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** In the 1995 series Zack's twin sister is never mentioned.[[note]]Apparently, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen if the show had lasted longer]], the plan was to reveal said twin as the hidden head honcho of KAOS.[[/note]]
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** In the 1995 series Zack's twin sister is never mentioned.named, and the fact that she exists is only offhandedly mentioned twice.[[note]]Apparently, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen if the show had lasted longer]], the plan was to reveal said twin as the hidden head honcho of KAOS.[[/note]]
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* SurpriseMultipleBirth: Max and 99's twin children in "And Baby Makes Four: Part 2," though the title sort of gives it away for the viewer.
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* IntentionalWeightGain: In "Survival of the Fattest (season 1, episode 15), KAOS kidnaps a prince before he is to receive his weight in gold — the money required to keep his country solvent — and proceeds to slim him down (using an electrified exercise bicycle). In the end, he didn't make it back up to 300 pounds, but they gave him the gold anyway, and the whole country went on a diet.
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** Compared to other sitcoms at the time. While the series was never violent or bloody, nonetheless it was a sitcom in which ''people got killed'', sometimes at the hands of the heroes. [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny That doesn't seem unusual today]], but it wasn't something that really happened on 60s televiion.
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** Compared to other sitcoms at the time. While the series was never violent or bloody, nonetheless it was a sitcom in which ''people got killed'', sometimes at the hands of the heroes. [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny [[OnceOriginalNowCommon That doesn't seem unusual today]], but it wasn't something that really happened on 60s televiion.
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* EverybodyDidIt: Sometimes, a search for a [=KAOS=] agent will lead to a whole episode with few or no guest stars besides [=KAOS=] agents such as "[[spoiler:Bronzefinger]]," where all three of the suspects Max is investigating are apparently [=KAOS=] agents (although they want to defect), and so is their boss, who had the Chief assign Max to the case in the first place.
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* BerserkButton: The villain from "Passenger 99" had been gravely injured in a bomb test and the subsequent operation left him with a metallic back resembling the shape of a turtle shell. Being called "the Turtle" pisses him off to no end.
* BigBad: The enigmatic KAOS Chairwoman. She's always off in her headquarters away from the main characters, but she oversees the operatives they end up facing.
* DatingCatwoman: Zach's love interest in "Wurst Enemies" turns out to be the daughter of Siegfried, and she's fully participating in her father's revenge scheme. After being rescued, Zach admits it was still a decent date overall.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Agent 66 previously dated the Turtle's brother and never returned his record albums. During the course of a mission, the Turtle tries to kill her while screaming, "My brother loved those albums!"
* BigBad: The enigmatic KAOS Chairwoman. She's always off in her headquarters away from the main characters, but she oversees the operatives they end up facing.
* DatingCatwoman: Zach's love interest in "Wurst Enemies" turns out to be the daughter of Siegfried, and she's fully participating in her father's revenge scheme. After being rescued, Zach admits it was still a decent date overall.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Agent 66 previously dated the Turtle's brother and never returned his record albums. During the course of a mission, the Turtle tries to kill her while screaming, "My brother loved those albums!"
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* HiddenInPlainSight: Agent 9 is literally nine-years-old. She's tasked with gathering intel in situations where a child's presence wouldn't be considered unusual.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: While detaining him, Jessica (Siegfried's daughter) tells Zach he's no different than her father: someone who lies to her about his true identity and job.
* RunningGagged: Facing Siegfried once again, Max tries to bluff his way out with the old ButThatIWouldBelieve gag by claiming Naval destroyers are on the way. Having gone through this gag so many times over the years, Siegfried interrupts him and points out the well-established formula.
-->'''Siegfried:''' I know. Then I say I don't believe it, then you say something else again, then I say I don't believe it again, and we're right back to where we started.\\
'''Max:''' And I thought my wife knew me.
* RunningGagged: Facing Siegfried once again, Max tries to bluff his way out with the old ButThatIWouldBelieve gag by claiming Naval destroyers are on the way. Having gone through this gag so many times over the years, Siegfried interrupts him and points out the well-established formula.
-->'''Siegfried:''' I know. Then I say I don't believe it, then you say something else again, then I say I don't believe it again, and we're right back to where we started.\\
'''Max:''' And I thought my wife knew me.
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* TakeThat: Siegfried's big return involves aiming a nuclear missile at an American city. He only tells Max that it's where the greatest minds in the country are.
-->'''Max:''' Well, at least Washington is safe.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Though Max and 99's son is a main character, their daughter never appears, nor is she even given a name like Zach was. A mention in "Passenger 99" makes it clear she still exists, but the show ended before her full status could be explained.
-->'''Max:''' Well, at least Washington is safe.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Though Max and 99's son is a main character, their daughter never appears, nor is she even given a name like Zach was. A mention in "Passenger 99" makes it clear she still exists, but the show ended before her full status could be explained.
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* DoorJudo: Done at least twice. Once when Maxwell Smart and 99 are trapped in a corridor with two villains trying to break down the doors on either side. Our heroes open each door in turn so they knock themselves out, where we find that CONTROL agents know this as the "Double Door Deception Trick." Another time, Smart and the Chief are breaking into a cabin from opposite ends, when KAOS agents simultaneously open both doors. Smart and the Chief run past each other and out the opposite doors, and two KAOS agents shoots at them - missing and shooting one another instead.
