A Double (DRAT) Review: Wacky Races & The Dastardly and Muttley Show

Anyone remember watching Wacky Races? My dad remembers watching it as a kid, and we watched reruns on Cartoon Network when I was a kid! There was also the Dastardly and Mutley show, which I was not as familiar with, but it's still hilarious.

Well, I found Wacky Races and Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines on DVD! 

START YOUR ENGINES! Diabolical do-badder Dick Dastardly, his snickering canine cohort Muttley and their Mean Machine take on you and all comers for all the fast and furious fun of the complete animated series Wacky Races. GEAR UP to keep pace with this dimwitted duo as well as their rivals: Peter Perfect in his Turbo Terrific, Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chugga-Bug, the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb and glamorous Penelope Pitstop in her pink Compact Pussycat. FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS for all 34 original episodes plus Hilarious, High-Speed Extras that will keep you awake at the wheel straight through TO THE FINISH LINE!

Mix The Great Race with the slapstick humor of Road Runner cartoons and the wildly inventive minds of Hanna-Barbera, and you've got the 1968 animated series Wacky Races. You remember the lineup: the Slag brothers in the Boulder-Mobile; the Gruesome Twosome in the Creepy Coupe, with a dragon in its belfry; Prof. Pat Pending (ha ha) in the Convert-a-Car; Red Max in the Crimson Haybailer biplane; Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly in the tank-like Army Surplus Special; the Ant Hill Mob in the Bullitt-Proof Bomb; Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chugga-Bug; Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth the beaver in the Buzz Wagon; the Belle of the Brickyard, Penelope Pitstop, in the Compact Pussycat; Peter Perfect in the Turbo Terrific; and our hissable villains, Dick Dastardly and his snickering muttering dog, Muttley ("Sassa frassin'...") in the Mean Machine. In each 11-minute episode, the physics-defying cars compete in different areas of the country ("See-Saw to Arkansas," "Rhode Island Road Race," "The Carlsbad or Bust Bash"), so evenly matched that any car has a chance to win despite the evil schemes of Dastardly and Muttley, who always seem to come to a Wile E. Coyote-type end (writer Mike Maltese worked on both series). There's never really a plot, but just a string of situations and gags before someone finally crosses the finish line to earn the checkered flag.
The DVD set contains all 34 episodes of the series.
Froot Loop and Cocoa Puff LOVE watching these. I bought Wacky Races for my Dad, and it turns out that they watch Wacky Races when my kids are over there. They are SO FUNNY. The things that these characters do in the series are just hysterical, and of course, Mutley’s laugh makes me giggle every time.