Mike Matei based his Inspector Gadget voice on Gadget's appearance as a menu guide on a DVD for The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989). Matei and James Rolfe had previously reviewed this DVD feature in the video Inspector Gadget Mario (2011). Rolfe provided his own take on the voice in another video, Inspector Gadget Explains How to Use Cinemassacre (2011).
Mike Matei posted this video on Cinemassacre's main YouTube channel in 2012, when he took over managing the channel while James Rolfe was busy filming Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014). The video was later taken down due to poor reception from fans. In a 2017 Reddit post, Matei admitted that he also wasn't satisfied with it, saying "It was a video made very quickly, and admittedly, it was not very good... that one was a stinker. Can't win em all. Anyway, fans weren't happy with the video and I wasn't happy with the video. So since nobody was happy there, I took it down." However, the video eventually gained a cult following, getting referenced, re-uploaded, and re-edited many times, and is now considered a Cinemassacre classic. It was finally reposted on Cinemassacre's sister channel Cinemassacre Clips in 2020.