Line #16 Awesome/GetSmart


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4	![[Series/GetSmart TV series]]
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6	[[AC:Max]]
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8	Once in a blue moon, Max would actually do something intelligent. This was so rare, they all become Crowning Moments of Awesome by default.
9	* 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]]: When he puts the chicken mask on in court, intending to recreate the events of the evening, the judge tells him to "remove that ridiculous chicken head so that I can see your face!" Max [[EurekaMoment gets a brainwave]] and asks to cross-examine the man who identified him at the embassy.
10	-->'''Max''': And then, did you or did you not rush across that crowded room and shout "I know that man, it's Maxwell Smart!"\
11	'''Witness''': Yes I did.\
12	'''Max''': [[WhamLine But how could you possibly have recognised me when my face was completely hidden by this chicken mask?]]
13	* In one episode, a [[TheMole mole]] steals a gun 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.
14	* 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.
15	* For a rare physical display of awesomeness from Max, see the SwordFight in the climax of the Season 3 episode "The King Lives." You won't be able to watch it without saying "LetsGetDangerous!" in your head.
16	** There's also "A Spy for a Spy" where he manages to single-handedly apprehend one of KAOS's top assassins to use in a prisoner exchange for the Chief.
17	* Max gets two in "The Spy Who Met Himself." First, he fights off two KAOS agents single-handedly (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.
18	* In "Die, Spy," Max [[SherlockScan deduces from the way two fallen leaves are positioned on the windshield of a car that the hood was lifted so a bomb could be planted inside]]. Everyone tells him that's ridiculous... right before the bomb goes off.
19	* Despite having been taken in just as much as everyone else by Siegfried's FakeDefector ploy, Max manages to derail the latter's plans to kidnap all of CONTROL's leadership after knocking them all out with sleeping gas by secretly wearing a nose filter, pretending to be asleep and ambushing Siegfried at the right moment. How did he figure it out? Siegfried had complimented the smell of Max's lapel flower despite it being made of plastic thus giving away the fact that Siegfried was wearing a nose filter and thus couldn't smell. Even Siegfried is impressed at Max's deduction.
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21	[[AC:Agent 99]]
22	* 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 out 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!
23	* 99 also saves the day in "The Day They Raided The Knights," when she's put on leave due to budget cuts at CONTROL. She uncovers the KAOS munitions distribution point at her new job and manages to notify the Chief before she gets caught and tied up. When Max arrives, she escapes from the room unnoticed [[WithMyHandsTied while still tied up]] to warn him what's going on, and gets back in time to knock out the woman who was about to shoot him -- again, ''still'' tied up.
24	-->'''The Chief:''' You're going to get a commendation for this, 99. I don't care what the computer says, you're going back to work!
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27	* 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 promised 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]].
28	* "Tequila Mockingbird" opens with CONTROL agent Esperanza brawling with a KAOS agent in a bell tower, winning, and escaping with the MacGuffin artifact of the episode. She's killed shortly after, but not before she manages to hide the artifact and leave clues that would later lead Max and 99 to its hiding place. It's easy to see why everyone says she was one of their best agents.
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30	![[Film/GetSmart 2008 film]]
31	* 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.
32	* 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.
33	* 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 Krstic, when 99 kicks a machine gun lying at her feet towards Max, and in one smooth motion he catches it and gives Krstic a single bullet through the heart. And he does it as though it were nothing.
34	** Even before than he managed to kill at least 2 guards with his gun despite his lack of real experience.
35	* The SquirrelsInMyPants 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.
36	* The moment where Max convinces Dalip not to kill him and 99. [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower By giving him relationship advice]].
37	* The moment where The Chief finally gives the Vice President the beating he's "been waiting since Nixon!" to give.
38	** And then when the Chief slugs a Secret Service agent who makes the mistake of being a bit snotty towards him: "Speak up, son. I'm an old man, you know."
39	* Carrell's Max finally getting in the iconic Sunbeam Tiger and driving it ''out of a freaking building'', theme music blaring behind him (only to quickly run out of gas), followed immediately by Bernie Kopell's cameo. And incidentally, 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.
40	* More impressively, there's Max's 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.
41	* Agent 99 is being held captive by TheMole, handcuffed to the support handle in the backseat, and making things difficult for him:
42	--->'''Agent 23''': ''[after 99 kicks his pistol out of the car]'' See, this is your problem! Some men like women who are feminine!
43	--->'''Agent 99''': ''[disbelieving outrage]'' What, I'm not feminine?!
44	--->'''Agent 23''': ''Nooo''.
45	---> '''Agent 99''': [[BerserkButton I'M NOT FEMININE]]?!?!
46	---> ''[Kicks him in the face -- from the backseat of the car]''
47	* '''Agent 86''': Would you believe, in the piano?
48	* Also at the end, where Dhalip, 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.
49	%%* Carrell's Max driving the iconic Sunbeam Tiger heroically ''out of a freaking building'', theme music blaring behind him. (And incidentally, 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.
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