Agent 99. Agent 23. Agent 91. Agent 86 (Max). Agent 13. And... Larabee? Did they deem him too stupid-looking to have a number or something?
It's probably an Aerith and Bob type of joke. Men in Black did a similar thing with the twin aliens "(Unpronouncable series of noises)" and "Bob".
Just a random note, in the MIB novelization, the Twins are "Bob and Gracie". Kind of amusing that they did a joke about an unpronouncable name in a movie instead of a novel, when it would have been easier to do it the other way around.
Only field agents get a number. Larabee is support staff.
A support staff member who's trained to kill with Post-Its?
He probably couldn't remember his number.
It's possible that he has a number, but it's just never mentioned, sort of like an inversion of 99 having a number but no given name.
It could simply be that some agents just prefer being referred to by their number by their fellow agents and others by their name, and Larabee's one of the latter. Max has a number as well, but that doesn't stop everyone from just calling him 'Max' most of the time. In the movie at least, the only times we see Larabee are when he's in a secure facility surrounded by people who know him, not out in the field where his identity would need to be more closely concealed and where he might conceivably use his number, so it could simply be that in such circumstances he prefers being referred to by his name and everyone complies.
The Larabee of the series does seem more like a secretary than a field agent, but the Chief calls him "Agent Larabee" in one episode. It could be that only agents of a certain rank or higher get numbers; Max addresses the 2 scientists who work with him and Hymie in one episode as "42" and "Harris."
Did Don Adams drop a bowling ball on his hand or something in 1970? From "House Of Max" through the last episode, his right index fingernail is black. What's up with that?
Why is it called the Cone of Silence? It isn't cone-shaped.
Cant' remember the name of the episode, but there is a scene in the original series where the Chief says explicitly it was "invented by a man named Cone."
So at the end of 'Our Man in Leotards', Max accidentally freezes everyone in place with Immobilo, a paralysing drug. He takes this opportunity to sneak a kiss on 99's cheek, then goes for a full kiss and injects himself with the drug. I get the logic behind the kiss, even if it is a little Dude, She's Like in a Coma, but why would he paralyse himself?? The others are gonna wake up before he does, and he's gonna have some serious explaining to do when he comes to. And it's not like it was an accident, either. He pretty clearly meant to freeze himself in that position. What was he thinking!?
The logic is that he wants to enjoy the kiss as long as possible; ergo, he freezes himself so that he will be frozen in to the kiss as well, and thus the kiss will technically last longer. If he doesn't freeze himself, then the kiss only lasts a few seconds or so, as that's how long it would take before he needed to break it for air or because he got bored or something; but if he freezes himself, the kiss lasts as long as the paralysis does.
In "99 Loses CONTROL" 99 leaves and uses the name Susan Hilton, which we find out later is a fake. The question comes up if she was really leaving, why not just use her real name? And before anyone writes anything, I mean in story, obviously they weren't going to end the Running Gag of her real name being unknown to the audience.
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So Max is framed for blowing up a bakery, with the story being that Agent 23 says it's only a bakery. While 99 didn't see the nuclear material, there were still people shooting at her and trying to kill her for infiltrating the place. Isn't that a pretty big hint that it's not just a bakery?
Yeah, just have to call it a plot hole. 99 saw more than enough to argue that whether or not nuclear material was present, it was definitely a major criminal operation. Dalip's appearance alone should have sealed the deal for her.
Given that Dalip stopped attacking at Max's instruction that could be seen as evidence against him. In the general 99 saw enough to know something dodgy was going on in the bakery but not enough to know it was storing nuclear material or that KAOS was involved other than Dalip, who had been hunting them since the plane.
Again, she didn't have to agree that KAOS was involved, just that the bakery was obviously not above board as 23 claimed.
The people shooting at 99 doesn't disprove the possibility that Max was involved somehow; Max could theoretically have lured her to the bakery as an ambush. As in, it could have just been a perfectly ordinary bakery that the bad guys took over and used as bait.
