If that is not correct, then you have stumped us (well, me. But I seem to be the only one trying on this one) and can ask a different question.
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I'd thought there was someone else besides me who'd watched Robotech? Oh, well...
ANSWER: Miriya was trying to cook for her husband. Not being familiar with Earth's cooking methods... she ended up "cooking" the coffeepot when she heated oil in it.
Quislet, go ahead and take the next question. Cause you tried hardest on answering it.
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How many wacky racers were there in the cartoon Wacky Racers?
A bonus if you can name them all.
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There was Penelope Pitstop. The Anthill Mob Dastardly and Mutley The Caveman Brothers The ghoul ones that I have forgot the names of The drag racer guy in the red car
And I'm sure a couple of others. I think there were eight in total though. That certainly sounds right...
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I think there were nine vehicles: The six Bevis named (I'm guessing the last one is Peter Perfect).
Plus The Arkansas Chug-a-bug The Army Surplus Special Professor Pat Pending
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Actually saw a couple of episodes recently, since Boomerang slipped them into a block dedicated to Dastardly & Muttley. But I had to go back and look up the details.
There were 11 cars total. The two that hadn't been mentioned yet were the Crimson Haybaler (the car/plane hybrid) and the Buzz Wagon (with sawblade wheels)
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Number 1: The Bouldermobile, driven by The Slag Brothers (Rock Slag & Gravel Slag) - cavemen (covered with hair like Cousin Itt from The Addams Family; their design was recycled for Captain Caveman) driving a wheeled boulder. The Slag Brothers sometimes reconstructed their car from scratch just by using their clubs on any large boulder that was available. On one occassion the car was shown to be using an unseen, living creature as its engine.
Number 2: The Creepy Coupe, driven by The Gruesome Twosome (Big Gruesome & Little Gruesome) - monsters (Big spoke like Boris Karloff and Little like Peter Lorre), driving a car with a belfry; the belfry housed a dragon and various ghosts and ghouls. The Creepy Coupe was able to fly short distances through use of the dragon's wings.
Number 3: The Convert-a-Car, driven by Professor Pat Pending - a scientist in a car that can change into just about anything that moves.
Number 4: The Crimson Haybailer, driven by RED MAX - an air ace (loosely based on WWI German aviator, Max Immelmann) in a car/plane hybrid that was capable of limited flight, usually just enough to leapfrog over racers and/or obstacles in its path. The Haybailer also had a machine gun mounted, which was sporadically used.
Number 5: The Compact Pussycat, driven by Penelope Pitstop - a woman racer driving a pink feminine car with personal grooming facilities. Said facilities would sometimes backfire on the other racers---shampoo foam hitting the faces of the other racers, for instance.
Number 6: The Army Surplus Special, driven by Sergeant Blast & Private Meekly - two soldiers racing an army tank/jeep hybrid. The Army Surplus Special made use of its tank facilities while racing, including its cannon.
Number 7: The Bulletproof Bomb (aka The Roaring Twenty), driven by The Ant Hill Mob (led by Clyde) - gangsters in a 1920s salon car. Their car was renamed Chugga-Boom in the spinoff The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, where it also seemed to gain sentience.
Number 8: The Arkansas Chuggabug, driven by Luke & Blubber Bear - a hillbilly who sleeps most of the races and a worry-wart bear in a wooden buggy driven by a coal-fired range.
Number 9: The Turbo Terrific, driven by Peter Perfect - a jock (he had a crush on Penelope, so often stopped to help) driving a drag racer that often falls to bits.
Number 10: The Buzz Wagon, driven by Rufus Ruffcut & Sawtooth - a lumberjack and a beaver in a wagon with buzzsaws for wheels, which gave it the ability to cut through almost anything, damaging or destroying the object in the process.
Number 00: The Mean Machine, driven by Dick Dastardly & Muttley - the villains of the series, in a rocket-powered car with lots of concealed weapons. (thank you Wikipedia)
you can go here to see what they looked like Wacky Racers
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Okay, tying it to the previous question... what three American cartoon series got inspiration from "Wacky Races"?
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Penelope Pitstop (I'm not sure if it had another name), Those Marvellous Men In Their Flying Machines (aka Stop The Pigeon, starring Dastardly and Mutley) and, I assume, Captain Caveman.
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Yup, which is how I managed to get all three. I kind of assumed that Captain Caveman came first but Quis kind of gave it away for me. Not that I'm complaining of course.
I asked a Dangermouse question a little while ago, but let's have another one. Which character from Dangermouse had their own spin off series despite the fact that only their name and the very basic concept remained the same?
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I kind of assumed that Captain Caveman came first but Quis kind of gave it away for me. Not that I'm complaining of course.
