WABAC Machine - Time traveling machine ("the WABAC") on the animated cartoon PEABODY'S IMPROBABLE HISTORY and first seen on THE ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS/ABC/1959-61. The WABAC Machine was created by a bespectacled, white dog with a bow-tie named Mr. Peabody (voice of Bill Scott) who with the assistance of his boy, Sherman (voice of June Foray), traveled back into an "improbable past" to help move along history. The machine was a large cluster of blinking lights and funny sounds with a central time portal entry/exit. Each episode began with Mr. Peabody asking Sherman to "set the WABAC for the year..." and ended with Mr. Peabody telling some awful pun like Sir Isaac Newton's brother, Fig being responsible for the Fig Newton.