Does the funniest,
hippiest, grooviest TV show have any bloopers?
A
GOOFY EPISODE GUIDE TO
GET SMART (A
FAN'S FORUM)
A nitpick'n trainspotters
list of Bloops, bleeps, blunders, goofs, gaffes and dummies...and loving
it!
Another way to ENJOY
one fab tv show! Yes some people must have a lot of time on their hands!
58-60. A
Man Called Smart, Parts 1-3
8th, 15th, & 22nd April
1967
Max is on the roof with a
KOAS agent and ordered to hand over his All-Purpose Briefcase which contained
a rope, ladder, flashlight and parachute. Max pushes the KAOS agent and
himself off the roof and the briefcase drops out of his hand. Max is then
seen hanging from the handle as the parachute (umbrella?) slowly lowers
him to the ground.(Dan)
In part 3 in the scene where
Max and Otto Hoorah are sword fighting, you'll notice that in quite a lot
of shots, first Max is fighting with his right hand, then his left hand,
then his right. He constantly changes hands in just about every shot. (Dale)
Maybe he was just ambidextrous
:-) (Amanda H)
If max is Ambidextrous, then
which hand did he most consistently hold his gun? (Dan A)
During the fight, both Max
and The Big One (Otto Hurrah) injure the hands they are fighting with and
Max switches to his left hand. (Jodi)
Off hand, I'm actually thinking
left because, if I'm not mistaken, he used to put his right arm around
99 (Dan R)
Then how come they continue
to switch hands during the fight? It's not just once. It happens a few
times. (Dale)
I believe he's right handed
and like most righties (like me), he wears his watch on the left and holds
his gun on the right. You use the prominent hand more than the other. (Gina)
In Part One ... the actor
who is the Control lab man's brother and who knew who stole the formula.
He agrees to meet with Max "in" the revolving door of the hotel.
After enough times around, the informer agrees to tell Max who stole the
formula. Of course, he begins "the formula was stolen by..." and
a shot rings out. He falls. The goof... the actor is
shot through the revolving door... but, nowhere is the glass of the revolving
door broken in any way! (Ray & Paul Plazek)
Max makes a blunder, he's
supposedly talking to the informer and is actually on the phone which 99
is on. (Dan C)
Watch the cords when Max is
on the phones. They are totally mixed up. When he's talking
to 99, the phone cord goes to the phone on his far left, which is Russell
Bediyoskin. (Jodi)
If you look, the Chief is
on the first phone, 99 is on the second, and Russ B is on the third phone.
There was at least twice where Max was talking to the Chief on 99's line
and I think once where he had the Chief's line and was addressing RB. (Gina)
In the third part of the three-part
episode. Max makes a call from the laundry to Panamint Studios in
Los Angeles. Max does not reveal his name nor his reason for inquiring
about Mr. Orlando. Listen after Max hangs up, the operator dials
another person and says ... "a man called Smart just called from Washington,
inquiring about Mr. Orlando." The goof -- Max didn't provide the
operator with this information. (Ray Plazek)
61. Viva
Smart 16th September 1967
Max and 99 are in their rooms
and Max is putting his stuff away, when he drops his shirts and stuff through
the bottomless drawer and picks them up again, he's saying something to
99. But...he's talking to the wrong door. See, 99 is in the room to his
left (screen left. what you would see), but he tells her what he's doing
and talks to his screen right. Now, i'm aware that, if he'd actually turned
to his right and talked to her, we wouldn't see his face, but..in the scene
before where he's telling about the previous guest, his comments are directed
to screen left, in the room where she is and talking to him from. (Gina)
When Max and 99 escape from
the jail, the wall shakes. (Andrew Steinberg)
62. Witness
for the Persecution 23rd September 1967
Max puts the pillow at the
foot of the bed to elevate his feet. Then there is a change of angle, and
suddenly Max is underneath the sheets. (Kristian W)
The Exterminator is posing
as the plumber in Max's apartment and opens the door and looks through
it from the kitchen. You can look straight back to the back wall
instead of it being blocked by the refrigerator which is by the door in
any scene shot in the kitchen. (Dan C)
63. The
Spy Who Met Himself 7th October 1967
In the instruction film, when
Max gets out of bed the first time, he bumps his head against the closed
door and rolls backwards over the bed. When he gets to the door the second
time, it has mysteriously opened. (Kristian W)
I remember watching Get Smart
on TV as a kid after school and how it made me laugh. I also remember cracking
up every time there was a fight scene, as this was when we got to see Max�s
double! Although the same height as Don Adams, and close-ups were never
used, it always seemed so obvious it was a someone else, maybe it was the
longer sideburns, the different stacked hair, the non Max moves�.. It was
Hollywood Stuntman and actor Eddie Hice, he was one of the main stand-ins
Don used after doing less of the stunts in the mid and later seasons of
the series. Eddie a respected stuntman and actor who even got to act in
some Get Smart episodes ("The Impossible Mission" " Rub-a-Dub-Dub�Three
Spies in a Sub"), acted in Gunsmoke in the mid 50�s, Star Trek in the late
60�s ("Wink of an Eye") continued in stunt work in Repo Man (1984) and
Crimewave (1985), recently in the Cable Guy (1996) and Dante�s Peak (1997)
among many other features. Expecting current film production standards
from a comedy TV show from the mid sixties may be a be a bit rich but to
find another reason to laugh at a already brilliantly funny show is purely
a bonus. In one episode (see 'Cutback at Control' ep#48) we even saw Eddie
(as Max) fly across the room in a fight landing under a table, where Don
(the real Max) appears from behind the table while you can still see Eddie
fumbling Max style on the floor. Just another wonderful moment from a wonderful
TV show, Get Smart! (PJB)
64. The
Spirit is Willing 14th October 1967
In the second scene, Max and
99 are in the lab with Agent 37 (who takes the place of the Chief in this
episode). Agent 37 is discussing the case against the Kaos agent Montibello
with them. As the scene opens, we see 37 looking past a machine that he
implies is a computer or perhaps it is supposed to be a movie projector.
