Inspector Gadget: Voice Acting, Characters, and Legacy

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with Professor Bousquet Dog Thompson. Kevin,

hello. Hello. Hello. And today we are going to

be talking about the classic cartoon, Don Adams

-voiced cartoon, Inspector Gadget. Yay! So what

have you been up to, sir? Good lord, it has been

a crazy busy last seven to ten days, that's for

sure. It just seems like stuff's been happening,

like everything's been, I don't know, like the

wheels have hit the pavement and the car is flying

away. And, you know, ever since, I don't know,

let's start with behindthevoiceactors .com, obviously

my stuff over there. Seems like it's been taken

off big time. We have a bunch of actual voice

actors who have either joined our forums or have

befriended us on Facebook, have left messages

on Facebook. Maurice LaMarche, Bill Ratner, the

voice of Flint from G .I. Joe, and then the latest

person that started leaving us all kinds of messages

on Facebook was Sean Schemmel. Oh, that's awesome.

Yeah, he left us like four or five messages on

Facebook and you know he said one of them was

saying something like he's seen a lot of voice

acting websites but most of them are lame and

he really liked this one so you know that's kind

of cool. I've been adding all kinds of stuff

over there. I went through the entire original

G .I. Joe cartoon and got every single character

up there. I did both the 80s Garfield and the

current Garfield show and added those. We've

just been adding tons of stuff, including some

special stuff to kind of go along with our show

today on Inspector Gadget, which is some voice

compares of the four main characters in Inspector

Gadget. So I had all that going on, and of course,

like you know, we've had all kinds of craziness

happening surrounding our last interview. Oh

my god, I thought we were gonna get put in front

of a firing squad or something. Holy crap. You

know, honestly, seriously, this is, you know,

this is, I mean, I know this is our general chat

thing. I was thinking of us doing this before

the actual show, before we started the, you know,

the whole episode 50 here, but we might as well

just do it here. When we interviewed Maurice

LaMarche and Kevin asked him that, I think you

asked him the question, I don't think I asked

him that question about the voice acting, which

did he prefer. And then he proceeded to tell

us about doing Mr. Freeze in Arkham Asylum 2.

Now, neither of us realized... First of all,

you gotta remember for those listening that when

you're doing an interview with a, at least in

my experience, when you're doing an interview

with one of these guys, especially someone like

Maurice LaMarche, a lot of it's hard to take

in as you're doing this because you're so concentrated

on... you know, not cutting him off, you know,

who's asking the next question, what you're asking,

how you're going to word it, and doing all this

stuff, that a lot of it you can't take in as

you're doing it. You know, for me, so half the

stuff that he was answering, it wasn't absorbing

into me until I listened back to the interview

a second time, so I just wanted to throw that

out there, but you can keep going. Oh yeah, but

you know, when he answered, you know, he said

he had just rapped on Mr. Freeze for Arkham Asylum

2, and I was like, What can you give us a sample

of the voice and he goes, you know contractually

I just don't think I can and you know, whatever

else now, you know I want to put it out there

and I put it out there before Steve and I were

Steve Philips Steven Phillips and I recorded

a geek cast radio update which will hopefully

be out before this episode Basically saying this

exact same thing except it was with me and Steve

instead of me and Kevin You know, Mr. LaMarche,

when we were done with the interview before we

hung up with him, he did not ask us to remove

that. Not when we were on the call with him.

Now, if I had had plenty of time, you know, if

he had said something beforehand or whatever

else before we published the thing, sure I would

have edited that part out. But it's like the

next day, it was everywhere. It went viral. Yeah,

it did go viral and it was interesting checking

different Facebook posts and stuff like that

because at first, you know, we're like, okay,

we posted the interview and obviously since I

have a lot to do with behind the voice actors,

we posted it on our site, but that's no big deal.

I mean, we posted it on the main page. It's kind

of a spotlight thing. That's not a big deal.

Then the next time I check, it's posted on some

lesser known, not that they're not well known

amongst the geek community, but lesser known

on the geek community website. Then the next

time you check, it's on a little bit more popular

website. Then the next time you check, all of

a sudden it's been posted on IGN. And then it's

just gone crazy. Like you did a Google search

for it and you come up with a dozen to two dozen

websites that it's on. And it just seemed like

as the hours went by, whatever day that was,

a couple days ago, which would be a while ago

probably by the time this was posted, but as

the hours went by, it was just crazy. Yeah, you

know when you texted me this you know you said

something about you know Well apparently haven't

read his Facebook or whatever else now I never

got an email from Maurice and now if he would

have sent me an email And I think what he said

in one of his his Facebook status replies was

that He tried he was gonna email me by the but

by the time he had entered his name into a Google

search It was already out there Yeah, there was

some other fan or friend of his or whatever that

made a comment about, you know, you'd think that

they would respect your wishes. Some people are

just jerks or something. We would have fully

respected Mr. LaMarche's wishes if he, at the

time of the interview, if he had made them known

to us. You know, I edit these things. Once we

record the interviews, I edit them as soon as

we're done. I put them all together within a

matter, say we finish an interview at 8 p .m.

By 2 a .m. it's fully edited ready to be posted

whenever the date that we're going to post it

as. As soon as I have a final product with whatever's

in there, that's what's in there. And I don't

mean to say that to be a dick, I'm not at all,

but that's just the process that I use. uh...

what we're referencing to basically we we didn't

realize that was going to be breaking news until

all of a sudden all these websites started posting

and i had an initial thought when i saw you posting

on some of these websites i'm like ooh i'm like

i hope he's not going to get any backlash from

this because you know maybe he didn't realize

what he said or maybe he didn't realize that

right you know this out there people were listening

to our podcast or whatever and basically when

I started seeing this. I was like, ooh, he might

get in trouble. Then I checked his Facebook page,

and he had basically said that for the record,

he's done everything he could. And to clear the

air for everybody, he's not upset at us. No,

no, no. No, exactly. He's not. You apologize

to him. I apologize to him. After I posted my

comment back to him on his Facebook page about

apologizing, I'm not going to open the email,

but I have. I have the Facebook notification

email saying, you know, Gents, it's on me. There's

nothing you could do about it. You know, as far

as I know, it's not causing any issues again

to Warner Brothers. I'm very sorry. And we're

very sorry, too. I mean, you know, we just thought

it was going to be one of those things where,

oh, Maurice LaMarche is playing Mr. Freeze in

Arkham Asylum 2. Right. And like he said, it

created a bug so it can't be bad. And at the

same time, he said he wasn't meaning anything.

