Wacky Races: See-Saw To Arkansas Review

There are some TV shows that will only be remembered by a select group of people due to the fact that the show in question didn't last that very long in the first place and even those that remember the show won't remember that much about it. Such is the case with the show that i'm going to be talking you all about today as this is a show that only last one season and yet out of that one season the show managed to spawn two spin off shows , a comic book series and a remake as well as having it's central villain be the main villain for several Yogi Bear shows as well and so then join me as I review the episode that introduces us to the worlds wackiest racers with the episode in question being called simply just "See-Saw To Arkansas" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is the racers have to race through Arkansas and reach the finish line in order to end the race. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as this is show that really doesn't require a deep plot in order to make it work it just requires the very bare minimum and that's it and to this episodes credit that's exactly what we got in this episode as due to the lack of a plot it does allow for the shows characters to be their charming selves and not be bogged down by telling a deep and thought provoking plot and while yes granted it would have been nice if this episode did have a plot as then it could have made the episode alot more better then what it already is not all shows need to have a deep and thought provoking plot in their episodes to make them work as sometimes just being a simple plot is more then enough as is the case with this episode as this show isn't one that really requires one as we the audience see join the race when it's progress and therefor we don't need to find out why these characters are racing we just need to know there names and that's it as the fun of the episode comes not from it's plot it comes from the characters just doing whatever they can to get ahead in the race with that being something that would be lost if this episode did have a deep thought provoking plot to it with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Yogi Bear star Daws Butler as Red Max , Peter Perfect , Rufus Roughcut and Sgt. Blast and Scooby-Doo star Don Messick as Muttley , Professor Pat Pending and Ring-A-Ding. Also starring in this episode is The Flintstones star John Stephenson as Luke and Blubber Bear , Janet Waldo as Penelope Pitstop , Dave Willock as The Narrator and Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly and Clyde.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of this shows actors do put in some really decent performances in this episode something that really couldn't have been all that easy to do due to the episodic nature of the show which is something that would have made the acting in this episode all the more harder and yet because of that it's even more impressive that this shows actors pulled off these characters really well as they make the characters that your meant to be liking even more likable and the characters that your meant to hate even more hateable because of it with the true standout actor in this episode being none other then Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly and Clyde as he has to go from being kind of in the middle of being likable and hateable with Clyde to being the full on bad guy with Dick Dastardly in the same scene and it's something that really does work in this episode as you can tell clear as day that Paul Winchell is having the best of times playing both of these characters and that is something that really does shine through in the final cut of the episode with the acting that's in this very episode no really being helped by this episodes script as this episodes script doesn't really give the actors a whole lot to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the over all quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Hanna-Barbera Productions. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about h actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good as while granted the episode does have that typical Hanna-Barbera cheapness to it with there being alot of repeating backgrounds and even the backgrounds themselves not being as highly detailed as the backgrounds in say Tom & Jerry for example that doesn't change the fact that this episodes animation was a lot better then what it really had any right to be as all of the character designs for the show look really good with the characters some truly iconic designs and even the cars that there driving looking really and fun and creative with the thing that does let the animation in this episode down is the lack of details in the backgrounds as that does mean that all of the episodes backgrounds do start to merge into one thus making it alot more harder for us the audience to work where each character is in relation to the other where as if the backgrounds were a little bit more detailed then that would go along way into fixing this issues not helping things out tho is the fact that the characters movements do feel very stilted which in fairness to this episode is something that was also a problem for alot of Hanna-Barbera shows as well and while it doesn't take away from the quality of the episode it is something that does take away from the quality of the animation and while it is understandable why this episodes animation look cheap alot of the time as this show was produced on a TV show budget the makers of this episode should have done something to make the animation in this episode well and truly standout a little bit more.