Either way, watch the tape/film that is moving between the reels. That
is the point! The tape or film is moving at a slow speed between two reels,
without passing through any type of layback device! Any thoughts on this
find? As a totally useless point, my family and I noticed something that
the writers/producers of GS might have thrown in as an aside. During that
same scene, shortly after the above goof, we see 99 standing in front of
the side wall of the room. Watch the two black speakers (?) on the wall
behind her... as she turns around, the speakers appear slightly above her
head and almost look as if she is wearing a pair of Mickey Mouse ears!
Use your imagination on this one! As I said, this is a totally useless
point. (Ray Plazek)
When Max and 99 are in the grave and Mondobello has
them at gunpoint. Then Max hits him in the leg and he and 99 climb out
of the grave. But when Max climbs out of the grave he changes into a
stunt double and when he turns around to fight with Mondobello you
actually see the stunt double's face. But it doesn't look like the
normal stunt double, Eddie Hice. (Christopher)
65. Maxwell
Smart, Private Eye 21st October 1967
66. Supersonic
Boom 28th October 1967
67. One
of Our Olives is Missing 4th November 1967
The man 'pussycat' is stabbed and Max helps him to the ground. He then shoots a man escaping and runs to the door after him. Then he turns and finds 'Ozark Annie' sitting at a table and goes over to squeeze the olives. He passes where the man fell but he is no longer there. (Max passes by without needing to walk around the 6'5" guy! No one else even notices the guy died there.)(Jason McGrath
)
68. When
Good Fellows Get Together 18th November 1967
At the beginning of this episode at
KAOS
headquarters, Robert Karvelas is one of the KAOS agents studying Gropo
the
KAOS robot, yet later he is seen as Larabee assisting in the CONTROL
lab !!!
- Would you believe a double agent ?? (Peter Wright)
69. Dr.
Yes 25th November 1967
Dr. Yes has Max and 99 on/in
their respective "death devices." While the good Dr. is explaining
just how these fun devices work, they go to the close-up of Don . . . and
he is already wet. (Jodi)
70. That
Old Gang of Mind 2nd December 2, 1967
Max and The Dutchman
are climbing the wall to get into the building in order to seal the Royal
Jewels. When The Dutchman reaches the window, after he cuts a hole
in one of the panes, the window swings open, already unlocked. But
look closely . . . in the lower right corner, you can plainly see a hand
pulling the window open. (Jodi)
71. The
Mild Ones 9th December 1967
At the end, Max says to the
Chief "His wife will never forgive him." But in WITH LOVE AND TWITCHES,
the Chief says to 99's mother he never married. (Dale B)
Obvious stuntman: When Max
and 99 went to ride off on the motorcycle, note the stand-in running from
the rear and then hopping on the motorbike. (PJB)
When Max and Brute are "jousting"
and Max knocks him off his bike, the guy who falls to the ground does not
have a beard. (Jodi)
Max's turtle neck is plain until he wakes 99 to help the Prime
Minister escape. Then, all of a sudden, he has on the Control
Bowling Team shirt, complete with the "86". Did he change clothes? (Jodi)
72. Classification:Dead
23rd
December 1967
When the Chief and 99 go through
the gymnasium door to look for Max, they enter directly into the office
of Mr. Hercules. When Max went through the same door minutes earlier, he
entered the gymnasium before swinging through the double doors into Mr.
Hercules' office.
73. The
Mysterious Dr. T 30th December 1967
As Max is going through the
external security carrying a cup of coffee for Professor Longnecker, he
steps into a booth to be frisked. He raises his arms high above his head,
turning the cup of coffee on its side with nothing spilling out. He exits
the booth and goes into the lab where he gives the professor a full cup
of coffee.(Dan C)
74. The
King Lives 6th January 1968
In The Mild Ones (Ep.71), Max tells the Boluvian prime minister's aide to
"forget about protocol".
But just three episodes later, in The King Lives?, Max thinks
protocol is a kind of aspirin.(Alice Dryden)
75. The
Groovy Guru 13th January 1968
76 & 77. The
Little Black Book, Parts I and II 27th January & 3rd Feb
1968
78. Don't
Look Back 10th February 1968
Robert Karvelas can be seen
in the jury. Only his hair was white, he wore glasses, and had a gray mustache.
(PJB)
79. 99
Loses Control 17th February 1968
Victor Royal orders Louie
to turn off the telephones. However, at the end of the episode, Max uses
one of the phones to contact the Chief. (Dale B)
80. The
Wax Max 24th February 1968
Yes, I saw the female "mannequin"
"moving and grooving" quite clearly in that scene from "House of Max"-
in fact, my eyes were glued to her. I thought that she was going
to start dancing any moment there! I wish they'd hired those professional
mannequins (budget considerations?). I missed "Hitler" blinking-
I would have liked to have seen that faux pas! (Holly)
When Max is talking to Chief
Inspector Sparrow at the beginning of the episode, he says, "Are we talking
about Jack the Ripper? The same Jack the Ripper who terrorized London
at the turn of the century?" Sorry, Max, it wasn't the turn of the
century. Jack the Ripper terrorized London in August-November of
1888. (Jodi)
81. Operation
Ridiculous 2nd March 1968
At the beginning of the episode,
Max gets a call on his shoe phone from the Chief. However, he doesn't take
the bottom of the shoe off to answer the call.
When the KAOS Agents start
to take Max, 99, and Mr. Fitzmorris out of the room, Mr. Fitzmorris' bandage
on his arm is untucked at the elbow. But in the next shot, when they are
out of the room, the bandage is tucked in. (Dale B)
82. Spy,
Spy, Birdie 9th March 1968
When Phister says to Max near
the end, "What do you think of my birds?" he has glasses on. But in the
next shot, they are off. (Dale B)
Max, 99, Siegfried, and Schtarker
enter the store of Pfister's. Pfister traps the four of them in the store
and the cuckoo clock behind Max is three minutes before 3 o'clock. After
Max realizes it is Pfister, the clock reads two minutes before 3 o'clock.
The next time you see Max and 99, the clock reads three minutes before
3 o'clock again.(Dan C)
83. Run,
Robot, Run 16th March 1968
Watch as Hymie competes in
the mile run. He starts in the third lane out from the center, yet in the
scenes that follow, we find Hymie in the other lanes. In the final scene
from this segment, Hymie's battery loses power and he comes to a stop just
before the finish line. Note that in this scene, Hymie is in the inner-most
lane of the track... oophs! (Ray P)
Max, 99 and the Chief are
sitting in a stadium watching a game. Max starts applauding before
the event they are applauding for actually takes place. (Nancy Hill)
84. The
Hot Line 23rd March 1968
85. The
Reluctant Redhead 6th April 1968
86. Die,Spy
30th
March 1968
87. The
Impossible Mission 21st September 1968
88. Snoopy
Smart vs. the Red Baron 28th September 1968
During the teaser segment...
