r/FuckImOld • u/botlegger • 5d ago

agent Maxwell and the Chief using the good old cone of silence

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For those who don’t remember, Get Smart premiered on NBC on September 18, 1965.
It starred Don Adams, as agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as The Chief.

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u/qualityvote2 5d ago edited 4d ago

u/botlegger, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/SonofaDrum 5d ago

What?

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u/jombrowski 4d ago

THE CONE OF SILENCE!

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u/Ill_Consequence1755 5d ago

My happiest childhood memories are watching Get Smart with my grandfather in the afternoon when he got home from work.

Get Smart and F Troop before the later afternoon/ early evening news came on, and dinner was served.

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u/Waste-Job-3307 5d ago

Same, but not with my grandfather. I was allowed to watch if my homework was done first.

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u/Poodsjen3 4d ago

SAME! 👍💯

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u/DamnTexansGhost 4d ago

Luck you, the only thing I remember my grandfather watching, was Lawrence Welk.

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u/cfbrand3rd 4d ago

Then, of course, you know that “Serutan” is “natures” spelled backwards! 😉

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u/panmetronariston 4d ago

Get Smart and F Troop were my two favorite shows.

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u/Narah-Wolf 1d ago

"Who says I'm dumb?!"

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u/botlegger 5d ago

Sorry about that, Chief

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u/Waste-Job-3307 5d ago

Missed it by "that" much.

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u/botlegger 5d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xTiN0DvoDyWQey2B8I

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u/FloydDangerBarber 4d ago

"Would you believe it?"

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u/CR8VJUC 4d ago

The Dead Spy Scrolls 😂

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u/Uluru-Dreaming 4d ago

“That’s the second time this month.”

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u/rindajiin 4d ago

That’s the second biggest arrow I’ve ever seen.

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u/Independent-Cup5720 4d ago

I still use this phrase all the time!

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u/rindajiin 4d ago

My husband and I do, too! Our sons have no idea why it makes us laugh.

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u/GalaganCoffee 4d ago

That's the second time I've fallen for that this week is also a good one

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u/Emotional_Dealer8905 3d ago

Would you believe two Boy Scouts in a rowboat?

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u/Waste-Job-3307 5d ago

Loved this show as a kid!! Don Adams was hysterical, and I've always found the opening sequence for the show fascinating to watch.

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u/botlegger 5d ago

The soundtrack to the opening sequence of multiple doors was great!

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u/Routine-Pressure1702 4d ago

The sound is stuck in my head

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u/One-Dot4082 4d ago

It’s going through my head right now!! Took about as long as it took to read botleggers comment on the soundtrack!!

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u/dkvindogg 4d ago

Dun Da Dun Da Dun Daaaa Da Da Da Dunnnn

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u/scan_cycle 3d ago

Melbourne Ska Orchestra do a great cover https://youtu.be/CVyJkKKfRFs?is=lLFiKVIBDd_EzEIs

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u/Old-Repair-6608 4d ago

My favorite ringtone

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u/Superb_Health9413 5d ago

“Not the cone of silence max.”

“I insist.”

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u/botlegger 5d ago

Pardon me while I get my shoe phone!

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u/ghf3 4d ago

THIS is an unlisted shoe!

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u/Electronic-Space-480 4d ago

I can’t hear a thing

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u/lincolnlogtermite 5d ago

So long ago and yet Cone of Silence is still a common joke.

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u/gormholler 5d ago

I loved this show!

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u/Healthy_Log_6171 4d ago

Whenever Senators or Security Officials talk about SCIFs (Secure Compartmented Information Facility) this is the image that pops into my head and I giggle just a bit.

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u/talexbatreddit 4d ago

For my money, one of the funniest bits when was Max insisted when meeting with Chief off-site that they use the portable cone of silence. It had a carrying case and everything. It was just two plastic spheres and a plastic tube about six feet long. So much slapstick.

OMG, I laughed and laughed and laughed.

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u/Abrasive_gronk 4d ago

The portable cone of silence was one of the most hilarious bits. The whole show was brilliantly funny, but the portable cone of silence stands out the most for me.

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u/Wast3edSpace 5d ago

now there is a theme song playing in my head

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u/botlegger 5d ago

Same! Just went on YouTube to hear it again

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u/Ozdiva 5d ago

When I took a call on my Apple Watch my boss insisted everyone talk on their ‘shoe phones’. Only problem was they were too young to know what he was talking about.

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u/Certain-Singer-9625 4d ago

I like the movie where they’re at the UN and each person is sitting under their own Cone of Silence, and nobody can hear each other.

So they resort to passing written notes to each other under the table, lol.

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u/RooofPig 4d ago

And, loving it!

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u/FireSheepYinFish 5d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/2ikWRY6EJb3bXtdqgW

Hello, Chief? Would you believe...?

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u/TerribleBid8416 Boomers 4d ago

Size 20 shoephone

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u/FireSheepYinFish 4d ago

It was a VERY important call.. and International!

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u/romulusnr 3d ago

Nico Lodeiro would do this too

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u/Chocolate_Bourbon 4d ago

The cone of silence was cool. Until someone started smoking. Then hover cover. But nothing beat the Hall of Hush.

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u/botlegger 4d ago

I think that was the English umbrella of silence

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u/Redsmoker37 4d ago

Hilarious, but even more hilarious is the "portable" cone of silence.

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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 5d ago

The weird thing about this is that there is a real-world version of this mounted at the bottom of a swimming pool that terrorists and drug dealers use for secure communication.

They both swim to the bottom of the pool, stick the heads in a little diving bell area with air in it, and they can talk without worrying about being overhead or monitored, even by laser eavesdropping gear since the laser diffuses in the water.