He was just trying to answer a question and have

somewhat of an interesting answer. And to his

credit, he didn't do the voice. He knew that

there was a line there that he couldn't cross.

And I don't think anything bad has created more

buzz and hype for the game. Oh, exactly. Yeah.

I don't want to bring it up was just you know

for those posters out there that we're thinking

that we were being dicks or that we're being

mean nothing like that he's not upset at us we

didn't really do anything wrong but once we realized

what was happening it was beyond our control

there was nothing we could have done to stop

it yeah yeah exactly we could have taken that

part out of the interview and reposted it but

it had been out already for too long and too

many websites had a hold of it there was no way

we could The funny thing is, Steve mentioned

it in the GCRN update that we did that was posted

before. This episode will go up. The Maurice

LaMarche interview at that time was the most

downloaded off the website, off of GeekCastRadio

.com. It had over 1 ,000 downloads. And I'm not

saying that. I want it made clear. I'm not just

saying that because I mean, that's Steve and

I's website. That's our network's website. I'm

not saying that because I want to get the popularity

for the site and the network out there. I'm just

saying that because I am fucking shocked at that

number. And if you think about it, even if there

was an impossible, which is impossible, even

if there was a way for us to somehow get that

off, even if the video was no longer out there

for people to hear, people knew. So there was

nothing you could do about it. It would have

been posted that, yes, it was on the net. People

would have been just saying, while it was on

a video, the video is not available anymore,

but that doesn't change the fact that he is voicing

this person, blah, blah, blah. But even if you

put the video out, we couldn't stop the word

of mouth, or the word of net, or the word of

however you want to call it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It's been a crazy week. Yeah, it's been a hell

of a week. For me, I've just been doing the usual

podcasting thing. We've got a backlog over at

Toycast, so I'm not really focusing on Toycast

right now. I'm focusing more on Beast Unleashed.

Steve and I just interviewed Ian Corlett, who

voiced Dr. Wily in Captain N in The Game Master.

He's mainly known for Cheetor from Beast Wars

and Beast Machines. But I didn't know if, I don't

know if you ever watch ABC Family. I don't know

if you ever watch that show, or not that show,

but that network. He is the announcer for them.

I never hear that. He was actually on my list

back when I was doing my top ten voice actors,

which three of those lists have been posted behind

the voice actors, three of my top ten lists.

I still have to finish doing the writing for

three of them. But he was actually in the consideration

for I believe my... I can't remember now if it

was the 80s or 90s male voice actors. He didn't

make the top ten, but he was in the run because

he actually did quite a few things in the, I

want to say, late 80s, early 90s. I think he

was also involved in Gummy Bears, possibly, and

a couple other things. All right. Well, we are

going to move on to the history lesson, and unfortunately,

because... Somebody's printer broke and his other

computer doesn't work. Kevin doesn't have a friggin

script this week. I'm off the charts here. Exactly.

So, Inspector Gadget is an animated television

series developed in a joint venture between France

and Canada and the United States about a clumsy,

simple, witted detective named Inspector Gadget

who is a human being with various bionic gadgets

built into his body. Gadget's arch nemesis is

Dr. Claw, the leader of an evil organization

known as MAD. This was the first syndicated cartoon

show from Deke Entertainment, as well as the

first from the company to be created specifically

for American viewers, along with the Littles

and Heathcliff and the Cadillac Cats. Yeah, whatever.

I don't know whatever. It originally ran from

1983 to 1986 and remained in syndication until

the late 1990s. The series was a co -production

between Deke Entertainment and now Cookie Jar

Entertainment. Ooh, Deke changed their name.

Wow. Yeah. Actually, if you look at some of the

DVDs that come out nowadays, you'll have the

little Cookie Jar logo at the bottom. Mm. That's

477. And Nelvana in Canada, the animation work

was outsourced to foreign studios such as Tokyo

Movie. Shincha in Japan and Coco's Nest Studio

in Taiwan. In 1999 it was adapted into a live

-action Disney film starring Matthew Broderick

as the title character and Rupert Everett as

Dr. Claw. So general memories on Gadget. I remember

this show a lot. This was one of them. I mean

this basically ran from one of the times when

I was I mean, this was my entire childhood, actually,

I should say, because, you know, you had your

preschool -ish cartoons, like I've talked about

numerous times on the show, like Smurfs and Care

Bears, et cetera. But starting in 83, and basically

going for the rest of the 80s, I mean, not a

lot of shows did that. And so it basically spanned

almost my entire childhood where it was actually

on TV. And, you know, I remember it a lot. I

watched the shows quite a bit. Unlike a lot of

shows that we've talked about in the past, if

you would have talked about, or that we talked

about recently, I guess, if you would have mentioned

Inspector Gadget and, you know, asked me what

I remembered from it, I could have told you all

the main characters. I could have told you some

of the minor characters. I could have, you know,

talked about the... some of the different gadgets.

I could have talked about some of the different

quotes and catchphrases. I mean, a lot of this

sticks with me. It wasn't necessarily my favorite

cartoon when I was growing up, but I just must

have watched enough of it where enough of it

stuck with me. And, you know, I have fond memories

of this show. I wouldn't say that it was even

in my top ten favorite cartoons of the 80s. It

might be one of the top ten best cartoons of

the 80s in retrospect though. And there's a lot

of a lot of good things about the show. Oh yeah.

For me, I remember watching it, but I remember

only catching it in bits. I never really... Now

I want to make it clear, I love this show, don't

get me wrong, but as a kid, in 83, 84, it was

He -Man and Transformers for me. And Voltron.

