Line #19 Funny/InspectorGadget


1	Let's be honest. Pretty much ''everything'' in ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' is funny, so we've narrowed it down to these moments.
2	!!The Cartoon
3	* In the pilot, after he, Penny, and Brain are dropped out of a skiing gondola, Gadget summons his Gadgetphone out of his hat to complain about what had just happened.
4	-->'''Gadget''': I'm calling the maintenance department! This gondola probably hasn't been serviced for ''months''!
5	** Gadget's last bit of advice in the end of episode segment? "Never bring your dog to the ski slopes."
6	** Brain's instincts kicking in when Gadget attempts to throw away a torch made of dynamite, leading to an impromptu game of fetch that ends with Gadget proclaiming that he has everything under control right before it detonates in his hand.
7	* In the episode "The Boat", Gadget is falling rapidly from the sky after a seagull pops his inflatable trench coat.
8	-->'''Gadget:''' Go-go Gadget 'brella!\
9	''[A handcuff pops out of his sleeve.]''\
10	'''Gadget:''' Go-go Gadget copter!\
11	''[Flowers pop out of his hat.]''\
12	'''Gadget:''' Go-go Gadget '''anything'''!
13	* In the episode "A Star Is Lost," after Gadget telling her about his new assignment to protect rock star [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Rick Rocker]] from MAD, [[NotSoAboveItAll the usually calm and level-headed]] Penny [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUMWiGrmQQ briefly turns into a squeeing fangirl]], shaking Gadget by his collar to get him to take her with him.
14	** Mad Cat's reaction to the brainwashing record is also funny.
15	* Gadget acting drunk after someone drugs his soda in "A Race To The Finish," to the point where he starts doing donuts on the racetrack.
16	-->'''Gadget:''' Yoo-hoo! Look at me! I can do a donut!
17	** Here's another:
18	--->'''Gadget:''' ''[after the Gadgetmobile loses its rear wheels, causing him to go literally nowhere on the track]'' I'd better make an emergency pit-stop!\
19	'''Penny:''' [[SarcasmMode Good idea!]]
20	** Yet another: One of Claw's weapons is a smokescreen deployed from the rear. He tries to use it on Gadget, but Gadget ''clamps it shut'', causing the smoke to pour into Claw's cockpit. Thinking his foe is on fire, he then deploys the snow-gun. ''All while being blissfully unaware that it's Dr. Claw'' '''even though he's using the ''Madmobile'' in the race.'''
21	** Unlike most cases in the show, Penny spends the entire episode mirroring the audience's reaction to Gadget's obliviousness, growing more exasperated with each blunder almost to the point of CringeComedy. This would've been the episode where she snapped if she didn't have the patience of a saint.
22	* Gadget's horrifically bad attempt at flying a rickety airplane in "Photo Safari," starting with this exchange:
23	-->'''Penny:''' Are you sure about this, Uncle Gadget?
24	-->'''Gadget:''' No problem, Penny! The nice mechanic said any fool could fly this plane!
25	** And fly it he does. Upside down, sideways, through buildings and nearly into the ground, all before leaving the runway area. What really makes it hilarious it is Penny and Brain's shell shocked reactions, though - while Gadget's whistling and singing, completely oblivious to the danger they were just in as usual, Brain's freaking out and Penny frozen to her seat looking like she's having trouble not joining him.
26	*** Though the fact that he's able to fly a plane that's falling apart ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN (they live in the U.S., they're going to Africa) [[HiddenDepths says something about his piloting skills.]]
27	* From "Haunted Castle", Gadget's response to Penny noticing Brain seeming to be scared by the stories of ghosts is to use one of his hat-hands to tap Brain on the shoulder.
28	** The first thing Gadget does after rescuing Penny and Brain from falling off a cliff in the Gadgetmobile is to phone in a complaint about the quality of the roads.
29	** Gadget's response to a tennis ball rolling down a flight of stairs is to begin wondering if MAD is starting an evil tennis team. He then wonders how small the court is if it's in the tower.
