Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)

Subject: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 07:48 PM

Can ou believe it.

Agent 89 has made his last call on the shoe phone...

1923-2005

R.I.P.

Bring on the Chaos...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 08:09 PM

Rotten shame. What fun he was.
How do I know my youth is all spent?
Most of my laughs have packed up and went.....    Tw

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: gnu
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 08:23 PM

My youth was spent wanting to 66 99. (Yeah, I woulda said that but I was trying to be a bit polite.)

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005
From: Allan C.
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 08:27 PM

Maxwell Smart = Agent 86

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 08:31 PM

opps...

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: GUEST,Ken Cartoon nut
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 08:49 PM

Wasn't Mr. Adams the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo and Inspector Gadget?

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: gnu
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 08:54 PM

No matter... call him 007 if you want... 99 was his squeeze... geeze. I woulda spied fer her.

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: freightdawg
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 09:13 PM

Oh, man...

"Missed it by THAT much"

The cone of silence has descended for the last time.

With agent 99 it didn't matter much to a young boy whether I got all the jokes. She was reason enough to watch the show. But Adams was perfect for the role...deadpan face, squeaky voice, excentric mannerisms.

RIP Maxwell.

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 09:33 PM

So who WAS (or is) 99?

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: freightdawg
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 09:37 PM

Barbara Feldon was agent 99.

FD

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 09:37 PM

Get Smart Peter K. I've watched it on UK tv and quite enjoyed it.

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 09:43 PM

Would you believe...?????

Anyone remember Barbara as the "Tiger Girl"? "You know who you are...GRRRRR"

RIP

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 09:55 PM

Yes, Don Adams was the voice of Inspector Gadget and Tennesse Tuxedo.

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: Don Firth
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 10:15 PM

". . . sorry about that. . . ."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 11:17 PM

Agent 99 is dead also? When? Where? Both? STD?

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: robomatic
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 11:40 PM

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

Maxwell Smart: You seemed to be quite taken with Agent 43, 99.
Agent 99: You're twice the man HE is, 86!



Siegried: "Staka! Zis is KAOS, vee don't 'eh-eh-eh' here!"


Maxwell Smart: "You are surrounded by one hundred crack American troops."
Siegfried: "I find this very difficult to believe."
Smart: "Would you believe forty three police officers?"
Siegfried: "Zis alzo I find hard to believe."
Smart: "How about twelve boy scouts and a good humour truck?"


awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 02:03 AM

A lot of the catch phrases from "Get Smart" have come into common usage.

Faversham: You think you've got me, but I have you surrounded by the entire mounted 17th Bengal Lancers.
Khan: I don't believe you.
Faversham: Would you believe the First Bengal Lancers?
Khan: No
Faversham: How about Gunga Din on a donkey?


Max: Don't tell me I fell off the horse.
99: You fell off the horse Max.
Max: I asked you not to tell me that!

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 02:24 AM

Here's a good one from this site: BBspot

Maxwell Smart Testifies Before Congress on Intelligence Lapses

By Bill L

Washington DC - CIA director Maxwell Smart testified before congress today on recent intelligence lapses within the agency. Director Smart's tenure as head of the agency has been marked with controversy. Among other lapses, Smart has insisted the Soviet Union was the most powerful nation on Earth the day before the Berlin Wall fell and that neither Pakistan nor India had nuclear programs just as they both detonated nuclear weapons. Below is a transcript of Smart's testimony.

Smart: Senator, Iraq has nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and the capacity to attack the United States in 45 minutes.

Senator Clinton: Mister Smart, with almost a year spent searching for these weapons of mass destruction and discovering nothing, I find this hard to believe.

Smart: Would you believe weapons of mass destruction related program activity?

Senator Clinton: No.

Smart: Would you believe a junior chemistry set and a guy with a bad cough?

Senator Boxer: Director Smart! This is an intelligence failure of monumental proportions.

Smart: Well don't tell me that Iraq has no WMDs at all!

Senator Boxer: Director Smart, Iraq has no WMDs at all.

Smart: I asked you not to tell me that.

Senator Byrd: It appears that Iraqi scientists who were just reporting that they had WMDs to appease Saddam misled us.

Smart: Ah, the old pretend-we-have-WMD's-to-confuse-intelligence-and- appease-the-dictator trick.

Senator Chafee: Director Smart! Do you realize that you have led the nation into war and caused our nation to invade another sovereign state under false pretenses?

Smart: And loving it!

Senator Reid: How could you miss the possibility that Iraq had no WMDs when the matter of leading the country to war was at stake?

