Here are few more things about the Chief: He smokes 7 times throughout the show: Mr. Big, Strike While The Agent's Hot and The Mummy(all pipes), The Only Way To Die, Hurray For Hollywood, Not So Great Escape II and Kiss of Death(we don't see the cigarette but when he and 99 are sitting at the party we can see him exhale). There are several occassions where we see a pack of smokes in his breast pocket.He's partial to an electric razor(KAOS in CONTROL), He drinks 5 times throughout the show: Our Man In Toyland(about to have a martini but never gets a chance to drink it), Too Many Chiefs(chokes on Bourbon when served by accident), Absorb The Greek(5 or is it 6 drinks?But admits he doesn't drink at all), sips a drink after nearly being killed by KAOS robot Octavia(drink turns out to be a special blend of oil and Kerosene for Hymie the robot) and is about to drink German White Wine in What's It All about Algie? but he insults Larrabee and it's taken away.

He wears a pinkie ring only once, in the episodes The Not So Great Escape I&II and has the gray in his hair touched up in the episodes Absorb The Greek and Operation Ridiculous to look younger. He acts dumb three times: He drops Max several times(The Mummy), gives Max and 99 a croquet set for their wedding when they live in an apartment(The Farkas Fracas) and talks to office furniture believing they are agents in disguise(Strike While The Agent's Hot). While on duty he is shot 4 times: Once by a hypnotized Max who misses(Smart The Assassin), in the arm in The Spy Who Met Himself and Moonlighting Becomes You and in the back in A Man Called Smart II. His double, Alexi Sebastian, gets shot and killed too but that doesn't REALLY count. He's put in a choke hold by Max(Someone Down Here Hates Me) AND by Hymie(Anatomy Of A Lover) but beats Agent 86 in arm wrestling(Supersonice Boom).
The Chief is poisoned twice: once by curare in Operation Ridiculous, and then by Mrs. Farkas' Chocolate Moose(which causes him to run for the bathroom; even those little chocolate things in the medicine chest didn't work),he gets knocked out 8 times: Satan Place(by KAOS), A Spy For A Spy(by KAOS), Double Agent(by Max pretending to be a drunk and he uses 2 breakaway bottles of Old Soldier on the Chief), How To Succeed In The Spy Business Without Really Trying(by Seigfried's sleeping gas), Snoopy Smart Vs The Red Baron(by Max who wanted to save the chief from flying in an old plane), The Spy Who Met Himself(by Max who thought he was an imposter), The Farcas Frakas(by 99) and Absorb The Greek(by KAOS agents). He's kidnapped twice (Satan Place and Spy For A Spy) and He also uses his fists three times(Satan Place, Valerie of The Dolls and And Baby Makes Four II) but almost elbows 99's mother in Absorb The Greek.

A few of the weirder tidbits:The Chief enjoys listening to Max's escapades with a beautiful ballarina on a hidden tape recorder(Kiss of Death), he hides behind a magazine with a picture on the cover with the eyes cut out(Closely Watched Planes), he wears feminine-smelling cologne(Casablanca) and he's a terrible dancer(Kiss of Death). Forget being a good babysitter: He uses a flour sifter to powder the Smart's baby(How Green Was My Valet?) and diaper's Larrabee's hand because it's shaped like a butt and this way he can just slip it already pinned on the Smart's twin baby(How Green Was My Valet?). He digresses to his childhood and makes paper airplanes(KAOS in CONTROL), he trips on some LSD-type drug and thinks he's playing billiards with George Washington who is cheating(Is This Trip Necessary?), he can shatter a glass when he hits a high note(The Hot Line) and he's watching his weight(The Farkas Fracas). He also has a dark side: while getting sick on chocolate moose he tells Max to kill 99 if she stops Max from destroying the recipe(The Farkas Fracas),he reportedly threw a dagger at Larrabee(Smartacus), wanted Max to tell Larrabee the Chief wasn't in their apartment when Larrabee showed up then, when the Chief realized he couldn't fool the fool(Larabee), the Chief wanted to jump out the window(Smartacus), he was willing to keep Larrabee locked in a bank vault deprived of Oxygen(Do I Hear A Vaults?) and was more than willing to allow Larrabee to keep a man eating plant by his own desk(What's It All About Algie?). He even tells Larrabee to shut up(Moonlighting Becomes You), screams at his stupidity(Valerie Of The Dolls) and tells the idiot to step on a can of bug spray which explodes(Witness For The Execution). He sets up Max's bachelor party and charges him more than a hotel would in the episode Worst Best Man. Also in this episode, he tells Max Agent 38 will jump out of a cake but Max says it's not the same when a man jumps out. The Chief asks Max if he ever saw 38 in a bikini. The Chief even gets kissed by Max(Leadside) and 99(The Farkas Fracas), but only once. In the that's-more-than-I-needed-to-know-department the chief wears pink polkadot boxers size 40(he said 36 until Max berated it out of him in Valerie Of the Dolls).
He's hypnotized by Larrabee in the last episode(I am Curiously Yellow),mumbles incoherently after Max wins the Chief's car in a raffle designed to raise money for the Chief's ransom(Satan Place) and is made into an old man(Age Before Duty).

For Communication, he uses a cow horn phone(Hot Line, The Little Black Book, It Takes One To Know One), a complete cow head intercom(The Hot Line), test tube phone(Our Man In Leotards), A potato chip phone(Closely Watched Planes), A shoe phone(The Hot Line and I Shot 86 Today), a fire hydrant phone(Diamonds Are A Spy's Best Friend), a jacket phone(Impossible Mission and Smart Fell On Alabama) and a radiator cap phone(Shock It To Me).

