Good news for parents of tweens who aren’t into kooky Japanese anime, violent superheroes or high school sitcoms where everybody breaks into song by their lockers. (Yes, we know, it begs the question: What else is there?)

Click and Clack’s As the Wrench Turns, a half-hour animated show, premieres on PBS Wednesday, July 9, at 8/7pm Central. The series is based on real-life brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi’s long-running NPR program, “Car Talk.” You could describe the weekly show as a q&a about car probs, but its 4.4 million listeners would be horrified at that simplistic description. It’s a cleverly done, hilarious gab-fest, basically. Knowledge of fuel pumps and spark plugs unnecessary.

That same goofy, “We don’t take ourselves seriously” sense of humor is on display in the new PBS show. (Check it out for yourself here.) In the premiere ep, Click and Clack decide to run as the first-ever two-man candidate for U.S. president. The next follows the car-talkin’ bros as they outsource their show to India. Naturally, trouble ensues when their on-air Indian counterparts (Rajiv and Sanjiv, the Gupta Brothers) turn out to be automotive problem-solving geniuses.

Oh, and one more reason you should tune in? The show’s partnered with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators to push safety messages like “Wear your seat belt” or “Don’t drive and text and talk on your cell and watch a movie and mess with your iPod at the same time.”

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