Talk:Dick Dastardly

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Dick Dastardly article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

A fact from Dick Dastardly appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 June 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in his later years Dick Dastardly was often Yogi Bear's nemesis?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/June.

Wikipedia

Animation: American / Hanna-Barbera Low‑importance

	Animation portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Animation, a collaborative effort to build an encyclopedic guide to animation on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, help out with the open tasks, or contribute to the discussion.AnimationWikipedia:WikiProject AnimationTemplate:WikiProject AnimationAnimation articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the American animation work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by the Hanna-Barbera work group (assessed as Mid-importance).

Fictional characters

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Fictional characters, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of fictional characters on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Fictional charactersWikipedia:WikiProject Fictional charactersTemplate:WikiProject Fictional charactersfictional character articles

"Drat, drat, and double drat!" Reading that brought a smile. :) --FuriousFreddy 02:04, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Has he ever won a race?

Not on Wacky Races; IIRC, he won at least one race on the short-lived "Wake, Rattle and Roll"'s Fender Bender 500 shorts of the early 1990s... Anthony Dean 03:43, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

IIRC he would've won twice in Wacky Races. The first time, he stopped right before the finish line and gave an autograph to Muttley, the second time they had a photo finish and Dastarly stopped at the finish line to pose for the photo.

There were also many times where he was ahead of everyone else, only to stop to set up a trap in order to secure his lead. Naturally, this only made him lose it. Sinistro 23:11, 25 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

He almost won once but the Judges looked at a slow motion replay of the finish and found out he extended the front of his car to make everyone think he'd crossed the finish line first. He got disqualified and the win went to Penelope Pitstop. Gerkinman TNG 19:49, 15th May 2006

He should have won that time. The other characters do that sort of thing every episode. I'll wager Pat Pending did.

In fact Rufus Roughcut (Buzz Wagon) did almost exactly the same thing to win in another epsiode and wasn't called on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.21.160 (talk) 19:30, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I remember that he won one of the Fender Bender 500s, they were supposed to be racing for Moscow's Red Square, and when Dick Dastardly won the race, he was presented with... a red square! Tws45 16:33, 4th November 2007 —Preceding comment was added at 16:33, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fact Check

Can someone please confirm that this paragraph: "In one episode called Speeding for Smogland, however, Dastardly did actually cross the finish line first, following a mix up with all the racers' cars. Dastardly ended up commandeering the Arkansas Chuggabug to first place, but according to race 'rules', victory would be awarded to the racer(s) whose car crossed the line first, so Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chuggabug were awarded the victory, despite finishing behind Dastardly. Dastardly did, however, manage to cross the finish line in second-to-last place beating out Sergeant Blast." is actually correct. I just watched it, and do not believe he crossed the finish line at all, let alone first. They all swapped back to their original cars *before* the finish. El Paulio (talk) 11:20, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dredd Baron

Why was Dredd Baron in Laff-a-lympics instead of Dick?

IIRC, Hanna-Barbera shared the copyrights to Dastardly, Muttley, and the other characters from Wacky Races and its spinoffs with another company whose name escapes me. When Laff-a-lympics was developed, H-B decided to create its own, thinly-veiled knockoff characters rather than pay royalties to license Dastardly & co. yet again. Mdumas43073 (talk) 08:52, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When?

1920s?? 1980s???? Some other time???? The article doesn't seem to say. Michael Hardy 23:21, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Professor Fate and Dick Dasterly

Why Dick Dasterly will never win:
Remember Professor Fate in The Great Race? He refuses to accept the trophy on the grounds that if he can't cheat,he'll never accept first place. Since Dick Dasterly is based on Professor Fate and Dasterly always cheats to try to win, it logically follows that the only way Dasterly will ever win is by cheating and will never accept first place if he has to do it by playing fair and square!!
As for the "Dred Baron" and Mumbly-its just Dick Dasterly and Muttley under an alias-remember they play villians role most of the time!!
Also the nearest he came to winning without cheating is when he and Muttley cross the finish line first-but are diaqualified for crossing in the wrong car! {It was an accident}

Dick Dastardly did win a race.

In the episode he disguised himself as a cowboy (who looked just like him on wanted posters) and threatened to shoot all other racers, who got out his way allowing him to win. However, after crossing the line (possibly whilst receiving his trophy) the local authoraties also mistook him for the wanted man and arrested him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.235.92 (talk) 22:41, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By the way the only time dasterly ever beat Yogi bear is in a Cartoon Network spoof sketch when disbiate carring a cartoon bomb Dasterly is let into the cartoon studio-because he has his ID With him; Yogi bear has left his ID behind and cant get in! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.49.242.65 (talk) 12:31, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Dastardly muttley cast.jpg

Image:Dastardly muttley cast.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 21:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Dickdastardly.jpg

Image:Dickdastardly.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 21:20, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Magnificent.jpg

Image:Magnificent.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 16:28, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

sources

Why does an article without a single reference or citation even allowed to exist?--Cerejota (talk) 22:38, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

country of origin?

The facts at the end of the article state that Dick Dastardly was voted "greatest living Englishman", despite not being english (or living). Where is he from then? America? The article doesn't say... 23:36, 15 May 2009 (UTC) I've always though he was supposed to be south american based on his moustache and costume.(82.3.45.37 (talk) 20:16, 17 July 2009 (UTC))[reply]

It's an American production, and Dastardly is a villain, so of course he's English! Draggleduck (talk) 11:40, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plus he's based on Terry Thomas, an Englishman.--Guru Larry (talk) 04:39, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GUYS, no, Dick Dastardly is not English, no matter on which actor he was based. Dastardly is actually American, simply. Because:

There was an episode in Wacky Races where Dick Dastardly says that he was a Yankee. When he was racing somewhere in the South of the United States, a native from there threatened to block the passage of everyone he found out that was a Yankee. Dastardly attempts to hide his origins to escape from him, but ends up being persecuted by the southern guy after being uncovered;
Wacky Races is a cartoon that shows preference for the south of USA. There are a few spreaded subliminar jokes against yankees in other episodes and the southern characters are sort of less impaired throughout the competition. Plus: Penelope Pitstop and Peter Perfect are totally southerns and they are like the "ideal heroes" of the cartoon;
The allegory made in W.R. to establish villain and good-guy is not related to the antagonism between Americans and Englishmen, but the rivalry between southerns and north Americans. It's much more within the framework of the story;

Conclusion: Dick Dastardly is not even English, neither 'South' American... on the very contrary... he is, literally, a 'North' American. At least according to my memory.--177.140.188.13 (talk) 17:10, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Caricature of Terry-Thomas

There is a user comment page on guardian.co.uk that asserts this: http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-49025,00.html I don't believe this counts as a sufficiently authoritative source to serve as a citation in the article - the claim in the article is tagged "citation needed". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdulcey (talk • contribs) 15:03, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Mdulcey: Definitely not usable as a source any more than Yahoo! Answers, but I think I've found some better ones, which I will add to the article. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:22, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like Schumacher??

Dick doesn't look anything like the F1 driver, who has brown hair no hat or moustache! I removed this sentence but see some jobsworth admin has already put it back in this already excessively detailed section.82.34.106.120 (talk) 15:25, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed it. One random blog seeing a resemblance isn't enough - there needs to be a WP:RS. I've also removed the list of his alleged dirty tricks. That is clear WP:OR unless a WP:Reliable Source can be produced likening Schumacher's tactics to Dicl Dastardly. Adpete (talk) 02:10, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]