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 from production after an initial run and have since become extremely rare. "Moron Salt" was pulled later and replaced by "Jolly Mean Giant", which was also pulled soon after that, with both of them becoming almost as rare as Cracked Animals and Ratz Crackers. In all, 14 cards were removed from this series (and one more was planned for it but never released until years later, as a peel-and-stick sticker in "Wacky Packages Old School Series 3"). This series was followed by a somewhat different series called Wacky Ads in 1969, featuring parodies and roughs by Lynch and Deitch with