Lenny

Lenny
Character information
Occupation	M.A.D. Agent
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Relatives	Unknown
Status	Alive

Lenny, sometimes referred to as Hangnail, is one of Dr. Claw's agents in Inspector Gadget.

Routine

Lenny is a M.A.D. agent who appears in various disguises on several missions. Despite of his looks, he appears to have some scientific knowledge, as evident when he experimented with the Growth Formula at Greenfinger Institute.

History

Called "Hangnail" by Dr. Claw, this agent was stationed at Claw's Aztec Temple hideout in the Amazon and was in ordered to keep an eye on the prisoner Professor von Slickstein, who was forced to build an indestructable robot army for Claw. Hangnail mostly hung around near the exit to make sure the Professor did not leave, until Dr. Claw ordered him to create a communications link with Amazon Annie. He was unable to get the transmittor to work, as some of it's machinery had been stripped and used to create Von Slickstein's robot army. Penny managed to get the machine to work without Hangnail noticing her, and Claw subsequently contacted Annie via the headphones incorporated into her head decorations. A short while later, Inspector Gadget arrived at the temple, and Hangnail was ordered to prepare the brain transfer machine for their guest. Just when he was ordered to throw the switch, an giant white gorilla barged into the temple and changed places with Gadget, gaining the intellect of Professor von Slickstein while simultaniously endowing the Robot army with the gorilla's personality.

Lenny and Fred posed as health instructors at the Bide-A-Wee Health Spa. When Inspector Gadget visited their gym, having won a week's stay at the spa as a prize, they attached increasingly heavy weights for Gadget to benchpress. This plan backfired and the weights ended up on Lenny and Fred's heads. They then hoisted Gadget up in to the ceiling as he held on to a set of rings, and let him fall back to the floor. This time he was saved by his Gadget Brella. Later, Lenny turned up the heat inside a sauna Gadget was and locked into. However, Gadget repeatedly managed to break the door off it's hinges, even after Fred used extra wood to nail it shut. Together they then tried to barricade the door with a large statue, but Brain moved it aside when they weren't looking. Later, Gadget mistook the M.A.D. torture chamber for an exercise room. Lenny and Fred began to stretch his arms and legs on a rack, but the Gadgets in the Inspector's limbs were too much for them once again.

Lenny stole the outfit of a sailor on a cruise ship and took his place after hoisting the man into the air by a hook and cable. The outfit was much too small for him. During the cruise, Inspector Gadget and his niece were captured, tied up and taken aboard deck. When the girl received help from her dog, Fred and Lenny teamed up to grab them from both sides, but ended up knocking each other on the head. Dazed, they performed an impromptu ballet dance that ended with both of them jumping gracefully overboard.

Lenny posed as a mechanic during the Metropolis 500 and can briefly be seen servicing the M.A.D. Mobile during a pit stop.

Lenny operated a shooting stand at an amusement part near Metro City that Dr. Claw was holding to ransom with a bomb threat. When Gadget tried to hit three ducks with his water pistol, Lenny sped up the mechanism, making it impossible for the Inspector to achieve his task. But then Dr. Claw contacted Lenny by video phone and ordered him to award Gadget a special "consolation prize": a toy panda bear with the very bomb that threatened the entire park inside of it. When Gadget dropped the panda sometime later, Lenny returned it to him while disguised as a lady. However, Brain, who was himself disguised as a balloon salesman, noticed the M.A.D. emblem printed on both of Lenny's boots, and grabbed him by the skirt. Struggling, Lenny lost his wig and was identifed by Gadget as the M.A.D. Bomber. Lenny ran towards the roller coaster ride, where Jarvis was waiting to distract Gadget and offer him a ride. Shortly afterwards, Lenny was back at the shooting range, when Gadget's niece returned there and snuck in. She noticed one of the panda bears was missing and Lenny blurted out it was her uncle who took it. He then tried to grab her, but she managed to slip through his fingers and push him away, right into the sights of a customer about to fire a pop gun with a suction cup arrow dart at Lenny's nose. Meanwhile, Gadget and Brain were still stuck on the roller coaster. Lenny told Jarvis he felt it was going kinda slow, and Jarvis sped up the ride. They then decided to leave before the bomb exploded, but Penny had tied their shoelaces together, causing both agents to trip and fall to the ground. When they got up, Brain ran past and threw the panda bear at them. The caught it, but threw it away again and once more tripped and fell over.

