Speed Racer: The Next Generation

The lyrics are the same as the original Speed Racer series, but the music is different. Play the trailer in the video above and you can hear the theme music.

Here he comes
Her comes Speed Racer
He's a demon on wheels
He's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone.

He's gainin' on you so you better look alive.
He's busy revvin' up a powerful Mach 5.

And when the odds are against him
And there's dangerous work to do
You bet your life Speed Racer
Will see it through.

Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer, Go!

He's off and flyin' as he guns the car around the track
He's jammin' down the pedal like he's never comin' back
Adventure's waitin' just ahead.

Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer, Go!

Speed Racer, Jr. - Speed Racer's unknown, younger and hidden son. He first becomes known when he gets off the bus at the academy and Spritle learns he has the key to the Mach 5. He quickly gets overwhelmed with fame, from people stealing his laundry to everyone wanting his autograph. X helps him learn to deal with the fame game.

X Racer - Speed Racer's elder son. He was already well-known on the racing scene when Speed Racer disappeared, so he was safe. X is a senior student at the academy and after finding out Speed is his brother, decides they've got to watch each others backs. Strange things keep happening to Speed inside the virtual race track, and they spill over onto the other drivers, X included.

Conor - Speed Racer's biggest fan and Speed Jr.'s roommate at the academy. He has a giant Speed Racer poster over his bed and has as many original Speed Racer collectibles as he can get. He even dresses like the original Speed Racer. Conor isn't a driver, he's a total geek and a fantastic mechanic and designer. He builds the Mach 6 for Speed and constantly watches out for him.

Lucy - the other member of Speed's pit crew. She's one of his best friends and watches out for him as well.

Chim-Chim - Conor's robotic chimp, named after Spritles real chimp from the original Speed Racer series.

Conor, Lucy and Chim-Chim are pictured above.

Spritle Racer - Speed Racer's brother and headmaster of the Racer Academy. Spritle seems clueless to Zile's continuous efforts to destroy the Mach 6 and harm Speed. Spritle is the only character who played in the original Speed Racer series. Peter Fernandez is Spritle's voice-over actor, and played Speed Racer's voice in the original series.

Annalise Zazik - Zile Zazik's mean daughter and X Racer's girlfriend. She hates Speed and hopes to cut off X and Speed's growing brotherly relationship.

Zile Zazik - Speed Racer, Sr. old nemesis and main, extremely rich benefactor of the Racer Academy. He constantly schemes to destroy the Mach 6 and Speed Jr. along with it. He would also like to remove Spritle as Headmaster, but hasn't succeeded.

Speed Racer, Sr - The main character of the original series, Speed and X's father, and Spritle's brother.

Stan - Zile's bungling assistant and yes-man.

Jared and Jesse - Twin brothers who aren't too bright. Annalise's "friends" and yes-men.

Professor Susan Winn - Defensive driving instructor at the Academy and an extremely effective teacher.

1. The Beginning Part 1 - aired 4-27-2008
Speed gets off the bus at the Racing Academy and meets his new classmates. He doesn't have a car but needs one for the qualifying race. Conor has an old junker that barely runs and lends it to Speed.

2. The Beginning Part 2 - aired 5-2-2008
Speed is again in need of a car. He came to the Academy with his clothes and 2 personal possessions, a red neckerchief and a car key that he wears on a chain around his neck. Speed has no money to buy a car, so Conor and Lucy take him to the Academy junk yard to scavenge parts to build one. Once in the junk yard the key around Speed's neck begins to vibrate and light up. Spritle tells Speed and X that Speed is also Speed Racer's son and they are brothers.

3. The Beginning Part 3 - aired 5-2-2008
Speed's key leads to a chip containing the plans for the Mach 6 in the Mach 5 wreckage. Speed has no money to buy the parts to build it and as a freshman, he isn't qualified to race in the all-you-can-carry parts race. X enters the race to help Speed get the parts for a new car.