30	* Don't forget [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gckb8VIDzg this scene]] from "All That Glitters"
31	-->'''Dr. Claw:''' You're supposed to be disposing of Gadget.
32	-->'''Mook:''' I've only got two hands.
33	-->'''Dr. Claw:''' What!? HOW DARE YOU!
34	** From the same episode, Gadget actually doing a good job making booby traps to protect the temple, only to watch helplessly as they end up ensnaring a bunch of innocent tourists.
35	* Most of Claw dealing with his idiot henchmen, but especially this from "Haunted Castle," after a backfiring trap sends a minion into the drip.
36	-->'''Dr. Claw:''' ''What were you doing in the moat?''
37	-->'''Henchman:''' Well... uh... Well, I... uh...
38	-->'''Dr. Claw:''' '''What happened to Gadget?'''
39	-->'''Henchman:''' Well, uh... I don't know, sir...
40	-->'''Dr. Claw:''' '''YOU DON'T KNOW? WHERE IS HE NOW?'''
41	-->'''Henchman:''' Well, I'm not sure...
42	-->'''Dr. Claw:''' '''''NEVER MIIIIIIIND!!!'''''
43	* Gadget getting offended at the beginning of "Ghost Catchers" when Penny tells him his gadgets have been surpassed.
44	-->'''Gadget:''' What's that you're reading, Penny?
45	-->'''Penny:''' I'm doing the research for my report on the history of computers. It says here that most of the gadgets the doctor put in your body have now been surpassed.
46	-->'''Gadget:''' '''Hmph.''' [[GoToYourRoom It's time for your bath, Penny]].
47	* Any time Gadget tries to teach Penny something but ends up messing it up and embarrassing himself instead.
48	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUgzigD_cgg This scene]] speaks for itself.
49	* The episode "Quiz Master" has a funny bit where a M.A.D. agent disguised as a bearded caveman in a stovepipe hat tries to waste Gadget, only for the bumbling detective to avoid the attack and say "Sorry, Mr. President".
50	* In "Weather in Tibet" Gadget is sent to the local temple with a phrase asking to be brought to Chief Quimby. The phrase really means "I'm taking over the Temple" and Gadget is promptly placed under arrest and makes things worse by trying to pull the local elder's beard off due to thinking he's chief Quimby in disguise.
51	* In "Birds of a Feather" Gadget being arrested by the museum security staff and when the curator says this is a tragedy, he say that he's fine before the annoyed man says he meant the stolen jewel.
52	* This exchange from "Gadget's Clean Sweep", when Thelma Botkin is about to travel to 19th century London to eliminate a pair of chimney sweeps who were Gadget's ancestors.
53	-->'''Dr. Claw:''' And as long as you'll already be there...
54	-->'''Thelma Botkin:''' Are there any souvenirs you'd like me to bring back?
55	-->'''Dr. Claw:''' The Crown Jewels. As a child, I yearned for them.
56	-->'''Thelma Botkin:''' You were a child?
57	* In the "Volcano" episode, Gadget's following Brain, who is disguised as a hula girl and gradually shedding the disguise. By the time Gadget finds the ''skirt'', the look on his face is absolutely priceless.
58	* The M.A.D. Agents mistaking the real Gadget for his robot duplicate in "Doubled Agent", especially when HilarityEnsues once the real Gadget asks the agents if they can stop for ice cream.
59	-->'''Henchman #1:''' Doesn't this thing ever shut up?\
60	'''Henchman #2:''' Don't ask me. I didn't build it.
61	* The second episode featuring the Great Wambini and the Lesser Wambini has the Lesser Wambini attempt to stall the rich pet owners at the phony séance by doing shadow puppets. When the Great Wambini hears the cops coming and drags his assistant with him to their escape, the Lesser Wambini is ''still'' doing shadow puppets and is apparently oblivious of what is happening around him.
62	* "The Infiltration" has Gadget confronting Presto Changeo, each insisting that he's the real Gadget. The real Gadget stands near Chief Quimby, and then Gadget's mallet activates by itself and bonks Quimby on the head. Needless to say, this helps Quimby SpotTheImpostor:
63	-->'''Quimby:''' ''[pointing at Presto Changeo]'' Arrest that man! ''[points at Gadget]'' This has '''got''' to be the real Gadget.