You know, I remember catching episode here, episode

there, and I really, really enjoyed it. I didn't

know then, but Agent 86, get smart, was Inspector

Gadget. And he should be, I don't, you know,

I know you guys over behind the voice actors

do voice compares, I don't care. Outside of Don

Adams and Maurice LaMarche, those should be the

only two compares you have. I think the thing

about And I mean, this is kind of going right

into voice casting and actor or characters, but

I think the thing that's interesting though about

this is going into the other people that did

his voice, because it was only one time shots

basically, you're hearing stuff that sounds so,

when you hear it the first time, it sounds so

bizarre and so ridiculous at first that it kind

of, it makes it almost more interesting. That

being said, I won't talk about the other one

quite yet, but talking about you brought up Don

Adams and Maurice LaMarche, I actually have a

hard time deciding which one I like better. And

that sounds weird because Don Adams basically

is Inspector Gadget, and that's one of the things

that made the show successful. And I'm not saying

this just because we just interviewed Maurice

LaMarche because there's other characters where

I like other people's tapes better on it, but...

I really like Maurice LaMarche's take on Inspector

Gadget, and that was probably a daunting task

trying to take over from Don Adams. Well, the

thing about the LaMarche Inspector Gadget voice

is that Maurice even said it in the interview

that we did, he is an imitator. He is a mimic.

So he pretty much mimicked Don Adams' voice.

When I played the two clips together, I almost

couldn't tell the difference. Right. Between

Adams and LaMarche. But because I remember Don

Adams doing it the most, or originally, that's

who I liked the best. Gotcha. Yeah. And maybe

we can move in just so people aren't aware. Inspector

Gadget basically did some things that make it

very unique. as far as the voice cast goes. But

you don't see from a lot of other cartoons. You

might find it in a couple other cartoons, but

you don't see it in a lot. Where they have multiple

versions of the pilot episode. And they actually

have three versions of the very first episode.

And that's where we're getting a lot of these

different voice actors. Because for all of the

cartoon, except for this pilot episode, it's

Don Adam. Right. But for almost every character,

had a different voice actor in the pilot. And

then what you have is, or maybe two if they're,

you know, changed that to it for two of the different

pilots. And then what you have is you have season

one which is in America. This is all recorded

in the United States. And like we kind of found

out with the Maurice LaMarche interview, which

I didn't actually know beforehand, is then once

you went to record in Canada, which is what Inspector

Gadget did with his second season, you had basically

quotas you had to fill of a certain number of

Canadian voice actors, which is a reason why

almost all Inspector Gadget was recast for the

second season. So you have a lot of different

things going on that provide three, four, five

different voices for these main characters, and

it makes it kind of interesting to me now in

retrospect going back to watch it. Yeah. You

know, I have to say, moving on to, moving on

to Penny, I listened to several of the voice

clips. I think I like the Kreese summer version

the best. And see, Penny, Penny for me, I mean,

I'm kind of combining voice acting with characters

here. Penny, if you would have asked me about

Inspector Gadget before I rewatched any of the

episodes, before I listened to anything, you

know, voice wise, whatever, if you would have

just asked me blindly, which was my favorite

character of the old Inspector Gadget, I would

have told you Penny. Because for some reason,

my memory makes her, I don't know, better than

she actually is. I just remember her being my

favorite character when I was a kid. I remember

it very clearly. And then I go and I listen to

all the different people who have done Penny,

and just so you're aware, Mona Marshall did her

in the pilot episode. The first version, pre

-summer takes over for the first whole season,

and then Holly Berger does her voice in the entire

second season. And when I listen to all three

of them, I'm like... Was there another person

because none of those to me you sound like I

have it in my head as how penny sounded and And

that's it's kind of a bizarre feeling when you

have this person that's somewhat memorable and

you remember a lot about them And then you hear

all the people that did it and you're like none

of those are the one I remember in my head Yeah,

I was like that at first as you know as well,

and I I kept listening to Cree's version and

I was like okay. That's penny. Yeah I'm not saying

this about the actual voice actors because they're

all good voice actors. I can't stand Mona Marshall

in the pilot and I'm glad they switched out of

that one. I actually don't like Kree Summers

though nowadays. I probably liked her best back

then but for some reason I like Holly Berger

a little better now. But I think they're both

good. I think they're both good takes on it.

seem like the one i remember in my head but i

i think they're both the fact that i think uh...

the voice acting over on this cap and then the

show is strong even though there are some weird

examples of stuff out there and uh... i think

we should go back to perfected to uh... inspector

gadgets because i do want to mention the other

guy uh... it because it because it's hilarious

if you go on youtube or whatever video service

you use You can find it under a couple different

names. Basically, the first two versions of the

pilot are called Winter Olympics. And it's kind

of, if you do a search for Inspector Gadget Winter

Olympics, you'll probably find them both, or

you can search for them by the actual names,

which is, I'm forgetting the names of the two

guys that did it right now. Gary Owens and somebody

else. Gary Owens and another guy. But you can

find them, and then if you do another search

for Sometimes it's called Gadget in Winterland.

That's the actual third version of the first

pilot. And the third version, from what I hear,

is almost impossible to find. The reason the

first two versions are easy to find is because

one of them was included on the American DVD,

and the other one was included on the Australian

DVD. So those two are out there because they're

actually on DVD, whereas the third one which

is the one that they actually used on when they

started the seasons. It didn't air as the number

one episode, it aired much later in the season.

But the third one's the one they used, but you

can't find that one on DVD. And it's even said

that on that one that they re -dubbed some of

Inspector Gadget's lines using Frank Welker.

which would bring another person that did Inspector

Gadget's voice, which is just insane. But the

reason they were doing that, because if you watch

this pilot episode of Inspector Gadget, the first

thing you'll see is you'll be like, what? Because

Inspector Gadget has a mustache. Yeah. We can

talk about that more once we get to the actual

show, because the three versions, the differences,

they are listed. OK. So we'll get to why Frank

Walker was used to dub over some of those. But

I don't know. The first guy that did Inspector

Gadget was a, you know, Gary Owen did it in a

very deep British accent, and it sounds really

weird when you see Inspector Gadget and you hear

that voice, because you all recognize Inspector

Gadget as Don Adams' voice. So it sounds super

funny when you hear it. You're like, is this

some internet spoof? Like, did someone, and in

most of the YouTube videos, that's what almost

all the comments are. This is a spoof, this is

made up, good editing, blah, blah, blah. It's

like, no, this is real. The second guy basically

tried to do a Don Adams impression, and then

the studio figured, why have someone trying to

sound like someone when we can have the actual

person? That's where it went with Don Adams.

