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.  

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🎙 Guest:  

Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, @horrormoviebbq).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. Nick Knacks, a show-by-show video history of Nickelodeon.  

2. Halloween 1992 was the year of white kids dressing like Steve Urkel.  

3. Inspector Gadget’s run on Nickelodeon got me into Get Smart on Nick at Nite.  

4. The time Chad got an crew jacket from the set of the Inspector Gadget movie.  

5. The action figure that revealed Dr. Claw’s goofy face.  

6. The Inspector Gadget Super Nintendo game, featuring the same alternate theme song as this special.  

7. The Mount Rushmore of Frank Welker Voices.  

8. 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.  

9. Where’s the camera Penny’s Not Apple Watch uses to see Brain?  

10. Jerry “The King” Lawler entering the 1997 Royal Rumble Match in the middle of saying something, then finishing the sentence after being eliminated in 4 seconds.  

11. Disney’s Christmas All-Time Favorites.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

Cookie Crisp Cereal Christmas Commercial, 1992.  

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“Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas” © 1992 DiC Entertainment.  

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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
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