4. The Low Price of Fame - aired 5-9-2008
Once everyone knows Speed is X's brother, classmates steal everything they can as souvenirs. X gives him advice on how to deal with fame. One of the students starts a rumor that X and Speed are going to race. Spritle sanctions the race as a school event instead of attempting to stop the rumor. Annalise sabotages the Mach 6 so X can win. When the sabotage put Speed's life in real danger, it brings the brothers closer. They vow to watch out for each other no matter who wins.

5. Be Cruel to Your School - aired 5-16-2008
X and Speed team up to win a multi-school three-part tournament. Zile plans to break up Speed and X's teamwork and destroy the Mach 6, getting rid of the car and possibly getting the Academy board of directors to remove Spritle as headmaster.

6. The Note - aired 5-23-2008
Speed gets a series of notes supposedly signed by his father, but suspects they are fake. One note says to bring the Mach 6 off campus to meet his father. Speed knows it's a trap but goes anyway to find out who the impostor is. Meanwhile, Zile's birthday party is going on. Lucy and Conor tell X what Speed is up to and get him to help them protect Speed.

7. The Fast Track Part 1 - aired 6-27-2008
Zile takes over the virtual race track thanks to Joel, his track program technician, during the Redwood Rally and attempts to destroy the Mach 6 and Speed along with it. Speed, Lucy and Conor suspect something is wrong with the virtual track and that it's actually after Speed. When Speed and his friends investigate, Speed, the Mach 6 and Annalise are sucked into the virtual track.

8. The Fast Track Part 2 - aired 7-4-2008
Annalise and Speed are trapped in the virtual track and must put their differences aside to survive. The track is deteriorating because of a virus Joel inserts into it that they must navigate around to avoid being lost forever. Meanwhile, X, Conor, Lucy and Chim-Chim work to find a way to get them out of the track before it's too late. The Mammoth Car and X3 make cameo appearances from the original series in the virtual track and give Speed, Annalise and the Mach 6 a difficult set of obstacles.

9. The Fast Track Part 3 - aired 7-11-2008
Speed and Annalise make it out of the virtual track along with the Mach 6. They decide that they're not enemies, but Annalise insists she must keep up her public persona of hating Speed. Zile is delighted Annalise is alright. When he finds out Joel created and inserted the virus, he promotes Joel and has him create a secret back door Zile can use to insert obstacles for Speed and the Mach 6. Joel also gives Spritle a master password to make sure no changes can occur on the track without his knowledge, but it is useless against Zile's back door.

10. Honor Code - aired 7-25-2008
Speed faces being expelled from the Academy when someone sabotages the Mach 6 with illegal nitrous 66-11. Saboteurs find a non-traceable way to control the illegal tank of nitrous 66-11, and Chim-Chim captures the act on disk. Zile takes the disk to have it analyzed by his experts instead of allowing Conor to do the facial structure analysis and match it to anyone familiar, to whom Zile might be traced.

11. The Dance - aired 8-1-2008
Everyone at the Racer Academy is excited about an upcoming rally, which includes a dance. Conor is so distracting that he causes Speed to lose a regular school training race, and he knocks Annalise out of the same race when he fails to avoid an obstacle. Annalise's cousin shows up and sweeps Speed off his feet. Conor finally ends up taking a disguised Chim-Chim as his date.

12. Top Car - Aired 8-8-2008
An old acquaintance of Conor's (Ronald) visits the Academy as a supposed young European car designer. He goads Speed and Conor into a design competition; his car against the Mach 6. The competition consists of 4 performance tests. Each test awards points to the winner. The team with more points wins. Ronald ups the ante when he wagers that the winner also wins the losing team's car.

13. Video Essay - Aired 9-5-2008
A clip show of the first 12 episodes.

14. Comet Run Part 1 - Aired 9-19-2008
Billionaire Dicky Ranford challenges anyone who will race him in a 3 day race inside the virtual track against his eco-friendly car. Dicky claims his car can make the entire 3-day race on one tank of gas. The prize for winning the race is Ranford's company. Speed competes to win the technology to finish the Mach 6 engine.

