Wacky Races Review

Now what went wrong? Beyond good, beyond evil,

beyond your wildest imagination! And now, here

they are! The most daredevil group of zappy drivers

to ever whirl their wheels in the wacky races!

competing for the title of the world's wackiest

racer. Cars are approaching the starting line.

First is the turbo terrific driven by Peter Perfect.

Next, Rufus, Rough Cut, and Sawtooth in the Buzz

Wagon. Maneuvering for possession is the Army

surplus special. Right behind is the Ant Hill

Mob in their bulletproof bomb. And there's ingenious

inventor, Pat Tending, in his converter car.

Oh, and here's the lovely Penelope Pitstop, the

glamour gal of the gas pedal. Next we have the

boulder mobile with the Slag Brothers rockin'

gravel. Lurching along in the creepy coop with

a gruesome twosome. And right on their tail is

the Red Max. And there's the Arkansas Chugabug

with Luke and Blubber Bear. Sneaking along flat

is that mean machine with those double -steeling

dew batters. Nick Dastardly and his sidekick,

Buckley. And even now they're up to some dirty

trick. And they're off! standing start and why

not they've been chained to a post by shifty

dick dasterly who shifts it to the wrong gear

and away they go on the way out wacky races And

welcome to the 28th episode of Tooncast Beyond

brought to you by the GeekCast Radio Network.

I am your host, Tf2unMike, and today I am joined

for the first time in a long time since episode

zero of Tooncast Beyond, Mr. Optimus Solo. Hello.

Yes, I was tired of listening to people who claim

to be experts, so I had to make my... Oh, did

I just stir the pot? Did I just stir the pot?

I had to make an appearance. I had to come back

to the show. Let some sensible minds take over

but they are not essentially outside of he she

ra He she remain they're not essentially wrong

because it was a terrible era of filmation Outside

of the filmation was great. No, not really just

because they use a lot of stock animation and

Like filmation Ghostbusters, I'm sorry that shows

so much animation Ghostbusters Need to watch

it more anyway, but it's good to be here Yes,

and today we are jumping back in the DeLorean

for another Tooncast Beyond DeLorean Time episode

with our heading set for 1968 and the Wacky Races.

Yes. Yes, and as you all know from us doing DeLorean

Times, essentially we go back to the old Tooncast

format, so I'm gonna let you take it with your

history lesson, sir. This format is old as dirt.

You created it, not us. I know, I may or may

not have created it. Wacky Races is an animated

television series produced by none other than

the legendary Hannah Barbera. The series features

11 different cars racing against each other in

various road rallies throughout North America,

with each driver hoping to win the title of World's

Wackiest Racer. Throughout North America, isn't

it the entire world that they're racing through?

Because I saw episodes where they were going

from France to Australia. most of the time it

was North America there may have been a few episodes

where it wasn't but it was on CBS from September

of 1968 to January 1969 so it was just a very

short -lived one season 17 episodes show each

episode featured two different races The cartoon

had an unusually large number of regular characters

because we have 11 different racing cars We actually

had 23 people and animals spread amongst those

11 cars plus the unseen and never identified

a race announcer So obviously this show has been

rerun on Cartoon Network Boomerang, etc, etc,

but that is Your history lesson on the wacky

spectacular races. Yes I... I love these. Such

a great idea for a cartoon. As a kid, I... Between

this and something we'll be talking about in

a few weeks here on Tooncast Beyond, between

this and Laugh Olympics, this was great because

you've got, you know, the Sledge Brothers who

are essentially two versions of Captain Caveman.

Dastardly and muttly. Did you just call them

the Sledge Brothers? Yeah. The slag brothers?

Slag, slag, whatever. You're getting Dinobots

in here. Peter Perfect and Penelope Pitstop and

the Ant Hill Mob and all just essentially bringing

Hanna Barbera's characters into one cartoon.

Well, the difference here is that Unlike Laugh

Olympics, Laugh Olympics you're using all basically

established characters for the most part. Right.

