Awesome / Pink Panther and Pals

• "Pinxillated" sees Big Nose as a crooked arcade owner who, when a young boy tries to redeem a prize ticket for a horse plushie, jacks up the price to two tickets. The Pink Panther sees him through the arcade's front window, and decides to intervene. He turns out to be very talented at arcade games...
  • First, we see him playing a double joystick shooter (similar in spirit to Robotron: 2084, although we don't see any gameplay footage) to get the boy a second ticket; at one point, he shows off a bit by controlling one of the joysticks with his tail.
  • Big Nose promptly hikes the cost of a horse plushie to nine tickets, so the Pink Panther goes to that old arcade standby: skee-ball. Ball after ball drops in the 100 point hole as the machine begins spewing out long ribbons of prize tickets. Big Nose tries to sabotage the machine by climbing into it from behind and opening the board from the back, but he is knocked out by one of the balls... which, after he closes the board again, bounces back out and into the 100 point hole.
  • Next stop: Whack-a-Mole, where Pink keeps racking up the points and the prize tickets keep flowing. Big Nose tries to intervene, but Pink whacks him on the head with the mallet - and gets 100 points in the process. He then hides in the machine and starts poking his head through the mole holes, but Big Nose is not nearly fast enough to catch him. The Pink Panther emerges from the machine and startles Big Nose into throwing the mallet into the air... to land on his own head, causing the score to spike again.
  • Now needing a barrel to hold his prize tickets (which are still not enough to keep pace with Big Nose raising the price of a horse plushie), the Pink Panther struts his stuff on a DanceDanceRevolution-style machine - until Big Nose stands on the other set of pads. Inevitably, Pink is a much better dancer, even when the game's styles shift to tap dancing and ballet (in the last of these, a pirouette goes horribly wrong for Big Nose, spinning him into the ground below the arcade).
  • The Pink Panther spots an arcade machine with two VR helmets, and he dons one and effortlessly blows away the robot enemies - until Big Nose dons the other helmet and uses the controller to beam the Pink Panther into the game. But Pink is able to hold his own even from inside the game, so the frustrated Big Nose beams himself into the game as a boss battle. He then chases Pink into a spoof of Pac-Man (but as Pink is in front of him, he is the one who gets the points for eating the dots),^note  The sound effects are from the Atari 2600 port instead of the arcade version. then a spoof of Street Fighter with Pink as Ryu and Big Nose as E. Honda (one Hadouken/Hurricane Kick combo is all Pink needs to reduce Big Nose's health bar to near zero), then a spoof of Donkey Kong in which Pink has little trouble hopping over the barrels, but Big Nose isn't as lucky. On reaching the top of the level, Pink is able to launch himself back into the real world, but when Big Nose tries the same thing, he lands with a splat against the inside of the screen. He can therefore only watch in impotent rage as the Pink Panther cashes in a dump truck full of tickets for two horse plushies, one for the young boy and one for himself.

• "Z is for Aardvark" deserves a mention, as it highlights Ant's cleverness when he sees through Aardvark's zebra disguise. It doesn't help when a baby zebra mistakes Aardvark for his mother, which complicates things for Aardvark. During a pose session for his painting, Ant uses it to his advantage by luring Aardvark onto a lion (who promptly chases him). Then, during another pose session by the pond, Ant tries to get Aardvark to fall in, and even though Aardvark sees through this ploy, there is no way he could get out of it without blowing his cover, so he tries to use some tree vines, but Eli the Elephant is in the pond, and the leaves tickle his nose, which causes him to sneeze and blow off Aardvark's disguise.
• The Catharsis Factor of Big Nose being arrested and sent to jail at the end of "Pink Kahuna", considering he was being an assholish, fun-hating beach patrol officer throughout.

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