I just wanted to get that out there so everyone's

clear. Yes, um, and virtually the only character

in the entire series from all the changes out

of all the seasons and pilots and everything

else, the only character that never got changed

was Brain the Dog. Of course, because it's a

dog. Oh yeah, but Brain was almost human -like,

come on now. I was just saying, who else does

animal voices? Besides, of course, Frank Welker.

Well, yeah. I'd say that Mad Cat was Frank Walker

throughout the entire series. Yeah, but Mad Cat

didn't talk. Mad Cat didn't say, rah. Yeah, that's

true. I will say that I was watching, this is

not what we're covering in this episode, but

I was watching some episodes of, I don't know

what year this came out, but Gadget and the Gadgetini.

I just had to bring that up because in one of

the episodes I watched, Penny actually gave Brain

a device that he puts around his neck which gives

him the power to talk. I thought that was awful.

Brain starts talking and it's like, I'm like,

no, that's not what his voice should sound like.

But you can probably find it out there. I have

no idea what the episode is called, but it's

kind of interesting. But yeah, Brain is kind

of consistent throughout, so that's kind of a

cool thing. And I will say that Brain nowadays,

Even though Penny was my favorite character growing

up, Brain is my favorite character re -watching

that. Oh yeah. I don't even like dogs, but I

love Scooby -Doo, I love Brain. Brain is just,

he's like a master of the skies, he's probably

one of the smartest people in the entire show.

He brings a lot of comedy to it. He brings so

much to that show. He's not your typical side

character. He's not an oracle from He -Man. He's

not a snark from Thundercats. He's a legitimate

player in this show and he brings a whole lot

more than just comedy to the show. Oh yeah. And

speaking of comedy to the show, we have Chief

Quimby who is actually voiced by Dan Hennessey

then Maurice LaMarche. I went back over to BBTA

and I listened to the Hennessey one and honestly,

I I said in the Maurice LaMarche interview that

I remember the other guy. Now, going back to

it, I have to retract that statement. I actually

remember Maurice's voice as Quimby better. Yep,

and I agree with that 100 percent. That's the

voice. And I was curious on that one because

I saw the two people and I'm like, I wonder which

one is the one I remember. And the thing about

Chief Quimby is the three, and actually John

Stevenson, who is a super famous voice actor,

did him in the pilot episode, the first version.

But these three people did completely different

takes on this character. Which isn't surprising

because when you have a chief character you can

kind of get a lot of different takes on it. John

Stevenson has, throughout all the classic cartoons,

Hannah Barbera and stuff like that, he's almost

always the chief or the general or some type

of a story position person. So you will very

much recognize his voice. The one he uses for

Chief Crimby is no different than the one he

uses for some of these other characters. But

I'm with you. I remember the Maurice LaMarche

character voice a lot better than I remember

the Dan Emerson one. Yes, very much so. And honestly,

the only two villains we're going to talk about

is the only two that really matter, Dr. Claw

and Mad Cat, because I'm looking down the list

here. I don't remember any of these damn villains.

And most of them never had names or anything,

they're just his henchmen. Oh no, they all have

names. In season 1 they all have, actually season

1 and season 2 they all have names. Oh, I'm talking

about Dr. Claw's actual henchmen, maybe not that.

You might have a list of other villains, but

there was actual henchmen that Dr. Claw used

that were never named in the series, but they

were named... by the production staff or the

people behind the scenes in order to keep them

straight. And you can go on IMDB and see what

all their names are. They're all named after

people. But yeah, Dr. Klaue is basically the

only villain that matters in my opinion. So Dr.

Klaue, who is the main antagonist of the series

and movies, he is the leader of the evil organization

known as MADD. He speaks in a deep, menacing,

ominous sounding voice. In his face, the majority

of his body are never shown throughout the series.

Only his arms and gloved hands are visible. Thank

God both of his hands were gloved. He is usually

at a computer terminal where he monitors his

various schemes, often in a creepy old castle.

Even though he is aware of gadget stupidity,

he believes the inspector to be the greatest

nemesis, never fully realizing that it is actually

Penny and Brain. who foil his plots in each episode.

Although he or his mad agents have captured Penny,

and sometimes Brain, a number of times. He is

voiced by Frank Walker, and in a few episodes

in the first season by Don Franks. It's F -R

-A -N -C -K -S, which makes no sense. I don't

care that this other guy was voicing him. Partly

in season one, Frank Walker is Dr. Claw. Oh,

of course. End of story. This guy voiced him,

Don Franks voiced him in four, I believe it was

four episodes of the show when Welker was obviously

too busy, imagine that, to record. And, I don't

know, the first time, I know he was trying to

do his best Welker imitation, I guess, or impersonation,

but it makes those four episodes really hard

to watch because it is no contest here. you want

to hear Frank Welker as Dr. Klaw. And for those

of you that have never heard this, first of all,

shame on you and go buy the DVDs or watch them

somewhere. But Dr. Klaw is very similar but not

the same. I don't care how many people tell me

it's the same. It's not the same as Soundwave.

Alright, alright, hold on, hold on. It's slightly

different. Hold on, hold on. In Transformers

Revenge of the Fallen, it was announced that

Soundwave was going to be in the movie and then

it was announced that Frank Welker was going

to do the voice and everybody from Timbuktu to

Timbuk3 speculated and speculated whether or

not they were going to use a vocoder for Soundwave.

Soundwave does indeed sound a little bit like

Dr. Claw. Not as much. The only reason why I

kind of forgive it is because of the simple fact

that obviously Mr. Welker is older now. When

he was doing Dr. Claw, that was almost 30 years

ago. 30, 40 years ago. Something like that. Something

to that effect. But I can see why people would

draw that conclusion. That it is just the Dr.

