Yeah it's true that Penny and Brain were the ones who truly solved the crimes, but without Gadget, the show ceases to be entertaining as the crime is foiled very quickly. Would you have watched it if there was no gadget? I wouldn't. It's the same as the Pokemon anime, if Ash was like the game character and won every battle and didn't learn anything new ect, it would cease to be an entertaining show...
What, the "peace sign" a.k.a the "V sign" a.k.a. "the victory sign"? Dude, thats been around even before the 60s and was "extremely" popular in the 70s. Inspector Gadget is an early 80s series (1983) and the anime wasn't even popular in other countries until the mid 90s when it was becoming more broad with the exception of "Speed Racer" and "Astro Boy", which aren't like today's modern anime . So to answer your question no, this was not inspired by anime.
@bub777 Actually Americans made the sign to show the Japanese peace and the war being over. Then Japan just started doing it to, Anime didnt inspire anything
Sigh no its comes from england, its the V for for victory sign or when turned the other way round means F-off. Damn yanks think you came up with everything
@supercalisto You're right, but we popularized it. Yanks dont think, we do, unlike you. We did make the internet, we know you made computers, we did make it to the moon, we know we didnt make the first plane, we know we dominate movies and modern day cinema masterpicees. We know you made them. But we still made most modern day technologies, grow up.
This show should have been called Penny and her dog, its those 2 who do everything and thats really annoying. Thats why i started to hate the show and eventually quit watching it, it was just too absurd. I wanted to see Inspector Gadget kick some ass and instead he gets his ass kicked and saved by a little girl, i mean... i know this is not supposed to be a serious show but this just not even funny. If he was saved some times okay, but EVERY SINGLE TIME? it gets old very quickly...
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I like how they replaced amphetamine with "mind control drugs"
This is a really great concept. I often watch the show and wish the inspector gadget parts would finish so I can get back to watching the episode progress.
Thanks! I agree. This is how I always wished that the show would be. I could never really stand the annoying inspector, but I did not have so many cartoons to watch at all at that time, so I watched "Inspector Gadget" anyway, since I thought Penny was a cool and cute hero. However, the two really great animated series that I will always associate with DiC are "Ulysses 31" and "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" (produced together with the truly amazing Studio Pierrot).
yeah this cartoon just pissed me off. i call gadget stupid when i was young and my mom scolded me. i laughed so hard when robot chicken called penny the true nemesis.
The blond heroine was the best. Unfortunately, she gave us an impression of all blond bombshells as believable, crime fighting, Air Force saving superheroines, which they certainly are not.
Wait... When Penny and Brain witness the guy getting hypnotized, weren't there TWO guys in the room? Like, one guy with a massive chin entered with the other, so why didn't he notice Penny and Brain?
While she was escaping in the jet, I was waiting for Penny to blast out the doors with rockets like in “Jewel of the Nile” and “Raccoons and the Lost Star.”
That's awesome and a classic! =] I do a tribute inspector beatbox too! it's on my channel if you want to check it out. I'm definitely giving this a thumbs up! =]
@MDthornton83 Lol someone would do a mix-up with this episode of Penny Gadget and Act 2 of the original Area 88. Like the part where the wolf pack attacks.
@CamNoble Tell me about it. And speaking of which, I think some of the music from the original Area 88 OVA would go along nicely with this episode. More spesifically, the songs "Goodbye Lonely Blue", "Wounded Lion", and some of the background music from the third episode.
@MDthornton83 Yes. And for the ending have scenes of penny (presumably walking home) in different areas around the world set to the song "how far to paradise".
doesn't Greg Gates in area 88 (the big mercenary with the thick beard) remind you of the cookie monster? Brain's dummy reminds me of the "autopilot" in the "Airplane" comedy.
talk about DATED that "computer book" is the precursor to "laptops" and instead of a real word processor she attaches the computer book to a typewriter?
I always loved Penny, she was the real hero of the show, she did all the hard work while her uncle took all the credit. Penny deserves some recognition!
Makes me wanna go back and watch these episodes on video CD. "Someone's stealing that jet! ^-^; Where's Uncle Gadget? o_O" Here's my answer for her. He's out trying to stop Team Galactic agents from ruling the world. LOL!! How's THAT for an ideal cross over fanfiction? :)
@reheheeeally yeah, She is a cutie. In me and my friend's RP; she's a pokemon trainer and she has a couple of pokemon. A pikachu and a chikorita. She also has a digimon.
2:15 The MAD jets beat the good guys without firing a shot. They must have used Kung Fu! Man, after 6:03 there are so many technological inaccuracies, there's just no way this could ever happen! What kind of a documentary IS this?!! Last time I ever watch the YouTube Military channel! :-(
Well I would like to point out one thing. You said "What happens if you take Inspector Gadget and totally remove him from his own cartoon?". Well, any mentioning of Inspector (or "Uncle") Gadget would be removed. The only gadget allowed to be mentioned here is Penny. P.S. Dr. Claw saying just "Gadget" instead of "Inspector Gadget" would count as saying it's Penny who stops Dr. Claw.
wow, remove Inspector Gadget from the cartoon and Brain becomes the comic relief character (all of those wacky disguises!) while Penny is practically a young Kim Possible who saves the day.
pretty sad that you can remove the title character from a show and not effect the story any.
