The three stars I give to this release is not to the expose itself, but the shabby treatment it’s been given. It looks like the syndicated editions of this exhibit have been customary to produce the DVD, which means all the cliffhanging tags that ended the programs have been omitted. The fresh series usually left you on a cliffhanger trace that was continued from one program into the next, and here, all the episodes demolish nice and cleanly. I don’t survey any reason for this, since you are getting the complete season, after all. It’s a shame that so distinguished material was left off this release (when this is probably the only time it will ever obtain such a deluxe treatment), but I snort it’s better than not having it available at all. I wish Warner Bros. would pay more attention to what they’re leaving out when they release these Hanna Barbera sets. I wasn’t gay about the edited shorts being included on their Tom & Jerry 2-disc position, the syndicated kill credits (instead of the more kindly one from the recent broadcast) conventional on the “Wacky Races” area, and certainly not over this. Even the lamer opening theme is venerable on the Penelope Pitstop episodes. Honest very disappointing, overall.

Penelope Pitstop returns to your TV hide in this DVD release, the third fraction of a trio consisting of WACKY RACES, DASTARDLY AND MUTTLEY IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES and THE PERILS OF PENELOPE PITSTOP. In the days of their release upon the public, they heralded Hanna-Barbera’s return to gag-laden slapstick comedy that began with such series as YOGI Maintain and HUCKLEBERRY HOUND.

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The place is simple: Our semi-hapless heroine Penelope Pitstop, novel from her tenure in WACKY RACES, is heir to a mammoth fortune of millions (which probably enables her to recede the world and have adventures, if this series is any indication) . Unfortunately, her factual guardian Sylvester Sneekly, in his guise of the Hooded Claw, is clear to end Penelope and accept her fortune for himself. Hot on the dart to attend Penelope Pitstop are the Ant-Hill Mob (also from WR) and their trusty car Chugga-Boom, whose desperate attempts to rescue Penelope from the clutches of the Hooded Claw often wind up with the Mob having to be rescued by the strangely resourceful Penelope (who surely must be faded to this sort of thing–after all, she DID urge with Dick Dastardly) .

By today’s standards, this cartoon is dated, predictable and rather lame; however, it’s lame in a contrivance that can be described as unrepentant. It NEVER pretends to be more than it is, and it often manages to retort its enjoy goofiness simply by playing everything deadpan-straight. In this age of grossouts, fart jokes and pretentious self-referencing in cartoons, this is downright refreshing.

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The dispute cast features such HB stalwarts as Mel Blanc, Paul Winchell, Don Messick and Janet Waldo, who voices Mlle. Pitstop. Kudos must go to both the ragged Gary Owens as the Narrator, whose breakneck color commentary on the action provides a manic Greek chorus to the proceedings, and the uncredited Paul Lynde as Sylvester Sneekly/Hooded Claw, whose ridiculous Evil-Villain laugh and sarcastic asides on Penelope’s perils mine occasional funny gold within this series. (In a featurette contained within this space, Janet Waldo recounts how Lynde could often crack up the entire cast during recording with a simple three-word-line, using only vocal characterization, timing and inflection.)

There is one glaring flaw in this spot, which has already been mentioned by another reviewer, and is also why I gave it only three stars: each episode begins with annoying syndicated theme music rather than the recent Pitstop theme, which undercuts the enjoyment of the episodes. (The current theme music can peaceful be heard over the closing credits; why the syndicated theme was veteran I do not know. It can only be chalked up to decisions at Warner Bros, the studio who needed to be convinced that people would actually take a JUSTICE LEAGUE box residence.) All in all, TPOPP is an luscious series on the whole, so objective fast-forward through the opening credits and wait for the obliging theme music at the demolish, or wait until this station is re-released properly instead.
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