Professor Pat Pending

Professor Pat Pending is a scientist who drives in a boat-shaped car equipped with a multitude of gadgets and which can change into just about anything that moves in Wacky Races. He's sometimes seen as a rival of Dick Dastardly and Muttley, since his car is equipped with a lot of gadgets, just like the Mean Machine, although they are more defensive, or merely speed-boosting, in nature. He often uses his car's gadgets to help out the other drivers if they all get caught in the same trap, such as when he used his car's de-glue gizmo to unstick everyone from a glue trap left by Dastardly. "Pat Pending" is an abbreviation for "Patent Pending", a legal phrase for when an invention's patent papers are in the works.