02x03 - Australia/San Francisco

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♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ We're going on a visit ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ Come on,
let's go with him ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ What's that, you ask?
What is it? ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ Well, no one
wants to miss it ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ We're going on a visit ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ Have fun,
let's go with him ♪

♪ New places,
new faces ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

Inspector Gadget:
Inspector Gadget here,

down under
in beautiful Australia.

We are on our way
to the biggest city

in all of Australia.

So let's go, go, Gadget
field trip

to Sydney, Australia.

Inspector Gadget:
where is Sydney?

It's here
in the southern part

of what's either
the world's largest island

or the world's
smallest continent.

Australia
is below the equator

in the southern half
of the world

known as
the southern hemisphere.

Although local tribes
called aborigines

have been living here
for thousands of years,

the first european
settlement

wasn't until 1770.

Many countries had noticed
the huge continent,

but captain james cook was
the first to claim Australia.

He was sent by england
with a huge crew,

which, luckily for them,

also included a boat.

One of the crew members
was a botanist named...

Who recorded the plants
that they encountered.

Banks gets the weird
and wonderful new plants

that were discovered.

He would've sent back
photos,

but cameras
hadn't been invented yet.

Captain cook was so amazed
with these plants

that he renamed
the landing site...

And it's still called
botany bay

some 200 years later.

It's the place to visit
if you're looking

for spectacular views
of Sydney harbor.

If you look over there,
you can see what england

turned its brand-new colony
into: a prison.

These are the...

No, it's not where
you hide your park.

It's not even where
you park your hide.

Even today you can
step back in time

and pretend to be a prisoner
living out a sentence.

Convicts were put to work
in all sorts of ways.

They even built themselves
a place to live.

There are some prisoners
building a new wing.

Oh, those aren't prisoners.

They're tourists.

The convicts slept here
in this dorm.

When there weren't
enough hammocks,

they had to sleep
on the floor...

[squeaking]
along with the rats,

who unfortunately
didn't have hammocks.

So much for the lighter side
of prison life.

I'm going over the wall.

Go, go, Gadget sea legs.

This is the...

It was ships like this one
that took criminals

on the 8-month trip
from england

to the shores of Australia.

This boat recreates
a shorter version

of one such journey.

These make-believe convicts
have lots of chores.

Swabbing the decks,

hoisting the sails,

trimming the mast,

lifting that barge,

toting that bale...

And loving it.

This boat has 10 huge sails

to help power it
through Sydney harbor.

You know, I think I can see

Let's investigate.

Oh.

Those aren't sails.

They're part
of the very unusual...

Mr. eugene goossens,

who was the conductor of the
Sydney symphony orchestra,

thought that Sydney
needed an opera house,

so in 1957 a contest
was held to design one.

A young architect in denmark

named jorn utzon

heard about the contest
and wanted to enter,

but he had never been
to Sydney.

He asked
for some photographs

of Sydney harbor.

There were lots of sailboats
in the pictures.

Some say
that was the inspiration

for his unique design.

If I designed it,

I would've added
a rubber duckie.

When we return,
we're going to travel back

to the old days of Sydney,

but first, an Inspector
Gadget field trip fact:

...that make up the outside
of the Sydney opera house.

They are swedish tiles

that actually clean
themselves with rainwater.

That's why
they're so bright.

Inspector Gadget here,

back on the case down under
in Sydney, Australia.

Let's hop on
to more adventures.

Go, go, Gadget coat.

We are standing in...

I must be
in the wrong place.

I don't see any rocks,

but my guide book insists

prominent sandstone rocks
used to be here.

So I guess we're off
to a rocky start.

Let's investigate.

The aborigines have
been living in Australia

for thousands of years.

To test your alertness...

The rocks was the first
european colony.

The colony
was established in 1788.

Maybe back then
the place really rocked.

The rocks is home to quite
a few of Australia's firsts.

Australia's first bank...

Was founded here in 1817.

This museum
houses memorabilia

and tells the story
of the bank's early troubles

with the gold rush
of the mid-1800s

and the story of one
of its founders, Mary Reiby.

Quite a celebrity
in the rocks,

miss reiby was herself
a reformed convict who

became one of Australia's first
successful businesswomen.

