Truly Scrumptious the children leave, she watches them and sings about her love for Caractacus ("Lovely Lonely Man") before returning to her family mansion. The next day Truly and the Potts family encounter some unexpected and comical attempts to take their car, before being overtaken by the airship belonging to Baron Bomburst, the ruler of Vulgaria. The Baron wants Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for his own, and kidnapped Caractacus' father under the mistaken impression that he is the one who created the unusual car. The airship is returning to Vulgaria with Grandpa Potts, where the Baron plans to hold him hostage until
Baron Munchausen popular and much-quoted catchphrase, and by early 1933 "The Jack Pearl Show" was the second most popular series on American radio (after Eddie Cantor's program). Pearl attempted to adapt his portrayal to film in "Meet the Baron" in 1933, playing a modern character mistaken for the Baron, but the film was not a success. Pearl's popularity gradually declined between 1933 and 1937, though he attempted to revive the Baron character several times before ending his last radio series in 1951. For a 1972 Caedmon Records recording of some of the stories, Peter Ustinov voiced the Baron. A review in "The