One of the highlights of not only this show but this episode is seeing what kind schemes that Dick Dastardly would come up with to win the race. With his schemes in this episode being not that bad as he hides a sign to make it impossible for the racers to tell which way to get of the freeway and other such things and while they do all rightfully end with him getting run over and in case blown up it is something that does show that being evil doesn't mean you'll win which is a good message to teach the shows target kid audience with it being a message that's backed up by the fact that when Dick Dastardly isn't pulling a scheme on the other racers he's actually a pretty good racer in his own right as here he finishes fourth in the race and yet every single time he does try to pull a trick on them he always ends up getting hurt and while his schemes in other episodes would get more and more outlandish as the series would progress here they do feel a lot more tame by comparison and heck it's even Dick Dastardly himself that gets alot of the episodes screen time which is fair enough as he's the series main villain but when you take into account the show is basically an ensemble show thus meaning that it has no main character it does feel odd that he would get treated like the main character of the show just due to the fact that he gets alot more screen time then all of the other racers and while he does pull lots of schemes on the other racers it's The Ant Hill Mob that pull one off him thus giving him a good taste of his own medicine which was a fun thing to see as you don't often get to see one set of characters who it could be argued are villains openly take out someone who is the shows main villain and yet still be treated as being one of the good guys in not only this show but also in The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop as well.

It's not that hard to see why this show has mostly been forgotten about by alot of people as even from this episode you can tell right away that it was never designed to last more then one series. As it would be a show that would get really repetitive pretty quickly and therefor it was kind of doomed to only last a certain amount of episodes but due to the popularity of characters like Dick Dastardly and even Penelope Pitstop both of whom not got there own respective spin off shows but also appeared in the dreadful 2017 remake as it's the characters that really do carry the show and help to make it all the memorable as for a show called Wacky Races you'd expect all of the races to have something about them that makes them wacky and crazy but rather then the races that are wacky it's the racers the actual characters of the show that have something wacky about them and that is something that does help to make this show alot more memorable then what it actually is and it's a shame that when kids today think of the name Wacky Races the first thing that comes to their minds won't be this show as they didn't grow up with it it will be the 2017 show which yes had the more actually wacky races but it lacks the charm and character that we see in this episode as for all of it's faults one of the many things that this episode and this show has going for it is it's char as it's a very charming show that you can put on and watch and be just as entertained by it today as you were when you were kid watching this same episode for the first time and that is something that alot of kids shows today are missing and makes no sense as not all shows need plots and characters as sometimes just being charming is more then enough to make for a good show.

