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Who remembers this exchange?


Chinese villain: I am the CRAW! (showing his claw hand)

Maxwell: Oh, the Craw.

Chinese villain: Not the CRAW....The CRAW!

Maxwell: Oh I see, the Craw..

Chinese villain: NO, Not the CRAW....THE CRAW!!!

And so forth. I believe they discussed the Chinese torture of bamboo shoots under the fingernails when somehow the Chinese villain ended up with the shoots under HIS fingernails.

I still bust a gut thinking about that scene because it was way before Chinese movie spoofs became popular in the early 70's.


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Classic. Of course this was back in the day when you could get away with humor based on racial stereotypes. We're not likely to see a character like "The Craw" on television today.

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Actually, the Craw got a bus tray full of silverware thrown onto his magnet hand. There was so much stuck to it, it was too heavy for him to lift.

I remember as a little kid, being scared of "Ironhand's" oversized iron fist, and the way he was caving in the locker doors with it while he was trying to hit Max.

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DJJ, I think you and the OP are both right.

As I remember the episode, we see The Craw explain the torture and tell his assistant to insert the bamboo shoots. Then we see The Craw cry in pain. His assistant shoved the bamboo up The Craw's fingernails, not Max's.

Then at the end, the silverware brings The Craw down.

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My buddy's not a GS fan but I told him once about that "Not 'Craw'--- "Craw!'" scene and he seemed to poo-poo it, but complained to me the next day that he couldn't stop thinking about it and breaking up laughing!



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As best I can remember, the scene you described is the scene that made my mother laugh more than any scene on any TV show in her life.

Max was trying to say it just like the villain did, but it never sounded right to the Claw so he kept saying it again and again.

I also thought it was brilliant, but it was a rare time for something funny to make one of my parents laugh more than I did.

For the record, I believe the bit that made my dad laugh the most was Artie Johnson on his little trike falling over on Laugh-In.

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pure genius comedy and memorable, however not accurate. Chinese ppl do speak 'L' perfectly but have trouble with 'R'. It's the Japanese who have trouble with 'L'.

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Either way, there's a lot of fun with Australia.

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