History Fridge / InspectorGadget

* In the second film, Gadget is plagued by glitches. In the cartoon, his abilities never quite work correctly...

* In the second film, Gadget is shown to have a large house - but when he thinks of something while laying in bed, his neck extends, crashing into Penny's room, upstairs. It's a little odd in that big, nice house (two occupants and a dog), that Gadget would be sleeping on the first floor and Penny on the second - not to mention if his gadgets are that prone to crashing through walls and floors, why is Penny ''directly above him''?
** Ground floor master suites aren't all that unusual. Put an upstairs bath directly above the master bathroom, which is basic good design, and Penny's room being beside that bath and directly above her uncle's room makes perfect sense, as it gives her a corner room.

* Most M.A.D. agents are stupid. [[StrangeSalute The M.A.D. salute is effectively a punch to the saluter's temple strong enough to hurt]] (sometime they have ''[[TapOnTheHead knocked themselves out]]''). Suddenly, their stupidity makes sense.

* Dr. Claw seems like a genius with a high IQ, but not once has he ever thought that his arch nemesis is a bumbling klutz. He still believes Gadget is a brilliant detective. You would think after all the years of spying on him that he would suspect Gadget is a clueless guy who gets help from a little girl and dog.

** Notice in the Super Nintendo game, you play as Gadget, not Penny, and solve the crime and stop Claw singlehanded. The mission this time round was specifically revolved around saving Penny.

* Most M.A.D. agents are stupid. [[StrangeSalute The M.A.D. salute is effectively a punch to the saluter's temple strong enough to hurt]] (sometime they have ''[[ATapOnTheHead knocked themselves out]]''). Suddenly, their stupidity makes sense.

* Most M.A.D. agents are stupid. [[StrangeSalute The M.A.D. salute is effectively a punch to the saluter's temple strong enough to hurt]] (sometime they have ''knocked themselves out''). Suddenly, their stupidity makes sense.

* Dr. Claw seems like a genius with a high IQ, but not once has he ever thought that his arch nemesis is a bumbling klutz. He still believes Gadget is a brilliant detective.

* Imagine living in a universe where your super hero uncle is a bumbling idiot. Only you and your dog know he is a klutz and a goof up. For the rest of your life, you would have to keep an eye on your uncle, making sure he doesn't get people, and himself, killed. You won't be able to have a relationship, or get married, without worrying about your uncle blowing himself up. To make things worse, you have an evil criminal mastermind who has connections all over the world. You would have no choice but to tag along with him on his missions. It's a good thing Penny loves playing detective and solving mysteries. If she didn't, she would have a terrible life babysitting her uncle and fighting villains every day.

** Ground floor master suites aren't all that unusual. Put an upstairs bath directly above the master bathroom, which is basic good design, and Penny's room being beside that bath and directly above her uncle's room makes perfect sense, as it gives her a corner room.

* Imagine living in a universe where your super hero uncle is a bumbling idiot. Only you and your dog know he is a klutz and a goof up. For the rest of your life, you would have to keep an eye on your uncle, making sure he doesn't get people, and himself, killed. You won't be able to have a relationship, or get married, without worrying about your uncle blowing himself up. To make things worse, you have an evil criminal mastermind who has connections all over the world. You would have no choice but to tag along with him on his missions. It's a good thing Penny loves playing detective and solving mysteries. If she didn't, she would have a terrible life babysitting her uncle and fighting Dr. Claw every day.

* By never taking the credit and keeping a low profile, Penny and Brain are actually model special agents. The ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parody shows how much danger they'd really be in if anyone figured it out.

* In the first film, Robo-Brenda is giggly, acquiescent, relatively low on intellect and is...programmed to be a cheerleader? Many no doubt shuddered when they realised Dr. Claw built himself ''a sex-doll version of Brenda.'' In a kids' film.

* Gadget's varying degrees of competence and stupidity make more sense when you remember that he is part machine and that machines can sometimes malfunction.
* In the first film, "Robo-Gadget" sounds redundant but Gadget's a cyborg, and [=RoboGadget=]'s an android.

* In the pilot episode, Gadget is [[CharacterizationMarchesOn noticeably more competent and aware of the dangers around him]], however he still screws up against Claw's robot, which Penny as usual secretly deals with herself. For almost all threats that Gadget thwarted before, he was escorting Penny and Brain at the time and thus aware they were in danger. This is consistent with most of Gadget's rare bouts of competence in later episodes, usually triggered whenever he realizes [[PapaWolf his niece is in danger]].
** Similarly he is escorting the two in "Haunted Castle" and returns to his pilot level of competence until they separate.
** [[Series/GetSmart Max Smart]] had the same sort of oscillating competence level. Make of that what you will.

* By never taking the credit and keeping a low profile, Penny and Brain are actually model special agents. The ''RobotChicken'' parody shows how much danger they'd really be in if anyone figured it out.

** [[GetSmart Max Smart]] had the same sort of oscillating competence level. Make of that what you will.

** [[GetSmart Max Smart]] had a similarly oscillating competence level. Make of that what you will.

** The contemporary Canadian promos for the show claimed that he slipped on a banana peel. If that doesn't sound like it could possibly account for the degree of injury one might have expected, please remember just who it is we're talking about.

** Ground floor master suites aren't all that unusual. Put an upstairs bath directly above the master bathroom, which is basic good design, and Penny's room being beside that bath and directly above her uncle's room makes perfect sense, as it gives her a corner room.
* In episode 1-7 "The Boat", MAD drops a bomb off right at Gadget's house. [[NeverRecycleYourSchemes If MAD knows where Gadget lives, why not target him (or Penny, who Dr. Claw knows is involved), directly?]]
** In the episode where Dr. Claw plans to trap Gadget by having crimes committed in a pattern of locations that spell "MAD" on a map, he views Gadget on his computer screen while he's INSIDE his house. This means Dr. Claw not only knows where Gadget lives but has surveillance inside the house.
** Because directly threatening the people Gadget cares about (e.g., Penny, Brain, Dr. Slickenstein) is pretty much the worst thing you could do. When that happens, Gadget immediately grabs the SmartBall, proceeds to [[LetsGetDangerous get]] ''[[LetsGetDangerous extremely]]'' [[LetsGetDangerous dangerous]], and becomes nearly unstoppable. The only reason it doesn't happen more often is because Gadget doesn't usually realize it when Penny or somebody else he cares about is in danger. Frankly, most of the episodes would be over before the 15-minute mark if Gadget realized that it was Penny and/or Brain in danger.