Get Smart

Get Smart

Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre that had recently become popular. It was created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. The show stars Don Adams (who also worked as a director on the series) as agent Maxwell "Max" Smart, a.k.a. Agent 86, Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as Thaddeus, the Chief. Henry said that they created the show at the request of Daniel Melnick to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today": James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy."The show generated a number of popular catchphrases during its run, including "Would you believe...", "Good thinking, 99", "Missed it by that much!", "Sorry about that, Chief", "The old (such-and-such) trick", "And loving it", and "I asked you not to tell me that". The show was followed by the films The Nude Bomb (a 1980 theatrical film release) and Get Smart, Again! (a 1989 made-for-TV sequel to the series), as well as a 1995 revival series, and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences as selected by readers. After switching networks in 1969, to CBS, the show ended its five-season run on May 15, 1970, with a production roster at both networks of 138 episodes. The Museum of Broadcast Communications finds the show notable for "broadening the parameters for the presentation of comedy on television."

Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG-13
Year:
2008
110
$130,246,343
Website
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[Max and 99 are six miles outside of Smolensk, walking along a dirt road]

Maxwell Smart:
Okay, not to keep dwelling on this, but that was some kiss. How did you know that would work? Have you kissed other men who then plummeted to their deaths?

Agent 99:
Okay, okay! You know what, so far our entire "partnership" has consisted of me getting you out of trouble! Do you know why? It is because you keep leading!

Maxwell Smart:
Well...

Agent 99:
So here's how we stop that: I lead now! I'm the one with field experience, and you know nothing!

Maxwell Smart:
I beg to differ! [99 starts walking away] I looked up your field agent exam, and I scored...

Agent 99:
My *what*?

Maxwell Smart:
Your field agent exam! I scored eight points higher than you did! That is the difference between an A+ and an A-!

Agent 99:
[at the same time] This is not a classroom! This is real! You are really going to get yourself killed if you don't listen to me!

Maxwell Smart:
...A-! [beat; 99 glares at Max]

Agent 99:
Okay. Okay, you're faced with an assassin. What do you do?

Maxwell Smart:
I take out my gun... [pulls his gun out of its holster]... and I would shoot- [as Max raises his weapon in front of him, 99 snatches it from him and points it at his head]

Agent 99:
You don't have a gun.

Maxwell Smart:
I did until you took it!

Agent 99:
"Bang", you're dead!

Maxwell Smart:
No, I'm not. [99 points the gun at Max's heart]

Agent 99:
"Bang", you're dead!

Maxwell Smart:
Stop shooting me.

Agent 99:
You are dead! [points the gun at spots all over Max's upper body] Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

Maxwell Smart:
I don't like it when you shoot me! Stop it. Stop shooting me! You've already said I was- [99 sticks Max's gun back into his pants] Hey.

Agent 99:
[quietly] Throw out your manual. I hear there are no grades. There's only "dead" and "not dead".

Maxwell Smart:
You know, I am not completely incompetent without a gun. I am a master in the art of ?Choi Kwang-Do. [gets into a warm-up stance, at which point 99 backhands him across the face] I was not ready!

Agent 99:
That's my point.

Maxwell Smart:
You know what- [99 slaps him again] Hey! What was that?

Maxwell Smart:
I have obtained a snippet, at great risk to a bus boy in Balad.

[Men start speaking in Punjab on a recording which Max is translating]

Maxwell Smart:
"Aftab, how is your coffee?"

Maxwell Smart:
"Good, Dalip, it's decaf. How is yours?"

Maxwell Smart:
"It is good, also. How is your muffin?"

Maxwell Smart:
Powerful stuff

The Chief:
So "muffin", then, is a code word?

Maxwell Smart:
No, it is comfort food... and quite frankly much more fattening than most people realize. Which begs the question... why would two hardened KAOS agents... risk the carbs?

Maxwell Smart:
Because they are under a great deal of stress.

Agent 23:
Hence the decaf.

Maxwell Smart:
For Aftab yes. Dalip takes his full-strength. Why? Because he has been sleeping on the couch for three days... because he called his sister-in-law a "leathery hag".

Larabee:
You know, people often say things in anger they don't really mean. Leathery hag, fat cow, ungrateful whore. Just words really, that shouldn't be used against you in a custody hearing.

Agent 91:
Let it go, man, those kids don't even look like you.

The Chief:
Can we put a pen in this, please... and go back to Max's extraordinary detailed report?

Maxwell Smart:
Thank you, Chief. All I'm saying is... that until we understand that our enemies are also human beings... we will never defeat them. Yes, they are bad guys, but that is what they do, not who they are. Let's continue listening... and bear in mind that the next 100 pages can get a little bit dry.

Larabee:
Come on.

[All sigh in boredom]


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