"Get Smart" was the first show I remember really looking forward to when it was first advertised on my parent's little black and white TV. Luckily our local station carried it as we only got one channel through the Rabbit ears....lol.
That's strange. I dont think I recall that one. And I am a bit of an aficionado. Either that or memory is failing! Or I only saw it once. I would need to see the whole episode. BTW, I was expecting Max to demand that the Chief use the cone of silence!
My son watched this with me once. He's a big fan of the Apollo missions and the moon landings even though he was born 20 years after the fact. He laughed his head off at the idea that the Chief, 99 and 86 have regular meetings on the moon.
It was too implausible, even for a way out comedy. And the Pheasant Under Glass pun was a long build up for a lame punch line. I wonder, was there a writer's strike going on during this?
I never saw this scene before and I have seen every episode I think this was cut out from the syndication package of episodes it's crazy that I never saw this before now.
@@brianarbenz1329 dual gag, the Cone of Silence was a running gag on a device that never, ever worked and failed in comical ways that rendered communications impossible. Just as pointing at a pothole on the moon got the message across "New Jersey", which at the time, pothole central was also South Philly's waterfront and well, Philly in general. How could you tell the two apart back then? Philly doesn't have circles. The gag wasn't the budget for Control, it was that Control was far ahead of the government in technology, a standing joke on the CIA. Itself laughable, as agency technologies were pretty much leading edge to solid middle of the pack, but they did have specialized devices that literally have their very own museum that's, well, not open to the public. But then, layered jokes and layered in-jokes were common in that series in particular. BTW, Don Adams was a reformed Marine (yeah, in joke between Army and Marines), served in the Battle of Guadalcanal, ducking successfully at the right times, but getting knocked down by a nasty flavor of malaria, then became a USMC Drill Instructor. The nasty variety of malaria being 90% fatal at the time and not a hell of a lot better today.
