honestly it could be a false memory, cobbled together from who knows what and polished by time until it shines who even knows
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Replying to @perdricof
Speed Racer TNG had a "Virtual Track" (some kind of holodeck they physically drove their cars into) that allowed them to have physically impossible environments for extreme stunts
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It also eventually gave the Mach 6 an obvious ripoff of the flux capacitor from Back to the Future allowing to drive so fast it could travel back in time
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does it involve drinking an extra-secret speed energy drink in my mind it does
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Oh no, you're right, you're describing the episode The Fastest Car on Earth Speed starts hallucinating under the influence of the G-forces of the forbidden GRX engine, which seems to exert a diabolical influence on racecar drivers like the One Ring
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The only antidote to this effect is the dangerous V-Gas drug, which supercharges the driver's brain to allow him to handle the incredible speed but with highly deleterious side effects
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now i can't stop imagining Harold and Kumar go to the Velocity Zone, which begins with them trying to repair their shitty old camry at some back-alley garage and somehow coming home with the GRX under the hood blitzing past the competition while blazed out of their minds
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This episode owns, lol They completely run with the metaphor that driving with the GRX is like taking, uh, speed Pops Racer intercepts Speed while in his V-gas induced mania, forces the GRX off the road, then yells "SNAP OUT OF IT" and judo throws his head on the pavement
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Speed wakes up feverish, shaking and desperately thirsty, and after recovering finds himself unable to move faster than 30 mph without having a panic attack, having had the driving portion of his brain overheated and blown out
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They try to fix him with exposure therapy, sitting him in the basement watching a filmstrip of a POV shot of a car going down the road but as they speed it up he keeps screaming
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