When I first saw Rainbow Parakeet, I thought only of his role in the 2003 version. The mad bomber! It actually took me a few images to release that here, he is a good guy!
It was pretty much the same with me, but the other way around. The first time I spotted him in the 2003 series, I was like: 'wait a minute..., inspector Holmes changed to the opposite side? Was the solar sphere affecting his cerebral cortex?' His 2003 equivalent should have gotten transformed into a robot too, so they could have easily sticked another 5 episodes to the new series.