Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas

Go-go Gadget podcast! It’s time to spring back to 1992 to take “Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas” in for questioning.  Chad Young accepts our assignment to investigate the time Dr. Claw took over Santa’s workshop for some reason.  ****  Topics & Tangents:  Nick Knacks, a show-by-show video history of Nickelodeon.  Halloween 1992 was the year of white kids dressing like Steve Urkel.  Inspector Gadget’s run on Nickelodeon got me into “Get Smart” on Nick at Nite.  The time Chad got a crew jacket from the set of the “Inspector Gadget” movie.  The action figure that revealed Dr. Claw’s goofy face.  The Inspector Gadget Super Nintendo game, featuring the same alternate theme song as this special.  Maurice LaMarche subbing for Don Adams for Gadget’s weird version of “The 12 Days of Christmas” is similar to Jim Cummings finishing “Be Prepared” for Jeremy Irons in “The Lion King.”  Where’s the camera Penny’s Not Apple Watch uses to see Brain?  Jerry “The King” Lawler entering the 1997 Royal Rumble Match in the middle of a sentence, then finishing it after being eliminated in 4 seconds.  “Disney’s Christmas All-Time Favorites.”  ****  Commercials:  Cookie Crisp Cereal Christmas Commercial (1992)  Tinsel Tunes.  ****  “Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas” © 1992 DiC Entertainment.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.