His relationship with Max is...intersting. He's constantly frustrated with Max(I'm a frustrated man! he says in Snoopy Smart Vs. The Red Baron) but REALLY yells at him in Diplomat's Daughter, Witness For The Execution, Double Agent(pretending to arrest a drunken Max),A Spy For A Spy,The Hot Line, Lazer Blazer, Closely Watched Planes and Last One In Is A Rotten Spy. He tells Max to "get out" twice in Operation Ridiculous and The Girls From KAOS. Plus, Max loves to get the Chief involved in tongue twisters(Trivia note: Don Adams is an avid gambler and used to put these twisters in the script on purpose and bet that Ed would screw up the lines and he did. Then Don would act frustrated and ask that Ed be replaced by another bald character actor named John Doucette who appeared as the character Col. Von Clause in 3 "Get Smart" episodes and played in the Don Adams series "The Partners" as a police chief) and get him forever stuck in the cone of silence.

But, the Chief admits Max is like a son to him(Mr. Big), he also says this in Smartacus while under truth serum with Max but also admits he would have fired Max year's ago because of his bumbling and that Max is the reason for the chief's prematurely gray hair. Max responds "You don't have any hair Chief you're bald." Max also says the Chief is fat to which the chief says "You know you see pretty well for a man with squinty eyes." The Chief would prefer his niece Phoebe date Hymie the robot instead of Max(Anatomy of A Lover), Max took about 6-7 suicide pills to make the chief happy(Cutback At CONTROL), but tells the chief to use a special fat reducing machine on his head. The Chief is often in the line of fire of Max's bumbling, for example, the chief gets riddled with the contents of an ashtray three times: Mr. Big, Moonlighting Becomes You(by 99 that time), I Am Curiously Yellow(Ed actually gets hit in the head with it), then gets a box of confetti dumped on him(Horray For Hollywood), gets squirted by windshield wipers(Our Man In Leotards), gets pie all over his suit becuase Max put his own hand in pie and shook the Chief's hand(Moonlighting Becomes you) and gets milk all over his suit when Max makes him hold a diaper bag which turns out to be a bottle bag. Still, he goes to Max's court hearings in The Day Smart Turned Chicken and Don't Look Back but does not believe he's innocent or sane. The chief even learns a little too much about Max like the fact that Max has a birthmark right where his delivery doctor slapped him when Max came into the world(And Only Two 99). The chief also thinks Max is getting money from KAOS in Diamonds Are A Spy's Best Friend. He gets misty when he thinks Max has died/will die in the episodes The Only Way To Die, I'm Only Human( goes over Max's things in his office like the Chief's favorite tie Max liked to borrow), Classification: Dead and The Groovy Guru and is nervous when Max is supposedly being tortured in The Decoy. Afterwards 99 wants to go after Max, but, the Chief would rather leave him for dead, thinking it's useless to go. The Chief also worries more about his own reputation than Max's life if Leadside succeeds in killing Max after CONTROL boobytrapped the Smart apartment(with the Omega Plan in the ep. Leadside). He's forced to be cheap by not giving Max better equipment(Cutbacks At CONTROL), security guards across the street(Leadside) and is forced to lay Max off(Maxwell Smart Private Eye) and 99(The Day They Raided The Knights) because of budget constraints, and there are often times neither Max nor the Chief trust the other. The chief decides to go undercover to help snuff out a 3rd spy network but does not tell 99 or Max because he didn't know whom he could trust(Die Spy), he did not tell Max or 99 he was only dating the young-looking Gina Paponickolini in order to get her husband's formula for eternal youth(Absorb The Greek), He didn't tell Max or 99 the real identity of the professor and Chain the secret agent(The Expendable Agent), he wouldn't let them know about the secret phone he has yet Larrabee knew about it and the number because it was in the phone back--classified pages under "secret"(Valerie Of The Dolls), and Max and the Chief suspect each other of murder and face off against each other in the Mess Of Adrian Listenger. Even after they kill Listenger they still don't really trust one another. The Chief is happy when Max and 99 announce their engagement but doesn't want to approve the marriage because they're spies who work together(Closely Watched Planes), is excited about Max and 99 having a baby(Pheasant Under Glass), is forced to bathe baby dolls while pretending to be an expectant father(Valerie Of the Dolls;in reality Ed was 53 at this point and his kids were in their very early teens or pre-teens) and does a choreographed move with a baby carriage(Ironhand). He also says his bad luck started the day the president(a fake one) made Max chief(The Hot Line). The Chief and Max reverse roles three times: Him saying "and loving it"(The Hot Line and Smart Fit The Battle Of Jericho) and Max pinching his nose. Then the chief says "I asked you not to tell me that" in The Farkas Fracas. Once, just once, he tells Max to shut up in not-so-many-words(The Hot Line).

The Chief is not featured in the following episodes(Ed Platt reportedly had back problems during some of the shoots) School Days, Hoo Done It, Viva Smart, Witness For The Execution, The Spirit Is Willing, When Goodfellows Get Together,The Mysterious Dr. T(heard over intercom), House Of Max I&II. He does narrate some of the two part episodes(The Not So Great Escape I&II and To Sire, With Love I&II). In the Hot Line episode there's some bad dubbing where we see Ed mouth the words to one line but hear something different. Also, when he's singing the chief stops a bit but we still hear him singing.