YMMV / Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Given that attempting to catch a pigeon is preferable to fighting in World War I, the Vulture Squadron's failures may be on purpose.
  • In "Fur Out Furlough", when the General offered a 30-day furlough to whoever caught Yankee Doodle Pigeon, Zilly planned to spend it in Miami and Klunk planned to spend it in Hawaii. Furlough where you don't have to fight for thirty days, or internment in an enemy country where you don't have to fight for the rest of the war?
  • If the Vulture Squadron are on the side of the Central Powers, it's possible that Klunk is from a non-German speaking nationality, most likely Hungarian, who knows enough conversational German to get by but not enough to communicate technical details. Therefore, his random sound effects may simply be him speaking broken German and using words from his native language, which Dastardly doesn't understand but Zilly does.
    • The Gold Key comic book stories give Klunk a fractured German dialect in lieu of his speech idiosyncrasy on the show.
• Awesome Music:
  • When Dick Dastardly leaves Muttley to drop to the crocodiles in the Magnificent Muttley short "Movie Stuntman", such music starts to play.
  • That was a snatch of background music from The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. The ep also uses background music from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
  • The Japanese theme song, which is based on Japanese traditional Awa-Odori dance, is surprisingly fitting to the slapstick tone of the show.
• Harsher in Hindsight: An easter egg in the animated film SCOOB! reveals they finally stopped the pigeon and stuffed it. That said, it's contradicted by the 2017 Wacky Races reboot, since that reveals that the pigeon is still very much alive. And still being pursued by this series' Dick Dastardly (father to the original Wacky Races Dastardly and grandfather to the reboot's), apparently. The pigeon's cameos in the series Jellystone! further contradicts this.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Muttley growling at Dastardly to be included at a furlough Dastardly had just claimed as his became even funnier with how Muttley would later react in Yogi's Treasure Hunt whenever Dastardly claimed the treasure of the week as all his.
• Mandela Effect: There are a number of people who misremember the "stop the pigeon" line as "catch the pigeon."
• Memetic Mutation: For some reason, Twitter managed to get this show trending as a joke topic just after the 2020 United States Presidential election.
• Refrain from Assuming: Many people still call this show by its working name and theme song, Stop That Pigeon. Lampshaded in the Yogi's Treasure Hunt episode "Yogi's Heroes," where Dick and Muttley capture Snooper and Blabber and force them to watch old D&M cartoons, which Snooper called "Stop That Pigeon-type cartoons."
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The main theme is a pastiche of "Hold That Tiger".

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