Cartoon
Wacky Races

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Wacky Racer

Outfit: brown outpatient gear / heavy miner gloves / Larry Fine

Tagline: "go go gadget various parts of my car"

Plot summary: Based on the movie "The Great Race," twenty-three racers sign up for a cross-country competition to see who will be crowned "World's Wackiest Racer." Along the way, characters like cavemen, The Addams Family, and a guy in a penis shaped like a car must avoid a series of traps and obstacles orchestrated by a psychopathic European train conductor and his pissant dog. I haven't watched it in a while, but that is almost exactly what the movie "The Great Race" was about.

Professor Pat Pending, a man whose head turned sideways kinda looks like the first sword you get in the Legend of Zelda, drove the number 3 "Convert-a-Car," a car that could change into anything that moves. Why a car that can change into a tank and a space shuttle would have trouble outlasting a wooden buggy piloted by a hillbilly and his pet bear is beyond me, but that's high quality television drama for you.

Other Wacky Races include indigenous Australians and Eskimos. (more)

User Comments: Pending was a scientist, so between guessing at numbers and figures and pulling the puzzles apart he dressed up in a very normal, sensible way for a human being instead of like the other racers who, say, dressed up like gangsters and drove around a gangster-themed car. And for a pretty average ska punk band he had a great idea for a car; having a car that can change into "not a car" is handy when put into a race, especially a "wacky" race where a dog has more than likely cut your breaks for a laugh. But that brings up the question of why if the scientist can create an Autobot, why is he so concerned with other people thinking he's a wackier racer than these other guys? Why did Andy Kaufman want to be a professional wrestler when he was already a successful comedian? Because they're better than us.

Or at least better than the guy in the dong car.

User Rating: 6.2/10 (14,005 votes)