we're on a mission from god

wendy so i got that going darling

i picked the wrong way to quit sniffing

blue light of my life

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welcome to vintage video where we're

re-watching the 80s so you don't have to

we'll be reviewing every major film

release of the 1980s in real time i'm

patrick o'reilly i'm jesse bayless and

i'm richard wells and today marks the

40th anniversary of the release of

the nude bomb on may 9th 1980

it was written by bill dana aaron sultan

and leonard stern

based on characters by mel brooks and

buck henry directed by clive donner and

released by universal

co-creators mel brooks and buck henry

notably had no involvement in the making

of the film

very very obvious yeah it's not it

doesn't feel like their work

only two members of the series came back

to portray characters in the film

but uh edward platt who'd played the

chief previously had died in 74. so the

chief here is played by

dana elkhart how long ago like when was

the

tv show on i don't actually know the 60s

yeah but this is quite a big gap between

the end of the show

and the movie i think so um barbara

felden who played agent 99

in the series was never even asked to

reprise her role

and is essentially replaced by the

andrea howard character as agent 22.

smart's agency control from the series

was renamed pitts for the film control

despite always appearing in all caps

didn't stand for anything

where pitts stands for provisional

intelligence tactical service

this film was nominated for a razzie for

worst picture but it didn't win it

really yeah it doesn't seem necessary no

it doesn't seem necessarily

at all it doesn't fit in any of the with

any of the other movies that were

nominated for razzies

like for for worse picture that was the

razzie not for

actors or anything yep that is

undeserving yeah

uh in 1982 it was repackaged as a tv

movie called the return of maxwell smart

the original title of the film before

the producers forced the nude bomb plot

into the script and title

so originally it was not about a bomb

that makes people naked but the

producers fell in love with that idea

because it would trick people into

watching it

yeah when there's no nudity female

frontal nudity in this film

that's the only reason i go to movies

with the exception of one transparent

shirt

yeah despite its box office failure it

was followed by

a second tv movie get smart again that

featured more of the original cast

returning

and obviously a 2008 reboot starring

steve carell and anne hathaway that did

much better

in the box office and i and i was

watching the opening sequence of this

with don adams i was like

oh my god he looks exactly like steve

carell yeah it's uncanny yeah

and it's not like oh steve he looks like

steve carell in the get smart movie it's

like

no he just looks like brick tamlin like

he looks like steve carell before he was

trying to beat don adams

unless he's trying been trying the whole

time and i just didn't notice

that could be the reference that he was

just a huge dun adams fan

we opened with this maurice binder style

opening titles with the random shapes

and colors appearing like the beginning

of an early james bond film

um this is sort of a precursor to the

austin powers movies i would say

i i thought that this was

an ad for the movie when it's the way it

starts up

yeah because this is like would you

believe i was like

i know okay that's a saying it's one of

his his expressions but

i was like because some movies like when

you watch them on dvd or whatever

um they'll have an ad especially if it's

an older movie yeah like they'll have

like the trailer before the movie starts

right like how trailers now have trailer

trailers

yeah and uh so i thought for sure oh i

was like okay they're just showing what

the

the the advertisements were like before

the movie actually starts like oh no

this is this is the movie

well i think it was originally planned

as a tv movie and it has that style to

it a little bit

and then eventually they were like oh

there's enough people who care about

this we could probably put this in

theaters and make something on it oh

yeah when it first started i was

confused because it's you know it's cut

late or it's shot for three yeah that

was the transfer that we had but

i i think it wasn't shot i think it was

i was watching throughout the movie and

it felt like everything was center shot

it didn't feel

out of the ordinary i thought that too

but on imdb it does say that it was shot

185

oh okay which i mean this picture was

not 185 it was 4-3

my yeah my first impression as someone

who never sees the show was just

that could very easily be steve carell

in this shot right like i can't tell for

sure that it's not

um and that kept happening over the

course of the movie like i would just

get a shot where i was like

that shot he looked especially like

steve carell and it's not even just the

face or the hair like the body shape and

the way he moves

and the way he like grits his teeth and

everything it's all the same

but yeah it starts with would you

believe that a movie called the nude

bomb would be rated pg

because this is before pg-13 which is

right the film would have been rated

uh again leading me to believe that this

is an advertisement

yes because why would you include the

rating in the film

but oh well we start on a plane with a

skydiving team

and max is sitting at the end of a row

of people presumably he's undercover

here

until his shoe phone starts ringing and

uh

he doesn't answer it for a while because

he doesn't want to give himself away as

a secret agent until someone just

blatantly points out ah your shoe is

ringing

and then when he answers it it's the

chief but while he's talking with the

chief it's kind of like that scene in

the avengers with black widow

where he's getting a call from his boss

and he's like she's being interrogated

and he's just like talking like they're

not all there like oh yeah no they got a

gun in my face and i'm

i'm trying to get some information here

but uh okay well yeah i guess if i got

to be back there i guess i'll fight all

these people now

and uh he apologizes in advance before

kicking the lead

the lead skydiver out the window the one

who had the gun on him

right and then he stands on the doorway

and he's like i'm gonna go get him and

bring him back you all wait here

but they all follow him out and they

fight all the way to the ground he

doesn't have

a parachute on by the end of this

sequence but there's no repercussion to

that at

all there's a couple of times that this

happens yeah where he's just

falling out of this guy with no

parachute and then they just cut to

okay we're going to introduce the

villain now yeah

and the villain is sans savage

yeah um and it's this guy who uh

his face is completely covered and he's

dressed in like this weird like super

villain gear

he almost looks like he's dressed out of

planet of the apes

sure it's like a very doctor zeus with

with the exception of like the soc

stocking over his face

yeah it seems like something that dr

zeus would wear

yeah um and this is him i guess this is

like a a

nationwide threat that's being broadcast

but we don't we never see like a

reaction to that so it's not clear that

that's what's happening but

um he's announcing that he has something

called the nude bomb

it will destroy all clothing he hasn't

made any demands yet but he says they

will come shortly

we see max getting out of an airport

into a taxi

and the taxi immediately pulls into a

marvel moving truck which is not the

first time that we've seen

a person in a taxi inside of a moving

truck

with dana elkhart i got really excited i

was like i wonder if pat's going to

mention this

because in murdoch's introductory

episode partners

they uh they get trapped in a taxi in a

junkyard that gets pushed into a moving

truck and driven out into the middle of

the desert

fun trivia point for all huma gabber

fans

he's uh very quickly introduced to the

team that are all in the car with him

while they're sitting in this taxi the

car is being like repainted

robotically from from within the moving

truck so that they can't be

tailed basically one of the people he

meets is agent 36

she says she's read all of his files and

he says wouldn't you like to hear my

side and she says i think you're great

and he says oh you have heard my side

[Laughter]