This is amazingly effective. I think it would be entirely possible to rewrite the stories to focus entirely on Penny and Brain foiling Doctor Claw's plans. Heck, you could use it as the premise for a whole new show.
They could market this as "The Exciting Adventures of Penny Gadget." Seriously.
Unfortunately, there are two weaknesses to trying to do this with Inspector Gadget, the first being that he's the one who always reads the "mister exposition" note at the start of the episode, explaining the plot. The second that Brain spends most of the episode babysitting him, so when we don't see Gadget, we don't see Brain much either. All things considered, very nicely-done, though.
Brain also rescues Penny at times, so he's got a role there. But yeah, cutting out Gadget means cutting out exposition. You can still get a plot, just without dialog explaining what's going on.
I once had recorded an adventure cartoon, Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates (don't let the name fool you, it's actually got some good storytelling and a lot of entertaining plots). I was skimming through it, and noticed something: most of what happens is talking! In fact, it's that way with just about ANY cartoon! Most of the story is taken up by talking. Probably because talking is important to plot. I wonder what kind of shows you'd have if you removed most of the talking?
Probably the same kind of plot-free shows they have nowadays. 1983-2006 was the era for good cartoons, in my opinion. Before and after that, televised cartoons (at least in america) were rarely all that fantastic.
Maybe you're right. In fact, dialog slows down the action, allowing for a good ebb and flow, and also allowing you to get to relate to the characters when they stop engaging in action and spend some time expressing their personalities.
Especially if the talking occurs during relaxed moments in the characters' lives. Things like that build character and add to the overall show.
I think the main reason characters talk so much in cartoons is because it's easy to write an exposition heavy cartoon, and it's easier and cheaper to animate mouths moving than things happening.
In my opinion, cartoons are much better when they rely on visual story telling as opposed to exposition. You can have a slow moment when it's needed and establish a plot just fine with minimal dialog.
Just look at Wall-E for instance, it had no trouble telling a story with few words.
@mytruepower2 You gotta be joking ? 2006 ?? You mean to say that from '00 to 06 you LIKED cartoons ? I was an 80s kid and enjoyed all the 80's cartoons. I also liked cartoons from 1990 through 1993..the last good cartoon I enjoyed watching was Tiny Toon Adventures. Nothing has been good since then. Late 90's and early 2000's cartoons were awful sorry
It would be more accurate to say that between 00' and 06', there were still a few decent cartoons left. However, you're right to say that cartoons were beginning to die by then. Tiny Toons was good, Animaniacs, Batman, Gargoyles, Mighty Max, Freakazoid, Pinky and the Brain, Superman, He-man, Justice League... And then suddenly, all the good cartoons were coming out of Japan.
the reason many cartoons did alot of talking is at the 90s we began using computers to draw cartoons yet some or alot i may be wrong were still hand drawn... the ones drawn on cartoons had limited colors bak then (16bit?) and i think they would (i may be wrong again) print out the drawn cartoons frames from computers, on to clear cells, later, they were added up layer upon layer, and photographed making a FRAME. The reason for LOTS of talking = moving mouth = less drawing!
if they werent drawn by computers then i know they were definately colored by computers in the 90s thats soemthing i do know without a doubt... all color was added thru a program much like Microsoft paint.. or did they actually use paint from windows 3.0? cuz i saw them doing it for the rugrats (90s version of nicktoons) and it looked spot on like microsoft paint but i knw i have to be wrong that just sounds odd cuz ms paint is limitted... then came photoshop adobe etc
You're partly right, but you're mixing some stuff up.
Drawn animation was always painted on cels (the transparencies), until in the early 1990s when some companies began to use computers to color the drawings and composite them with the backgrounds, instead of painting them on cels and shooting them with a camera. By the early 2000s, all drawn animation was created that way. It's all still originally drawn on paper, but it's colored in digitally. (continued)
(cont) And the difference between a cartoon where there's tons of talking and not much moving besides the mouth versus a cartoon with minimal talking and lots of movement is usually one thing only----budgets. Computers or no computers---that has little to do with it. Look how little movement there was in Saturday morning stuff in the 1970s. It got a lot better in the 80s and 90s, because budgets were higher. Unfortunately, they're now sinking again, and it shows.
