Dick Dastardly, as he appeared in Wacky Races.

Dick Dastardly, voiced originally by Paul Winchell and currently by Jim Cummings, is a fictional character and antagonist who appeared in various animated series by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Dastardly's most famous appearances are in the series Wacky Races, his initial appearance, and Wacky Races spinoff Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines. Image File history File links This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Image File history File links This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Paul Winchell (December 21, 1922 – June 24, 2005), born Pinkus Wilchinski (the family later shortened the name to Wilchin) in New York City, was an American ventriloquist and voice actor whose fame flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. ... James Jonah Cummings (born November 3, 1952[1] in Youngstown, Ohio) is a prolific American voice actor and has often been considered to be a successor to the voice acting legend Mel Blanc. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... An antagonist is a fictional character or group of characters, or, sometimes an institution of a story who represents the opposition against which the hero(es) or protagonist(s) must contend. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ... Dick Dastardly and Muttley, the villains of Wacky Races, in their car, the Mean Machine. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... Dick Dastardly, Zilly, Klunk, and Muttley, the members of the Vulture Squadron. ...

Wacky Races

In Wacky Races, Dick Dastardly was one of the racers who competed in every episode for first place in a long and hazard-filled cross-country road rally. As his name implies, Dastardly aimed to win solely through cheating and trickery. His race car, named "The Mean Machine," featured all sorts of devious traps for him to use against his opponents. As Wacky Races is inspired by the film The Great Race, so was Dastardly derived from the movie's chief villain, Professor Fate. Dastardly in this series wore old-fashioned racer's gear — a long violet overcoat, long red gloves, and a large striped hat with driving goggles attached. Dastardly also, like the cartoon villain Snidely Whiplash, sported a luxurious handlebar mustache. A road rally is a car rally that takes place on the public road. ... Cheating is defined as an act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition. ... Cover of the 2004 DVD release of The Great Race The Great Race is a 1965 semi-comical, semi-dramatic film directed by Blake Edwards, written by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross, with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. ... Overcoat (left) and top coat (right) from The Gazette of Fashion, 1872. ... Watersport goggles Blowtorching goggles and safety helmet Goggles and safety glasses are forms of protective eyewear that usually enclose or protect the eye area in order to prevent particulates or chemicals from striking the eyes. ... Snidely Whiplash is the cartoon villain who is archnemesis to Dudley Do-Right in the tongue-in-cheek series The Dudley Do-Right Show by American animation pioneer Jay Ward. ... A moustache (sometimes spelled mustache in the United States) is an outgrowth of hair above the upper lip. ...

Dastardly was aided in his schemes by his sidekick, a scruffy dog named Muttley who had a distinctive wheezy laugh. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza unsuccessfully confront windmills. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog is a mammal in the order Carnivora. ... Muttley, as seen on Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines Muttley is a Hanna-Barbera animated fictional character that was voiced by Don Messick (who also voiced Scooby-Doo) and now by Billy West. ...

Despite Dastardly and Muttley's attempts, the "double-dealing do-badders", as the opening narration of Wacky Races describes them, failed to win a single race. Dastardly's plans were always foiled either by his or Muttley's incompetence, the actions of another racer, or sheer bad luck, resulting in Dastardly crossing the finish line last, if at all (ironically, the one time he and Muttley did cross the finish line first, they were disqualified - slow motion revealed that he had just extended his car's "nose" to make viewers think he crossed the line first, even thought similar things like shapeshifting cars, dragon flight and even cannon propelled turbo never prevented any other competitors from winning). Another time Dastardly and Muttley were going to be disqualified after finishing first was when they would cross the finish line in the wrong car - he was driving the Arkansas Chugg-a-Bug - but the narrator warned him on time. It's presumed the rule that would disqualify Dastardly on that doesn't keep him from using vehicles that don't belong to any of his rivals, since nothing is mentioned when he was going to cross the finish line on other vehicles, like Flying Carpets, ice blocks, balloons that look like the Mean Machine, donkeys, or anything else. Also there were other similar cases of Dastardly almost winning the race. In one, he was so sure that he would win, that he actually stopped his car in order to get his picture taken as the winner, unfortunately he stopped before the finish line. Likewise on another occasion he stooped to give Muttley his autograph. One of the great ironies of the show was that, if Dastardly had not bothered to cheat, often he would have won fairly. Upon tasting defeat, Dastardly would utter his catchphrase: "Drat, drat, and double drat!" His other main catchphrase was: "Muttley, do something!" Except for Dastardly and Muttley, all of the other racers won at least one wacky race. The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ... A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ... A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ...

Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines and later spinoffs

Dick Dastardly continued his villainous career in the Wacky Races spinoff Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines, also informally known by some as Stop That Pigeon! (due to the theme song using this phrase repeatedly--Stop That Pigeon was the show's developmental title and featured a different pilot and dog before settling on Dastardly and Muttley). In this series, Dastardly and Muttley, as flying aces, with two other pilots,Zilly a coward who used to hide in his cloth when he was asked to go in his plane,and Klunk,the plane builder,who was speaking a language composed of strange sounds, composed the "Vulture Squadron", which tried constantly to stop a messenger pigeon from delivering messages to an opposing army. As in Wacky Races, Dastardly continued to fail miserably at his mission. The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, perhaps the most famous ace of all. ... // Some research has been performed with the intention of discovering how birds can find their way back from distant places they have never visited before. ...