This one, I thought what kind of was the appeal

for this is not only was it the first one kind

of to do this format where it's kind of a smorgasbord

of different characters that seem to be from

different shows, but this one's different than

Laugh Olympics because for the most part this

one is unknown characters or original characters

and now some of them have been seen in other

shows and a lot of them will be seen in future

shows but but there's kind of a an original unique

aspect of of introducing us to some some newer

type characters now i know some of them are uh

harken back to like the days of theatrical shorts

and some of them you know have been seen before

but it's not like all all -star cast like laugh

olympic says Yeah well then I must have watched

these after I saw those others because I had

seen Penelope Pitstop and the Ant Hill Mob and

I had seen Dastardly and Mutley beforehand because

they actually this is where they originally appeared

and then they were spun off into their own series

right so this is actually responsible for us

having those those cartoon shows yeah and of

course the Ant Hill Mob is part of Penelope Pitstop.

Penelope Pitstop, yeah. So there was multiple,

I mean, not all of them ended up being successful

and going on to be and star in their own show,

but definitely Penelope Pitstop and Dasterly

and Mutley. So that's why I'm saying this is

kind of unique because it was all basically new

characters that we're seeing. Yeah. And it was

cool because, you know, I remember wanting to

at least be a spectator at one of those races

or, you know, see Dick Dasterly fail. And the

announcer made fun of him for failing Well, it

was cool because not only did you have like 11

different cars and like I said 20 some different

people um in this race format where it's basically

constantly a race you get to see all different

hijinks and you get to bounce around from this

character to this character to this car to that

car and it's never boring like this is I don't

know why there's not more cartoons like this

for this add generation. I know that's not politically

correct, but but this is something that would

keep a kid's attention these days because there's

not a dull moment. Well I mean because the thing

is like every car had something different like

this, what are they, Slagger, Slacker, I don't

know. The two Captain Cavemen knockoffs. Yeah.

You know, each car was something different. Penelope

Pitstop's car essentially did nothing. I mean

she... had an umbrella on when she fell off a

cliff compact pussycat yeah there's a whole lot

of jokes right there i know there is yes there

is and we'll leave that alone so talk about a

nip and tuck yeah exactly i just remember good

things i just remember it being fun i remember

being unique i remember liking that there's such

a variety of characters um it's just fun from

the beginning to the end it is they don't make

them like this anymore sadly they don't not at

all um you know and and honestly um you know

kind of talking about the characters i guess

even though they never won you kind of almost

wanted them to win once dastardly and mutley

in the mean machine double zero I absolutely

love Dastardly and Mutley. Yeah, they're great.

The combination of Dastardly, you know, being

the bumbling brain villainous character and Mutley

being like the sidekick that has a ruthless streak,

but also has that like, I don't care, like I'm

just gonna laugh at you because you're being

stupid. Like, Mutley's laugh is awesome. Everybody

loves Mutley's laugh. You can't not love Mutley's

laugh. I mean, Mutley's laugh is essentially

a lower toned version than Scooby's laugh. Yeah.

Because they're both voiced by Don Messick. Right.

But it's just a little bit different. It's like

I used to imitate that laugh all the time just

because it's like, it's just so fun. Yeah, between

the laugh and the... You know that dog is swearing.

You just know it. But it was just so funny. They're

an easy favorite as far as one of the cars. My

other two cars that I really liked, one was the

Slag Brothers and the Boulder Mobile One. Just

because I love Captain Caveman. And then these

are kind of two versions of the hats and just

like hitting each other over the head almost

like that, you know, Captain Caveman type, you

know, the boulder mobile just, it was just fun

because they were like the dummies. And obviously

that was reused for Captain Caveman later on.

And the other one I really liked was the anthill

mob in the bulletproof bomb. I just love the

anthill mob. They are so funny. It's so great.

Now you don't always get the same mob throughout

their history. Sometimes different people appear.

Like this one you have Clyde and Ring -a -ding

are the two that actually speak. Yeah. And then

there's five others that don't really speak.

And you get different characters when it gets

spun off in the Penelope pit stop and whatnot.