he's introduced to these two like

teenage doctor characters who are i

guess brother and sister

yeah brother and sister and he starts to

tell them about like

a medical issue that he's having um

because he's like a doctor

because they're doctors that they can

help him but he says that he had a chili

dog at a japanese restaurant

and he just glosses over that very

quickly um

but that he's not feeling well he meets

the the weapons expert

carruthers um and he said well there's a

lot of people out there who'd like to

see me dead and then carruther says

they're not all out there he's like wait

a minute they are

they are awaiting a phone call from the

president and i think this is in

griffith park i'm not 100

sure on that agent 22 surprises them

max pulls his gun on her and she fires

one into the barrel of his gun and

knocks it out of his hand

they very quickly spend a lot of time

going through all of

maxwell smart's catchphrases right and

that was like the most frustrating thing

for me as a fan of the show to watch is

this like

overuse of the fan service lines yeah

because like the regular joke is

the old blank in the blank trick yeah

and and would you believe would you

believe in the and loving it

yeah when he's whenever like he's

described in the situation of danger

that he's going to be in yeah

it didn't really bother me because i've

never seen the show oh

but yeah they're it was unnoticeable if

you weren't familiar with them see i

think i think this this is going to

create kind of an interesting

dynamic between the three of us in that

i knew that this would be the situation

though where you would have seen these

episodes and we would not have

okay because you have a better handle on

the older tv shows cause

when i was a kid my dad just showed us

movies pretty much we never watched

reruns yeah i watched a lot of nick at

night

yeah but uh yeah so she fired her gun

directly into his barrel just

in self-defense she wasn't trying to

hurt him because he didn't realize she

was a part of their team yet

of course the barrel trick

he takes his own gun pulls her bullet

out of it and goes to put it into his

pants

and accidentally fires it and then he

has to check and make sure he didn't do

any permanent damage

and then he uses another one of his

catchphrases here

who's that football player that shot

himself in the leg just

by carrying it in

yeah he was he brought a gun to a club

and accidentally shot himself in the leg

in the off season

that's that's brilliant they all start

to get back into the car and then max

notices that 22 is just gone

and then uh the chief explains that she

majored in vanishing

and so she just keeps disappearing and

we appreciate that it's

vanishing and not like camouflage or

it makes it sound very magical

they arrive at max's new office uh we

hear 22's voice but we still can't see

her anywhere they're outside the

building

and max is confused at the disembodied

voice and while he's looking for he

falls down a flight of stairs

when they get to the hallway outside of

his room he knocks he says you knock on

the bell

and you ring the door because the wall

is a door and the door is a wall

and if you get it backwards then you'll

be electrocuted

he goes to meet with carruthers and find

his inventions for the next mission

um and carruthers is like his cue here

yeah so he gives him a new set of shoes

one of them has a touch tone phone and

the other one has an answering machine

sorry when you said his cue is like star

trek no his queue to do what

no no his his his bond cue got it

quarter master that's what q stands for

quartermaster because he's in charge of

all the quarters no they don't use

quarters

he catches one of carruthers men uh

checking for bugs in his bedroom which i

was sure would pay off later

i didn't even watch all of the get smart

movie today went in preparation for this

like the

the newest one i only watched part of it

but there's so many

references i even think to this movie or

maybe even the show because i haven't

seen the show

but like the gadget he gets that keeps

coming into play like the swiss army

knife thing

and the um there's an electronic bug fly

that i assumed was a sort of a reference

to this and then he falls out of an

airplane without a parachute yeah it

seems like a lot of

let's just rewrite this movie again yeah

there was there were a lot of scenes

that were in both

um and later we'll have the the cone of

silences in both films

right but those are probably all made

appearances on the show too right

the the cone of silence was a running

gag on the show in that they had to give

top secret information to each other but

they had to go inside these little

bubbles and they could never hear

what the other one was as they're coming

out of the building assassins start

firing on them from this black truck

of course one of the bullets hits the

parking meter

and knocks a bunch of change onto the

ground and as max is trying to shoot

back at them

he's also grabbing fists full of change

like he needs to do it right now in the

middle of this gunfight

the truck swerves around to come back

for him and

he falls backward onto his back as the

truck drives over the top of him

which is a really cool stunt actually

it's a it's a crazy stunt i don't know

how they did this

i think it must have been happening in

slow motion i thought at first

it was in reverse but the way he falls

down

i don't think it's any safer in reverse

though it is safer in reverse in that

you're just

like you already gauged that he's low

enough that he'd be under the truck

but that he knows when to stand up so

that he doesn't hit his head on the car

yeah so it's just as far as the timing

of them passing over each other

and then you just speed it up yeah but i

think what they actually did was they

did it forward they just had to do it a

bunch of times until they got the timing

exactly right

22 compliments him on this on this uh

stunt

that he pulled laying down backwards in

front of the truck and she asks when he

thought it up and he said

when i stepped on this banana peel um

implying that it was not on purpose at

all

and it does kind of look like the person

slipping when i backed it up to re-watch

it

oh and and it is important to note that

he actually does

destroy this car when after he the car

drives over and he gets back up

immediately and fires a shot and blows

the car out

yeah then we get a shot of sebastiani

who is like a doctor no ripoff um he has

like a claw for a hand

which i think doctor know had a claw

right um no i think you're thinking of

dr claw

no i think dr now had a claw hand but

this guy is also walking with

a pronounced limp and he has an eye

patch

and he has a very scraggly voice he lost

both his hands in an accident

and they were replaced by powerful

mechanical black steel hands

there you go well they're not claws

right i just remembered he did some kind

of a trick for bond where he like

smashed something in his hands yeah yeah

good good good pull though pat i did not

remember that

he walks into the the chaos headquarters

basically this base in a mountain

and he speaks with uh savage

savage says that his suit protects him

from pollution it's not just for style

um and that uh he's gonna set off this

bomb and

he's gonna be able to dress the whole

planet and they're going to have to do

everything that he says

sebastiani is nervous because a bomb

recently went off in his laboratory

which cost him his arm his leg

his larynx and his eye and they decide

that

they need to test these nude bombs or at

least they've already tested them but

they want to show the world that they

work

right so they set a few off in different

places we see one go off like

outside the kremlin and a bunch of

diplomats carrying briefcases are

suddenly completely naked with just

their briefcases covering themselves

one gets dropped in the middle of a

football game while

a bunch of men are in a huddle and we

just have a bunch of butts

another one lands where max is speaking

at the u.n

right he's sitting around the table with

the leaders or or

ambassadors from all these different

countries and

at first he says that he doesn't think

that the nude bomb is real

he thinks it's a fake threat that's just

made up and then he suggests

that to avoid getting bugged that they

all enter the the cones of silence and

no one can hear anybody inside of their

cones

uh this the scene also has the only the

only

part that really kind of gave me a

chuckle uh

was uh one of the diplomats saying

perhaps this is a good thing

without uniforms there'd be no war

because no one will know who the enemy

is nigerian or it goes

[Laughter]

