History Radio / CarTalk

The brothers made {{Cameo}}s in the Creator/{{Pixar}} films ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' and ''WesternAnimation/Cars3''[[note]]Since the movie came out in 2017, Tom's lines were taken from clips from the first film and segments on ''Car Talk''[[/note]] as Rusty and Dusty Rust-Eze. They also made an appearance on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' as UsefulNotes/{{Furry|Fandom}} versions of themselves.

Tom Magliozzi died of complications from Alzheimer's disease ("He really ''couldn't'' remember last week's Puzzler after all" --Ray) in November 2014. As a result, the show is run as ''The Best of Car Talk''; Ray still records a few new sponsor messages in retirement (e.g. getting up for a spot for ''Podcast/{{Serial}}'' Season 2 in 2015), but otherwise, the format remains as before.

** A few of the PunnyNames on the staff list are inspired by NPR employees. For instance:

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Older versions of the show feature more calls from DIY-ers than in later episodes. The guys speculated that this was due in part to the fact that cars have become much more complicated than in the past deterring people from working on their cars by themselves.

The brothers made {{Cameo}}s in the Creator/{{Pixar}} films ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 3}}''[[note]]Since the movie came out in 2017, Tom's lines were taken from clips from the first film and segments on ''Car Talk''[[/note]] as Rusty and Dusty Rust-Eze. They also made an appearance on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' as UsefulNotes/{{Furry|Fandom}} versions of themselves.

The single most popular show produced by Creator/{{NPR}}, ''Car Talk'' ([[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents pronounced]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} "Caah Took"]]) was a long-running weekly radio broadcast about automotive repair hosted by the wisecracking brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi (also known as "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers"), proprietors of the Good News Garage in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

-->- And even though it makes [[Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion Garrison Keillor]] sing like Music/JustinBieber every time he hears ''us'' sayin' it, this is Wiki/TVTropes.

* {{Corpsing}}: Every. Single. Episode. Heck, it's rare for three ''minutes'' to go by without one or both of the brothers breaking up into snorting laughter.
* DopeSlap: The TropeNamer.

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: With Tom and Ray as the "Scroogiazi brothers," who took over NPR and turned it into a commercial outfit, to the chargrin of its veteran reporters and the [[Radio/ThisAmericanLife fatally sincere Tiny Ira]]. Not to mention the supreme aggravation of the spirits, who quickly lock them in a belfry as punishment for their wisecracking. The stations air this special as part of their December fund drives.

** A few of the PunnyNames on the staff list are inspired by NPR employees. For instance, Sylvia Pottholi, the "Director of Roadway Resurfacing," is a takeoff on NPR reporter Sylvia Poggioli.

--> '''Tom:''' Our technical, spiritual, and menu advisor, just back from the [[UsefulNotess/LosAngeles West LA]] fish filet, cheese soufflé, chardonnay, Milky Way, Nescafé, curds and whey, straw and hey, cookie tray, and vitamin A preholiday lunch buffet... is John "Bugsy" Lawler.