But Ring -a -ding is just hilarious. And Clyde

is just perfect as the leader of that hill mob

and I just love that There's like seven of them

bunched into that car. Yeah So those are probably

some of my favorite cars Yeah, for me it was

that it was the mean machine dash Lee Motley

and the an Hill mob. I like those two the best

With with the an Hill mob when they got spent

when they got spun off they were riding riding

in a living car called chug -a -boom chug -a

-boom was awesome but I mean essentially in this

in this for wacky races their goal is almost

the same as when they get to the spin -off series

they're like we have to save Miss Penelope no

matter what yeah it's like they're bad guys but

they're not right right exactly just muck things

up and it's great I mean, we should probably

mention some of the other cars because some other

people will have them as their favorites. But

the gruesome twosome and the creepy coupe, which

was Little Gruesome and Big Gruesome. Yeah, basically

that's what it is. Little Gruesome was like a

little purple like he is the boss kind of and

Big Gruesome was the big oaf. So that was kind

of an interesting kind of like a spun on the

Adams family slash Munsters, you know, whatever

you want to go with with that. I love the name

of the next one. Professor Pat pending Patent

pending in the convert a car. Yeah, it's just

basically a scientist Just kind of a I Guess

he is an interesting character, but it looks

like he's out of place Yeah, I don't know if

it's me just hearing it wrong But I kind of swore

the narrator said professor patent pending. I

didn't think he said Pat. I thought he said patent

Yeah, it just makes it sound like that because

he goes so fast. Yeah. I mean, he has lots of

gadgets because he's like a scientist. So he's

got that going for him and his car is kind of

like a boat shaped airplane type car. Yeah. Yeah.

And you had the red Baron. I mean, the red Max

in the crimson hay baler. What the freaking combination

obviously of the red Baron and the blue Max and

his car is kind of like a hybrid before hybrids

were invented. Yes. Of course, we mentioned the

Compact Pussycat with Penelope Pistach. I can't

say that without laughing. Oh, fancy pink convertible.

Sergeant Blass and Private Meekly in the Army

Surplus Special. I love the Army. I love the

vehicle. I don't really care for the characters.

I don't care for the characters, but the vehicle

is... it's like a race tank. Yeah, essentially.

And Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chuggabug.

That's just fun to say I'm sorry and they're

kind of just you like your typical southern like

I Don't want to say rednecks, but that's what

they are. Yeah Kind of similar to Rufus rough

-cut and sawtooth and the buzzwagon. Yeah, they

both kind of play a similar Stereotype and then

Peter perfect in the turbo terrific. I did not

like Peter perfect No, Peter perfect was the

character that just didn't care about he has

a crush on Penelope. Yeah And he's just annoying.

Which car did you like the best? As far as like

the gadgetry of the car, as far as what it did,

I like the buzz wagon a little bit. I thought

that was kind of cool. I love the surplus special,

so that'd probably be the one I pick. I like

the mean machine simply for the constant. backfiring

and everything going wrong. Yeah, I can see that.

I like there's some parts to convert a car that

are cool, but not as cool as some of the other

ones. I mean, honestly, the main machine is pretty

darn cool. Yeah, it is. I mean, the main machine

is like a roadster of that day. I mean, it looks

like a road, you know, it looks like a, you know,

souped up. I know it's not a convertible, but

it's, you know, like a souped up Mustang or souped

up, you know, Chevy, Camaro, whatever. Right.

But it looks like that kind of car, if that car

happened in this time period. The names of the

car are just cool. Yeah. And the fact that the

announcer uses them and calls them by their name

or by their number and stuff like that. He's

like, oh, here comes, you know, Peter Perfect

and the Turbo Terrific. Yeah. Just fun. And not

only do you get all those cool characters and

cool cars, you get the narrator. You get the

narrator that's helping out things. Every episode

is introduced and commented on by an unseen narrator,

voiced by Dave Willock, who often communicates

with the racers as they drive. The racers respond

by speaking to the audience, breaking the fourth

wall. Dick Daschle has oddly nicknamed the narrator

Boopsy. used as a female character's nickname

in Doonesbury shortly thereafter. Yeah, I love

the interaction between them. I love the breaking

the fourth wall before, you know, before the

days of Animaniacs or Tiny Toons or all that.

Or Ferris Bueller. Yeah, it was just fun to see

it in the cartoon like this where you have the

narrator who is almost like the race announcer,

but then he can communicate with the people as

they're racing. Yeah. That was awesome. And that's

a kind of that that's a thing of this era of

animation, though. It's not just with rocky races.

There was other shows with narrators. Oh, yeah.