they're the only the only group that

would know who the enemy are still

that's the only part that gave you a

chuckle in this whole movie uh there was

one other part we'll get to but really

there was another thing in this scene

that i kind of liked which was

when they're handing the paper around to

tell everyone to turn off the cones of

silence yeah

that it only has foley when it's between

the two cones but as soon as it enters

like

doesn't matter how much the person

shakes it up to read it it's not

crackling at all

so it's it's literally muting everything

even even as max is continuing to deny

the existence of the nude bomb one goes

off in the room

and suddenly everyone is naked agent 13

starts to give we didn't talk about

asian 13 before

when they were in the office he was

suggesting agent thurak train would be

great to bring on to the case

and he says you got to understand he's

he's he's top shelf he's a great and

he's like actually on bottom shelf and

he slides out of the bottom shelf of

this cabinet that they just brought in

is this how he always appeared in the

show i can't remember if it was agent 13

but yeah there was always

an agent inside of some

some object so that same agent was

always the one

that would appear inside something i

don't think it was this particular guy

even though this is one of the actors

from the series who came back

yeah um i think he played a different

character on the show okay

uh i it might even be the bill murray

character it is

agent 13 is the bill murray character in

the reboot

i'll come back and see it no you won't

no you will yes i will no you won't

did you come back this way i

yeah yeah i think i will what time

well um i get it

who wants to talk to a guy in a tree i

get it

but yeah so he's been trying to bring

agent 13 on and he finally got

the chief to approve agent 13 to join

the team but

here agent 13 is driving him home from

the u.n and he suggests

that food could replace clothing if all

the clothes are gonna disappear

he says a head of romaine lettuce would

clothe a family of six

um their car pulls into the sorry well i

was gonna say like this is another kind

of gag from the show

where he someone suggests something and

he he he shrugs it off as being

ridiculous

but then he's somehow more intrigued

like the more he said

hold on you have to explain this yeah

yeah because

i liked him what he's like he's like now

wouldn't it spoil

he's like well no you just have to be

more careful with it you can just like

hang it up over your chair you'd have to

fold it up and put it in the

refrigerator

i think the face he makes after linguine

is what reminded me the most of steve

carell in this scene when he's like

it's like you take a you take a melon

and you scoop everything out of it you

got yourself a bra well what's going to

hold it together

linguine linguine

but they pull back up to max's office

and they pull straight into the parking

structure but then the car rises up

through the floor into the building

uh carruthers introduces max to the

d1 turbocharger desk mobile that goes

from zero to sixty in five seconds it's

a desk

with like a racing chair behind it and

if you turn the key in one of the

drawers it actually starts an engine and

converts the whole thing into a vehicle

um he says it gets 35 highway and 12 in

a living room

this is another uh joke though i love

this joke this is

great he's like oh it runs on ink and

he's like oh it runs on ink that's great

this could solve the whole fuel shortage

and he's like

it's a special ink we can only get from

saudi arabia

so it's just the same as oil it doesn't

it's not an improvement at all

after everybody leaves 22 surprises max

at the bar in his room

she's trying to tell him something we

never know what because the whole time

he's

acting like she's making romantic

advances

that he's rejecting but since she never

gets to finish her sentence we don't

know what she was talking about

but then when he finally gets her

completely out of the room and leaving

he says

i will consider dating you when the case

is over and she smiles like she's

excited to know that even though

it seems like that's not what she was

interested in or trying to talk to him

about at all

um he opens up the wall to his bedroom

and

36 is in his bed completely naked

this reminded me of the beginning of the

spy who shagged me

when uh what's her name from third rock

was playing the model that was

right right and the fur coat on the bed

for the photo shoot

but she's wearing like his

his uh bathrobe and she's laying in the

bed because she says

she came there she got there way before

he did

and she was tired so she took a shower

to wake herself up but it didn't work

and she fell asleep and so she's naked

