02x04 - Spain/Australia

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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 Gagdet here in awesome
Australia where each year

millions of people travel
thousands of miles to see this

country's spectacular sites.

According to the Chief,
Australia's animals are like

no others in the world!

We're here to explore just what
happened to make these animals

so unique.

It's time to Go Go
Gadget Field Trip.

According to my
trusty locator map,

Australia is just
south of Indonesia.

Depending on how you look at
it, mainland Australia is the

world's largest island or the
world's smallest continent.

Long before humans
arrived in Australia,

bizarre beasts ruled
the rainforests and

dominated the deserts.

It wasn't until just forty
thousand years ago that the

first people
starting popping up.

These people were
called Aborigines.

But we still haven't figured out
what made our furry friends so

odd in the first place.

Take mammals for example.

From China to Hawaii,
mammals like pandas,

dolphins, and people
evolved with wombs.

A womb is the warm hollow space
inside a mother's body where a

baby develops until it
is ready to be born.

Because Australia was so far
from the other continents,

the animals here
evolved on their own.

So their wombs
grew on the outside!

Kind of like a womb with a view.

These animals are called
marsupials and they come in

all shapes and sizes.

Wowzers!

If Australia were to hold a
Cutest Marsupial Contest,

it would be a pretty close call.

Let's head on over to the
Featherdale Wildlife Park and

meet our contestants.

First up we have the
cuddly koala bear.

Who, believe it or not,
is not a bear at all.

In fact koalas are more closely
related to the common possum.

Like their nocturnal
brothers and sisters,

koalas sleep during the day.

Koalas on the other hand only
dine on the tender green leaves

of a eucalyptus
tree...

Picky, picky, picky!

At night, the koalas park their
backside on a cosy branch and

become bedtime binge eaters.

The average adult eats over
two pounds of these oily leaves

every day.

Even my steel stomach couldn't
handle all that roughage.

Which is why the koala
has developed its own

digestive system.

Deep in the belly of this
pint-size koala is an organ

called an appendix, which is
twenty times larger than the one

inside an adult human!

It's like a
Gadget-sized garbage disposal.

Our next Cutest Marsupial
contestant is the

charismatic kangaroo!

From the eight foot long "red
roo" to the ten inch tall "rufus

hair wallaby" there are over
forty different kinds of kanga.

The most common are the
red and grey kangaroos.

When they are not napping
or nibbling they can be seen

hopping at terrific speeds.

A single bound of a strong
kangaroo can measure up

to 27 feet!

That's about as far as the
average long jump of an

Olympic athlete...

Or the stride of a
bionic detective.

Go Go Gadget Legs!

It's time for another Inspector
Gadget Field Trip Quiz:

True or False: The "kangaroo"
got its name by mistake.

The answer when we return.

Welcome back to our
Field Trip in search of

Australia's amazing animals.

Inspector Gadget here
with the answer

to today's
Field Trip Quiz:

True or False, the "kangaroo"
got its name from a

misunderstanding...

English settlers arrived in

Australia they asked the native
people what they called this

jumping thing.

The Aborigines replied
"kangaroo" and the name stuck.

What the English didn't realize
is that "kangaroo" in Aborigine

means "I don't know!"

The English had never seen
anything like the animals

of Australia.

They were told of big
birds called...

cursed
with a boney cap!

Scientists are still not
sure what purpose this

permanent hard hat serves.

Hmm.

Sounds like a case
for the old Inspector.

What about a line of
lizards, named skinks,

that use their
tongues to help them smell!

I wonder if they lick their
ice cream with their noses.

They also heard stories of a
yellow-bellied possum able to

fly 100 yards in a single glide.

But the most puzzling tale
was of the peculiar...

This duck-billed creature is
warm blooded and furry like a

mammal but lays
eggs like a reptile!

Eventually scientists decided
this very confused critter

was mostly mammal.

But what about a bird that
migrated not with the seasons

but with the sun?

Just south of
Victoria, on Phillip Island,

a strange phenonmenon
occurs twice each day.