Max, the Chief and 99 are in the lounge area of the airplane and the Chief
is attempting to brief the others on the assignment. As usual, Max is not
paying attention to much. He is focused on reading a book about Snoopy
fighting the Red Baron. During this scene, Max looks out the window and
sees the Red Baron (actually Siegfried) flying by. The commercial jet they
are on flies at a height of approximately 30,000 feet. The Fokker d-VII
that Siegfried is flying could not possibly reach that same height, nor
could it possibly have been seen at all considering the jet would be traveling
about 600 miles per hour. & ..Watch the scene where Max is assuring
99 that you can climb a haystack, despite her attempts to enlighten him
to the obvious. Max is of course unable to climb the haystack, which we
all expect. However, a moment later, Siegfried, accompanied by Shtarker
and another Kaos agent draw weapons on Max and 99. You'll notice that the
three enemy agents are all standing on the haystack! How'd they do it?
(Ray Plazek)
Max is sitting beside
the well-endowed beauty in the jet. She is having trouble getting
the window blind open and Max goes to help. He leans over with his
left hand to open the blind while his right hand is holding the martini
which he spills down her ,ahem, bosum, and the camera gives a closeup of
Max's Right hand opening the blind, then pans out and the right hand is
holding the empty glass, Max's left hand is coming back from the window,
and the girl's top is all wet. (Dan C)
Max and 99 are captured by
Siegfried's men and tied up in the barn. As Siegfried and Shtarker
are talking to Max and 99, their backs are against bales of straw.
The camera shifts and Siegfried and Shtarker now have the wall of the barn
with harness and other things behind them. The camera shifts again,
and the bales of straw reappear behind Siegfried. (Dan C)
While hanging on the plane,
Max's goggles change positions between shots. (Andrew Steinberg)
89. Closely
Watched Planes 5th October 1968
When Max is in the lavatory
and the trap door opens, the landscape on the ground doesn't move throughout
the scene even though a jet plane would be going 300-400 miles per hour.
(Dan C)
I dispute the above Goof for
this episode, which states that the "ground isn't moving". If you've ever
watched the ground from 30,000 feet, it moves very, very slowly almost
indistinguishable from the shot in this scene. What should have happened
when the floor dropped open was to suck everything out of the washroom
& the plane ( decompression ). There isnt even a breeze in the washroom
when it opens. (Mike F)
When the Chief gets a call
from 99 on the sandwich phone, he first picks up and talks into a slice
of pickle. Then when he removes a piece of lettuce, he hastily picks up
a potato chip and talks into that instead of the pickle slice! (Mike F)
90. The
Secret of Sam Vittorio 12th October 1968
After Sam shoots the real
Connie and Floyd, and Sam thinks the real Connie and Floyd just show up,
Max and 99 are leaning over the bed to hear Sam's secret. Max and
Sam hit heads and 99 cries, "Max!". Max says, "I'm okay, 99."
Sam should have heard them call each other by their realnames and not Connie
and Floyd. (Dan C)
91. Diamonds
Are a Spy's Best Friend 19th October 1968
The chief answers the hydrant
phone and first speaks into the large plug and listens from the small plug.
Shortly thereafter, he is speaking into the small plug and listening from
the large plug. (Dan C)
92. The
Worst Best Man 26th October 1968
93. A
Tale of Two Tails 2nd November 1968
When Lundy & Caruso are
fighting in the classroom, Lundy's hanky falls out of his jacket pocket,
but we never see it fall out. (Mike F)
When Max is dropping off Lundy
& Caruso to tail 99, the same people (extras) are passing by behind
the car multiple times. These same extras appears all over during the outdoor
scenes. (Mike F)
When Chief and Larabee are
discussing who they should send to meet 99 at the Caterers, the chief looks
at his "watch", but he has no wrist watch on (look closely)! (Mike F)
When Max and the Chief are
done with the cone of silence, when the chief says "I told you Max its
not working", Max has one arm on the desk and the other on his leg, but
immediately when he replies, both arms are laying on the desk. Also, watch
a few seconds later, when Max says "Or..when the cone of silence is not
working" ..the desk blotter and pen holder are right up against the edge
of the desk, and Max's arms are in wrapped around in back of the holder.
Immediately after, the blotter about 6 inches away from the edge, and his
forearms are in front of the pen holder. (Mike F)
When the Japanese Kaos agent
grabs the Iron from the coals, its the only one on them. But seconds later,
another Iron magically appears on the coals. (Another TVLand Edit?) (Mike
F)
When Max is about to chase
the Kaos Agent into the back of the Laundry, he tells 99 to cover the front
and have Lundy and Caruso to cover the back, why do they walk in with 99
from the front after the fight? Did 99 forget to tell them? (Mike F)
94. The
Return of the Ancient Mariner 9th November 1968
Watch during the scene in
Max's apartment when Mr. Bob returns to pick up his samples. Max
is convinced that Mr. Bob is really the Chameleon, so he picks a fight
with Mr. Bob. During that fight, Mr. Bob hits Max across the face,
knocking him into the wall. Max hits the wall, knocking one or both
square pictures off the wall. Watch after Mr. Bob leaves ... Max
walks into the wall behind the door as he normally would. Watch as
the camera pulls to a wide-angle shot --- both pictures are right back
on the wall where they were originally! (Ray Plazek)
When Larabee shows up at Max's
apartment, Max has his arms crossed when he asks why the chief didn't call
on the phone. When Larabee replies: "Your phone might have been tapped",
Max does not have his arm crossed anymore, and 99's hair is somewhat different,
and they are standing farther apart (another shooting the next day or after
lunch?). (Mike F)
When Max & 99 are about
to exit the closet, Max tells 99 to go downtown and find the Admiral. I
believe TVLand (US TV 2002) chopped a big piece of the scene out when the
Chameleon was disguised as the Admiral. how did Max know that the Admiral
was downtown? (Mike F)
Overall, the entire story
was somewhat confusing, albeit a great vehicle for William Schallert's
portrayal as Admiral Hargrade. Wasn't the whole point of the episode, which
was explained in the Chameleon's telegram, was to "get" the Admiral? The
Cameleon had him at max's apartment, and let him loose on skid row. Later,
it seems, the Cameleon's plan was to "invade" the security conference.
