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** Others interpret his complete obliviousness as a defense mechanism against dealing with what he has become.

* [[Body Horror]]: What may happen if you start to think about how and WHERE the different gadgets fit into his body.

* [[First Installment Wins]]: The first season and series are possibly the most parodied out of the franchise.

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: A MAD agent couldn't dare sneak blunt objects on a plane today, nor could Penny and Brain sneak into the cargo hold to get to destinations under Gadget's nose without plenty of TSA office visits and permanent inclusion on the no-fly list.

* [[Jumping the Shark]]: It's typically accepted that season 2's time travel story arc was this show's shark jump moment. Interestingly, ''Gadget Boy'' jumped the shark in the same way, except that story arc lasted a whole season.

* [[Recycled Script]]: May as well be the [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: The second season, which has a different film look to it, most of the action takes place around Gadget's neighborhood, many of the voices are much different and the plots...

** A bunch of mobsters who have retired to the old folks home try to recapture their past glory and take over the city...with a potato gun named Rose Red. [[Flat What|What.]]

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Gadget is a pretty darn awesome superhero in concept, but he spends the entire series gleefully clutching the [[Idiot Ball]] and generally being useless. Alot of people say that Penny's a lot better a protagonist, and wish that she was the series' primary focus.

 

 

* [[Broken Base]]: And how! The fans are divided between those who despised the first film for not being close enough to the cartoons, those who hated the second film for not being enough like the first, people who hated both and prefer to stick to the cartoons, and the people who actually liked both films.

* [[Surprisingly Improved Sequel]]: On the other hand, the direct-to-video sequel was given props from following the cartoon's formula more closely than its predecessor.

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Ironically used effectively in a negative capacity with Robo-Gadget. The shifty eyes and fake teeth are scary without really even trying. One could argue that Broderick made a better villain than a hero in the film.

 

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