#Ant Hill Mob

[timelesstheartist]

Thinking about my mob boss husband again….

[soapkaars]

The grim and gritty reboot of Wacky Races, except I'm using what was already there and giving it a lil' ol' push: a maffia alternate universe where the wacky races are moonshiners and gangsters racing together like the predecessors to NASCAR did.

Featuring Big and Lil' Gruesome in the lead (lil' Gruesome was a Bela Lugosi AND a Peter Lorre parody, so here he's full Lorre, and as insane as a good Lorre character can be) with the Ant Hill Mob close behind (Ring-a-Ding hanging out the car) fending off the police

[dropthrbassss]

I can’t get the idea of a Perils reboot (live action or animated) out of my head

[aquadumb]

Well... I did a redesign of Ant Hill Mob, I hope you like it:3

[almostfini]

You know what's Gender TM? Barrel for pants

[bobauthorman]

This car pool needs a life guard!

[assortedantics]

Whoever you cheer for in Wacky Races says a lot about your personality I think

[harmlessplant]

I just wanna say i think the wacky races saw art is incredibly funny and criminally underrated.

Thank you! :>

[buffyspice]

I am positive the main reason Hyunjin agreed to join Stray Kids was because it would be the only way to be referred to as 'the tall one' in a kpop band.

him liking his own comment about being tall like yeah i ate that one up

[faustiandevil]

Based on the conversation with @soapkaars from our last movie night, because I got obsessed with George E. Stone and kept sending him pics of him and going “Look at my latest little guy!!”. Anyway Willy/Zippy is going to be based on him, and it was hilarious to find out that the shortest member of the Ant Hill Mob is still one cm taller than Lil’ Gruesome. Man is a fucking gremlin. The heights are based off of the actual heights of their IRL inspo or whoever I chose for them in the fancast. I’m on a hunt to find the shortest men in gangster movies and add them into the Wacky Races AU.

The fancast and how it looks so far is under the cut along with my reasoning.

Dick Dastardly – Terry-Thomas (This one is obvious, Dick was based off of the man.)

Red Max – Thorley Walters (I just really liked his stupid energy in Carlton-Browne of the F.O. and how he played off of Terry-Thomas.)

Lil’ Gruesome – Peter Lorre (Again obvious reasons, Lil’ is yet another Peter Lorre expy.)

Clyde – Edward G. Robinson (Again expy.)

Danny/Yak Yak – James Cagney (It’s the vibes. If you’ve seen Smart Money you know.)

Willy/Zippy – Gorge E. Stone (Man was in a lot of gangster movies and worked in a number of them together with Edward G. Robinson. Honestly I just think he is cute and Willy was my fave in TPoPP, so he gets special privileges of being a cute little guy.)

[volleypearlfan]

Boys Like Girl Leads Too

Recently, an animated adaptation of the comic strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn was cancelled by Nickelodeon, who claimed that boys won't watch cartoons with female protagonists. This incident shows how out of touch TV executives are with the audiences of their shows.

Contrary to popular belief, gender doesn't matter. A good show is a good show, and if it's good, then anyone, including boys, can watch it, and history has proven that time and time again. Here are just a few examples:

Winsome Witch is a series of Hanna-Barbera shorts that aired during The Secret Squirrel Show. Even in the 1960s, Hanna-Barbera knew that boys can watch shows with female leads. Winsome Witch is about a witch named Winnie, and the magical mishaps she gets into. She's just as clumsy and hilarious as any other male H-B character, and she doesn't have a sidekick. While she is obscure nowadays, that's just because the various backup segments in Hanna-Barbera shows aren't very well-known in general.

Also from Hanna-Barbera is The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, a spinoff of Wacky Races, featuring one of the most popular characters, Penelope Pitstop. She dresses in pink and is often a damsel in distress, but she's still able to save herself, and sometimes even saves the all-male Ant Hill Mob. If there's one thing H-B was good at, it was keeping in touch with their audience. If you look at the Amazon reviews for the complete series DVD, you'll find a lot of male reviewers praising the show, if only because they found Penelope to be hot. Guys WILL watch your cartoon if it has an attractive female character.

