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Uncle Ghengis Started conversation Jul 4, 2003
yup. Wacky Races would be great.
But who should get to play Dick Dastardly I wonder???
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Uncle Ghengis Posted Jul 4, 2003
So who should we have for Penelope Pitstop?
(she's got to be able to do the voice)
BTW: The convertor car was driven by Professor Pat Pending
(He was my favourite!)
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Rains - Wondering where time's going and why it's in so much of a hurry! Posted Jul 7, 2003
That would be Farrah Fawcett (the original) or Cameron Diaz (the two remakes).
I'll just go and take my anorak of trivia off now...
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Al Johnston Posted Jul 7, 2003
Cameron Diaz would make a great Penelope Pitstop 
And I suppose George Clooney would be a shoo-in for Peter Perfect
I'd go for Alan Rickman as Dick Dastardly, but he'd probably realise that as he's got the fastest car (he must have: all his dirty tricks involve ambushing the others from in front) there's not a huge amount of point in cheating.
It's probably inevitable that Muttley would be CGI, but they'd have to do him better than Scooby Doo. 
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[...] Posted Jul 7, 2003
Alan rickman wouldn't be able to do the laugh would he??
And Muttley would look...jsysgurbugrguvbuuegtisvbfcuitghkieyhfikddir!
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Al Johnston Posted Jul 7, 2003
I think he'd do OK.
Good call on Danny De Vito though.
Now we just need to fit Christopher Lloyd in somewhere....
sassafrginrikrastardly..heheheheheheeee
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[...] Posted Jul 7, 2003
Lloyd would work well as Prof. Pat Pending aswell....
Can anyone remember all the other drivers?
There's the Captain caveman rip-offs
The army guys
The lumberjack (Michael Palin!!!) and that bear...
If they did make a movie they'd probably add the Mystery Machine and the Flintstones...
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Happysuggs-Patron Saint of Misdemeanors, Retainer of Useless Information and Werehedgehog! Posted Jul 7, 2003
The Boulder Brothers that would be (cavemen thingies)
The Doom Mobile (haunted house thing)
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Mu Beta Posted Jul 7, 2003
I'm sure Jimster would gladly point this out if I didn't, but Wacky Races was in fact (loosely) based on a film in the first place, the mammoth "The Great Race" (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059243), starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis.
Its popularity sadly declined somewhat after Natalie Wood died in a car crash.
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[...] Posted Jul 7, 2003
I'd like to be the first to point out that we have no lives!
Maybe they should just fling 'main' Hanna-Barbera characters togethers...
Jetsons, Flintstones, Top Cat, Dastardly and Muttley, Scooby Doo, Captain caveman, Jabberjaw, Yogi Bear, The Hair Bear Bunch... and so on...
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Mu Beta Posted Jul 7, 2003
Oh, and if you want all the other participants, there is a perfectly good Guide Entry at A592887
(Wacky Races 
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the_jon_m - bluesman of the parish Posted Jul 7, 2003
Cavemen - Some hairy people - Robin Williams and Richard Keys from Sky Sports ?
Army Guys - Micheal Keaton + Steve Martin
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Researcher 224533 Posted Jul 7, 2003
I have to speak up here. Natalie Wood died of drowning....leading to many sick jokes about being the only Wood that can't float. The part about The Great Race movie was correct otherwise.
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