Editing Get Smart (section)

== Production notes ==

=== Gadgets ===
==== Telephones ====

In ''Get Smart'', telephones are concealed in over 50 objects, including a necktie, comb, watch, and a clock. A recurring gag is Max's [[shoe phone]] (an idea from Brooks). To use or answer it, he has to take off his shoe. Several variations on the shoe phone were used. In "I Shot 86 Today" (season four), his shoe phone is disguised as a golf shoe, complete with cleats, developed by the attractive armorer Dr. Simon. Smart's shoes sometimes contain other devices housed in the heels: an explosive pellet, a smoke bomb, compressed air capsules that propelled the wearer off the ground, and a suicide pill (which Max believes is for the enemy).

Agent 99 used concealed telephones in her makeup compact and her fingernail. To use the latter device, she would pretend to bite her nail nervously while actually talking on her "nail phone."

On February 17, 2002, the prop shoe phone was included in a display titled "Spies: Secrets from the CIA, KGB, and Hollywood", a collection of real and fictional spy gear that exhibited at the [[Ronald Reagan Presidential Library]] in [[Simi Valley, California]]. [[Flinders University]] in South Australia has researched medical applications for shoe phone technology after being inspired by the show.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COpTlD2WIVE|title=ABC News Adelaide - Get Smart Shoe Phone|date=January 22, 2009 |accessdate=December 18, 2022|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>

Gag phones also appear in other guises. In the episode "Too Many Chiefs" (season one), Max tells Tanya, the KAOS informer whom he is protecting, that if anyone breaks in, to pick up the house phone, dial 1-1-7, and press the trigger on the handset, which converts it to a gun. The phone-gun is only used that once, but Max once carried a gun-phone, a revolver with a rotary dial built into the cylinder. In the episode "Satan Place", Max simultaneously holds conversations on seven different phones: the shoe, his tie, his belt, his wallet, a garter, a handkerchief, and a pair of eyeglasses. Other unusual locations include a garden hose, a car cigarette lighter (with the lighter being hidden in the car phone), a bottle of perfume (Max complains of smelling like a woman), the steering wheel of his car, a painting of Agent 99, the headboard of his bed, a cheese sandwich, lab test tubes (Max grabs the wrong one and splashes himself), a [[Bunsen burner]] (Max puts out the flame anytime he pronounces a "p"), a plant in a planter beside the real working phone (operated by the dial of the working phone), and inside ''another'' full-sized working phone.

==== Cone of Silence ====

[[File:Get Smart-Cone-of-silence.jpg|thumb|right|Cone of Silence from the pilot episode, "[[Mr. Big (Get Smart)|Mr. Big]]" (1965)]]
In another of the show's recurring gags, Smart often insists on speaking under the "Cone of Silence" when discussing highly confidential things in the Chief's office. The device, consisting of two transparent plastic hemispheres, is electrically lowered on top of Smart and Chief and is intended to prevent their conversation from being heard outside. The joke is that the apparatus actually makes it impossible for those inside the device–and easy for those outside it–to hear the conversation.<ref name="newscientist">{{cite magazine |last1=Marks |first1=Paul |title='Cone of silence' keeps conversations secret |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227075-700-cone-of-silence-keeps-conversations-secret/ |access-date=5 March 2025 |magazine=[[New Scientist]] |date=6 May 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Colley |first1=Mark D. |title=Litigation Under the "Cone of Silence" |journal=Litigation |date=2005 |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=8–11 |jstor=29760529 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29760529 |access-date=5 March 2025 |issn=0097-9813}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pohlmann |first1=Ken C. |title=The Cone of Silence, Eavesdropping Speakers, Raspberry Pi, and You |url=https://www.soundandvision.com/content/cone-silence-eavesdropping-speakers-raspberry-pi-and-you |access-date=5 March 2025 |work=[[Sound & Vision (magazine)|Sound & Vision]] |date=22 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The Cone of Silence first appeared in the pilot episode "[[Mr. Big (Get Smart)|Mr. Big]]", which aired on September 18, 1965. The Cone of Silence scene was shot ahead of the rest of the pilot episode, and was used to sell ''Get Smart'' to [[NBC]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Van Riper|first=A. B.|title=The 25 Sitcoms that Changed Television: Turning Points in American Culture|year=2017}}</ref> The series also depicts a Portable Cone of Silence.

==== Other gadgets ====

Other gadgets include a bullet-proof invisible wall in Max's apartment that lowers from the ceiling, into which Max and others often walk; a camera hidden in a bowl of soup (cream of [[Technicolor]]) that takes a picture (with a conspicuous flash) of the person eating the soup with each spoonful; a mini magnet on a belt, which turns out to be stronger than KAOS's maxi magnet; and a powerful miniature laser weapon in the button of a sports jacket (the "laser blazer").

