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Eileen Bolender, I...Love, Wacky Races. I also was a big fan of...The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop, and Dasterdly and Muttley, and Their Flying Machines. I am sorry you do not enjoy the...Classic theme, Stop That Pigeon, Now! I bought the Penelope Pitstop, collection as that is my fave of the trio. My dad used to tell me stories over the phone. He would pretend to be...Sylvester "The Hooded Claw" Sneekly, and he would regale me with his lastest scheme to get that...Penelope Pitstop, for good.
post #3 of 25
Wacky Races is one of my all time favorate Cartoons so I love this entry. In fact next weeks blog was going to be on Terry Thomas, the man Dick Dastardly is based upon. Like Duke Fleed I was also a big fan of The Perils of Penolopy Pitsop and I think this era of Hanna Barbara cartoons was amoung the best.
post #4 of 25
I always believed Dastardly was modeled after Jack Lemmon's Prof. Fate in The Great Race. In fact I thought the whole cartoon was inspired by The Great Race.
post #5 of 25
I'd heard it was Monte Carlo or Bust....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_Or_Bust
post #6 of 25
Favorite of mine as a kid...nice spotlight, and to this day, i get a laugh out of the hillbilly car with its terrified bear co-pilot.
Also, i could swear Dastardly and Mutley actually won one race or had their shining moment one episode.
post #7 of 25
Man I used to love this show. Those Boomerang reruns were a real blessing, The Creep Coupe is the coolest car ever!
Though are you sure Dastardly and Mutley never won a race Eileen? I distinctly remember watching an episode where they did actually win. It stands out in my mind because it was something I never thought would happen on this show. Or maybe I'm just crazy, either way I'm waiting for Freakazoid to show up. Us 90's kids shall not be denied!
post #8 of 25
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Favorite of mine as a kid...nice spotlight, and to this day, i get a laugh out of the hillbilly car with its terrified bear co-pilot.
Also, i could swear Dastardly and Mutley actually won one race or had their shining moment one episode.
They did but were in the wrong car so got disqulaified.
post #9 of 25
Not sure I completely recall this one but there is a similar one that better be a part of this series now.
post #10 of 25
I can't believe this was only 17 episodes. I caught it on reruns before Boomerang, and it always seemed like something I had never seen. But, I am with TzuDohNihm, if we have this, we must have Laff-A-Lympics. And of course Freakazoid and Animaniacs.
post #11 of 25
I'd heard the Great Race inspiration as well. Kinda obvious, no?

As for Stop That Pigeon, the Reverend Horton Heat made a decent cover of it back in the 90s. (Pardon the parkour.)
post #12 of 25
Does anyone have the cd...Saturday Morning, which included, The Ramone's Spider-Man? That CD, is officially...Awesome!
post #13 of 25
I loved it too. Muttley's laugh was probably the first impression I ever learned.
post #14 of 25
I love the Stop the Pigeon theme. Especially the Reverend Horton Heat version, but I like the original as well.
post #15 of 25
Watched the reruns of this as a kid and loved them. Got my kid to watching Boomerang and she loved them too. This cartoon still holds up really well after all this time.
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Does anyone have the cd...Saturday Morning, which included, The Ramone's Spider-Man? That CD, is officially...Awesome!
I did but I leant it to someone and never got it back. It also had a great verison of the Banana Splits theme on it.
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I really wish I could remember who I leant it to.
post #19 of 25
Ken Savage, The Banana Splits, are currently on Boomerang at...5:30pm. The opening cartoon, currently is...The Arabian Knights, which is so much better than Hanna Barbara's The Three Musketeers, it is not even funny. TTM would've been so much better without the Musketeer Jr, that follows them. I am hoping that, The WB, get, The Arabian Knights, on DVD, when, the film of the same name arrives in theaters.
post #20 of 25
I still do the Muttley laugh to this day. Great write-up.
post #21 of 25
I watched this show from a young age in the 70s. I loved Muttley. Several years ago I went over to the UK for a car show/hill climb called the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This is a serious event for high dollar historic race cars and race car drivers. I met Dan Gurney, Jackie Stewart and was shopping in the same model car booth as George Lucas at this event. I saw cars that were worth millions. The one thing that almost tipped me over was walking around a corner and coming face to face with full scale working Wacky Racers. I geeked out. Couldn't help it.



http://picasaweb.google.com/Michael....dwoodPictures#
post #22 of 25
Has anyone played the...Wacky Races videogame on the Wii?
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Has anyone played the...Wacky Races videogame on the Wii?
No but it doesn't look too good. I have a feeling its shovelware. There's ds version doesn't even have screenshots on the back of the case.
post #24 of 25
The PS2 game was a total disapointment.
post #25 of 25
Jesse T, Ken Savage, That is just too bad.
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