Lenny was stationed on Volcano Island and tasked to place pinapples filled with bombs of various sizes in and near the island's inactive volcano to scare away all the tourists and natives. A fellow M.A.D. Agent, the M.A.D. Prophet dubbed Lenny the "Guard of the Volcano" when a nosy little girl bumped into him. Together, they captured the girl and tied her up and left her dangling from a rock inside one of the volcanoes. Lenny was still inside the largest volcano when Dr. Claw set off the timer. Running for his life, Lenny bumped into the Prophet, who was running from Inspector Gadget. Then both of them collided with Gadget and ended up hanging upside down tied up in cables right next to the bomb. Gadget defused the bomb without realizing it and soon Chief Quimby arrived to congratulate the inspector and arrest both M.A.D. Agents.

Lenny was one of various Agents involved in Dr. Claw's Martian invasion hoax. He first changed from a M.A.D. uniform into a Metro City police uniform to fool Inspector Gadget together with fellow agents Abdul and Fred. Lenny carried a 0037B exploding pen with him, and Abdul told him to hand it over so they could execute plan 4236. They collectively asked the Inspector for his autograph, but when they ran away, Gadget reached out one of his extendable Gadget Arms and returned the pen to one of their pockets, causing them to end up in the explosion. Later, Lenny joined other M.A.D. agents dressed as Martians in robbing valuables all over Metro City.

Lenny and Fred posed as mechanics to tamper with Chief Quimby's new Crime Computer. Later, they monitored and manipulated the computer from inside an armored M.A.D. vehicle parked next to the police station. When Inspector Gadget made an uneducated attempt to fix the computer, Lenny and Fred put on a flimsy disguise consisting of a cap and dungarees that they wore over their M.A.D. uniforms. They picked up Gadget and threw him aside, but he used his Water pistol on them, as well as the computer, which short circuited. The two M.A.D. Agents angrily walked towards Gadget, but he trapped them by inflating his Gadget Coat. When Chief Quimby arrived, Lenny and Fred were arrested.

Acting as a M.A.D. Scientist at the Greenfinger Institute. Lenny administered the Greenfinger growth formula to a common garden weed, with destructive results.

Operating a crane equipped with a large magnet, Lenny chuckled wickedly as he picked up the Gadgetmobile, which was stuck in the mud, and deposited it in a crusher being operated by Pops. Gadget escaped being crushed, and both Lenny and Pops were ordered to go after him by Claw. Lenny intended to drop a load of trash from the crane onto Gadget's car, but a stray laser bolt from Gadget's car shot the load down prematurely, hitting a crane driven by Pops instead.

Dressed as an Arab, Lenny joined Dick in the Arabian desert. They were ordered to use a machine to de-magnitize Gadget's compass, causing Gadget to walk around in circles. Later, in Yetzanistan, Lenny and Dick answered to local agent Fast Abdul. They were ordered to get Gadget inside a harem, but when they rushed him, Brain (now disguised as a dancing girl) flipped the carpet they were running on, causing them to trip and fall into the pool. Gadget, who mistakingly thought all he was seeing was just a mirage, identified the agents as acrobats. During the coronation of Prince Acar, the sacred scimitar needed to proclaim the Prince a King ended up in Gadget's hand. Lenny and Dick ran at him from two different directions, and when the three of them collided, the scimitar flew from Gadget's grasp and landed in the Princes's hand, completing the coronation. Shortly after this, Fast Abdul, Dick and Lenny were arrested by the local police.

