Professor Pat Pending

Professor Pat Pending is a regular competitor in the cartoon, Wacky Races. The professor is a rival to central antagonist, Dick Dastardly.

The Wacky Races
Professor Pat Pending is just one of many races for the Wacky Races, a prestigious event with bizarre race tracks. Dick Dastardly, main-stay antagonist, frequently sabotages the tracks, cars and tricks opponent. Pat Pending is often involved in getting the other racers out of these traps. Though Professor Pending still aims to compete in races he dislike seeing his fellow racers completely incapacitated and stops to help them out of traps. Pat Pending's Convert-A-Car is highly adaptable, able to travel by land, water and air. The Convert-A-Car possesses many specialized gadgets which can counter even the worst of sabotage. Those given lifts on Professor Pending's Convert-A-Car are just happy to cross the finish line, even if it is on someone else's cart, thus Professor Pending is still seen as a friend even when he functions as a rival to the other racers.

Personality
Like Dick Dastardly, Professor Pending in mainly concerned with winning the race. However Professor Pending both has compassion for his fellow racers and contempt for Dick Dastardly and so he frequently chooses to assist his competitors when they have been removed from the race.

Triva

 * Professor Pending's name is a reference to the process of waiting for a legal patent pending for a new invention.