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The single funniest gag in series history?


Opinions will differ. But in my opinion, you simply haven't lived until you see Smart try to eat a plate of spaghetti while standing up.

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I like that scene where Max, at a party, tells Hymie (unaware at this point that he's a robot) to do everything he does, to be inconspicuous.

I also like the extended scene where a couple of ambulance attendants try to get Max, strapped into a cot, through a revolving door.

Also I like that scene where Carol Burnett as Ozark Annie, thanks to airborne mind-control drugs, reacts to Max alternately with shrieking terror and heavy-breathing lust.

Okay, not the 'single' funniest. And I've got more...

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Yes!! That episode with Max getting mixed up and put in the ambulance was the most hilarious episode to me. They had several funny bits thru out especially with the revolving door.

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Anytime they tried to use the cone of silence

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That's what first occurred to me. The Cone of Silence was supposed to ensure that a conservation was supposed to be kept private, yet the only people who could hear the conversation was everyone who wasn't supposed to!

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Another great bit was in the first Harry Hoo episode where Smart and the great Hawaiian detective are noting the two cigarettes in the ashtray in the hotel room where the body was found. Smart and Hoo are virtually playing, "Can you top this," as they go on and on about how those cigarettes could show that there were 2, or 3, or more people in the room with the victim when he was killed. It ends something like, "So what you're saying, Mr. Hoo, is that there could have been 20 people in the room with the victim when he was murdered, provided only two of them were smokers?" As Hoo replies, "That is correct," two police detectives who were working in the background walk over and pick up their two cigarettes. Smart and Hoo exchange a fabulous look of chagrin, as if to say, "So much for that theory."

I loved it and that whole episode. Just thinking about it makes me want to pop it on the DVD player tonight.





Why don't we just shoot 'em down and be through with it?

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I can't remember the episode but he's got a cigarette hanging from his mouth and is giving some woman the eye. He suavely brings his drink to his mouth then you hear the sound of his cigarette being put out by the drink.

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That would be the famous Casablanca episode from Season 2. :) Don Adams as Bogart rocked!!!

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The one where Max is trying to teach the woman to jump into her convertible and keeps messing up. Especially the last time he tries and lands on his groin, the face on Don Adams is priceless.

Spenser with an "S", like the poet.

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Which is the episode I'm watching now! Great episode, one of my favorites since Casablanca is one of my favorite films.

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In "Widow Often Annie," Max marries a Kaos black widow (played by the supremely elegant Dana Wynter)so he can try to extract a confession that she killed all 10 or however many of her ex-husbands, each of whom was a Control agent.
While they are in the bridal suite, the Chief, 99, and Larrabee are hovering outside on the veranda hoping to overhear a confession so they can arrest her.
Sure enough, she confesses to all 10 murders, and the three rush into the room and make the arrest.
And then this exchange occurs.
The Chief: "You've got the tape recorder, Larrabee?"
Larrabee [patting the outside of his coat with obvious pride]: "Right here, Chief."
The Chief[smiling:]"Good boy."
Larrabee: "When do you want me to turn it on?"

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I always thought it was: "Not the Craw, the CRAW!"

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I agree. To me it was "the craw!"

MANY funny moments in this show. I wish it was on TV Land or something.

The Craw scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLa83lqBKKU

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It's on METV.

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I just bought the whole series on Amazon...

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This show had some great sight gags. My favorite was the one in Maxwell Smart's living room, the bullet proof partition that was lowered so Max could be protected from whatever KAOS agent wandered into his home. But always, Max was invariably on the WRONG side of the partition, making him an easy target.

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