Speaking of which, there are a whole bunch of anime starring cute girls (known as 'moe' or 'bishoujo') and guess what? They're targeted at male demographics (such as shonen, young boys, or seinen, adult men). Shows such as Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star, and K-On! are popular with boys and men not just because of their cute girl characters, but because they're funny and relatable. In particular, Konata Izumi from Lucky Star behaves a lot like the average otaku.

Going back to Nickelodeon, they don't have very many Nicktoons with female leads. Just one of them is The Mighty B! It's a show about a young girl, Bessie, and is just as absurd and slapstick-filled as SpongeBob. Though short lived, it was a big hit for the network, getting 1.92 million viewers in the 2–11 demographic AND beating out Bakugan, a male-oriented anime, in the ratings.

Another short-lived 2000s female-led cartoon is Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. At the time it premiered, it was the Cartoon Network's top-rated hit for kids 6–11. It has a cult following today, a good chunk of which are guys who think the characters are cute. Again, guys WILL watch your cartoon if the girls are cute.

A much more notable Cartoon Network show is The Powerpuff Girls. Admittedly, the pilot didn't do well with a test group of 11 year old boys, but the actual show became a huge hit with everyone including boys. Everyone can enjoy watching little girls beat up bad guys.

Lauren Faust, who worked on PPG, would go on to create My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. And we all know how the story goes: it was bashed for being "the end of creator driven animation" and "smarts-shaming" by people who hadn't even watched the show. A certain image board watched the show to see what all the fuss was about, and thus, Bronies were born. It's important to note that Faust deliberately made the show in such a way that everyone, from boys to adults, can enjoy it. And did she succeed. Once again, guys like to watch cute girls kick ass.

Exactly ten years ago, a spinoff of Avatar: the Last Airbender premiered: The Legend of Korra. Nickelodeon was hesitant with the show at first. They thought that boys wouldn't like the show because Korra is a girl. They were dead wrong - the boys in the test audience didn't care that she was a girl -- they thought she was awesome.

Despite all of these girl-led cartoons being popular with guys, TV executives still seem to believe that boys don't want to watch cartoons about girls. In a Discord server I'm in, someone noted that The Casagrandes was forced to shift its' focus from Ronnie Anne to her cousin, Carl, so that boys would watch the show (I don't watch the show, so I wouldn't know). Compare that with its' parent series, The Loud House. We have one boy and ten girls, but boys still like it, even after the sisters got just as much, if not more, focus than Lincoln. Despite all of that, Lincoln still gets over-promoted and put in the title cards, even if he doesn't appear in the episode. Nickelodeon is so out of touch, it's not even funny.

Cartoons transcend gender. Whether its' cute girls doing cute things or girls in action, a good show is a good show.

[timelesstheartist]

Before I packed up all my art supplies for college, I had to draw the scrunklies one last time in my sketchbook 🩷🩷🩷

[soapkaars]

I’m rewatching Wacky Races for Nostalgia Reasons, @faustiandevil reasons, and because I had an idea of a Boardwalk Empire-style alternate universe where the Wacky Races are mostly moonshiners and mob bosses holding illegal and rigged races with souped up cars à la NASCAR. Dick Dastardly and the Red Max are from Europe and completely unprepared for the US racing scene. I came up with the idea because the Ant Hill Mob has a blatant Edward G Robinson caricature, and the Arkansas Chuggabug look like moonshiners

Starting with the first doodle, from left to right: Pat Pending (mechanic in racing and distilling alcohol), Rufus Buzzcut (moonshiner logger), Peter Perfect (old money spoilt rich kid, the old money comes from his old man's illegal activities), Dick Dastardly (British WW1 ace pilot vet, out of his element), Red Max (Bavarian WW1 ace pilot vet, also out of his element), Lazy Luke (moonshiner) and his pet Blubber Bear (bear), Little Gruesome (originally a cross between a Peter Lorre and a Bela Lugosi parody, now condensed into a Peter Lorre character: prohibition era gangster with a morbid sense of humour), Penelope Pitstop (mob gall from down south), and finally Clyde (originally an Edward G Robinson parody, now also a prohibition era gangster) and Ring-a-Ding (gangster stooge) from the Ant Hill Mob

[dropthrbassss]

Some old doodles of Clyde

He has my heart,,, (+ some old softy and dick sketches)

[glitchyfrills]

🎶Dudududu🎶 Part4

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((GlitchNote: This story has really taken a productive turn. And no one had to threaten my caffeine. PROGRESS! Hope you all are enjoying the story!))