This show and this episode is the very definition of a nothing episode as there isn't alot of plot to speak of. The characters whilst they are charming aren't given alot of personality and the races just aren't as wacky as the tile of the show would have you think which is something that does make it hard to talk about the show and judge it fairly as all of the above things that were just mentioned could be seen as being part of the point of the show as we are only seeing the race from after it's started so we don't get to see any interaction with the racers either before or after the race and so why would they stop and talk to each other when there being alot more focused on trying to win the actual race and while we do get to see alot of the racers win each race the show becomes more fun in not only trying to work out who's going to win but how there going to do it as well as even tho we all know that Dick Dastardly is never going to win any of the races it's still fun seeing him try and stop the other racers so that he himself can win and while this show and this episode might be a nothing show and and a nothing episode there's another word to describe this episode and that's fun as that's exactly what this episode is it's fun but in a child like and silly kind of way and while granted that might put people off the show and off the episode as well there's nothing wrong with being silly and childish as it reminds us of a more simpler time with that being exactly what happens when you watch this episode as it really reminds you of what you were like when you where a kid and had those care free days that we all now really long for and while yes this show will never be that well remembered it will always be a show that is alot of fun to watch with this episode being a prime of example of just how much fun can be had when your watching this episode.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twelve minuets and five seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for all of the episodes of this show as all of the segments of this show was paired with another segment to form one twenty two minuet episode which when the episodes are this repetitive can be seen as being hard to get through especially when you take into account that all of the episodes this one included really don't have alot of plot there to really cover that amount of running time with this episode not even using it's running time wisely as the main plot of the show can't be that well developed due to the sheer nature of the show with us the audience basically starting the episodes whilst the racers are already racing which does mean that the plot of any of this shows episodes can't be that well developed with this being even more evident when you take into account that this episode basically doesn't have that much of a plot to begin with with the lack of development even effecting the shows characters as well which is pretty standard stuff from when this episode was first being broadcast all the way in 1968 as alot of the animated shows back then just had very basic characters and had a clear cut good guy and a clear cut bad guy both of which are present in this episode but it is something that would have helped the characters in this episode stand out all the more if the characters were a bit more well defined since as things stand they do some across as being like one dimensional characters which again might be the point of the episode but it is something that is a knock on this episode as well but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of this shows jokes whist granted they aren't laugh out loud funny there more cute funny which is something that's perfect for this show as this is a show that doesn't really rely on having the more traditional jokes but that's not to say that this episode doesn't have those kinds of jokes in it as it does with an example of this being the scheme that The Ant Hill Mob pull of Dick Dastardly by telling him that get to back to the main road he just has to take a sharp left at the next turn which results in him drowning in mud which is a simple joke but it's one that works really well however that's not that best joke in the whole episode as that honor goes to when the first four racers are near the finishing line The Narrator happens to mention that could be a photo finish which Dick Dastardly himself over hears and so just before he crosses the line he gets out of the car and posses for his picture thus letting all of the other racers past him in the process which is a good joke as it feels like something that that character would do as he does have a bit of an ego and so he would of course stop and strike a pose thinking that someone was going to take his picture with alot of this episodes jokes whilst they are some really good jokes they aren't as good as that one joke is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall as was mentioned it's not that hard to see why this show has largely been forgotten about as this episode doesn't really have all that much going for it that does make it memorable but in saying that tho this is an episode that is really fun to watch as you never really know just what's going to be happening next which is something that does make a really fun episode to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the god and as well as all of the bad things that are in this vey episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Hanna-Barbera fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official Hanna-Barbera fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Hanna-Barbera fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Wacky Races 1968 Review

Guys i've already reviewed the reboot of Wacky Races so I thought lets review the original series and it's spin-offs but for this week i'm just tackling the original series the spin-offs will follow in the following weeks so racers start your engines here is my review of the original Wacky Races.

For those that didn't know there was a show called Wacky Races before the reboot the show aired in 1968 and ran until 1969 with only one single series to it's name spanning seventeen episodes with each episode having two separate Wacky Races but what's interesting is the fact it was only cancelled because parents groups thought it was to violet even tho kids see alot worse in Scooby-Doo! this is the one that got canned. 

The set up for the show is eleven wacky racers race to see who is the world's wackiest racer and set up alone makes this better then the reboot because they actually feature racing and the race doesn't stop so the show can have a plot and that's what Wacky Races should be racing and nothing else and unlike the reboot there's alot of racers and the show makes good use of all of them.

The series starred Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly , Private Meekly and Clyde the leader of The Ant Hill Mob , Don Messick as Muttley, Professor Pat Pending, Gravel Slag, Little Gruesome, Ring-a-Ding (also a member of the mob) and Sawtooth , Daws Butler as Rock Slag, Big Gruesome, Red Max, Sergeant Blast, Peter Perfect and Rufus Ruffcut , John Stephenson as Luke and Blubber Bear , Janet Waldo as Penelope Pitstop and Dave Willock as The Narrator. 

In all honesty I loved Paul Winchell as Dastardly in this series he's so evil and yet at the same time you want to see him win at least one race and unlike the reboot which gives Dick a British accent here he speaks American and it suits him better then a British accent does. There's not really much more I can say about the rest of the cast that hasn't all ready been said because of how legendary the voice actors are but I will say I really did think that The Narrator was played by someone from the racing world and was sad to see that was not the case.

