Aspies For Freedom

I am currently very enamored with the series Get Smart. I have always loved it since I first saw it at around age 8 or so, but they started showing it on TV again recently, and I am quickly became obsessed with the series. If I weren't trying to get a computer, I would buy the series on DVD.

Predictably enough, I am going to be Maxwell Smart for Halloween. For my economics start-a-fictional-business project, I am running a Spy Supply Store. Anyone who has interesting links on these subjects, MUCH APPRECIATED if you could share!!!

My favorite characters are Smart and Siegfried. 99 and the Chief used to be my favorites, 'cause she's usually the one who comes through with competence, and the Chief always had to put up with the Cone of Silence.

Particularly: does anyone know where there are episode transcripts online? It would be great reference for fanfiction purposes.

Is this you?.......

http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/

Playing Get Smart was what I did my 3rd grade year of school.  I was Agent 99, Donald was Agent 86.  Sometimes another kid would help us out by being a Chaos robot or something.  This is all I did for the entire school year -- produced no school work at all. I still remember dropping a magnet into the heating exchange to blow up the school.

No...though I wish it were me. I love that site.

Well, if you aren't too shy to share it, I'd love to see you in your Halloween costume.

Get Smart - The Opening Sequence

Come on, where's the Hallowe'en costume, then?

EEEEEEP!

I just won the entire Get Smart series DVDs - they just announced it on TV just now! It's so cool, it also has extras and stuff!

  Congratulations!

My grandmother was one of the very first women in the CIA.  She was an undercover agent in Austria during the Cold War.  She eventually left the CIA because her politics disagreed with some of the things they were involved in.
She likes telling stories about it.  The coolest thing I remember from her stories is that she had a camera disguised as a purse!  She would squeeze it under her arm and it would snap photos.

Neat! I'm writing a novel involving espionage, and it's also probably going to be science-fiction too.

WOW!!! WOW!!! That is over $200.00 dollars!! Thanks to the links on here, my kids and I have been checking out how to get them. I love get smart also and have been wanting to share it with my kids. Thanks for the great thread.

Tigger thanks for the link, we are wacthing some on youtube! (we just watched the whole episode with the olive transmitter, with Carol Burnet,  as Ozark Annie! 1967)

Congrats! earthmonkey, you are super lucky!

That is so cool> I have seen a movie or two (fact/fiction) about women "spies".
My paternal uncle, (I found out years later) the one with the most obvious (on my side anyway) asperger qualities was in the CIA. After Vietnam, the family thought that he was a professional student, he was constantly going to college and (was in the CIA).  HE did something with numbers.  He seemed like a sterotypical accountant, he has a doctorate and now he is a professor.

The talk of spies make's me think of Ivar's A-SPIES thing.

But yeah, I got to see it when I was a kid back when they had it on TV LAND, and I got to see the whole series and we taped a bunch of episodes. Then they started showing it on a local TV network, but I mostly had night classes when it was on, and our VCR wasn't working.

They have been asking a question on the TV every morning a little after six - and the first to e-mail with the correct answer wins. On Thursday, so, I got up at 5:45, got my laptop and logged on to my e-mail and pressed the Compose button, then I wrote in my details and left a blank space for the answer, and in the meantime snacked so I wouldn't be in a fog and prepared to see the question.

I got it right yesterday morning, but I wasn't the first to e-mail (it took me a bit to recall - it was about what the shoephone turns into if you dial 117). Today's question was easy, asking about the actor who played Siegfried (Bernie Kopell), and so I just typed it and pressed send.

I was, however, prepared for the answer to be "XKE500" or "X11" or "DRY-UP" or any of a number of things, but it was simpler today (On Wednesday morning, I woke up at about 7:30 and for that morning the question was what agency that Max and 99 work for, which made me really wish I had woken up earlier, but I got it today and I keep saying it because it hasn't really even sunken in yet. They should've made is a Get Smart/Star Trek promotion, so that they could deliver the DVDs by teleporter!)

My favorite code is "COS Security Alert", because when you look at it, "COS" stands for "Cone of Silence" (I mean, it must, since the security alert requires the Cone of Silence). Sometimes when there is a stressor approaching I will say, "COS Security Alert!"

I think that 86 is kind of aspie-ish, or ADHD, or something. Particularly what comes to mind is that episode All in the Mind where he goes to the CONTROL psychologist to prepare for his assignment, and they have that test for concentration.

The first time putting the blocks into the holes is supposed to be the control, without distractions, adn then they were going to do a second time where there's a huge amount of distractions. Except, that he gets really bothered by the timer ticking, and then feels like there must be a window flapping in the background, and all these things.

Lots of other little stuff, too, particularly how a lot of times, when 99 would hint attraction to him, and the set-up would be that you'd expect them to kiss, but he would be totally oblivious, even after episodes in the series where he obviously likes her (such as when he was jealous of her when they were trying to get the prints and picture of Bronzefinger and Max posed as the waiter/butler).

Well done for getting that set!

You deserve it, after deciding to go through the self-sacrifice of going without so that you could continue to save up for the computer - I really like it when good things like that happen to good people!