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	== Co-stars of ''The Pink Panther Show'' ==		== Co-stars of ''The Pink Panther Show'' ==
	=== Television ===		=== Television ===
	* ''[[Misterjaw]]'' (1976)		* ''[[w:Misterjaw\|Misterjaw]]'' (1976)
	* ''Texas Toads'' (1976) (rebranded version of ''Tijuana Toads'', using Texan themes instead of Mexican ones)		* ''Texas Toads'' (1976) (rebranded version of ''Tijuana Toads'', using Texan themes instead of Mexican ones)
	* ''[[Crazylegs Crane]]'' (1978)		* ''[[w:Crazylegs Crane\|Crazylegs Crane]]'' (1978)
	* Annie (1984)		* Annie (1984)
	* Chatta (1984)		* Chatta (1984)
	* Murfel (1984)		* Murfel (1984)
	* Panky (1984)		* Panky (1984)
	* [[Pink Panther and Sons\|Pinky]] (1984)		* [[w:Pink Panther and Sons\|Pinky]] (1984)
	* Punkin (1984)		* Punkin (1984)
	* Rocko (1984)		* Rocko (1984)
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	* ''[[Hoot Kloot]]'' (1973–1974)		* ''[[Hoot Kloot]]'' (1973–1974)
	* ''[[The Dogfather]]'' (1974–1976)		* ''[[The Dogfather]]'' (1974–1976)

	~~== See also ==~~
	* [[List of The Pink Panther cartoons\|List of ''The Pink Panther'' cartoons]]

	== References ==		== References ==
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	=== Games ===		=== Games ===
	~~{{see also\|List of Pink Panther games}}~~
	~~{{more citations needed section\|date=January 2015}}~~
	The Pink Panther is featured in multiple computer and video games:		The Pink Panther is featured in multiple computer and video games:
	* ''The Pink Panther'' (1983), a hand-held LCD game from [[Tiger Electronics]].<ref>[https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/PinkPanther.htm ''The Pink Panther'' LCD game] at Electronic Handheld Game Museum</ref>		* ''The Pink Panther'' (1983), a hand-held LCD game from [[w:Tiger Electronics\|Tiger Electronics]].<ref>[https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/PinkPanther.htm ''The Pink Panther'' LCD game] at Electronic Handheld Game Museum</ref>
	* ''[[Pink Panther (video game)\|Pink Panther]]'' (1988), published by [[Gremlin Graphics]] for various home computers.		* ''[[w:Pink Panther (video game)\|Pink Panther]]'' (1988), published by [[w:Gremlin Graphics\|Gremlin Graphics]] for various home computers.
	* ''[[Pink Goes to Hollywood]]'' (1993) for the [[Sega Genesis\|Genesis]] and [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System\|Super NES]]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/genesis/563335-pink-goes-to-hollywood\|title=Pink Goes to Hollywood for Genesis - GameFAQs}}</ref>		* ''[[w:Pink Goes to Hollywood\|Pink Goes to Hollywood]]'' (1993) for the [[w:Sega Genesis\|Genesis]] and [[w:Super Nintendo Entertainment System\|Super NES]]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/genesis/563335-pink-goes-to-hollywood\|title=Pink Goes to Hollywood for Genesis - GameFAQs}}</ref>
	* ''[[The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril]]'' (1996)		* ''[[w:The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril\|The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril]]'' (1996)
	* ''[[The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink]]'' (1997)		* ''[[w:The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink\|The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink]]'' (1997)
	* ''The Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit'' (2003) for PC, PlayStation and Game Boy Advance<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.ign.com/games/the-pink-panther-pinkadelic-pursuit\|title=The Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit (Game Boy Advance)}}</ref>		* ''The Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit'' (2003) for PC, PlayStation and Game Boy Advance<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.ign.com/games/the-pink-panther-pinkadelic-pursuit\|title=The Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit (Game Boy Advance)}}</ref>
	* ''Pink Panther's Epic Adventure'' (2015) for iOS and Android		* ''Pink Panther's Epic Adventure'' (2015) for iOS and Android

