And Loving It!
Normally I don't blog celebrity obituaries. But I think this one deserves mention - Don Adams.
Like most people of my generation, Get Smart was a favorite show. It was funny. It was clever. It had the best villains ever. Siegfried. The Craw (not Craw. Craw!). It had the Cone of Silence. The shoe phone. Hymie the Robot. Agent 13. And, for the male readers - Agent 99. Besides, Napoleon Solo or Maxwell Smart? Hands down, Maxwell Smart. [Although I'd take Ilya Kuryakin over either of them.]
It was also the show that spawned a million catch phrases.
Would you believe 100,000 catch phrases?
How about 7 catch phrases?
Missed it by that much.
Sorry about that, Chief.
If only I'd used my knowledge for good, instead of evil.
The old catch phrase trick. That's the second time I've fallen for it this week.
I asked you not to tell me that!
You know. Just thinking about it all still makes me laugh.
Farewell, Agent 86.
Comments
You forgot one. "That's the second biggest [insert object] I've ever seen."
Posted by: Jon | September 26, 2005 08:34 PM
Only us of 'a certain age' remember this stuff.
Shoe phone? They wouldn't get the joke today.
Though I would love to have a 'cone of silence' as I'm sitting in starbucks, trying to ingore the overly-loud-people next table blabbing in some european language.
It's the blabbing-aliens trick.
Oh, Max.
Posted by: Kenny | September 27, 2005 09:46 PM