@Marbles471 wait marbles no ur wrong now its all computer driven (to ur other 2000's comment) they use stuff like photoshop, flash, and hell if i know i think alot of anime companies have they're own drawing software written by companies for them exclusively to use(i cud be wrong on that exclusive stuff but id imagine so)..also remember flash animation... but yeah ur right it is abt budget especially in these old cartoons cuz u needed more ppl to get more drawing done FASTER!
fun fact... back in the 90s a COLOR cartoon could take up to a month or in rare instances maybe more to produce (30min.)... It was alot of easier to do alot of talking in cartoons becuase drawing a moving mouth is alot easier than drawing the action parts... its faster.. thats why older cartoons would have alot of filler in episodes with a bunch of talking its just simpler to zoom into a face and draw a mouth moving than to draw nonstop action i hope that explains all the talking in cartoons
It's mostly TV cartoons that have a lot of talking, because TV has rarely had the kind of budgets the old theatricals (Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Mickey Mouse, etc.) had in the 1930s thru '50s. If you look at those older cartoons, many of them have minimal dialogue, because the animation was fluid enough for the characters to put across the story through sheer movement. That's rarely affordable on TV, to that extent. So instead, the stories are dialogue-driven.
@mytruepower2 I've always thought that Penny really should've gotten the credit, along with the dog, for solving ALL of Gadget's cases. His basket case self didn't do anything but botch things up! lol! I love the cartoon tho'!
Yup. It was great fun, and watching Penny's continual feud with Doctor Claw was the best part. It's amazing just how little the inspector added to the plot of any given episode.
@mytruepower2 Yup! Great fun! True, Inspector did very little to nothing in adding to the plot, he's "important" bacause he was the main character of the cartoon, and had the funny gadgets. But, Penny and Brain were the true heroes of the cartoon, lol! Penn'y probably a disgruntled adult by now, having saved her Uncle so many times and not given any credit for it, rotfl!!! (Imagine that)
Could be. Could be. Or she might have turned out to be a well-adjusted, responsible, adult secret agent (given her talent for spy work AND keeping secrets.) A bit like James Bond, but less of a cad. She might even view those old fights with MAD with a sort of nostalgic fondness. Who knows? Whatever happened to her, we can bet she became a success.
@mytruepower2 I suppose if Gadget had been a normal guy who just had the unfortunate luck of still being an inspector past his prime and wanted to retire, it could've been an interesting premise for a show if it was Penny saving him every time by letting him take cred for things he didn't do since he was often captured, drugged and what-have-you, the only redeeming thing the guy could have is doing the PSA moments in the end of the show.
Do you happen to know of any others? I like Garfield Minus Garfield, and that's what inspired me to make this. What other "remove the main character" creations do you know of?
I was trying to think of what else might work. My dad told me that "Superman Minus Superman" might be funny.
"We need Superman's help!"
(cut away)
"Thanks to Superman, we're all safe!"
But in all seriousness, it might work. The episodes which feature Noelle Niel as Lois Lane tend to have her be more actively involved in the plot, and the show could possibly be about her and Jimmy Olson solving mysteries.
Yeah. The thing is, whenever Doctor Claw mentions "Gadget," he never calls him "Inspector Gadget," so in this context, it works magnificently. If we assume that Penny's last name is also Gadget, he could be referring to her. At least, that's what I think when I'm watching these.
Those planes looks like A-4 Skyhawk II
Skybolter 1 week ago
Why hasnt Dr.Claw figured out that the little girl and dog are the real problem and go after them? lol !
supersoniccheesy 3 weeks ago
I wish I had a computer book like Penny.
That can do everything fly planes talk to dogs WOW!!!!
lewiss1100 3 weeks ago
So what was the Inspector doin this whole time?
BChias 3 weeks ago
You probably should've removed the lines referencing Inspector Gadget. That's kinda the same as him being there.
AlbinoWatermelon 1 month ago
Lol didn't know that it was a Black chick that did voice of penny.
Luis2899 1 month ago
if she dosen't know what a Typewriter is...she's too old for you bro
HipnosisV1SvR 1 month ago
This brings back so many memories
MZmatt1 2 months ago
The cartoon should now be called Adventures of Penny & Her Dog
Marmalade000000 2 months ago
@Marmalade000000 And yet it's basically the same cartoon, minus the slapstick humor.
GlennMagusHarvey 1 month ago
after her my blue troll she's escaping with my plane stop her shoot her out of the sky
isabellayzerman 2 months ago
Yeah it's true that Penny and Brain were the ones who truly solved the crimes, but without Gadget, the show ceases to be entertaining as the crime is foiled very quickly. Would you have watched it if there was no gadget? I wouldn't. It's the same as the Pokemon anime, if Ash was like the game character and won every battle and didn't learn anything new ect, it would cease to be an entertaining show...
shakennotstirred17 3 months ago
Hmmm, "Japanese thumbs-up" at 9:04. So perhaps the DiC cartoons were inspired by anime...?
bub777 3 months ago
@bub777
What, the "peace sign" a.k.a the "V sign" a.k.a. "the victory sign"? Dude, thats been around even before the 60s and was "extremely" popular in the 70s. Inspector Gadget is an early 80s series (1983) and the anime wasn't even popular in other countries until the mid 90s when it was becoming more broad with the exception of "Speed Racer" and "Astro Boy", which aren't like today's modern anime . So to answer your question no, this was not inspired by anime.