in his bed

22 comes back in uh right when 36 runs

in to go to the bathroom

and he's standing there holding her

underwear and tries to come up with an

excuse for why he has it that it was

part of a disguise or something like

that he said would you believe it's my

training bra

yeah and when she's in the bathroom like

the toilet keeps flushing

yeah and i just like to think that she

dropped some major deuce

yeah she's really happy it was a three

flusher

it was like a trump turd she had to just

keep going

he tells her that it's it's uh one of

those clock toilets that just flushes

multiple times like

to tell you what time it is he's like oh

wow three o'clock time flies when you're

having fun

i'm getting horrible ptsd of the time

gun

yeah exactly when he

right as he's finishing explaining

himself uh 36 comes out

and he decides that he's going to try

and introduce them to each other so he

says

36 22 22 36

he just like starts laughing to himself

about his dumb boob joke um and then uh

22 basically storms out angry 36

tells him that jonathan levinson's

seagull is gonna call uh this is one of

the writers of the film playing this

character

uh also the the play on jonathan

livingston siegel

yeah but this is levinson but it's also

interesting because

seagull is the name of the guy who

directed the reboot

peter siegel um just a coincidence

obviously

and when he he calls and tells them

oh i'm about to meet with this like this

wealthy woman who wanted to buy

something but

uh come by my office here's the address

so when they get to his address he's

like on the verge of death

and they keep flipping back and forth

between whether they're going to call an

ambulance

or uh the more of the morgue

this this was the other scene that made

me laugh because it keeps like they keep

getting indications one way or another

that he is dead or

not dead and so they keep flipping back

and forth even though

you would just call an ambulance either

way because maybe it was takes people to

the morgue all the time

they visit him in the hospital to try

and get clues from him and he has to

like hum

songs right it's trying to give them

clues it reminded me of short circuit

too when they're

trying to send messages with the touch

tone signal to uh

to indicate where they are like i'm

trying to remember what helped me

help me rhonda help me rhonda and then

down down

yeah she's like they're downtown um

but yeah that's a weird reference to

make

honestly i was thinking of the exact

same thing so

um but yeah so they they go and visit

him and they get whatever clues they can

which is basically the name dolly

that he tries to say something about a

saint and that the person is in

california

so they need to go to california and get

in touch with someone named saint

but now they go to california and

writers are getting to california

to visit someone i forget who what their

lead was dolly

dolly yeah uh and they they're gonna go

to hit her locker

uh at the studio which is the universal

studios right but before that they go to

her house where she was attacked or or

had just been robbed she was abducted

yeah and uh when they're outside with

the realtor

or the the landlady basically they're

like

hi we need to talk to you about this

crime that just happened and she's like

let me see your badge and he holds up

his magic and she's like

that doesn't look like you at all and

he's like that's my thumbprint

and so she grabs she grabs his thumb and

then compares it to the thumb

all right and then he's like i think we

may need to see the room and she's like

of course you realize that's right okay

come on up it's 300 a month but

uh keep in mind it's going to be a mess

right now because it was just an attack

in there like she's trying to sell them

in place

um but yeah she says that if she they

were looking for a piece of clothing

and they said if she has the clothing

that it might be with her at her job

at universal studios where she worked as

a as one of the tour guides

so they go to the actual universal tour

guide locker room

you can see banners in the background

for uh

last married couple in america coal

miner's daughter and god we trust which

we haven't covered yet

as he's walking up to universal he picks

up popular spy magazine

and he turns it to a certain page and

agent 13 is in the magazine yeah

and uh he reveals what we didn't realize

before

that 22 was married to an

another agent 78 who has since

left control or pits um but but 13

reveals 22 was 21. it was like yeah

he he died in 78. 22 was married to the

late great

78. wasn't he a little old for her well

let's see

22 was 21 when she married 78 72

78 was 46 that means 78 was 22 32 40

25 years old and 22 22 joined pitts when

78 died in 75.

