Wacky Races (2017)

Wacky Races is an animated program from Warner Bros. Animation. It is a reboot of the original 1968 series, Wacky Races.

Like the original, the drivers race through different places around the world. This series also focuses on their lives outside the races. Sometimes they do not compete, or are reimagined in different historical times.

This version lasted 78 11-minute episodes, as opposed to the original's 17 half-hour (34 11-minute) episodes. The new version also carries a TV-Y7-FV rating, while the original was rated TV-G.

Summary

The series features the return of some of the characters from the original Wacky Races program: Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Penelope Pitstop, Peter Perfect and the Gruesome Twosome. More than half of the original characters do not return. Several new characters were introduced, including I. Q. Ickly, Brick Crashman, P. T. Barnstorm, and Pandora Pitstop.

While the reboot is based on the original series, it also focuses on the Racers' personal lives; storylines are added and there usually is no actual winner or loser at the end of each race. There is also meta-humor and fourth wall breaking.

Races

• "Ya Win Some, Ya Luge Some"
• "Mambo Itali-Go-Go"
• "So Far to Mardi Gras"
• "Easter Express"
• "Race-a-Lot"
• "Peter Imperfect"
• "Yes, We Canyon"
• "Roamin' Racers"
• "Smokey and the Racers"
• "Raceketeers"
• "Fantastic Race"
• "Space Race"
• "Backseat Drivers"
• "Off Track"
• "Cave Racers"
• "Guru My Dreams"
• "Cold Rush"
• "It's a Wacky Life"
• "Pretzel Logic"
• "Dashing thru the Snow"
• "Formula Racing"
• "Unraceable"
• "Sister Twister"
• "Mars Needs Racers"
• "Race to the Bottom"
• "Do Over Dastardly"
• "Swap Meet"
• "Mother Knows Best"
• "Race Against Time"
• "My Fair Tiny"
• "Under the Rainbow"
• "Wacky Spaces"
• "The Perils of Peter Perfect"
• "Purple Who Need Purple"
• "Race to Infinity"
• "His Way or the Highway"
• "Racer Roundup"
• "Grandfather Knows Dast"
• "40 Yard Dash"
• "Hong Kong Screwy"
• "Dickie and the Race-onauts"
• "Uncle Dickie's Happy Sunshine Children's Hour"
• "Peter 2.0"
• "Little Pink Riding Hood"
• "Punky Races"
• "Ragnarok & Roll"
• "Wacklantis"
• "Game On"
• "Much Ado About Wacky"
• "Far and Away in Old Bombay"
• "The Wacky Always Races Twice"
• "Mummy Madness"
• "King Solomon's Races"
• "The Trial of Dick Dastardly"
• "The Wack Stuff"
• "Dog Gone Dastardly"
• "The Purple Ray from Outer Space"
• "Attack of the Mega-Muttley"
• "Wackier Than Fiction"
• "Never Too Old to Wacky"
• "Wacky Wizards"
• "Super Wacky"
• "Signed, Sealed and Wacky"
• "Wacky Races the Movie"
• "Wack to the Future"
• "Catastrophe"
• "Brains Before Brawn"
• "Double the Dastardly"
• "Wackyland"
• "Curses, Foiled Again"
• "Double Trouble"
• "Slow and Steady"
• "The Scarlet Pinkernel"
• "Troy and Troy Again"
• "What a Wacky Development"
• "I, Racecar"
• "Muttleys Are Forever"

Characters

Main/Supporting Characters

• Dick Dastardly and Muttley (voiced by Peter Woodward and Billy West)
• Penelope Pitstop (voiced by Nicole Parker)
• Peter Perfect (voiced by Diedrich Bader)
• Tiny and Bella - The Gruesome Twosome (voiced by Billy West and Tom Kenny)
• I.Q. Ickly (voiced by Jill Talley)
• Pandora Pitstop (voiced by Nicole Parker)
• Brick Crashman (voiced by Christopher Judge)
• P.T. Barnstorm (voiced by Jill Talley)
• Captain Dash, Polly, Bugsy, Bluebeard and Davey Bones (voiced by Billy West and Tom Kenny)

Guest stars

• Hooded Claw (voiced by Tom Kenny impersonating Paul Lynde)
• Huckleberry Hound (voiced by Billy West): a guest racer and Peter Perfect's stunt double
• Snagglepuss (voiced by Billy West and Tom Kenny)
• Hong Kong Phooey (voiced by Phil LaMarr)
• Quick Draw McGraw (voiced by Billy West)
• Touché Turtle (voiced by Billy West): a guest racer
• Ricochet Rabbit (voiced by Tom Kenny): a guest racer.
• The Dalton Brothers
  • Dinky Dalton (voiced by Christopher Judge)
  • Finky Dalton (voiced by Tom Kenny)
  • Pinky Dalton (voiced by Diedrich Bader)
  • Stinky Dalton (voiced by Billy West)
• Winsome Witch (voiced by Nicole Parker): a guest racer.
• Patty O'Patty (voiced by Jason Spisak)
• Mildew Wolf
• Magilla Gorilla
• Scooby-Doo
• Scrappy-Doo (voiced by Tom Kenny): Scooby-Doo's nephew
• Mr. Jinks (voiced by Billy West)
• Jabberjaw (voiced by Billy West)
• Chief (voiced by Billy West)
• Top Cat
• Benny the Ball
  

Broadcast

Wacky Races premiered internationally in 2017. The first episode was released on Boomerang's SVOD service in the United States on August 14, 2017. The other 11 episodes were released on August 31, 2017.

The series was first shown on television in the United States on the Boomerang channel, with the episode "Under the Rainbow" airing on Boomerang as a preview on February 22, 2018, and the series officially premiering on the Boomerang channel on May 21, 2018, alongside another show from Boomerang's SVOD service, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz.

The series aired as a repeat on Cartoon Network on August 13, 2018.