Kids today man.....
RgxSuperSonic 2 months ago 10
@RgxSuperSonic I believe it was drawn by a Japanese studio though. So in a sense, it IS anime.
Bristecom 1 month ago
@bub777 Actually Americans made the sign to show the Japanese peace and the war being over. Then Japan just started doing it to, Anime didnt inspire anything
DarPower1 1 month ago
@DarPower1
Sigh no its comes from england, its the V for for victory sign or when turned the other way round means F-off. Damn yanks think you came up with everything
supercalisto 1 month ago
@supercalisto You're right, but we popularized it. Yanks dont think, we do, unlike you. We did make the internet, we know you made computers, we did make it to the moon, we know we didnt make the first plane, we know we dominate movies and modern day cinema masterpicees. We know you made them. But we still made most modern day technologies, grow up.
DarPower1 1 month ago
@bub777
Sorry you mean the english Victory sign
supercalisto 1 month ago
Lol I didn't even mis it:P The penny and brain show!!!!
MrSpacelyy 3 months ago
AVGN army coming through, lol
GLoBeTree1 3 months ago
Yeah, the plot goes on fine... But where's the funny part?
KombatGod 3 months ago
This show should have been called Penny and her dog, its those 2 who do everything and thats really annoying. Thats why i started to hate the show and eventually quit watching it, it was just too absurd. I wanted to see Inspector Gadget kick some ass and instead he gets his ass kicked and saved by a little girl, i mean... i know this is not supposed to be a serious show but this just not even funny. If he was saved some times okay, but EVERY SINGLE TIME? it gets old very quickly...
superrcain 3 months ago
Pilot sorry stupid autocorrect
Donice09 4 months ago
How is it the poling didn't think why the hell is there a 12 year old flying a jet?"
Donice09 4 months ago
@Donice09 I remember thinking the same thing. Couldn't he tell a little girl was the pilot? That was wierd.
entityk14 4 months ago
@Donice09 Tinted cockpit canopy. See 6:45.
Geminii27 3 months ago
Penny had the sexiest voice actress ever.
2hakkabakka 4 months ago
I'd recognize Cree Summer anywhere. That's her as Penny!
ilikeamazon 4 months ago
Super Boring..!! Who watches Spiderman with no spiderman?? Or Xmen with only Storm?? Dumbass
SmokeyMcPot209 5 months ago
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Stealing fighter jets?
Now that's what I call a major fellony. Dr. Claw is badass.
PoIaris 5 months ago
Stealing fighter jets?
Now that's what I call a major fellony. Dr. Claw is badass.
PoIaris 5 months ago
Without gadget imo, this cartoon is watchable.
Gackra 5 months ago 3
Thus proving how BORING the inspector Gadget cartoon would have been without the inspector Gadget....
lunseisleidee 5 months ago
She has the Mysterious Stranger perk : /
After all, Inspector Gadget only is useful at random times.
NonstopRam 5 months ago
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UrbanDancing 5 months ago
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UrbanDancing 5 months ago
This is boring. I would rather have the incompatant Gadget and have fun than this lameness.
calebrhodus 5 months ago
here's a fun fact... the girl voice as Penny is actually, Freddie from A Different World
kesha757 5 months ago
"It's no good! We're outnumbered! Returning to base!"
I'm glad those 2 weren't 2 of the British pilots during the Battle of Britain.
PSISpecter 5 months ago
jesus. this episode is jacked up in so many ways. i love it.
TheSmutchypuss 6 months ago
say no to mind control drugs
Sehanort 6 months ago
Proving once again that an Inspector Gadget spinoff with just Penny and Brain should have been made all along.
myronfalwell 6 months ago 9
I like how they replaced amphetamine with "mind control drugs"
This is a really great concept. I often watch the show and wish the inspector gadget parts would finish so I can get back to watching the episode progress.
BionicGroin 6 months ago
Old skool
1979irock 6 months ago
@RenegadeShadowScale attention deficit disorder
legendofspades2004 6 months ago
This reminds me of Top Gun. "Gonna drive into the danger zone!"
Cacowninja 6 months ago
@RenegadeShadowScale she had add duh
legendofspades2004 6 months ago
his little niece was sexy
legendofspades2004 6 months ago
It always annoyed me that Gadget, who was obviously able to become an inspector so must have some talent, was never able to do really anything.
ryansmellsbad 7 months ago
Hmmm Computer books? So that's what they had before 'i pads' and 'i phones'
w0y1z92753 7 months ago 4
@w0y1z92753 try tablet pc's laptops netbooks! Apple has never been the first
MrSpacelyy 3 months ago
Without Gadget the show becomes something like Tintin.
Though, I actually do like Gadget, I have to admit while watching this, that I have no idea where he fit into the original episode!
TetsuDeinonychus 7 months ago 3
Not bad it's like chocolate chip cookies minus chocolate chips.
Heegoop 7 months ago
I WANT THAT BOOK!!