The animation was done by Hanna-Barbera with the famous duo of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera directing and producing every episode of the show and I have to say that for me at least the animation wasn't that good I get that they made shows on the cheap but even so the animation seen in this show isn't there best work and I noticed alot of animation errors as well and not just in the early episodes either they were through out the whole series I honestly lost count of how many times Muttley's ears were colored wrong.

What this show does really well I thought was it focused more on Dastardly and Muttley the villains of the show I don't think there's been a show before it or since that had the villains get more focus then the heroes and because of that those two are the most developed out of all the characters but sadly for me tho the least developed is Penelope Pitstop at the most she gets a sentences worth of dialog in must of the episodes and that's it and I think that's because when they were making the show she was seen as an after thought and her character and car were created because the makers thought the show needed a female driver oh and by the way her official creator is Iwao Takamoto who's a legendary character designer.

People who talk about this show often talk about Dick Dastardly being capable of winning and it's true he is actually a good racer once you stop and think about it he often starts out last and yet works his way up to first place the only reason he doesn't win is because he stops to do his tricks which even after they've failed he still tries to work his way back into the race that takes alot of skill and I have to give him credit for that.

The show was written by Larz Bourne , Dalton Sandifer , Tom Dagenais and Michael Maltese I think that the all of the stuff Micheal wrote was largely ignored because I didn't find the show to be that funny and I know Micheal is a very funny writer I can easily see someone who's seeing this show for the first time laughing alot but I grew up with the show and I didn't find it that funny for some reason altho I have to say that I did enjoy the puns those were freaking funny as was sassy Dastardly and the show is very entertaining.

I have to talk about Penelope some more because I feel like she is such a product of the times she is the most feminine driver out of the cast of the characters , she always needs help from someone and her cars gadgets or beauty products now you could say that's part of her character and you'd be right to say that but at the same time if this version of the character was made today people would be calling the makers of the show sexist.

Now since the show's main goal was to find the world's wackiest racer I think it's fair to assume that the racer with the most wins would be that racer so i'm here to tell you who the top three wackiest racers or tied for number three with a total of eleven points it's The Ant Hill Mob and Penelope Pitstop and number two it's Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth with a total of thirteen points and beating them by one single point it's The Slag Brothers.

It wouldn't be a review of Wacky Races without talking about the cars I really liked the cars in the show they each suited there driver or drivers perfectly and each of the cars are just as Wacky as the people behind the wheel and I have to say that my personal favorite car belonged to the person with the best name on the show the Convert-a-Car driven by Professor Pat Pending the car can do anything the episode or scene requires it to do and I love the play on the Patent Pending.

Overall this was a really entertaing show and I generally didn't know who was going to win each race and while I do enjoy the reboot I think that this is the better version so for me the show gets a 7 out of 10. 

  

Wacky Races 2017 Review

Hello there cartoon fans it's been along time since I last brought up the reboot of Wacky Races and well since I havn't given it a full review and alot of time has passed since the first episode I thought why not review it and see if my opinions on the show have changed.

The show doesn't have a plot but it does follow a group of racers as they race but it also follows what they do when they don't race now when i first saw the show I admit I wasn't happy to have an episode where the racers don't race but know I do see what there going for but at the same time I don't think it's needed.

The voice cast include Peter Woodward , Billy West in a dual role as both Muttley and a member of The Gruesome Twosome , Nicole Parker , Diedrich Bader , Tom Kenny and Jill Talley. The voice acting for the must part is decent altho I still don't get why they gave Dastardly a British accent that just seems weird to me but I do have to admit all of the actors do somehow manage to make the roles their own.

I don't know if you can tell by the above images but there's been some slight changes to the way the characters look and while I do get that you do need to update the look of characters from time to time did they have to make the characters look really strange for some some reason Dastardly has a really big nose and it just looks weird and for some unknown reason he now has an all purple outfit when there was nothing wrong with what he used to wear and I know why they gave Penelope a small waist but this is a kids show so why are they trying to get the older generation into watching.

