The FULL Get Smart Experience: Extra ("The Nude Bomb")

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1:02a special edition. Usually we are watching one of four episodes of a TV series. It's first, ultimate lowest or last, in an attempt to get a sense of what the entire series was about. We just finished watching four episodes of Get Smart. So we thought we'd put ourselves to the test by watching the 1980 movie The Nude Bomb loosely based on the Get Smart TV series. I'm Tom Merritt. He's Brian Brushwood. Tom, when I started watching this, I sort of rolled my eyes at just how heavy handed all of the Get Smart references were saying, would you believe in the credits multiple times? Exactly, right? I'm like, what is going on here? This is very unmelbrooks. And so I opened up Wikipedia and I said out loud, oh dear. Because I read that there would be no chief, he had already passed away. No 99 Barbara Felden went on to say that she was never asked

2:03to be in it. And apparently Mel Brooks had nothing to do with this whatsoever. I was worried. One of the original producers of the TV series, because Mel Brooks even moved away from the TV series after the first season. So one of the original producers of the series was involved. I think they just didn't want to pay Mel Brooks because he was right and high as a director. Yeah, very expensive in 1980. That's post blazing saddles. And his Get Smart work was work for hire. So they could use all the Get Smart properties without paying him. But if they involved him somehow, then they'd have to pay him. Don Adams apparently only agreed because he was broke and needed the money. It publicly criticized the script at the time. And the folks who had been producers on the TV series who put this together apparently said that the studio kept messing with the script

3:05and then shutting them out of the set, hiring a director who was more known for sexy takes on stuff. And so their original concept was an evil genius wants to control the world by using high fashion. And the network was the one was like, no, it should be a new DOM that wants to make everybody naked because that's sexy and that'll sell. And so you ended up with this hash of a script where there's something about fashion thrown in there and that's why he wants the new DOM. So he can make everybody naked and then sell them clothes that seem very tacked on at the end. And after I read about the fact that they changed the script midway made sense that it felt tacked on because it was just the leftover from the original script. And it's also why Don Adams is the only person besides Lara B from the original TV series that's in this.

4:05Tom, I went in very, very skeptical. Like the opening set piece, to be honest, actually the very opening thing where they have, for reasons that aren't explained, he's on an airplane with a bunch of people who look like they're skydivers and they're going to dangerously have them skydiver. What have you? I was really smitten by the practical effects of it. These were all very tight cliché things in the 1980s. Doing everything they did, they were the bazillion-death person to do it. This thing got 17% on Rot Tomatoes, if you trust Rotten Tomatoes scores. It was universally panned. I think it only made $14 million at the box office, became the movie of the week on NBC, I believe. I was poised to hate, hate, hate it. Instead, I was dazzled by the old school Hollywood everything from the practical effects of having fight scenes falling out of a plane.

5:06I was like, would they even do that nowadays? I don't know if you caught the Buster Keaton FX-esque stunt where they full-on had a stunt man ragged all his body and let a car full-speed run over him, surviving in the wheel well between the two. I must have rewound that and watched that clip 20 times. I had to track down, see if I could find an interview with a stuntman. This is from an era where it didn't even merit an article about it. It was such a jabric or stunt. And then even when we get to the predictable beats, like going to the moment we see the sign that says Universal Studios, I'm like, all right, here we go. Somebody saved some money. We're going to do a tour of all the, Boy oh boy, was it a 20-minute ad for Universal Studios? I didn't hate it. Again, at the time, that probably felt cheap. If you knew, but I enjoyed that, was part of the movie I enjoyed the most.

6:06I loved it. That's what Universal Studios looked like before they opened the theme park. And that's, oh, that's so cool. And they have parts still there. And that, you know, like that was kind of a nice time capsule. Yeah. And yes, they really made it sexy. But keep it by. This is coming out roughly close to what Cannonball Run, which was another wacky sexy comedy. Tom, I think that, I mean, that's why Barbara Felden was not, they didn't want Barbara Felden to be brought onto this movie, as they wanted a bunch of younger, sexy, you know, all alternates for, in the continuity of Get Smart, they were married and had children at that point. Yeah. So they just, they just basically forgot that and just didn't even mention it. Yeah. Yeah. It's sort of a sideways. In fact, Maxwell Smart has a weird thing, a weird line at one point where he's like, that's why you can't have relationships with your agent. I'm like, but you're married to 99 and aren't you anyway? Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's definitely a reimagining on the riff, you know?