DrSpaceGhost 7 months ago 3
This is actually very good.
ReloadPsi 7 months ago
True that. The serious plot doesn't need Gadget.
luiz4200 7 months ago
Thanks! I agree. This is how I always wished that the show would be. I could never really stand the annoying inspector, but I did not have so many cartoons to watch at all at that time, so I watched "Inspector Gadget" anyway, since I thought Penny was a cool and cute hero. However, the two really great animated series that I will always associate with DiC are "Ulysses 31" and "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" (produced together with the truly amazing Studio Pierrot).
PhantasyStarLover 7 months ago
Wow...I never realized how little Gadget actually contributed to the show, why is he the main character again?
sonic5993 7 months ago
funny that penny is bigger than the wheels of the figher jet :p
SuuzieQ 8 months ago
Penny has an 1980's I-Pad!
redneon06 8 months ago
wow if its that easy to escape from prison im gonna rob a bank
heckler407 8 months ago
Prepare to be disliked!
DarPower1 8 months ago
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
they don't have a start ???????
samuelchu2000 8 months ago
a video without a single dislike! rare
hellvings 9 months ago
But Inspector Gadget is one of my most favorite cartoon characters.
Crazygirl11683 9 months ago
This really is a darker show without Gadget
jnorth 9 months ago 2
0:00 - 0:07, where can I find a stand-alone clip of this background music?
climax9 9 months ago
Really interesting thing you've done here! I loved this show as a kid!
boomdart 10 months ago
2:42 What are they doing in there?
MyScorpion42 10 months ago
1:33 Where's Uncle Gadget?
MyScorpion42 10 months ago
What? No Gadget? GO GO GADGET LAWSUIT!!!
WebVMan 10 months ago 2
yeah this cartoon just pissed me off. i call gadget stupid when i was young and my mom scolded me. i laughed so hard when robot chicken called penny the true nemesis.
ACRedsCreations 10 months ago
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Interesting idea!
Great to hear those old Levi/Saban background tracks again after all these years, lot of same instruments as Mysterious Cities of Gold music
willdatsun1 11 months ago
The blond heroine was the best. Unfortunately, she gave us an impression of all blond bombshells as believable, crime fighting, Air Force saving superheroines, which they certainly are not.
heroineworshipper 11 months ago
lol- "where's Uncle Gadget?" yeah good question!
and the scene starting at 6:14 is by far the most important scene in the episode!
brok2 11 months ago
as a kid, I always liked penny
Downloadsbacon 1 year ago
What would the theme song to this be? "Do do do do.....do do do do do woo-hoo. Go....go!"
ResettisReplicas 1 year ago 5
Wait... When Penny and Brain witness the guy getting hypnotized, weren't there TWO guys in the room? Like, one guy with a massive chin entered with the other, so why didn't he notice Penny and Brain?
Rubberman202 1 year ago
This video showed me the redundancy of main characters.
Also, I didn't remember the background music from the show being this good.
Grandy12 1 year ago
Why does Brain always look like Cerebus from Dave Sim?
Reelbigearth 1 year ago
i love the shows music scores!... anybody knows where i can find them?
daladiesman22 1 year ago
Those pilots are under control of that mean Dr. George Claw!
CROSSTATT 1 year ago
Penny must be The only 10 or 12year old girl who can fly a plane
Donice09 1 year ago
While she was escaping in the jet, I was waiting for Penny to blast out the doors with rockets like in “Jewel of the Nile” and “Raccoons and the Lost Star.”
CamNoble 1 year ago
That's awesome and a classic! =] I do a tribute inspector beatbox too! it's on my channel if you want to check it out. I'm definitely giving this a thumbs up! =]
verbalase 1 year ago
fix the score and you've got your own cartoon
robertpicardo 1 year ago
The music that plays when penny climbs out of the ceiling vent is great.
adamgnome2 1 year ago
Something I just noticed, you know all those minions Claw threatens for failure? You never see them again, do you?
Guess Claw wasn't kidding...
SoulfulBrutha5805 1 year ago 2
I wonder who this Uncle Gadget she keeps talking about is...?
CrazyLou64 1 year ago 2
For some reason, this episode reminds me of Area 88 with the airforce and whatnot.
MDthornton83 1 year ago
@MDthornton83 Lol someone would do a mix-up with this episode of Penny Gadget and Act 2 of the original Area 88. Like the part where the wolf pack attacks.
CamNoble 1 year ago
@CamNoble Tell me about it. And speaking of which, I think some of the music from the original Area 88 OVA would go along nicely with this episode. More spesifically, the songs "Goodbye Lonely Blue", "Wounded Lion", and some of the background music from the third episode.
MDthornton83 1 year ago
@MDthornton83 Yes. And for the ending have scenes of penny (presumably walking home) in different areas around the world set to the song "how far to paradise".
CamNoble 1 year ago
doesn't Greg Gates in area 88 (the big mercenary with the thick beard) remind you of the cookie monster? Brain's dummy reminds me of the "autopilot" in the "Airplane" comedy.
