Gadget Boy, voiced by Don Adams and later Maurice LaMarche, is the titular protagonist of the series of the same name. He is a bionic police detective working for Interpol in New York City. He is equipped by his dog G-9 and assisted by Agent Heather.
Biology[]
Gadget Boy being half robot (as opposed to fully robotic as G-9) is referenced in two episodes:
- Episode 10 "Gadget Boy and the Uncommon Cold" where he catches the cold while G-9 does not
- Episode 20 "Boy Power of Babble", Gadget Boy is unaffected by the "babblizer ray" because he is half robot with a mechanical brain, whereas G-9 is completely robotic.
Voice[]
Don Adams voices Gadget Boy, similar to being the original voice of Inspector Gadget. Gadget Boy commonly says, "Sowsers! Bowsers!", similar to Inspector Gadget's catchphrase, "Wowsers!"
Gadgets[]
All of Inspector Gadget's gadgets except smaller.
Personality[]
He was conceived as a bionic "child" with the personality of a "perfect adult detective" (although as with the aforementioned Inspector Gadget, he is anything but). Like Inspector Gadget, Gadget Boy is equipped with gadgets in his body and is as clumsy as Gadget, but will use the gadgets to get himself out of sticky situations.
The bionic implants were installed by the inventor Myron Dabble. Agent Heather bails Gadget Boy out of danger, though he was also helped greatly by his myriad high-tech gadgets and extendable arms and legs. However, Gadget Boy is usually seen with Agent Heather and G9, unlike Gadget, who in the original series, will usually inform Penny and Brain once he receives his assignment that the mission is too dangerous and that he will be going on the mission alone, and usually be convinced that a disguised Brain is a M.A.D. agent.
Gadget Boy may mean well, but he is also extremely gullible and dim-witted. Likewise, he often acts mature and has a large vocabulary even though he's just a child.
Trivia[]
- Just like Inspector Gadget, he is voiced by the late Don Adams and would later be voiced by Maurice LaMarche.
- In an episode of the 1996 series Inspector Gadget's Field Trip, when Gadget fell into the Fountain of Youth and reverted to his younger self, he looked like Gadget Boy. This is likely the cause of the idea that the two are one and the same.