In later years Dastardly and Muttley were the nemeses for Yogi Bear and his friends in the 1980s series Yogi's Treasure Hunt. This time, Dick repeatedly failed at discovering hidden treasure before Yogi and his team. Dastardly and Muttley also appeared as teenagers in the short-lived series Yo, Yogi!. The final regular appearances of Dastardly and Muttley were in the "Fender Bender 500" shorts on the early 1990s short-lived series Wake, Rattle and Roll; in those segments, the duo once again appeared in the Mean Machine, but raced against such Hanna-Barbera stalwarts as Yogi Bear and Quick Draw McGraw. Yogi Bear Yogi Bear is a fictional anthropomorphic bear who appears in a series of animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... Yogis Treasure Hunt was a segment of the The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. ... Treasure is a concentration of riches, often that which is considered lost or forgotten until being rediscovered. ... A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ... Yogi Bear Yogi Bear is a cartoon character (an upright bear) created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... There were two cartoon segments in the series. ... Yogi Bear Yogi Bear is a fictional anthropomorphic bear who appears in a series of animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ... Quick Draw McGraw is the name of a fictional cartoon horse, created by Hanna-Barbera and the star of The Quick Draw McGraw Show, Hanna-Barberas third show produced for television after success with The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show. ...

In the TV series Laff-A-Lympics, there was a similar looking (and sounding) character to Dastardly named "The Dread Baron," voiced by John Stephenson. In fact, the similarity caused the translators in Brazil to mistake him for Dastardly. (In issue #12 of the Laff-A-Lympics comic book by Marvel Comics, Dread Baron and Dastardly are brothers.) The character's name is an obvious pun on the name of the infamous World War I fighter pilot, the Red Baron. In this series, the Dread Baron was seen wearing a World War I-era German fighter pilot's uniform. The Dread Baron was accompanied by a bear that was similar to Muttley, with grey fur, an orange trenchcoat and a similar name: Mumbly. (Mumbly actually had his own series in which he was a detective.) The two later appeared in the made-for-TV movie Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose, where The Dread Baron and Mumbly are first seen in Dick Dastardly's plane from Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines. The Mall of America has a ride in their thrill park theater attraction which is a tribute to Hanna-Barbara cartoons; Dastardly kidnaps Elroy Jetson, so Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo have to travel across the various worlds to rescue him. Laff-a-Lympics was the co-headlining segment, with Scooby-Doo, of the package Saturday morning cartoon series Scoobys All-Star Laff-a-Lympics, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ... John Stephenson (born August 9, 1923 in Kenosha, Wisconsin) is an American voice actor. ... Several equivalence relations in mathematics are called similarity. ... It has been suggested that dajare be merged into this article or section. ... Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz... Red Baron may refer to: Manfred von Richthofen, World War I flying ace Red Baron, a popular computer game Red Baron, an arcade game by Atari. ... Mumbly is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon dog character famous for his wheezy laugh, voiced by Don Messick. ... Mumbly is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon dog character famous for his wheezy laugh, voiced by Don Messick. ... Dick Dastardly, Zilly, Klunk, and Muttley, the members of the Vulture Squadron. ... Mall of America (also MOA, MoA, or the Megamall) is a shopping mall located in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ...

Cultural references

• In 1994, British men's magazine Loaded nominated Dick Dastardly as one of the "Greatest Living Englishmen," despite the fact that the character is (from the context of the various series he appeared in and other indicators) either an American or a German (maybe French if we count the Spanish translation, that even gave him a thick French accent). Dick, Muttley and their car returned as a boss car in the Wacky Races video game voiced by Jim Cummings and Billy West.
• In addition, in an episode of the anime Digimon Frontier, entitled "The Great Trailmon Race" (which was a homage to Wacky Races), a ShadowWereGarurumon and his Dogmon sidekick attempted to undermine the other racers, as a homage to Dastardly and Muttley.
• In the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Dexter's Wacky Races", Mandark replaces Dick Dastardly and his car as the villain with his car "The Dark Man Special".
• The video game character Waluigi bears a startling resemblance to Dick Dastardly.
• In the Family Guy episode Mother Tucker, it is revealed that Peter Griffin's half-brother, Thaddeus Griffin, bears a resemblence to Dick Dastardly.
• Terry Thomas played a "Dick Dastardly" type English aristocrat who despite cheating ends up never winning in movies: Those Magnificent Men In their Flying Machines; Monte Carlo or Bust {aka Those Daring Young Men in their Jalopies}; Rocket to the Moon

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Dick Dastardly in other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Dick Vigarista
• Portuguese: Dick Detestável
• French: Satanas
• Hungarian: Gézengúz Guszti
• Italian: Dick Dastardly
• Spanish: Pierre Nodoyuna ( The "Nodoyuna" part sounds quite exotic in Spanish but actually doesnt exist at all as a proper name. It is in reality a joke on Spanish idiom "no doy una" which roughly means "I fail miserably")
• Japanese: ブラック魔王 (Black Demon King)
• Danish: Dan Døgenigt
• Swedish: Urban Usling
• Catalan: Dick Destraler