History Awesome / GetSmart

* The SquirrelInMyPants scene is comedy reminiscent of the original series, with the aftermath being Max's clothing ruined by the high-powered lasers that he had to navigate. However, that Max was able to get through it under such circumstances with ''only'' ClothingDamage to show for it shows impressive dexterity.

* '''Agent 86''': Would you believe, in the piano?
* Also at the end, where Dhalip, [[spoiler:having since befriended Max and taken too much of Siegfried's shit, punches him out the car and into the river, with TheDragon remarking upon his hangtime]].

** Even before than he managed to kill at least 2 guards with his gun despite his lack of real expirence.
* More impressively, there's his escape from a CONTROL holding cell. Not only is his plan clever and pulled off skillfully, it involves getting beaten by a pair of guards. Yes, it is ''part of the plan'' that he gets a beating. Then once he's escaped he has the sheer guts to go and deliver his crucial information directly to the chief of CONTROL -- that is, the man from whose cell he just escaped.
* The moment where Max convinces Dalip not to kill him and 99. [[spoiler: By giving him relationship advice]].

* Max gets one earlier, when he fends off what he thinks is an invasion of the base with little but a fire hose and a fire extinguisher. Sure, it was just his fellow agents, but that doesn't make it any less awesome of a plan.

--->[[spoiler: '''Agent 23''']]: ''[after 99 kicks his pistol out of the car]'' See, this is your problem! Some men like women who are feminine!

--->[[spoiler: '''Agent 23''']]: ''Nooo''.

* Max finally getting in the classic car (only to immediately run out of gas), followed immediately by [[spoiler: Bernie Kopell's cameo]].
* Carrell's Max driving the iconic Sunbeam Tiger heroically ''out of a freaking building'', theme music blaring behind him. (And incidentally, [[spoiler:Kopell]] is driving an Opel GT, Max's season 5 car, as a VW Karmann Ghia (Max's car in all but the opening in seasons 3-4) passes behind them. ContinuityPorn FTW.
* The party infiltration: Three AlphaBitch types reject Max's offer for a dance only for him to reveal that he was actually asking the shy and heavy-set woman sitting behind them. Max's effort is awesome not only because of his dancing ability -- including being able to ''lift'' the woman (though to be fair she did leap) -- but also in that his offer was entirely sincere and is shown to have given the woman renewed self-confidence.

!TV series

!2008 film

* A subtle but effective one that sneaks up on you -- one time KAOS tries to discredit Max as a court witness by making him appear legally insane, even [[ItsACostumePartyISwear getting him to show up at a formal affair in a chicken suit]]... but Max manages to [[ClearMyName uncover the plot anyway]].
--> (''Max puts on the head of the chicken suit in court'') "Can you see my face in this?"
--> "This is ridiculous! I will not..."
--> "Answer the question! ''Can you see my face?''"
--> "Of course not!"
--> "Precisely! [[WhamLine Why would you say 'I know who that is!' BEFORE removing my mask?]]"

* In one episode, a [[TheMole mole]] steals a gas that causes adults to mentally revert to their childhoods, then pretends someone else took it and used it on her. She does this by skipping rope and babbling about how much she loves watching ''Series/CaptainKangaroo''. Max figures out she's faking it because ''Captain Kangaroo'' wasn't on when she was a child.

* Max gets 2 in "The Spy Who Met Himself." First, he fights off two KAOS agents singlehandedly (three if you count the double of Agent 13 he knocked out with a locker door), beating them and escaping (he wouldn't have been caught at all if the double of the Chief hadn't tricked him). Later, after Siegfried locks him in a GasChamber DeathTrap, he calmly uses all the little spy gadgets on him to pick the lock on his handcuffs, filter the air so he can breathe, and remove the bars from the window to escape.