Claw voice as Soundwave. And a lot of people

got pissed about it. Honestly, for that movie,

I think it works. I don't even think it sounds

exactly like it in the movie. Right. No, no,

no. What I'm saying is when I say I think it

works, I think it works for the Soundwave movie

character as far as that voice. Whether it's

the old Dr. Claw or not, it's slightly similar

to it. It's not the exact thing, but it is slightly

similar. And I would say too, and for those of

you that... want to maybe give Welker grief because

you're saying he did his Soundwave and Transformers

the cartoon the same as he did Dr. Klaue and

Dr. Gadget. I don't think you can say that because

number one, he knew that there were vocal effects

being added to Soundwave. So in a sense that

he knew that was going to be a different sounding

voice. I would actually argue that Dr. Klaue

sounds more like Welker's super friend's character

or whatever you want to call it. Darkside. I

think Darkside and Dr. Claw actually sound more

similar than... sound way than Dr. Claw. But,

you know, it's all similar types of voice. Frank

Walker does a good menacing deep voice, but he

also does most other voices. So this is just

one of his iconic voices. Yes. And then, of course,

his feline friend Mad Cat is Dr. Claw's fat pet

cat. Mad Cat is always at Dr. Claw's side, usually

curled up next to Claw's control panel. Mad Cat

serves as a foil for Dr. Claw, often being petted

when Dr. Claw is happy, to the point of getting

beaten up when Dr. Claw gets angry. Mad Cat talks,

quote -unquote, in cat sounds. Mad Cat has an

evil hissing laugh. He is voiced by Frank Walker.

Imagine that. Yes. Um... Yeah... always I don't

know I'm gonna have I I wish eventually somehow

the whole series both seasons plus the pilot

episodes could be on DVD I know that there is

one DVD set out for it but I'm actually gonna

hold off on trying to get it because I want to

see I don't I don't want to I don't want to be

one of those oh I gotta have that and then a

year later oh here's the complete series you

bastard So I'm doing that with He -Man and Thundercats,

too. Well, see, I already have He -Man and Thundercats,

so I've had those for a couple of years now,

so I'm okay with... I have the first volume of

each one, but I'm not buying anymore because

I want to wait for the whole thing. Yeah. As

far as the other villains, who cares? Mad Cat

and Dr. Clow were the only two villains that

really mattered. Just really quick before we

move on, just listing off some of the voice actors.

Obviously Don Adams, Frank Welker, Chris Summer,

Dan Hennessey, who was in the pilot there, Maurice

LaMarche is the chief. Who else is in this? I

will mention another character we haven't mentioned

yet, even though I hate the character. Yeah,

Corporal Kaepman. I can't stand him. I don't

know if I could stand him as a kid or not, but

the few episodes I've watched today, or not today,

but leading up to this record that had Corporal

Kaepman in it, I really didn't care for him that

much at all, but he did have a pretty famous

voice actor. Well, Townsend Coleman, which actually

it's funny, I forgot all about this. I had listened

to the Moonbase 2 podcast. which is a UK based

Transformers podcast with David Wallace and I

think it's Cobra Commander TFW I don't know it's

Cal Prime and Cobra Commander TFW I don't know

whatever they interviewed Mr. Coleman and you

know he was telling a story of you know being

in a voice session for Gadget you know and he's

like oh I got Don Adams on my left and I got

Maurice LaMarche on my right and here's me and

I'm just like oh wow you know or something something

similar to that reaction um but yeah you know

honestly i'm not recognizing a lot of these other

people um do you remember the character kit corporal

kitman at all no okay he was basically he had

yeah i was at a cape and he was more he looked

like it i don't know how i could come like a

retarded 19 year old or a teenager, early 20

-year -old, I don't know what age you're supposed

to be, maybe late teenager, but just a retarded,

annoying character, and I apologize for using

the word retarded down here, but that's the best

way I can describe him. Yeah, I saw the screen

cap that was in the article here of the model,

and yeah, no. And basically, he sticks around

Inspector Gadget most of the time. And the two

of them together, it just seems stupid to me

because you already have Inspector Gadget, who

is basically a bumbling fool. Yeah. Who isn't

very smart. I mean, he's super optimistic, which

is really great. And that's one reason why a

lot of people like Inspector Gadget, because

he's always looking at the better side of things

and, you know, everything about his goals. But

you already have a kind of a bumbling idiot.

And then you add annoying bums. and a retarded

idiot next to him, and I didn't care for it.

I just liked a better one. I was just playing

off of anyone's brain. Yeah. You know, I agree

with you. So moving into the behind -the -scenes

segment here, you know, the Inspector Gadget's

gadgets were the most unusual aspect of the show.

Although they are central to his character, they

rarely actually do him any good. Uh, just some

of the most common ones were the binoculars,

the gadget brella, the gadget coach, the gadget

copter, the gadget cuffs, go -go gadget hands,

legs, arms, neck, uh, top secret gadget phone,

gadget skates, and gadget springs. Um, he had

a whole bunch of other ones that, he had a gadget

respirator. What the hell? I don't know if you

have the list there now, but basically in total

it's reported that he had 13 ,000 built -in devices.

But I think that's one of the things that I remember.

Saying the word the GoGo Gadget is just part

of... At least in my world, it's part of everyday

vocabulary. If you're in a traffic jam or something,

I've said to people before, oh, we need our Go

-Go Gadget wheels or whatever. Or if I'm sitting

somewhere and someone asks me for something that's

out of my reach, I'll be like, oh, Go -Go Gadget

arm or something like that. That's just something

that's common, because if you grew up in the

80s, you will get that reference. Oh, yeah. That

is the most referenced thing about this show,

is the Go -Go Gadget line. Um, the Gadgetmobile.

I love this, this is so awesome. Similar to his

body, Gadget's car, the Gadgetmobile is also

fully loaded with seemingly limitless arsenal

of gadgets. It has all of the cliched features

of any fictional crime fighting vehicle. Such

as the Batmobile, or the Mach 5, or James Bond's

car, or Kit from Knight Rider, for instance,

including a smoke screen, a siren, a laughing

gas, referred to as hilarious gas, The ability

to drop trail of tacks to blow up pursuing vehicles

tires, ejector seat, glue rockets, and a claw

on the front referred to as the gadget claw.

That's kind of weird. What the hell? The gadget

mobile seems to resemble a Mark 2 Supra, a Mitsubishi

Starion, similar style car with vents behind

the window. or a Brooklyn SV -1. A Supra makes

a cameo in the Inspector Gadget film even though

in the film the Gadget Mobile was changed to

a Lincoln Continental. What the hell? Do we want

to talk about Penny and Brain's gadgets? She

just has a computer book, which I guess was cool

back then, but... She was ahead of her time actually.

She had the wristwatch, computer book thing and

everything and you know nowadays everybody carries

one around. You know, it can be a cell phone

or your iPad or whatever you want to call it.

