While there are several recurring motifs, the main Inspector Gadget theme dominates. This theme, with its "Inspector Gadget" and "Go, Gadget, Go" female vocals, is the ultimate in cheesiness and funk, destined to get stuck in your head at some point. At three points during the score do these exclaiming female vocals appear with the theme in full; the very last track contains the theme in its complete original form. Debney takes a little bit of liberty with the theme in his opening title cue, though most people won't recognize the difference, and slighter references are made to it in the short "The Operation" cue. Instrumentally, the title theme is present throughout the entire score, receiving some truly interesting interpretations. Its Georges Delerue treatment for "Tango" is one of many unlikely adaptations from nearly every type of rhythmic movement. The "Battle on the Bridge" cue is an absolute riot. Even moreso than in My Favorite Martian, Debney incorporates little snippets from other famous themes and motifs for short comical or character cues in the film. In this case, "Heroic Mission" takes pieces from Mission: Impossible, Back to the Future, and the James Bond films and rolls them over into a slightly less obvious parody of Superman in subsequent action cues. Pieces of Danny Elfman's Beetlejuice main title are unintentionally connected to the title theme here due to some similarities in construct. The Disney logo music ("When You Wish Upon a Star") is incorporated directly into the opening performance of the title theme. Aside from these usages, the Inspector Gadget score offers the usual feel-good Debney hero's theme and a slight, rolling piano theme for the love interest, both quite adeptly combined into "Happy Ending." Overall, though, these thematic ideas are not as well integrated into the score as those in My Favorite Martian were, and this score thus relies far more heavily on the title theme. It's not as easy to enjoy as one cohesive sitting, though a good argument could probably be made in favor of Inspector Gadget over My Favorite Martian if someone were actually willing to overanalyze either. Like the previous score, Inspector Gadget was only available on a lengthy promotional album, and Debney's enthusiasm for these zany projects is perfectly captured in the picture of him decked out in an inspector's outfit on the back cover of the album.  ***   @Amazon.com: CD or Download