* Her DayInTheLimelight "And Only Two 99" is, unsurprisingly, full of these. First, she recalls how she gave the woman who came to kidnap her a black eye. They still got her, but she managed to escape without them even knowing she got away. So she goes back without them even knowing she was ever gone [[PlayAlongPrisoner so she can figure what their plan is]]. When she finds out, she escapes by pulling a WoundedGazelleGambit and arrives home in time to stop her imposter from fatally poisoning her husband. The imposter attacks the Chief when he tries to arrest her, but 99 knocks her out with one punch. Whew, that was a mouthful!

* Max also performs a successful SherlockScan during Siegfried's FakeDefector scheme, saving all the Chiefs of CONTROL from being kidnapped. Even Siegfried himself is impressed.

* Rosa La Costa in "Pheasant Under Glass": Max and 99 get into a KAOS mansion undercover as an opera singer so she can sing a high C that will break the unbreakable glass cell where a professor is being held captive in the basement. However, after she sings the note, they go down to the basement to find the glass booth still completely intact. So what does she do? "I promise CONTROL I would break that glass, and I'm ''going'' to break it! Step aside!" She then runs at the booth, knocks it over, and [[CuttingTheKnot breaks it with her bare hands]].

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* In one episode, a [[TheMole mole]] steals a gas that causes adults to mentally revert to their childhoods then pretends someone else took it and used it on her. She does this by skipping rope and babbling about how much she loves watching ''Series/CaptainKangaroo''. Max figures out she's faking it because Captain Kangaroo wasn't on when she was a child.
* One time KAOS frames Max for armed robbery and murder by having one of their agents wear a lifelike Max mask for the robbery. Max is tried and convicted but manages to escape. He tracks the imposter to a cheap motel, narrowly avoiding the police, who then surround the motel. Max tells the imposter the motel is surrounded by CONTROL agents, tricking the imposter into putting on the Max mask. The imposter rushes out, is killed by the police... and the real Max steps forward and removes the mask, proving his innocence.

[[AC:2008 film]]

->'''Agent 86''': Would you believe, in the piano?

* Max has two other big moments this editor can think of:
** One, at a point of the film where we know Max is a great analyst but are still unsure whether he's a competent agent or just a bumbler, he and 99 are cornered by an armed henchman, when 99 kicks a machine gun lying at her feet towards Max, and in one smooth motion he catches it and gives the henchman a single bullet through the heart. And he does it as though it were nothing.
** Two, and more impressively, there's his escape from a CONTROL holding cell. Not only is his plan clever and pulled off skillfully, it involves getting beaten by a pair of guards. Yes, it is ''part of the plan'' that he gets a beating. Then once he's escaped he has the sheer guts to go and deliver his crucial information directly to the chief of CONTROL -- that is, the man from whose cell he just escaped.

* For this longtime fan of the original series, there were two in rapid succession: Max finally getting in the classic car (only to immediately run out of gas), followed immediately by [[spoiler: Bernie Kopell's cameo]].
** The vast majority of the film had me doubled-over in nerd rage, but even I couldn't help but cheer at Carrell's Max driving the iconic Sunbeam Tiger heroically ''out of a freaking building'', theme music blaring behind him. (And incidentally, [[spoiler:Kopell]] is driving an Opel GT, Max's season 5 car, as a VW Karmann Ghia (Max's car in all but the opening in seasons 3-4) passes behind them. ContinuityPorn FTW.

* In one episode, a [[TheMole mole]] steals a gas that causes adults to mentally revert to their childhoods then pretends someone else took it and used it on her. She does this by skipping rope and babbling about how much she loves watching CaptainKangaroo. Max figures out she's faking it because Captain Kangaroo wasn't on when she was a child.

--->'''Agent 99''': ''[disbelieving outrage]'' I'm not feminine?!

---> ''[Kicks him in the face -- from the back seat of the car]''
* For this longtime fan of the original series, there were two in rapid succession: Max finally getting in the classic car (even if that plan backfires), followed immediately by [[spoiler: Bernie Kopell's cameo]].

* Agent 99 is being held captive by TheMole, and making things difficult for him:
--->[[spoiler: '''Agent 23''']]: See, this is your problem. Some men like women who are feminine!
--->'''Agent 99''': ''[Disbelieving outrage]'' I'm not feminine?!

