Gadget's Gadgets

Gadget's Gadgets
Season 2, Episode 6
Air date	September 16, 1985 (production) November 1, 1985 (TV)
Written by	Jack Hanrahan
Episode guide
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"Gadget's Gadgets" is the 6th episode of the second season of Inspector Gadget.

Synopsis

Gadget is still training Capeman. The training is cut short by both Gadget's new assignment and Penny's computer book's signal. The assignment: M.A.D. is planning to destroy Gadget's gadgets and he has to stop them. The signal: Two M.A.D. agents posing as doctors have arrived in an ambulance to take Gadget. They make Capeman hurt and take him and Gadget to their phony hospital, with Penny and Brain in tow.

At the hospital, the M.A.D. agent Dr. Noodleman and his goons try to destroy any of Gadget's gadgets and also get rid of Capeman. If it wasn't for Brain and both Gadget and Capeman's interference, it would've been all over for Gadget and Capeman.

Meanwhile, Penny gets captured by the M.A.D. Nurse. Penny's computer book is then locked in a safe, but luckily she also has her utility wristwatch, which is useful to break the safe's combination. Another failed attempt to destroy Gadget's gadgets gets Capeman thrown out of the hospital and lands near Chief Quimby. After successfully getting her computer book out of the safe, Penny uses it to activate Gadget's inflatable coat to escape and then to help Quimby and Capeman get to the hospital. Noodleman breaks down with the thought that Gadget's gadgets are indestructible, and he and his goons are arrested. As Quimby arrives to tell Noodleman he's under arrest, Noodleman thanks him profusely as he breaks down into hysterical sobbing. Outside, as the M.A.D. Nurse is seen being escorted to one of the squad cars to be taken to jail, Quimby asks Gadget how his gadgets are doing now, as Gadget attempts to demonstrate, a disgusted Capeman walks away facepalming while Penny and Brain laugh. In his lair, Dr. Claw smashes his computer, causing it to malfunction as he furiously swears to get Gadget eventually as M.A.D. Cat looks on in surprise.

The episode concludes with Gadget, Capeman and Penny discussing on how exercise is beneficial, but should not be overdone.

Starring

• Don Adams - Inspector Gadget
• Maurice LaMarche - Chief Quimby
• Holly Berger - Penny
• Townsend Coleman - Corporal Capeman

Also With

• Rita Taggart - M.A.D. Nurse
• Ron House - M.A.D. Paramedic

Uncredited

• Frank Welker - Brain, Dr. Claw, M.A.D. Cat, Dr. Noodleman

Gadgets used

• Gadget Arms
• Gadget Coat
• Gadget Skyhook
• Finger Gadgets:
  • Pen (right middle finger)
  • Laser (right index finger)
• Top-Secret Gadget Phone
• Gadget Hands
  • pulls string to activate Gadget Coat (malfunction)
  • waves a fan in Gadget's face
  • sprays Re-fridge-a-Gadget
  • five arms wield Gadget Mallet, two saws, a brush and the Gadget Brella simultaneously
  • two arms wield a saw and a rapier and clink them together
• Gadget Neck
• Gadget Legs

Locations

• United States
  • Metro City
    • Gadget House
    • Noodleman's Clinic

• • M.A.D. Mountain
    • Dr. Claw's Castle

Chief Quimby's hiding place

• Hidden in a water barrel inside Gadget's shed.

Self-destructing message

• "Be warned that there is a M.A.D. plot to remove Gadget's gadgets. Stop plot. Protect gadgets at all costs. This message will self-destruct."

Chief Quimby's reaction to being blown up

• I wish you hadn't said that.

Brain's disguises

• Nurse

M.A.D. Agents

• Dr. Noodleman
• M.A.D. Nurse
• Jarvis - posing as a nurse
• Dick - posing as a nurse
• Bruce - posing as ambulance driver
• Fred - posing as ambulance driver
• Lenny
• Pops

Penny's gadgets

• Watch
• computer book

Gadget Goofs

• Continuity: At Noodleman's Clinic, Gadget uses his laser finger, but it is located in his right index finger instead of the left index finger.
• Anacronisms: After having his legs stretched on Noodleman's machine, Gadget's pants are elongated as well.
• Anacronisms: When Gadget extends two mechanical arms from his hat, he calls them his Gadget Arms instead of Gadget Hands.
• Continuity: Noodleman wasn't wearing his gloves when Dr. Claw first contacted him on his video monitor, but when Noodleman shows Claw the chart of Gadget's gadgets, he's now wearing his gloves.

Quotes

• Chief Quimby: Penny's directions show the clinic to be around here, but all I see is a...
  Corporal Capeman: Capeman's flying!
  Chief Quimby: A Cape...Huh?!
  (Capeman crashes into the tree while the mace he was riding on takes down the brick wall in the process)
  Corporal Capeman: Whoa...what a nice glide. I hope the glorious Inspector is watching.
  (Quimby, Capeman, and the MCPD rush to the M.A.D. Clinic thanks to be directed there by Capeman's crash landing)

• Dr. Noodleman: Are you a doctor? I need to see a doctor! I'm going mad! I'm trying to remain cool, but...(breaks into sobbing)
  Chief Quimby: You're under arrest, Noodleman!
  Dr. Noodleman: (sobbing) Thank you! Oh, thank you! (sobbing hysterically)

Trivia

Home media releases

• Gadget's Greatest Gadgets (Buena Vista Home Video)