Wacky Races (1968 TV series) In 2006, the car manufacturer Vauxhall launched a TV commercial for the British market, parodying "Wacky Races" with a similar setup featuring Corsa cars. The commercial made several references to the cartoon as well as utilizing the show's theme music and Muttley's iconic laugh. The English adult comic Viz had a one-off parody strip called "Wacky Racists" with David Irving as Dick Dastardly, Unity Mitford as Penelope Pitstop and comedian Bernard Manning as Muttley. In 2013, the car manufacturer Peugeot launched a TV commercial for the Brazilian market (and later used in Spain and Turkey), featuring the cartoon characters in
Wacky Packages only. In addition to this, "Series 1" and "2" also had black and red Ludlow backs, which are very rare). Newly designed series were produced in 1985 and 1991. They were not as successful as the original run; however, the 1991 series was successful enough to begin production of a 1992 series, but this series was cancelled prior to mass production. Many of these unused parodies were eventually released in recent years, mostly in "All New Series 1" and "Wacky Pack Flashback 2". Wacky Packages returned in 2004 with the release of the first "All-New Series" ("ANS") set of stickers.