Inspector Gadget - Years later...

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You know, I loved this series as a kid, and I was afraid that it wouldn't live up to my memory very well if I viewed it again now.

After watching it in semi episodic order, it's held up quite well, as a matter of fact.

Claw was more sinister and cunning than I remember, and his voice sounds GREAT on a 5.1 surround set :). I actually like the earlier episodes better, as Gagdet is a TAD more competent and intelligent. He actually DOES solve more crimes on his own without too much help from Penny and Brain. He's also actually able to recognize proper Mad Agents too boot.

I haven't gotten to the Corporal Cape Man episodes yet, but I remember NEVER liking the big Gadget house that popped up out of nowhere....let alone Capeman himself.
 
I thought he had always had the Gadget house, it is only natural for his house to be full of crazy gadgets, pun indeneded. Not to mention Maxwell Smart's apartment was full of crazy gadgets.

I too thought Claw was an awsome villain, I used to imedate his voice when I was kid. Too bad his arch nemesis is a buffon, makes him look bad, he should be embarassed that Gadget has caused him so much trouble. And did he figure out that it was Gadget meddling niece and dog that was really the reason he lost all the time?

I agree, I hated that idiot Cape Man. Was he in the time travel arc?
 
I may have to check out some of those episodes. People have gotten on my case in the past about saying I liked the Inspector Gadget movie a little more than the cartoons, but that's because of this issue. In those shows, Gadget just seemed too darn stupid, even when I was a kid. It annoyed the heck out of me.
 
I'm sure Claw was made aware of Penny's presence offscreen, but just continued to shrug it off, not wanting to believe (or was too embarrased to admit) that he was continually thwarted by a girl and her dog.
 
If you like it when Inspector Gadget is more compedent and intellegent, I recommend you check out the 1960's series Get Smart. The lead character on the show is essenctial the same character only more intellegent and compedent, and who actully really contributes to stopping the bad guys, and in most cases is the main reason the villains are defeated.
 
Dude, you're preaching to the choir. I love that show! Back when I was a kid, it would be on Nick at Nite at 8pm and I'd watch it every night. My dad introduced me to it, but my grandfather on my mother's side is also a big fan (those two have senses of humor similar to mine). I'm going to have to see that movie soon.

You get what I'm talking about though, right. Mixing competence with incompetence can come up with some funny results. Maxwell Smart may have bungled a bit, but he was also a good marksman, a fair hand-to-hand opponent and an expert on the minutiae of CONTROL protocol. Duck Dodgers from that recent cartoon series could be described the same way. He'd bungle through most of the way and then pull out some odd idea or bit of knowledge that would help him save the day.
 
I am fan of both shows myself. But besides the differences in competience, one thing I give the edge to Get Smart, is the evil hencmen characters, besides Dr. Claw who I think it just awsome, the MAD agents are one note and quickly get boring bland characters. They always looked the same, they were so easy to tell who was a MAD agent, as oppose to the KAOS agents, it was more of a challenge to moled out a KAOS agent, Max was able to moled out his fair share of KAOS agents.

Max had the tougher task trying to uncover KAOS agents and about half the time he was able to discover who was a KAOS agent, while during most of the shows run, Gadget rarely ever rightly identity a MAD agent, when it was so obvious who were MAD agents, most of the time he thought Brain was a MAD agent.
 
zoombie said:
I am fan of both shows myself. But besides the differences in competience, one thing I give the edge to Get Smart, is the evil hencmen characters, besides Dr. Claw who I think it just awsome, the MAD agents are one note and quickly get boring bland characters. They always looked the same, they were so easy to tell who was a MAD agent, as oppose to the KAOS agents, it was more of a challenge to moled out a KAOS agent, Max was able to moled out his fair share of KAOS agents.
Yeah, the generic Mad agents all had "MAD" written on their shirts.



Yeah, and the whole "mistaking Brain for a Mad agent" thing got old really fast, if I remember correctly.

Anyway, I managed to just catch an early episode of Inspector Gadget (I won't say where) and he was less oblivious. His clumsiness also seemed to be played up more. I liked it a bit more than those later episodes I remember watching.
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If I am Dr Claw I would be more embarassed if I thought I kept getting beaten by a buffon like Gadget was for most of the series, than Penny and Brain. But that is just my opinion.

But as much of a idiot buffon Gadget is, he is still more competant than Corperal Cave Man. I give that annoying wannabe sidekick this, he made Gadget look better by comparision.

But one of my favorite episodes, is M.A.D. Trap it is a rare occasion in which at the end, it is Gadget who actully the main reason Claw's plot was foiled.
 
If the writers really where trying to do a kid version of Get Smart down to the T, that might have been a long running joke :).

Although after just watching the 'race to the finish' episode, why does Dr.Claw have TWO Voices? The replacement and Frank Welker? Was Welker just not available to do two lines?
 
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