About an hour before sunrise a
parade of Fairy Penguins scurry

and scamper along the
sand and into the ocean.

They spend most of the
day diving for food.

Either that or they are
practicing their synchronized

swimming for the
Sydney Summer Olympics.

The setting of the sun is the
Fairy Penguins' signal that it

is safe to return home.

With bellies full of fish,
they wait for the right wave,

and surf ashore.

Deep in the dirt by a muddy
river in southeastern Australia

grows an enormous invertebrate
called the...

measuring up to nine feet long.

After seeing that, you may want
to close your eyes and listen to

the giggles and gurgles of the
earthworm as it wiggles around

in the wet dirt.

Wowzers!

Imagine the fish you could
catch with a worm like that!

Not all animals that are
here now are from Australia.

Sheep were introduced
early in the colony's

history to provide wool.

Today the country is still
the world's largest

exporter of wool.

The first camel to come to
Australia was brought over in

across the difficult terrain.

He was such a big help, that
from 1860 to 1904 over

ten thousand more camels
were brought over from

India and Pakistan.

Today, there are so many camels
covering the countryside that

Australians are selling them
back to the countries they

bought them from!

I hope you've enjoyed our
Field Trip through Australia.

We've hopped with the kangaroos,
surfed with the birds,

cuddled the koalas,
and met camels in herds.

Don't make like a
worm and squirm,

cause we'll be right back
with another top secret location

investigation.

Go Go Gadget Field Trip!

Toro!
Get out of the way!

Here come the bulls!

Inspector Gadget here at the
San Fermin Festival in Pamplona,

Spain, at the famous
running of the bulls.

You'd think by now the people
would choose another street

for jogging.

We're going to explore
the Spanish tradition of

bullfighting and a special
city in Spain called Barcelona.

Go Go Gadget Field Trip!

First we're going to
explore Barcelona,

which is a beautiful
city on the coast of Spain.

If it spread any farther,
it would fall in the water.

Barcelona is the capital of
the province of Catalonia

on the northeast
coast of Spain.

Though Catalonia
is part of Spain,

it has its own culture
and even its own language.

There are 3 major languages
spoken in Spain aside from the

official Castilian
Spanish.

In Barcelona they speak a
language called Catalan.

In other northern
provinces, they speak

Basque and Gallego.
Wowsers!

This is the Ramblas.

The Ramblas is five
streets connected end to end,

starting at the Placa de
Catalunya and rambling all the

way down to the waterfront.

If they rambled any further,
they'd make quite a splash.

This place has everything!

Would you believe miles
of street performers,

shops, musicians,
fortune tellers,

and artists?

Would you believe the
world's longest souvenir stand?

How about three
postcards and a bad mime?

This is the gothic
quarter of Barcelona,

called the Barrie Gotic,

because it's berry gothic...
er...

very gothic.

Barrie Gotic is the
oldest part of the city.

Of course it's old.

It's gothic!

Barcelona Cathedral is
almost 700 years old.

Construction began in 1298,
and the gothic building was

completed around 1450.

The main front and the dome
were not added until the

late-19th century.

They wanted to add a rumpus room
and convert the garage but

they couldn't get
permits from the city.

The Placa Del Rei,

with its cathedral
and historic monuments,

is another beautiful square.

Legend has it that when explorer
Christopher Columbus returned to

Spain from his
visit to the New World,

Queen Isabella and King
Ferdinand were here waiting.

Christopher Columbus was
immortalized forever with this

Colombus monument, which
is located at the

end of the Ramblas.

What's a trip to Barcelona
without playing in the world's

largest billiard game?

Wowsers!

Those cues are
over 100 meters tall!

Wait a minute!

Those aren't billiard cues.

They're the spires of the
Templo De La Sagrada Familia.

This temple and its spires
were built by the famous Spanish

architect Gaudi who aspired a
lot in the spire department.

He began work on it in 1883,
intending it to be the great

modern church of Barcelona.

The spires were symbolic
of the twelve apostles,

the four evangelists, the
Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.