“Pobrecitos,” sighed Gia as she read her communicator.

Spreen scoffed, “Pobrecitos que nada. They should be taking advantage of this situation they created. If Sueño is still in the Nether them dying and respawning in the Overworld can be a power play.”

“Exactly,” Awesamdude agreed. “Come on, we gotta find where they ended up.” Sam got up reluctantly from where he was sitting under a tree and walked towards the direction George and Ant went a few hours ago. “Or you can stay here, it’s up to you. You are our guests.”

“But we were also brought to observe The Hunt. Gia may want to stay but I’m going,” Spreen explained.

Gia huffed, “I was specifically selected by Captain Puffy herself.” She dropped from the tree branch she was relaxing on in front of Spreen. “No way I’m staying behind.” She poked Spreen in the chest pushing him out of her way to follow Sam.

The three walked a few hundred blocks and came across a village that looked to be where the trainees had created some sort of recon area.

“Check the houses,” Gia suggested.

Sam nodded and they split up. It wasn’t long before he heard Tina complaining. “Stupid stupid mobs! Ugh!” The door of a villager’s house swung open and she stormed out.

“You made it to the Nether, that’s something to be proud of.”

“Oh my gosh! Sam!” She jumped back and gasped. “You scared me.”

“Good thing you didn’t have a weapon on you,” Sam chuckled.

Tina sighed and pulled out the compass from her inventory, “All I have is this stupid thing. We were lost in the Nether forever!”

Sam shook his head and laughed under his breath at her dramatics. “But you managed to find the Fortress.” He was trying so hard to give Tina a new perspective on how things turned out.

“Only because Dream found it!”

Sam was about to make another comment when RedVelvet appeared. He passed Sam and stood beside Tina opening his inventory. “Here you go.”

The anger and frustration Tina was just experiencing slowly faded. “Thanks, Velvet.” She took the replacement armor he had given her and put it on. “Good thing we found enough iron for extra armor.”

Velvet nodded. Sam sent a quick message to Spreen and Gia. The two quickly joined the others.

“Are you going to get back to the Nether?” Spreen asked, noticing their lack of urgency.

“No, we are going to gather more food and hopefully find diamonds to make better armor for when we get to The End,” replied Velvet.

“Decent strategy,” Sam commented. Hums of agreement came from both Gia and Spreen. “Get to it. We will be here to observe.”

Tina took the task of gathering food supplies while Velvet headed towards the hills away from the village to start a new mining area.

“How do you not get bored just,” Spreen waved his hands around as if trying to snatch the word out of the air, “esperando.”

Sam looked down at his communicator for the translation of the word and let out a chuckle. “At first it was extremely boring but after a few trainee events I’ve found ways to keep myself entertained.”

Soon the sound of a door opening and closing caught their attention. They headed in the direction the noise came from and found Karl rummaging through a chest and pulling out iron boots.

Sam opened his communicator and looked back at the death message he obviously missed somehow. “How did you fall in lava?”

His question startled Karl as he jumped up and held his hand up to his chest. “Don’t do that! Geez? I just respawned you nimrod.”

“Answer my question, Karl,” Sam sighed.

“Dream pushed me in,” Karl shouted with his arms flying about his head. “Can you believe that guy!?!”

Sam could believe it. Dream had pushed him off a mountain, into a ravine, and off an End Island. He was about to ask Karl what his next move was when Hannah stumbled out of a villager house close by.

“I almost had him!” She cried out. “But my stupid shield broke!” She pushed past Sam and kneeled by Karl to also rummage through the chest. “Who took all the extra armor?”

“I just took the last pair of boots,” said Karl.

“Velvet and Tina were kitted out,” Sam pointed out. “Tina went to look for food and Velvet went mining for more resources.”

Hannah sighed dramatically but after a moment she took a deep breath and recentered herself. “Okay, here’s what you and I are gonna do.”

