I’ve been obsessed with sketching Hanna-Barbera characters lately in the ol’ sketchbook of secrets… 1000 points to the first person who knows what cartoon this sneaky villain is from! Oh ,wait, I gave it away in the sketch didn’t I? Okay, then, what’s his ALTER-EGO name, and how does he relate to Penelope? NO GOOGLING!
Oh. My. God. What a nostalgia trip. The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, of course. The late Paul Lynde provided the voice. I had such a boy-crush on Penelope. All of this was before the Wacky Races cartoon which featured the canceled Hanna/Barbera characters. Aw Hell, you’ve brought me back to Saturday morning watching “Dastardly and Muttley In Their Flying Machines” and so many others. Cheers, David. I’m young again.
Oh, the alter ego was Sylvester Sneekley, who was Penelope’s lawyer, I think.
Wikipediaing is allowed ?
I believe he was her guardian, Sylvester Sneekley….Paul Lynde not only was a tremendous comedian, but could have been a helluva villian..:)
Sylvester Sneakly, her “guardian”!
I am going to guess that he is an uncle who is after her money. Because I’ve only watched like five or six minutes of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, (that is what the show is called, right?) that’s about as good a guess as I’m going to be able to make. As for a name, no clue whatsoever.
I believe it was called the Perils of Penelope Pitstop. Not only did the Hooded Claw(His real name forgotten by me) and Penelope Pitstop(duh) star in it, but there was the Anthill Mob (as Penelope’s protectors). Something I can’t place is did this come before or after Wacky Races?
Any way, sorry for the rambling post and first time commenter!
Oh yeah, He was trying to kill Penelope for her inheirentance, But she didn’t know THC’s alter-ego and thought him a saint. Anyway saw this on Cartoon Network in the 90s(when they played old cartoons).
OMG, that was my favorite cartoon way back when! Saw it recently on Boomerang (Cartoon Network’s home for old toons), major flashbacking. My son was mortified that I could have ever enjoyed something so old.
Why are my comments always delayed?? ::pouts::
_The Perils of Penelope Pitstop_ came __after__ the show _Wacky Races_. Penelope and the Antill Mob derived from the latter. I remember watching both shows, in that order of appearance. Also see the _Wikipedia_ article on _Perils_.
On the other hand, I’d long since forgotten the name of her nemesis in _Perils_. But who could forget the appearance or the voice?
(oops, keep forgetting that the source code isn’t the same here as on GoComics)
Considering Hanna/Barbera’s pattern, I find it difficult to believe that the Wacky Races came first. Look at the character models for Penelope in each show and note that the less detailed model is in “Wacky Races.” WR also used generic backgrounds whereas PPP used hand-painted. WR used cost-saving techniques and cheaper, 4F/sec. animation. It doesn’t make sense that H/B would sudddenly start spending more money and using more costly 8F/sec. animation techniques in a sequel for a Saturday morning cartoon.
Anyway, I remember PPP showing first and WR showing a year afterwards. If wikipedia were considered a reliable source of information I would doubt myself. Fortunately, that isn’t an issue.
Old_Crow: Isn’t your argument basically “argument against the man”? Wikipedia isn’t considered unreliable (not justly), it’s considered inconsistent (justly). Some articles are extremely reliable. Some are not. Some are in-between.
In any case, check the overlapping air dates. WR came first and two series spun off from it, of which TPOPP was one (during WR’s run, no less). And that’s exactly the order in which I remember the airings of those three shows. That order can be verified on the sources quoted and others.
TPOPP used more detail because more care was taken. That’s no evidence that it came first. On the contrary, TPOPP used the most popular characters (it is alleged) from WR and that would be more than enough to justify more careful work. On the other hand, the cast of basic characters was cut way down by comparison. That’s where the simplification from WR went.
Even Hanna-Barbera could work against the Law of Entropy when it had enough motivation to do so.