LOL

Me too....

I know. Me too. But it's surprising the number of people who *do* get it.

I used to be in the USAF, when in training had an instructor pilot named Lt Col Craw. I had a ball going back-and-forth with him like this!

Me too! One of my favourite memories from this show. Along with Seigfried.

Back when we could laugh with each other!

A-MAY-sing!

Blain...not brain.

Not the brain! The BLAIN!

Bwahaha 😂

+Will Drucker AGREE!!

Adams was also the voice of Inspector Gadget.

And Tennessee Tuxedo !

Don’t forget Buck Henry.

Mel Brooks was (is) a genius.

The DVD set has bloopers from every season and some can be found on KZfaq as well.

Tennessee Tuxedo, now there's a great classic cartoon !

Tennessee Tuxedo 🤩 WOW ❤️❤️

Tennessee Tuxedo will not fail!

I've come to play Wisconsin Slim

"Wrong pill. I think I've just poisoned the room."

BOBO says " but the real money is in the laundry ".

It was all real!

It’s claw lol

not craw - CRAW!

He was also the hitchhiker in The Twilight Zone series.

He looks so sweet and nice and forgiving at the start …. Then yep, ‘we’ve found this to more effective’.the snake comes out

+Tom C The same with my Dad , he loved this show too !!

my dad would watch with me,,i was about 7yrs old...he thought it was so funny!...RIP Dad...thanks for the good times.

Tom C: Working for the CIA? Not something to be proud of.

@@neilforbes416 - I would disagree with you.

@@scootergeorge9576 Considering the CIA's history, I'd be ashamed to admit to being a member(if I was one, that is). The CIA has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to be proud of.

Harry Hoo was the BEST , LOL !! A- MA- ZINK !!!

And what about Hymie the Robot, played by Dick Guatier. Now to look up Harry Hoo.

Siegfried. It's a German name, from Sieg (victory) and Fried (peace).

Ziegfried pretty much made this series.

I always loved when Zuegfried said we don't shush here!

At 15, during the summer,, I would have my bike all set up in the garage to watch all but the last bit of each show on reruns. At 10:23, the 2nd-to-last segment was over, and I would dash off and get to Summer School, two towns away, by 11am. I loved it.

YEAH! The woke Snowflakes would run to their safe place corner and cry 😢.

The Annihilator No idea.

Its a Left on Crova lol

LOLOL great comedy writing there.

I just realized they mean the same thing - just took me 45 years.

I don't know, it sounds like you either forgot it, or you didn't hear it right to begin with, because he actually DID say it differently the 2 times. Listen closely. His r actually is distinct from his l. It's not a very good l, but it's not quite the same as his r.

The music was done by Irving Szathmary, who was actually the older brother of comedian Bill Dana and helped him get his start.

Arr Amellicans rook arike to us!! Lol

That line alone shows that this is anti-racist, ridiculing the "all Asians look alike" mentality.

@@ghenulo but they do all rook arike

And right after that hilarious line "we may be diabolical but we aren't perfect" this line made my head spin. Implying that diabolical is somehow connected with being perfect.

Psychologists studied that, and it turns out to be a trait common not just to *all* humans, but also dogs and probably other animals too.

I will never have enough time today catch up on what's already made. I've looked for this clip since before YT, and now it makes me want to find my parents old comedy records online. Isn't Brooks still putting out good stuff?

It was hilarious and the perfect comedic response as to why KAOS kidnapped so many women. Also the line by Mr.Claw/Craw right after that; "we might be evil but we're not perfect" made me laugh. It makes no sense. lol

Agree. No one can do the "would you believe" lines like Don Adams. I've actually tried it for years even. It's beyond my ken.

They planned them, but when they crawed back his pay, he said no.

Only 2

So was Dr. Yes in another episode.

I liked that they used a real thing -- difficulties pronouncing unfamiliar sounds -- as a source of humour.

its summer of 2020 - i laughed at this as well. after a painful moment of soul searching i want to apologize for offending anyone

Nice to hear, Hansol--no way you could get this on TV today--it would be called too politically incorrect.

I love that line, all you Americans look alike. That is classic.

@@timarnold5510 I agree with you.

"Unfortunately Mr Smart, all Americans look alike to us" ROTFL

Absolutely !!

Actually the group was the Sacred Cows... The evil dj was the Groovy Guru played by Larry Storch....

"Not the craw, the craw" I mean. Classic.

Idiots think it's racist because they can't grasp the point of the dialogue. It's an accent issue, and the butt of the joke is Max. The Claw isn't being put down at all, except for being part of an international organization of evil.

Agreed. L

@Brian The fuck you on about? You can call a black man or a japanese man an idiot and not be called a racist. It's when you call him a nigger or a chink (which is the wrong fucking derogatory term to begin with making it a double whammy) that you're called a racist. And rightfully so.

@@WalkerRileyMC Clearly you haven't read the new definition of racism. Or seen the numerous trivialities for which people are decried as racist. The definition is now so broad and assumptive that virtually anything can be racist. People are called racist to shut them up and discredit. And it's similar for sexism, transphobia, etc.

