Team Muttley

Muttley first appeared in Wacky Races in 1968,[3] as the sidekick of the accident-prone villain ♥♥♥♥ Dastardly. While ♥♥♥♥ was created as the equivalent of Professor Fate from the 1960s movie The Great Race, Muttley mirrored the film's character of Max Meen. ♥♥♥♥ and Muttley were paired together in various later Hanna-Barbera series as bumbling villains. As his name implies, Muttley is a mixed breed dog, identified in the Wacky Races segment "Dash to Delaware" as a mix of bloodhound, pointer, Airedale, and hunting dog. During Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, in the part of Sappy Birthday, Muttley shows a calendar where 16th April is marked; his birthday. Muttley does not really talk; his main examples of speech are his trademark "wheezy snicker"[4] (usually at ♥♥♥♥'s expense) and a mushy, sotto voce grumble against an unsympathetic or harsh ♥♥♥♥ (usually along the lines of "Rashin' fashin' Rick Rastardly!"). Don Messick had previously used Muttley's distinctive laugh for the character of Griswold in an episode of Top Cat, then for an embryonic version of Muttley (called 'Mugger') appearing in the 1964 movie Hey There, It's Yogi Bear,[4] as well as for another Hanna-Barbera canine, Precious Pupp, in 1966. He also repurposed it for Alexandra Cabot's cat Sebastian on Josie and the ♥♥♥♥♥cats in 1970