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 On July 23, 2014, Topps released a series called "Wacky Packages Chrome". This series contained a foil card set of 110 base cards consisting of the 1967 die-cuts and the 1973 "Series 2" and "3", as well as four foil card sets of chase cards containing the 36 1969 "Wacky Ads", 30 unreleased parodies both old and new and five parodies taken from the base cards and done with modern (i.e., 2014-style) packaging artwork, for a total of 181 cards. No new series have been released since 2014. "Wacky Packages" have been used in numerous products since the 1970s as