and then we move into that locker room

and that's another kind of joke from the

show

yeah and then he's like how did he die

again and he's like

oh he was following that numbers racket

max encounters some of the bad guys and

they get in a shootout

during the stunt show which i don't know

where the stunt show was located

at the park but i was guessing that it

would be where

the stunt show is now which is the

waterworld show um i don't know because

i do remember when i was really young

seeing this wild west stunt show yeah uh

because i remember like that

when he comes up out of the bucket or

when he because there was like a

a bottomless bucket yeah there was like

all these like little things like people

get would like sink into quicksand but

they would end up

coming up somewhere else yeah uh so

i don't know where this was i imagine it

must have been

before it was water well i think it was

miami vice or maybe

for a while miami vice could have been

late 80s too though yeah

so maybe it changed a couple of times

there it could also have been

i mean not that they can't erect stadium

seating in a short amount of time but

right there's also

that the animal show it could have been

in that area that's true

but i don't know for sure um but yeah

they uh they move on to the the gunfight

moves from this wild west stunt show to

the studio tour

and they go into one of the tunnels

which i think is now the

the earthquake subway tunnel but it used

to be like this battlestar galactica

yeah thing with all these cylons

shooting at each other

and uh so they're shooting back and

forth around all these alien robots

and then they move past the psycho house

really quickly

suddenly they're on the back lot and

they're like literally crashing these

the actual tour vehicles into each other

on the back lot which is pretty cool

and then we get the parting of the seas

which i don't think is there anymore

i think it's still there the last few

times i've been on the ride they haven't

done that part right so

i i don't know i don't know and this is

and this is where we get the transparent

shirt scene right yes uh they're they're

driving through

this lake and the water is parted but

they're pretending that there's too many

people on board and they need people to

get off in order to get out of this lake

and uh they convince some passengers to

jump out because they'll get to walk on

water

and they just all willy-nilly start

piling out of the thing

and then the tram just drives away and

then this woman pops up with

a completely drenched shirt um and

everyone's just like wait where's the

where's the bus going but yeah and then

the the last of the

of the tour parts is when one of the bad

guys gets dumped

in uh the lake at amity

which is actually pretty impressive that

universal set this up because this is

only a couple years after jaws

um yeah and so they they they jumped on

that

they jumped that shark yeah uh

it's it's actually considering like back

in the day that they

that within five years they had the ride

up and running and it's

still pretty much the same as it is now

yeah to think that 40 years later it

looks the exact same as it did in this

clip

because we were watching it we showed it

to the kids and jack was like oh that's

the shark from your work

it's like yep that's the dark that we

stand on when we're looking at it

but yeah so that's basically the end of

this

chase here well except that maxwell's in

the water

with jaws approaching him yeah and then

it just cuts away

yeah but uh he's back at the office

and they've basically come to the

conclusion uh

through the evidence that they've

acquired that nino salvatore sebastiani

might be the nude bomber but he's at

least involved in this scheme

max meets a new agent 34 who

takes him on a drive to meet with edith

von seckenberg

she lives it like at the bottom of a

hill in this snowy area so we get the

requisite spy movie

scene of skiing downhill because as

they're driving they come to a place

where an avalanche is taking out the

road

so they ski down to her home and max is

posing as an insurance salesman an

avalanche insurance salesman

he is trying to warm up so he walks with

his skis right up to the fireplace until

they catch fire

i did like the moment here where he says

do you mind if i call you edith and

she's like that

particularly since that's my name you'll

find i answer a lot faster to it than i

would if you called me marion

i'm going to level with you marion may i

call you marion

but yeah suddenly a couple of henchmen

enter the cabin

and max m34 are able to fight them off

very quickly

but the sounds of the fight trigger in

avalanche and

it basically ends with edith and

max and 34 34 just have their legs

sticking out of that

this snowy hillside uh the next day back

at the office

the computer system seemed to have more

information than they did before

we keep zooming into carruthers like

he's the person responsible for this

that he's like suddenly

suddenly the analysis is much more

complicated than it was

max goes to board a plane and 13 tells

him that he found a bomb on board

at first max suspects 36 because 36

isn't there

but nobody's there yet so i don't know

why 36 was the

was the first suspect 36 shows up so he

thinks it's the twins and then the twins

shows up so he thinks it's caruthers and

carruther shows up so he thinks it's

larabee

and larabee shows up and they

at this point have to say okay i guess

it's agent 22 since she's the only

person who's not on the plane other than

the chief

and then 22 shows up something i

suspected all along

agent 22 sorry i'm late is always late

the the chief shows up uh in max's

office later that day because the flight

was canceled

so max goes back to the office where the

chief is there with a gun

he's trying to take max out but then the

chief is thrown to the floor

when the car comes up through the floor

and tips the couch over

that the chief was sitting in they this

starts a high speed chase

because the chief gets into the car and

drives it out of the building

and then max chases him down with his

desk

but then he during the chase

he starts opening fire like into crowds

of people yeah

and he blows up a truck

being driven it's like did he kill

somebody

um but they're they're moving through

that big park in downtown l.a

and then there's a little bit where

they're on the universal back lot again

and then suddenly a cop is pulling the

desk over

the desk is really maneuverable i'm

really impressed with this prop

like because it's cool they made an

actual running desk for this gag and

it's

great it looks like it might be one of

those like trike motorcycles with the

two wheels in the front

yeah uh in the one wheel on the back

there's just like but but it's it's a

nice looking

enough looking prop that it's believable

that this desk is just scooting along

the ground

uh max he gets pulled over by a cop but

i don't remember much of their

interaction

he's like you're going pretty fast for a

desk weren't you yeah

and uh like he wasn't like concerned

that it was

a desk yeah this is like yo you're kind

of going fast when you shouldn't have

been but they just move right back into

the chase scene again so apparently he

pulled away from that cop super fast

again

