History WesternAnimation / ThePinkPanther

* ThemeTuneCameo: In "Pink, Plunk, Plink" Pink tries to sabotage an orchestra by playing his theme tune. Once he manages to boot off the conductor; he gets the entire orchestra to play the tune. Cut to an empty audience, except for a clapping (live-action) Music/HenryMancini.

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[[folder: ''The Pink Panther'' (1993-95 series)]]

[[folder: ''Pink Panther and Pals'' (2010)]]

* AnAesop
* ThreeShorts
* TheVoiceless: Unless you're talking about the Ant and the Aardvark.

* BeTheBall: Happens to the Little Man in ''In The Pink'' because of a parallel bars excersize gone wrong: he overspins and curls up into a ball, the Panther picks him up due to mistaking him for a ball and proceeds to play some basketball, but thankfully he misses a shot at a hoop which causes the Little Man to end up in the trash back to normal.

* A few more episodes have the Panther fight against insect pests: ''The Pink Tail Fly'' and the abovementioned ''Pink SWAT'' have him fight mosquitoes bothering him during his sleep, while ''A Fly In the Pink'' has the Panther duke it out with a genetically-enhanced fruit fly that's after his fruit. The episode ''Pink on the Cob'' is a more unusual example considering crows are fairly rarely depicted as pests in fiction (although this is a definite case of TruthInTelevision since crows actually ''are'' very nasty pests).

* TheVoiceless: With the exception of two cartoons (in which he is voiced by Rich Little doing a David Niven impression) and exactly one [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks incredibly poorly-received]] revival starring Matt Frewer, the panther is always mute, as are most of his side characters.

The AnimatedCreditsOpening of ''[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 The Pink Panther]]'' visualized the pink, panther-shaped flaw in the titular diamond as an actual pink panther in an opening sequence created by Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises. The credit sequence was so popular that besides becoming the SeriesMascot of the live-action film series, the Pink Panther was given his own series of animated shorts.

A popular cartoon series, the last theatrical cartoon series created during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation.

In 1963, the feature film ''[[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 The Pink Panther]]'', the AnimatedCreditsOpening visualized the pink, panther-shaped flaw in the titular diamond as an actual pink panther in an opening sequence created by Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises. The credit sequence was so popular that besides becoming the SeriesMascot of the live-action film series, the Pink Panther was given his own series of animated shorts.

In 1963 feature film ''[[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 The Pink Panther]]'', the AnimatedCreditsOpening visualized the pink, panther-shaped flaw in the titular diamond as an actual pink panther in an opening sequence created by Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises. The credit sequence was so popular that besides becoming the SeriesMascot of the live-action film series, the Pink Panther was given his own series of animated shorts.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Could have its own page.
** Also, the entire episodes ''7 Manly Men'' and ''Hamm-N-Eggz''.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In 1968's "Psychedelic Pink", the beatnik version of the Little Man hands him a book titled "The Love Live of a Panther: Uncensored", which the Pink Panther ogles for a moment.

* ''The New Pink Panther Show'' ran in syndication from [[TheNineties 1993-95]], and thus far is the only incarnation that gave the Panther a proper voice at all times, provided by Matt Frewer; the Little Man was also voiced full-time here ([[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Wallace]] [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Shawn]] doing the work there), and many of the other [=DePatie=]-Freleng characters- the Ant and the Aardvark (both reprised by John Byner), the Inspector, and the Dogfather- appeared too, alongside both the Panther and new characters like Voodoo Man.

** Pink enters a shrine and emerges cursed to morph into different animals every few seconds.

** The current page image comes from "Doctor Pink". Here, Pink Panther works as a janitor in a hospital, and enters the darkroom to clean up just as Big Nose is developping an x-ray photo, thus ruining the photo. Pink, oblivious to his mistake, keeps dusting the place off, and even takes the now completely black X-ray and dusts off the black, leaving Big Nose with a white sheet of paper.

* InteractiveNarrator: Three animated shorts from 1965 featured this, such as "Shocking Pink," "Pinkfinger" and "Pink Prazer," the latter of which [[spoiler:reveals at the end that the Devil was the NarratorAllAlong.]] This was early in the series, and is now seen as an instance of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.

* TheVoiceless: Except in two shorts (a one-liner at the end of "Sink Pink", and multiple lines in "Pink Ice"), where he's SuddenlyVoiced. Rich Little provides the voice in "Pink Ice" while Paul Frees provides the voice in "Sink Pink" ("Why can't man be more like animals?").

* SuddenlyVoiced: The Pink Panther himself, and the Little Man too.

* ToiletHumor: In some TV releases "Pink Campaign" (notably where the Pink Panther show ran in syndication during prime time access), the Panther is seeing walking off with a toilet. During kidvid airings, the toilet was replaced with a sofa.

* TheVoiceless: Except in two shorts (a one-liner at the end of "Sink Pink", and multiple lines in "Pink Ice"), where he's SuddenlyVoiced. Rich Little provides the voice.

* TheVoiceless: With the exception of exactly one [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks incredibly poorly-received]] revival, the panther is always mute, as are most of his side characters.

* ''The New Pink Panther Show'' ran in syndication from [[TheNineties 1993-95]], and thus far is the only incarnation that gave the Panther a proper voice at all times, provided by Matt Frewer; the Little Man was also voiced full-time here ([[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Wallace]] [[Franchise/ToyStory Shawn]] doing the work there), and many of the other [=DePatie=]-Freleng characters- the Ant and the Aardvark (both reprised by John Byner), the Inspector, and the Dogfather- appeared too, alongside both the Panther and new characters like Voodoo Man.