64	** Gadget's {{Leitmotif}} playing as Quimby says this makes it all the funnier.
65	** Gadget wondering how people keep seeing through his PaperThinDisguise.
66	** The end of episode safety tip has Gadget talking about the dangers of bad parking. He notices a van blocking the road, and criticises the driver. He has to be informed that it's the Gadgetmobile, and he can't remember parking there.
67	* In "The Pharaoh's Curse", Gadget handcuffs a mummy to himself, thinking it's a M.A.D. agent. He leads the mummy away, not even noticing the bandages unraveling and revealing empty air. When he finally turns around and sees a long bandage trailing behind him...
68	-->'''Gadget:''' So you slipped away. No one gets away from Inspector Gadget and gets away with it!
69	* In "Snakin' All Over", Gadget being the one putting up with the unjust suspicions of the crotchety old security guard.
70	* In "Down on the Farm", the MAD agents try to divert Gadget with long and false directions (take a right, then a left etc.") only for this to fail due to Gadget not waiting for actual turns, but simply counting going for one lane to the net every couple seconds as a right and a left. At one point he even wonders if he should turn straight.
71	* In "Gadget Goes West", after Rattlesnake Bart robs the bank at the beginning and is being chased by the sheriff and baker in a running shootout, it looks as if the sheriff's weapon is a pop gun.
72	* In "Dry Spell", Dr. Claw causes a drought, then sends his henchmen into town to sell water at inflated prices. On their way back, they're horrified to find out that each of them thought the other was collecting the money, implying they gave away all of that water.
73	* In "Bermuda Triangle", Gadget thinks that Dr. Claw's underwater base is another planet, and that the MAD Agents (and Brain) dressed in frogmen suits are space aliens. He tries to befriend the disguised Brain, and assumes that he's hiding in a big "wall safe", which is actually the seal keeping the ocean waters out. Gadget opens it, flooding and eventually destroying the base. Dr. Claw's reaction as he watches this is a combination of OhCrap and FreakOut, verging on a VillainousBreakdown.
74	-->'''Dr. Claw''': ''[[BigNo No, Gadget! NOOO!!!]]''
75	* By far the most hilarious of Dr. Claw's minions, however, has to be Macho Miguel from "The Emerald Duck". The guy is CMOF personified; he's [[LargeHam so flamboyant and over-the-top, he's laugh-out-loud hilarious every time he's in a scene]]. Some notable entries:
76	** [[https://youtu.be/5CGkN79-6sg?t=1m35s First scene.]]
77	--->'''Museum Receptionist''': It was first discovered in...
78	--->'''Macho Miguel:''' Arriba! ''[Mariachi band plays MM's theme.]'' It is I, Macho Miguel!
79	** [[https://youtu.be/5CGkN79-6sg?t=2m28s Making his escape with the Emerald Duck.]]
80	--->'''Macho Miguel:''' Viva MAD! Viva Dr. Claw! Arriba! ''[sprints out of scene, then comes back because the mariachi band isn't playing]'' Maybe you didn't '''hear''' me. I said, ARRIBA! ''[band plays]'' That's more like it!
81	** [[https://youtu.be/5CGkN79-6sg?t=4m15s Dr. Claw contacting Macho Miguel.]]
82	--->'''Dr. Claw:''' Dr. Claw calling Macho Miguel. Come in, Agent Miguel! Where is that idiot?
83	--->'''Macho Miguel:''' Arriba! ''[jumps into the scene on Claw's computer, along with his mariachi band.]'' Macho Miguel is here!
84	--->'''Dr. Claw:''' '''Enough, you fool!'''
85	** [[https://youtu.be/5CGkN79-6sg?t=7m7s After Dr. Claw orders him to get rid of Inspector Gadget.]]
86	--->'''Macho Miguel:''' And now, I make my Macho exit! Arriba! ''[runs into wall]'' Eh-yow!
