As a fan of Hanna-Barbera, I would watch a few of their TV series and films like "Charlotte's Web" and "Heidi's Song." I remember watching Wacky Races when it was on Teletoon a long time ago, and the lovely Penelope Pitstop and her Compact Pussycat were my favourite racers. Though I didn't know why her car was called The Compact Pussycat, it didn't look like a cat. The series became so successful that they made spin-off series like Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. Although Wacky Races was set in the then-contemporary 1960s, the characters and settings of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop were strongly reminiscent of the 1920s; well, the 1930s, that is.
I'd bought the complete series on DVD, and after watching all seventeen episodes, I thought it's a very funny show; it has scenes you will remember and make you laugh your head off. In this series, Penelope is an heiress to a vast fortune and is constantly chased by her sinister guardian (voiced by Paul Lynde), Sylvester Sneekly aka The Hooded Claw; she doesn't even know it. The Ant Hill Mob (also from Wacky Races) and their anthropomorphic car Chug-A-Boom (like Herbie from Disney's The Love Bug) are always there to help her. But they sometimes screw up the rescue, and it's always Penelope who ends up saving them.
They never explain why Penelope is a wealthy woman. Or why the Ant Hill Mob are her friends? And so forth, they just jump right through it; but I do have imagination, like: Penelope was the beloved daughter of a wealthy family; but when her mama and papa died, it was always her "dear daddy's" secretary, Sylvester Sneekly, who was with her all her life, because to a girl's daddy (or male guardian), he's her oracle, her guidance, and her hero. Maybe that's why she refuses to believe that Sylvester is The Hooded Claw. And as to why the Ant Hill Mob are her friends, Well, she might have reformed the crooks because of her kind heart, or maybe the seven had reformed years ago. So overall, I love this series and would watch it again and again.
I'd bought the complete series on DVD, and after watching all seventeen episodes, I thought it's a very funny show; it has scenes you will remember and make you laugh your head off. In this series, Penelope is an heiress to a vast fortune and is constantly chased by her sinister guardian (voiced by Paul Lynde), Sylvester Sneekly aka The Hooded Claw; she doesn't even know it. The Ant Hill Mob (also from Wacky Races) and their anthropomorphic car Chug-A-Boom (like Herbie from Disney's The Love Bug) are always there to help her. But they sometimes screw up the rescue, and it's always Penelope who ends up saving them.
They never explain why Penelope is a wealthy woman. Or why the Ant Hill Mob are her friends? And so forth, they just jump right through it; but I do have imagination, like: Penelope was the beloved daughter of a wealthy family; but when her mama and papa died, it was always her "dear daddy's" secretary, Sylvester Sneekly, who was with her all her life, because to a girl's daddy (or male guardian), he's her oracle, her guidance, and her hero. Maybe that's why she refuses to believe that Sylvester is The Hooded Claw. And as to why the Ant Hill Mob are her friends, Well, she might have reformed the crooks because of her kind heart, or maybe the seven had reformed years ago. So overall, I love this series and would watch it again and again.