Which was it? (Mike F)
95. With
Love and Twitches 16th November 1968
When Max (stunt double really)
falls down the stairs, he lands behind the couch, then the real Max (Don
Adams) stands up. If you look closely, as Don gets up, you can still see
the stunt double. (Dale)
When Max and Dr. Madre are
talking at the restaurant, the candle at the table in the background against
the wall is out in the last 1/2 of the scene. There always seems to be
problems with candles in the episodes. Make you wonder why they used them
at all. (Mike F)
96. The
Laser Blazer 30th November 1968
Max and the Chief are talking
to Mr. Antonelli about the missing blazer. If you look on the wall
behind them, there is a sign that says "In by 10, out by 5" with two analog
clocks showing the times. Except . . . the hands are reversed on
both clocks. The minute hand is where the hour hand should be and
the hour hand is where the minute hand should be. According to the
clocks, if you get your stuff in by 11:50, you'll get it back by 12:25.
(Jodi)
The Hong Kong tailor shop
sure looks alot like the chinese laundry shop from "A tale of 2 tails"
and other episodes. (Mike F)
When Max & 99 are talking
about Ingrid in the living room after she arrives, when 99 comments "Her
legs were a little heavy", and Max replies "I didn't think so", the vacuum
cleaner is suddenly right in front of 99, and they have both moved to the
left about 1 foot. (Mike F)
Later, when Max picks up the
suitcase after tripping over it, watch the angle he puts it down, and later
before he disintegrates it, its at a different angle. (Mike F)
After the 2 KAOs agents break
in, when Max says "Do you know what activates it?" he is holding
the blazer much higher up than before and after that line. (Mike F)
97. The
Farkas Fracas 7th December 1968
Watch the scene in the Smarts'
apartment when the Chief pushes the destruct button to destroy his attaché
case. When the explosion occurs, pay attention to the door on the apartment...
the door begins to fall off its hinges BEFORE the smoke appears and BEFORE
the sound of the explosion! You might want to watch this one a few times...
(Ray Plazek)
Has anyone else noticed that
the kitchen door, which obviously leads to the Farcases across the way,
is ONLY in that episode? Any other time when Max or 99 are in the kitchen,
there's just a wall. (Gina)
When Max & Chief are shooting
it out at the Pier, the Chief shoots his gun after saying "I wish I knew
who tipped off KAOS", the sound editor must have missed one shot, because
it sounds like a cap gun ( the real prop gun sound ). (Mike F)
Before 99 goes to the kitchen
to get dessert, look at the candles. When she returns one minute later
with dessert, the candles are burned down quite a bit for 1 minute.
By the end of the dinner, the candles are about 1/3 of their size. Remember
when 99 lit them at the beginning of the episode? They were brand new.
(Mike F)
Also, the candles mysteriously
go out between the time when Max & chief go upstairs, and Mrs. Farcas
goes in to clear the table. (Mike F)
When 99 is bound and gagged
in the closet, how can she be knocking on the door? She was facing the
door when Max opens it. (Mike F)
Watch 99's hands and scarf
right when she says "You'll never catch them", and immediately after when
the Chief says: "There's only one thing to do"; the scarf which gagged
99 is draped around her hair, and she begins to reach behind her head to
untie it, but suddenly the scarf is on her shoulders, and her arm is at
her side. Then she starts to untie it again. (Mike F)
The dining room table mysteriously
gets cleared sometime between the time Ms. Farcas lets in her husband and
when they destroy the briefcase. Also, the spilled wine is not on the tablecloth.
(Mike F)
98. Temporarily
Out of CONTROL 14th December 1968
99. Schwartz's
Island 21st December 1968
When Control's mini-magnet
(which is stronger than Kaos's Maxi-magnet) is pulling Max, 99 and the
Chief out of the synthetic sand, Max has a piece of rope tied around his
right arm. None of them were ever tied up, so where did the rope come from?
In the next scene, when he turns the Maxi-magnet off, it's gone. (Jodi)
"When Control's mini-magnet
(which is stronger than Kaos's Maxi-magnet) is pulling Max, 99 and the
Chief out of the synthetic sand, Max has a piece of rope tied around his
right arm. None of them were ever tied up, so where did the rope come from?
In the next scene, when he turns the Maxi-magnet off, it's gone."
Max clearly states that
the mini-magnet is on his belt. It's his belt that he wraps around
his right arm, not a rope... There's no blooper here.
(Tristan)
Max's mini magnet was in a
storage area on his belt and it is not a rope that is around his arm, it
is his belt! He reached down to his belt and took it off to use the
mini magnet. (jon regas)
100. One
Nation Invisible 28th December 1968
Ninety-nine returns home unexpectedly
and Max has to hide Dr. Canyon - a beautiful scientist who has developed
an invisibility formula. After Ninety-nine
enters the apartment, Max
tries to stall her in an effort to keep Ninety-nine from going upstairs.