There were supposed to be 18
towers in all but Gaudi died

after building only 8.

Gaudi was a little
architect with big plans.

On one side of the building, he
wanted to show the creation of

earth from beginning to end!

Wowsers!

That's a lot of history
to cover in one place!

Excuse me, Madam.

Could you tell me if
there's a fortune in my future?

You know, usually
fortune tellers talk more.

This one must be on a
fortune tellers' strike.

Actually she's a machine,
part of the Automata Museum,

which means Automation
Museum in Spanish.

This place has everything from
automated clowns to automated

dancers and a guillotine!

No waiting.

Step right up and
lose your head.

This place has more automatic
machines then you can

shake a Gadget at.

I'll have to keep moving or
they'll make a ride out of me.

For those of you into the
more traditional gadgets,

Barcelona has an automated
Ferris wheel and roller coaster!

Spain is a hotbed of creativity.

Many famous
artists came from Spain,

like Pablo Picasso.

Another artist close to the
Spaniard's heart was

Joan Miro established an
international reputation while

always staying close to
his homeland of Spain.

Miro lived from 1893 to 1983.

He is famous for his
paintings and drawings,

which are often recognized
by their childlike delight in

colors and shapes.

Early on, Miro developed his
style of spilling paint onto a

canvas and moving it
around with his brush.

The Joan Miro Foundation
is where a 145 sculptures,

tapestries, and pieces of
ceramic by this famous Spanish

artist are displayed.

It's true.
You can count them.

Ole! When we return
we'll see the bullfights.

I can't wait to see them
put on boxing gloves

and climb into the ring.

But first an Inspector
Gadget Field Trip Fact:

I always thought the red
color of the cape

is what made
the bull mad.

But it's actually the motion of
the cape that really gets him

charging.

You could wave a polka dot
cape and still set him off.

Welcome back!

Time to read the paper to
find out the starting time

for the bull fight.

And it says "Any
time the bull wants!"

Spaniards take
bullfighting very seriously.

Apparently the bulls do too.

Bullfighting has been a
major part of Spanish

culture for years.

Bullfighting is a spectacle
in which a bullfighter,

or matador challenges and
fights a bull in a public arena.

Doing it in private
is known as dumb.

Doing it in a closet
is known as fatal.

Bullfighting is one of Spain's
favorite national past times.

It's also popular in Mexico and
other parts of Latin America,

Southern France, and Portugal.

You can learn more about
bullfighting at Barcelona's

Bullfighting Museum.

The museum has two rooms
which show the heads of famous

fighting bulls.

It also shows branding irons
and emblems of famous

cattle ranches.

There's a collection of
posters, old entrance tickets,

the suits of famous matadors
and many more bullish items.

During the first
half of this century,

five women have
attained the rank of matador.

Just recently a woman in France
earned the title of matador for

the first time in
nearly 50 years.

Bullfighting is now an
Equal Opportunity Employer.

Remember those wacky bulls
running in the streets of

Pamplona?

That celebration lasts around
the clock for nine days from

July 6-14 every year, and
the entire town of Pamplona

participates.

If you look closely, you'll
see that the bulls aren't really

running.

They're jogging.

The people are running.

If the bulls were running,
there wouldn't be any people

in front of them.

It has become tradition for
people to dance in the streets

along side the jogging bulls.

There are also lots
of bands and parades.

The music helps
muffle the screams.

All the tourists have
fun singing and dancing,

until all of a sudden
the bulls want to cut in.

This bull is a little
unclear on the concept.

He wants to dance with a runner!

And now he's coming my way.

Wait!
My dance card's full.

Yikes!
Ow!

As the sun sets over
Barcelona, it's time to say

Hasta la vista, baby!

We had fun rambling
down the Ramblas,

spire-counting at the
Templo De La Sagrada Familia,

aligning our gadgets
at the Automata Museum,

pushing paint brushes
with Picasso and pals,

and running with
the raging bulls.

Be sure to stampede right
back for more adventures!

Whoahhhh!

Go go Gadget field trip!