The animation does fair a little better tho but the key word there is a little because for a large portion of the time the animation isn't that good and it comes across as cheap but at the best of times the animation is passable. In all honesty this looks like a show that was made on someone's computer for a couple of pounds / dollars / insert your countries currency here heck Hanna-Barbera had better animation and they made shows on the cheap.

I'll admit right here and now that the humor on the show can at times be very hit and miss when a joke lands it will get a chuckle out of people but when a joke doesn't land it's groan inducing there idea of a joke is throwing random stuff at you and going "see isn't this funny" and I have to say that throwing random stuff on the screen doesn't make a good joke and as someone who loved the original show I liked that they not only referenced the original show but they also used clips from it as well.

Overall I will say that in certain aspects the show has improved but it's still not as good as the original and I won't recommend you see this show if your a fan of the original series but for a new generation this is there interpretation of Wacky Races and it gets a 5 out of 10 from me.

  

My Top 4 Worst Cartoon Network Reboots

As we all know Cartoon Network has made alot of great shows in fact you could argue that some of the best cartoon shows ever made were made by Cartoon Network but i'm not listing there good shows i'm here to list My Top 4 Worst Cartoon Network Reboots.

4) Wacky Races (2017)

I did a review which goes into more detail about why this series is awful and that was after ONE episode so i won't go into two much detail here but it lacks everything the original series had and when you throw in the terrible designs and bad writing it makes for one hell of a bad show.

3) Ben 10 (2016)

This ones so low down on here because i never watched the original series or it's various spin-offs/sequels but even i could tell that this reboot was pretty bad i give the series credit for at least bringing back original voice actress Tara Strong but that doesn't excuse the fact that the show's formula gets old after about the fourth or fifth episode. 

2) The Powerpuff Girls (2016)

Now unlike Ben 10 i actually watched alot of the original Powerpuff Girls and i got excited about this new series when it first announced and while i did enjoy a few episodes of this new reboot overall the shows not that good it's a pail imitation of a great show and unlike the original show which was made for both boys and girls this one is more aimed towards a female audience thus missing the point of the original show. Things only got worse for this show for me when they introduced and they quickly got rid of the new character Bliss and i only watched those episodes to see if the show improved and it did not.

1) Teen Titans Go!

Lets be honest you all knew this was going to be here and it's for all the reasons you think as well but what really made me put it here was the fact that this show makes fun of the fans i can handle the mixed writing and the bad jokes but when you start making fun of the people who put you where you are now then there's no going back from that and what's worse is this show has a freaking movie coming out next year.

My Top 5 "Best" Tom and Jerry Crossover Movie Ideas

Hello cartoon fans since the Tom and Jerry franchise has decided it now wants to best mates with every other franchise out there i thought i'd tell you what my top 5 "best" ideas for a future crossover moive and incase you cannot tell this is post just for pure fun and is not to be taken seriously and there are a few ground rules the first being it has to be with a property owned by Warner Bros.or in the case of the first entry have a partnership with Warner Bros. and the second being more obvious it has to be something that hasn't been released yet so here we go.

5) Tom and Jerry: WWE

Now like most of these entries i won't have any plot details but i think that given the recent trend of having WWE superstars team up with classic cartoon characters it's only a matter of time before they team up with Tom and Jerry.

4) Tom and Jerry: The Jetsons

Out of all the entries that i've thought of this one could be the most plausible since we know that dogs exist in the The Jetsons world so it makes sense that both cats and mice would also exist as well and i'm not going to lie when i came up with this list this was one of the ones i wanted to see the most.

3 Tom and Jerry: Wacky Races

Now i know that they already a Tom and Jerry racing themed movie with 2005's Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry but i think pairing them with the Wacky Races gang would just be a bizarre thing to watch but also bad in a funny kind of way.