Yeah that did that That's what made them fun

because you Yeah, it made it more real because

it wasn't just some show Yeah, something where

all these people are actually like with us and

they're communicating with us Yeah, and then

of course with all things Hannah Berbera usually

for the most part you get an epic voice cast

Epic voice cast my ass look at this list Oz Butler

Don Messick John Stevenson Janet Waldo Paul Winchell

and Dave Willock. You said my ass like I was

wrong shut up My favorite voices for this one

Paul Winchell Is just amazing I love Paul Winchell

and I love this particular voice. He's used it

for other characters. It's kind of like the same

as Gargamel on Smurfs, which he'll use later

on. But he just does that voice so perfectly.

I think Motley and Don Messick with his laugh

is great. And I think Don Messick is also great

as Ring -a -ding. So those are probably my favorite

voices out of the cast. Yeah, I would have to

agree Well, you can't go wrong with those guys.

I mean they literally has four of the most famous

male voices of all time. Yeah. Yeah It just It

makes me so sad that we can't talk to these guys

because can you imagine what a two cast interview

would be with Don Messick? I mean not just for

these characters that we're talking about today,

but just in general all Winchell and you know

Dawes Butler and John Stevenson, I mean my god,

just the amount of stuff they did yeah, I mean

people don't like the amount of animation that

was happening then is literally I mean Almost

as much as there is today and yeah, but you only

had this small group of people doing the voices

and Before I became you know a part of behind

the voice actors and doing this stuff and really

paying attention Like you did not grow up knowing

that you were listening to like five people,

six people doing all the voices and all the shows

that you were watching when you were really little.

Right, yeah. You know, the theatrical shorts,

the Disney stuff, the Hanna -Barbera stuff. I

mean, it's such a small group of geniuses where

it really mattered. And the thing is, I think

people... People don't realize the difference

in voice acting then to voice acting now because

now you get so much You have the CG you have

the animation you have all the visuals Whereas

back then you had to sell it on your voice performance,

right? But even now though, I've noticed that

People like voice directors and casting directors

for animation will go back to a Person that they've

worked with with like, you know I've said this

before. At this point in time, in 2012, since

November of 2011 to May of this year, every superhero

or action cartoon I've seen since last November

has had Kevin Michael Richardson. I mean, that

guy is everywhere. Awesome. I don't, I'm not

saying that it's not awesome, but even today,

In today's standards, you still have a small

niche group. You do. But I guess what I'm saying

is, back then... It was smaller. It wasn't necessarily

just about the size. It was a different art.

It was... It wasn't... There was more into creating

the voice and really tailoring it to a specific

thing. Right and and and you know these guys

like Don Messick and and and Dawes Butler and

Paul Winchell and Stevenson that said or Mel

Blanc like They knew all of the different accents.

They knew all of the different famous voices

of the radio day and they just were more in tune

of really creating not just a voice but something

that just is There's something about the art

form there. That's different than today I'm not

saying that people aren't as good today, but

it's just a different type of, there's not as

much of this artistry in creating the voice.

And these guys are just geniuses in creating

like, I mean, Paul Winchell is dick dastardly.

I mean, people today look back at these guys

and try to do voices like, oh, put a little Paul

Winchell in that or put a little, you know, John

Stevenson in that. These guys are just iconic.

Yes, they are. So I guess we should get into

a little bit of the background of the show. Yes.

One of the unused plans for the series was that

the races would be part of a live -action quiz

show made by Meryl, Heather, and Bob Quigley

Productions in which contestants would bet on

which wacky racer would cross the finish line

first. Although the game show concept was eventually

scrapped, the series still retained a Hannah

Barbera -Heath -Quigley dual production credit.

um, I don't think that I'm glad that was scrapped

because That's a cartoon that's gonna teach kids

to bet Seriously, I mean I could I can see the

interaction and the want to do that and and whatnot

But I don't think from a logistic standpoint.

It would be Possible. Yeah, it's also said that

the show is inspired by the film the great race

with Natalie would Basically becoming Penelope

pitstop dig dastardly based on Jack Lemmon's

character professor fate and dastardly sidekick

mutley was loosely based on Peter Fox max mean

Yeah, so had some some history in that too Yeah,

what did you think of the the music of this show

other music was great? And that's one thing that

they had to have in a race show they had to keep

something that was gonna be upbeat be I mean,

it's a race. You can't have something slow. You

can't have something Um, you know, you're not

going to get like the building crescendo that

you're going to get in like an action film or

an action show where you have to get people pumped

up for the action scene that's about to happen.

