Epic Win: Inspector Gadget
Submitted by A Plaugher
Inspector Gadget gets a million cool points for the following:
Being voiced by Don Adams of the original Get Smart:
Photo via bowdoin.edu
A great theme:
Go go Gadget, go!
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The theme song is even more awesome with beatbox flute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0
And let us not speak of the movies, the action figures, or any other medium that tried to give a face to the faceless Dr. Claw.
Hey, my city was where the (1999) movie was filmed! It was made in Pittsburgh, so don’t be dissin the movie
The first movie wasn’t bad. My only qualm about it was the Gadget Mobile. They turned an awesome vehicle, into a talking car. It went from Spectacular to, “Some one put that thing in a car compactor!
All I remember about the gadget mobile from the cartoon was that I wanted one. Had some good car chases.
I always thought the movie got everything wrong in comparison to the cartoon. (At least I only saw it when it got to being on TV, thank goodness.) They should have either got someone who looked like Kramer or Beakman to play Gadget (crazy hair and big nose and some degree of awkward clumsiness), they should have set the main location in Europe (Gadget was supposed to be part of Interpol and a most of the cartoon scenery looked like the Alps from what I could tell), and the car should have been a small and sporty Citroen or Alfa-Romeo (because I figure that’s what the cartoon one was. One of those weird funky sporty euro-cars that never made it stateside.) Also the movie car never changed to van mode. The van had its uses too.
Apparently whoever made the movie never bothered to really watch the cartoon. Maybe it’s close enough plot or sript-wise (if you’ve seen one episode, you know how they all go), but completely off the mark in all the other aspects. If only someone would watch the actual cartoon, take note of the above points, it might be worth a re-do. The current movies should not count as being canon.
Outside of that, I’m betting anyone who’se ever watch the cartoon finds that it’s hard to get that theme/background music out of ones head.
Danananana inspector gadget dadadadaada hoo hoo
Excelsior!!, that be Greg Pattillo (Patilo? Pattilo? Patillo?) doin that! love him and love I.G. best cartoon EVAR.
I’ve got the theme song stuck in my head now…..
Oh god me too. If wake up early enough though i can still watch it on tv.
That picture with the shoe phone is from Get Smart not inspector gadget .
It’s the guy who did Gadget’s voice.
And the woman who did Penny’s voice is still doing voice-overs today, as wells as being onscreen herself. Some roles include Lenne, Calli, And Belgemine from Final Fantasy X and X-2, and Numbuh 5 from Codename: Kids Next Door…And yes I still watch some cartoons as an adult since some are good/original and the vast majority of cartoons aren’t crime dramas.
BEST SONG EVER if you ask me really it owns as soon as you start whit that song people will freak out bigtime:D
His police car is a freaking Delorean…
gotta love nostalgia…
Yes, if only that one… it was one of the coolest ideas ever, along with the Pink Panther.
Don Adams did an amazing job continuing his Maxwell Smart persona into Gadget.
He also did the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo. I could have sworn on Tennessee Tuxedo he told his walrus pal Chumley “Don’t get smart with me.” – but I have the DVD and it isn’t on there.
Did he ever say anything like that on Inspector Gadget? I know it was something Don Adams said in a cartoon, and these are the only two I can think of.
Winniest of the EPIC Wins.
YES!!! Thank you so much for featuring this show! Me and my brother LOVED this show as kids, and I still love it now. The theme song has to be my favorite TV theme song of all time. This show ruled!
I watched this show all the time as a kid. It always kind of pissed me off that the girl and the dog did all the work and Gadget got all the praise. He’s an idiot, dang it! He doesn’t deserve any praise!
I totally agree with you. It always made me mad to. Dr Claw though… you gotta give it up to one of the only vilains in television that remained faceless. Too many shows sell out and give a face…
*ignores the action figures and what not*
Go go Gadget legs!
Man, I remember watching the cartoon a lot when I was little.
inspector gadget MADE my saturday mornings as a kid. along with x-men, jackie chan, and pokémon, of course. um… i like cartoons…
Hee. And you can access the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (original) theme song from there too. WHEE!
Next time, Gadget. Next time!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah nostalgia wave….woooooo :3 man, i LOVED this show. me and my older brother would always want to watch this show, but where we lived it came on right when “kratz creatures” did (i think around 4:00pm :O) and my eldest brother would want to watch that. so we had to take turns each day ;_; luckilly it was 2 turns to his 1, so we got to watch that the majority of times….love that theme XD
Claw’s face WAS revealed! You had to buy the action figure to see it. Here it is, in all its glory, scroll down to see it on this page: http://progressiveboink.com/archive/drclaw.html
Looks like someone didn’t read my warning at the top of the thread.
Whenever I have a pen that clicks to put the ink part out I for some reason click the theme song with it, I even do it with out thinking about it. I’ve done it for years too lol
GO-GO-GADGET… (uh, hum, let’s see……..I’ve got nothing they havent seen before, WAIT, i know what’ll suprise them…)GO-GO Gadget I feel like walking to the crime scene…
– inspector gadget in his later years…
I actually got my most vivid nightmare from this show. I was inspector gadget and was chased down a hall by elephants. I still remember the dream and it still scares me!
I loved this show so much. Why don’t they have good shows like this on anymore?
i was always pissed they never showed claws face, it was annoying not having a face for the villain. i feel that the action figure face matches perfectly to claws angry gravelly voice. he was an old man that sounded angry at life in general
dee-dee-dee-dee-dee Inspector Gadget dee-dee-dee-dee-dee dee-dee Whoo-hoo!
Oh wow I loved this show, but I’m really disappointed with the English version of the song. The original song in French (the show was Franco Italian if I remember correctly) had really funky lyrics and they just turned them to dee dee dee. I guess people were lazy back in the 80s
Les bandits sont là
Inspecteur Gadget
Ils n’échapperont pas
Ouh ouh
Si l’inspecteur fait gaffe
Fait gaffe aux gadgets
Qui marchent ou marchent pas
Go go
Gadget à main
La-haut
Gadget au chapeau
Go go
Gadget au poing
Oui c’est
Elastico-Gadget
According to the good folks at Wikipedia, it was simultaneously released in France and the US (created in Canada, drawn in Japan, directed by a guy who shares his name with an Italian gold-medalist sailor, and the music composed by an Israeli who had also lived in France–thus, he happened to write French lyrics for it.) Not a US fail, a Tricouleur win.
Wow, my memory is clear enough to remember that it was the same voice. I didn’t realize that when I watched some of Get Smart TV a few months ago. It’s such a distinctive voice, I don’t know why I didn’t connect the two.
Yes. a million times YES.
The problem with Inspector Gadget is that if you’ve seen one episode, you ‘ve seen them all. They didn’t make eighty-six episodes of IG; they made the same episode eighty-six times.
Well, you could say the same for “Scooby Doo” but for some reason there’s a hell of a lot more love for that series out there. Weird.
I loved that cartoon! I watched it almost every weekend. Don Adams was perfect for Inspector Gadget. I liked Brain too. He didn’t talk like a lot of cartoon animals do but he was pretty smart.
screw the warner music group. they removed the theme. Awesome cartoon though
very entertaining show, matthew broderick crushed the franchise, though, in a very bad movie.