A piece of the dialog Max uses goes like this: "Ninety-nine why don't you
fix yourself a cup of hot, warm milk." Hot, warm milk? I would presume
that this line was not in the script - I don't understand how one can have
"hot, warm milk." (Frankie Adamo)
101. Hurray
for Hollywood 4th January 1969
102. The
Day They Raided the Knights 11th January 1969
In the infamous scene with
the Chief & Larabee in drag, Max's stunt double can be noticed in the
wide shots during the fight scene, it doesn't look like the usual stuntman
(Eddie Hice) but a ring-in with thicker hair than Max and slightly stockier
build (PJB)
The opening scene ... 99 encounters a wooden crate that says "KAOS TRAINING FILMS: not to be opened by anyone under 18 unless accompanied by an adult." Oophs ... a typo appears on that crate. It reads "under 18 unless ACCOMPANED by an adult." (Ray Plazek)
103. Tequila
Mockingbird 18th January 1969
Max, Dietrick and Valdez are
about to have a shoot-out. Max is wearing a poncho and pushes it aside
to show his gun. As the camera shows each person's gun, Max is no longer
wearing his poncho. When the gunfight starts, Max is wearing his poncho
again. (Dan)
104. I
Shot 86 Today 1st February 1969
Dr. Simon explains the golf
shoephone to Max and tells him to speak into the heel and listen from the
toe. Later, he is on the phone and speaking into the toe and listening
from the heel. (Dan)
99's hairstyle keeps changing
when they are on the golf course. In some shots the top of her hair is
in a ponytail and in the other shots it looks like it is held back with
bobby pins. (V Janzen)
105. Absorb
the Greek 8th February 1969
106. To
Sire, With Love Part I 15th February 1969
107. To
Sire, With Love Part II 22nd February 1969
At the end of episode Part
2 when Max and Rupert are fighting, Max jumps on a brown table and falls
off. You can clearly see that it's a stunt. But after he falls, we see
a quick shot of Don Adams getting up. Does he have his mustache on? I'm
not sure. (Dale B)
108. Shock
it to Me 1st March 1969
Watch the semi truck that
Max is driving in the opening scene. As Max drives up, you see the truck
is clearly pulling along a trailer. However, watch as Max is talking on
his phone. If you look behind him, you will not see a trailer through the
rear window, but rather the scenery behind the truck. Oophs! As a footnote
to this, watch the very beginning scene of the show where you see a truck
rolling along the highway. That truck was a Freightliner chassis... but
when we see Max pulling the truck up as the next scene begins, he is driving
a Ford chassis... just something to ponder... (Ray Plazek)
109. Leadside
8th
March 1969
While riding in the back of
the moving van/semi truck, Leadside makes the statement to his co-horts...
"we're cruising at approximately 65 miles per hour, right?" The previous
scene and the one that follows, shows the truck driving through downtown
city traffic and encountering a red traffic light. (Ray P)
A flub. After Max opens the
door in his apartment, and Leadside and the woman pushing him run out the
door, you hear a large crash that sounds like Leadside and the woman falling
down a flight of stairs. Only thing is there aren't stairs across the hall
from Max's apartment. As established in other episodes, there's just a
wall, and perhaps another apartment, located across the hall. In fact,
didn't the Farcases live across the way in "The Farcas Fracas?" (Mike)
When Control's computer Ardvarc
finally blows up, the blue line that signifies his talking stops and goes
blank, but when they change camera angles, it shows it working again.
Kinda funny. (Tim M)
110. Greer
Window 15th March 1969
In the closing scene, Max
is resting on the couch. He pushes the TV remote control and of course,
it sets off every booby-trap in the apartment, everything but turning on
the TV! Watch when the cannon on the bar fires... from where Max is seated,
the cannon's line of fire should be from the right side of the screen,
behind Max, towards the left side of the screen. However, the goof comes
when the shot from the cannon is fired in exactly the opposite direction!
The shot hits Max from the wrong side of the screen! (Ray P)
Max is shot by the KAOS agent
at the beginning of the episode. He falls to the ground and rolls,
shooting his gun until he stops, unconscious, facing left. The Chief
and Larabee run up to him and they show Max close up, still unconscious,
now facing left. (Dan C)
In the teaser segment when
the Chief orders Larrabee to "fire through the window" with the tear gas
gun. The Chief counts "10 ..."
and Larabee fires the shot
over the house. Without reloading the gun with another canister,
Larabee fires a second shot upon the Chief's order.
The goof ... according to
my father, the tear gas gun only holds a single canister at a time.
Larabee didn't reload. (Ray Plazek)
111 & 112. The
Not-So-Great-Escape, Parts I & II 22nd & 29th March
1969
In part 1 a shot is fired
through the phone booth's glass door, but the glass does not break.
(Andrew Steinberg)
In Part II Siegfried says
to Shtarker, "We don't tic tac toe here!" Shtarker rubs off the X he drew
on. However, in the next few shots, if you look carefully, the X is still
there.
Max knocks Kendall out, and
Kendall falls on the ground next to the hole. However, at the end when
the Control agents walk off, we see that Kendall is gone. (Dale B)
The Larabee Mystery: Robert Karvelas (Don Adams first cousin) along with his twin brother Bill, appeared in some earlier episodes in small roles, not long after ('Weekend Vampire' Episode #13 Dec 1965) Robert first played Control Agent Larabee. By the last season Larabee had become a very important part of Get Smart. Carl calls them the Larabee years!!. Robert died in 1992, Bill I don't know much about or what episodes he actually did appear in. (PJB)
113. Pheasant
Under Glass 26th September 1969
The episode starts off on
the moon. Max, 99, and the chief are talking to eachother, but there are
no apparent radios. The only way they could talk to each other without
radios is to put their helmets together and shout. Another blooper on the
moon is the fact that when you're on the moon, you can't see stars. Go
to http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#stars if you want
more info. (astrogirl)
Max, 99 and the Chief are having a
meeting on the moon. During the course of the meeting, the Chief pulls
out a picture of the place Max and 99 have to break into to rescue
Professor Pheasant. If you watch his hand, the plastic folder he takes
it out of folds downward. That's impossible . . . because as we all
know, there's no gravity on the moon . . .
(Jodi)
Actually, there is gravity on the moon but it's only one-sixth that
of earth so things just fall more slowly.
What gets me about that scene is that when the Chief points to New
Jersey he points down. Regardless of where on the moon they are
supposed to be, if earth is visible at all it would have to be above
the horizon.
(Chris)
114. Ironhand
3rd
October 1969
Max accidentally fires a mortar
shell from the baby carriage into his car from behind. This completely
destroys the car (his gold Opel). Yet, in the scene shortly after that,
Max pulls up to the Washington airport in the same car and it was in perfect
condition! CONTROL must have a super mechanic to fix his car that quickly!
For the record, you'll have to look extremely fast to catch this one, as
the scene passes by quickly without any conversation. (Ray P)
Larabee has a bowling ball
stuck to his hand and smashes the White House phone. Larabee then calls
out of the window to the President at the White House. This can't be possible
as Control Headquarters is ten stories underground, as referred to by the
Chief in SUPERSONIC BOOM. (Dale B) Maybe they moved? (PJB)
After Operation Baby Buggy
Switch, Max tells IH, "Excuse me for laughing into your hand, Mr. Ironface
..." Surely, he was supposed to say, "Excuse me for laughing in your face,
Mr. Ironhand..." (Steve B) Maybe (PJB)
115. Valerie
of the Dolls 10th October 1969
116. Widow
Often Annie 17th October 1969
In the scene where Max &
99 are making up over him missing their anniversary dinner, they hug, and
as they pull apart she keeps her right hand around his shoulders.
