laughter is a wonderful place to go for forgetting your troubles and woes. sitcoms are an escape. the more dire the circumstances, the more you need sitcoms to forget about your troubles. we re going to the good place in a freaking gold balloon! shotgun! that s what we had. that s what helped me escape being poor. [ applause ] everything single one of you is a good person. when i m feeling kind of hopeless and sad, i get to laugh and lose myself and remember life s not that bad. you re in the good place! the beautiful thing about the sitcom, is that it has provided so much joy in times of uncertainty. there s a lot of pressure in the 1960s this notion of new products and everything being new, this kind of brave new world. everything s about the future and modernizing. yes, it s all bright and shiny and you get cars that look like spaceships, but then it s a scary thing. what does the future hold? air force general curtis lemay suggested we bomb north v
oh, allow me princess. [ gunshot ] [ telephone rings ] he s doing cool spy stuff. he s got the phone in the shoe. i will take credit for the shoe phone. this is smart, maxwell smart. which turned out to be the cell phone, which i should have patented, and i wouldn t even be bothered talking to you. one of the most famous gags on get smart was the cone of silence. the case i assigned 99 to has to do with the gaul formula. what? the chief and agent 86, couldn t actually hear each other. the cone of silence would never work. and it would never work in a different way every time. it was too fast, it wouldn t come down. it would hit the desk. a lot of the catchphrases are part of our culture. i loved when max would say, sorry about that, chief. sorry about that, chief.