Buddy Thunderstruck: Season 1 (2017)

Buddy Thunderstruck looks to be Robot Chicken for the NASCAR/Dukes of Hazzard demographic. Buddy and his best friend whip his semitrailer cab (with a flip-up nitrous afterburner jet) through its paces to win the trophy cup at every race near their home town of Greasepit (state unspecified). This stopmotion show is both antic and hilarious -- that is, there is a lot of kinetic energy and precision tire-squealing showmanship in each episode, in addition to threatened as well as actual altercations with various town inhabitants (a weight-lifting hothead, for instance). Every town denizen is some type of animal (the pawn shop owner and his repo-man son are warthogs, for example), not always easily identified. Buddy is a natural winner and much-respected small-town hero with a golden heart, although he may sometimes be tricked into doing bad things, until he realizes what's up. As two parents have written so far, the show is cute and clean but the airborne and colliding trucks might not be best for children under age 6. The creators of Robot Chicken are on the producers list of this show, as are two key voice talents from Jimmy Neutron. I love this show, and I am age 60. Enjoy! 5 stars. (10-15-2017)