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Doubled Agent
Season 1, Episode 36
RoboGadget
Air date October 28, 1983
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“ He's the best agent I've got!"
"And the only uncle I've got! 		„
~ Quimby and Penny after seeing the Robot Gadget, whom they think is the real Gadget, rob the Metro CIty bank.

"Doubled Agent" is the 36th episode of Season 1 for Inspector Gadget. It is the 44th episode in production order.

Synopsis[]

Gadget, Penny, and Brain are at the circus when Gadget receives another assignment from Chief Quimby: He’s instructed to protect the Shah of Freeland from getting kidnapped by M.A.D. for ransom by infiltrating them as an undercover police officer. As usual, he immediately accepts the mission and tosses the message back into Quimby’s hand, making it explode in the chief’s face. Unbeknownst to any of them, however, a mad scientist working for Dr. Claw has created a Robot version of Gadget to commit crimes, such as bank robbery, and place the blame on the real inspector. When the robot is first revealed to Dr. Claw, M.A.D. Cat tenses for a fight, before Dr. Claw calms him down and explains the truth, though that doesn't stop the robot double from drenching M.A.D. Cat with water during its demonstration.

Gadget goes to the family farm house to make Dr. Claw believe that he’s out of town on another mission. He also plans to perfect a new gadget in his arsenal while at the farm. This time, Penny doesn’t send Brain after Gadget to protect him because the farm is generally a safe place. Unfortunately, four M.A.D. agents set booby traps throughout the house to hurt, eliminate and/or maim Gadget. However, when they tell Dr. Claw about this, he angrily tells them that he doesn’t want Gadget eliminated (he only wants him in jail for the rest of his life for the crimes he didn’t commit). So he orders the agents to save him from their booby traps. The agents break back into the house and end up springing their own booby traps, suffering various injuries as they do so, all the while Gadget is oblivious to what's going on.

The robot Gadget robs the Metro City bank, convincing everyone that Gadget has turned evil, as Dr. Claw had planned. Penny and Brain are shocked to hear this on the radio. Penny tells Brain to go to the farm to keep an eye on the real Gadget. Penny and Quimby try to talk some sense into the robot, thinking that it’s the real Gadget, when they respond to a 911 call from the same bank manager that was robbed previously, only to be brushed off. Quimby is certain that Gadget is playing his part in the infiltration a little too well. Later that night, the robot robs the same bank a third time and the manager decides to resign. One last attempt by Quimby to reason with the robot fails and Quimby angrily jumps to the conclusion that Gadget has indeed become the thing they were meant to fight against. But Penny is still not sure and decides to figure out more about the situation. In the M.A.D. van, Penny discovers that the Gadget who robbed the bank is actually a robot. She tries to override its controls with her computer book.

Back at the farm, Gadget has perfected his new gadget (bola-balls to thoroughly capture anyone, even himself). He decides to disguise himself as a criminal to find out how M.A.D. plans to kidnap the Shah. He mistakes Brain for a M.A.D. Agent and chases him back to Metro City. Gadget then gets caught and arrested by the Chief. Gadget assumes that he’s being arrested to protect his undercover police identity. Dr. Claw revels in his brief victory, but then gets a new idea. He orders his agents to bail Gadget out of jail to frame him for two more crimes: escaping from prison and kidnapping the Shah.

The truck and the van nearly crash into each other head-on as they both move in opposite directions on the road. That near-collision puts Gadget and his robot doppelganger together as they both fall out of the vehicles. Seizing the opportunity, Penny uses her computer book to order the robot to switch his outfit with the real Gadget’s. With that, the real Gadget is in the van heading for the airport, while the robotic Gadget is in the truck heading for Dr. Claw’s castle. Dr. Claw appears to be able to tell which Gadget is which as he scolds his agents for bringing the robot to him.

Dr. Claw boards the M.A.D. Mobile for the airport and then drops the robot there to kidnap the Shah and attack the Chief. But Penny uses her computer book to override the robot’s controls and make it let go of the Shah right before it could escape with his its hostage using its Gadget 'Copter. The robot explodes, and the real Gadget is cleared of the crimes, as well as congratulated by the Chief for another job well done. Furiously, Dr. Claw vows to defeat Gadget next time, before flying away and disappearing.

That night, back at the farm house, Gadget and Penny discuss being careful by using natural gas after Gadget accidentally blows up a gas lantern when trying to light it, relating to one of the M.A.D. Agents pretending to check for gas leaks earlier at the farm house in an attempt to save Gadget from a booby trap.

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Trivia[]

  • The premise of this episode would later be used in the 1999 live-action Disney movie, where M.A.D. builds an evil robot duplicate of Inspector Gadget in an attempt to frame the real Gadget for causing trouble.
  • The animation of lightning flashing outside Dr. Claw's castle is recycled from "The Infiltration".
  • At one point, Gadget whistles his own theme tune.
  • The M.A.D. Clown from "Gadget at the Circus" can be spotted performing in the ring during the opening sequence.
  • Features a rare appearance of "MAD's Theme" by Shuki Levy and Haim Saban. It can be heard when Penny takes control of Robo-Gadget, and it shoots into the air.

Gadgets used[]

Locations[]

Chief Quimby's disguise[]

  • Circus Clown

Self-destructing message[]

  • "Shah of Freeland to visit Metro City tomorrow. Suspect M.A.D. plot to kidnap Shah for ransom. Uncover M.A.D. plot. This message will self-destruct."

Chief Quimby's reaction to being blown up[]

  • "Why do I put with him?"

M.A.D. Agents[]

Brain's disguises[]

  • Unicyclist
  • Scarecrow
  • Man in trench coat and hat

Penny's gadgets[]

Robo Gadget's Gadgets[]

  • Water sprayer (from hat)
  • Gadget Neck
  • Finger Gadgets: laser (right index finger)
  • Gadget Hands: swings Gadget mallet, produces a large sack to collect money from the bank
  • Gadget Arms
  • Gadget Brella
  • Gadget 'Copter

Gadget Goofs[]

  • Continuity error: Gadget hands Penny an empty popcorn box at the circus. But when he uses his Gadget Legs to jump away, the box disappears.
  • Continuity error: When Claw asks the M.A.D. Agents at the farm if everything is ready, Fred is wearing a green shirt, but on Claw's monitor it is pink.
  • Animation error: When Gadget uses his screwdriver finger, it is his left index finger, whereas it should be his left ring-finger instead.

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Full Episode[]

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Doubled Agent (Full Episode)

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