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Anime & Manga

  • The Lupin III episode "Black Panther" is a homage to the Pink Panther, featuring an emerald with a black panther dancing in it, and a Clouseau-like police inspector who dogs Lupin alongside Zenigata.

Films - Live-Action

  • Battleship: The Pink Panther theme is heard as Alex goes looking for a chicken burrito.
  • Jill from Blood Harvest has a stuffed Pink Panther in her room.
  • In Molly (1983), there's a large stuffed Pink Panther in Maxie's room at Aunt Jenny's house.

Live-Action TV

  • El Chapulín Colorado: The episode "La función debe continuar" has el Chapulín visiting an old movie studio where one of the movies filmed was a Western starring the Pink Panther (portrayed by Ramón Valdés during the scene).
  • In the Fantasy Island episode "Lady of the Evening/The Racer", a man bumps into a woman, spilling her drink. He jokes, "Inspector Clouseau, at your service."
  • In the first Mr. Bean episode, Mr. Bean places a Pink Panther toy on his desk during the exam.
  • On The Price Is Right, the Pink Panther theme was the original cue for the Safe Crackers game.

Music

  • The title of the 1986 R.E.M. album Lifes Rich Pageant was derived from this exchange between Clouseau and Maria Gambrelli in A Shot in the Dark:
    Maria: You should get out of these clothes immediately! You'll catch your death of pneumonia, you will.
    Clouseau: Yes, I suppose I probably will. But it's all part of life's rich pageant, you know.

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Western Animation

  • Animaniacs (1993): In "Back in Style", which depicts the shuttering of the Warner Bros. Cartoon Department early 1960s, Friz Freleng is shown creating a "Gray Panther" character by slightly altering a drawing of Bugs Bunny.
  • Dexter's Laboratory: The episode "A Silent Cartoon" is a spoof of The Pink Phink, in which a pink-colored Dee Dee turns a white Dexter's blue lab pink.
  • Family Guy:
    • A cutaway from "The Former Life of Brian" shows the Pink Panther dying in the hospital, with his wife by his side, thanks to inhaling so much Owens-Corning fiberglass insulation (of which he was their mascot).
    • In "Halloween on Spooner Street", after Brian gets spray-painted pink by some bullies, the Pink Panther appears to offer his sympathies.
      Panther: Hey, how ya doin'? First day bein' pink?
      Brian: Yeah.
      Panther: Welcome to Hell.
      (he walks off as the sting from his theme music plays)
  • Robot Chicken:
    • A sketch from "Triple Hot Dog Sandwich on Wheat", which focuses on the the adverse effects of smoking on cartoon characters, opens with the Pink Panther going into a coughing fit while smoking his cigarette and being promptly diagnosed with emphysema.
      Doctor: I hear you're one of the greatest burglars in the world. Well, congratulations, you've stolen 30 healthy years from yourself.
    • A sketch from "Gracie Purgatory in: That's How You Get Hemorrhoids" has the Pink Panther challenging T'Challa for the title of Black Panther.
  • The Simpsons:
  • The Wrong Trousers: The diamond robbery scene from “The Return of…” is parodied.

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