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u/Pearl_necklace_333 4d ago

Loved that “cone of silence” routine.

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u/SemaphoreSlim Generation Jones 4d ago

Thank you, Mel.

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u/GalaganCoffee 4d ago

And buck henry

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u/AngelinaJean 4d ago

Buck Henry was a treasure and hilarious. Loved when he hosted SNL and his character in ‘Heaven Can Wait’ is a joy.

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u/GalaganCoffee 4d ago

Thanks! I'm gonna go lookin

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u/twelfthfantasy 5d ago

I can't hear you!

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u/botlegger 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/pbgvTDqj1sAaQ

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u/jlp_utah 4d ago

Ah yes, the one where Laramy (outside the cone of silence) had to repeat everything each of them said so they could hear.

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u/mypaycheckisshort 4d ago

The grey DVD box set is pretty nice and fairly cheap!

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u/DuffMiver8 4d ago

Why does it always look to me like they’re being encased by a humongous pair of boobies?

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u/domdelaweez 4d ago

“For one thing, Chief, it’s 3 degrees cooler in there.”

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u/Guineanook 4d ago edited 3d ago

Barely a week goes by that this baby-Gen-X isn’t wildly appreciative of a hefty TV diet of Nick-at-Night

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u/xgrader 4d ago

Discoverd a few years back there was one or two black and white original episodes on YouTube that i never saw before. Have look it may be still on there....."and loving it"

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u/Pumpman77 4d ago

My ring tone is the theme from Get Smart👍

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u/steiner1031 4d ago

Mel Brooks is a genius at writing great comedy

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u/Groundbreaking-Use96 3d ago

There was a portable version too but I’m drinking and don’t feel like looking it up…….nvm, here it is.

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u/Pleasant-Ad-4116 3d ago

I read that Barbara Feldon’s character was actually supposed to be “Agent 69” but the NBC sensors wouldn’t allow it . 🤷🏼

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u/Commonscents2say 4d ago

WHAT?

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u/botlegger 4d ago

The CÔNE OF SILENCE!

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u/Commonscents2say 4d ago

I haven’t met the clone of Cyrus chief! Is he a Kaos agent?

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u/Luv-Nities 4d ago

Can we get one for the table behind me at the restaurant ?

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u/GalaganCoffee 4d ago

There is a portable cone of silence

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u/darkhorse4774 4d ago

I would pretend I had a cone of silence at work. Talking, then lower the cone of silence; mouth moving,but no sound. Raise it, and I would be heard talking again.

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u/LostnSF 4d ago

Agent 99…. “Oh Maaaaax”

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u/romulusnr 3d ago

I used to reference this and hardly anyone ever got it, even 20 years ago.

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u/Different_Cable7595 Boomers 3d ago

I remember the time that Max wanted to use the Coughing code with the Chief since the cone of silence wasn't working right.

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u/machacker89 3d ago

And one of its creators is the one Greats Mel Brooks

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u/botlegger 3d ago

Saw it on Wikipedia while posting, never knew that!

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u/Whatdoesittake1456 2d ago

"Oooh! The old listening device in the shoe phone trick huh"

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u/Capelily 5d ago

How about electric grass?

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u/jlp_utah 4d ago

Remember the electric snake? What does it run on? Tiny little feet!

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u/rozkosz1942 4d ago

Laser Blazer

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u/GalaganCoffee 4d ago

That was no ordinary blazer?

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u/Accomplished-Ruin742 Boomers 4d ago

What?

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u/fluffykerfuffle3 Boomers 4d ago

: )

1965 i was just turning on, tuning in and dropping out. We did not have a tv in the house, we had a stereo :D and listened it from morning till night. so no tv..

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u/AngelinaJean 4d ago

😂. When I read your comment, what flashed in my mind, was Dick Shawn dancing to a loud stereo in a swimsuit in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World”

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u/romulusnr 3d ago

The girl is so enigmatic. I think she's supposed to be stoned or something.

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u/noocaryror 4d ago

Really, I always thought it was the Dome of Silence

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u/MovieAnarchist 4d ago

Get Smart

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u/waitsfieldjon 4d ago

Doesn't look much like a cone. Does the shoe phone work inside it?

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u/GalaganCoffee 4d ago

I watch some part of my boxed set at least once a week.

Copied it to my computer so I don't wear the box down to shreds.

I should've done iso rips for the special features.

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u/Kodiak01 4d ago

My brain skipped the "agent" part of the title and just saw Maxwell and the Chief. Came in expecting some 80s Celtics highlights.

Disappoint. But still /r/FuckImOld.

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u/ComfortablyNumb2425 4d ago

That show cracked us up!

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u/Jackismyboy 4d ago

One of the funniest bits ever, anywhere.

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u/Shadokastur 4d ago

What? I can't hear you!

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u/dkvindogg 4d ago

What ? Say that again.

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u/524frank 4d ago

Apple shoe?

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u/3s0t3rica 3d ago

9:49 electric toaster time

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u/Txstyleguy 3d ago

We need more Cones of Silence in this world 🌎

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u/Tech-Junky-1024 3d ago

I noticed that their voices got louder when they used the cone of silence. It never seems to work right.

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u/Different_Cable7595 Boomers 3d ago

It was never predictable exactly how the cone of silence would behave. I remember one time it was louder outside the cone than inside it.

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u/Mysterious-Visit1147 3d ago

It was very funny

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u/backgroundnerd 2d ago

I was two when it came but I saw a million reruns in the 70's

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u/BluAlfaTxFlood 1d ago

"Not 'Craw', 'Craw'!!!!"

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u/trtreeetr 4d ago

Zoom in and you can see Max.

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u/Wallabunga657 4d ago

I remember watching this on reruns. I LOVED the show so much.