Joe Biden’s “Soul of America” speech is alleged to have been impressed by the favored historian Jon Meacham, who used that phrase because the title of a 2018 e-book. However I feel the president owes a debt to Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. His speech jogged my memory of nothing a lot as “Mr. Huge,” their 1965 pilot episode of the spy satire sitcom “Get Good!”
Mr. Huge, an agent of the evil spy group KAOS, threatens to destroy the U.S. metropolis by metropolis utilizing a tool referred to as the “inthermo ray,” able to “changing warmth waves into immense damaging energy.” KAOS has stolen the inthermo and kidnapped its inventor, Prof. Hugo Dante. (Dante’s inthermo—get it?) Maxwell Good, agent 86 of the top-secret counterespionage group CONTROL, is assigned to the case. “Mr. Huge have to be stopped earlier than he goes any additional,” Max’s boss, identified solely as “The Chief,” tells him urgently.