The scene pans away and when it goes back her hand isn't there anymore.
Then just a second later, it's back. It's clearly an editing
of different takes together. (Bailey)
Watch closely the scene at Max and Anne's wedding. When Max forgets to bring the wedding ring for Anne, he runs back to 99 and asks for her ring. Of course, 99 objects, but finally gives in and takes off her ring. In the next camera view of 99 (as the Chief asks if anyone can show just cause why the two cannot be married), 99 is still wearing the ring! (Ray Plazek)
During the scene at the beginning when Max and the Chief are playing tennis, Max goes to serve the ball and falls in the process. Naturally, we are expecting Max to do something stupid like this. Watch closely ... Max falls with the tennis ball in his hand, but a moment later, a tennis ball bounces directly in front of when Max was standing before he fell. How could the ball go down with Max as he fell and yet bounce where Max was standing and high enough for the camera to see? (Ray Plazek)
There are some scenes in this episode where you can clearly see the boom mic too (PJB)
117. The
Treasure of C. Errol Madre 24th October 1969
118. Smart
Fell on Alabama 31st October 1969
The colonel walks into the
flashlight on the ground (Andrew Steinberg)
119.And
Baby Makes Four Parts I and II 7 & 14th November 1969
Max is constantly calling
99 to check on the progress of her labor pains (which turn out to be false).
One time when he calls, she answers the phone out of breath. Max, concerned,
asks her why she is out of breath. She tells him she was upstairs and,
every time she gets comfortable, he calls and she has to run downstairs
to answer the phone. Now if I remember correctly, Max had, at the least,
three phones in the bedroom . . . the regular phone, the headboard phone
and the classic "painting of 99" phone. With all those phones upstairs,
why is she running downstairs to answer the phone? Did they take all the
phones out of the bedroom? Or are they all different lines? (Jodi)
120 & 121. Physician
Impossible 21st November 1969
122. The
Apes of Rath 28th November 1969
How tall was Max's apartment
building? ...when they're on the roof and look down, it's about 15 stories
down to the street and it is a four lane street. Other times his apartment
is on the ground floor, and others it's the second floor. The Chief and
Dietrich had to take a fire truck ladder all the way up to Max's window.
When the Lazer Blazer shot a hole into Max's wall and destroyed the Second
National Bank, it looked like Max's apartment was about 30 stories in the
air. When Max was shot in the bottom and had to sit on cushions at home,
he looked across the street and into an office building about 10 stories
up. The view from the roof during "The Apes of Rath" shows an apartment
building. During Plan Omega, the Chief stationed control agents down the
street because the hotel across the street charged too much. The Exterminator
had a room across the street from which he shot an arrow. 99 used a similar
room while she was guarding Max. What I'm asking is, what does Max's neighborhood
look like? Office buildings? Apartment buildings? Hotels, banks or just
houses? (Dan C)
Moment Please, Maybe Max had
to keep continuously switch apartments in the building, due to Kaos knowing
where he lived. That could explain how the apartment looked different inside
during the latter episodes, and some of the gadgets were in a different
spot, gadgets disappeared, new gadgets appeared, different phones in different
places, and so on. The only thing that stands in the way of that theory,
is that Max has 86 on the door. "Amazing!" (Dale)
When Chuck carries 99 up on the roof, Barbara uses her right hand to support herself as she's being put down.(Jodi)
When the twins awaken Max and 99, and Max has to go to the car to get the formula, he goes to the front door, opens it, and walks right out. None of the numerous locks are engaged. That's pretty strange, considering the severity of the situation and that every other time anyone that knocks on the door, they have to lean against the and wait for Max (or 99 in later episodes) to open the door.(Jodi)
123. Age
Before Duty 5th December 1969
When Max, 99 and the Chief
came down to the photo lab, Max picks up the waste basket and empties it
to the ground. The torn up photo comes out as well as a bottle of Dorien
Gray. When Max puts the waste basket back on the ground, he puts it over
the Dorien Gray bottle. Then later on, Max picks up the bottle. How could
he pick it up if it was under the waste basket? (Dale B)
124. Is
This Trip Necessary 12th December 1969
125. Ice
Station Siegfried 19th December 1969
One big blooper!!! Why didn't
Don appear in this episode? A tooth-ache?, Would you believe,.....creative
differences! (PJB)
There are many times in that
episode in which we can see obviously that it was filmed in a gray room.
If you look closely, you can see the shadows
of the people and the dogsled
on the wall behind them. (Aaron R. Taylor)
Penguins live in the South
Pole, not North Pole. (Andrew Steinberg)
126. Moonlighting
Becomes You 2nd January 1970
99 asks Max how he knew the
gun fired real bullets, the Chief steps in to explain, saying that he knew
because Max had shot him earlier. This doesn't in any way explain
how Max knew. (Bailey)
127 & 128. House
of Max, Parts I and II 9th & 16th January 1970
Max's hands are tied behind
his back as he hangs over the cauldron of boiling wax. When the executioner
cuts the rope and Max swings away from the cauldron and falls to the floor,
his hands are untied and his arms are outstretched. When he hits the floor
and crawls under the table, his hands are tied behind his back again. (Dan)
The werewolf is shot while
standing directly in front of Max. None of the bullets pass through him.
(Andrew Steinberg)
129. Rebecca
of Funny-Folk Farm 23rd January 1970
This could be debatable,
but Max says that he does not know 99's real name. He should have heard
it during their wedding ceremony or seen it on the marriage certificate.
