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Click & Clack's As the Wrench Turns

Airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. E.T. on PBS

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PBS tries to adapt Tom and Ray Magliozzi's hilarious public-radio automotive show as a "car-toon," and that lame pun is the funniest thing about it. Loaded up with pledge-drive jokes and toothless satire, it ditches their improv banter for scripted cliches that went out with the Chevette. This TV-radio hybrid looks polished, but it's a lemon.

Grade: D

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