Yet another short-lived spin off of Inspector Gadget, this time featuring the adventures of the bumbling inspector as a kid, known as Gadget Boy.Along with his assistant/nanny Agent Heather, and his roboticdog G9, theyfight crime and save the world from the evilvillainess Spydra.This series, created by DiC, premiered in 1995, part of a Saturday Morning block called Amazin' Adventures 2, and later aired on Toon Disney until around 2001. An educational series aired on The History Channel entitled Gadget Boy's Adventures in History in 1997 as well.
Animation Bump: Some of the episodes in the Adventures in History season are better animated.
Artificial Human: Thanks to some negative continuity, some episodes imply Gadget Boy to be this rather than Inspector Gadget in his childhood.
In fact, the first episode says that he was given the personality of a "perfect adult detective", implying that he's been programmed with Gadget's personality and intellect rather than just being Gadget when he was younger.
Badass Adorable: On rare occasions when he's actually competent fighting the bad guys, Gadget Boy can be this.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Boris, Spydra's talking pet vulture frequently speaks to the audience:
Spydra: My lovely cold-proof head sack keeps me immune to the uncommon cold!
Boris: (under his breath, to camera) And me immune to her ugly face!
Butt Monkey: Chief Stromboli. Even when Gadget Boy leaves him be, the guy can't go a minute without suffering an accident. Boris the Vulture is also this to some extent. Spydra abuses Boris all the time.
Catchphrase: "Zowzers bowzers!" is Gadget Boy's version of the Inspector's traditional "wowzers!" catchphrase. It's pretty tiresome. On the plus side, he's also prone to quotingMaxwell Smart's "would you believe..." and "missed it by that much."
Creepy Twins: Mulch and Hummus, Spydra's none-too-bright henchmen.
Expository Theme Tune: "He gets himself out of danger with some kind of gadget Dabble made".
Expy: Nearly all the characters are an expy of a main Inspector Gadget character: Stromboli is Chief Quimby, Heather is (an older) Penny, G9 is (a robotic) Brain, and Gadget Boy is... well, that's kinda obvious.
Mulch and Hummus even bear somewhat of a close resemblance to some of the recurring M.A.D. agents in Inspector Gadget.
Another episode that had the gang go back in Ancient Greece had Agent Heather go to a sauna for males so she can change and disguise herself as a man to sneak into the first Olympics. We do not see her changing, but we do hear many exclamations from the men in the sauna.
Large Ham: Spydra, who often speaks in alliterative dialogue.
Mad Scientist: Myron Dabble, creator of Gadget Boy. Okay, so he's not really mad, but hey, you've got to have a pretty odd mind to go and create a small child cyborg stuffed with hoard of elecronic equipment.
Monster Mash: In the episode "Gadget-Stein", Spydra goes back to Geneva in 1816 and forces Mary Shelley to create an army of monsters that oddly all resemble Boris the Vulture. The monsters are a werewolf, a skeleton, a centaur, a fat humanoid, a cyclops satyr, a Bride of Frankenstein-esque monster, a gorilla, a mummy, a Loch Ness Monster, and even Frankenstein's Monster himself.
Negative Continuity: It varies in every episode whether Gadget Boy is a cyborg and G-9 is a robot, Gadget Boy is a robot and G-9 is a cyborg, or if both of them are robots or cyborgs.
Talking to Himself: Maurice LaMarche, who voiced most of the characters in the series. The only recurring characters he didn't voice were Gadget Boy, Heather, and Spydra.
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