87	--->'''Dr. Claw:''' Forget the theatrics, you fool! '''Just get Gadget!'''
88	** [[https://youtu.be/5CGkN79-6sg?t=9m56s Random attempt to kill Gadget, who thinks MM is helping him, as usual.]]
89	--->'''Inspector Gadget''': It certainly is a long way down...
90	--->'''Macho Miguel:''' Yes, '''isn't it'''! ''[pulls a lever releasing the ledge under Gadget, laughing]'' Adiós, Inspector!
91	--->'''Inspector Gadget:''' Wowzers! Go-go Gadget copter!
92	--->''[Gadget uses his helicopter to avoid falling, and Brain in disguise winds up falling with the ledge instead.]''
93	--->'''Inspector Gadget:''' I guess they don't make mountain ledges like they used to!
94	--->'''Macho Miguel:''' Santa Maria!
95	** [[https://youtu.be/5CGkN79-6sg?t=18m25s By far the funniest, Macho Miguel making his way to the pedestal that he can use the Emerald Duck on to activate the weapon Dr. Claw wants.]]
96	--->''[Macho Miguel finishes climbing the cliffside and stops to catch his breath.]''
97	--->'''Macho Miguel:''' Huh?
98	--->''[Mariachi band, standing on the cliff, starts playing MM's theme again.]''
99	--->'''Macho Miguel:''' '''How did you get—'''
100	* "The Japanese Connection" had some pretty funny bits:
101	-->'''M.A.D. Ninjas:''' Konichiwa, Gadget-san, but we are obliged to do away with you!
102	-->'''Gadget:''' Ah so!
103	** Later on in the episode:
104	--->'''Sumo Wrestler:''' Ohayou!
105	--->'''Gadget:''' Oklahoma!
106	* At the end of "Did You Myth Me", after Dr. Claw's plan to obtain a formula to turn lead into gold is ruined, we find out that he had gotten too ahead of himself and had begun stocking up on lead, and now his castle is filled with piles of huge lead bars! For extra hilarity, the M.A.D scientist who was leading the operation had discovered that the formula didn't turn lead into gold, just changed it to the color of gold, [[AllForNothing meaning that his plan was doomed from the start]], and Dr. Claw would've been stuck with tons of worthless lead either way!
107	* "[[https://twitter.com/marc_acrylic/status/1162008074711904256 This body is a finely-tuned instrument]], capable of amazing feats of strength." '''''SMACK!'''''
108	* In "Eye of the Beholder", the two TriadsAndTongs thugs attacking a practice dummy of Gadget (a punching bag thing) and it bouncing back and hitting them, at which option they say they hate him already. Their bugled efforts to attack him throughout the episode also count.
109	** Mad Cat's feud with Mr. Chow's dog in that episode.
110
111	!!Inspector Gadget's Last Case
112	* The running gag of Dr Claw using aliases such as [[PaperThinDisguise "Mr Claw" or "Senor Claw".]]
113	-->'''Gadget:''' Whom I expect could be our arch-nemesis, Dr Claw, using a clever alias!
114	* "I don't know the meaning of the word capitulate! However, I plan on looking it up."
115	** The brief ScoobyDoobyDoors sequence that occurs during the opening car chase, only for the Gadgetmobile to suddenly be alone in the street. There's a beat just long enough for Gadget to look around in confusion before the MAD agents speed past again.
116	** Gadget's reaction to Gadgetmobile hitting a pothole while he's trying to climb out using his Gadget Suction Cups. He ends up standing on the side of the door.
117	-->'''Gadget:''' Not a problem. [[CasualDangerDialogue However, the bus quickly heading towards me, is a problem.]]
118	** Gadget's response to Gadgetmobile's steering wheel coming off in his hands as they're about to crash into an oncoming truck? He throws the wheel in the backseat with a defeated expression.
119	* Once they find the transformation formula the agents dropped, Gadgetmobile calls Gadget out for claiming he's always said something he never has.
120	-->'''Gadget:''' It's just like I always say. Evil may run up a flagpole, but the law will never be caught saluting it.
121	-->'''Gadgetmobile:''' No, I've never heard you say that.
