Coming back after watching this and all the following incarnations of Inspector Gadget (whether it be the Gadget Boy, Gadget & the Gadgetinis, or that weird educational anthropology series), I've come to the stance that Inspector Gadget really isn't for me. I never exactly got behind the general concept of the series with Gadget himself being a bumbling robotic detective while the people around him do all the work behind his back. I never usually found Inspector Gadget to be that funny or charming to justify his usual obliviousness and antics in any of the shows I watched. It got old for me really fast and the series ended up being really tiring for me. Looking back, I wish Inspector Gadget himself was more like Wallace from Aardman's _Wallace & Gromit_ shorts. Both characters are pretty adjacent to each other, mechanical marvels that get into constant trouble only for their pet dog (or piers depending on which incarnation of Gadget your watching) to find a way to get out of it. What makes me like Wallace way more is that while he is pretty airheaded and usually causes the main conflict, he's an extremely well-meaning and charming character on his own who mostly has his heart in the right place. I never get tired of Wallace's antics because he's never tiring to watch. Compare that to Inspector Gadget. Gadget is also a very dimwitted character blessed with being a technologica…

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