History WesternAnimation / DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines

* OffModel: In the Gold Key comics, Muttley is colored a pale yellow. His ears are normally black, but in "It's Flop And Go-Go" (Fun-In #2) and "The Pigeon Plot" (Golden Comics Digest #7), his ears are unblackened. In Fun-In #5's "Secret Weapon," his hands are uncolored.

* ComicBookAdaptation: ''Dastardly and Muttley'' appeared in nine issues of Creator/GoldKeyComics' ''Hanna-Barbera Fun-In'' (first series, February 1970 - January 1972) and two issues of ''Golden Comics Digest'' (''Hanna-Barbera TV Fun Favorites'' issues #7 and #10). In many stories not distilled from TV episodes, gunfire is used quite a bit. Also, the General--always heard but never seen on the show--is shown in two stories but in different designs, by Mike Arens ("Heroic Dum-Dums", issue #4) and Jack Manning ("Bug Brained", issue #7).

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: While Dick Dastardly has a forename and surname, it's unknown what Klunk and Zilly's real names are (assuming those arn't their birth-names).

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: While Dick Dastardly has a forname and surname, it's unknown what Klunk and Zilly's real names are (assuming those arn't their birth-names).

* CanisMajor: The squadron had a giant green dog named Arnold as their new mascot.

** Snippets of ''Wacky Races'' music can be heard in "Follow That Feather," "Barnstormers" and "Have Plane, Will Travel."

* SurroundedByIdiots: Dick towards the rest of the vulture squadron. Heck, it's pretty much in the opening theme tune, which starts with Dick giving Muttley a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]].

* SurroundedByIdiots: Dick towards the rest of the vulture squadron. Heck, it's pretty much in the opening theme tune, which starts with Dick giving Mutly a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]].

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: WHile Dick Dastardly has a forname and surname, it's unknown what Klunk and Zilly's real names are (assuming those arn't their birth-names).

* SurroundedByIdiots: Dick towards the rest of the vulture squadron. Heck, it's pretty much in the opening theme tune, which starts which opens with Dick giving Mutly a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]].

%%* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Klunk.

Dick Dastardly leads the Vulture Squadron in pursuit of the courier Yankee Doodle Pigeon. The squadron's other members are Dastardly's partner from ''Wacky Races'', Muttley, a snickering dog who's always begging for a medal; Klunk, an aircraft mechanic who speaks mainly in vocal sound effects, and Zilly, a nervous coward whose only redeeming virtue is his ability to translate Klunk's speech for Dastardly. The Mean Machine, Dastardly's car from ''Wacky Races'', can frequently be seen in this series as well.

Although this cartoon is presumably set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, Dastardly always has access to a telephone, even in flight, over which the General communicates with him. Just as Dastardly never won a Wacky Race, he never catches the pigeon. There are two Dastardly & Muttley cartoons along with "Wing Dings", which are short comedy blackouts. A supporting segment, ''Magnificent Muttley'', concerns Muttley's [[MrImagination flights of heroic fantasy]].

** A snippet of ''Wacky Races'' music can be heard in "Follow That Feather" and "Have Plane, Will Travel."

** A snippet of ''Wacky Races'' music can be heard in "Have Plane, Will Travel."

* SneezeOfDoom: Klunk's sneeze-homing missile had potential as the pepper shell fired at the pigeon found its mark. But then Muttley fired a second shell at Dastardly, leading to an unsuccessful attempt to keep everyone from sneezing.

* OcularGushers: Dastardly does this in "Home Sweet Homing Pigeon" as a means of getting Muttley, Klunk and Zilly (who are being discharged) to stay. He makes them cry o ular gushers as well.

* In the Magnificent Muttley episode "Start Your Engines," Muttley dreams he's racer Barney Olfield. Dick Dastardly is a competing racer, who, naturally tries to cheat to win like he did on ''Wacky Races.''

* In the Magnificent Muttley episode "Start Your Engines," Muttley dreams he's racer Barney Olfield. Dick Dastardly is a competing racer, who, naturally tries to cheat to win.

** In the comic book story "Bug Brained" (Hanna-Barbera Fun-In #7), Muttley is kicked out of the Squadron after Dastardly suspect him of being a mole spilling their secrets to the enemy. It turns out it was the pigeon's machinations so the General orders Dastardly to get Muttley back. It concludes with Dastardly on his knees pinning medal after medal on Muttley (his only condition for returning).

** In the comic book story "Bug Brained" (Hanna-Barbera Fun-In #7), Muttley is kicked out of the Squadron after dastardly suspect him of being a mole spilling their secrets to the enemy. It turns out it was the pigeon's machinations so the General orders Dastardly to get Muttley back. It concludes with Dastardly on his knees pinning medal after medal on Muttley (his only condition for returning).

* BizarreTasteInFood: In a Wing Dings blackout, Klunk invents a seed that grows an ice cream tree. The catch: they're cucumber, lima beans, zucchini and asaparagus flavors.

* BizarreTasteInFood: In Wing Dings blackout, Klunk invents a seed that grows an ice cream tree. The catch: they're cucumber, lima beans, zucchini and asaparagus flavors.

** Another blackout had the brakes on Dastardly's jeep go out on him. Zilly said he'd fixed them so it would stop on a dime. He tosses a dime in the jeep's path and upon landing it, the jeep abruptly stops, unceremoniously jettisoning Dastardly out of it.