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Tim Walz is the best - one sentence says it all. (Original Post) Nanjeanne Mar 2025 OP
Screenshots, please! Heavens, they're tasty, and expeditious!" usonian Mar 2025 #1
Ah, yes wryter2000 Mar 2025 #45
You have to be a certain age to remember Emile Mar 2025 #2
Really connecting with the Under-40s there Prairie Gates Mar 2025 #3
i got get smart on my locel tv in the 90's i think. pansypoo53219 Mar 2025 #5
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Swifties are inane but Maxwell Smart is high culture Prairie Gates Mar 2025 #8
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Do you really think anyone from from Gen Y or Gen Z would know who Maxwell Smart is? ShazzieB Mar 2025 #11
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Hey Siegfried William769 Mar 2025 #16
And he's not going to be delivering a pizza! ShazzieB Mar 2025 #17
LOL William769 Mar 2025 #18
the clip is hilarious regardless of if you remember the show Skittles Mar 2025 #41
There was a get smart movie in 2008 MacKasey Mar 2025 #44
Educators and coaches understand malaise Mar 2025 #31
Hey it was funny. No balloon bursting. yorkster Mar 2025 #33
They know how to use Google...... lastlib Mar 2025 #38
Steve Carrell was maxwell smart in a newer version proud patriot Mar 2025 #40
Maxwell Smart was a patriot... lame54 Mar 2025 #4
In real life, too.(Don Adams) DinahMoeHum Mar 2025 #21
Did not know that.... reACTIONary Mar 2025 #26
Kick.Walz is one of our best. bronxiteforever Mar 2025 #6
Inspector Clouseau to head of FBI bmichaelh Mar 2025 #10
Yes! An evil Inspector Clouseau Dancingdem Mar 2025 #24
Could I hold out for Joe Friday? lastlib Mar 2025 #39
I was crazy over agent 99. Emile Mar 2025 #12
Why do you suppose there is a "99" in my user name? murielm99 Mar 2025 #25
What? 92??! Ishoutandscream2 Mar 2025 #32
She poisoned King Kali999 Mar 2025 #37
I believe you're thinking of Diana Rigg ChazInAz Mar 2025 #43
Kick dalton99a Mar 2025 #14
You don't have to be old to get the joke indigovalley Mar 2025 #15
I don't care if the under-40s don't get the reference. MIButterfly Mar 2025 #19
Excellet point, "dude!" LOL 3825-87867 Mar 2025 #22
LOL! MIButterfly Mar 2025 #23
And maybe they could freaking look it up, yorkster Mar 2025 #34
This message was self-deleted by its author yorkster Mar 2025 #35
American political and cultural history should not go only two years back. usonian Mar 2025 #20
I laughed because it would be an improvement. And Agent 99 was the smartest of them all. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #27
Don Adams bio is quite out of the ordinary bucolic_frolic Mar 2025 #28
Cone of silence Mpo4261 Mar 2025 #29
Just when i didn't think i could love him more... maspaha Mar 2025 #30
Maxwell Smart... ellise Mar 2025 #36
What a travesty, that this good man was denied an election victory. (nt) Paladin Mar 2025 #42

Prairie Gates

(8,505 posts)
3. Really connecting with the Under-40s there
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Mar 2025


Can't wait for an analogy to My Three Sons and the Waltons...What's his next post, "Vance is out there acting like Litle Joe Cartwright in reverse!" Sick burn.

Response to Prairie Gates (Reply #3)

Response to Prairie Gates (Reply #8)

ShazzieB

(22,938 posts)
11. Do you really think anyone from from Gen Y or Gen Z would know who Maxwell Smart is?
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:14 PM
Mar 2025

I really doubt it. That show was on during the 60s, when I was in high school.

Why, yes, I am old, why do you ask?

Response to ShazzieB (Reply #11)

DinahMoeHum

(23,701 posts)
21. In real life, too.(Don Adams)
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:03 PM
Mar 2025
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010915/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

He joined the U.S. Marines in the early days of World War II. He saw combat in the invasion of Guadalcanal and was the only survivor of his platoon. He contracted blackwater fever and nearly died, remaining hospitalized for more than a year. After his recovery he served as a drill instructor.


Dancingdem

(18 posts)
24. Yes! An evil Inspector Clouseau
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 07:18 PM
Mar 2025

Bumbling, clueless Clousaau was successful and infuriated his boss and eventually drove him crazy.

Bumbling, clueless t rump has risen despite all of his glaring problems, words and actions he is starting to drive me crazy, I mean WTH?

Where is karma when we need it. I've been waiting for karma (for his actions) since 2016.

lastlib

(28,695 posts)
39. Could I hold out for Joe Friday?
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 10:43 PM
Mar 2025

Let's get some no-nonsense competence in there who will get just the facts, ma'am.

murielm99

(33,102 posts)
25. Why do you suppose there is a "99" in my user name?
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 07:19 PM
Mar 2025

I loved her hair. I loved her fashion.

She had a tough job on that comedy. She had to play second fiddle to someone who was very good at what he did.

ChazInAz

(3,036 posts)
43. I believe you're thinking of Diana Rigg
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 09:56 AM
Mar 2025

Who earlier had created the prototype for 99 in BBC's " The Avengers".

indigovalley

(290 posts)
15. You don't have to be old to get the joke
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:25 PM
Mar 2025

Young people can understand and appreciate the mocking going on in his post just from the visuals which are funny. You don't need to know a thing about the TV series or the Maxwell Smart character to get it.

However, if you happen to be older, as I am, and are familiar with the series there is an extra level of mocking based on knowing the Maxwell Smart character that just is icing on the cake.

MIButterfly

(3,192 posts)
19. I don't care if the under-40s don't get the reference.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:40 PM
Mar 2025

There are a lot of their references I don't get. How many of them are following Tim Walz anyway?

I think it's hilarious!

3825-87867

(2,021 posts)
22. Excellet point, "dude!" LOL
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:06 PM
Mar 2025

Next time, get it written in cursive! (Or better yet, show them Max's shoe phone, you know the one with a "dial?&quot
That'll give "them young-uns" some fits trying to understand. Have to use their "fones" to look it up or voice rec incase they Kan't spel!

The Bee's Knees! Outer Space! Right-O! Square! Cool! Far-Out! Excellent! Groovy! Hip, Daddio! Like, WOW! Boss, even! etc, ad infinitum, Bro!

Response to MIButterfly (Reply #19)

usonian

(26,698 posts)
20. American political and cultural history should not go only two years back.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:52 PM
Mar 2025

There was some amazingly clever writing "a few years back"

The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock and Outer Limits episodes were epic.

Compare watching re-runs of them with doomscrolling absolute meaningless crap for hours on end.

And besides, fascists want to obliterate history (Does the name Steve Bannon sound familiar? ) because it exposes their constant replay of the fascist playbook.

Better you think that their racism, misogyny and ethnic purity is like



Who can forget Gavin Newsom as the Captain?

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
27. I laughed because it would be an improvement. And Agent 99 was the smartest of them all. . . . nt
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 07:29 PM
Mar 2025

bucolic_frolic

(55,993 posts)
28. Don Adams bio is quite out of the ordinary
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 07:45 PM
Mar 2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Adams

Did you know he joined the Marines in 1941 and served in the battle of Guadalcanal? Or survived a disease with 90% mortality? And he was a high school dropout?

ellise

(38 posts)
36. Maxwell Smart...
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 10:29 PM
Mar 2025

This says it all. These clowns couldn’t drag themselves out of hole..

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