The Blue Racer

The Blue Racer is a series of 17 theatrical cartoons about a fast blue snake having misadventures or trying to eat a Japanese Beetle.

The studio that animated it is De Patie Freleng studio, except for two done overseas: "Aches and Snakes" at Australia's Filmgraphics studio, and "Little Boa Peep" at Spain's Pegbar Productions.


 * Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The Blue Racer is a blue snake.
 * Badass: Chicken Dad from "Fowl Play"
 * Everything's Worse with Bears: An episode features a bear as an antagonist.
 * Everything's Worse with Bees: "Snake Preview"
 * Expy: The Japanese Beetle is very similar to Gepetto as he appears in House of Mouse.
 * Funny Animal: Crazy-Legs Crane
 * I Know Kung Fu: The Japanese Beetle.
 * The Rival/Sitcom Arch Nemesis: The Japanese Beetle and Crazy-Legs Crane.
 * Road Runner vs. Coyote
 * Small Name, Big Ego: The Blue Racer.
 * Spin-Off: The characters spun off from Tijuana Toads.
 * Talking to Himself: Bob Holt voices both The Blue Racer and Japanese Beetle in the episode "Support Your Local Serpent".
 * Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: The Blue Racer
 * Villain Protagonist