OSI - Office of Scientific Investigations (with Steve Austin and Oscar)
The Phoenix Foundation (with MacGyver)
FLAG - The Foundation for Law And Government (with that icky guy and his cool black car)
SPECTRE - Acronym? - Where you can beat up James Bond
UNCLE - Anyone know what this expands to? - The question is whether you’d have to time travel back to the '60s.
MASK - Mobile Armored Strike Command - Of course you’d have to be animated and spelling impaired.
Or, for those where I can’t remember the organization…
Anyone tough enough to work with Matt Helm?
Talented enough to work with Remo Williams?
Think you can entice Agent 99 away from Max Smart?
Well, whoever wants to entice 99 away from Smart, I’ll take charge of distracting Smart while you do it, 'kay?
Somebody once told me that the Israeli spy network on Get Smart was called YENTA, for Your Espionage Network and Training Academy. I used to love Get Smart but I don’t remember this, was he putting me on?
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. Now that’s a blast from the past. Whew.
And for a bit of trivia, Barbara Felden (Agent 99) won $64,000 on the gave show “The $64,000 Question.” I believe her area of expertise was Williams Shakespeare. Dr. Joyce Brothers won in the area of boxing.
There was an ep of “Get Smart” called “The Man from YENTA,” but I don’t recall whether or not they said what it stood for. Alan Oppenheimer played Agent 498 from the Israeli agency (YENTA).
Also, even if they did, you still might not hear it (it’s still airing on TVLand), because there are about four minutes of syndication cuts in a 1960s-and-older half-hour program (and eight in a 60-minute one!).
Someone or another fought against VENOM, the Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem (I think this was MASK’s opposite organization). And in the Dragnet movie, there was PAGAN, or People Against Goodness And Normality.
And I was never quite clear on just what the Phoenix Foundation was, or what it was trying to do, but McGuyver was just so cool that that has to be my choice.
I’d rather work for FEAR (the Federal Egg Answering Room). Which is really just a front for FEEBLE (the Freeworld Extra-Earthly Bodies Location and Extermination center).
This originally started as a TV specific thread, but movies have been brought up and no one complained so . . .!
SHIELD: Marvel’s premeir super-secret agency has been known as bothe the Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division, and the Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate
AIM: Advanced Idea Mechanics For a criminal terrorist organization, they sound an awful lot like a legitimate tech company. But then, so does Microsoft . . .