Talk:Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines

Merge proposal
Klunk's article should be merged here. WP:N states ''Minor characters (and places, concepts, etc.) in a work of fiction should be merged with short descriptions into a "List of characters." This list should reside in the article relating to the work itself,'' so this merge is in line with that policy. Pufnstuf 19:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I've merged it here now. Ironically there was more information about Klunk in this article than in his own anyway. Pufnstuf 20:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Episodic Mismatch
In the DVD extract, the column named "Ep #" says 35, whereas this series clearly has only 17 episodes as mentioned earlier in the article and can be seen on the DVD cover.

Seconded. I have the DVDs which have only 17 episodes. Where did 34 episodes come from? Were the episodes remixed later? Groovyspaceman (talk) 19:35, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Running gag

 * One teaser shows all the Vulture planes coming at Yankee Doodle Pigeon from 4 different directions-only to crash together-pigeon unharmed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.53.145.53 (talk) 02:35, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Gunga Din
I seem to remember the "Gunga Din" part, from screenings in New Zealand - was this change made only for some stations in the US? The article seems to imply it was a global change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.93.18.108 (talk) 14:51, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines.jpg
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 * If inclusion in an article on Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines is not sufficient grounds for fair use of an image called Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines.jpg, please somebody tell me what is?
 * Nuttyskin (talk) 17:34, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Dastardly muttley cast.jpg
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Known as "Stop/Catch the Pigeon"
The article says:
 * The show is commonly known as Stop/Catch the Pigeon

That seems rather unlikely, because "Stop/Catch the Pigeon" is such a strange thing to say. It is not a normal English sentence. Does anyone know the show as "Stop/Catch the Pigeon"? I can imagine that the show is commonly known as "Stop the Pigeon" or "Catch the Pigeon" and that the editor of this Wikipedia article tried to combine that into one title, thus writing incorrect information. But I could be wrong about that.

I did a Google search and found about 10,000 hits for both "Stop the Pigeon" and "Catch the Pigeon", and only 190 hits for "Stop/Catch the Pigeon."

Based on that evidence, I think it is more likely that "Stop the Pigeon" and "Catch the Pigeon", are common titles than that "Stop/Catch the Pigeon" is a common title. I am going to change the information in the article, but please check if I'm correct. Johan Lont (talk) 13:05, 27 July 2009 (UTC)


 * In the UK, the show was commonly referred to either as 'Dastardly and Muttley' or 'Stop That Pigeon'. The latter phrase is, as noted during the article, the title of the theme song and of a segment of Episode 5 of the show. Grubstreet (talk) 09:09, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Surely the editor means `Stop/Catch the Pigeon' in the same context that you Stop/Go at traffic lights (i.e. they mean it was called Stop the Pigeon and Catch the Pigeon - they were both colloquial names for the series used by many viewers).

Whose side are Dastardly's gang on anyway?
I know it's not the right section to ask this, but I don't know where exactly the right section is. Anyway, I was wondering who they're actually working for since the Yankee Doodle Pigeon is supposedly American, and the good guy, whereas they are the villains, and work for some general. What kind of general is he? If I remember correctly, he did appear in one episode making a video of their work, but he looked like a stereotypical American general. Are they WWI spies for the Germans? It's always puzzled me really.--92.114.148.141 (talk) 22:05, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

It is WW1 and they are supposed to be Germans (Klunk's helmet etc) who are chasing an American messenger pigeon. The vague nature was probably due to not wanting to offend modern Germans too much and to make them be considered general baddies to everyone.

Why no mention of Zilly in the article?
Why doesn't the article mention Zilly? He was just as significant as Klunk, whom the article does mention. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 09:08, 26 August 2018 (UTC)