Dick Dastardly & Muttley Original Animation Cel

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Dick Dastardly & Muttley Original Animation Cel:
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Dastardly was aided in his schemes by his sidekick, a scruffy anthropomorphicdognamedMuttleywho had a distinctive wheezy laugh, heard most often when Dastardly\'s schemes failed. Despite Dastardly and Muttley\'s attempts, the \"double-dealing do-badders\", as the opening narration ofWacky Racesdescribes them, failed to win a single race. Dastardly\'s plans were always foiled either by his or Muttley\'s incompetence, the actions of another racer, or sheer bad luck, resulting in Dastardly crossing the finish line last, if at all. On some occasions Dastardly is very close to winning, but he will fail at the final hurdle. Once Dastardly had an opportunity to win legitimately, but he stopped in front of the finish line to pose for his picture as it was aphoto finish. Another time, he came close to winning the race, but stopped to sign anautographfor Muttley, ending up in fourth place again. Another time Dasterdly almost crossed the Finish Line first-until Muttley sabatoged his chances of winning! On one occasion, however, Dastardlydidcross the finish line in first place, although the judges demanded to see a replay and it showed that Dastardly had extended the nose of his car at the last minute, and so Dastardly was denied the victory in favour of Penelope Pitstop (although in a later episode, another racer used a similar tactic from last place and was declared the winner). In one race Dasterdly and Muttley did cross the Finish line first without cheating-but were disqualified because-due to a series of comic mishaps-they were in thewrongcar!

Often it appears that if Dastardly had not bothered to cheat, then he might have won fairly. Upon tasting defeat, Dastardly would utter his catchphrases, \"Drat, drat, and double drat!\", \"Triple drat!\" and even \"Curses, foiled again!\" His other main catchphrase was \"Muttley, do something!\" Excluding Dastardly and Muttley, each of the other racers won three or four of the Wacky Races.