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 Races (2017 TV series) 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 one-hour special on Cartoon Network on August 13, 2018. The series premiered on Boomerang in Sub-Saharan Africa in October 2017. "Wacky Races" premiered on Boomerang in Australia on August 14, 2017. The series premiered in India on Pogo on August 27, 2017. The series premiered in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Boomerang on November 1, 2017. The series also premiered in