# Inspector Gadget the cartoon series **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2000, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253 "2000-08-14T04:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/1 "2000-08-14T04:46:41Z")
I used to watch this show all the time back in the 80’s. (NOTE:I haven’t seen the movie starring Matthew Broderick, and don’t care to either.) I have probably seen the entire series of toons about a dozen times over, yet the question remains… In the tv show, WTF _ **exactly was** _ Inspector Gadget? They never said. Was he 100% robot? Cyborg? Bionic man? Was he human at all? If he was ever at all human how did he become “gadgetized?” ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/2 "2000-08-14T04:50:46Z")
He was human, but with all these odd gadgets surgically implanted in his body. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/3 "2000-08-14T04:58:52Z")
Yep. I have a vague recollection of one episode involving the scientist who gave him his gadgets. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/4 "2000-08-14T05:32:49Z")
I think there might have been more than one episode, but, yeah, it’s just a vague memory. Now, does anybody remember Danger Mouse? ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/5 "2000-08-14T06:24:53Z")
Danger Mouse! I do! I do! ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/6 "2000-08-14T06:30:09Z")
Okay, now we have two for Danger Mouse, what about Banana Man? –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Sith\_Sheriff\_Brody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@Sith\_Sheriff\_Brody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sith_Sheriff_Brody)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/7 "2000-08-14T06:30:20Z")
I remember Danger Mouse. Used to watch Inspector Gadget, too. How about Count Duckula? -SSB ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/8 "2000-08-14T06:37:07Z")
I loved Count Duckula! ---
**Author:** ![Rescind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rescind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rescind)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/9 "2000-08-14T07:22:47Z")
I remember all those shows. Used to watch them all the time when I lived in England. I remember watching early morning cartoons…the good old days of Inspector Gadget, Danger Mouse, and Count Duckula. I never quite understood how Count Duckula and Danger Mouse were connected, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![astrangefish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@astrangefish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astrangefish)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/10 "2000-08-14T13:22:34Z")
I have recollections of all the above. Who remembers Mighty Mouse? ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/11 "2000-08-14T13:39:14Z")
Here I come to save the day!!! How about the Karate Kats? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/12 "2000-08-15T02:30:30Z")
Duckula? I thought it was Quackula; or was that someone else entirely? ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/13 "2000-08-15T02:34:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lumpy \* > \*\*Duckula? I thought it was Quackula; or was that someone else entirely? \*\* I believe the waterfowl superhero in question is: \*\* Darkwing Duck\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/14 "2000-08-15T02:48:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MagicalSilverKey \* > > I believe the waterfowl superhero in question is: \*\* Darkwing Duck\*\* \*\* No, no, no. Two seperate ducks. Darkwing Duck was a Disney creation while Count Duckula was British. Duckula’s show was on Nickelodeon. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/15 "2000-08-15T05:00:57Z")
YES! Banana Man! Whenever Eric eats a banana… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/16 "2000-08-15T05:12:28Z")
Duckula… Vague memories; he drank ketchup, correct? The things I missed by not having cable… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/17 "2000-08-15T07:53:36Z")
Count Duckula and Danger Mouse were both made by the same company, Cosgrove-Hall. As were Victor and Hugo, FantomCat, and Avenger Penguins. In one episode of Danger Mouse (voiced by David Jason, incidently), they encounter Count Duckula (who was voiced by David Jason also) when they needed one of his feathers to complete a quest. He was a very different Duckula to the one in his own cartoon series, though, so I suspect he was an ancestor. In the Duckula series, he was a vegetarian vampire, and had two retainers: Igor the manservant, who kept trying to make Duckula more vampirical, and Nanny, a huge woman (canary) who was accident prone and clumsily kept breaking things. e.g: SFX: ding dong Nanny: Oi’ll geddit, Duckyboos! Duckula: No, Nanny, no! SFX: Crash of door being ripped off hinges Nanny: Ooh. Now 'ow did that 'appen? Duckula’s enemies included Dr Von Goosewing, the vampire hunter, who believed he had an invisible servant called Heinrich (but in fact Heinrich had quit his job and Von Goosewing never realised). The other enemies varied, but recurring a few times were a group of burglar crows, and also two french police detectives Pierre and Gaston (whom the subsequent series of Victor and Hugo were based on). ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/18 "2000-08-15T18:01:03Z")
I **knew** I’d seen a “Quackula” somewhere. He was a minor character on the New Adventures of Mighty Mouse. Couldn’t find a picture, but here’s the link I found: [http://207.114.151.6/saturday/shows/synopsis/165.php](http://207.114.151.6/saturday/shows/synopsis/165.php) ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/19 "2000-08-15T18:23:54Z")
Oh, man! I never missed Inspector Gadget! I loved Bananaman and DangerMouse, especially the song…“Danger Mouuuuse, Danger Mouuuuuuuuse…” What was his sidekick, Penfold? Was he a mole? That’s what I always figured. ---
**Author:** ![Spider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Spider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253/20 "2000-08-15T18:56:17Z")
Holee crap do I remember Duckula! Guanolad, your dialogue was right on and brought it all back. I think Duckula was on sometime near the Laff-a-lympics (sp?) I was always a big fan of Underdog too, he looked like he was drawn by the same folks who did Mighty Rat. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspector-gadget-the-cartoon-series/29253.md?page=2)