History Film / ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The novelization of the movie (by screenplay co-writer Frank Waldman) features a totally different and relatively bizarre ending where [[spoiler:both Dreyfus ''and'' Professor Fassbender are disintegrated by the Doomsday Machine. The final chapter reveals that they have rematerialized in the distant future in a lonely part of space known as the Ultimate Galaxy of the Dimension Quattro (where everything they've disintegrated, including the United Nations Building and [[LongStory the front half of a dog named Shlep]], has ended up). Facing an eternity together as the sole inhabitants of this empty plane of existence, Dreyfus and Fassbender have become friends.]]

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: Produced by Creator/RichardWilliams' Studio. Can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4vO2w5lXaI here]] along with the CreativeClosingCredits.

* JustGoWithIt: Just as Dreyfus being in ''Return of the Pink Panther'' as Chief Inspector despite having killed ten people, blown up a car, and lost his mind in ''A Shot In The Dark'' went unexplained, this film never even attempts to explain how Dreyfuss escaped the asylum after relapsing, evaded capture until making it to the apartment directly under Clouseau's, obtained a helicopter, and the funds to purchase heist equipment and a castle.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Dreyfus' international demand for Clouseau's death is met with confusion since Clouseau's popularity with the public is confined to the borders of France and Lugash. He is also merely a French policeman and a result, not even the President of the United States knows who he is.

* TooDumbToLive: Jean Tournier, an otherwise brilliant criminal, goes against Dreyfus's advice and decides to take out Clouseau himself for clout. His plan? Sneak into Clouseau's hotel room disguised as Clouseau himself. He is immediately gunned down by the Egyptian assassin, showing that maybe dressing as the man all the world's greatest killers are openly gunning for may not have been the best call.

* SweaterGirl: Margo Fassbender spends most if not all of her screen time in a sweater that isn't exactly bulky.

-->'''Dreyfus''': Good? He's not good. He's ''terrible''. He's the ''worst.'' There is no man like him, ''anywhere in the world.'' Compared to Clouseau, this Doomsday Machine is... is just a ''water pistol!''

* BuccaneerBroadcaster: Dreyfus hijacks the broadcast of a football game to deliver his demand of Clouseau's death, much to the ire of President UsefulNotes/GeraldFord due to the hijacking cutting out the end of the game.
--->''President Gerald Ford'': Call the FBI, the CIA, and the Pentagon, find out who won the game!!

-->'''President Ford:''' Call the FBI, the CIA and the Pentagon! Find out who won the game!

* KidnappedScientist: Dreyfus kidnaps Hugo Fassbender, a scientist specializing in space-time relations, to build a doomsday weapon. To ensure Fassbender's coorporation, Dreyfus kidnaps his daughter as well.

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Three years after the events of ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'',[[note]]though this film was only made one year after[[/note]] Former Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Creator/HerbertLom) is seemingly cured... but after meeting up with Clouseau prior to his release from the psychiatric hospital, the therapy is undone. Dreyfus escapes and organizes a criminal gang that kidnaps nuclear physicist Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and his daughter Margo (Briony [=McRoberts=]). Forcing the former to build a Disintegrator Ray, Dreyfus threatens to unleash it on the world unless Clouseau is killed, and many countries immediately send assassins after Clouseau as he sets out to stop Dreyfus himself.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Dreyfus ''may'' have reflected the doomsday LASER off of a satellite[[note]]Something which means that there's a material it can't destroy, because otherwise it would have vaporized the satellite instead of the UN Building[[/note]], because otherwise, the LASER beam fired from Germany would have to be pointed through the Earth to reach the United Nations Building in New York City. This issue is never explained in the film, but this is a comedy after all. Targeting the LASER on England ''may'' be more plausible.

-->'''Jean Tournier''': He can't be that good.

-->'''Goon''' ''(scoffs)'' Oh come on.

'''Clerk''': I do not know what a "rheum" is.\\

'''Clouseau''': That is what I've been ''saying'', you idiot.

* ShoutOut: The movie has this in spades, eight of which are in the opening credits alone.

-->'''President Ford:''' Call the FBI. Call the CIA. Call the Pentagon! Find out who won the game!

** There's one from the US President's Secretary of State when he learns that twelve countries have their top assassins converging on the Oktoberfest to kill Clouseau:
-->'''Secretary of State''': My god it'll be like a shooting gallery.

* BadassBoast: Dreyfus as much about Clouseau, although they are not meant to be compliments at all. To wit, one of Dreyfus' goons [[StatingTheSimpleSolution points out the obvious]]: Dreyfus has some of the finest hitmen in Europe in the very room they're standing, so why not handle it themselves instead of extorting the world's governments to do it for them? Dreyfus' answer?

* BadassBoast: Dreyfus says a couple for Clouseau, although they are not meant to be compliments at all:
-->'''Dreyfus''': This (the disintegrator laser)? This is only a ''water pistol'' [[PersonOfMassDestruction next to]] [[LethallyStupid Clouseau]].
** In another scene, one of Dreyfus' goons [[StatingTheSimpleSolution points out the obvious]]: Dreyfus has some of the best criminals in the world right here in the room, why not just send them to kill Clouseau? Dreyfus' answer? "Because you wouldn't stand a chance."

** In another scene, one of Dreyfus' goons [[StatingTheSimpleSolution points out the obvious]]: Dreyfus has some of the best criminals in the world right here in the room, why not just send them to kill Clouseau? Dreyfus' answer? "They wouldn't survive."

* SingingVoiceDissonance: Ainsley Jarvis appears to be singing a song in a operatic female voice, but when he talks it’s clearly a man in drag.