But she was definitely ahead of her time with

that. I will say that since we were talking about

some of the stuff that's involved and what brought

it to my attention was when you said this car

is basically a mixture of every cliched thing

that had ever been used in a superhero thing.

uh... and at the time behind the scenes but uh...

andy hayward which is the basically the president

of the enterprise at the time uh... where to

get comes full circle because andy a word with

someone who we and happy have mentioned multiple

times in the show especially when we're doing

our hand about their spot because the any here

and you would be able to staffer and over there

and uh... what he did basically for inspector

gadget if you want to combine all the elements

that had appealed to him from his work at Hanna

-Barbera, so all those classic cartoons, his

own toys as a child, the three Stooges, and then

the Scooby -Doo kind of bumbling heroics thing.

He was trying to combine all that, so that's

where you get some of these, that's why you have

13 ,000 contractions in Inspector Gadget, that's

why you have this gadget mobile that has all

these different things from other... shows that

you might be able to pick up on it, because he

was basically just trying to combine all of this

stuff into something that he could, you know,

use that detail as a successful show. Yeah. The

last thing we're going to talk about before we

move on to the actual show is, of course, the

three versions of the pilot, as you mentioned

earlier. In version one, we have the first had

Gary Owens voicing Inspector Gadget in a deep,

very sounding way, which the producers felt didn't

quite nail the character The version with Gary

Owens can be found on the Australian Inspector

Gadget, the original series box set. One DVD

set also has the intro, which differs somewhat

from the second version. In version 2, for the

second version, Jesse White voiced Gadget, this

time in a style sounding much closer to the voice

of Maxwell Smart, played by Don Adams of Get

Smart. One of the series inspirational sources,

the producers still weren't completely satisfied

with the voice. although eventually decided to

hire Don Adams himself rather than sound alike.

Adams began voicing the character from number

two Monster Lake. The version of the pilot episode

became one that was used to sell the rest of

the show and as the first one it had somewhat

unique intro with several scenes taken directly

from the episode rather than being all original

such as both the Gary Owens version intro and

the regular one. This version was first publicly

seen when Deke repackaged the series in the early

1990s and it carries the title Winter Olympics.

Originally, none of the episodes had their titles

displayed on screen. It can be found in the American

DVD releases on Inspector Gadget the Gadget files

and Inspector Gadget the original series. Version

3. When the entire series eventually made it

out onto the air in 1983, a lot of changes had

been made. The changes were so many, in fact,

that the pilot episode was no longer coherent

with the rest. The biggest and most obvious difference

being the inspector's mustache. This led to a

third sound version of the pilot episode being

made, with only one scene differing from the

second version. In the first scene, inside their

cabin, the Winterland Penny and Gadget have a

re -dubbed dialogue explaining that Inspector

Gadget's mustache is only a disguise for the

holiday. It has been rumored that Frank Walker

played both Penny and Gadget in this small redub.

Uh, okay, what? I wanna see that. If anyone can

find that somewhere out there on the VHS recording,

or I don't care how you can find it, if you can

find it, please, please, please let us know.

I want to hear that. Wait, wait, wait. He...

He played Penny and Gadget? How the hell? Which

would be awesome since he had already played

every other character on the show. I want to

see him pull that off, but what's interesting

is on the clip that's behind the voice actors

.com, the one I have set up for Jesse White.

I was listening to it because obviously Jesse

White's doing the voice in both of these versions.

The one that is completely... The one that's

on the American DVD and this one that's rumored

to have Frank Welker dubbed over it. And I was

trying to listen to it to see if I could find

that scene where he was at, but it's supposedly

really hard to find. But I swear that even in

the one that's there for Jesse White, there's

about three or four words, like one phrase that

he says that sound exactly like Frank Welker.

It's only Inspector Gadget, it's not Penny, and

it's something about when he says, Something

about I'm always, or I'm off duty. I'm completely

and utterly off duty. Somewhere around there,

I'm like, that sounds like Frank Welker. But

I know it's not that version because as you have

on the script there, it says that Welker was

used to explain away the mustache. And the line

that I think sounds like Welker does not explain

away the mustache. Yes. Really quick, going to

talk about the decline of the show because there's

so many changes from season one to season two.

The first season episodes were repeated during

the 1984 and 1985 season, with 21 new episodes

premiering during the second and last season.

Oh, and spec a gadget. From September 1985 to

February 1986, making an 86 and all, several

significant changes were made to the established

formula in the cheaper episodes in the second

season. In the second season, a few episodes

were re -divided into threes, i .e. three episodes

in a row sharing the same general theme. and

often same villains. Boo. Evil henchmen have

recurring roles, appearing in as many as three

episodes in a row, and more often than not, not

even being arrested after their final appearance.

Boo. The crime would increasingly be stupefied

down to Mad just trying to get rid of Gadget.

Okay, whatever. The Gadget team moved into a

high -tech house filled with many gadgets where

few of the episodes were actually located. Oh,

Christ. Yeah. Anyway, there's a ton of these.

You can go to Wikipedia and look up Inspector

Gadget and you'll find these in the article for

that. I will say, though, that I must have watched

the second season more, though, because I remember

Holly Burger as Penny. I remember Maurice LaMarche

as Chief Plumby, so I must have watched more

of the second season then. even though the first

seems like it would have been better. Yeah, I

don't know. We did also miss one thing on the

pilot that was different than the regular show,

which is the pilot as Inspector Gadget for the

first time ever claimed to be off duty because

there's one of his recurring quotes in the regular

show to say he's always on duty. And also you

have some examples in the first pilot episode

where Inspector Gadget is actually a competent,

smart individual. There's a scene, for example,

where there's one of Madd's agents throw some

oil on the snow hill or whatever and Inspector

Gadget uses his device to, you know, he somehow

knows it's going to be there and he avoids it

and he does a couple other competent things which

usually in a show would never happen. Although

these differences lessen parts of the repetition,

many of the stories were far weaker and thinner

in content and structure than those of the first

season, and the animation visibly cheaper. The

full reason for the show's cancellation is still

unknown. I don't even really want to list off

any of these people that I got as far as the

writers and directors, because the only one I

really recognize is, as we said before, Andy

Hayward. So going into the actual show, Gadget

works as an inspector for the Metro City Police

Department. His missions often take him to different

exotic locales, generally without giving any

explanation as to how a crime on the other side

of the earth would be of any interest to or even

within the jurisdiction of the City Police Department

like the Metro City Police, which included one

episode solving a rash of disappearances in the

Bermuda Triangle, which turned out to be another

mad plot. Although there are rare exceptions,

most every episode of the first season follows

a standard plot with little variation. Many of

these elements were tinkered with in season 2.