the chief basically causes like a pile

up on a bridge and he's trying to climb

over the hoods of cars to get away from

max but

max basically tackles him over the edge

of a bridge

and the chief says that he knows where

chaos headquarters is

but that he won't tell him and then he

says well i'll drop you if you don't

tell me

and then he says okay fine i'll tell you

but please don't tell them i told you

and then he says i swear on my and they

let's go of his hand and drops him

but he lands into like a truck full of

hay or something which is an actual

person landing into a moving truck it

was a pretty impressive shot

because his head is really close to the

back of it the way he lands

back at the chaos headquarters savage

kills

sebastiani who is he's like

he opens up a hole in the ceiling to

reveal a bunch of spikes in the ceiling

yeah and then he elevates the chair the

sebastiani was in

until he's basically impaled on these

ceiling spikes i guess is what's

happening

it's a hilariously inefficient way to

kill people well it's just like

i mean dr evil just drops them down a

shoot which makes a lot more sense but

pushing him up like would flood be

gushing down or like

when the body still fall down after the

chair left i don't understand what's

keeping them up there

but that works somehow the the good guys

all get to

the base um with the chief's

instructions

and there's a big zipper for a door

which is a really cool prop because it

seems like an actual functional zipper

i love this door i think it's amazing it

was great

and a woman comes out of the door and

says it's a magenta alert

we launched the bombs in 15 minutes max

is very quickly caught after they sneak

through this door

and sits and argues with savage sans

savage or saint savage which is what the

saint was a reference to in the clue

that they got earlier

uh he says your bogus ingeniousness is

straining my equanimity and he says

could you put that another way and he

says you're pissing me off

saint savage uh his base looks

almost exactly like the dr no cave when

they're working on the warheads

he unveils the clonatory which can both

clone

and merge people which reminded me of an

episode of smallville

with jonathan taylor thomas where he

could turn into

five people but then turn back into one

and i was so jealous because like

one of them could go to work one of them

could go to school one of them could

well basically multiple man yeah but

the ability to go back into one at the

end of it and only have to feed one

person is the amazing part of it well

that's all multiple man works yeah yeah

but we we it might be multiple man in

that we know from

living with yourself that in fact we

have to kill the previous clone every

time we only want one clone there so

it seems kind of they're doing fine

inefficient multiplicity and

living with yourself make it clear that

you can

get along fine with your clients you

just gotta be a good person

even calvin couldn't do it and calvin

and hobbes with scientific progress goes

boink

he has a clone yeah he makes a cloning

machine then he keeps cloning more and

more of himself

i feel like i would i would be in a i

would be in doug's situation in

multiplicity where just be like

no one of you goes to work one of you

gets to have fun all the time and one of

you

does this other stuff and just everybody

split up and do their own thing and

we'll just come back here and share one

amount of food for us

they never utilize the uncloning

part of this machine again after this

point yeah um

but once he's seen the cloning machine

max

understands based on the shape of his

face that oh wait a minute you are

sebastiani you're the same guy

and he pulls off his mask to reveal it

to everyone else

he offers them a place at chaos he

offers it to um

to to 22 and max

to to stay there and work with him um

and

they refuse him so sebastiani clones

himself multiple times and max clones

himself multiple times and then suddenly

there's an army of each of them firing

back and forth at each other across the

slide

scene is wonderful because it's like

choreographed so that they're all

hidden each other in unison it looks

like synchronized swimming from the

block

yeah they have these overhead shots so

you can sort of see everybody working in

unison in this beautiful

and pattern at the end of this fight

scene one of the times that

max is going through the cloning machine

a mini clone comes out which is credited

as minimax

yeah which i'm sure had some uh some

some part in inspiring mini-me's

existence in the

austin powers movies but um uh

sebastiani

pulls out a gun and kills all of each of

these clones

except for one match yeah might not even

be the one we've been watching this

whole

yeah yeah but i guess it doesn't matter

um and then it's pretty dark it is dark

because there's dead maxwell smarts all

over this room

it kind of reminds me of the uh the

ethical dilemma of the transporter

yeah like in star trek it's like are are

you

actually being transported or are you

just being killed

in the original clone as being original

of you is being destroyed

yeah well that's why i've i've always

said if a teleporter exists

and if it's not a wormhole i'm not going

to use it

because i will i will step in

through a circle into another room and

have

crossed light years and that's fine but

if i'm literally being disassembled and

reassembled

i'm not confident in the continuity of

my yeah

consciousness that that would be me on

the other side of it and that is

dr mccoy's issue in star trek is that he

he doesn't like it

no no faith in the the wonka vision no

they killed mike tv mike tv is dead

all those kids are dead

he just has a very efficient cloning

facility he killed all those children

after the fight 22 rises to leave the

room

but her legs are numb and she collapses

and max is like oh don't worry i got you

and then he tries to pick her up and

it's not like the joke isn't that she's

heavy the joke is that max

is like the the weakest person in this

room

and he can't lift her i was laughing so

hard at this scene

because first he he like drops her to

the ground and then he just tries to

like

kind of carry her along like just by her

arms and then he turns around

and he grabs her legs and he's dragging

her backwards

just dragging her face along the floor

like face down

and then he sets her legs down and he

climbs completely

with her legs up over his shoulders like

he's gonna just

stand up and hold on to her legs and

walk that way and then does he say

where did you go when he's underneath

he's on top of him

and then uh and then he gets up and he

just starts pushing her from one side

like

just by the butt on her butt yeah just

like pushing her across the room

and then she's like i'm starting to get

some feelings

he says there's no time for that

and then they because now she can walk

they can actually leave this room before

the laboratory explodes yeah

um and they walk out with the original

chief because it turns out the chief

that turned on him was a clone

although that clone is still out there

yeah

and and for some reason evil yes the

base explodes

and uh the fallout from all the nude

bombs that were destroyed causes all of

their clothes to disappear

so the three of them walk naked down the