Smart: Missed it by that much.

Senator Nelson: But because of this war, we have lost all international credibility also hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands upon thousands of lives. What do you have to say for yourself?

Smart: Sorry about that chief.

Other intelligence failures Smart reported include:

The loss of surveillance capability resulting from a camera disguised as a potato chip being eaten by a security guard.
The lack of human intelligence related to agent 13's inability to extract himself from a rolltop desk in one of Saddam's palaces.
Difficulty interrogating prisoners due to consistent technical problems with the agency's "Cone of Silence."

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 05:03 AM

Oh, it's the old "Life imitating Art" argument!

"If only he'd used his potato chip for good instead of evil"

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 05:13 AM

Thanks Jon, but freightdawg answered my question.

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 11:28 AM

Barbara Feldon is fine, last I heard. She does a lot of narrating and voice overs. Fabulous voice!

SRS

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 11:36 AM

fneeah

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: Tam the man
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 11:46 AM

So sad to hear that,
hello don firth

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005
From: Allan C.
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 12:22 PM

"... and loving it!"

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 01:31 PM

Returning this thread to a music base, anyone else remember the lyrics to the theme?

If I remember correctly it was

Bump a duuuuuuh dum
Bump a duuuuuuh dum
Bump a-diddley dump a diddley dump a diddley dump
A diddley-diddley dump


"Sorry about that!"


Nigel

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 02:58 PM

Barbara Feldon bio etc..

Wonder if he they will bury him with his telephone shoe on...I can just see him, bumbling along, trying to make clandestine calls from heaven.

Thanks, Maxwell, for being my fav. show's main character and thanks to Adams for giving us Maxwell.

RIP,

kat

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 03:32 PM

I'd forgotten this programme. I recall now it used to be on UK tv on a Saturday night. Could be wrong. Did it start with him in a lift ?? Anyway RIP Mr. Smart.

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 03:51 PM

Yes FB:

Down in a lift and along a long corridor with sliding doors automatically opening before him and shutting behind him, until one of them gets him

Nigel

All to the tune of:
Bump a duuuuuuh dum
Bump a duuuuuuh dum
Bump a-diddley dump a diddley dump a diddley dump
A diddley-diddley dump

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Sep 05 - 10:56 AM

Thanks Jon, but freightdawg answered my question.

My most humble apologies, Peter K. Both posts were timed at 9:37 PM. Guess I shouldn't have bothered being the first one to supply a link to ensure people did know what was being talked about, which would have meant me answering first... Or maybe I should have held back just in case someone else crossposted with me in case they beat me by a second or two.

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: freightdawg
Date: 28 Sep 05 - 11:01 AM

Reading all these old quotes makes me laugh and cry at the same time.

Anyone remember Fang, the secret agent dog?

Another character I had forgotten about, and just barely remember even after reading about him was Hymie the robot.

I know that nostalgia is sometimes a bitter elixer, but boy do I miss the writing that was evident on those old shows. Shows like "Get Smart", "All in the Family", and even some of the "softer" shows like "Dick Van Dyke", "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Bob Newhart" had really clever lines that required you to watch the show instead of just be in the same room with the tv on. And then there were the variety shows that had the courage to break new ground such as "Laugh-In" and "The Smothers Brothers Show."

I know this generation will look back on "Seinfeld" and "Friends" with the same feelings. But pick two or three episodes of "All In the Family" at random and compare them to two or three episodes of "Seinfeld" and notice the difference. I think its as much a cultural change as anything.

Kind of like the fact that we don't build houses with front porches anymore. No one would know what to do with one if they had it.

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: freightdawg
Date: 28 Sep 05 - 11:23 AM

Oh, and Nigel, I think the tune was:

Bump a duuuuuuh, dum (tat a tat)
Bump a duuuuuuh, dum (tat a tat)
Bump a-diddley, dump a-diddley, dump a-diddley, dump (tat a tat, tat a tat)

(except on the last refrain, where you d.c. al coda and end with)

Wheeeeeet, bump.

Of course, I'm dealing with a (mumble mumble) year old memory.

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 29 Sep 05 - 11:17 AM

Freightdawg, I believe the last line should be (using your elegant notation):

Bump a-diddley, dump a diddley, dump a diddley, dump a diddley, diddley-dump.


Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Obit: Don Adams alias Maxwell Smart (Sept 2005)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 29 Sep 05 - 01:20 PM

Well done Freightdawg.

Clearly I was only remembering the melody, and missed the backing vocals!
Sorry about that!

Nigel