Episode 6 - Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)

The lipstick gun is real tho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_death_(firearm)

I remember when they filmed the first one and I got excited because I was a fan of the cartoon and because it was filmed in Brisbane, where I lived at the time. You can see a chase through the area where there is a university I did most of a of a degree a decade later. The thing about the protagonists is that Gadget is Lestrade by way of RoboCop, Penny is Sherlock Holmes by way of Nancy Drew, and Brain the dog is Dr. John Watson. Ibises in Egypt: revered divine omens. Ibises in Australia: bin chickens.

Telling me that this movie was filmed in Brisbane prompted me to watch it, only to be inundated with memories of me having watched it dozens of times as a kid. I was saying all the lines before the actors did I'm cooked lmao.

Oh shoes: an unusual shoe on a henchman of an organization, probably bought mass order by the org, so from the factory one can get a name for who puts the order in & ladies you can put up your own fancy event! A murder mystery fancy dress party

Oh sister... totally spies must have.... annihilated you

If the girls ever do books (or strange phenomenologiphenomena shoved into the underside of the basement steps)... I hope they do The City & The City or at least Borges' "Death & the Compas" which is very short

The "throne" was the old guildmaster's council seat Gadjet was the first fordist fabricated furtofrustator

Did you know that there's a French The Fall on Amazon with Emmanuelle Seignur having gender in leather pants? Ceci n'est pas un drill.

Lucy going from "Mia was pivotal to my transition" to absolutely GLITCHING at the universal love of tall women killed me. I think Mia might be the number Lucy doesn't want to accidentally speed dial on her hand phone. 😂

Is November in an iron lung or something?

These last four episodes have got me so hyped on the archetype of “young female amateur/vigilante detective” that I was hooting and hollering when it suddenly showed up in Duelle, a 1976 experimental surrealist fantasy film by Jacques Rivette — I do not seek out detectives, but as is their wont, they find me!

Wow Lucy just keeps shillelaghing the audience with how adorable she can be. Such lovely anecdotes this episode.

The idea of—and frustration with the lack of—girl gadgets was def the impetus for totally spies (future episode?)

I will never be calling anyone an egg again, I will henceforth be saying that they are ‘trying to make the hat work’.

In case anyone else finds the clips of Inspector Gadget's voice from this film familiar, French Stewart is best known for playing the weird, ambiguously gay member of the alien family in the sitcom Third Rock From the Sun.

This was surprisingly great. The movie kind of reminded me of Dick Tracy (1990), mainly because of the cartoonish vibe. Looking forward to that episode.

Workshopping a Latin motto for this podcast. How do we feel about 'Quis transvestigabit ipsos inquisitores?'?

I'm just looking at the cast list, Bruce Spence... This was shot in Australia wasn't it?

Utterly terrified by the idea of a ferromagnetic prince albert!

wasn't expecting THIS episode to hit me in the feels. go go gadget yearning.

Rupert Everett is inordinately hot as Boss Claw in the first movie.

But pizza shapes exist Lucy….. and at pinch BBQ shapes

You say it as a joke, but the three of your faces wearing stupid detective hats and huge impact font #1 FAN underneath it would be a fantastic shirt

Being hit directly by the callout for girls that want the collar that makes you bark :/

Basil in the great mouse detective wears that exact outfit when they go undercover to the seedy bar. Great Mouse detective future episode?

i have not idea if it would be good or bad, but now i want a modern inspector gadget starring john mulaney

So what we learn is that absent November's presence the podcast will intermittently produce involuntary embarrassed noises - the most intriguing being the 'cough-squeak' combo towards the end of the episode

Since either Lucy or Editing Lucy was too shy; it's usually a loop pierced through the lower side of the tip of the urethra. Possibly apocryphal, but the story I heard about why it's named that is that Prince Albert (royal consort of Queen Victoria) had such a huge hog that riding horseback was quite painful. So he got the piercing so that he could thread some ribbon or whatever through it and strap his dong to his leg, out of the way, to avoid that pain.

Apropos of nothing, there is an amusing series of videos on YouTube of the Inspector Gadget cartoon with Gadget edited out and featuring only Penny. It works shockingly well.

Nova's voice training has really taken a turn

Great episode. Can't wait for the Broderick one

ACAB includes Inspector Gadget. All Contraptions Are Bastards

Inspector Gadget? Only if she wants me to.

becoming a woman *does* make your cum pink, is the thing

looking forward to the new voice gimmick in each episode

Hooting and hollering progressively louder with each future episode reveal