Tom and Jerry: The Flintstones

Honestly this is only here because i want to see Tom and Jerry interact with The Flintstones cast just that alone should make for at least an entertaining movie.

1) Tom and Jerry: Looney Tunes

This is the other one i actually want to see the most just because of the comedic possibilities i wouldn't care what the plot of the movie is just show Tom and Jerry interacting with the Looney Tunes cast some funny ways and i'll be freaking happy.

My Idea For A Wacky Races And WWE Movie

Now then animation fans like or not the WWE animated crossovers are indeed a thing and like or not most of them are actually pretty decent and since the company loves bringing back classic Hanna-Barbera properties i thought why not bring back Wacky Races and yes i'm refusing to count that terrible reboot.

Now the WWE already made a movie featuring cars except it was with Scooby-Doo! so my basic idea for the plot would be the same as that one just remove the Scooby gang and the mystery aspect and replace it with Dick and Muttley trying to take over the WWE so the wrestlers have to team up with the Wacky Races gang to stop Dastardly.

Now due to the fast paced nature of the wrestling business i can't say for sure which wrestlers i think should be included but i can say which ones i would like to see in the movie those being AJ Styles, Brock Lesner , Dean Ambrose , Seth Rollins and a few more .

In terms of voice actors i think that Diedrich Bader would make a good Peter Perfect , Kath Soucie has to play Penelope as for who should play Dastardly i'm thinking either Billy West or Tom Kenny with the other one playing Muttley and since the Wacky Races cast is so huge you'd have to include all the characters and the actors playing them could just have some fun with the roles.

Now i will forever and a day say The Jetsons crossover is the best animated out of all the WWE animated films but that being said the second Scooby-Doo movie is the best looking so for this movie it would be better if it had the look of that second Scooby-Doo film but had the animation of The Jetsons crossover.

In terms of who should write the film i would get the pair who wrote The Jetsons crossover because in that film i got a sense that they truly loved the brand and Wacky Races would need that kind of love and attention to detail to help make it work as a movie.

This film i admit is a long shot since WWE Studios right now has no other animated crossovers in the works but it's something that i'd like to see happen in the future.

My Brief Thoughts On Wacky Races 2017

Hello there race fans i'm here to do something i swore to myself i would never ever do and that's judge a show just based of the first episode but as you can see by the name of the show i'm going to be talking about most of you will be thinking the exact same question "They Rebooted Wacky Races?" and now i'm going to tell you my thoughts on it.

Now before i get into the episode proper i have to say that there are only three images from the show on Google and even then two of them are pretty much the exact same image so i've got to use images from the classic show to help sell my point.

Like the original show this new show seems not to have a story which i'm fine with but at least with the show they gave us lots of characters to keep us interested this episode only features a small handful of racers and even tho most of them are classic characters they don't bother to make them interesting.

Now you may have noticed that i mentioned the fact that the cast for this episode is mostly classic characters well that's because they introduce two new characters there's Bella voiced by Tom Kenny and there's a sports announcer who's basically the announcer from the original show only stupid and Bella is ok but to me she seems like a replacement for The Professor and nothing more.

I've mentioned that Spongebob is in the show but there's also Billy West who i think is playing Mutley but i can't tell you who else in this show because there's no cast list to be found anywhere even Wikipedia has the wrong cast list up right now and there's no IMDB page up yet for this show. I do however like the voice of Penny they kept her a southern girl which was good and they toned down her voice which i liked.

Yes ladies and gentlemen your eyes do not deceive you that above image is what Dastardly and Mutley look like in the new show out of all the characters to get a bad redesign why did it have to be those two there two of the most iconic characters from the original show and they look terrible i won't get into the animation but let's just say the animators should be ashamed.

Overall Cartoon Network should let Disney handle Reboots and they should stick to original shows but at least they kept the original theme song and there's no racing at all in this pilot even tho it right there in the name of the show and at least the episode lengths are the same as the race lengths in the original show.