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Get Smart
1965 · TV series · 25 min episodes · 5 seasons
Created by Buck Henry, Mel Brooks
Maxwell Smart, a hilariously inept and maladroit secret agent for CONTROL, battles the nefarious—though equally incompetent—KAOS.
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It reminds me of the Get Smart episode "Ironhand" (1969), where the top secret plans for the AAAMM (Anti-anti-anti-missile missile) are stolen.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0587527
(Mel Brooks & Buck Henry)
This was a fun series of games. They are especially fun if you've watched some of the source material they're constantly referencing and alluding to, like The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (the 1960s one, not the 2010s movie), Get Smart, etc. Still holds up.
Reminds me of the joke in Get Smart where they give Max a suicide pill and he asks "How do I get them to take it?"
Also the time when the manager of a supermarket (who looked like an FBI agent from a 1970s movie) thought I was shoplifting (I was going the wrong direction and did look scruffy and had a big bag with an open top) and followed me out holding a clipboard that I'm sure he would have whacked me with and said it was an accident if I'd given him any trouble.
I've had a high degree of satisfaction with AWS but I have done very little with their other APIs. My impression is that Google Cloud is in a class by itself having a difficult API to work with but that's because the authentication process is like the intro to the old Get Smart TV show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ankXUaWqQgM
it seems like LWA is like that for you and maybe that is a big pain point for everything else you are doing. auth is like that because it is so central: if it doesn't work you can't get anything done but boy you are in trouble if somebody can bypass it. I have been reworking an auth system in the last month and it is slow going because the risk is so high.
This hasn’t been my experience. My kids have loved Star Wars, Harry Potter, Space Jam, Looney Toons, Muppets, Uncle Buck, Top Gun, Ghostbusters, My Neighbor Tuturo, all the classic Disney movies, Mary Poppins, Get Smart, and others I’m sure I’m missing. They even like some of the light westerns thier grandparents put on. It’s not everything, but it’s most of what I’ve tried.
They currently love playing classic arcade games on a cabinet I built.
It depends on the kid, but I don’t think it’s just a generational thing. The limits tend to be very old movies with sound issues, which was my limit as well.
My multiple experiences with ChatGPT hallucination, even at minimum temperature, leaves me preferring a web search answer. Just last week, jq hallucinated three different jq syntaxes that failed to parse.
That being said, I had been using web search for several years looking for the Get Smart episode I had seen as a kid in the 1980s where the enemy agent explains that he can't give up his suicide ring because "That's how it works, if I take it off, my wife will kill me." Google Bard found the episode on the first try.
So, I tend to fall back to LLMs only when search engines fail me.
Batman was a parody of cop shows, and his utility belt was part of the joke. Get Smart did similar things to lampoon spy movies.
The Munsters had a running gag where Herman would look into a mirror and it would shatter. I'd still laugh every time.
not a movie but there's a classic get smart episode where all of the kaos agents captured turn out to be government agents.
Inspector Gadget was propaganda? Get Smart. The 80s had great TV shows, lots of Goodies like Black Adder. 90s gave us South Park, Simpsons, and many other highly entertaining gems.
The first scene in the first episode of Get Smart is of Maxwell receiving a shoephone call in the middle of a theater. Today, that scene is not funny, because it just makes Max look like an ordinary asshole who neglected to silence his phone.
I’d love to be able to see it and again, at risk of spreading false conspiracy theories, I can’t figure out why they haven’t declassified it yet. I mean, the DoD has practically admitted they don’t control the skies. How much worse could the MK Ultra documents be??
I suspect that the answer is “much worse.” This makes Get Smart seem like a documentary about the best case intelligence scenario…
It does rather imply that Get Smart was more of a documentary doesn't it
There's an old get smart episode where this entire criminal organisation was made up of spies from other countries infiltrating the organisation.
I agree... I remember an episode from "Get Smart" (60s TV show) where they make an joke on the dangers of "artificial sweeteners".
(If I had the money, I would just buy fruit, stevia extract, Zevia, and occasionally eat "real sugar" products... just to be on the safe side.)
There was an episode of 'Get Smart' where in order to keep the room quiet the words people spoke turned into word clouds. Eventually the room was so full they had to eat their words. This article reminded me of that.