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  1. The car was a ripoff from 'The Great Race." The Ant Hill Mob couldn't possibly be from WW I. The earliest they could be is the decade after. The Army Surplus Special is WW II surplus. A lot of the others, an argument can be made for different times due to advanced technology. I'm sure the series I mentioned is on YT.
  2. And yet, I noticed you didn't actually post the name of any of those...... so with no actual guess, I can't call that one in your favor....yet.
  3. "Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits. Heh-eh-eh-eh-eh."
  4. My reference to JoJo Krako in Star Trek's original series must have gotten you thinking. This one is "STAR TREK-THE NEXT GENERATION."
  5. "Stop The Pigeon" is an acceptable answer. That was the name of the theme song, and the name of the goal of the characters. They had to stop a patriotic carrier pigeon from delivering messages during World Wat I. Their attempts to stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon was what Vulture Squadron was assigned to, permanently. The official title of the cartoon was "Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines." That was a reference to "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines." This cartoon took place in Germany in World War I. The planes were of World War I vintage and had German markings appropriate for the time. Dick Dastardly and Muttley were now WW I pilots. Dastardly was in charge of Vulture Squadron. Muttley was actually able to fly a little by spinning his tail like a motorized propellor- something useful every time their planes were destroyed in mid-air. The remaining 2 members of Vulture Squadron were Klunk and Zilly. Klunk was an inventor. He built their planes, and kept trying to design different traps or tricks useful for catching Yankee Doodle Pigeon. He always failed to account for SOMETHING, and they failed when sent up against YDP. Klunk's other problem was he had odd verbal tics and could not be fully understood between his clicks, growls, etc. Zilly was always able to understand Klunk. Zilly's problem was that he was an incredible coward and kept trying to desert. Other regular elements of the stories.... "the General" would phone and chew out DD for failing to stop that pigeon. When DD would free fall, he would call on Muttley to save him. Usually, Muttley would hold out for a medal. Once DD gave him a medal, Muttley would save him (or do some other unpleasant task like bringing Zilly back to their planes.) Occasionally, there would be "Wing Dings" - short gag cartoons, several seconds long. Also, "Magnificent Muttley" cartoons, where Muttley would dream he was some sort of action hero, Walter Mitty style, and wake up as himself at the base or whatever. OF COURSE, Dick Dastardly and Muttley were spun off FROM "the Wacky Races." However, the cartoon in question was not "the Wacky Races" ("Los Autos Locos", "the crazy cars") , but this one.
  6. Wild guess here...."Pennsylvania"???? That's a chocolate snack cake to me, and Pennsylvania has "Hershey", so it's worth a shot....
  7. That's it. Flo's signature line showed up a lot. Vera claimed Flo said "When donkeys fly" when angry. Mel claimed Vera was a ding-y broad plenty of times. Vic Tayback was Mel Sharples, the diner owner/cook. He was also a mobster in ST TOS' "A Piece of the Action." The Enterprise put the bag on him. :)
  8. Whenever vpw visited a place, they assigned people to buy his creature comforts out of pocket (like bottles of Drambuie as one poster reported- their first experience buying alcohol.) On top of everything else, they took up collections of nice, untraceable cash which was handed over to vpw in a bag. I'm sure he was happy not to report that to the IRS. He also made no secret that he could-and did- go to the twi treasurer whenever he felt like he needed some cash, and got it. ALSO, a LOT of things owned by twi were reserved for his SOLE use, and he called them "MY STUFF."
  9. It wasn't just the ROA, either. Whenever vpw made a visit to people "out on the field", it was an experience all around. Sometimes he was put up in someone's house, and we've had a few horror stories about that. One female poster mentioned vpw exposing himself to her and smiling. Whether or not he was put up in someone's house, someone was assigned a little shopping list. People who never smoked were sent to buy Kool Shorties for him, people who didn't drink were trying to figure out where to buy this Drambuie he drank. And every time, there was always a passing of the horn, and he was handed an envelope full of cash. Nice, untraceable cash. I'm sure the IRS never heard about any of that, just as the ROA cash donations would be news to them also, little undocumented, undeclared assets.
  10. Han Solo, in "the Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi", said the first set. "I've got a bad feeling about this" was a running line, as was "It's not my fault!". C3PO also said the former, and Lando Calrissian also said the latter. There was a famous exchange between Han Solo and Princess Leia. In TESB, just before it looks like Han is about to die, Leia says "I love you." His reply? "I know." A movie later, towards the end, they are about to be captured. She's hiding a pistol, hidden by how he is standing. Han, impressed. "I love you." Leia, smugly: "I know." "I didn't kill my wife!" was obviously from "the Fugitive." Indiana Jones, in "Raiders of the Lost Ark," was asked for plans. "I don't know, I'm making this up as I go along." *jumps on a horse and begins riding.* In "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", he tells his class in an introductory lecture what archeology is and is not. He mentions that X NEVER marks the spot. Naturally, later in the movie, he realizes that X marks the spot. "I knew it!"
  11. `The usual misnaming might be said to be what the characters were supposed to actually DO, something they never seemed able to manage against their patriotic opponent (who was not a human.) The actual title was a bit lengthy for a cartoon show.
  12. In hindsight, I wish he'd skipped the movie. He looked as ill as he was, I think.
  13. "Kiss mah grits!" "When donkeys fly!" "You're a ding-y broad!" Although the first one, I think, is the best-remembered, all 3 are repeated lines.
  14. I barely remember that show. I almost never watched it.
  15. Michael Keaton BeetleJuice Jeffrey Jones
  16. The Wacky Racers did not work for The Kaiser, nor was the cartoon set in World War I. Did you mean to make a different guess?
  17. Victor Jory Kane Richmond Rod La Rocque Frank Readick Jr. Orson Welles
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