CamNoble 1 year ago
I thought,''You TOUCH that plane and you'll GET IT.
hobbesowner 1 year ago
brain is my fav.
stepdaddyshit 1 year ago
I never noticed this, but Brain has Sonic the Hedgehog eyes.
RubberRoss 1 year ago
thanks for putting this up... really brought up ole good memories!!!!
sterlingisithesht 1 year ago
talk about DATED that "computer book" is the precursor to "laptops" and instead of a real word processor she attaches the computer book to a typewriter?
Zurround100 1 year ago 2
@Zurround100 It's the very first IPAD. LOL
crysta2k2 1 year ago
@Zurround100 call it "Creative License" the way writers would do that for shows like this!
RetroToledo 5 months ago
I always loved Penny, she was the real hero of the show, she did all the hard work while her uncle took all the credit. Penny deserves some recognition!
Akira625 1 year ago 3
@Akira625 Definetly.
hobbesowner 1 year ago
Wow...Dr. Claw is a SCARY SON OF A BITCH.
Rahheemme 1 year ago
"Where's Uncle Gadget?" He's in the theme song, where he's the most useful.
PikachuColoredPichu1 1 year ago 17
@PikachuColoredPichu1 hahaha
phillytheflyerable 5 months ago
Makes me wanna go back and watch these episodes on video CD. "Someone's stealing that jet! ^-^; Where's Uncle Gadget? o_O" Here's my answer for her. He's out trying to stop Team Galactic agents from ruling the world. LOL!! How's THAT for an ideal cross over fanfiction? :)
GalaxyJazzGirl 1 year ago
Penny's SO darn adorable! :D
GalaxyJazzGirl 1 year ago
I always liked Penny better anyway.
reheheeeally 1 year ago
@reheheeeally yeah, She is a cutie. In me and my friend's RP; she's a pokemon trainer and she has a couple of pokemon. A pikachu and a chikorita. She also has a digimon.
GalaxyJazzGirl 1 year ago
WOW, You dont miss any of the plot without Gadget lol.
greek1237 1 year ago
"Where are you Uncle Gadget?" Ask "Yourstapler," He edited him out. >.>
Sheba4taj1 1 year ago
2:15 The MAD jets beat the good guys without firing a shot. They must have used Kung Fu! Man, after 6:03 there are so many technological inaccuracies, there's just no way this could ever happen! What kind of a documentary IS this?!! Last time I ever watch the YouTube Military channel! :-(
Squishyfur 1 year ago
2:15 The MAD jets beat the good guys without firing a shot. They must have used Kung Fu!
Squishyfur 1 year ago
'Someone's stealing that jet! Where's uncle Gadget?!'
Where indeed!
theyissofunny 1 year ago
is this the only ep w/o gadget?
steventean 1 year ago
Madcat was kick ass
AlternativeMUSE696 1 year ago
what the hell was gadget on vacation this episode?
odensmeadhorn 1 year ago
Well I would like to point out one thing. You said "What happens if you take Inspector Gadget and totally remove him from his own cartoon?". Well, any mentioning of Inspector (or "Uncle") Gadget would be removed. The only gadget allowed to be mentioned here is Penny. P.S. Dr. Claw saying just "Gadget" instead of "Inspector Gadget" would count as saying it's Penny who stops Dr. Claw.
marioroxmysox 1 year ago
What's the Name of This Episode?
Kshii1 1 year ago
I like how they couldn't actually show the dudes getting their control injections.
FlameAdder 1 year ago
HOORAY! Penny saves the day!
this is awesome.
wow, to think this show probably could have lasted many MANY years if it had only gone in a slightly altered direction.
i liked gadget back in the day, but this REALLY would have appealed to me then.
nice work!
eph26er 1 year ago
Laptops are great and all, but I still want a computer book!
TheNinjaMouse 2 years ago 4
1:35
Good question, Penny.
greanami 2 years ago 3
Incredibly inventive idea! Inspector Penny!
unclesporkums 2 years ago
Out of curiosity, what did Gadget actually do in this episode, useful or otherwise?
Sines314 2 years ago 4
wow, remove Inspector Gadget from the cartoon and Brain becomes the comic relief character (all of those wacky disguises!) while Penny is practically a young Kim Possible who saves the day.
pretty sad that you can remove the title character from a show and not effect the story any.
gjljoivey 2 years ago 11
I love the Dr. Strangelove reference near the end - cowboy type dude riding on something out of the bomb bay
ssfsx17 2 years ago
THANK YOU. Inspector Gadget was the reason I never really watched Inspector Gadget. Even as a little kid, he annoyed me.
8x13Wolf 2 years ago
This is amazingly effective. I think it would be entirely possible to rewrite the stories to focus entirely on Penny and Brain foiling Doctor Claw's plans. Heck, you could use it as the premise for a whole new show.