15. Comet Run Part 2 - Aired 9-26-2008
Between the 1st and 2nd days of the race, Chim-Chim gets smashed and the hood of the Mach 6 is seriously dented by a rock-slide. Speed presses on, using the virtual track's elements to his advantage. They are tricked into taking a wrong turn and think Zazik is behind it when they find out Ranford caused the avalanche that damaged the Mach 6 and Chim-Chim, and changed the sign on the track. They also discover Ranfords eco-car is a fraud.

17. Comet Run Part 3 - Aired 10-3-2008
Speed tells Zile that Ranford's eco-car is a fraud and Zazik reluctantly lets Speed go ahead of him and win the race. Ranford's car breaks down and he comes in last. When his eco-car is exposed, his company's stock crashes and goes bankrupt. Even though Speed and the school win, the company is worthless.

18. Plot for Teacher - Aired 10-10-2008
Damiun Russ, the last person to see Speed Racer before he disappeared, visits the school to promote a new drink. Professor Winn doesn't like Russ and is open about it. She reveals her past connection with Speed Sr. Speed and friends believe Russ is after the Mach 6 and out to kill Speed.

19. Knight Racer - Aired 10-17-2008
A "Knight Rider" parody. Zile assigns Speed to test the new Zazik Industries Smart vehicle named VIC. VIC can talk and operate itself. Zile intends to use VIC to kill Speed and take the Mach 6, but his plans backfire when X takes VIC for a test-drive. Meanwhile, Annalise and Conor compete during School Spirit Week using face paint, pom-poms and hair dye along with cheerleader clothing.

20. Money Problems - Aired 1-19-2009
When it appears Spritle embezzled profits from other racing schools, he steps down as headmaster. He is replaced by a very strict guy with a bunch of new policies nobody likes. Speed works to clear his uncle's good name and Conor is expelled in the process. On an unrelated note, Zile receives a call from a mysterious woman.

21. The Great Escape Part 1 - Aired 1-30-2009
Conor invents a camouflage defense mechanism to protect the Mach 6, which activates unexpectedly when Speed and Chim-Chim walk inside, leaving them invisible. Zile plans a heist to steal the Mach 6 at night, but they can't see the car, and capture Conor instead. Meanwhile, X and Annalise's relationship is strained.

22. The Great Escape Part 2 - Aired 2-6-2009
The camouflage feature malfunctions, Speed is caught sneaking around trying to save Conor, and the entire gang retreats leaving the Mach 6 behind. To Zile's disappointment, there is a force field around it, and it becomes invisible again. A suspicious Spritle calls the police, and the gang doubles back to save the Mach 6. His plan exposed, Zile flees and leaves Annalise in charge of Zazic Industries.

23. The Great Escape Part 3 - Aired 2-20-2009
Zile being a traitor is now widespread among the students. Annalise continues to carry out Zile's plan by taking X-ray shots of the Mach 6 during a race, under the shadowy woman's orders. Annalise also breaks up with X for good. Meanwhile, Zile and Stan keep having to move whenever Stan gives away their location.

24. The Secrets of the Engine Part 1 - Aired 2-27-2009
Dr. Chezko, an engineer and old friend of Speed Racer's, arrives with a chamber that will run the Mach 6 on natural energy. Zile, returning undercover as a janitor, works with Annalise to steal the chamber and embarrass Speed by replacing it with a double. Meanwhile, Spritle plans an uncle-son bonding trip during the term break.

25. The Secrets of the Engine Part 2 - Aired 3-6-2009
Zile and Annalise steal the Chezco chamber and keep it hidden until they can meet with the head of the committee; Speed and X sneak into Zile's tower.

26. The Secrets of the Engine Part 3 - Aired 3-13-2009
TBA

Lightening Alley
appears in "The Low Price of Fame"

Winter Wonderland
appears in "The Beginning Part 3" and "Be Cruel to Your School"