7:09It's a, yeah, you know, I'm such a sucker for remixes and covers. It's kind of like a cover. There's a headlight every 30 minutes for our show. I'm pretty sure. Welcome to Get Real. I'm your host, Amanda Hirsch. This is the show for the reality TV obsessed. You thought the show was crazy, living it was crazy, right? I was dripping sweat for even stars. For the stars and stands of the Hula reality verse. Do you think she's stirring the pot to secure a place on the show? Find and listen to Get Real wherever you get your podcasts and stream new episodes Thursdays on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+. Terms apply. With my Sapphire preferred card, we took a trip to a desert oasis. Turning five times the points on Chase Travel, two times the points on all other travel plus a hundred dollar hotel credit. Chase Sapphire preferred, a card that's preferred for a reason. Guards issued by JP Morgan J's bank and a member of DSE subject to credit at Rural Terms Apply. I almost forgot the Universal Studios part where we got the Battlestar Galactic across.

8:09Loved it! Love that! Because I'm like the more I watched, I was like, oh my god, was this an actual attraction? God, I wish I could have seen it. And then it hit me and it's like Brian, you're seeing it right now. It's pretty neat, isn't it? I'm like, it sure is. Yeah, that part was pretty cool. You're right about the stunt where the car ran over and that caught my eye too. And I was like, wow, that was pretty good stunt. Nicely done. About an hour in, I was starting to check the time. Pretty frequent. Okay, this thing definitely could have benefited from an editor. Like the last 15 minute fight sequence, the whole idea, the moment they introduced the cloneinator or whatever it was, the cloneatron, I was like, oh my god, this is gonna be great. And there was some great choreography where everybody was simultaneously punching or whatever. I think all of this would have made an absolutely bite. It might still to this day if you took a hatchet to this thing? Probably a killer hour long episode in there.

9:09Yeah, yeah, yeah. 10 out of 10. Because it was only an hour 34 as a movie, thank goodness. So it wasn't a long movie. It was about the average length, I guess, for the time or close to it. But yeah, it is an episode that they stretched into a movie. It wasn't even that great of an episode. Bit of, bit of, bit of, bit of, okay. Okay, so here is a thought that popped into my mind at about the one third mark. And it would not leave. And once I was looking at it through this lens, I loved this movie a lot. Really? This is where Austin Powers came from. This is a case like it is note for note for when the nude bomb hits, everybody, you see everybody fully spread-igled and then they just conveniently cover themselves just at the time of it. The Dr. Evil-esque costume, the gorgeous over-the-top saturated color sets, the mod-fascens,

10:09the bad guy is wearing a Dr. Evil costume. All you have to do is turn him into what's his name, Saturday Night Live Guy. It was, once you look at it as 100% Austin Powers is more than a spiritual debt to it. Like this was the playbook. I'm certain the pitch was, what if the nude bomb but good with electric talent that's on his way up? Instead of Don Adams, forgive me, you know, whose star was fading at the time. All the ideas are there. And didn't want to be doing it. Yeah, was doing it for a paycheck, clearly. Yeah. I thought it was great. Question, one must always ask is, do I think that because I don't know what came before the nude bomb? So this is my invitation to the Smarty Pants in the audience to be cord killers at gmail.com. If you're saying, no, no, no, the nude bomb was actually imitating this other movie,

11:13which was much better. And that's what Austin Powers was referencing. There's always that possibility because not knowing any different, I'm, I'm, I'm looking at Brian as a genius right now. I'm like, yeah, this is basically, they looked at nude bomb and I'm like, yeah, but what if we did it right? And then they made Austin Powers. Yeah. And they did. The nude bomb was meant to be a bond parody because bond was making so much money at the time. And that's what Austin Powers says. And the problem is, is there's no bite to its parody elements. There's, it's, if you squint, you could see it just standing side to side and kind of being cool. And it hit that mushy middle. I understand why it didn't pop because it wasn't Get Smart and it didn't have Mel Brooks. And for all the reasons, we wanted it to be a Get Smart movie. And it's not quite a James Bond parody. I mean, it gets in the way that, that Get Smart was a James Bond parody, but you kind of had vaudevilleian bits that you kind of got into. I understand why it didn't succeed and why Austin Powers did, but what a debt it owes right down to the layer of the Dr. Evil-esque character, you know, with, complete with that zipper bit to get in and out.