=== Cars ===
[[File:Sunbeam Tiger(4).jpg|thumb|1965 [[Sunbeam Tiger]]]]
The car that Smart is seen driving most frequently is a red 1965 [[Sunbeam Tiger]] two-seat roadster.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.saoc.demon.co.uk/Horn%20173.pdf |title=1960's Smart Car |publisher=Sunbeam Alpine Owners Club 'The Horn' |page=4 |date=December 1, 2007 |access-date=May 16, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919023521/http://www.saoc.demon.co.uk/Horn%20173.pdf |archive-date=September 19, 2016 }}</ref> This car had various custom features, such as a machine gun, smoke screen, radar tracking, and an [[ejection seat]]. The [[Sunbeam Alpine]], upon which the Tiger was based, was used by customizer [[Gene Winfield]] because the Alpine's four-cylinder engine afforded more room under the hood than the V8 in the Tiger.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.wyotech.edu/post/2009/06/10-top-tv-cars |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628084952/http://news.wyotech.edu/post/2009/06/10-top-tv-cars |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 28, 2009 |title=10 TV Cars You Wish You Owned |publisher=News.wyotech.edu |date=June 25, 2009 |access-date=November 15, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Grant |first=David |title=The Legendary Custom Cars and Hot Rods of Gene Winfield |publisher=Motorbooks |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7603-2778-4}}</ref> [[Aluminum Metal Toys|AMT]], Winfield's employer, made a model kit of the Tiger, complete with hidden weapons. It is the only kit of the Tiger, and has been reissued multiple times as a stock Tiger.

Adams received the Sunbeam and drove it for 10 years after the end of the show. It was wrecked and repaired several times, and its current whereabouts are unknown.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.saoc.demon.co.uk/Horn%20173.pdf |title=1960's Smart Car |publisher=Sunbeam Alpine Owners Club 'The Horn' |page=6 |date=December 1, 2007 |access-date=May 16, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919023521/http://www.saoc.demon.co.uk/Horn%20173.pdf |archive-date=September 19, 2016 }}</ref>

In the black-and-white pilot episode only, Smart drives a 1961 [[Ferrari 250]] GT PF Spider Cabriolet.<ref>{{cite web |author=Schiemann Harms Medien GmbH & Co. KG |url=http://www.autosalon-singen.de/de/bilder-archiv-fahrzeug.html?fahrzeugid=01302_0000_01_02 |title=250 GT Cabrio P.F. S2 – AUTO SALON SINGEN – Bilder |publisher=Autosalon-singen.de |access-date=November 15, 2011}}</ref>

In the opening credits, the Tiger was used for seasons one and two. In seasons three and four, Smart drives a light blue [[Volkswagen Karmann Ghia]], because [[Volkswagen]] had become a sponsor of the show.<ref name=HenryFeldon/> The Volkswagen was never used in the body of the show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.saoc.demon.co.uk/Horn%20173.pdf |title=1960's Smart Car |publisher=Sunbeam Alpine Owners Club 'The Horn' |page=5 |date=December 1, 2007 |access-date=May 16, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919023521/http://www.saoc.demon.co.uk/Horn%20173.pdf |archive-date=September 19, 2016 }}</ref> In season five (1969–1970), [[Buick]] became a show sponsor,<ref name=HenryFeldon/> so the Tiger was replaced with a gold 1969 [[Opel GT]], which also appears in the body of the show.

In [[List of Get Smart episodes|season four]] (1968–1969), Adams uses a yellow [[Citroën 2CV]] in the wedding episode "With Love and Twitches"<!-- (Episode 4.09) -->, and a blue 1968 [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] [[Shelby Mustang]] GT500 convertible with a tan interior and four seats (as required by the plot) in the episodes "A Tale of Two Tails" <!-- (4.07) --> and "The Laser Blazer"<!-- (4.10) -->.

In the short-lived [[Get Smart (1995 TV series)|1995 TV series]], Smart is trying to sell the Karmann Ghia through the classified ads.

In ''Get Smart, Again!'', Smart is seen driving a red 1986 [[Alfa Romeo Spider|Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce]].

The Sunbeam Tiger, the Karmann Ghia, and the Opel GT all make brief appearances in the 2008 film. The Sunbeam Tiger is seen in the CONTROL Museum, along with the original shoe phone, which Smart also briefly uses. The Opel GT is driven by Bernie Kopell and is rear-ended by a truck. Smart steals the Karmann Ghia to continue his escape.