Name of cartoon:
LET’S TRY THIS CAR TIP
This is about two happy-go-lucky radio broadcast brothers (Tom and Ray, alias Click and Clack) who answer calls (a la Frasier) from the public about car problems. On the air they sound like they know everything about car repair. Problem is they know very little and have to come up with quick responses to keep the boss (Beth)happy. While one brother talks in the microphone, the other is desperately searching for the answer in car magazines or asking the mechanics (Fidel, Crusty or Stash) to come help. The mechanics are constantly arguing about what should be done. Click is constantly turning off the microphone and telling Clack “psst, LET’S TRY THIS CAR TIP”. On the air they give out the “guessed” response, then one brother commends the other for finding the “right” answer to the problem with high fives.
The radio engineer and the mechanics are the only ones who know what’s really going on and are constantly telling Click and Clack that they’re going to get caught.
Off the air the two brothers work on the next show (which should only take a couple of hours, but takes them days to complete) while the mechanics complain to Sal that they do all the work in the shop. Sal tells them that they are just a bunch of complainers and that Click and Clack are wonderful people who know everything there is about car repair. Fidel asks her "what about all the times they say ‘let’s try this car tip?’. Sal wants no part of this, and goes to Beth asking her to keep the mechanics out of the radio station. When this happens, Click and Clack are in trouble.
Clack wants Beth to start having commercials on the air to take up more time, but she keeps telling him “this is PBS”,so they try to come up with ways to take up air time like asking their listeners to solve puzzles, or taking up the last 5 minutes identifying to listeners hilarious ficticious members of the radio station at the end of the show.
This works so well for taking up time that, on the next show, Click goes to their radio engineer (Dave) and convinces him to have a solo banjo song played at the beginning of the show. He says to himself “this’ll takes up a good two minutes from the show.”
In another show, Click suggests to Clack that they can take up air time by screening the callers. He says “if we only allow callers who ask about different sounds their cars are making or someone asking what type of car they should purchase all we have to do is read up on where a sound may come from and study up on the types of cars being sold.” Clack loves the idea. Clack then says "why don’t we, on the air, go back to previous callers and see how the suggestion we told them to try months ago worked out. Say we make one call a show-that’ll take up time won’t it? “Great” Click says.
On another show, Click tells Clack “Why don’t we come up with a theme song for the show, that we play in addition to the banjo playing. Some catchy song that everyone can sing and therefore won’t mind that it’s taking up more time”.
“I have another idea” Clack says. “When someone calls in, immediately ask where they’re from, and make some wild statement about the town, and I’ll laugh my head off. Won’t that be great?”
Later on while Clack is working on the following show, Click shows up with the lyrics to his new song:
We?re now on the air
If your car needs repair
No need to despair
We?re the Click and Clack pair
The tips that we share
Come from years of car care-
Sometimes out of thin air-
We?re the Click and Clack pair
Love your show, guys.
Joe
