james-thornsberry: "I know his team, the "Really Rottens" won a time or two on Laff-A-Lympics."
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Dick Dastradly, voiced by the late, great Paul Winchell (best known as the voice for Gargamel from The Smurfs and Tigger from Winnie the Pooh) and his dog, Muttley, were in the Wacky Races, and later would appear in Yogi's Treasure Hunt in the 1980s.
In the mid 1970s, Mumbly was a blue dog who wore a trenchcoat, like Peter Falk, and had a little, sort of detective cartoon. He had a bad guy in the cartoon. Can't recall the character's name, but his look was essentially the same as the Dred Baron, from Laff-A-Lympics.
Paul Winchell didnt do the voice of the bad guy in the Mumbly cartoons.
When Laff-A-Lympics came about, if there had been any intention to make the bad guy leaders Dick Dastradly and Muttley, this could only be if Paul Winchell did Dastradly's voice.
For whatever reason (no doubt because of Winchell's unavailability), LAA went with Mumbly. His bad guy from his own cartoon was renamed Dred Baron and became his ally on the Really Rottens.
The last issue of the Laff-A-Lympics comic book, from Marvel comics, late 1970s, is about the only time that all four characters, Dick Dastradly, Muttley, Mumbly and Dred Baron, appeared together. It was declared that Dastradly and Dred Baron were brothers, and no doubt, Muttley and Mumbly were from the same litter as well.
Seeing them together, I could distinguish Muttley and Mumbly much better. Mumbly was solid blue and Muttley was tan with black ears.
As to each character's place in their respective cartoons, Dred Baron and Mumbly on the Really Rottens did indeed win a couple of races. There is even one where all three teams tied.
As to Dastradly and Muttley's role in the Wacky Races, they never won a single solitary race. In fact, of the eleven racers, Dastradly and Muttley were always last.
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