Wacky Races

I favoured the Buzzwagon as a child, for reasons I can't really piece together as an adult

just noticed that cars #7 and #9 have different names in that picture

Mean Machine obv.

The Anthill Mob's car was called Chugaboom was it not?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDToV4uXIAAIljh.jpg

not sure if this is what appealed to me as a kid, but Sawtooth's goggles are cracking me up

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDToV4uXIAAIljh.jpg

apparently the Ant Hill Mob's car was called 'Chugga-Boom' in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop and either 'the Bulletproof Bomb' or 'the Roaring Plenty' in Wacky Races?

the ant hill mob for me

irl Buzzwagon

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2691/4124680489_c6207a91fa_b.jpg

Mean Machine bcz Muttley is the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o58ypeFFWk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Races#Race_results

The show gave the results of each race at the end of each episode, (the first, second, and third placings are given by the narrator, and we sometimes saw some or all of the other cars cross the finish line). The show never indicated a particular scoring system or way to determine who won the Wacky Races as a whole. However, based on FIA's 1962–1990 Formula One points-scoring system in use when the show first aired (9 points for 1st place, 6 for 2nd and 4 for 3rd), the Slag Brothers would finish with 87 points, followed by Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth with 79, and then The Ant Hill Mob with 74. Based on this, the cumulative totals for first, second, and third-place finishes for each contestant are presented below:[6] (Points for 4th, 5th and 6th places have not been calculated).

Contestants Car Name Car # 1st 2nd 3rd Top 3 Points

The Slag Brothers The Boulder Mobile 1 3 8 3 14 87
Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth The Buzzwagon 10 3 6 4 13 79
The Ant Hill Mob The Bulletproof Bomb 7 4 5 2 11 74
The Gruesome Twosome The Creepy Coupe 2 3 3 6 12 69
Penelope Pitstop The Compact Pussycat 5 4 2 5 11 68
The Red Max The Crimson Haybaler 4 3 4 3 10 63
Professor Pat Pending The Convert-A-Car 3 3 2 5 10 59
Luke and Blubber Bear The Arkansas Chuggabug 8 4 1 4 9 58
Peter Perfect The Turbo Terrific 9 4 2 2 8 56
Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly The Army Surplus Special 6 3 1 0 4 33
Dick Dastardly and Muttley The Mean Machine 00 0 0 0 0 0

Grand Totals 34 34 34 102 646

drat

perfectly consistent performance from dastardly and muttley there

Boulder Mobile for the win. I used to love it when they hit each other on the head to go faster.

Soft spot for The Creepy Coupe as well.

Muttley makes me want to vote Team Mean Machine but Dastardly really brings them down :(

Muttley is also the minecraft character I designed but I haven't played minecraft in a year.

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I'm voting Team Mean Machine

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close between the gruesome twosome and the ant hill mob for me, gotta go gt for the haircut alone

Suggestive that the Army Surplus Special should be second last, in the era of Vietnam <strokes chin>

I spent some time last week trying to come up with a Red Max/Max Read based display name, but I just don't have the knack for this kind of thing, probably too late now

i've thought long and hard about this, but the Arkansas Chuggabug is a name that still flits thru my mind on the reg, plus Blubber Bear is a comic genius so

Did Peter Perfect last long? Not remembering him being in it throughout. But could just be thinking more of Perils of Penelope Pitstop. Think it has been a very long time since I saw either.

Trying to think who I would have rooted for at the time. I know I liked eccentric inventors like Professor brainstorm but not sure about Pat Pending.

Dick Dastardly was pretty much the star of the show wasn't he? or him and partner Muttley at least. Like the pair that the story normally concentrated on.
Actually just wondering, Dastardly & Muttley had their own original series in Catch that Pigeon. Penelope Pitstop and the Ant Hill mob were in th Perils of Penelope Pitstop. Was Wacky Races a series that brought in existing characters from popular cartoons and pitted them against each other or was it an earlier stage where characters that became popular from it were given their own starring vehicles? I was just wondering if all of the others actually had their own cartoons at the time but they just haven't been as popular. Or at least crossed teh Atlantic the way that Wackty Races, Catch that Pigeon and Penelope did.

i was sure that one episode had dick dastardly shockingly win but i guess it was

once, in what was called the worst episode of the series, Dastardly actually legitimately won the race, but thanks to a "doctored" instant replay he was disqualified after the said instant replay video-tape shows the Double Zero car seemingly using a device to stretch out the nose of the vehicle, resulting in Penelope Pitstop being declared the winner by the race Judges. This is odd, however, as in another race, Rufus Ruffcut used a similar tactic and was considered to be a winner, although the distinction might be that Rufus actually extended his own neck to a ridiclous degree, while Dastardly extended his vehicle. Regardless, it is often considered to be either a mistake of the series, or that the judges purposefully ruled against Dastardly to ensure he did not obtain a victory. In modern times it is now possible to pause the original footage and see that the nose cone was not originally extended,However, in the "instant replay" it shows the nose cone extending, leading fans of the series to believe that the Judges colluded to create a fix.

typical officious bureaucrats, stymieing good libertarian innovation :(

Gruesome Twosome all the way

Muttley was previously in Top Cat, under the name of Griswald.

anthill mob FTW

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This seems obvious now I think about it, but the connection slightly blew my tiny mind this morning

https://www.twitter.com/rocking_bob/status/1752665441653182497?s=20

Is Dick Dastardly part Professor Fate Jack Lemmon part Terry Thomas from Monte Carlor or Bust?

Heh

It would seem so. Also seems like Muttley evolved into the Columbo-like Mumbly https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/Mumbly

Tony Curtis was the dashing hero in the 2 car films. Monte Carlo or bust has an alternative name tying it in closer to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" in "Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies" for some territories. I can see some links from the Fate mobile to the Dastardly car though it may have crossbred with the Nautilus or the tv Batmobile along the way.