It's a race. So you consistently need a soundtrack

carrying the cars through the course. And I thought

they did a magnificent job. It's probably one

of the better, um, from as far as like a theme

and background music, it's probably one of the

best Hannah Barbera had. Yeah, just because of

the necessity that the music was almost a central

player Yeah, it was I mean everything in wacky

races Had to be there for it to be what it was

because you couldn't have the show without the

narrator Couldn't have the show without the belt

the quote -unquote villains of dastardly and

mutley. You couldn't have the show without the

music Yeah, um wouldn't be the same right and

and I also want to you know kind of skipped over

a little bit, but as far as like the actual show

getting into just the music too, the fun part

about this actual show was all the different

hijinks. All the different booby traps, all the

different schemes that different cars would come

up with to try to get past, you know, try to

get ahead. And then the ways that the cars would

try to cope or recover when a trap was sprung

on them. Like there was just and it wasn't like

I know you kind of see Dasher Lee and Mutley

as the bad characters. But the rest of them are

kind of like there's a gray area. Oh, yeah. You

know, they're not bad. Right. But they're doing

some underhanded things to try to get ahead.

You know, some are some are more by the book

than others. Yeah. But there's not necessarily

bad and good characters. Outside of dastardly

and mutley, right? Yeah, you know you you you

know, I hated Peter perfect or whatever his name

was and Whereas I had a little bit more like

for Pat pending, you know You like you like your

individual players, but you always were looking

for what are they gonna do to get ahead? like

is the dragon gonna come out of the the gruesome

to some You know car and take them ahead is Pat

pending gun, you know have some type of gadget

that he uses and it It allowed, I mean obviously

there was only 17 episodes. Right. But it allowed

every one of those races, the 34 races, to be

completely different. Exactly. And it's not just

about the the hijinks of Dick Dasher, Land Mutley.

It's about the hijinks of the entire race team

because... Look at the title, Wacky Races. It's

not just, it's not titled that just because they're

in weird locations or you know... you know, racing

through a desert or racing across a stream or

racing through snow or, you know, different weather.

It's not that because of that. It's called Wacky

Races because of what the racers' cars could

do. Right. And it was just, it's just an amazing

show. Agree, and I think that's what made us,

you know fun, you know We had the music that

was always going you had different winners all

the time. You had different hijinks all the time

You had a variety of people that you could either

like or dislike Everybody had their different

favorites and they're different, you know people

that they didn't like So there's a little something

for everyone and it was always new and it was

never stale or boring Yeah Getting into the legacy

segment here Of course, we already mentioned

the spinoffs with Penelope Pitstop and the Angel

Mob were spinoffed into another cartoon series

in 69, titled The Perils of Penelope Pitstop.

In the same year, Dick, Dastardly, and Mutley

were given a spinoff series titled Dastardly

and Mutley and Their Flying Machines. The series

is sometimes mistakenly known as Stop the Pigeon,

after the show's working title and theme song

both series ran for two seasons. Of course, some

of these characters will be reused because the

new character of Mumbly, star of the 1976 Mumbly

cartoon show, bears a strong resemblance to Mutley.

It is. It's the same character. I don't know

what that was. Because Mutley became Mumbly and

there was at one point where the Dick Dastardly

becomes, hold on, I'm going to get it, the like

the Dread Baron or something like that. Yeah,

um, but they're the same character. Let's not

be let's not be fools here. Yeah, that's that's

true The other bit for for the Baron Let's see.

Let's see who strongly resembles Dick Ashley

because the leaders of the who became the leader

of the Really Rotten's team in the Laugh Olympics

cartoon, which featured three teams of Hanna

-Barbera characters, including Mumbly's villainous

Really Rotten's team, Yogi Bear's, Yogi Yajui's

team that consisted of many of his friends from

Yogi's gang, and Scooby -Doo's Scooby -Doobies.

I'm sorry. Which also included Captain Caveman.