Quimby gives Gadget a mission on the self -destructing

sheet of paper as Gadget reads the message, his

eyes dark back and forth, while sound of a typewriter,

fax machine, or camera's shutter in servo mode

is heard in the background. Often Penny and Brain

are near Gadget and listen to what he reads.

A few times, Brain listens by himself. Very rarely,

Penny listens by herself. Occasionally, neither

one of them listens to what Gadget reads. The

last line of the message always reads, this message

will self -destruct. They spoke of the exploding

taped messages from Mission Impossible. I'm not

gonna really read all this crap. Yeah, there's

a bunch of changes. That's all I gotta say. In

Season 2, there's a ton of changes. Holy crap,

there's twelve listed here. Wow. Okay. I will

say though, because it's something we didn't

say, that the whole message of self -destruct

is obviously a classic thing that most people

that watch Inspector Gadget will remember. Yeah.

The funnier thing to me is not that the message

always self -destructed and that it was always

Chief Climby who blew up. The funniest part of

that whole bit that they used over and over to

me is the fact that the Chief would go out of

his way to be in a disguise and be like a foot

away from Gadget in order to relay him a message

on paper that he could have easily just told

him and I loved that. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, why

did he ever just tell him the message? He has

to deliver him the note and then get blown up.

Well, you know what's funny is, since we are

on the actual show, it's funny that you bring

that up because, and it's funny that they say

he works for the Metro Police. I don't think

so. I think the Chief and Matt, this whole show

seems CIA to me. CIA versus, I mean, you could

almost... substitute the CIA for Gadget and the

Chief and Russia for Dr. Klaue and Mad, almost.

I just love the disguise that he shows up in,

it's awesome. Oh yeah. Yes, poor Chief Quimby.

Moving into the music segment, again, wow, Shuki

Levine and Ham Saban did the music for this show.

The theme music for the show was composed by

Shuki Levi. Levi has had a long -running partnership

with his friend Haim Saban, with Levi composing

the music and Saban running the business. Their

records company, Saban Records, now Saban Music

Group, has provided music for many Dika cartoons

and children's shows in the 80s and 90s and is

still running today. 1984's the show, the rap

artist Doug E. Fresh has used and refrained several

stanzas of the theme. In this turn it was re

-released during the dance club scene for 1991

movie New Jack City. Most of the background music

cues are some sort of variation of the Gadget

melody. Even at festivals or dances in the cartoon,

the Gadget theme is usually played. There is

a soundtrack, a soundtrack LP to accompany the

series named Inspectour, like, you know, it's

European, the Inspectour Gadget Bendy Originale,

whatever. was released in France in 1983 by Saban

Records. The LP is extremely rare. The soundtrack

features the following tracks, Inspector Gadget

with French vocals, Penny Steam with French vocals,

Brain the Dog the song with French vocals, Gadget

on Mars, Ghost Mad, Art in a Museum, Gadget in

Japan, Chocolate Factory, Rodeo. There's basically

22 tracks on it. I just want to say, I do have

to say that, you know, even with all this other

music, for Inspector Gadget, the only music that's

important is the theme song. Oh yeah, oh yeah.

The theme song, it's not, I wouldn't say it's

not in any of my top ten lists, but it is one

of the most iconic 80s theme songs out there,

and everybody knows Inspector Gadget's theme

song, or should know it. Yes. Oh boy. There is

a parody of it. In 2006, for the first time in

22 years, Chris Summer and Frank Welker reprised

their Inspector Gadget roles for the animated

sketch show Robot Chicken. In a segment of the

episode Adoptions and Option, the parody was

based on the 1983 original series with Dr. Claw

and Brain voiced by Frank Welker and Penny voiced

by Chris Summer. Gadget himself was voiced by

Joe Hanna. Don Adams died in 2005. Oh, sad. Um,

with a brief appearance of Chief Quimby voiced

by Seth Green. They couldn't get Maurice for

that? Come on. Sure they could have. Yeah, anyway.

Oh, Kevin will love this. In January 2009, IGN

named Inspector Gadget as the 54th best in the

top 100 best animated TV shows. Should be higher.

Yes. I agree. This is my justification for that.

I'm not just saying that because I'm an 80s child.

I'm not just saying that because this is a show

I grew up on and watched. This is another one

of our historically significant shows. Just like

when we talked about a couple of Hannah Barbera

shows. We had Jabberjaw, which is a show that

made Frank Welker. We had Huckleberry Hound,

which is basically the show that launched Hanna

-Barbera for all intents and purposes. There's

no arguing this fact. There's no other show that

you can say this about. This is the show that

made Beak Enterprises. Oh yeah, no doubt. This

is what made Beak at the time in competition

with Hanna -Barbera and Filmation. Those were

the three at this point. You obviously Warner

Brothers is doing its own thing, but as far as

like straight up cartoon producers, it was Handover

and Filmation until Inspector Gadget came out

and then Deep was a player and to me that means

that this is one of the top 50, if not top, I

don't know, 30 cartoons of all time. I mean it

made one of the most successful production companies

a player in the game. Oh yes. There are DVD releases.

The only one that really matters is Inspector

Gadget, the original series four disc DVD set,

collecting the first 22 episodes released in

North America. On April 25, 2006, by Shout Factory,

there are errors in the box concerning which

episodes are on each disc. The last episode listed

on each disc is actually the first episode on

the next disc. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

would later acquire the rights to the cartoon.

And the special features on that set are a retrospective

look at Inspector Gadget with Andy Hayward, the

Deke Chairman, and Mike Malami, the Deke Chief

Creative Officer, original art galley, and original

sketch of Inspector Gadget done by a recent contest

winner as seen on Boomerang. And there are other

versions, other DVDs out there. Why the hell

does Australia always get the good shit? Vector

Gadgets, the 25th anniversary collection, 9 -disc

box set released in Australia by Magna Pacific.