Lenny and Fred, wearing M.A.D. unfiforms, were stationed in a Rocky Mountain hideout where they forced a kidnapped seismologist to perfect an earthquake machine. Both of them bumped into Inspector Gadget in the dark cave, and were knocked out. They were arrested by the police after they arrived shortly.

Lenny and Fred broke into a London Art exhibit and succesfully stole the Pearls of Weng Ha as per Dr. Claw orders. Claw intended to present the pearls as a gift to Mr. Chow to seal their merger of evil.

Lenny was seen guarding a trio of captured oceanographers, who were held prison in a large bowl in M.A.D.'s underwater city. Later, he dressed up as a mermaid to trick Inspector Gadget. As the mermaid, Lenny promised he would take Gadget to the oceanographers if the Inspector carried him. He led Gadget to a locked room. After Gadget opened the door using his Gadget Key, Lenny pushed him inside and into a large water bassin that held a giang mechanical octopus. He was arrested by the police after Gadget succesfully freed the oceanographers.

Stationed in Pianostan, Fred and Lenny prepared the boiling oil that would be deployed if King Wrong was happy. Lenny made sure the oil was ready and pulled the lever for a large container to empty itself upon the King's throne, on which Inspector Gadget was seated at the time. Brain saved Gadget's life, but the throne was ruined.

Lenny, also called Agent Number Three, served as one of the students at Dr. Claw's M.A.D. Academy, and was referred by Claw as one of his 'kids'. Before classes properly started, Lenny was wearing a standard M.A.D. uniform. When Claw ordered him to flip the control switch, the room changed into a classroom and all of the agents, including Lenny, put on their school uniform. Claw then asked the class to repeat their school motto "We hate Gadget".

Some time later, Lenny looked on while Dick was armwrestling Pops. Dr. Claw informed them that Gadget was coming and told them to show him what they've learned. Lenny disguised himself as a schoolgirl with blonde pigtails and emptied a pack of nails on the streets, then flagged the Gadgetmobile to stop. He informed Inspector Gadget his tires were getting low and pointed him towards a gas station across the street and quickly disappeared. After Gadget survived two attempts on his life at the Gas Station, Lenny, still dressed as a girl, drove up in a large truck which came equiped with a cannon in it's trailer. The cannon automatically sought out the Gadgetmobile, but when it passed the front of the truck, Lenny realized the cannon was now aiming at him. He ducked just in time to survive the explosion of his cabbin, then fainted.

Dr. Claw scolded Lenny, Pops and Dick for failing to eliminate Gadget, told them to study harder for their next test and ordered them back to the academy. Lenny and Dick rode a tandem to school with Pops sitting awkwardly in the middle. They passed the Gadgetmobile, and entered the academy by a secret door with Gadget hot on their tail. They managed to lose the Inspector, who assumed they had special training and that he had entered the local police academy.

They next met up with Gadget in the office of the M.A.D. Principal. Gadget assumed they were colleagues from the Police Academy doing a refresher course, and the Principal told the trio to show Gadget around the facilities. Their tour led them to the bomb disposal unit, where Principal handed Gadget a time bomb to dispose. All four M.A.D. agents hid behind some sandbags. When Gadget thought he had succesfully disharmed what he thought was a fake bomb, he put it on the table and left. The four agents came out of hiding to check it out, and the bomb exploded in their faces.

Next, the three students were present as the Principal invited Gadget to drive his Gadgetmobile through a timed obstacle course backwards. As Gadget started his engine, all four agents were covered in mud. Angrilly, the Principal ordered his students to "prepare for their lessons". They did so by manning a tank and attempting to blast the Gadgetmobile during the course. Lenny was in charge of loading shells into the tank's cannon. When Pops told the others to prepare to fire, Lenny stuck his head out of the top hatch to see that Brain had altered the trajectory of the cannon so that it wouldn't hit Gadget. They managed to knock Brain off the tank using it's cannon. Just after Gadget had to stop his vehicle after using his gluegun by mistake, Penny took control of the tank using her computer watch. The tank changed direction, exiting the academy through a wall. Surprised, the three agents stuck their heads out of the top hatch to see what was going on, and find themselves crashing into some shacks on the street.

