# Which is click and clack? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Created:** [July 29, 2014, 6:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/which-is-click-and-clack/86275 "2014-07-29T06:24:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stussy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@stussy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/stussy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 6:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/which-is-click-and-clack/86275/1 "2014-07-29T06:24:45Z")
so which brother is click and which is clack? been wondering that for years. ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 6:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/which-is-click-and-clack/86275/2 "2014-07-29T06:34:23Z")
Tom is Click and Ray is Clack. ---
**Author:** ![stussy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@stussy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/stussy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/which-is-click-and-clack/86275/3 "2014-08-26T02:27:55Z")
thanks. but where did you find that? i googled all over with no luck. lol. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/which-is-click-and-clack/86275/4 "2014-08-26T02:40:13Z")
They’re referred to as “Tom and Ray” and as “Click and Clack, the tappet brothers”. Makes sense to me… ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/which-is-click-and-clack/86275/5 "2014-08-26T02:43:35Z")
So tom is the little guy who looks like Mario and ray is the big guy that looks like the rat on Beakman’s world? ![](https://media.azpm.org/master/img/spot/car_talk_brothers_450_252.jpg) ![](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110731140119/fantendo/images/f/f6/MarioHand.png)img ![](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/12/12/arts/12ritts_CA0/popup.jpg)img ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/which-is-click-and-clack/86275/6 "2014-08-26T04:58:39Z")
Tom has the beard. As to who is Click and Clack, I made it up (using texases’ logic). On the last show, they had a letter that asked the same question. And since “click” means “to run smoothly” and “clack” means “to prattle”, it is now obvious to whom these names should apply. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 5:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/which-is-click-and-clack/86275/7 "2014-08-26T05:07:03Z")
Sorry to be so dumb, but in clarification Tom looks like the rat and Ray looks like mario? So tom incessantly chortling is the clack? @insightful ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/which-is-click-and-clack/86275/8 "2014-08-26T05:12:39Z")
“Sorry to be so dumb, but in clarification Tom looks like the rat and Ray looks like mario?” Yes. “So tom incessantly chortling is the clack?” That was the _implication_, but I’m not buyin’ it.