Roxor128 2 years ago 5
They could market this as "The Exciting Adventures of Penny Gadget." Seriously.
Unfortunately, there are two weaknesses to trying to do this with Inspector Gadget, the first being that he's the one who always reads the "mister exposition" note at the start of the episode, explaining the plot. The second that Brain spends most of the episode babysitting him, so when we don't see Gadget, we don't see Brain much either. All things considered, very nicely-done, though.
mytruepower2 2 years ago 27
Brain also rescues Penny at times, so he's got a role there. But yeah, cutting out Gadget means cutting out exposition. You can still get a plot, just without dialog explaining what's going on.
yourstapler 2 years ago 9
Right. It's a lot more subtle, which has its own kind of charm, really.
mytruepower2 2 years ago 6
I once had recorded an adventure cartoon, Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates (don't let the name fool you, it's actually got some good storytelling and a lot of entertaining plots). I was skimming through it, and noticed something: most of what happens is talking! In fact, it's that way with just about ANY cartoon! Most of the story is taken up by talking. Probably because talking is important to plot. I wonder what kind of shows you'd have if you removed most of the talking?
yourstapler 2 years ago 4
Probably the same kind of plot-free shows they have nowadays. 1983-2006 was the era for good cartoons, in my opinion. Before and after that, televised cartoons (at least in america) were rarely all that fantastic.
mytruepower2 2 years ago 4
Maybe you're right. In fact, dialog slows down the action, allowing for a good ebb and flow, and also allowing you to get to relate to the characters when they stop engaging in action and spend some time expressing their personalities.
Especially if the talking occurs during relaxed moments in the characters' lives. Things like that build character and add to the overall show.
yourstapler 2 years ago 6
Right. Good action can show what the characters are capable of, but good dialogue shows who they really are.
mytruepower2 2 years ago
@yourstapler
I think the main reason characters talk so much in cartoons is because it's easy to write an exposition heavy cartoon, and it's easier and cheaper to animate mouths moving than things happening.
In my opinion, cartoons are much better when they rely on visual story telling as opposed to exposition. You can have a slow moment when it's needed and establish a plot just fine with minimal dialog.
Just look at Wall-E for instance, it had no trouble telling a story with few words.
321cheeseman 1 year ago 13
@mytruepower2 You gotta be joking ? 2006 ?? You mean to say that from '00 to 06 you LIKED cartoons ? I was an 80s kid and enjoyed all the 80's cartoons. I also liked cartoons from 1990 through 1993..the last good cartoon I enjoyed watching was Tiny Toon Adventures. Nothing has been good since then. Late 90's and early 2000's cartoons were awful sorry
AmericanEvita 1 year ago
@AmericanEvita
It would be more accurate to say that between 00' and 06', there were still a few decent cartoons left. However, you're right to say that cartoons were beginning to die by then. Tiny Toons was good, Animaniacs, Batman, Gargoyles, Mighty Max, Freakazoid, Pinky and the Brain, Superman, He-man, Justice League... And then suddenly, all the good cartoons were coming out of Japan.
mytruepower2 1 year ago
@mytruepower2 indeed, very true.
MouseTronic222 1 year ago
@yourstapler a modern day silent film in digital crisp color/quality
sonnyboa 1 year ago
@yourstapler
the reason many cartoons did alot of talking is at the 90s we began using computers to draw cartoons yet some or alot i may be wrong were still hand drawn... the ones drawn on cartoons had limited colors bak then (16bit?) and i think they would (i may be wrong again) print out the drawn cartoons frames from computers, on to clear cells, later, they were added up layer upon layer, and photographed making a FRAME. The reason for LOTS of talking = moving mouth = less drawing!
True2TheBlueYoViGang 10 months ago
@True2TheBlueYoViGang
if they werent drawn by computers then i know they were definately colored by computers in the 90s thats soemthing i do know without a doubt... all color was added thru a program much like Microsoft paint.. or did they actually use paint from windows 3.0? cuz i saw them doing it for the rugrats (90s version of nicktoons) and it looked spot on like microsoft paint but i knw i have to be wrong that just sounds odd cuz ms paint is limitted... then came photoshop adobe etc
True2TheBlueYoViGang 10 months ago
@True2TheBlueYoViGang
You're partly right, but you're mixing some stuff up.
Drawn animation was always painted on cels (the transparencies), until in the early 1990s when some companies began to use computers to color the drawings and composite them with the backgrounds, instead of painting them on cels and shooting them with a camera. By the early 2000s, all drawn animation was created that way. It's all still originally drawn on paper, but it's colored in digitally. (continued)
Marbles471 8 months ago
@True2TheBlueYoViGang
(cont) And the difference between a cartoon where there's tons of talking and not much moving besides the mouth versus a cartoon with minimal talking and lots of movement is usually one thing only----budgets. Computers or no computers---that has little to do with it. Look how little movement there was in Saturday morning stuff in the 1970s. It got a lot better in the 80s and 90s, because budgets were higher. Unfortunately, they're now sinking again, and it shows.
