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Quiz Master
Season 1, Episode 64
Penny spins the bottle
Air date December 8, 1983 (US)
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"Quizz Master" is the 65th and final episode of the first season of Inspector Gadget.

Synopsis[]

While Penny and Brain watch the new game show Quiz Master, Gadget tries to fix his toaster, but causes a blackout and destroys the toaster. Gadget then receives another assignment from Chief Quimby: M.A.D. is using innocent people to rob the valuable armored cars and he has to protect the armored car shipment. Gadget decides to get his toaster fixed before going to the mission.

Penny then sees that, on the news, Joe Noodle, who won the grand prize on Quiz Master, has robbed the armored car and been arrested. Penny is now suspicious about why Joe would rob the armored car after winning the grand prize on Quiz Master. She thinks there's a connection and goes to the Quiz Master set, only to find out that the other winners also robbed the armored cars. Penny calls Brain to bring Gadget to the TV studio. Brain accidentally destroys Gadget's new-bought toaster and is chased by Gadget to the TV studio.

Penny then finds out that Dr. Claw and the show's host (who is a M.A.D. agent) are running the show and are hypnotizing the winners with the lights in a "Cone of Seclusion" and when anyone says, "Going my way?", the winner becomes hypnotized and begins to do whatever the person says, such as robbing the armored cars.

When Claw finds out that Gadget is in the audience, he sends his agent to eliminate him, but after the agent fails, Claw decides to change plans and put Gadget on the show and make him win so he can be hypnotized to rob the armored cars and be put in prison for 20 years. Penny no sooner discovers the situation before she gets captured and put in a giant glass jar. She manages to escape, however, and goes with Brain to save Gadget, but it is too late: Gadget has entered and won the show (he wins the new toaster, one of the shows prizes), and then enters the Cone of Seclusion where he gets hypnotized. Upon hearing Claw and the hosts say, "Going my way?", Gadget robs the armored car and takes the money to the TV studio. Penny figures out a way to reverse the process and she changes her uncle back to normal and hypnotizes the M.A.D. agent to return the stolen money. Once that is done, she uses her computer book to self-detonate the Cone of Seclusion, ensuring the end of M.A.D.'s plot with the Cone blown to smithereens.

Thinking his car has been misplaced, Gadget asks the hypnotized M.A.D. agent (as well as saying to him, "Going my way?") to drop him off at the police headquarters. The M.A.D agent is then taken into custody and Chief Quimby, as usual, congratulates Gadget.

The episode ends with Inspector Gadget preparing to go back on Quiz Master wearing a rocketship costume (as many of the contestants on the show were dressed up), with Penny telling him that it's dangerous to wear a costume or mask that makes it very hard to see.

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Trivia[]

  • This is the only season 1 episode missing from Magna Pacific's Australian DVD box sets, which include the other 64 episodes.
  • Penny briefly and inexplicably speaks with a British accent as she's preparing to reverse engineer the Cone of Seclusion.

Gadgets used[]

Locations[]

Chief Quimby's hiding place[]

  • Hidden inside Gadget's washing machine in the basement.

Self-destructing message[]

  • "Suspect M.A.D. using innocent people to rob armored cars. People do not remember anything. Protect big armored car shipment. This message will self-destruct."

Chief Quimby's reaction to being blown up[]

  • Moans

Brain's disguises[]

  • Female pedestrian
  • Usher
  • Contestant in Carrot costume
  • Mailman
  • Bag of money

M.A.D. Agents[]

Penny's gadgets[]

Gadgetmobile Gadgets[]

  • While attempting to reverse gear, Gadget pushed a button to fire oil from the back of the mobile by mistake.

Pop culture references[]

  • Let's Make a Deal - The audience members wearing costumes is a parallel to this game show, where potential contestants wear creative and outrageous costumes to attract the host's attention.

Gallery[]

Home media releases[]

  • Quiz Master (United American Video)
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