street with the word the end over each

of their butts

and then that flies up to fill the

screen and that's the end of the film

i thought this was very funny i thought

it was much funnier than the get smart

movie with steve carell

we talked about this a little bit this

morning uh

they they did it wrong they got it wrong

they changed the character

so in in this movie uh

he is incompetent but really

successful at what he does yeah and in

the new get smart movie

i mean new being what is it 2008 yeah 11

years old now

12. 12 years old now it's uh he's

completely competent but unsuccessful at

everything he does it's it's exactly the

wrong character

yeah where i feel like steve carell

looks exactly right but he's not playing

the right character for that movie

well yeah the the series is a lot like

the nude bomb

as far as like he he always

is successful like he he gets the job

done

but like or i guess i i guess i would

compare it to like mcgruber i was just

gonna say

because it's like it's like magruber

apparently has done all these missions

but just seeing this one mission you go

how yeah but but then you see him

complete completed he goes well i guess

it just works out yeah it's very pink

panther-like yeah you know

but the the new movie doesn't play that

way the new movie plays like

like piper is the magruber of the movie

yeah where it's like he's doing

everything right and by the book and

exactly and things just fail on him

which is a different it's a different

character um and also like

from the very beginning you can just

tell exactly where the whole story is

going it

like you said it it has like the stench

of an early 2000s movie

there's just like oh it's just uh it

just punched out of steel and just like

put on an assembly line

which is so sad because the cast of that

movie is amazing

it really is you know it had i mean

aside from

steve carell and anne hathaway you have

uh

dave keckner you have terry crews you

have

uh alan arkin it's just like it's just

an amazing

cast of characters and then they do

nothing with them

yeah and you have uh james khan as the

president

but yeah this movie was directed by

clive donner

who will be back next year directing

charlie chan and the curse of the dragon

queen

uh he directed a woody allen script by

the name of what's new pussycat

the writers for this were bill danna

aaron sultan and leonard stern who were

all writers from the original series

not the creators obviously right dawn

adams was maxwell smart

and the only other credit that i feel

like is worth mentioning

is the exact same character in animated

form which is

inspector gadget yeah um he also

apparently played

uh brain in the 1999 inspector gadget

movie

yeah he he has one line it's in the post

credits

oh okay yeah um and i'm not even sure if

it's

was wasn't archival yeah but uh

inspector gadget was such a great show

and it was really the same formula

as as agent smart sylvia crystal

was agent 34 34 is the one that took him

yeah uh she was in airport 79 the one

about the concorde

and she was emmanuel yeah the titular

emmanuel in the emmanuel series

um i'm sure jess is as familiar with

emmanuel as we are i have no idea what

you're talking about

okay uh rhonda fleming wasn't you

originally

but the titular no that's good yes it's

a softcore

trilogy and it's fantastic we had them

at our blockbuster because that was the

closest thing to porn that a blockbuster

would carry

i think one of them was like emmanuel in

space wasn't there one in space

probably um rhonda fleming

uh was edith von secondberg uh she was

mary carmichael and spellbound

this was her last feature film dana

elkar who i'm calling dana now

professional um he uh

he was on macgyver he was pete on

macgyver second in command

i mean he was first in command did you

look this up at some point

no there's a psa at the beginning of an

episode when he was suffering from

uh glaucoma and that it's affecting his

vision and that

he was going to be not on the show as

often and he calls him dana

and i was like oh we've been saying his

name wrong for seven and a half seasons

oh well gotcha he was al also uh dimitri

moyezovich

in 2010 the year we made contact and he

was ancient polk in the sting

yeah and uh also in uh all of me

he plays oh right he's playing steve

martin's boss yeah with uh

michael ensign was in that too right and

all of me uh

he might have been i can't remember

actually i think he was one of the two

guys that ran the business

okay it was him in elkhart wasn't it

yeah he steve martin worked definitely

worked for elkhart

um i think they were partners okay

thomas hill was the president

um he played carl conrad coriander and

never ending stories one and two

yeah so that's fun joey foreman played

agent 13

here on the series he played a character

named harry who

which was a very racist uh yellow face

situation

where he had a bunch of like fake

prosthetics to make himself look asian

um and very unfortunately his imdb

profile picture is of him in the asian

prosthetics

which just seems unfortunate but

possibly appropriately in the 50s and

60s

he did a nightclub comedy act with

mickey rooney

so maybe it's fitting patrick gorman

played the french delegate in the un

scene

he was the double for old steve rogers

in end game

isn't that crazy what that was the only

interesting credit i was like

that's totally bizarre but he was the

stand-in that was sitting there

all right for some of that scene richard

sanders was the german delegate and he

played les nessman on wkrp in cincinnati

robert carvalhos was larabee here he

played the same character on get smart

he was one of two people who ends up

playing the same character

beverly hart was model number two um i

don't know who that is in this film

um yeah like so when uh

when they go when they go to see

levinson seagull he bursts into a room

full of models they were all screaming

at him so that's just the second one

i guess yeah i guess it um but she

played susie in x-ray

and the high priestess in star trek five

which is a final frontier i think uh

yeah i'm trying to remember who the high

priestess was in that

i'm not sure but um dick durock played

the jump master that was the first guy

to get kicked out of the plane

he will be back later this year in coast

to coast which uh

hopefully we can find before then but

otherwise you won't be hearing much

about that from us

he'll also be in any which way you can

he played swamp thing

in swamp thing and the return of swamp

thing yeah and he was bill travis and

stand by me

um i don't remember who the bill travis

character is it's been a while since i

saw that

stand by me bill travis um assuming one

of the adults

yeah um bobby porter played the the

maxwell smart clone the small the small

clone

he was the purple people leader in the

movie purple people eater

um he also played cornelius in battle

for planet of the apes

okay and he will be a rhode island

senator later this year in first

family and he has stunt and coordinator

credits all over the place

and then the last credit i want to

mention here was uh

my second choice for porn name when i

found out dick wolfe was taken

dick warlock who played

chaos on plane which i'm guessing is

just one of the agents

yeah he did stunts in fire starter

escape from new york