122	-->'''Gadget:''' That's because I just started. But I'll be saying it a lot from now on.
123	* The fact that Penny got a surprise cake for ''Gadgetmobile.''
124	* Quimby and Gadget argue about whether the message with Gadget's assignment says Dr. Claw wants to bring Metro City to its "keys" or "knees." Quimby snatches the message then admits it does say "keys" and grumbles about his new secretary's poor spelling. Then he reads the obligatory bit about the message self-destructing, and this time, it's his own fault, and not Gadget's, that the exploding message is right in his lap.
125	* Gadget threatens to [[TurnInYourBadge turn in his badge]] if the chief retires the Gadgetmobile. The Gadgetmobile asks how that turned out, and a flashback shows the chief furiously grabbing for Gadget's badge as Gadget extends his arms to keep it out of Quimby's reach.
126	* Dr Claw's evil laugh being interrupted when he realises MAD Cat has been shedding, clogging the joints of his claw. [[BrickJoke It happens again.]]
127	-->'''Claw:''' Again with the shedding?! I warned you!
128	** Dr Claw's fury at being interrupted in the middle of "an Anti-Gadget Rant", only for the MAD agent to inform him that his soap opera is on. Claw is then furious that he missed the start of it.
129	* Gadget gets trapped in a snowman by the Abominable Snowbot. After being upstaged yet again by Devon Debonair, his only response is "Go-go Gadget Carrot Nose." ''It works.''
130	* Gadget's reaction to learning that Devon Debonair is actually an alter-ego of Dr. Claw is to respond with "or vice versa" every time someone says it aloud.
131	** Penny makes the connection when she realises that the number on Debonair's calling card in Gadget's hatband is the same as the number one of Claw's lackeys had dialed to call him earlier.
132	*** Gadget's own response is an annoyed [[FailedASpotCheck "I'm still carrying that around?"]]
133	--->'''Gadget:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint You don't think it has cooties, do you?]]
134	* Quimby, angry over Gadget's continual upstaging at the hands of Debonair, is then bewildered that Gadget is hoping for a Crimie Award for Best Crimefighter, despite his job being on the line.
135	-->'''Quimby:''' What do you, of all people, need a tuxedo for?!
136	* After realising that Claw escaped with the transformation formula, Gadget immediately thinks he's taken Chief Quimby's form and arrests Quimby. After being fired and nearly destroyed, the newly reinstated Gadgetmobile is in no mood to help him out.
137	-->'''Quimby:''' You can run bioscans, voice comparisons! Prove I'm the real Quimby!
138	-->'''Gadgetmobile:''' Talk to the steering wheel, because the engine ain't listening.
139
140	!!Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever
141	* Gadget obliviously burns his passport, non refundable plane tickets and other documents while trying to juggle and grill at the same time.
142	* The explosion of Gadget's grill, causing his detached head to land right in front of Penny and Brain.
143	-->'''Gadget:''' The burgers are done. ''[a singed burger falls on his face].''
144	* * The mayor's MayorPain /{{Cloudcuckoolander}} introduction. First when Quimby arrives with urgent news, the mayor asks if the Martians are attacking city hall. The chief says no, and it's about Dr. Claw. The mayor is then sidetracked on a tangent proposing they make a museum of crime as a tourist attraction [[CrossesTheLineTwice and put Dr. Claw on display.]] When Quimby says they can't, the mayor cuts him off by saying he won't tolerate that word because "can't" is the first syllable of his least favorite food: cantaloupe. Then, Quimby starts to explains that claw has "escaped" but the mayor cuts him off before he finishes the word, musing that perhaps they are making a ''scape''goat out of Claw, but he deserves it. Finally, an exasperated Quimby makes it clear what has happened with a HurricaneOfEuphemisms.
145	-->'''Quimby:''' Dr. Claw has flown the coop. He has split the scene. He has left the building. [[SuddenlyShouting Dr. Claw HAS BROKEN OUT OF JAIL!]].
146	-->'''Mayor:''' Claw got away?
147	-->'''Chief Quimby:''' That's what I've been trying to tell you, sir!
