Inspector Gadget is a media franchise that began in 1983 with the DIC Entertainment animated television series Inspector Gadget.
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18 Facts About Inspector Gadget
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Inspector Gadget is a cyborg with thousands of high-tech gadgets installed in his body.
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Inspector Gadget is powerful, lovable, caring, and protective, and loyal to his career as a lawman, but he is dim-witted, clueless, incompetent, and gullible.
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In many ways Inspector Gadget was reminiscent of Maxwell Smart from the Get Smart TV show, using similar catch phrases and manners of speech.
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Inspector Gadget has a knack of inadvertently saving the day, usually without realizing he is doing so.
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Inspector Gadget loves his family more than anything and would do anything to keep them from harm, especially Penny.
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The reason given for why he is absent is because after all the years of secretly helping Inspector Gadget, he has become phobic of gadgets, Inspector Gadget, and the word itself.
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Inspector Gadget'svoice was played in the original series by Frank Welker, Maurice LaMarche in Gadget and the Gadgetinis, and Scott McCord in the 2015 series.
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Once Inspector Gadget finishes reading them, the paper self-destructs and blows up in Quimby's face in a parody of Mission: Impossible.
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Original animated television series in the franchise, Inspector Gadget, debuted in 1983 and introduced audiences to the adventures of a clumsy, simple-witted bionic detective named Inspector Gadget – a human being with various bionic gadgets built into his body.
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Inspector Gadget was the first TV series from DiC Entertainment to be produced directly for syndication.
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Just as maladroit as his adult self is, Inspector Gadget Boy was usually bailed out of situations by the more practical Heather, though he was helped greatly by his myriad of high-tech gadgets and extendable arms and legs.
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Inspector Gadget is a member of an organization called "WOMP" and is, Lieutenant Gadget.
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Also, the original creators of Inspector Gadget were all involved: Andy Heyward was one of the executive producers; Jean Chalopin wrote or co-wrote all the episodes, in addition to being credited as the new show's creator; whereas Bruno Bianchi directed and produced the series.
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Inspector Gadget was adapted into a 1999 live action film by Walt Disney Pictures, starring Matthew Broderick as the title character and Rupert Everett as Dr Claw.
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Second film, Inspector Gadget 2 featured many changes from the first one, such as Doctor Bradford no longer assisting Gadget or being his romantic interest, instead being replaced by a well-meaning and upbeat scientist named Baxter and a new romantic interest named G2 and Gadget and Claw's civilian names are no longer mentioned.
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GI Inspector Gadget have featured the titular character joining an elite army commando unit.
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