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Was there ever a better show than "Get Smart"? Could any network sitcom today feature a Jewish robot named Hymie? Is there anything on the Web that's more pathetic than a shavegeek forum? (Yes -- this.)

Don Adams always had a great shave on "Get Smart". Most of the other actors had noticeable five o'clock shadows, but Maxwell Smart always looked like he just shaved right before the take. I don't think it was makeup, either. The man just knew how to shave. Even in his last years, he kept up a pencil thin mustache, a grooming choice with much higher maintenance than most older men can keep on top of.

Did Don Adams shave with an Injector? It's certainly possible. These razors had been around for thirty years before the show first aired in 1965. In fact, the novelty "Easy Rider" Injector, with its male symbol engraved on the razor's head, would've been a perfect match for the swinging star of the hippest show on TV, not to mention the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo, which predated "Get Smart" by two years.

The Injector is the ideal razor for Maxwell Smart. First and foremost, it's a cool gadget -- no other razor has a metal clip of blades you jack into the razor like an old Army rifle. And the shave itself is a cool amalgam of old and new. It's as quick and easy as any modern razor, but it cuts as close or closer than any of the old-school safety razors and cut throats. Perfect for the man of action who needs to look his best in a hurry while time's running out to rescue 99 from the clutches of KAOS.

I returned to the Feather Pro Super blades today after revisiting the stock Schick Injector blades. While I'm able to get a perfectly fine shave with the Schicks, I get a better shave in half the time with the Feathers. The first pass is the biggest sign that something seriously different is going on with the Featherjector -- with just a downward pass I get a closer shave than I ever got with the Mach3 going up, down, and sideways. Only a straight razor can give you this close of a shave with just that one downward pass.

Today I went back to my Vulfix #377, a big super-grade badger brush that I've decided is the best shaving brush I've ever used. I've owned Simpsons and silvertips, but nothing feels as good against my face or builds more/better lather than my own Agent 99, the $99 Vulfix #377.

For cream I used Trumper's Violet, in honor of the Purple Knights motorcycle gang in the show's second season, where the Purple Knights kidnap a foreign dignitaryand talk in such a fake British accent they may as well be cubicle wage slaves pretending to be the Scarlet Pimpernel on a shavegeek forum.

As always with the Featherjector, I got a shave as close a straight razor's in no time flat. Would you believe...five minutes tops? Would you believe ten? No, it was five. And that was for three passes. I keep trying different blades, creams, and whatnot, but this combo of the Vulfix #377, Trumper's Violet, and the Featherjector keeps me as clean-shaven as Agent 86 himself.

R.I.P. Don Adams -- we'll miss you.