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Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

The entire first season of Inspector Gadget is online at Hulu.

http://www.hulu.com/inspector-gadget-original-series

Posted: Jul 16 2009 05:30 pm

I hate inspector gadget. Even as a kid my inherent sense of justice and fairness made me hate this idiot for getting all of the credit for the crimes solved by a little girl and a stupid dog.

He's a disgrace to robotic detectives everywhere.

Posted: Jul 16 2009 10:04 pm

Jealousy much?! I also hated Inspector Gadget as a kid, it was just "meh" to me. There was so much better on, like My Little Pony and Care Bears.

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

Douche McCallister wrote:

Jealousy much?! I also hated Inspector Gadget as a kid, it was just "meh" to me. There was so much better on, like My Little Pony and Care Bears.

I was personally a fan of Eurekas Castle.

Posted: Jul 17 2009 01:37 am

blkplaguelmc wrote:

Douche McCallister wrote:

Jealousy much?! I also hated Inspector Gadget as a kid, it was just "meh" to me. There was so much better on, like My Little Pony and Care Bears.

I was personally a fan of Eurekas Castle.

Holy crap, I completely forgot about that! IT'S PICNIC TIME! Laughing

On the subject of Gadget, I never minded it, watched it when it was on but never sought it out. It does have an awesome theme song though, and the voice of Dr. Claw is classic.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

I watched a bit yesterday. It was terrible, how the fuck did I find that entertaining as a child?

Posted: Jul 17 2009 10:41 am

GPFontaine wrote:

I watched a bit yesterday. It was terrible, how the fuck did I find that entertaining as a child?

well, as kids we didnt know any better. and being on that sugar high from the cereal we ate in the morning didnt help

2011 SNES Champ Joined: Dec 04 2006 Posts: 1929

GPFontaine wrote:

I watched a bit yesterday. It was terrible, how the fuck did I find that entertaining as a child?

It's a kids show. What kids like never really makes any sense. I think it's better than more recent ones at least.

I watched it when I was like 4, and I really liked it, though it was mostly because it had a catchy theme song.
Now the song sounds stupid, but as a kid I didn't even understand half the lyrics, which made it sound much better.

Anyway, here's the french theme song :

Joined: Feb 16 2008 Posts: 832

the only time I'll ever care about anything on hulu is if all of the extreme ghostbusters shows up on it.

Posted: Jul 17 2009 05:40 pm

Ha, Nickelodeon used to show Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff back to back. Gotta love those DIC cartoons.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Yay for shitty cartoons. Maybe they will start showing "Wish Kid" next *Shudder*.

Posted: Jul 17 2009 06:59 pm

I always hated cartoons where the scatterbrain asshole prevails over people who actually use their common sense. Ah well, here's hoping for cool cartoons on Hulu in the future.

Joined: Feb 16 2008 Posts: 832

like extreme ghostbusters?

Posted: Jul 18 2009 02:11 am

Chile Guy wrote:

I always hated cartoons where the scatterbrain asshole prevails over people who actually use their common sense. Ah well, here's hoping for cool cartoons on Hulu in the future.

THIS

Posted: Jul 18 2009 02:18 am

I only watched it because I wanted to see Dr. Claw's face.

Posted: Jul 19 2009 05:00 am

Inspector Gadget sucked, I never liked it as a kid and only watched it because their was nothing else on in its usual timeslot. I liked Don Adams from Get Smart who did the voice of Gadget, but thats about it

As an adult I have came to realize alot of these shows we hold in such high nostalgic regard look so retarded or corny.
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Hey Dude- I loved this show as a kid, after watching it recently I have realized you had to be a kid to enjoy this show, it barely held my attention span for 5 minutes as an adult, and thats after trying to watch 6 or 7 episodes. The episode were full of bad acting, very corny and so stupid it was embarassing at times.

Salute your Shorts- While aging much better than Hey Dude, its not something that is as fascinating as it was as a kid. I could see Nick doing a remake and it being popular because its premise is entertaining if your a kid.

Pete and Pete- Honestly as an adult this show is still fun to watch, it has held the test of time. Memorable characters and a weirdness that is unique and interesting.

Guts- Actually knew a girl in Orlando who went on this show and is my age now(26). It wasn't great, but not shit either. Grouped in a long list of Nick Shows that I would call tolerable.

Eureka's Castle- For some reason I liked this show, don't know why.

David the Gnome- Richie's dad's voice got on my nerves, I just wanted every enemy encountered to eat David and his wife every episode so the show wouldnt come on again

Sharon,Louis and Bram= Good kid show for small children.

Rugrats- Interesting, yet I still have yet to figure out why

Doug- Roger FTW

Ren and Stimpy- Not entertaining on Nick, moved to MTV, still sucked. Just Gross and stupid and overated by some.

Wild and Crazy Kids- A good premise show that could be recycled on today's Nick

Posted: Jul 19 2009 06:56 am

IMO Rugrats was popular because it appealed to the inner child, and had awesome music buy one of the guys from Devo.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

It is amazing how a few years made such a big difference in what a person would watch.

Ermac, I am only 3 years older than you, but I remember all of the shows you mentioned being watched by my sister (your age) while I had no interest in most of them at all.

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Blackout wrote:

I only watched it because I wanted to see Dr. Claw's face.

Have you seen what his face 'officily' looked like.
http://progressiveboink.com/archive/drclaw.html

To be honest, i was disappointed. I was hoping for a more cyborg kind of face.

Inspector Gadget was one of my favorite shows growing up mainly because he was an idiot. Plus it was very self aware, it never tried to be more then a silly mystery cartoon with a bumbling detective. Plus it had memorable music and voice acting. I even watched the show recently and still laugh my ass off.

I guess i'm the only one here who really enjoyed it Sad

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Definitely disappointed, but I'm not sure I could have been satisfied.

Posted: Jul 21 2009 03:55 pm

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:

Blackout wrote:

I only watched it because I wanted to see Dr. Claw's face.

Have you seen what his face 'officially' looked like.
http://progressiveboink.com/archive/drclaw.html

To be honest, i was disappointed. I was hoping for a more cyborg kind of face.

Inspector Gadget was one of my favorite shows growing up mainly because he was an idiot. Plus it was very self aware, it never tried to be more then a silly mystery cartoon with a bumbling detective. Plus it had memorable music and voice acting. I even watched the show recently and still laugh my ass off.

I guess i'm the only one here who really enjoyed it Sad

Yeah I saw that, pretty weak.

Posted: Jul 22 2009 08:24 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

Ha, Nickelodeon used to show Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff back to back. Gotta love those DIC cartoons.

I have this little ad so burned into my brain.