#Gary Owens

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Ryu Number: Don Adams

Don Adams was an American actor, best known for his role as the incredibly skilled yet incredibly clumsy secret agent Maxwell Smart in the secret agent spoof sitcom Get Smart. If you don't recognize the title—which, fair enough, it aired literally sixty years ago—he also notably voiced the dimwitted cyborg police officer protagonist of the Inspector Gadget cartoons.

He has a Ryu Number of at most 4.

The last portion of Space Quest V: Roger Wilco – The Next Mutation features our titular protagonist infiltrating the SCS Goliath, making use of its cramped, labyrinthine maintenance tunnels.

Apparently someone in development thought the passageways a bit reminiscent, video-game-wise: Take the right wrong path, and Roger will speedily crawl in the other direction with an unexpected cameo on his tail.

Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier is fully voiced, including—as you may know already because @ryunumber—noted disc jockey, announcer, and voice actor Gary Owens. Normally this wouldn't be enough to count the actor themselves, even if they are credited in the game—but persist past the end credits and fade-out and you'll hear the narrator thank you for playing Space Quest 6 before extroducing himself specifically as "Gary Owens, signing off." Totally counts!

Finally, guess who got himself a copy of TV Land Presents Blast From the Past?

Mind, it's such a jalopy of a game I couldn't get it to run on my computer without serious graphical issues...

... but I was able to get it to run just runnily enough to confirm its nature! If you ever wanted to play a game where TV stars of a bygone era ask you trivia questions about the shows they were on... then you're not exactly choked with options, are you?

Gary Owens pulls double-duty here, playing both quiz host and TV star questionmonger, his questions focusing on the sketch comedy show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (where he was the on-screen announcer).

Don Adams' questions, of course, have to do with Get Smart. Unfortunately, I couldn't get any clean, non-glitched-out footage of him from my recordings, so have this video I extracted from the game files instead.

You know what? There's a charm to it.

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Toasted Wink “Powdered Toast Man” (1992)

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Gary Owens

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EFF memes just cuz lol

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Cakes I'd give you based on your favorite furnace characters !!

Alex Sawyer

Carl Donovan

(Pretty explainable as to why this cake)

Zee Hatcher

(Yes, two cakes because why not)

Montgomery/Monty Earl

"Me and my sister made up our own recipes. Garden- gnome spaghetti. We had a vegetable patch in our back garden and it was guarded by this gnome. We had to try to dig up what we needed without him spotting us, otherwise we had to do the dishes after dinner."

Gary Owens

Simon Rojo Flores

The Warden

Wheezers

Blacksuits

(Plz reach furnace fans🙏)

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Roger Ramjet in LOVE (1969) -

dir. Fed Crippen

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ok, so more no-Furnace!au hcs for the Skull boys

So they're still shitheads, just a little less so (pretend this is a universe that actually gave a fuck about delinquent teens/preteens and cares more about helping them than throwing them in prison). The gangs are still a thing, but violence is rarer and usually involves fistfighting and not knives or guns.

Bodie and Kevin constantly annoy each other. They're assholes, they're best friends, they'd strangle each other given the opportunity, they split lunches.

Gary and Bodie have a quieter dynamic. They don't talk as much but Gary doesn't smoke when he's around Bodie and Bodie balances out Kevin and Gary's short tempers as the one who's just a little more patient.

Kevin and Gary fight non-stop. They're problem children and they know it. Will put aside their differences if faced with a mutual dislike/threat or in the rare moments that both of them are in a good mood.

Ambrose is stuck trying to lead the gang and balance between the fact that they're typically fighting and breaking the law with the fact that they're a) trying to be a little better about it and b) kids, typically from not great homes. Despite the fact that Kevin is his lieutenant publicly, the gang has a more complex hierarchy and Ambrose pays attention to all of them.

Pete is technically still in the gang, but not really. He only comes out to help them if there's a real problem and most of his work is just scaring off rival wannabe gangs from picking on people in what is traditionally Skull turf. Call it his community service, but the bullying rate has decreased by quite a bit since he's started doing this.

Ambrose and Gary have a weird dynamic. They both would rather the other be gone, they both know the other one doesn't have any great alternatives, and honestly, neither of them can afford to lose the gang. They're the only people that make Ambrose keep his violent tendencies in check long-term and can at least direct Gary's bloodlust onto targets that won't get him arrested. Privately, Ambrose hopes Gary's father gets taken out of the picture soon and maybe that'll get Gary under control a little bit.

Adam has gotten out of crime shit and stayed out of crime shit, but he'll do Ambrose minor favors in emergency situations. This means mostly things like playing lookout for cops when there's an inter-gang brawl and helping steer some of the stray kids to the Skulls so they can either join up (and have their violence directed away from the civilian population) or be scared straight.

At the end of the day, at least some of the Skulls are damn well aware that this lifestyle isn't sustainable. They start turning away younger kids, sending them back to Adam and Oli and anyone else they can think of that'll help keep the kids away from crime as much as possible. This is half-compassion and half-knowing that the kids won't be able to handle their own in bloodbaths. One of the hardest questions that weights on the minds of guys like Bodie and Pete is whether or not they have the option to re-integrate into society one way or another, if it's not too late for them.

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Gary Owens & The Music Guy Show on AFRTS Saigon | August 1967

 AFRTS Saigon – Gary Owens – The Music Guy Show – August 1967 From the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, Saigon, South Vietnam. The Music Guy Show with Gary Owens was broadcast on Armed Forces Radio & Television to give servicemen & women a musical taste of home. Middle of the road music, comedy bits, and of course Gary Owens (of Laugh-In fame). Not very much Rock & Roll in the…

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1983.

Gary Owens was instrumental in securing a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for the Three Stooges.

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A Good Ol' Southern Boy 🔥🥵

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Gary Owens