The Fastest Car on Earth (Part 2) is the twenty-first episode of Speed Racer. It first aired in Japan on August 20, 1967 on Fuji TV.
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Speed, doing the opening narration, recaps the events of the previous episode up to the point where he lost consciousness at the wheel of the GRX.
Pops, Spritle and Chim-Chim catch up to the slowing GRX so that they can attempt to stop the car and save Speed from crashing. After Spritle breaks open the window on the driver's side with a wrench, Chim-Chim jumps into the GRX. Spritle and Pops try to tell the chimpanzee to stop goofing around and put his foot on the brake pedal. The GRX veers towards an aqueduct as Chim-Chim attempts to grab a praying mantis from the brake pedal, which he succeeds at, also stopping the car from crashing.
Just then, Pops is confronted by Omar and Jim, as a fight breaks out. While the fight goes on, Spritle and Chim-Chim drag the unconscious Speed out of the car. Pops eventually defeats the two thugs, who then drive off in the GRX. The following morning, Speed wakes up in his bed, with his coordination having been negatively affected by the high speeds of the GRX. For this, Pops subjects Speed to a treatment in which he splashes buckets of water onto him, and at one point, accidentally splashes Trixie. Speed laughs at Trixie's humorous misfortune, as Pops then scolds him, letting Speed know it's no laughing matter and how he's been very worried about him, before warning him of the GRX and to keep away from it, not wanting him to suffer the same fate as Ben Cranem and the other test drivers.
Later, at the track, Speed is participating in the final trials for the Oriental Grand Prix against the GRX, driven by Loomis Towcar. Moments before the trials start, Loomis is given the formula by Jim, who warns him not to drink any water. Sparky also tells Speed not to try and beat the car and to "hold back a little". During the race, Loomis gets desperately thirsty for water while several seconds ahead of Speed, and drinks it. However, soon after, the formula wears off as his coordination became negatively affected. He loses control of the GRX, and Speed uses the Mach 5's auto jacks to jump over it. The GRX crashes. Fortunately for Loomis, he survives and is taken to the hospital. Right after Loomis is taken away, Oriana approaches Speed and offers to let him drive the GRX, which he accepts.
Later on, Pops, Trixie, and Spritle go searching for Speed since they haven't seen him, and he apparently left the Mach 5 behind on the track. Chim-Chim had also gone missing.
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- This is the first time we the audience see the Mach 5's speedometer, which maxes out at 360 km/h.
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Regional Differences[]
- Pops yelling at Chim Chim. In Japanese, Pops scolded him and called Chim-Chim an idiot. In English, Pops scolds him for not using his head. Offscreen dialogue from Pops was also added after Chim-Chim pulls down and says to him "No, that's not what I mean!".
- Pops said "Dang it" after the GRX was taken away in the Japanese version. He just growls in the dub.
- Pops spraying water onto Speed varies in both regions. In Japanese, it's because Speed is possessed by a demon from the GRX. In English, it's because he's still hallucinating from the effects of the car.
- Pops warns Speed that the GRX is a cursed car which no driver, not even the creator of the engine himself could handle. This is kept in the English dub, though Pops goes into more details that it can affect the driver's sense of coordination and tells Speed that he doesn't want to lose him.
- When Pops was in the helicopter, he refers to Speed as a bum for leaving the Mach 5. In English, he's worried on why Speed is acting strange and where he went.
- Speed was mad when the helicopter was swooping down at him and yells at Pops. This was absent in the English dub.
- In the same scene, Pops scolds Speed for disobeying him and calls him an idiot, and tries to wrestle him to the ground. The dub changes it that Pops is trying to get Speed to snap out of the GRX's influence.
- A scene of Chim-Chim running off with a microphone was cut from the English dub.
- In the Japanese version, Sparky tells Chim-Chim that he did a good job on taking the helicopter's key. The dub changes it to him talking to Spritle that Chim-Chim was smart on taking the GRX's key.
- Pops was remarking at Trixie for having sympathy for Speed and says "What do you mean 'poor guy'?". The dub just has him saying that Speed better get back to how he was before touching the GRX.
- Before Curly pulls out to join the race, he remarks at Pops warning that he worries too much and just wants Speed to win. The dub just has him remarking at Pops that Speed doesn't have a chance to win because he's scared.
- After the GRX explodes, Speed was hearing Pops' words to not be a coward. This was changed to the announcer saying that GRX is out of the race.
- There is a 20-30 second scene of the cemetery that shows both Ben and Curly Cranem's gravestones. This was cut in the dub.
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- Peter Fernandez: Speed Racer
- Corinne Orr: Trixie, Spritle Racer, Mom Racer
- Jack Grimes: Sparky, Chim Chim
- Jack Curtis: Pops Racer
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- Speed's top wasn't colored blue after Pops and Spritle pulled over, and blends in with the GRX interior.
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Note: All characters are listed in order of their first appearances in the episode. The time they appear is the time from the Japanese dub.
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