In Romanovia, Claw took control of the Gadgetmobile's radar and sent it to an inn, where Abdul led a trio of M.A.D. musicians in Bavarian outfits. Squirt was loading a cannonball into a tuba and Lenny had laughing gas in his concertina. Abdul took the lead, counting off for the others to start playing, and was also the first to make an attempt on Gadget's life, by blowing a dart through his clarinet. Gadget was saved by a waiter (Brain in disguise) who pushed him out of the way, causing the dart to hit a plate instead. Lenny then released the laughing gas from his instrument, which soon had the Inspector, the waiter and all three musicians in stitches. Abdul couldn't help himself, but slapped Squirt on the back, causing him to fire the cannonball from his tuba. It missed Gadget, but caused a hole in the wall. The waiter made a run for it, with Gadget hot on his heels, leaving the three M.A.D. musicans still laughing. They stopped laughing when Dr. Claw reprimanded them for their failure via videophone.

Lenny posed as a laundry truck driver to break the last member of the Funny Money Counterfeiting gang, Squint, out of jail. After driving through the gates of Metro City Jail, he was confronted by a prison guard who mentioned that Lenny was working kind of late. Lenny ensured him it was the night shift, which the guard found acceptable. Squint, who's glasses were cracked and had trouble making anything out, exited the building with his new celmate, Inspector Gadget. He asked to point him in the direction of the truck, but then mistook Lenny for the Inspector. Despite his objections, Lenny was hit on the head with a frying pan and pulled out of the drivers seat. Squint quickly took his place and began driving circles around the prison yard, leaving Lenny dazed and confused. Dr. Claw destroyed the prison gate using the lasers from his M.A.D. Mobile, and Squint drove out, leaving Lenny behind,

Lenny was one of the Agents posing as Druids in and around Stonehenge together with Dick and Fred. They were led by the Scottish agent sometimes called "[Pete]]", who spread rumours in the area that the ancient spirits of the Stonehenge Druids were angry and intended to protect the place from visiting solar scientist. One by one, the fake druids kidnapped each of the scientists, until only one remained: Dr. Flashpan. The three agents, their faces hidden by the hoods of their robes, cornered Flashpan after he left the local Wolfshead Inn and carried him away. They were unaware that Penny had witnessed the kidnapping and followed them. But back to Stonehenge, they quickly spotted the girl and tied her to one of the ancient rocks. They were suddenly startled by a mad dog (Brain with shaving cream from one of the scientist's tents on his face) and fled from the scene.

The next morning, Flashpan and the other missing scientist finished building a giant heat ray at Stonehenge. "Pete" had tricked them into thinking they were working on a secret government project. The scientist had made sure the solar collectors were centered precisely. When "Pete" revealed they planned to use the devide to melt down the Tower of London, Dr. Flashpan was shocked and dismayed. The M.A.D. Agents jumped the three scientist and tied them up to the scaffolding on which the machine had been placed.

When Inspector Gadget arrived at Stonehenge in his Gadgetmobile, the four agents quickly put up their hoods again. Gadget noticed the three scientists all tied up, but assumed they were new freshmen from Stonehenge College. The agents grabbed Gadget and tied him up on a slab, then aimed the solar cannon at the Tower of London. Fred and Dick uncovered several large mirrors attached to the stones of Stonehenge. These mirrors would reflect the sun's rays onto the heat ray cannon, amplifying them. The mirrors were angled to reflect the sun at it's highest point, and London was being held for ransom. "Pete" told everyone to leave the area, as it was 30 seconds to zero hour. Lenny cleared the area, leaving only "Pete" and Dick to handle the cannon. Brain, now disguised as a druid, snuck up to the scientists to untie them as well as Gadget. Penny took over the controls of the cannon with her computer book. The light was reflected back to the mirrors and the machine began to overheat and soon exloded. British bobbies arrived on the scene together with Chief Quimby. They arrested the M.A.D. agents, including Lenny.

