Fred Goes to the Dentist

FREAKY!!! but good! and funny!

omg y wud he eat dirt??

Fred is really weird and funny. :)

what the fuckin S**t is this man

They ruined the whole thing in this intro, music, letter font, and the way the car pulls up.

wrong answer, its a zillion times better in every way from the more moder fx zoom in of the buildings in D.C. to the Sporty Opel-GT!

It was broke, and they finally got it right in the last season 1970!

That theme is horrible!
The original(first season)is much better.
They didn't even have the "cool titles disappearing behind the doors" effect.
If it ain't broke don't fix it!

Sorry about that but I was right, & to my utter pleasure was a 5th season episode! At one point during the case bMax and 99 get dressed up as Laural and Hardy in a Wax Museum and Max says to 99 at one point where he screws up in catching the bad guys he says to 99,(Barbara Feldon), .." Well 99!, looks like another fine mess you've gotten us into!".., 99 just rolls her eyes upwards with that 99 look of hers.
[Episode number 128] HOUSE OF MAX (PT. 2)
January 16, 1970] Baked or Stewed Crow?

;-)

Just be forwarned that the "Now you've done it, now you've done it, 99, you've broken my train of thought" (not necessarily verbatim) from "The Greatest Spy on Earth" doesn't count as the "fine mess" line. :o

lol...I will get the seasoning's ready, and a roasting pan to cook the bird in, stuffing on the side I suppose?

I am going to have one of my lackeys get on it when they gets back from camp.

;-)

original thing that I was saying: the "fine mess" line is nowhere in any GS episode. If you can cite an episode in which this is used, I will be happy to eat crow about it.

straightman role. But in general, the Chief is the Hardy character, and so is 99. But whereas Hardy is fundamentally as dumb as Laurel in spite of his supercillious exasperation, we are not led to the same conclusion about either the Chief or 99, and the conclusion that Max is simply stupid is a tremendous oversimplification. There is also a lot of Abbot and Costello in there, as well with the verbal-confusion routines with Max-Chief, Max-99, and Max-99-Chief. But back to the (cont)

I'm very rusty with my Laurel and Hardy, but I think that you are right. Going from memory, I believe that the "I know that, 99" (in particular the way it was said) was taken from from L & H. The Chief said the "I know that" in this style to Max in "The Farkas Fracas" as part of the molotov cocktail joke. The attempt to remove the engagement ring from Max's finger in "Diamonds Are a Spy's Best Friend" was a very L & H styled sequence, and one of the instances in which Max took on the (cont)

I like the Opel-GT too, it's a way cooler bad-ass looking car than the others, and the shows from the early 1970's on CBS are much
more modern and cooler looking in all ways.

So there.

Actually as I am old you see (lol) well old enough to remember watching the Laurel & Hardy shorts on tv growing up in the sixties, and yes, Don Adams Maxwell Smart character indeed borrowed Oliver Hardy's famous lines directed at Agent 99 in several of their capers, trust me or get the DVD set, my C/O used to drive us insane to the point where we could remember who episodes of Get Smart and Hogan's Hero's, he was a funny guy and believe me or not had some fun in between the combat dbouffard25.

That "fine mess" line is what Oliver Hardy used to say. It isn't from GS. Nevertheless, since GS is in the tradition of these old comedy arrangements more than the dreaded three-camera sitcom, I'm not surprised you interpolated that.

The six from the final season, that were usually seen on most local stations during the '70s and '80s:
"Widow Often Annie"
"The Apes Of Rath"
"The Mess Of Adrian Listenger"
"And Only Two Ninety-Nine"
"What's It All About, Algie?"
"Do I Hear A Vaults?"

The series was "jointly" produced and owned by Talent Associates AND CBS in season five; there was a "limit" as to how many of the last 26 episodes could be aired in syndication, due to a matter over residual fees [including the black & white pilot]. Most stations could only show them three times under contract, and didn't want to keep track of those 21 episodes under that agreement, so only 6 of the final season were seen over a number of years before residual rights were finally settled.

I am afraid I am "damaged goods" for life because of GET SMART! during the first Gulf War...
Thanks alot Agent Larrabee for bringing back all the memories!!!

aaarrrrgh!

;-)

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Naturally we agreed with him and became brainwashed after a week or so and would all go around the cAMP SAYING.."oh! SORRY ABOUT THAT CHIEF!" and "Well 99!...here's another fine mess you've gotten us into!", One guy would go around doing Tennessee Tuxedo, a cartoon that Don Adams voiced for saying "Never mind that Chumbly!" and so on, I just liked the 1969 or 70 Opel-Gt.

What!!! The 5th season is easily the best season of the series, I have watched every episode of this series when stationed in Saudi Arabia it was always playing on in the background during a card game or other off duty fun as our C/O had a thing about being like Maxwell Smart!

The 5th Season is easily the worst of the 5, but it's not horrible, and has several good ones. There's a tendency among people to regard the worst piece of a good series to be awful. Like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It's a good movie, but it's also easily the worst of the 4 Indiana Jones movies. So people talk about it like it's horrible, not because it's bad, but only because the other ones are even better.

i liked the first season theme better. This one had too much packed into it.

Because Buick sponsored the show. The Opel was a better car than the Sunbeam Tiger. Those British cars (and all cars, frankly, at the time, compared to today's automobiles) were non-stop headaches.

Yes, but now both the pilot and the fifth season episodes appear to be in syndicated runs.

I actually liked this new theme, though fifth season episodes frequently left a lot to be desired.

They changed the exterior shots, but the video of Max walking down the hallway is the same that they use in every episode of the series. They should have changed that to match the tone of the new music.

and this version of the credits also featured various Washington D.C. landmarks preceeding the show's opening titles.

Also, Max drives a gold car, instead of red and blue cars, seen in the past four seasons respectively.

Another slight change was the closing credits. The last few seconds of the closing credits had the theme song finish on a blue background w/ the Norton/Simon company name and the CBS-TV logo notice as well.

but they changed the video!, why i even saw a 1970 chevy nova as the opel=-gt passed it on the way to control HQ's! in the intro! cool beans!

;-)

"A lot of shows jazz up their theme songs as the years go by, and it almost never works"

One of the worst examples of that is Dr. Who which had this really mysterious science-fictiony theme when they started, but had turned it into "Disco Doctor" by the 80's.