Get Smart Gadgets - The espionage spoof GET SMART/NBC/CBS/1965-70 and its short lived revival GET SMART/FOX/1995 featured a number of goofy and yet inventive weapons and gadgets used by the agents of CONTROL, a semi-secret spy agency based in Washington D.C. Secret agent Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) usually carried a revolver, a machine-gun pistol, a switchblade knife, brass knuckles, an XKE-500 (gun that fires exploding bullets), an exploding wallet, and a suicide pill. His sports car had a 50-caliber machine gun, an ejector seat, a smoke-screen device and a telephone disguised as a cigarette lighter. Other weapons and gadgetry included the Finger Gun, a two shot .22 caliber gun disguised inside a phony finger; an invisible shield, a bulletproof plastic shield which dropped from the ceiling in Max's apartment; Immobilo, a paralyzing drug that disabled for thirty seconds; Absorbo pills that absorbed the alcohol content of a drink to prevent inebriation; Gay Deceiver pills that make a person tell lies; Fake Fingers placed over the ledge to distract an opponent; cigarette lighter grenade; tear-gas pen; telephone gun (press trigger on receiver, then dial 711 and the receiver fires a bullet); the Narco 512, a sonic energy weapon capable of focusing the power of 10,000 sonic booms into small areas; and a Bullet Bra loaded with .45 caliber shells-an idea resurrected in the spy spoof Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery  (1997) starring Mike Myers.  

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