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Dick Dastardly (1964)

Cartoon
The Wacky Races
Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines

Animal
Pigeon Stopper

 

 

 

Outfit: aviator goggles / trenchcoat / gloves / dastardly slacks / bitchy dog

Tagline: "Drat and double drat!"

Plot summary: One of the best Hanna Barbara cartoons of all time, "The Wacky Races" featured a group of race car drivers competing for the title of "World's Wackiest Racer." Each cartoon the drivers had to overcome a series of ridiculous and unrealistic obstacles set into motion by Dick Dastardly, a bizarre kind-of European hate monger who compensated for racing skill by building road blocks with his snickering dog. Each episode Dick would get his "just deserts" and finish dead last, powerfully enforcing the fact that mustachioed racers always hit the wall in the end.

Also, more Wacky Races include the Dutch and black people.
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User Comments: More than just a clever euphemism for an unusually large penis, Dick rocked the trench decades before the Columbine kids used their BFG9000s to mow down unsuspecting Christians. And his unique color scheme set the tone for the Toronto Raptors NBA expansion team.

Dastardly carried on the look into his own spin-off cartoon, "Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines." The show followed their quest to intercept carrier pigeons during World War I. So in addition to giving the show the most unimaginative name in the history of television, Hanna-Barbera decided that it'd be a good idea to blame the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the subsequent horrors of humanity on that guy from Wacky Races who can't keep his shit together.


I hope nobody ... TAKES ME OUT

wait why does my video look like the old Wendy's tables?

User Rating: 7.1/10 (1914 votes)