---> '''Agent 99''': '''''[[BerserkButton I'm not feminine]]'''''?!?!

* Once in a blue moon, Max would actually do something intelligent. This was so rare, they all become Crowning Moments of Awesome by default.
** A subtle but effective one that sneaks up on you -- one time KAOS tries to discredit Max as a court witness by making him appear legally insane, even [[ItsACostumePartyISwear getting him to show up at a formal affair in a chicken suit]]... but Max manages to [[ClearMyName uncover the plot anyway]].

** In one episode, a [[TheMole mole]] steals a gas that causes adults to mentally revert to their childhoods then pretends someone else took it and used it on her. She does this by skipping rope and babbling about how much she loves watching CaptainKangaroo. Max figures out she's faking it because Captain Kangaroo wasn't on when she was a child.
** One time KAOS frames Max for armed robbery and murder by having one of their agents wear a lifelike Max mask for the robbery. Max is tried and convicted but manages to escape. He tracks the imposter to a cheap motel, narrowly avoiding the police, who then surround the motel. Max tells the imposter the motel is surrounded by CONTROL agents, tricking the imposter into putting on the Max mask. The imposter rushes out, is killed by the police... and the real Max steps forward and removes the mask, proving his innocence.

** And then when the Chief slugs a Secret Service agent who makes the mistake of being a bit snotty towards him: "You'll have to speak up, son. I'm an old man, you know."

* Once in a blue moon, Max would actually do something intelligent. This was so rare, they all become CMOAs by default.
** A subtle but effective one that sneaks up on you - one time KAOS tries to discredit Max as a court witness by making him appear legally insane, even [[ItsACostumePartyISwear getting him to show up at a formal affair in a chicken suit]]... but Max manages to [[ClearMyName uncover the plot anyway.]]
--> (Max puts on the head of the chicken suit in court) "Can you see my face in this?"

** One time KAOS frames Max for armed robbery and murder by having one of their agents wear a lifelike Max mask for the robbery. Max is tried and convicted but manages to escape. He tracks the imposter to a cheap motel, narrowly avoiding the police, who then surround the motel. Max tells the imposter the motel is surrounded by CONTROL agents, tricking the imposter into putting on the Max mask. The imposter rushes out, is killed by the police...and the real Max steps forward and removes the mask, proving his innocence.

->'''Agent 86:''' Would you believe, in the piano?
* Also at the end, where Dhalip, [[spoiler:having since befriended Max and taken too much of Siegfried's shit, punches him out the car and into the river, with TheDragon remarking upon his hangtime.]]

* The moment where Max convinces Dalip not to kill him and 99. [[spoiler: By giving him relationship advice.]]

* A subtle but effective one that sneaks up on you - one time KAOS tries to discredit Max as a court witness by making him appear legally insane, even [[ItsACostumePartyISwear getting him to show up at a formal affair in a chicken suit]]... but Max manages to [[ClearMyName uncover the plot anyway.]]

** The vast majority of the film had me doubled-over in nerd rage, but even I couldn't help but cheer at Carrell's Max driving the Sunbeam Tiger heroically ''out of a freaking building'', theme music blaring behind him. (And incidentally, [[spoiler:Kopell]] is driving an Opel GT, Max's season 5 car, as a VW Karmann Ghia (Max's car in all but the opening in seasons 3-4) passes behind them. ContinuityPorn FTW.

** The vast majority of the film had me doubled-over in nerd rage, but even I couldn't help but cheer at Carrell's Max driving the Sunbeam Tiger heroically ''out of a freaking building'', theme music blaring behind him. (And incidentally, [[spoiler:Kopell] is driving an Opel GT, Max's season 5 car, as a VW Karmann Ghia (Max's car in all but the opening in seasons 3-4) passes behind them. ContinuityPorn FTW.

--> "Precisely! [[WhamLine Why would you say 'I know who that is!' BEFORE removing my mask?]]"