Get Smart

…It turns out that the Get Smart Season 1 DVDs released last week (the original series, not any of the crummy revivals) are actually not as bad a deal as the HBO press release suggested. The press release and the box suggested that this set would be without any of the extras from the spectacular Time-Life set, but in fact it does retain the audio commentaries on the pilot by creators Mel Brooks and Buck Henry — each one did a separate commentary — and a Barbara Feldon (Agent 99) commentary on another episode.

This weekend marks a showdown between two goofy Hollywood comedies about mild-mannered bozos endowed with extravagantly fake professional lives: Get Smart and The Love Guru. Aside from offering a choice between a spy who uses a shoe phone and a self-help pundit who glides around on a motorized hassock, these two movies present two distinct options: smart or dumb.