The Perils of Penelope Pitstop: Overcoming the Damsel in Distress

This is SO corny, but during my senior year of high school, I started getting into cartoons designed by Hanna Barbera, who created Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, and The Jetstons. But it wasn't until later in life that I became obsessed with one of Hanna Barbera's characters, Penelope Pitstop from Wacky Races, who drove her beauty salon style car, the Compact Pussycat. I especially became obsessed with her spin-off show, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop! For those who remember the show, and to give those who haven't seen the show an idea, Penelope Pitstop was a damsel in distress who fell time and again into the clutches of her archenemy, the Hooded Claw, who unknown to her, was truly her own guardian, Sylvester Sneekly, who is determined to kill her so he can obtain her family fortune. In every episode, the Claw puts her in a number of complex deathtraps; however, Penelope either escapes the traps by herself or her ever-present protectors, the Ant