In Hollywood, Callifornia, Lenny and Bruce were tasked to kidnap Fang the Wonder Dog. Lenny was supposed to grab the famous dog, after which Bruce would use sleeping gas on Fang. Lenny was knocked out after receiving a door to the face. When irector Miles Millions called for the security guard, Lenny and Bruce got away in an armored van. Claw gave the two agents one last chance to grab Fant. For his next scene, Fang was to run down an alley, jumped onto a parked van and into the back of a parked truck. Nobody knew that Bruce and Lenny were hiding in the back of the truck. They used a net to catch Fang, knocked him out with sleeping gas, and drove off. Claw ordered them to hide the dog in the Ghost Town set. They were unaware that Brain, posing as a fan, had placed a tracker on Fang's collar, and that Penny was homing in on it. Claw told his agents that one of them should stay with the dog while the other took care of Gadget. Bruce volunteered to go get Gadget and left the game of cards he and Lenny were playing. Lenny passed the time reading a magazine, until Claw told him to take Fang to the Burning City set and wait for the ransom. He stuffed the still unconcious dog in a duffelbag and left.

Arriving at his destination, Lenny moved to release Fang from the bag, but Fang had awoken and growled at him. Lenny used more sleeping gas to subdue the dog. He tried to repeat this action when Fang awoke again a while later, but found the can of gas empty. Lenny ran from the room, and Fang encountered Penny, who had been spying on them through the keyhole. Lenny put on a hazmat suit and attached a flame thrower to his back. Claw told him to fetch Fang and take him to the Greek Island set, where the ransom was to be delivered. But as he climbed the stairs to get Fang, he slipped and accidentally set fire to the wooden building. Bruce joined Lenny, both wearing flame resistant outfits and carrying large nets, to catch Fang on the roof of the burning building. But Fang jumped off, landing safely in a pool, and the two Agents stumbled backwards when Inspector Gadget arrived on the scene, by way of his Gadget 'Copter. They fell off the building and into the pool, where they were swiftly arrested by Chief Quimby and his men.

Together with Dick and Jarvis, Lenny was tasked to guard the stolen gold and money in the library of the Great Wambini's mansion, but all three agents fell asleep sitting next to an open fire. When Penny snuck into the room to fetch the loot, Lenny woke up, and he and Dick chased her to the front door. Penny dropped the sack at the top of the stairs, causing Lenny and Dick to trip over it and tumble right into the arms of the police, led by Chief Quimby, who had just arrived on the scene.

Lenny, Dick and Pops all dressed as stewardesses with the M.A.D. logo on their caps when Inspector Gadget booked a flight to Alpakistan. When Dick was knocked out by the gas they were using to put all the passengers to sleep, Lenny dragged his colleague by the feet to a corner and tried to wake him up. He gave up after a few attempts, and pushed a button to make Inspector Gadget fall through a trap door hidden in his seat and plummet out of the airplane.

Lenny was one of the M.A.D. Agents stationed at Noodleman's Clinic. When Bruce and Fred brought Gadget and Capeman (both knocked out by sleeping glass) to the clinic, Lenny and Jarvis were there to watch, and chuckled wickedly. Lenny worked at a computer terminal during Noodleman's final test, but once again Gadget's gadgets proved to sturdy for the machinery. When Chief Quimby and his men arrived on the scene, Jarvis and several other Agents were arrested.

Lenny worked closely with Dr. Spectrum monitoring the wealthiest homes in Metro City from a secret room located in the Phone Company building. Spectrum had trained a squirrel to sneak to knock the telephone receiver of it's stand inside each mansion. Then Lenny would be dematerialized by Spectrum's new Phasor Gun and teleported into the house via the telephone line. Inside, he would proceed to transfer all the valuables right back to Claw's domain through the city's telephone circuits. Various robberies were succesfully accomplished this way, leaving the wealthy owners flabbergasted.