12:25The fashionista as a bad guy thing. We'd later see that show up in Zoolander. This thing, yeah. This thing was the real raw materials just before its time. Pete, Pete in the chat points out that there's even a mini me clone. There is. Yeah. When Don Adams walks, walks through and a kid comes in, not quite baked. He kicks the kid back into the clone machine, bangs it. And so a fully cooked Don Adams comes out. Oh, I'm best out of the looking at the screen. And by the way, full disclosure, I watched this in 10 to 15 minute chunks throughout my day. So each time it was like I was, I was like a fresh start. Yeah, exactly. I watched it on Sunday while Eileen and Seven the dog were taking a nap on my phone. Yeah. Oh, so you watched on the phone. I'll tell you what, man, it actually merits, like the visuals are so rich. Of course, because we're dealing with old school cheap Hollywood production, you know, you

13:26can see all the, a lot of chrome for Brian to look at reflections of things on and see how they shot all of that stuff. No wonder you loved it. Yeah. Also, there was for a show that is PG about the nude bomb, that wet t-shirt at Universal Studios. She can't believe that made it through. I mean that in multiple ways. It was a lot. It was, it was just to be sure. I could believe my eyes. I remember a few times to make sure. Yeah. Interesting. In my deep dive to find out why this didn't have 99 and which I found that Mel Brooks didn't have anything to do with it. No, that sort of thing. I did end up taking a look at Get Smart again, the made for TV movie that came out in 1989 with Barbara Felden involved. And I started watching it on 2B.

14:26I didn't end up getting all the way through. But I was like, Oh, this is what I expected the tone of the nude bomb or not the tone. This is what I expect that they accoutrement of the nude bomb to be with Get Smart again. You have Barbara Felden in it 10 years after the nude bomb producer said, Oh, no, she's too old. That looks great. It does a great job. And they have Maxwell smart as the chief because he's great now. Yeah. So they're like, Oh, chief is chief is gone. As we as we mentioned earlier, let's at max be in charge of the agency. And apparently this is much better reviewed, even though it was a made for TV movie. So yeah, I don't know. Apparently the Get Smart again success of the TV movie led to them bringing back the series for the extra episodes that they did later in the 90s that we mentioned before as well. So I don't know, man. The nude bomb. I don't know if it ends up being a good test of our full experience because there's so

15:28much of it that really isn't related. But to be honest, there was a nice, sorry about that chief later on. There were plenty of plenty of, would you believe? And so, so yeah, there was, there was never a point where I looked at something and said, Oh, I don't really know what that is supposed to mean. It is, it was a fun nostalgic revisit to a time before the internet where your comedies were an excuse to put a little bit of eroticized content to get some salacious, you know, adults to come see it. It's just a strange artifact. And I'm deeply glad that we took the soldier in here. I thought it was great. Yeah. It's funny. I remember my parents saying, well, we're not taking you to see that. Oh, really? I don't care if it's rating. I don't get, it's called the, my mom, particularly. I think my dad was a little more iralee like, it's got a PG rating and I'm sure it's fine. And then when it came to TV, we were just barely allowed to watch it.

16:33And I remember watching it and thinking it was funny because I liked to get smart and rerun. So I was like, Oh, look, it's down at him again. That's great. Where's 99? Oh, I guess 99, that's okay. Cool. Well, you know, once I got past the surprise that it wasn't get smart, it was just, you know, a reimagining of it. I was surprised at how much of the DNA it kind of felt liberating. It kind of felt big and open like anything was possible. Yeah. Well, that's the difference between pits and control. Yeah. I did like that they gave like, there used to be an agency called control that they, they shut down around 1970. I'm like, Oh, yeah, that's, that's exactly what they did. That must have been in the original script and made it all the way through. There's a headline every 30 minutes for our show. I'm pretty sure. Welcome to Get Real. I'm your host, Amanda Hirsch. This is the show for the reality TV obsessed. You thought the show was crazy living it was crazy. I was dripping sweat for even stars. For the stars and stands of the Hula reality verse. Do you think she's stirring the pot to secure a place on the show?

