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Popular public radio program Car Talk, hosted by Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers (actually Tom and Ray Magliozzi), is coming to television next year, as an animated sitcom on PBS.

Really?

Yes, me, really. I assumed it would just be the brothers dispensing advice and offering help to people with car problems, just like on their radio show, but instead, the new program will focus on the brothers' lives outside the radio show as they work in their fix-it garage, and deal with angry customers.

What I've always loved about Car Talk is that you don't need to know anything about cars to enjoy it. In fact, it's especially made for people like me who think a fan belt is something you wear with a tuxedo. I'd much rather see a TV version of the radio show, or, even better, tape the brothers doing their radio show like E! did with Howard Stern or MSNBC did with Don Imus. Not that I'd judge the cartoon without having seen it, but if someone said there was going to be a Car Talk TV show, I never would have guessed it to be an animated one.

Viewers will be able to send in suggestions for the show's title. It premieres next summer.