(Andrew Steinberg)
130. The
Mess of Adrian Listenger 30th January 1970
There are shots by Max into
the door when the Chief visits. They are only visible on one side of the
door when it is opened (i.e. the bullets never penetrated the door). Later
back at Max an 99's apartment the same door is in view and it has been
repaired. (James K)
1. There is a hole in the
Chief's umbrella at the funeral, which was dripping on his jacket. ( Mike
F. )
2. When Wheems was about to
eat at his desk, he places the napkin on his desk, also covering part of
the notebook. But when he puts the egg in front of Max, the napkin is not
visible on the desk or notebook. ( Mike F. )
3. After Max fires at the
door, they start running toward it; 99 first and then Max, but when they
arrive, Max is there first and 99 shows up after him on his right. You
also have to give the crew credit for PERFECTLY synchronizing the bullet
shots with their appearance on the door. ( Mike F. )
4. When Max & the Chief
leave the apartment, the bullet holes are not on the other side of the
door. Did they go through?
5. When Max & 99 are having
breakfast, and 99 asks Max when was the last time he saw the Chief, the
bullet holes in the door are gone. Also, Max has the same shirt & tie
on as the day before. This scene was probably shot before the door shooting
scene. ( Mike F. )
6. When Max & the Chief
see Wheems in the balcony, they are standing in the middle of the room,
just before that, they were standing right next to the door. ( Mike F.
)
7. When Larabee calls Max
to tell him the Chief will meet him for lunch, he only dials 6 numbers.
Telcos started using 7 (NPA-NXX-LINE) in the early 60's. ( Mike F )
131. Witness
for the Execution 6th February 1970
In the very first scene, before
the dialogue between Max and the Chief begins... notice the dust
storm kicking up high winds and dust. Watch for the windmill
in the background. The winds are very strong, yet the windmill is
not turning at all! (Ray & Paul Plazek)
When Deitrich arrives with
the Chief through the window, there is no fish tank in the apartment Max
later used to submerge the bomb-in-the-Bon-Bon Box. ( Mike F.)
132. How
Green Was My Valet 13th February 1970
When Max is practicing his
valet skills at the apartment and trips down the stairs throwing the platter
at the table where the chief is sitting, take a look at what's on the table.
When the closeup shows the Chief talking, there is food on his plate and
other items, including the goblet are in different positions from the medium
shot, which doesn't show any food on the Chief's plate, and the goblet
location is different. ( Mike F.)
After Max knocks over the
suite of armor, watch 99's hands as she stands. In the long shot they are
in different positions from the closeups of her. ( Mike F.)
When Max brings the ambassador
the tea, he puts the mug on some papers, after he pours the water into
it and a cut, the papers and mug are at a different angle and location.
( Mike F.)
When Max fails to open the
safe and the the Ambassador storms in, the zoom onto the wall safe
shows the mug is now missing from the desk, yet it should be there. ( Mike
F.)
When Max dials Control on
his shoephone in the Wine Cellar, he dials counterclockwise and only 3
digits. (Mike F.)
Was anyone else listening closely when that woman (Zachary) was introducing
Max & 99 as the new valet and maid to the ambassador? If I'm not mistaken,
she introduced them as "Maxwell and Nina". But, it sounded like she
pronounce the "Nina" as "Nine-ah". (Lisa Fulfs)
133. And
Only Two Ninety-Nine 20th February 1970
Check Sonja's (the impostor
99) watch. I am not sure of the time but I think it is around 2.15. A strange
time for breakfast as the continuity showed. (James K)
In fact, the watch shows a
time of 10:15. Not an unreasonable time for sending Max to work after
a big breakfast. The watch is shown in close-up as Max gets a hug
on way to work. (Mongo)
When Sonja is kissing Max
at breakfast, her right arm is wrapped around his back differently at the
close-up than just before the closeup. ( Mike F.)
When Sonja brings a tray of
breakfast out for Max, how did she open the swinging doors? They open toward
the kitchen. ( Mike F.)
When Chief and Larabee are
at Max's apartment questioning 99 & Sonja, shouldn't the Chief have
known the real 99 was in the red outfit? ( Mike F.)
134. Smartacus
27th
February 1970
Max calls Control, and Larabee
hangs up on him. The phone is still hanging in the basket. The Chief then
says that he'll use his key. However, in the next shot of the phone, the
phone is back on the hook. (Dale B)
When 99 brings the twins into
the apt, she turns on the light with her elbow, but the switch stays in
the down position ( she almost seems to hesitate for a moment, but continues
into the room ) BTW how did she open the door with no keys in her hands
and be able to turn the doorknob? ( Mike F.)
How could Max & the chief
maneuver the laundry basket over to the pay phone when they're inside of
it? Was there a hole on the bottom? ( Mike F.)
135. What's
It All About, Algie? 24th April 1970
136. Hello
Columbus, Goodbye America 1st May 1970
137. Do
I Hear a Vaults 8th May 1970
The scene where Max and Larabee
arrive at the bank and survey the CONTROL agents protecting them was lifted
entirely from The Treasure of C. Errol Madre. I don't mean that they just
redid the scene, they actually just used the same film from the earlier
episode. (Carl)
In this episode the shot of
the policeman wearing tennis shoes is repeated from an earlier episode.
Unless this is a running gag I don't remember, then they just used the
same tape.. .(Mongo)
138. I
Am Curiously Yellow 15th May 1970
During the scene when Max
grabs 99's hand and starts kissing her palm. I noticed a fake fingernail
on Max's right index finger. (Sue)
The
Nude Bomb (aka
The Return of Maxwell Smart)
(1980 Clive Donner directed)
1. Whenever Max comes out
of the cloning machine, his reflection doesn't appear on the mirror.
2. When the real Max gets
up with the shoe on him, he and Savage start fighting. One is on the left
side, the other on the right. But in the next shot, they switch sides at
fighting. Max keeps his shoe on his face while they are fighting. Max then
rips off Savage's mask. But in the next shot, Max's shoe is off too.(Kristian
W)
3. In the opening scene in
the airplane, the man holds a gun to Max. He is holding it in his right
hand. They then show a closeup of the gun and the man is holding it in
his left hand. They then show the whole man and it's back in his right
hand.
4. During one chase scene
with the desk car, you can see the ramp the car uses to go on two wheels.
At the end, after the evil man spread the gas and bullets and is pulling
"Maxes" over to find the right one, you can tell that it's just Max each
time crawling to a new location because his arms would still be over the
body as he's been flipped over and that body doesn't have the old Max's
arm over it as he reaches for the next Max. Or something like that.
5. The seamstress whom has
been cloned is not identical: it is just a twin sister. Excellent attempt,
however.