17:35We've been listening to Get Real wherever you get your podcasts and stream new episodes Thursdays on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+. Terms apply. Every unforgettable night deserves a fragrance that leaves a lasting impression introducing the new Ralph's Club New York perfume by Ralph Lauren, a bold expression of modern sophistication. An unexpected burst of blackcurrant opens the same with intensity while a witch cognac accord adds depth and sensuality. Capture the energy of Manhattan's Nightlife and discover Ralph's Club New York perfume, a powerful, indulgent and unforgettable scent that lasts long after the night has faded. Shop now. Well, let's check in with our producer, Amos, to get the last word on the nude bomb. Amos, did you watch the nude bomb and were you clothed? I did. I was. I can't believe how much wasn't for a PG rating, but I enjoyed.

18:37Overall, I just enjoyed watching it. I did watch it slightly accelerated one quarter speed due to time constraints. I'll tell you what, I'll bet it's sung in that environment. Like absent a re-edit of it, speeding it up just a little bit. I bet it was. Were you aware of all of its negative reviews and the fact that it was kind of like nobody was championing it? The only thing I noticed was when I purchased it on Apple TV or through Apple TV, it had the right and tomato score in the IMDB average score, but I take those with a nice big chunk of salt most of the time anyway. So I basically went into a blind, never having heard of it before, you guys mentioned it last week. So this is my first and only exposure to it and I'm not mad at it. All right, all right. That's actually a pretty good review for. That desk was hilarious and especially the desk car. You know, and he pulls over where it's just like the cop is going to go through the mechanics

19:39of the ticket. I don't know. You know how fast this desk was going and he was going through driving the desk of the yard. It was bouncing, but the wheels were staying. I was like, man, they really had some good shocks on the front end of that. That was pretty amazing. Oh, you know what? I would drive that. I love just how many old cars there were and they were old at the time. Like they weren't they weren't paying for new late seventies early eighties vehicles. I just love watching the old boats on the. Yeah, there's something nostalgic about just watching old movies and this had that because there were definitely points where they were driving around Los Angeles where I was like, oh, that's what that looked like back then kind of thing. So yeah, I will say that it was refreshing that they didn't bother explaining a whole lot. Yeah, kind of just here it is deal with it. We're moving on. They did. They just go straight to a press release where it's like a nude bomb will be back. And I'm like, I guess it's all you had to do.

20:40It's called the nude Bob. Do we need to explain? No. Okay. Good. Not for nothing. Look, within the confines of this being old school, I was surprised by the chief being the mole and I was surprised and I was excited when I was like, oh, clones. Oh, and he is the other guy. Also by the way, talk about that Austin power stuff. You got a doctor, Eva looking dude whose side is, you know, is Robert Wagner with the or Roblo with the eye patch only. And also you see the riff on the, I'm very badly burned. We had a dude where there was an explosion and all that. A lot of the DNA, a lot of deep, possibly parallels fraudulent debt. Well, that is the new machine was just like you saw it. They told you what was going to happen, you know, but inferred on it. I didn't expect him to take it that far. At one point, there was like 40 people on the screen.

21:42They really, they really bit into this. This little fruit of about the question midway through. I made a note to myself to do an episode of the water rogue on the fireman's carry because they took so long with that. That was a good bit. It's the fireman's care. What are you doing? Yeah, that was that was like some clumsy, make it sexy bit. It is like that was, yeah, that was a good physical comedy routine. It kind of didn't accomplish either. It didn't work as a fireman's carry. It wasn't quite sexy, but it, I agree. It was almost there at the whole scene. Yeah. Well, that, my friends is the new bomb, our special episode to finish off gets smart. Next time we will begin our run through Battlestar Galactica, which only had one season. Battlestar Galactica 1980, we are treating as a separate show since so did the network, even though it was essentially continuing the show on a small budget.

22:43So we will start with the first episode of Battlestar Galactica, saga of a star world, season one, episode one, which first aired September 17, 1978, until then get the inside track on everything happening with the full experience, including the episodes coming to you early. If you're a patron at patreon.com slash cord killers. Talk to you soon. Customers shouldn't have to start from scratch every time they meet help. That's why we build FEM. FEM answers questions, helps buyers find what they need, and remembers the context from one conversation to the next. Learn more at fin.ai. There's a headlight every 30 minutes for our show. I'm pretty sure. To get real, I'm your host Amanda Hirsch. This is the show for the reality TV obsessed.

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