Wacky Races (1968 TV series) The series is sometimes mistakenly known as "Stop the Pigeon", after the show's working title and theme song. Both series ran for two seasons. In 2006, the pilot for a spin-off series titled "Wacky Races Forever" was produced for Cartoon Network. The series depicted a roster of both new and returning racers competing against each other. Penelope Pitstop and Peter Perfect had married and created Perfect Industries, the corporate sponsor of the new Wacky Races, whereas their children Parker and Piper competed in the race. Other characters included the Slag Brothers, Professor Pat Pending, a teenage version of the Gruesome
Wacky Races (2017 TV series) Ickly, Brick Crashman, P.T. Barnstorm, and Pandora Pitstop. While the series stays true to the original, it also focuses on the racers' personal lives, storylines are added, and there usually is no actual winner or loser at the end of the race. "Wacky Races" has premiered internationally in 2017. The first episode was released on Boomerang's SVOD service in the United States on August 14, 2017. The other eleven episodes were released on August 31, 2017. The series was first shown on television in the United States on the Boomerang channel, with the episode "Under the Rainbow" airing on Boomerang