with their doppelgangers. Another has Max come across a Ruritanian king who looks just like him. | |
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IncrediblyLamePun | |
| Get Smart / int_f2877d9e | comment |
Incredibly Lame Pun: Many of the episodes' titles. | |
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Glad I Thought of It | |
| Get Smart / int_f432c6bf | comment |
"If you don't mind, I'd like to handle this, 99." Followed by a repetition of whatever she just suggested. | |
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SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute | |
| Get Smart / int_f5a3e496 | comment |
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Agent 13 for Agent 44, and Dr. Simon for Dr. Steele. | |
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Disappearing Box | |
| Get Smart / int_f842fb67 | comment |
Disappearing Box: The Chief is captured in this way in the episode "A Spy For A Spy". | |
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FacePalm | |
| Get Smart / int_f9375414 | comment |
Face Palm: The Chief grasps the bridge of his nose with his fingers whenever Max does something egregiously stupid. Max is puzzled that the Chief seems to get headaches so frequently whenever he's around. | |
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Improvised Lockpick | |
| Get Smart / int_f9814fe7 | comment |
Improvised Lockpick: Double Subverted when Max has to get the Chief's phone from a locked box. Max goes to a special hidden file cabinet and pulls out a piece of paper. He goes to the wall safe and uses the paper to open the combination door to the safe... then gets a hammer from the safe and bashes the locked box with it so he can get to the phone inside. | |
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RunningGag | |
| Get Smart / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Quite a few, but the Cone of Silence (used almost once an episode) deserves special mention. | |
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"Friends" Rent Control | |
| Get Smart / int_fb4c41b4 | comment |
"Friends" Rent Control: It is never really explained how Max can afford a luxurious duplex on a government salary. (When 99 is impersonating a society girl, the Chief even suggests that she pass it off as her apartment because it looks more like a place where her cover identity would live.) | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
| Get Smart / int_fc151e9d | comment |
Department of Redundancy Department: And from "The Laser Blazer": | |
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Commercial Break Cliffhanger | |
| Get Smart / int_fc5a190f | comment |
Commercial Break Cliffhanger: These start getting prevalent right around the tail end of the second season, and just before the final commercial break of the episode. | |
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Robot Buddy | |
| Get Smart / int_fcbcc221 | comment |
Robot Buddy: Hymie | |
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Evil, Inc. | |
| Get Smart / int_ff934825 | comment |
Evil, Inc.: KAOS is a Delaware corporation for tax purposes. | |
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Asian Speekee Engrish | |
| Get Smart / int_ffaa675b | comment |
Asian Speekee Engrish: "The Amazing Harry Hoo", played by a Caucasian man. Not to mention the villainous Craw.. er.. Claw. | |
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