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 the first series in March (with a yellow wrapper) and the second series in October (with a blue wrapper), each of them with 24 "Wacky Packages All-New Series" designs. Four of the erasers in each series are rare. In addition to the erasers, which consisted of paper labels adhered to a shaped eraser core, each eraser also had a corresponding miniature sticker included in the pack. No new series have been released since 2011. Topps has released five comic books in the "Wacky Packages" line. The panels of just the first two issues consist of reproductions of "Wacky Halloween Postcards"