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Get Smart (1965) :: Hubert's Unfinished Symphony (01x26)
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| Title: | Hubert's Unfinished Symphony |
| Episode #: | 01x26 |
| Production Number: | 026 |
| Original Airdate: | Saturday March 19th, 1966 |
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Rudolph Hubert is an unusual Control agent, for he is also an excellent concert violinist. This gives him entrée into places few other agents can go. Max and the Chief attend a concert where they see Hubert touch his violin bow to his left shoulder – a signal that he’s in trouble and needs help! They rush to his dressing room but arrive too late. Someone has murdered Hubert before he could reveal the name of KAOS’ new Mr. Big! Certain the wily agent left a clue, the Chief and Max search his dressing room, but the investigation interrupts them. As the suspects return to Hubert’s dressing room one by one, Max must speak to them to determine who killed Hubert and who is KAOS’ new Mr. Big!
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Gadgets: shoephone; portable Cone of Silence; heliocoat (enables user to float short distances); violin gun (draw the bow across the strings to fire it); piano bomb (rigged to explode when a pianist plays a particular chord); floor trap (drops heavy objects on anything that touches it).
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Max: Is Rudolph Hubert a regular Control agent who became a concert violinist, or is it the other way around?
The Chief: No, he’s always been a Control agent. But his talent as a violinist has given him a perfect cover, and it gives him access to places where our other agents couldn’t get in.
Max: Gee, that’s the glamorous end of the business, Chief. Too bad I flunked out of Spy Music School.
| Max: (examining Hubert’s violin) Chief! I found it! The name of KAOS’ new Mr. Big is... Stradivarius!
| Wolenska: (repeated line) DON’T touch my hands!!!
| Police Lieutenant: Do any of you know why Rudolph Hubert might have taken his own life?
Wolenska: I know why. Because of me. I refused to play any of the symphonies he composed. Time and time again he asked me to play them and always I refused!
Max: But... why wouldn’t you play them, Mr. Wolenska?
Wolenska: Because they were terrible!
| The Chief: Now, here is my plan – and I’m glad we’re not in my office or you would insist on using the Cone of Silence.
Max: Oh, I’ve already taken measures for that, Chief. I brought along the Portable Cone of Silence. It was in my car.
The Chief: Max, we don’t need that. Besides, it doesn’t work!!
| Max: Badeff claims he didn’t know Hubert, either. And he’s acting very strangely. I think he’s our prime suspect, Chief.
The Chief: I thought you said Nicola was our prime suspect!
Max: I did. But isn’t it better to have a choice?
| Max: Badeff claims he didn’t know Hubert, either. And he’s acting very strangely. I think he’s our prime suspect, Chief.
The Chief: I thought you said Nicola was our prime suspect!
Max: I did. But isn’t it better to have a choice?
| 99: I think we could use an emergency weapon, Max.
Max: Oh, well, we have one right here, 99. This violin shoots like a gun! (Max demonstrates, drawing the bow over the violin’s strings. It fires a bullet from the neck, shattering a chair leg and dumping the chair’s occupant onto the floor.) Sorry about that, Bellamy. I didn’t know the violin was loaded.
| Max: Do you know that I once listned to three straight weeks of Beethoven? Would you believe it, three weeks of Beethoven?
Badeff: I find that hard to believe.
Max: Would you believe... two weeks of Bach?
Badeff: I don’t think so.
Max: How about an hour of Looney Tunes?
| (Max opens the upright bass case, revealing the upside down Agent 44.)
99: Hello, 44.
44: Hello, 66.
99: 66? I’m 99!
44: Well, I’m upside down.
| Badeff: When his fingers strike the first chord on the piano, it will set off a bomb in the piano which will explode, destroying him and the evidence.
| (Badeff has rigged the floor so that any object striking it will cause a heavy weight to fall in that spot. When this kills Max and 99, it will appear to be an accident.)
Max: I’m going to test this floor, 99.
99: I have a thought...
(Max removes a shoe and tosses it onto the floor. A heavy case falls on it.)
Max: What’s your thought?
99: Call the Chief on your shoephone.
Max: Do you have another thought? That was my shoephone!
| Max: Alright, come on, Boris. I’m used to dealing with gorillas like you.
(Max tries several punches and karate chops that do not bother the apish Boris at all. Then he puts an arm around Boris’ shoulder in a friendly fashion...)
Max: Uh, listen, Boris... I, uh, hope I wasn’t out of line with that crack about the gorilla...
| The Chief: At last we’ve broken the cultural arm of KAOS.
99: This is going to be a real blow to evil music lovers everywhere!
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Musical history is replete with examples of unfinished symphonies. The best known of these is doubtless Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, written in 1822 but never performed until 1865 (37 years after Franz Schubert’s death in 1828). Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 contained two complete movements, but notes written by the composer clearly suggest that he’d planned a four movement symphony. The name Hubert is similar to Schubert, suggesting this symphony inspired the episode title and perhaps the plot.
| Max incorrectly assumes that a name he discovers in Hubert’s violin is that of the new Mr. Big. That name, Stradivarius, actually refers to a type of stringed instrument built by Antonio Stradivari or members of his family. Stradivarius violins achieved a reputation for unsurpassed musical quality that lasted for centuries. Only recently did retired Texas A&M professor Joseph Nagyvary craft a violin of comparable tonal quality – it barely edged out the Leonardo da Vinci Stradivarius in a “musical duel” in 2003. Musicians and historians believe about seven hundred Stradivarius instruments exist and that few remain unknown.
| While discussing his qualifications as a music critic, Max refers to Beethoven, Bach, and ultimately to Looney Tunes. Ludwig von Beethoven (1770 – 1827) is one of the finest composers in the history of music. A virtuoso pianist who studied with Joseph Hayden, Beethoven composed many works despite an ongoing hearing loss. He was one of the first composers to work freelance – most composers of his era and earlier sought attachment to the Church or to a noble court. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a prolific composer of the Baroque period whose body of work totaled over a thousand compositions for choir, orchestra and soloist. Both composers works remain performed to this day. And then there’s Looney Tunes. As one of Max’s infamous “Would you believe” sequences, his dialog follows the usual pattern of two unbelievable accomplishments and finishes with a third, modest accomplishment. In this case, that third choice was Max listening to an hour of Looney Tunes. Looney Tunes refers to a collection of cartoon shorts whose most famous character is undoubtedly Bugs Bunny. Interestingly, many of the early Looney Tunes used classical music as part or all of their soundtrack. Examples include Rabbit of Seville and Long-Haired Hare. See The Looney Tunes Show for more.
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This is the first appearance of the running gag, "I hope I wasn't out of line..." The gag consists of Max taunting someone, usually a big and dumb-looking henchmen, and claiming he can handle the man easily. After Max rains ineffectual blows on the thug, he changes his attitude completely as he tries to buddy up to the villain, presumably seeking to avoid the inevitable violent retaliation.
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