Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines - in Popular Culture

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  • Although the Wacky Races series is never mentioned (and being set in present day, would not take place for decades), the Mean Machine can be seen in all of the episodes of Magnificent Muttley.
  • The "Stop The Pigeon" theme song was covered along with the theme music from Jonny Quest (usually billed as "Theme From 'Jonny Quest'/Stop The Pigeon") by the rockabilly band Reverend Horton Heat in the 1995 compilation album Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits.
  • The series was sponsored by Kellogg's breakfast cereals in its original run, and the characters appeared in several commercials for the company.
  • In an episode of Yogi's Treasure Hunt entitled "Yogi's Heroes", in which Yogi Bear and Dick Dastardly were the leaders of warring nations, Dastardly tortured all of Yogi's friends by forcing them to watch episodes of Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines until the victims were incapable of doing anything more than stumbling around and repeatedly chanting, "Stop the pigeon."

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