6. And the car with Max, Larabee
and the Chief drive into the back of the semi with scarcely any room. The
next scene has the doors wide open and the rest of his team crawling in.
7. When Max and Agent 22 drive
to California to see Dolly Winston, they drive separate cars all the way
from Washington to California and pull up in front of the house at the
same time. Strange. Not quite a blooper, but still odd. (Dan C)
8. Max shoots the machine
gun from the deskmobile at the faux chief's car. The window is shot with
bullet holes and the trim falls off. Then the chief drives onto the bridge
and causes a chainreaction accident and you see the chief sitting in his
stopped car looking back through a back window with no bullet holes. (Dan
C)
9. When Max is driving the
tram and chasing Norman in his tram, a couple shots show Max driving with
an empty tram when there are actually about a dozen people on his tram.
(Dan C)
Get
Smart Again!
One of the best of any TV Re-Unions movies (1989
Leonard Stern written, Burt Nodella directed)
When Siegfried and Max meet
in the park and then head for the rec center, and after the whole fighting
thing, Seigfried is asked to undress...he's wearing a (red) sneaker. ONE
sneaker! And here's one that I have to look into: Don's wearing a wedding
(obviously cause he was probably married at the time) But I don't see one
on Barbara's finger. seeing as Max and 99 are married, she should have
one, but I'm not sure about it. I just don't remember seeing one. (Gina)
99 is wearing a wedding band,
at least in most of the scenes. Max however did not wear one for
the greater part of the 5th season. (Bailey)
Siegfried is ordered to strip
by Max as Hymie brings in the Professor. Siegfried hands over his neck
cover (I think that's called a "dickey"?) and the professor puts it on.
As Hymie escorts Siegfried out we see a back view of the Professor and
he does not have that article of clothing on. (Dan)
When Max, 99, Bemish, and
Smelding are hanging from the wall, Max's shoe lifts are higher than everyone
else's. (Gina)
When Max and the book publisher
are fighting, you see Max hit the smoke button. Then, a few moments later,
you see him get clocked in the jaw.
Watch carefully when he falls
down. If you look closely, you can see him scoot across the floor (actually,
you only see his legs) and move to where
he is when the smoke lifts.
Pretty funny... (Talia Myres)
When Max and Siegfried meet
(at Siegfried is replaced by his twin brother), in the middle of the scene,
Siegfried has a boot in one foot and a tennis shoe in the other. At the
beginning and at the end of the scene, of course, he's wearing boots on
both feet. (Adriana L. Boccaloni)
when Max arrives at the restaurant
to meet 99 for lunch, Commander Drury (in disguise) meets him at the front
and tells him not to tell her about the assignment or meet her for lunch.
Max says, "You're asking me to lie to 99. I've never lied to her
in my life and I'm not going tostart now!" Well, Max, that's not exactly
true . . . in "Classification: Dead" (#72, 3rd season), 99 arrives at Max's
apartment to check on him after she hears he's been poisoned. He
tells her exactly what happened with Janice. 99 looks hurt for a
minute then says, "You told me you were working last night." Max
looks sheepish and says, "Well,
all work and no play . . . " "Makes Max a dead boy," 99 says.
He gives her a strange look and she immediately says, "Oh, I'm sorry, Max,
I shouldn't have said that." Then, of course, she helps him find
Janice, Mr. Hercules and even loans him money to pay for the antidote that
Dr. Steele comes up with. (Jodie)
Larabee hands Max the
bottle of poison pills that the Major just took. Max starts to read
and says "Listen to this:" He was holding the bottle in his right hand,
then the camera angle changes and he continues his sentence with the bottle
in his left hand. (Dan C)
When Max returns late at home
and sits down on the bed, he begins unbuttoning his shirt. He unbuttons
it all the way, but when he stands up to talk to 99, only the top two buttons
were unbuttoned. (Dee)
Max is fighting that KAOS agent in his home. He's trying to stay quiet so 99 won't hear. And if
you look closely, the time on the clock changes by five minutes in different
scenes . . .(Jodi)
Jodi
The Dreaded
1995
Fox Series (aka the Andy Dick show)
(1994)
1. Pilot
8th
January 1995
Finding something wrong in
this series may be a full time job but so far superfan Dale has found ...........in
the Pilot episode when Max sets the computer on fire, he tries putting
it out with a folder. Then we see the water come out of the ceiling. After
that, we see Max again, only the folder is no where to be seen. (Dale B)
When Kaos Agent Lars (Spelling?)
tries to shoot 66, Max stands in front of her, then Zach stands in front
of Max. 66 says that Zach saved her life. But really, Max saved 66, and
Zach saved Max. (Dale B)
In the first scene with Max
and 99, Max has a bank of clocks behind his desk which never move during
the three minutes the scene takes. Also, my wife seems to think that
99's briefcase is open, then she leans down on her elbows on her closed
briefcase with no time to close it. It's out of the picture for a
split second, so I'll let others make the decision. (Dan C)
2. Casino
Evil
3. Goodbye
Ms. Chip
...the Marine security guard
stops Zach at the metal detector. Zach tells him he's from Control and
opens his wallet. The guard replies, "That's a gas card, Sir". Zach answers,
"Good job, Sergeant." The guard has only two stripes giving him the rank
of corporal. If I am wrong on this, someone who knows better please correct
me. Also in the same episode, Max and 99 reminisce about their first kiss
and when they found out they were in love. They said it was the torture
chambers in Turkey, I believe? We all know it was when Max and 99 were
dressed up in Charlie Chaplan outfits in the tv studio in "The Impossible
Mission". (Dale C)
...he is most correct on the
striping of that sergeant wannabe... A corporal would indead have 2 cheverons
while a plain old sergeant has 3 cheverons. A staff sergeant has 3 cheverons
and a rocker... (my mother was a marine) (Amanda H)
4. Shooting
Up the Charts
5. Passenger
99
6. Wurst
Enemies
When Max and Siegfried tackle
the world globe, Max has knocked the gun out of Siegfried's hands. The
position of the gun changes. (Dale)
Max is talking to Siegfriend
on one phone and 66 on another. At one point, he is supposedly talking
to 66 and giving his plan to her but ends up talking to Siegfried.
The phone he's talking on is actually the one that 66 is on, not Siegfried.
(Dan C)
7. Liver
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