When Dr. Claw is thawed out of an iceberg and reactivates M.A.D., Inspector Gadget is brought out of retirement and is back on the beat to stop Claw once again, but this time, with Penny and Brain officially by his side. A new character in this series is Dr. Claw's nephew, Talon, on whom Penny has a slight crush. The series is even more comical, cartoony and slapsticky than the original, with Dr. Claw being portrayed as much less sinister, and Gadget a lot more inept and bumbling.