On November 5th, 2008, this release contains

the first 64 episodes from the original series,

Season 1. What the hell? Yeah, and I have the

Gary Owens pilot. Okay, so last thing we're going

to talk about before we go to a quick break here

is the live -action movie. A live -action movie

version starring Matthew Broderick as Inspector

Gadget and Rupert Everett as Dr. Claw was released

in 1999 by Walt Disney Pictures. I actually saw

this in theaters. I'm sorry. Alright, come on

now. Come on now, it's not as bad as some of

the other live action adaptations of stuff. I'm

sure it's better than Underdog. Oh yes, very

much so. I still refuse to watch it. It might

be good, it might be good. There's a big difference

between 1986 and 1999. but basically take Ferris

Bueller, put him in a trench coat with a hat,

and give him gadgets. The reason I won't watch

it though is because I will not be subjected

to anybody else as Dr. Kraw than Frank Wilkins.

I agree, and honestly it's been so long since

I've seen it that I don't really remember how

Rupert Everett's version was, but... One of the

reasons why I like it was because they actually

got someone fairly decent to represent Gadget,

which was Matthew Broderick. No, I have no problem

with that. I think that's a good choice. My problem

is, and I haven't seen it, so I don't know, but

I'm guessing that they show Dr. Klock's face.

I honestly couldn't tell you. I don't remember.

If they do, I don't know why you'd get Rupert

Everett if you're not going to show his face,

but that's my problem. I don't know. I just can't

stomach it so I can't watch. I don't want to

ruin anything. You know, I agree with you, but

like I said, I would have to see it again to

remember, because I don't remember. So we're

going to go to a little thing where the other

Kevin had called us back. You had posted, or

you gave a Kevin that's actually the host here,

had given the... the call out to the fans of

of what of their uh what were their favorite

hannah barbera cartoons and uh kevin the mystery

caller called in and left a message um on that

as far as what his uh his favorite one was so

you're going to hear that next and a few other

things and we will come back with the closing

we'll be right back after this Well, I called

in the response to your Captain Caveman episode

where you asked what our favorite Hanna -Barbera

cartoon is. And mine, I've got to say, is the

Jetsons, simply because I saw the most of it.

I mean, some of the classics like Yogi, Huckleberry

Hound, Quick Drummer, Quick Drummer Gruff. pretty

much mostly from our older siblings generation

by the time I was coming up a lot of stuff had

already been taken off the air so I just saw

so much more of the Jetsons and it ended up being

my favorite and also you know the theme song

is what really made it so memorable to me because

I was just one of those things that kind of fits

with you and I love the whole futuristic thing

that they have going with the cartoon and George

Jetson being my favorite character now on another

that's pretty interesting. Just thought I'd throw

that in there. Great show. Have a good day. When

I'm not ridding third Earth of Mum -Raw's evil,

I'm enjoying Tooncast with the other Thundercats.

This is Dr. Wily, and I will destroy Mega Man

while listening to Tooncast! More of my mouth

here, and when I'm not setting Mickey up, I like

listening to Tooncast! Whereabouts to Tooncast?

So, uh... 50 episodes! We're halfway done with

this show! Yay! You know, when I set out doing

this, we've had several schedule changes as far

as what the actual shows will be covering. We've

had several host changes. For the most part,

I think you've been back since episode 25, maybe?

I think. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, something

like that. um... but uh... you know we've had

several changes and stuff like that uh... you

know it always amazes me of of getting to uh...

like an important number like twenty five fifty

seventy five but this show is is halfway done

so we we've only got you know so much longer

so much more to go here uh... final thoughts

I just want to say, don't think that we don't

have some good stuff still to cover. We got a

lot to cover. Oh no, we got plenty of good stuff

to cover. No, no, no. I'm not saying, yeah. Yeah,

I'm not saying that we don't. If you haven't

heard your favorite cartoon, trust me, if it

was a notable cartoon in the time period that

we were talking about, you're going to hear it.

Yeah, for the most part. I don't know if this

person still listens. to the show but there was

a person on our forums on PredaconEmpire .com

slash Nexus called I think it was Justice Maximus

or whatever or something like that when I originally

I've actually stopped posting show schedules

on forums anymore because you know I I don't

want the backlash of oh my favorite shows not

on there always why is it taking so long Well,

Justice Maximus, unfortunately, because Kevin

needed more time, Cops is no longer episode 59,

it is now somewhere in the episode 70 range.

I do want to say though, the reason is because

now I, the second volume on DVD just came out

and I just wanted to have time to watch. No,

no, no, yeah. Yeah, no, I'm not saying anything

against you. I'm, I'm... He asked a while ago

about why is, why is Cops a year away. Well,

it's, it's still gonna be a little bit longer.

Do you have anything else you'd like? Oh yeah,

Final Thoughts on Gadget. Yeah, my Final Thoughts

on Gadget is, number one, it's one of the best

shows in the 80s. It's still watchable. When

I was watching it recently, I had no problem

watching it and still enjoying it, which a lot

of the shows are dated from that period and I

don't think are watchable. This one, at least

the episodes I saw, were still entertaining and

were not dated. So you can watch them, I suggest.

You know, it's not one that I would say you'd

have to have on DVD, but you should, if you're

a fan of cartoons and if you've never been exposed

to Inspector Gadget or if you're a fan from the

80s, you should look it up and watch a few episodes

wherever you can find them, like on YouTube or

all this or that. And if you're a big fan, I

have two suggestions. Number one, find the pilot

with Gary Owens because it'll blow you away.

It's so ridiculous. And number two, shameless

plug, go to BehindTheVoiceActors .com and let

us know what your favorite version of each character

is. That's my final thought. Good show. Yes,

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a fan? I have no idea where the hell the D came

from. Anyway, call the voicemail line and tell

us the show you're leaving your message for and

your name. 502 -526 -5821. We hope you enjoyed

this episode of Tooncast and wish you'll join

us next time when we will be reminiscing on...

Oh, Christ. The Care Bears. Ah, boy. For now,

I am TFG1 Mike with... Um, Professor Boss K -Dawg,

who from now on, since we're at episode 50, I

would like to say, from now on, you'll hear me

referred to as Optimus Solo. Okay. Saying thank

you for listening. Until next time. Sword of

Omens, give me sight beyond sight. I see a new

episode of Tooncast coming this week. you