Karl gave Hannah his full attention as she went into detail on what they should do next. Sam quietly listened and took note of how their plan could both succeed and fail.

“He most definitely already has the Eyes he needs to find the Stronghold.”

“Definitely,” Hannah agreed. “Now I know this isn’t our favorite tool but it’s what we’ve got,” she pulled out the compass from her inventory.

She and Karl watched as the needle in the compass circled a few times but then settled pointing in one direction. “Got him, let’s get going.”

Before leaving the village they took whatever tools they could from the blacksmith of the village and sent messages to Tina and Velvet to meet them as soon as they had decent amounts of resources for them to split.

As they were about to leave the village and head towards the direction the compass was pointing towards AntFrost and George appeared.

“Woo!” Exclaimed Ant as he shook himself out. “Traveling with those eyes really gives you a rush.”

Sam raised an eyebrow as he watched Ant and George try to regain their balance as they made their way towards them. “You two didn’t use the Eyes one right after the other?”

George laughed as he nodded ‘yes’. Sam clenched his fist but took a deep breath. “You know that’s dangerous, right? You could have lost something in travel.”

“Lost something?” Gia echoed as a question.

“Yeah, the enchantments on the Eyes are very strong and need a cool down period. Which these two idiots know!” Sam scolded George and Ant for taking such a risk.

“We just wanted to get back to a closer point,” George explained. “Traveling to the Nether and back was the only way. We didn’t want to walk thousands of blocks.”

Sam sighed, “Just don’t do it again.”

“Just don’t do it again.” George repeated mockingly as Ant giggled beside him.

They were about to put away their weapons when Sam stopped them, “Don’t even think about it. We are following behind Karl and Hannah. They are tracking Dream with the compass.” Sam waved Karl and Hannah to go ahead and they would trail behind.

“Why can’t you follow them and we catch up after we rest,” George questioned in a whiny tone.

Gia pointed out, “Aren’t you two the ones that are supposed to watch them in the OverWorld?”

“Ha! Gotcha!” Sam pointed at both Ant and George as he laughed in victory. “I don’t even have to be here. I could travel to the Stronghold if I wanted to!”

“Whatever, Sam!” George shouted.

Ant pulled out his own compass and watched as it spinned and settled in a certain direction. “That way,” he pointed towards the opposite direction from which they came. “Let’s get going.”

George pouted but adjusted his bow and quiver so it sat comfortably on his back. He reached over and grabbed the compass AntFrost was holding. He grumbled as he walked in the direction the compass was leading them, “Fine, let’s go.”

Before following, Ant motioned for Sam to get closer. When he did, Ant asked, “Did Velvet respawn okay?”

Sam couldn’t help the smile that creeped on his face. “He’s fine. He’s actually off in a mine somewhere looking for diamonds.”

Ant sighed in relief and without saying anything smiled his thanks to Sam. He then hurried after George who was waiting impatiently.

Spreen was the one to break the silence that had fallen over the remaining three. “Are we going to travel to the Stronghold or…”

“Nah,” Sam replied. “We’ll follow behind and watch and see how their plan plays out.”

“I hope they manage to execute their plan effectively,” Gia exclaimed with every ounce of hope she could muster. “They seem so determined and sometimes that’s what can tip the scale in someone’s favor: determination.”

“It got you pretty far,” Spreen elbowed Gia in her side playfully.

“Claro!” Gia cheered. She was proud of her accomplishments and never backed away from praise. She knew she deserved it. With pride in her step she led the group towards where the others had gone with Spreen not far behind.

Sam pulled out his communicator as he walked, every few steps looking up to make sure he could still see Spreen and Gia up ahead.

‘We are heading in the direction of the Stronghold. Things are about to get interesting.’

((GlitchNote: Interesting indeed!!! Thank you so much for reading!!! I really do hope people are enjoying this very out of nowhere story. It’s been so much fun to write. Again, thank you for reading! I look forward to seeing you in the next part!!))

[cheridraws]

I think mob would really like bugs. I really want him to have his own beetle terrariums and ant hills and such and get to name each individual one. Teru helps him pick them out when he first gets into it

He sends pics to the office crew often like “ :]] look at how cute Tai is today” and Reigen freaks the fuck out every time