This is one of two cartoons with Dick Dastardly and Mutley.
One is Wacky Racers and the other is Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines.
Dick Dastardly, born Richard Asquith 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.
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). 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.
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.
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 also had a dog 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. Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom has a ride in their thrill park theater attraction which is a tribute to Hanna-Barbara cartoons in which Dastardly kidnaps Elroy Jetson.
Also know as:
Brazilian Portuguese: Dick Vigarista or Dick Detestável
French: Satanas
Italian: Dick Dastardly
Spanish: Pierre Nodoyuna
Japanese: ãã©ãã¯éç (Black Demon King)
Danish: Dan Døgenigt
Swedish: Urban Usling
and for Muttley:
Muttley is a Hanna-Barbera animated fictional character that was voiced by Don Messick (who also voiced Scooby-Doo) and now by Billy West. Muttley, a mixed breed dog, first appeared in Wacky Races in 1968, as the sidekick of a nasty but incompetent and horribly accident-prone villain named Dick Dastardly. While Dick was created as the equivalent of Professor Fate from the 1960s movie The Great Race, Muttley mirrored the film's character of Max Meen. Dick and Muttley were paired together in various later Hanna-Barbera series as bumbling villains.
Muttley does not really talk; his main examples of speech are his trademark snicker---a wheezing, asthmatic laugh (usually made at Dick's expense)---and a mushy, sotto voce grumble against an unsympathetic or harsh Dick (usually along the lines of "Rassum brassum msblsssl Rick Rastardly!"). Don Messick had used Muttley's distinctive laugh for the character of Griswold in an episode of Top Cat as well as for another Hanna-Barbera canine, Precious Pupp, several years earlier. He also repurposed it for Alexandra Cabot's cat Sebastian on Josie and the Pussycats in 1970.
Muttley wore only a collar in Wacky Races, but in Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines he donned a World War I style aviator's uniform, and served as a flying ace along with Dastardly and two other pilots as members of the "Vulture Squadron." In this spinoff, he also sported many medals, of which he was particularly fond, and constantly demanded new ones from Dastardly for following his commands. Similarly, Dastardly frequently ripped medals off Muttley's chest as punishment for his incompetence. When he received a new medal, Muttley would hug himself happily, jump into the air and float back down like a feather. This gag is almost identical to the behavior of Snuggles, a dog who appeared on the series Quick Draw McGraw in the late 1950s, when he received a dog biscuit.
Also in Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines, Muttley gained the ability to fly for a brief period by spinning his tail like a propeller. This trait often proved useful when he was about to crash. Muttley also enjoyed his own short segment in this series, The Magnificent Muttley, where he would engage in Walter Mitty-style fantasies.
Muttley is sometimes confused with Mumbly, a crime-fighting dog who tracked down criminals using his dog senses and drove around in an old, beat-up car. Mumbly looked similar to Muttley and had a similar laugh, except Mumbly had grey fur, and wore a trenchcoat. Ironically, Mumbly later showed up as the captain of the villainous Really Rottens in Laff-a-Lympics along with his master "The Dread Baron" who happens to resemble Dick Dastardly. Both characters (The Dread Baron and Mumbly) later appeared in the TV movie Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose.
An early version of the Muttley/Mumbly character appears in the 1964 Hanna-Barbera feature film Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!. This prototype Muttley (named "Mugger") is a mean-spirited dog with a travelling circus who has a penchant for biting his owners on the leg. The character may also have been inspired by the Atom Ant show's "Precious Pupp" who was known for laughing the exact same way. Muttley and his master returned in the Wacky Races video game with Billy West voicing the dog.
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Muttley in other languages
German: Promenaden-Pluto; also Meutrich
Spanish: Patán/Pulgoso (Spain, Mexico)
Japanese: Kenkenï¼ã±ã³ã±ã³ï¼
Polish: BaÅwan (Poland)
French: Diabolo (France)
Serbian: DraguljÄe or DragoljupÄe (Serbia)
Hungarian: Mardel
Turkish: DeÄerli (Turkey)
Portuguese: Muttley (Portugal), Rabugento (Brazil)
Danish: Møghund
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