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{{Short description|Fictional animated character}}
{{Other uses|The Pink Panther (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox character
| colour = pink
| name = Pink Panther
| series = [[The Pink Panther]]
| image = Pink Panther.png
| image_size = 200px
| family = Pinky and Panky (sons)
| creator = {{plainlist|
* [[Friz Freleng]]
* [[Blake Edwards]]
* [[Hawley Pratt]]}}
| first = ''[[The Pink Panther (1963 film)|The Pink Panther]]'' (1963)
|designer = [[Hawley Pratt]]
| voice = {{plainlist|
* [[Rich Little]] (1965)
* [[Mel Blanc]] (1966–1967)
* [[Matt Frewer]] (1993–1995)
* {{nowrap|[[Michael Sinterniklaas]] (1996–1997)}}
}}
| gender = Male
| alias = {{plainlist|
* Pink
* Pinky}}
| nationality = American
| species = [[Black panther|Panther]]
(''Pantherus roseus'')
}}
The '''Pink Panther''' is a fictional animated character who appears in the opening and/or closing credit sequences of every film in ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' series except for ''[[A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)|A Shot in the Dark]]'' and ''[[Inspector Clouseau (film)|Inspector Clouseau]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rovin |first1=Jeff |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals |date=1991 |publisher=Prentice Hall Press |isbn=0-13-275561-0 |access-date=8 April 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc00rovi |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc00rovi/page/205 205]}}</ref> In the storyline of the original film, the "Pink Panther" is the name of a valuable [[pink diamond]] named for a flaw that shows a "figure of a springing panther" when held up to the light in a certain way; in the credits this was translated to an animated pink [[Black panther|panther]].

The character's popularity spawned a [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] franchise of [[List of The Pink Panther cartoons|theatrical shorts]], television cartoons and merchandise. He starred in 124 short films, four TV series and four TV specials. The character is closely associated with "[[The Pink Panther Theme]]", composed by [[Henry Mancini]].

== DePatie–Freleng/United Artists cartoons ==
{{See also|List of The Pink Panther cartoons}}

The animated Pink Panther character's initial appearance in the live action film's title sequence, directed by [[Friz Freleng]], was such a success with audiences and [[United Artists]] that the studio signed Freleng and his [[DePatie–Freleng Enterprises]] studio to a multi-year contract for a series of ''Pink Panther'' theatrical cartoon shorts. The first entry in the series, 1964's ''[[The Pink Phink]]'', featured Pink harassing his foil, a little white mustachioed man who is often considered a caricature of Friz Freleng (this character is officially known as [[The Little Man (The Pink Panther)|The Little Man]]<ref name="ottawaxpress.ca">{{cite web|url=http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=7173|title="Struttin' with the Pink Panther" - Interview with Jerry Beck, by T.S. Warren|work=Ottawa XPress|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211222749/http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=7173|archive-date=2009-02-11}}</ref>), by constantly trying to paint the Little Man's blue house pink. ''The Pink Phink'' won the 1964 [[Academy Award for Animated Short Film]], and subsequent shorts in the series, usually featuring the Pink Panther opposite the Little Man, were successful releases.

[[File:The Pink Panther trailer (1963).webm|thumb|Pink Panther (1963).jpeg]]

In an early series of Pink Panther animated cartoons, Pink generally remained silent, speaking only in two theatrical shorts, ''[[Sink Pink]]'' (one line) and ''[[Pink Ice]]'' (throughout the film). [[Rich Little]] provided Pink's voice in these shorts, modeling it on that of [[David Niven]] (who had portrayed Clouseau's jewel thief nemesis in the original live-action film). Years later, Little would overdub Niven's voice for ''[[Trail of the Pink Panther]]'' and ''[[Curse of the Pink Panther]]'', due to Niven's ill health. All of the animated ''Pink Panther'' shorts utilized [[The Pink Panther Theme|the distinctive jazzy theme music]] composed by [[Henry Mancini]] for the 1963 feature film, with additional scores composed by [[Walter Greene]] or [[William Lava]].<ref name="book1">{{cite book | title=Meet the Pink Panther | publisher=Rizzoli |author1=Hope Freleng Shaw |author2=Hope Freleng |author3=Sybil Freleng Bergman |author4=Sybil Freleng |author5=Art Leonardi | year=2005 | isbn=0-7893-1308-1}}</ref><ref name=beck>{{cite book | title = Pink Panther: The Ultimate Guide to the Coolest Cat in Town! | last = Beck | first = Jerry | author-link = Jerry Beck | year = 2006 | publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley|DK Publishing]] | location = [[London]] | isbn = 0-7566-1033-8 }}</ref><ref name="book3">{{cite book | title=I thought we were making movies, not history | publisher=University of Wisconsin Press | author=Walter Mirisch | author-link=Walter Mirisch | year=2008 | pages=162–169 | isbn=978-0-299-22640-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=American animated cartoons of the Vietnam era: a study of social commentary | publisher=McFarland | author=Christopher P. Lehman | year=2006 | page=54 | isbn=0-7864-2818-X}}</ref>

[[File:Stamp of Albania - 2007 - Colnect 374713 - Pink Panther.jpeg|thumb]]

== ''The Pink Panther Show'' ==
{{main|The Pink Panther Show}}

In the fall of 1969, the ''Pink Panther'' cartoons made their way to [[NBC]] television shown [[Saturday morning cartoon|Saturday mornings]] via ''[[The Pink Panther Show]]''. NBC added a [[laugh track]] to the original cartoons, with [[Marvin Miller (actor)|Marvin Miller]] brought on as an off-camera narrator talking to the Pink Panther during [[bumper (broadcasting)|bumper]] segments featuring the Pink Panther and The Inspector together.<ref name=beck/> The series featured a live-action introduction, over the theme song, which featured the ''[[Panthermobile (show car)|Panthermobile]]''.