Yes. Well, Scooby -Doobies has a hidden meaning

because... Just watch Jay and Son of Bob strike

back and you'll find out. Oh, thanks. Anyway.

And to prove that Mumbly and Mutley are the same

character in the Latin American version of the

Latin Olympics, Mumbly was credited as Mutley.

Yeah. But yeah, you know, so you have Mumbly

and Dick Dastley going on, you have Captain Caveman

who was created, who was basically a slag brother

before Captain Caveman was invented. You had

the Penelope Pitstop stuff and the Ant Hill Mime

gang, so you just have a lot of stuff. And then...

You have a lot of similar types of shows, like

we said, Laugh Olympics, Yogi's Treasure Hunt,

Yogi's Face Race. You know, there's been a lot

of things that happened after this that resemble

this format because it works so well. Two of

them really make me sad. What? In 1991, teenage

versions of Dick Dasterly and Mutley appeared

in the Yo -Yogi series with Yogi Bear, Boo -Boo

Bear, Cyndi Bear, Snaggle Puss, and Huckleberry

Hound. Oh God. Didn't like Yo -Yogi? No. In 2006,

the pilot for a spin -off series titled Wacky

Races Forever was produced for Cartoon Network.

The series depicted a roster of both new and

returning racers competing against each other.

Penelope Fittstock and Peter Perfect had married.

and had created Perfect Industries, the corporate

sponsor of the new Wacky Races, whereas their

children, Parker and Piper, competed in the race.

Other characters included the Slag Brothers,

Professor Pat Pending, a teenage version of the

gruesome twosome, and Dick Dasterly and Motley

working for a new villain named Mr. Viceroy who

sought to steal Perfect Industries. The series

was not picked up by Cartoon Network. Thank God.

I don't know, it might have been cool. I could

see a new version of this being successful, but

it'd have to be done right. And we also, I forgot

to mention, as well as Laugh Olympics and some

of those other ones, Fender Bender 500 was another

one that was very similar. Except instead of

the mean machine, they had the dirty truckster.

And that one included Yogi Bear, Winsome Witch,

Quick Jar McGraw, and some other Hanna Barbera

stars. Part of Wake, Rattle, and Roll, which

was a 1990 series. Let's see, as far as video

games, there was produced in 1992 for the NES,

IBM PC, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64 in which

the player took the role of Mutley, sent on missions

from Dick Dasterly to defeat the other racers.

A Mega Drive slash Sega Genesis game was also

developed, but cancelled before release. I would

love to play this. I would love to play this

because everyone wanted to be Mutley. Mean not

we was so just so damn cool. Well, you could

probably get the the PlayStation 2 version Yeah,

wacky races starring dastardly and motley. I

know that's available out there. Um That also

the game, you know, we saw some new voices obviously

since we're talking about later on Jim Cummings

and Billy West and Scott in the Greg Berger people

coming in to do some of the other voices And

then there's also one called the wacky races

mad motors for the PlayStation 2 back in 2007.

It says a new video game for the Wii and Nintendo

DS was released also in 2008. So there is some

versions that apparently had a longer game life

than it had a series life. Yes. And of course

DVD release. It was one home video released the

entire series with commentaries and other extras

on DVD on October 26, 2004. Wait. There was 34

episodes. I thought there was only 17. Uh, it's

34 races. Oh, that's well they when they put

34 next to episode number Yeah, I guess it probably

technically was but they're really 17 Yeah, the

complete box set doesn't have any extras though

It doesn't well the one doesn't the one that

was the the first one that was released They're

talking about but then the warner's home video

that did that right has some commentaries and

other extras. Yeah So there's a couple different

things that you can probably get your hands on

it says a Commentary like I look back like a

retrospective documentary a featurette on the

on the spin -off shows and then a trivia thing

Trivia track type thing that you've probably

seen in other DVDs. I did want to mention that

This show yes was one of the casualties of That

dark time in cartoon them known as the 70s. Yes

This is one of several cartoon shows canceled

in the late 60s early 70s Due to parental protests

about excessive violence and children's programming

So this was one of the casualties of that movement.

Mmm booty you guys come on. It's freaking Hanna

-Barbera. Yeah How about some race results? sure

we all know we all know that Dastardly and Muttley

never won a race. That's easy. But they always

did give the first, second, and third place finishings.