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* DoorJudo: Done at least twice. Once when Maxwell Smart and 99 are trapped in a corridor with two villains trying to break down the doors on either side. Our heroes open each door in turn so they knock themselves out, where we find that CONTROL agents know this as the "Double Door Deception Trick." Another time, Smart and the Chief are breaking into a cabin from opposite ends, when KAOS agents simultaneously open both doors. each door. Smart and the Chief run past each other and out the opposite doors, and the two KAOS agents shoots shoot at them - missing and shooting one another instead.
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* FanGame: Not a video game, but somebody made the system for a [[http://getsmartnow.wikidot.com/ Get Smart TTRPG]].
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* CampGay: Mr. Bob, the interior decorator from "Return of the Ancient Mariner".
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* CampGay: Mr. Bob, the interior decorator from "Return of the Ancient Mariner".Mariner" [[spoiler: or so it seems]].
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* AttractiveBentGender: Something of a RunningGag, where a beautiful woman is actually supposed to be a male spy in a very convincing disguise (examples include "Aboard the Orient Express", "Pussycats Galore", "The Worst Best Man", etc.).
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* NonIndicativeFirstEpisode: The first episode was filmed in black-and-white; all the other episodes were in color.
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* SigilSpam: Anything that Max can put an "86" on, he will.
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* TenLittleMurderVictims: "The Amazing Harry Hoo" has Max and Hawaiin detective Harry Hoo stuck on an island with the attendees of a birthday party, who all start dying one after the other.
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* TenLittleMurderVictims: "The Amazing Harry Hoo" has Max and Hawaiin Hawaiian detective Harry Hoo stuck on an island with the attendees of a birthday party, who all start dying one after the other.
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* TenLittleMurderVictims: "The Amazing Harry Hoo" has Max and Hawaiin detective Harry Hoo stuck on an island with the attendees of a birthday party, who all start dying one after the other.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: In "The Hot Line", the Chief is demoted to Agent Second Class and Max takes his place. Max assures 99 the position won't go to his head, but of course it does.
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** A bee got into the Chief's office. When Max requests the Cone of Silence, the bee gets trapped along with Max and the Chief, and they can't hear each other talk due to the buzzing. Max then assumed it was a snooping KAOS bee.
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** A bee got gets into the Chief's office. When Max requests the Cone of Silence, the bee gets trapped along with Max and the Chief, and they can't hear each other talk due to the buzzing. Max then assumed it was a snooping KAOS bee.
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* GarbageHideout: In "The Decoy", Agent 13 (the agent who is always stationed inside unlikely objects) is hiding inside a trash can:
-->'''Maxwell Smart:''' What are you so grouchy about today?\\
'''Agent 13:''' ''[hiding in a trash can]'' Because I didn't sleep a wink last night, that's why. Every time I dozed off somebody dropped garbage on me.
-->'''Maxwell Smart:''' What are you so grouchy about today?\\
'''Agent 13:''' ''[hiding in a trash can]'' Because I didn't sleep a wink last night, that's why. Every time I dozed off somebody dropped garbage on me.
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** Actually has plot utility in "The Wax Max," where trying to sound philosophical and failing results in him giving a password that makes a carnival employee think Max and 99 are KAOS couriers.
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* BandagedFaceBandagedFace: How Max is able to impersonate a safecracker in "Maxwell Smart, Alias Jimmy Ballantine".
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** Mr. Greer is also particularly sadistic in the scenes where he tells 99 and Max they're about to watch each other die. Max is still too injured to walk properly at this point, they both have a gun pointed right at them, and neither of them can make a move without their spouse being killed. They really are seconds away from death when the Chief shows up.
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* UnifiedNamingSystem: CONTROL vs KAOS are the two opposing spy organizations.
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* DatingCatwoman: The scene between the Chief and KAOS agent Mary Jack Armstrong in "Survival of the Fattest" reveals they had this relationship back when he was an agent, though they're now AmicableExes.
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* SealedOrders: PlayedForLaughs. The government stops using sealed orders because none of the agents are able to break the wax when it's time to open them.
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* LeaveBehindAPistol: At the end of "The Decoy", the head of a [=KAOS=] team rebukes a subordinate for letting [=CONTROL=] accomplish their goals, hands him a pistol, and menacingly orders him to do the honorable thing. Unfortunately for him, his subordinate thinks that the honorable thing is to shoot his boss and take over the group to save himself.
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* AutomaticDoorMalfunction: In the closing credits, Max walks through a series of doors that close automatically behind him. When the last set of doors fails to close he walks back toward them to see what the problem is. Then they close and hit him on the nose.
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** A bee got into the Chief's office. When Max requests the cone of silence, the bee gets trapped along with Max and the Chief, and they can't hear each other talk due to the buzzing. Max then assumed it was a snooping KAOS bee.
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** A bee got into the Chief's office. When Max requests the cone Cone of silence, Silence, the bee gets trapped along with Max and the Chief, and they can't hear each other talk due to the buzzing. Max then assumed it was a snooping KAOS bee.
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** Another has Max come across a {{Ruritania}}n king who looks just like him ("The King Lives", and revisted in the "To Sire With Love").
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** Another has Max come across a {{Ruritania}}n king who looks just like him ("The King Lives", and revisted in the "To Sire With Love").Love" two-parter).