inner space the abyss and his name is

dick warlock well we had him

uh earlier this year too did we yeah uh

because

that's why i got really excited is like

oh this is our second uh

our second dick warlock i feel like i

would remember that name but

he uh midnight madness oh okay yeah

his stunts yeah trying to think of what

stunts there were in that movie

who knows anyway i just feel like this

this movie falls short of what it could

have been

yeah of how great the show was i mean

the show was it was only on for five

years but

it it had a good run it obviously

inspired

not just this movie but other movies

yeah in which barbara felden would

appear

and i feel like that the the dynamic of

of 86 and 99 like working as a pair

really helps the story and i know that

they're trying to add this 22

plot line but it just i don't know it

just bothered me that

99 wasn't even mentioned yeah it felt

like

they wanted for every single character

to possibly be

a bad guy or a spy and so

they had to make everybody new and it's

like that

that wasn't necessary you could have at

least brought like the other major

characters like apparently 99

like felden was never even asked if she

wanted to come back for a sequel like

how does that make sense she was at

least asked for the other tv movie

that said no and she was offered or

maybe she came back for the second tv

movie but they they asked her due to a

cameo in the steve carell

one and she said no i'm not gonna do

that so i think that the difference

here is having not seen the show because

i thought a lot of these jokes were

hilarious and it's a stupid sense of

humor but i think it's

right up my alley uh and so i probably

would just absolutely love the show if

i'd ever actually seen it but

i really enjoyed the movie

well think of the movie but with more

mel brooks flair

well that would probably make patrick

hate it yeah that would be good

i'm not the biggest mel brooks fan uh

i mean i like him as a person i just

i a lot of his humor is just not it's

never connected with me

but i'm i'm a sucker for for puns and

slapsticks though yeah

oh that's totally me i just feel it's

like it's just all

rehashed yeah and and not in to me for

me not in like the naked gun way like

oh the naked gun this is all just jokes

from the show but

uh the police squad show right but i

finding them just as funny in this movie

that's interesting

i wonder why i wonder what the

difference is there

like do there's a cheaper version of the

jokes or

i think overall they clearly reused

chokes from police files on oh

absolutely no

they they 100 did a lot yeah um but i

think

they the really heavy-handed of maxwell

smart's catchphrases

bothered me uh it's like they had to

it's like

every scene had to have one did you see

the the steve carl one though

yeah because he uses the missed it by

that much twice

in that movie yeah he only used it once

in the nude bomb right but he uses it

twice in that movie

and it's not funny either time yeah i'm

not a huge fan of that

movie either yeah but the only time that

he uses it in the nude bomb i feel like

it's really solid use of the line like

misted by that much is funny and that's

in that scene yeah and uh i also feel

like they were

trying to lean into the

things that they could do in a movie

that they couldn't do on the tv show

but i didn't feel like there was

anything in this movie that they

couldn't do on the tv show with the

exception of the budget

yeah but they're also like i don't think

they were saying [ __ ]

and stuff like that on the tv show yeah

this i didn't see the tv show obviously

so i don't know but

it feels like this was a little bit more

over the top they had a driving desk

they had they drove uh you know trams

around the universal studio lads no i

mean yeah i mean like i said other than

the budget

i don't feel like this was anything

larger i i certainly felt like this was

a tv movie

yeah well it definitely was a tv movie

yeah which might be why maybe

imdb is mistaken and it was always 4-3

and

uh it was supposed to be just the tv

movie and at the last second they were

like we could put this in theaters and

left it that way but um it certainly

looked like it shot that way

to me it didn't look like anything was

was

you know not meant to be shot that way

yeah and especially in the very

very beginning of the movie that stuff

before the actual title comes up

that felt like almost pal like low

resolution low

frame rate like weirdness i wonder if we

did watch a tv cut

and that but it's called the nude bomb

though not the tv movie name

oh okay yeah maybe what was the tv movie

name

uh maxwell smart returns or something

like that

the return of maxwell smart which is

what the original script was called

before the producers were like

make it about nude bombs and call it

nude bomb i feel like

they would have been better served by

the other name because i if you had told

me it was called the return of maxwell

smart i would have known even having not

seen the tv show

that this was a get smart movie i had no

idea that what the new bomb was about

until you told me honestly the nude bomb

sounds like

like one of those like uh vincent price

like

dr goldfoot in the bikini machine type

of movies where it's just gonna be

a bunch of people running around on a

beach from like a crappy monster costume

but yeah that's not what this movie was

about at all so

uh so i am gonna say that this isn't a

must-watch

i'm gonna recommend but i really enjoyed

it cool

that's fair richard can you give an up

or down

uh it's gonna be a down for me i mean

it was okay i just again being a fan of

the show

just didn't do anything for me yeah i'm

gonna give it a down

too i feel like um this could have been

something really amazing

if uh it had gotten the full effort that

it sounds like the show deserved i

enjoyed the film also

like jess it sounds like if they had

given this

all of their effort that it would have

ended up like austin powers then it

would have been

you know impossible to not give it a

couple sequels

right away and that didn't happen so i'm

going to say down

on this one richard where do you think

this goes on your list

i'm gonna put this uh between

midnight madness and hero at large

between midnight madness and hero at

large okay so this

is uh in the upper third

i think of my movies for the year uh

it's actually right by

hero at large it's just above here at

large for me too and right below foxes

for me this is gonna be a weird tonal

placement but uh for me this goes

between

cruising and don't answer the phone

which is it's a weird place to put this

comedy

but um that would be two spaces above

hero at large

in that placement but uh i think that's

where it goes because i would like to

watch

donates to the phone again right now and

i feel like i could give this movie some

time

but yeah i think that's where i'm gonna

put it right between cruising and don't

answer the phone

which might not even be in my top half

but that's all right

you know not every movie's gonna be in

the top half most of them won't that's

not true

exactly half of them will um

there will be more than more than half

into the 50

but yes i think that's about everything

for this one

i think

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