Funny / The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

• Illya randomly honking at Napoleon in "The Hong-Kong Shilling Affair." While remaining utterly stone-faced.
• In "The Deephole Affair", the not-so-innocent of the week (a small-time crook whom Thrush mistakes for their target) responds to the Big Bad's plot: destroying Western California with an earthquake, because Californians like sunlight and he doesn't, with exactly what the audience is thinking: "What is your problem?"
• Illya's utter disbelief at Count Zark's music-hall vampire routine in "The Bat-Cave Affair".
• In "The Apple a Day Affair" (Season 3, Ep. 27), Illya Kuryakin bursts into a country cabin just as Napoleon Solo is to become Nina Lillette's husband in a literal Shotgun Wedding. When Solo implores Kuryakin to raise an objection in answer to the minister's request to "speak now or forever hold his peace", Kuryakin proceeds to spin off a story about Solo being his "brother-in-law" and "the father of my sister's nine children", and then starts listing the children's names. He rattles off three names ("... there's Robert, and Eunice, and Edward") before being interrupted. The names of the children he mentions are identical to those of three of the nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. ("Robert" being Robert F. Kennedy, and "Edward" being Ted Kennedy, along with their sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver). Kuryakin's attempt makes the scene especially funny given that series star Robert Vaughn was active in Democratic Party politics and a good friend of the Kennedy family.

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