The Carlsbad or Bust Bash

The Carlsbad or Bust Bash
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Network	CBS
Premiere date	January 4, 1969
Starring	Paul Winchell Don Messick Janet Waldo Daws Butler John Stephenson Dave Willock
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Director(s)	William Hanna
Voice director(s)	Joseph Barbera
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"The Carlsbad or Bust Bash" is the second and final part of the seventeenth episode of Wacky Races season one, and the thirty-fourth and final episode overall. It aired on January 4, 1969 on CBS. It was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

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Memorable quotes

Red Max: (coughs) It must be snowing!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Penelope Pitstop	Janet Waldo
Private Meekly	N/A
Sergeant Blast	N/A
Lazy Luke	John Stephenson
Blubber Bear	N/A
Slag Brothers	Don Messick Daws Butler
Announcer (voice only)	Dave Willock
Peter Perfect	Daws Butler
The Red Max	Daws Butler
Sawtooth	N/A
Rufus Ruffcut	Daws Butler
Big Gruesome	N/A
Little Gruesome	N/A
Dick Dastardly	Paul Winchell
Muttley	Don Messick
Gruesome Twosome's dragon	Unavailable
Professor Pat Pending	Don Messick
Clyde	N/A
Rug Bug Benny	N/A
Mac	N/A
Ring-a-Ding	N/A
Willy	N/A
Danny	N/A
Kurby	N/A
Nitty Gritty	Unavailable

Organizations

• Ant Hill Mob

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • New Mexico
      • Carlsbad Caverns

Vehicles

• Boulder Mobile
• Crimson Hayballer
• Bulletproof Bomb
• Convert-a-Car
• Army Surplus Special
• Creepy Coupe
• Turbo Terrific
• Arkansas Chuggabug
• Buzz Wagon
• Mean Machine

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: January 4, 1969 on CBS
• United Kingdom and Ireland:

Behind the scenes

• Although Dastardly says he hopes that he and Muttley can find their way out of the Carlsbad Caverns in time for the next Wacky Race, this is actually the last episode of the series, though it's possible that the races are still going on within universe.
  • Although the series would later be rebooted in the early 1990s as Fender Bender 500, only Dastardly and Muttley remained from the original series.
• The caveman who lives in the Carlsbad Caverns is named Nitty Gritty, ironically, Nitty and Gritty were also early production names for the Slag Brothers, who would later be known as Rock and Gravel.

Legacy

• Peter's triple wheel power would later be used for one of his power-ups in the 2008 Wacky Races: Crash & Dash video game.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
  • March 31, 1997: First Independent Films releases Groovy Toons on VHS.
  • July 31, 2006: Warner Home Video releases Wacky Races: The Complete Series on DVD.
• In the United States:
  • October 26, 2004: Warner Home Video releases Wacky Races: The Complete Series on DVD.
  • February 14, 2017: Warner Archive Collection releases Wacky Races: The Complete Series on DVD.
  • June 6, 2017: Warner Home Video releases Wacky Races: The Complete Series (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.