Wealth & Money Quote by Don Adams

Don Adams gives you the punchline and the invoice in the same breath. Calling the show "special" and a "cult classic of sorts" nods to affection, but the phrasing is deliberately demystifying: cult status sounds romantic until you remember it can arrive years later, largely outside the creator's control. That little hedge - "of sorts" - punctures the fan canon. It's the comedian's reflex to undercut sentiment before it turns sticky.

Then he pivots to the line that does the real cultural work: "and I made a lot of money for it". Read as brag, it's gauche; read as defense, it's shrewd. Comedy, especially TV comedy in Adams's era, was often treated as disposable entertainment while actors were expected to be grateful for cultural afterglow. Adams refuses the starving-artist narrative. He frames success in the only metric Hollywood always respects, even when critics don't.

The subtext is a quiet negotiation with legacy. "Cult classic" is a compliment that can also function as a consolation prize: beloved by devotees, maybe undervalued by the mainstream, maybe shortchanged in the moment. Adams reclaims agency by reminding you he wasn't merely a mascot for nostalgia; he was a working professional who got paid. It's a line that lands because it's both funny and faintly abrasive, the kind of honesty that keeps fandom at arm's length while still acknowledging the work mattered.