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SMART, Maxwell
(Get Smart)
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555-7862 [or 2321]
Apartment #86
Washington, D.C.
Max (a.k.a. Agent 86) is a secret agent for
CONTROL, a super secret spy agency (which
everyone knew about). He operated under the
guise of a greeting card salesman for the
Potomac Greeting Card Company. |
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Smart was born in 1930 (delivered by a Dr.
Linquist) under the zodiac sign of Scorpio.
Raised in Washington, DC., he models himself
after another klutzy Control operative, Agent
No. 4 (a.k.a. "Herbert Gaffer"). Max’s
catchphrases are "Would you believe?," "Sorry
about that Chief," "The old ( _____ ) Trick,"
and "Missed it by that much."
Max's Class A Control Identification card read:
Agent 86 (Maxwell Smart) Sex: M; Hair: Black;
Eyes: Beady; Ht: 5-9; Wt: 149; DOB; 11-30. Spy
of the year 1965, 1966, 1967. His Control credit
card number was 86000860008600086.
Max is so devoted to his career that he
embroiders his bathrobe and pajamas with his
secret agent number - 86. His many skills
included expertise with explosives and
multi-lingual abilities such the speaking
French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Swahili, and a
rare East Himalayan dialect..
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Max: |
Why don't we
speak in Swahili? |
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Chief: |
As you wish.
Mahani ganga gi. |
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Max: |
Ganga gi? I
thought it was Ganga ga. |
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Chief: |
No, Ganga gi.
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Max: |
Oh, that's
strange. I thought it was gi after ganga
unless it came before goo.
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When asked about his martial arts skills, Max
remarked, "I happen to be an expert in karate,
Judo and tempura. Would you believe that I can
brake eight boards with one karate chop? No?
Would you believe three boards? Would you
believe a loaf of bread?"
On the topic of cowardice, Max said "Just
remember this 'A coward is a frightened man
who's scared to be brave; but a brave man is
only a coward who isn't scared to be
frightened'." For self-defense, Max carries a
Smith & Wesson Model-40 hand gun.
Despite Max's abilities, (he failed Torture 101
three years in a row, however) he was in
constant trouble with his superior, Thaddeus
(aka The Chief, Harold Clark (his Pontiac
Greeting Card cover name) or Agent Q). A typical
conversation between them might go something
like this:.
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Chief:
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Max, I don't
know what I'm going to do about you. You
bungle assignment after assignment. |
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Max: |
I resent that,
Chief. |
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Chief: |
Do you deny
it? |
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Max: |
No, but I
resent it. |
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Chief: |
Max, you
realize you'll be facing every kind of
danger imaginable. |
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Max: |
And loving it. |
Max's fellow agents at CONTROL included Agent
99, his attractive female partner and later
wife;
Fang (aka K-13), a canine operative; Agent
13 who is famous for hiding in strange objects
like mail boxes, trash cans, grandfather clocks
and vending machines; and
Hymie the Robot. Roster of CONTROL employees
While on assignments Max assumed the aliases of
many individuals including The Scar (an
explosives expert), The Masked Marvel (a table
tennis champion), Major Fritz Kessler (a former
SS officer known as the Beast of Buenos Aires),
Running Creek (an American Indian), Yakimoto (a
Japanese gardener), and Conchita (a flamenco
dancer).
Max's main nemesis were the members of a
criminal organization know as KAOS. Their leader
was a Nazi-like agent named Conrad Siegfried.
His crony of an assistant was Starker
(pronounced "Shtarker").
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Siegfried |
Starker |
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