There are many other
fascinating places

left for us to explore
here in Sydney.

Let's go, go, Gadget copter.

This is old Sydney town.

Like the sign says,
step through the gate

and you step back
in time to the 1800s.

I stepped in the 1800s once,

and I just couldn't
get it off my shoe.

This is the...

I guess all those convicts
had time on their hands,

so books were a must.

The old section
of the library

was designed by another

of Australia's
success stories...

A convict who actually became
a well-known architect

throughout Sydney.

This little island
was a scary place

in the old colonial days
of Australia.

Although a large portion

of the convicts
brought to Australia

had been convicted
of petty crimes,

there were some vicious
criminals sent here, too.

They got to stay here at...

Home to the cruelest
of the cruel,

meanest of the mean,
and toughest of the tough.

No, this isn't
the electric chair.

It's the governor's wife's
chair,

also known
as Mrs. macquarie's chair.

It is carved out of stone
and was built at the request

of the second governor
of the colony,

lachlan macquarie.

The chair was built
as a prime spot

for his wife to look out
over Sydney harbor.

And what leads
down to the street

from the stone chair?

Stone steps.

They're called
the tarpeian steps.

This was the path
prisoners took

from the docking ship

to their new homes
at the barracks.

Mrs. macquarie
got to watch all the fun.

Well, we've been
all over down under,

and we haven't even
scratched the surface.

We've seen an opera house
with 10 sails,

a place where
time stands still,

and the very spot
where it all began.

[Australian accent]
g'day, mates.

We'll be right back
to uncover

another
top-secret destination.

Go, go, Gadget field trip.

Inspector Gadget here.

The chief has sent me
to San Francisco,

the city by the bay.

My assignment:

to investigate
a very important rock.

Maybe it's lurking
right under that big prison.

Of course.

...is the rock,

the big house,
the end of the line,

the stirrer, the joint,
the belly of the beast...

But I digress.

Let's escape to Alcatraz

and walk the last mile

around a few
of the San Francisco sights.

Go, go, Gadget
shark-repellent swim fins.

They say Alcatraz

was the world's most
escape-proof prison.

Just look at it.

It's a fortress surrounded

by freezing cold currents
from the bay.

And if that's not enough,

the bay is stocked
with sharks,

sea lions,
and attack sea gulls.

Alcatraz is famous
for its tough prisoners

and its super-tough rules:

strict, absolute control.

Sounds like the chief.

The rock
it's sitting on is...

Alcatraz prison
opened in 1934

and closed down in 1963,

but they didn't turn
the inmates loose...

I think.

This is "d" block, where they
kept the serious troublemakers.

Inmates here were usually
locked up in their cells


Talk about being grounded.

Meals were pushed through
this hole in the bars,

which made for tiny bites.

These fellows were only
allowed a 10-minute shower

once a week,

which is probably why
"d" block is downwind

of the rest of the prison.

Oh, guard!

There seems
to be a leftover prisoner

asleep in this cell.

Oh.

He's a dummy.

No offense,
mr. hardened criminal.

...were the clever inmates
who made 3 dummies

with real human hair.

They got it from
the Alcatraz barbershop.

They used these dummies
to fool the guards.

That gave them time
to climb through holes

in their cell walls.

They went up the heat vents,
down a hallway,

and got away...

A daring plan,

and it worked.

This
is solitary confinement,

also known
as a private room.

It was for inmates
who misbehaved

while they were in prison.

A 200-pound solid-steel door
shut out all the light.

It kept them in complete
darkness day and night,

which made tanning
difficult.

This was the...

The original
"clean your plate" club.

If inmates didn't finish
their meal,

they didn't get
their next meal,

which also cut way back
on leftovers.

On average, 4,000 visitors
come to Alcatraz

by ferry boat
from San Francisco every day.

Some of them
even get to leave.

That's over 1 million
a year more

than the population
of San Francisco.

Over 1,500 inmates
in 29 years.

So far the tourists
are way ahead in numbers...

But they don't tend
to stay as long.

One famous prisoner
who never flew the coop

was the cagey
birdman of Alcatraz,

robert stroud.

He spent 44 years
in complete isolation

in various jails

and many of those years
in this cell at Alcatraz.

