Inspector Gadget

[stephdumas]

I thought it could be interesting to do a thread about Inspecteur Gadget (IG) from the old 1980s cartoon (which also include Caporal Capeman, the counterpart of Scrappy-doo), the live-action movies, the series Gadget & the Gadgetinis (not aired in the US but episodes are online on Youtube or Dailymotion) and the 2015 reboot. 

One thing is sure, they won't do a series where his niece Penny got in numerous dangers like she was in the 1983 series like these ones like that today. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Fkr8lx_8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJm5WVYIMNM

However I wonder if Penny Gadget might be one source of inspiration for creating Totally Spies besides Charlie's Angels?    And could you imagine a TS-IG crossover where the Spies are assigned to babysit Penny and by a twisting irony they're being saved by Penny?

Edit: I forgot, in the 2015 reboot, Chief Quimby don't smoke anymore but still got self-destruct message blowing on his face.

[Mandy]

I like the 80's cartoon. I don't think anything that came after that was really good. It might be a French cartoon like Totally Spies as well but it's hard for me to remember.

[stephdumas]

I like the 80's cartoon.  I don't think anything that came after that was really good.  It might be a French cartoon like Totally Spies as well but it's hard for me to remember.

From what I read about Dic history, it beginned as a French animated studio who opened a US branch and moved all its operations to the US in the mid-1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIC_Entertainment

[stephdumas]

Also, it's doubtful they would draw Penny in a bikini today. How they menaged to pass under the radar back then , they was very lucky. And it inspired me once for some memes.
https://www.deviantart.com/stephdumas/jo...-761714836