Wacky Races is an American animated television series, which features 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies throughout North America, with all of the drivers hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer". The show was inspired by the 1965 comedy film The Great Race. The cartoon had many regular characters, with 23 people and animals spread among the 11 race cars. The series spawned numerous spin-offs throughout the years. In 2017, the series was remade as a reboot.
The Wacky Races are a series of car competitions in which 11 racers race in locations throughout North America. The rules are extremely lax and allow for almost any vehicle design, power system and a wide range of tactics like combat and shortcuts. Despite this loose rule structure, competitors Dick Dastardly and his dog sidekick, Muttley, are still determined to cheat in their own ineffectual way.
Dick Dastardly and Muttley (the villains from the "Wacky Races" cartoon) are flying aces and members of the Vulture Squadron -- a crew of aviators on a mission to stop a homing pigeon named Yankee Doodle Pigeon from delivering messages to the other side. This show was a combination of the Red Baron-era Snoopy, "Wacky Races" and the film "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines."
In the style of the silent movie era of melodrama cliffhangers, Penelope Pitstop must evade capture of the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers. The Hooded Claw is in fact really her guardian, Sylvester Sneekly. If Sylvester can do away with Penelope, he will receive her inheritance. She is often aided by the Ant Hill Mob, who have been converted from villainous mobsters to heroic Seven Dwarfs-types. Despite their best intentions, they end up in need of her help during their rescue of her, although despite her resourcefulness, she inevitably will always need to be the one saved.
A revival of Wacky Races in the 1990s, in which the racers drove monster trucks made for racing. Using Hanna-Barbera's character library, each vehicle had a different theme, specific to its drivers.
Wacky Races is an American animated television series, a reboot of the 1968-69 Hanna-Barbera television series of the same name. It is the first Wacky Races television series without the original creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (who died respectively in 2001 and 2006) and also the first without the original voice cast.