Marbles471 8 months ago
@Marbles471 wait marbles no ur wrong now its all computer driven (to ur other 2000's comment) they use stuff like photoshop, flash, and hell if i know i think alot of anime companies have they're own drawing software written by companies for them exclusively to use(i cud be wrong on that exclusive stuff but id imagine so)..also remember flash animation... but yeah ur right it is abt budget especially in these old cartoons cuz u needed more ppl to get more drawing done FASTER!
True2TheBlueYoViGang 8 months ago
fun fact... back in the 90s a COLOR cartoon could take up to a month or in rare instances maybe more to produce (30min.)... It was alot of easier to do alot of talking in cartoons becuase drawing a moving mouth is alot easier than drawing the action parts... its faster.. thats why older cartoons would have alot of filler in episodes with a bunch of talking its just simpler to zoom into a face and draw a mouth moving than to draw nonstop action i hope that explains all the talking in cartoons
True2TheBlueYoViGang 10 months ago
@yourstapler
It's mostly TV cartoons that have a lot of talking, because TV has rarely had the kind of budgets the old theatricals (Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Mickey Mouse, etc.) had in the 1930s thru '50s. If you look at those older cartoons, many of them have minimal dialogue, because the animation was fluid enough for the characters to put across the story through sheer movement. That's rarely affordable on TV, to that extent. So instead, the stories are dialogue-driven.
Marbles471 8 months ago
@mytruepower2 I've always thought that Penny really should've gotten the credit, along with the dog, for solving ALL of Gadget's cases. His basket case self didn't do anything but botch things up! lol! I love the cartoon tho'!
Orbot 10 months ago
@Orbot
Yup. It was great fun, and watching Penny's continual feud with Doctor Claw was the best part. It's amazing just how little the inspector added to the plot of any given episode.
mytruepower2 9 months ago
@mytruepower2 Yup! Great fun! True, Inspector did very little to nothing in adding to the plot, he's "important" bacause he was the main character of the cartoon, and had the funny gadgets. But, Penny and Brain were the true heroes of the cartoon, lol! Penn'y probably a disgruntled adult by now, having saved her Uncle so many times and not given any credit for it, rotfl!!! (Imagine that)
Orbot 9 months ago
@Orbot
Could be. Could be. Or she might have turned out to be a well-adjusted, responsible, adult secret agent (given her talent for spy work AND keeping secrets.) A bit like James Bond, but less of a cad. She might even view those old fights with MAD with a sort of nostalgic fondness. Who knows? Whatever happened to her, we can bet she became a success.
mytruepower2 9 months ago
@mytruepower2 She needs her own cartoon! lol
Orbot 9 months ago
@mytruepower2 I suppose if Gadget had been a normal guy who just had the unfortunate luck of still being an inspector past his prime and wanted to retire, it could've been an interesting premise for a show if it was Penny saving him every time by letting him take cred for things he didn't do since he was often captured, drugged and what-have-you, the only redeeming thing the guy could have is doing the PSA moments in the end of the show.
RetroToledo 5 months ago
Heh. Dittoing your video info.
Xander77Ru 2 years ago
Yup. I hit the nail on the head, didn't I?
yourstapler 2 years ago
I always figured people watched this show because Penny was cute. :\
Otacon144 2 years ago
I love things like this, where they take out the "main character" and you realize they're really not that important. Like Garfield minus Garfield.
moviepimpdj 2 years ago 2
Do you happen to know of any others? I like Garfield Minus Garfield, and that's what inspired me to make this. What other "remove the main character" creations do you know of?
yourstapler 2 years ago
I don't know of anything else - sorry! Maybe another commenter knows of something else but I don't :/
moviepimpdj 2 years ago
I was trying to think of what else might work. My dad told me that "Superman Minus Superman" might be funny.
"We need Superman's help!"
(cut away)
"Thanks to Superman, we're all safe!"
But in all seriousness, it might work. The episodes which feature Noelle Niel as Lois Lane tend to have her be more actively involved in the plot, and the show could possibly be about her and Jimmy Olson solving mysteries.
yourstapler 2 years ago
This is like Veronica Mars, the early years or something.
bigpoppa1234 2 years ago 3
1:35
Not in this episode!
sygnus5 2 years ago
Lol, it took me a few tries to figure out what you were talking about. Yeah, I removed every reference to Gadget's name... except that one. Oops.
That only makes it funnier that he never shows up!
yourstapler 2 years ago
Yeah. The thing is, whenever Doctor Claw mentions "Gadget," he never calls him "Inspector Gadget," so in this context, it works magnificently. If we assume that Penny's last name is also Gadget, he could be referring to her. At least, that's what I think when I'm watching these.
mytruepower2 2 years ago 2
God, I never realized Gadget was so useless that his scenes could be removed and the plot would still make sense.
Gigaspine7 2 years ago 39
using video games to control people's minds... is there nothing sacred to Dr. Claw anymore!?
thatrandombloak 2 years ago 5