"Get Smart" The Laser Blazer (TV Episode 1968) Poster

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(1968)

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8/10
Me-ow!
zsenorsock3 January 2008
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Max has to go to Hong Kong to pick up a top secret weapon, not knowing it is a laser beam concealed in a blazer button. Interestingly, Max's contact is Lin Chan, who is played by Leonard Strong, who made such a great impression as the Claw in earlier seasons. He's good as the frustrated Lin Chan, but one wonders why the Claw was not invited back as was Siegfried.

Max takes the blazer home, where he accidentally begins destroying pieces of furniture around the apartment. KAOS dips into the "Batman" unemployment line again and brings Catwoman (Julie Newmar) into the Smarts' apartment as their maid, Ingrid. Ingrid's job is to get that blazer at all costs.

Pretty funny stuff in this episode, though its odd Newmar kind of disappears the way she does. At least Caesar Romero got a good final scene in his appearance on the series.
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10/10
One of the series best
FlushingCaps21 July 2009
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Laser Blazer has long been one of my favorite episodes. Leonard Strong as Lin Chan stole the show. My favorite line of his was, after being thoroughly frustrated in getting Smart to take the blazer, when Smart talks about coming back tomorrow, Chan says, "Tomorrow, I not be here. I be in lunatic asylum!" Then, they followed up that line by having Max tell the Chief back in Washington that he went back the next day but the shop was closed. When the Chief asks if he tried to talk to Chan, Max says he did, "but they weren't allowing him any visitors." The Chief's response when Max asks, "Do you know what you're saying?" always cracks me up even though I remember it. (I purposely won't write it here--it's only funny while seeing the scene.) This episode had some great visual gags relating to the power of the laser. Ralph Manza as a tailor was super (I always loved him as Jay, Banacek's chauffeur) and Julie Newmar as Ingrid got Max all discombobulated with her offer of a massage.

This was certainly one of the sillier episodes in terms of the plot, but to me it worked because it was so silly.

To explain my rating, I think a great series can have 1-3 episodes each year that reach 10. Significantly more devalues that score. This was one of the few tens in the fourth season.
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