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
Children of the Mind Children of the Mind Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth science fiction novel of Orson Scott Card's popular "Ender's Game" series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin. This book was originally the second half of "Xenocide", before it was split into two novels. At the start of "Children of the Mind", Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, is using her newly discovered abilities to take the races of buggers, humans and "pequeninos" outside the universe and back instantaneously. She uses these powers to move them to distant habitable planets for colonization. She is losing