Mean Machine

Mean Machine
Type	Racecar
Owned by	Dick Dastardly
First appearance	WR: "See-Saw to Arkansas" (1968)

The Mean Machine is the signature Wacky Races race car of Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Wacky Races animated franchise.

Appearances

TV series

• Wacky Races (1968)
  • 1.1A "See-Saw to Arkansas"
  • 1.1B "Creepy Trip to Lemon Twist"
  • 1.2A "Why Oh Why Wyoming"
  • 1.2B "Beat the Clock to Yellow Rock"
  • 1.3A "Mish Mash Missouri Dash"
  • 1.3B "Idaho a Go Go"
  • 1.4A "The Baja-Ha-Ha Race"
  • 1.4B "Real Gone Ape"
  • 1.5A "Scout Scatter"
  • 1.5B "Free Wheeling to Wheeling"
  • 1.6A "By Rollercoaster to Upsan Downs"
  • 1.6B "The Speedy Arkansas Traveller"
  • 1.7A "The Zippy Mississippi Race"
  • 1.7B "Traffic Jambalaya"
  • 1.8A "Hot Race at Chillicothe"
  • 1.8B "The Wrong Lumber Race"
  • 1.9A "Rhode Island Road Race"
  • 1.9B "The Great Cold Rush Race"
  • 1.10A "Wacky Race to Ripsaw"
  • 1.10B "Oils Well That Ends Well"
  • 1.11A "Whizzin' to Washington"
  • 1.11B "The Dipsy Doodle Desert Derby"
  • 1.12A "Eeny, Miny Missouri Go!"
  • 1.12B "The Super Silly Swamp Sprint"
  • 1.13A "The Dopey Dakota Derby"
  • 1.13B "Dash to Delaware"
  • 1.14A "Speeding for Smogland"
  • 1.14B "Race Rally to Raleigh"
  • 1.15A "Ballpoint, Penn. or Bust!"
  • 1.15B "Fast Track to Hackensack"
  • 1.16A "The Ski Resort Road Race"
  • 1.16B "Overseas Hi-Way Race"
  • 1.17A "Race to Racine"
  • 1.17B "The Carlsbad or Bust Bash"
• Wacky Races (2017)

Movies

• Scoob!

Shorts

• Wacky Races Forever

Comics

• Wacky Races
• Hanna-Barbera Presents
• Cartoon Network Presents
• Wacky Raceland

Video games

• Wacky Races
• Wacky Races: Crash & Dash (Wii)
• Wacky Races: Crash & Dash (DS)

Gallery

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In popular culture

• In "Episode Three" (series 5) of the BBC Radio 4 show Dead Ringers, Phil Collins follows in the footsteps of Elton John by singing his own non-Disney song set to the tune of "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)," about Dick losing against the Ant Hill Mob, the Mean Machine being cut in half, and punching Muttley in the nose when Muttley laughs at him. In typical fashion, we then hear Dick ask for Muttley's help, who just laughs.
• BBC Two's Dead Ringers TV series has an episode (yes, "an episode," #lostmedia) that merges Top Gear with Wacky Races. Jeremy Clarkson, the host of Top Gear, is now Dick Dastardly riding in the Mean Machine chasing Penelope Pitstop to steal her Compact Pussycat and be the pretty one, with the help of his babe magnet and Muttley also appearing as a traffic guard to stop her.
• In The Simpsons episode "Gone Abie Gone," the couch gag is a parody of the Wacky Races, wherein the Simpsons take their couch on the road up against other citizens who have also turned their couches into makeshift racecars, with the theme song playing over the race. Homer, Marge, and Burns are dressed like Peter Perfect, Penelope, and Dick, respectively, with Burns driving a car that resembles the Mean Machine.
• In the South Park episode "Handicar," the Wacky Races are revived for one Saturday morning television for the future of car lift transportation, with Dick and Muttley brought out of retirement to cause some ruckus once more in their Mean Machine.

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