Yep. And the all -time winners. As far as if

you're doing this, this is based on what most

racing people do. I hate racing, but you get

certain points for first, second, and third places.

Right. So if you were to award points like that

based on their finishes. Mm -hmm. The person

with the most points would have been the boulder

mobile run by the Slag Brothers. The Slag Brothers

with 87 points. Even though they only got first

three times. Yeah. And there was some other people

that got first four times. But the Slag Brothers

got second eight times. Yeah. That's more than

any other... They had 14 top three finishes.

And then they were followed interestingly by

the Buzz Wagon. With his rough cut and sawtooth,

yeah. And then one of our favorites, the Ant

Hill Mob, getting in there. I'm surprised that

Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly were second

last. They never got third place. They got third,

first place finishes. Look at what they're driving

though, the Army Surplus Special. I mean, that's

essentially a giant tank and tanks are slow.

And Peter Perfect was not so perfect since he

was third at the bottom. Yeah. So that's kind

of interesting. Maybe not a coincidence though,

the Sly Brothers car number. Number one, yeah.

It's rigged. Whereas Dick Dasterly and Muttley

were double zero. Double zero. And it said, interesting

in one's assigned vehicle. All they had to do

was the driver had to cross the finish line in

some type of thing. Like there was once where

it was a flying carpet. There was one time where

it was a giant ice cube. You know, then maybe

they could even walk across so they were they

were prohibited from doing that Oh, they're apparently

yeah prohibited. It says a DQ would result of

a driver cross the finish line in the wrong vehicle

though So flying carpet giant ice cube. Okay

walking other vehicle not good. Not good at all.

Yeah So funny There was some times where there

was some DQs though, too. Yep That's they got

the cute quite a few times. Yes, he did As far

as the cultural references it was it appeared

in in Dexter's pair races in the episode Dexter's

wacky races Features major cast members Let's

see a portion of the animated movie Scooby -Doo

and the reluctant werewolf is loosely based on

wacky races In reboot season 3 the binome Cyrus

reboots as a parody of toy dick dastardly and

frisket reboots as a parody toy of mutley An

episode of duck dodgers the little character

turns himself into mutley in the virtual reality

game Life -size working replicas of the vehicles

have been built in the UK and appear annually

at the Goodwood Festival of speed with new additions

each year 2008 sees the last of the cars The

Ant Hill Mob and the Bulletproof Bomb added to

the collection, thereby becoming the complete

set. I'm sorry, these cars look like crap. They

do. They do. They look like crap. Yeah. In the

Dabba Don episode of Harvey Birdman, the Ant

Hill Mob appear briefly shooting Mighty Mido

from their Bulletproof Bomb, apparently carrying

out orders from Fred Flintstone. Oh my goodness.

I mean, they've been in a lot of things. There's

been references in Johnny Tess, the Powerpuff

Girls. I mean, there's a lot of cultural references

for this show. There's an episode of Batman the

Brave and the Bold that seems to take off of

the wacky raises. That doesn't surprise me. The

pink version of the boulder mobile shows up in

the Flintstone Kids. So it's everywhere. It is

everywhere. So we are going to take a quick break

and we'll come back to close the show. I thought

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Still, there's a ton of those out there. What

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There's still a ton of those out there. What

about the 80s franchises? There's already a few

of those as well. Then let's forget about comics.

Let's focus on toys and action figures. Dude,

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to Tooncast. We are back. Final thoughts on the

Wacky Races, sir? It was just a really well done

thing by Hannah Barbera. Obviously you can tell

how well it was done because there were so many

spinoffs and so many shows that tried to emulate

and copy that format. The music was good and

the hijinks were good. The amount of people that

you could watch that, you know, it never got

old. There was always something different. I

give a lot of credit to the writers and a lot

of credit to the voice actors. This is a show.

that deserves a special spot and special place

in cartoon history. And it's really, I wish there

was more shows like this these days. And I'm

not just saying that in the old thing, like,

oh, I wish there was more shows like the shows

I grew up in. Not just for that, I just wish

there was more shows that had this kind of unique,

just fun, loving format. It's hard to do it right,

but if you could do it right, I think it would

still be successful today. I completely agree.

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