Unlike the birds,
he didn't have wings,

so he was stuck here.

Actually, the birdman never
had any birds at Alcatraz.

He had them
at another prison.

Guess they flew the coop

or he lost
his bird privileges.

This was bank robber
machine g*n kelly's cell.

Cell blocks had
alphabetical names like...

But machine g*n's block
was nicknamed park avenue

because of its beautiful view
of San Francisco.

It certainly wasn't because

of the swanky
accommodations.

Gangster Al Capone
from Chicago

washed his hands
in this sink in this cell.

That's probably his dirt.

And here's an Inspector Gadget
field trip fact:

did you know
that you could fit

over 110 prisoners' cells
into the Warden's house?

But Mrs. Warden probably
wouldn't have liked

all those
unwanted houseguests.

Look at that man fishing
for 80-year-old escapees.

Hope he's renewed
his fishing license.

But now that we've
rocked around the rock,

let's go to...

Where they rock
around the clock.

You know you've hit
the end of the line

on the Alcatraz ferry

when you find yourself
knee-deep in sea lions.

Seems these sea lions

decided to take back
Fisherman's Wharf.

They probably
like the food better here

than at Alcatraz.

Back in the good old days

before the sea lions
got pushy,

this was where you went
for fish.

It was one of the busiest
bays for fishing boats,

and it's still a great place
for seafood--

just ask the sea lions--

but now it's also
a great place for chocolate.

Anyone for a double-dipped
chocolate-covered crab?

In the heart
of Fisherman's Wharf,

you'll find the famous
Ghirardelli chocolate

manufactory in
Ghirardelli square,

but there's not a trace
of willy wonka.

Since the early 1900s,

Ghirardelli
has been practicing

the art
of chocolate making here.

By now they're pretty good
at it...

And you can see
exactly how they do it.

It all starts
with cocoa beans

that come from trees
way down by the equator.

The cocoa beans are cooked
like coffee beans

in roasting ovens.

Then the beans are ground
into a thick syrup,

but don't try to slurp
the syrup.

It's a bit bitter.

That looks good enough
to dive into.

Hope you have your
chocolate-vat scuba gear.

The chocolate syrup
is then mixed

with milk, sugar, vanilla,
and other flavors.

The last step before melting
the chocolate in our mouths

is to massage the chocolate
with this locomotive.

That irons out the bubbles

and makes it smooth.

Put it in a mold and out
comes a beautiful


Hey, stop drooling
on the television.

They no sooner finish making
a nice, neat chocolate bar

when Cesar,
our samurai chocolate chef,

breaks it down again,

but it's for a good reason,

or so Cesar says.

This is how he cuts up
a chocolate bar

to make hot fudge sauce.

Wowsers! You could
get sent to Alcatraz

for doing this to such
a beautiful piece of chocolate.

No offense, Cesar.

Wowsers! That looks great.

Hot-again, cold-again
hot fudge.

Well, I think
our field trip has--

[rumbling]

w-whoa! What's going on?!

Hold on! I didn't order
a milkshake!

Oh, yes,

the other thing San Francisco
is famous for:

their spontaneous
tourist attraction,

a genuine
California earthquake,

San Francisco style.

Don't get excited.

It's just
an earthquake simulator.

In other words,
a fake quake.

Actually, it's called a...

And it's an exhibit
at the...

In golden gate park.

You can stand
on this vibrating floor

and shake your socks off

without running for cover.

Y-yes, San Francisco
has its share

of real earthquakes, too.

The most famous is the...

The buildings
that didn't fall down

burned down.

Practically the whole city

had to be built
all over again.

Then in 1987,

another huge quake rocked
the San Francisco bay.

A lot of buildings
fell down then, too,

as well as freeways,

something they didn't
have many of in 1906.

The quake simulator of the
California Academy of

Sciences is the safe way to
see what a quake is like

and learn about the science
of earthquakes.

Looks like we're at the end
of our field trip.

I hope you had a great time
rocking on the rock,

fish-and-chipping
at Fisherman's Wharf,

chugging chocolate,

and getting all shook up

at the California academy
of sciences.

Until next time,

go, go, Gadget field trip.