Wacky Races (1968 TV series) was made available in 1996. All 34 episodes can be purchased on the iTunes Store. On February 14, 2017, Warner Archive re-released "Wacky Races: The Complete Series" on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection as a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release. Life-size working replicas of the vehicles have been built in the UK (where the show was very popular) and appear annually at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, with new additions each year. 2008 saw the last of the cars (the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb 07) added to the collection, making a complete set.
The Ant and the Grasshopper has already given the grasshopper shelter and invites the ant to join him since 'All who are suffering/Deserve help equally.' In the 20th century the fable enters the political arena. Walt Disney's cartoon version, "The Grasshopper and the Ants" (1934) confronts the dilemma of how to deal with improvidence from the point of view of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The Grasshopper's irresponsibility is underlined by his song "The World Owes us a Living", which later that year became a Shirley Temple hit, rewritten to encase the story of the earlier cartoon. In the end the ants take pity on