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The Worst Episodes of Inspector Gadget

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The Worst Episodes of Inspector Gadget

Inspector Gadget is a clumsy, dim-witted human cyborg detective with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget stumbles around working the cases while his...
  1. 6.1/10(80 votes)

    #1 - The Emerald Duck

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    S1:E46

    Gadget heads for Mexico, where he must stop "The oldest Mayan artifact known to exist," the Emerald Duck, from falling into the hands of a M.A.D. agent -- a Mexican bandit named Macho Miguel. The Emerald Duck is the key to activating a powerful and ancient weapon.

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  2. 6.3/10(72 votes)

    #2 - Gadget Meets the Grappler

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    S2:E3

    The Gadget clan faces one last threat from M.A.D.'s Dr. Dumbkopf, which involves battling his hulking, irascible humanoid assistant named the Grappler. Fortunately, sweets, candies, and ultimately Penny's kindness help in soothing the soul of this misunderstood beast and thwarting Dr. Dumbkopf for the last time.

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  3. 6.3/10(71 votes)

    #3 - Wambini Predicts

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    S2:E9

    The Great Wambini goes to Alpakistan to win the King's diamond-spitting llama by making three accurate predictions. Gadget is sent along to investigate M.A.D. involvement, and ends up playing in the National Floobyball Tournament.

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  4. 6.5/10(94 votes)

    #4 - A Star is Lost

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    S1:E10

    Gadget has to guard the life of famed rock singer Rick Rocker, whom M.A.D. has sinister plans for. But Gadget winds up replacing Rocker as the current reigning King of Rock!

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  5. 6.5/10(91 votes)

    #5 - Amusement Park

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    S1:E13

    Gadget has to find the bomb Dr. Claw has hidden in Metro City's amusement park.

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  6. 6.5/10(85 votes)

    #6 - Gadget Goes West

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    S1:E24

    Inspector Gadget arrives at a western tourist town that plays heavily on its cowboy image to stop modern day outlaw Black Bart.

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  8. 6.6/10(151 votes)

    #7 - Down on the Farm

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    S1:E2

    M.A.D. tries to do Gadget in by locking him in a missile hidden in a farm's grain silo.

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  9. 6.6/10(85 votes)

    #8 - Prince of the Gypsies

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    S1:E44

    Dr. Claw tries to frame the gypsies of Freedonia for the theft of the Royal Coat of Arms. So Gadget investigates the gypsies while Penny and her new friend, Anya, try to find the real thief.

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  10. 6.7/10(89 votes)

    #9 - The Infiltration

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    S1:E17

    Presto Chango, the world's greatest disguise artist and a M.A.D. agent, plans to infiltrate an Interpol conference in London disguised as Inspector Gadget.

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  11. 6.7/10(84 votes)

    #10 - Pirate Island

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    S1:E40

    Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain are on vacation in the Caribbean. But before they've had a chance to get any serious R & R on Gadget's dilapidated old rust-bucket of a boat, duty calls and Inspector Gadget is back to work.

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  12. 6.7/10(85 votes)

    #11 - Old Man of the Mountain

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    S1:E45

    M.A.D. has abducted a prominent seismologist, who is coerced by Dr. Claw to construct a machine capable of generating deadly earthquakes upon the world. Gadget's case takes him deep within the Rocky Mountains, where his misadventures are compounded by a M.A.D. ranger agent and a grizzled, gold-crazed prospector.

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  13. 6.7/10(82 votes)

    #12 - Do Unto Udders

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    S1:E47

    M.A.D. utilizes satellite waves to cause local cows to stop producing milk, forcing consumers to purchase milk from "New Foods Dairy" (a M.A.D. front).

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  14. 6.7/10(78 votes)

    #13 - Busy Signal

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    S2:E12

    Under the guise of a local telephone company, M.A.D. inventor Dr. Spectrum and his goons systemically target the mansions of Metro City's elite neighborhoods and proceed to burglarize them with the dial of a number and with a zap of a teleportation gun to send the loot straight into Claw's hands.penny,is,caguht,and,odered,to,be,sent,to,doctor,claw

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  15. 6.7/10(71 votes)

    #14 - Crash Course in Crime

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    S2:E14

    While Gadget trains his new assistant Capeman, Dr. Claw launches a crime spree to celebrate M.A.D.'s anniversary.

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  16. 6.7/10(74 votes)

    #15 - Gadget's Roma

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    S2:E17

    Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain travel back in time again -- on this occasion, to ancient Rome to prevent Dr. Claw's own time traveler, Thelma Bodkin, from deciphering an ancient mosaic and stealing the treasure it describes.

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  17. 6.8/10(148 votes)

    #16 - Monster Lake

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    S1:E1

    Gadget looks for a missing scientist who vanished at a lake rumored to harbor a monster.

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  18. 6.8/10(86 votes)

    #17 - Sleeping Gas

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    S1:E21

    Gadget is assigned to halt a diabolical M.A.D. scheme: put entire cities to sleep with a powerful sleeping gas.

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  19. 6.8/10(85 votes)

    #18 - Launch Time

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    S1:E25

    M.A.D. tries to sabotage a NASA mission.

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  20. 6.8/10(85 votes)

    #19 - Dutch Treat

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    S1:E32

    Inspector Gadget hunts for diamond smugglers in the land of tulips and chocolate.

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  21. 6.8/10(83 votes)

    #20 - Gone Went the Wind

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    S1:E38

    A M.A.D. scientist at the North Pole creates a machine to cause windstorms all over the globe.

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  22. 6.8/10(83 votes)

    #21 - M.A.D. Academy

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    S1:E41

    Gadget is assigned to find and shut down M.A.D.'s training center for its agents and Dr. Claw decides eliminating Gadget will make a good class project for the latest batch of recruits.

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  23. 6.8/10(84 votes)

    #22 - A Bad Altitude

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    S1:E49

    Dr. Claw intends to sink most of an island so that his (currently) mountaintop resort will become the only hotel on "M.A.D. Island".

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  24. 6.8/10(81 votes)

    #23 - Funny Money

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    S1:E50

    M.A.D. has enlisted the aid of the incarcerated Funny Money counterfeiting gang in a plot to generate millions upon millions of bogus dollars for Dr. Claw to use in his dirty work. Two of the gang's three members manage to escape from prison in order to set up shop, while the last and most talented member, a visually-challenged man named Squint, must be up to the arduous task of bumping off Gadget when he comes to the jail to investigate the break-out.

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  25. 6.8/10(75 votes)

    #24 - N.S.F. Gadget

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    S2:E6

    M.A.D. gains control of Metro City's banks, by tapping into an orbiting satellite. With the added distraction of "Crazy Gas", a substance that induces hallucinations in their victims, can even Inspector Gadget ever hope to regain control of the city's bank accounts?

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  26. 6.8/10(74 votes)

    #25 - Ghost Catchers

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    S2:E11

    Dr. Spectrum of M.A.D. invents "Ghost Globules" -- pellets that produce glowing ghostly critters. He plans to sets them loose on Metro City, then offer to sell people a spray that will banish them. Inspector Gadget investigates a costume party while on the trail.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Emerald Duck" is the worst rated episode of "Inspector Gadget". It scored 6.1/10 based on 80 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/7/1983. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Gadget Meets the Grappler".