'Car Talk' guys will be unfunny on TV, too

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Which network would air an animated sitcom featuring NPR’s Car Talk guys as characters named Click and Clack talking about “social and environmental” issues? Oh, please God, let it be Fox. Or at least Comedy Central or Turner’s Adult Swim. Those nets are inspired (and evil) enough to handle such fare with the postmodern disdain it deserves. But if the network is PBS … d’oh, it is PBS! The show’s called As the Wrench Turns.

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