​@@nomoturtle1788 True...but you must acknowledge the levers that can be pulled. Especially the one that says, 'Yes, Max is a buffoon, he is white, but it was white people who had a choice about it, created it, controlled it, paraded it' . The white creators also chose to recruit a ready made-for-the-masses, by-the-masses stereo-type - the Asian stereotype. Overly serious and articulate but in capable of seeing his own shortcomings and crippled and stigmatized by his pronunciation. 'poor' pronunciation is a easy money - you can bank on it, for giving laughs at the expense of the pronuoncer. Sometimes it is graceful and nice, but the choice is with the 'laugher' not the 'laughed-at'. It's about having choices. But I agree with what you say.

@MichaelKingsfordGray oh you're quite the buzzkill.

I agree. His evil character took the biggest hit when he pleaded with Don to give him the secret information without him having to resort to torture because he didn't like to torture people.

Not The Craw... The Craw!

Wow. That is a beautiful story.

Steve Mccart How did the story end? We need an update! ☺️

@@RobBiagi they got married and lived happily ever after !

That's a fantastic story!! :-)

That is a wonderful story. Congratulations and may you and the girl you met have many happy years together.

Yeah that was a very funny part of it! And I like rock n roll.

also the inspiration for Mr. Han from enter the dragon

If anything, it's a commentary on American's limited knowledge of foreign cultures, and language issues that is the source of much of the humor in these scenes.

Mel Brooks only helped to develop the show. He was too busy to be one of the writers.

Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen and it still makes me laugh when I watch it. The show was a satire about racism. Showing how stupid it is. Cheers

The thing is, the minorities aren’t the butt of the joke here, it’s Max, he’s just dumb, he’s not trying to make fun of his accent he just can’t figure it out, it’s much more tasteful than a lot of the jokes around these topics, and actually funny compared to a lot of the unoriginal uninspired recycled jokes related to race we’ve had in our media over the years

ABLAZ X (Armaniblast) YEP. It’s right up there with, “HEY THE SHERIFF IS A NI-(DONG!!!)”

It was un-PC but Don's attitude never had bad intentions while doing his lines. He made us believe he was genuinely trying to understand the diabolical Asian actor Leonard Strong. A big part of Don's shtick in that show was getting everything wrong and not understanding what was actually going on making The Craw scene work well even though it was un-PC. Leonard Strong gets a payback line which was also un-PC when he said, "you all look alike to us" which was not only funny but at least partially made up for what went on with "The Craw".

Yep, big fan of that cartoon here. Most cartoon character voices are played by actors who have done movies or sitcoms beforehand. In Don's case he broke that mold and did the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo before Get Smart.

AND loving it!

and the Groovy Guru on Get Smart. Keep it going Cows.

And high school chum of adams🤗

LOL that gets overlooked in this sketch quite a bit by those who watch it. I found it hilarious. Totally disrespects the "evil" Mr. Craw.

You are correct. I checked carefully after reading your comment and heard the difference.I guess the joke is on most of us viewers for not noticing that (even though it is subtle).

I have a friend who insists it was exactly the same, but his hearing's bad. He didn't believe me when I explained that it was being pronounced 2 different ways, "craw" and "c£aw".

I agree and noticed that right away the first time I watched this episode. It's forgivable that so many think he said craw imo because of the reason you give. And Leonard Strong is not even Asian, he's from the U.S. and American making it all the more impressive that he pulled that subtle pronunciation off.

@@BladeRunner-td8be That's not hard, I can pull it off easily. People seem to be most impressed by some of the easier parts of acting. But then, I have a little practice from languages with trilled "r", which this sound resembles. This "£" is like shaking out a rug once or cracking a whip once, with your tongue. The trick is to stop it quickly enough to avoid sounding like a Spanish or even the shorter French "r". The really impressive voice actor there is Don Adams, who did his whole part in an unnatural voice. Of course, he'd been using it for most of his comedy career. He delivers all those lines in a kind of grimace, cheeks and lips pulled wide. It's a kind of falsetto produced by the mouth rather than the vocal cords. Like, try to talk while smiling very hard; keep that up a while and see how it feels! I think I remember his having said his agent, early in Adams 's standup comedy career, encouraged him to use it more. However, there's also cheating. My friend John Chodes wrote and produced a play, "Frederick Two", about Friederich II von Hohenstaufern, and afterward introduced me to his lady friend who played a Levantine harem girl. I complimented her on her accent, only to find out it was her natural speaking voice; she was Greek! I told John, "That's not acting, that's cheating!"

@@goodmaro Some people have the gift of talking in different accents this is true. In my youth I had a friend, Jim Black, who met up a group of people in our favorite tavern and they were from across the pond as they say, speaking with an English accent. He spent the whole night with them talking with their accent and they didn't have a clue that he was from the U.S. It's a gift in my opinion.

Me too! Mr Claw/Craw actually never says "craw" in that sketch except for when he corrects Don. He says "claw" with a heavy Asian accent while correcting Don. Don pretends not to hear the difference between craw and claw. It was Don's ability to play dumb combined with how pissed off The Claw was about his "inability" to hear it correctly which made that part of the scene funny to me.