Hi Mona,
Welcome! Welcome!
What an interesting observation you brought up.
I had always just assumed Kelly said "the beads" to go along with the "hippie" culture of the day.
Scotty and Kelly strolling in Haight-Ashbury in TAG YOU'RE IT
Our Mr. C. has always been a "cool" dresser - as seen in "Bob, Carol, Ted, & Alice." And he's certainly been known to don a bead or two in his day
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..... and those were his own clothes! In an interview with the director, Paul Mazursky, he said ...
"Robert Culp was in I Spy, "the big thing then," Mazursky said. "I liked him and thought he'd be perfect for the part. He was so perfect he used his own wardrobe. Moss Mabry, the costume [designer] went to his house and said, 'I don't have to buy anything for him. He's got more zippers than anyone.'"
Here's the whole article if you are interested ....
http://www.dga.org/news/e_expand.php3?type=archives&UID=16
Anyway, I found your " Beezworth McBeezington" information fascinating. I had never heard that before. I looked around on the web and found only one reference that might fit - this was from the "Drunktionary" site ...
Has one's head full of bees - Suggests the "buzz" of drunkenness.
As to our Mr. C. using lines from his stories over again in other places .... I always wondered if this was a conscious effort - a bit like leaving a bread crumb trail for people to follow like Alfred Hitchcock always showing up in cameos in his films - or - Culp's famous "shoulder roll" you see often in his TV work.
The one line I've picked up on was at the beginning of "Magic Mirror" on I SPY and in "Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell" in GAH - the "I never know when I send you out, if you'll come back with the microdot or a pound of salami" (or something close to that). And the "I'll get job in the morning, Mom," that you mentioned, is a classic "Scotty" line in I SPY.
What other "double" lines have you (or
anyone else out there) run across ??
All my best,
Tatia
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