148	-->'''Mayor:''' [[NeverMyFault Well why didn't you say so?]] Get Gadget on the case. And don't let the press get wind of this.
149	* Gadget driving to investigate the jailbreak only to drive into a huge smoking crater.
150	-->'''Gadget''': I could have sworn there used to be a jail here.
151	* When Gadget finds evidence of Claw's escape he takes it out of context. First he thinks a bomb fuse is a candle. Then, Gadget finds the diagram showing Claw's obvious escape plan and mistakes it for an obvious evacuation plan as Brain, tries to say "Claw! Claw!" to make him realize.
152	-->'''Gadget:''' My sentiments exactly, Brain. Raw raw for those clever safety engineers.
153	* When Gadget finds a dinosaur egg in the remains of the jail Claw escaped from, he takes it back to his headquarters and announces:
154	-->'''Gadget:''' I've captured Dr. Claw. He's disguised himself as a giant East Egg.
155	* A scan of the egg then shows a creature with a tail and wings. Gadget comments that it's a better disguise than he thought, while Loony the scientist explains that it's a dinosaur egg. Then suddenly the lizard inside the egg moves. Loony yells out that it's alive, but what does Gadget think?
156	-->'''Gadget:''' Claw is trying to escape!
157	* The dollar signs that appear in the mayor's eyes when he hears that there's a living dinosaur egg in his town.
158	* When Loony describes to Gadget how the lizard is a relative of the modern iguana, Gadget somehow takes that as a cue to go to the nearest pet store and place all of the iguanas there under arrest for criminal conspiracy, only to get knocked over while chasing them.
159	* The BaitAndSwitch moment where Gadget describes all of the evidence he's found of the egg theft (including seeing henchmen loading the egg into Dr. Claw's car) and it looks like he's ''finally'' going to have a DumbassNoMore moment as Penny and Brain lean in eagerly. Then he just ends up accusing the Mayor of the theft. When Penny tells him that any amateur detective would suspect Dr. Claw from that evidence, Gadget replies,
160	-->'''Gadget:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint That's just the kind of mistake an amateur would make, Penny.]]
161	* When Chief Quimby finds out the mayor invested the police retirement fund in the lizard tourism he asks what he was thinking. The mayor does seem abashed, but then it turns out that he's only worried because he forgot to come up with a name for the lizard themed hot dogs, asking where was his brain?
162	-->'''Chief Quimby:''' I don't know, sir. Saturn, or [[UranusIsShowing Uranus]]?
163	* The Gadgetmobile describes the mayor as having more problems than an algebra book.
164	* The mayor is repeatedly InnocentlyInsensitive when Loony is donating the concert tickets he was going to surprise Penny with to the egg ransom fund.
165	* After the egg is returned (right before it hatches and the lizard escapes) the Mayor tries to slip away with the ransom fund only for Gadget (who still thinks he stole the egg) to show up ands he wants to talk to the mayor about grand larceny.
166	* Dr. Claw's bomb maker suggests the lizard control device should have a self-destruct mechanism "just in case" and then simply proceeds to open up the control panel, shove an old fashioned powder bomb inside, and cram it shut again.
167	* The lizard snatches and eats the mayors' megaphone, and he thinks it was trying to eat ''him.''
168	* Gadget juggles pieces of metal the lizard eats and thinks it wants to do a juggling act with him.
169	* The lizard's reaction to hearing a mating call CD.
170	* Loony gets dragged on the mission to rescue Gadget when Penny thought he was volunteering and not asking her on a date.
171	* Claw's EvilLaugh when he finds out the lizard only eats metal and tries to get it to go after Gadget.
172	* Gadget hears Claw arrogantly describe his entire plan for world conquest, and somehow misinterprets it as taking the lizard on a world tour as a sideshow animal.
173	* At the end when everyone sees the bomb and they let out a scream, Gadget [[ComicallyMissingThePoint says their under arrest for disturbing the peace.]]
174	* One of Claw's men (who runs a souvenir stand) is shrunk and still pesters a kid for money at the end.

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