With Inspector Gadget on the case, Spectrum told Lenny to erase all the phone numbers of the houses they had already robbed in order to erase the evidence. During their next heist, while Lenny was inside the mansion, Spectrum noticed Penny hiding peeking in the windows and captured her. Inside the van, he told Lenny to hold the girl so he could use the phasor to send her to Dr. Claw. She kicked the device out of his hands, causing it to fire a beam and make part of the van disappear. Spectrum and Lenny than began struggling over the device, and in the process made sent most of the van to Claw's castle. Lenny himself ended up in Claw's headquarters, but was sent back through the telephone line. Inspector Gadget arrived on the scene, took the Phasor gun and pressed the return button. This made all the stolen valuables return to Gadget's location. Spectrum tried to stop him but was too late. Realizing the game was up, Spectrum grabbed the phasor and used it on himself in order to escape. Lenny was not so lucky and got arrested.

Lenny was one of several Agents who were posted at TV Station 3 from which Dr. Spectrum operated his Dream Machine. Lenny was operating a large machine that made Spectrum's Dream Away Machines. He was startled when Gadget tapped him on the shoulder and caused the machine's lasers to go haywire. During the commosion, his chair broke and Lenny fell to the ground.

Lenny and Fred joined Thelma Bodkin when she travelled back in time to the Mesozoic era, where they managed to catch 3 Brontosaurus. They took them forward in time to the caveman era to destroy Gadget's ancestor, Cave Gadget as well as the Inspector himself. Each of the agents rode a bronto on it's head and dangled a carrot in front of it's eyes to make it move. Along the way, Thelma's time machine got destroyed and the Agents were trampled by a heard of wooly Mammoths. When Gadget, Penny and Brain were about to return to their own time, the three agents begged to be taken along, and were grabbed by arms extending from the Time machine. They ended up on the tusks of a stuffed mammoth in the Metro City Museum, where the Agents were swiftly arrested by Quimby and his men.

A clip of Lenny and Abdul attempting to assassinate Inspector Gadget by throwing a bomb at him while he was playing a relaxing game of tennis in his yard was shown at a Police Convention in honor of Gadget

Appearances

Inspector Gadget (1983 TV Series)

Season 1 (1983 series)

• The Amazon - identified as "Hangnail", wearing M.A.D. Agent uniform
• Health Spa - posing as health instructor
• The Boat - posing as sailor
• Race to the Finish - working as a mechanic
• Amusement Park - operates shooting stand and is later disguised as a woman
• Volcano Island - dressed as a tourist, but dubbed "Guard of the Volcano" by the prophet
• The Invasion - poses as a police officer, then as a Martian
• Gadget's Replacement
• Greenfinger - working as a scientist at Greenfinger Institute
• The Bermuda Triangle - posing as construction worker
• Arabian Nights - dressed as an Arab, answered to Fast Abdul
• The Great Divide - In M.A.D. Uniform
• Eye of the Dragon - Burgling a London Museum wearing M.A.D. Uniform
• Don't Hold Your Breath - guarding captured oceanographers, poses as a mermaid
• King Wrong
• M.A.D. Academy - poses as a student as well as a little girl.
• Prince of the Gypsies - poses as band member
• Funny Money - poses as laundry truck driver
• Unhenged - disguised as a druid
• Fang the Wonder Dog

Season 2 (1983 series)

• Magic Gadget
• Wambini Predicts - disguised as M.A.D. Stewardess
• Gadget's Gadgets
• Busy Signal
• Bad Dreams Are Made of This (cameo)
• Tyrannosaurus Gadget
• Gadget Meets the Clan

Trivia

• Brian Lemay designed the character models for the M.A.D. agents and gave each of them a name. Lenny is actually identified as such in the episode Fang the Wonder Dog.
• He was referred to as "Hangnail" by Dr. Claw, twice, in the episode The Amazon.
• In M.A.D. Academy, Claw refers to Lenny as "Agent Number Three".

Gallery

Brian Lemay's original design for Lenny

Lenny's design inked

Lemay's original sketch for "Hangnail"

M.A.D. Agents height chart