''Pink Panther'' shorts made after 1969 were produced for both broadcast and film release, typically appearing on television first, and released to theaters by United Artists. One version of the show was called ''The Think Pink Panther Show''. A number of sister series joined ''The Pink Panther'' on movie screens and on the airwaves, among them ''[[The Ant and the Aardvark]]'', ''[[Tijuana Toads]]'' (a.k.a. ''Texas Toads''), ''[[Hoot Kloot]]'', and ''[[Misterjaw]]'' (a.k.a. ''Mr. Jaws and Catfish''). There were also a series of animated shorts called ''[[The Inspector]]'', with the Clouseau-inspired Inspector and his sidekick Sgt. Deux-Deux, whom the Inspector is forever correcting. Other DePatie-Freleng series included ''[[Roland and Rattfink]]'', ''[[The Dogfather]]'' (a ''[[The Godfather|Godfather]]'' pastiche), with a canine [[Corleone family]] and two ''Tijuana Toads'' spinoffs, ''[[The Blue Racer]]'' and ''[[Crazylegs Crane]]''.<ref name=beck/>

The German television version, which started airing in 1973, in [[ZDF]] was presented in 30-minute episodes, composed of one Pink Panther cartoon, one episode of ''[[The Inspector]]'' and one episode of ''[[The Ant and the Aardvark]]''. Most notably, the difference between the German and the English version of the Pink Panther is a rhymed narration in the German version (spoken by voice actor [[Gert Günther Hoffmann]]), commenting and describing the plot. For this show, custom intro and end sequences were cut together from existing pieces of animation.

In 1976, the half-hour series was revamped into a 90-minute format, as ''The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show''; this version included a live-action segment, where the show's host, comedian Lenny Schultz, would read letters and jokes from viewers. This version flopped, and would change back to the original half-hour version in 1977.<ref name=beck/>

In 1978, ''The Pink Panther'' moved to ABC and was rebranded ''The All New Pink Panther Show'', where it lasted one season before leaving the network realm entirely. The ABC version of the series featured 16 episodes, with 32 new ''Pink Panther'' cartoons and 16 of ''[[Crazylegs Crane]]''. The 32 entries were later released theatrically by [[United Artists]].<ref name=beck/>

== Comics ==
In 1971, [[Gold Key Comics]] began publishing a Pink Panther [[comic book]], with art by [[Warren Tufts]]. ''The Pink Panther and the Inspector'' lasted 87 issues, ending only when Gold Key ceased operations in 1984.<ref>[http://www.toonopedia.com/pink.htm THE PINK PANTHER], [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]], retrieved February 11, 2011</ref> The spinoff series ''The Inspector'' (also from Gold Key) lasted 19 issues, from 1974 to 1978.<ref>[http://www.toonopedia.com/inspectr.htm THE INSPECTOR], [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]], retrieved February 11, 2011</ref>

[[Tribune Media Services]] syndicated a ''Pink Panther'' comic strip from May 29, 2005, to May 10, 2009, created by ''[[Bottom Liners]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> cartoonists Eric and Bill Teitelbaum.<ref name=Holtz>{{cite book |last1=Holtz |first1=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=9780472117567 |page=315}}</ref>

== Later television shows and specials ==
During the final years of the Panther's theatrical run, DePatie–Freleng produced a series of three primetime Pink Panther [[television special]]s for ABC. The first was 1978's ''[[The Pink Panther in: A Pink Christmas|A Pink Christmas]]''. It featured Pink in [[New York City|New York]] being cold and hungry looking for a holiday dinner. The other two specials premiered on ABC after the shorts officially ended in theaters, 1980's ''[[The Pink Panther in: Olym-Pinks|Olym-Pinks]]'' and 1981's ''[[The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight|Pink at First Sight]]''. In November 2007, the three specials were released on a single disc DVD collection, ''The Pink Panther: A Pink Christmas'' from [[MGM Home Entertainment]]/[[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]].

The studio was sold to [[Marvel Comics]] in 1981, and became [[Marvel Productions]] (now a part of [[The Walt Disney Company]]). In 1984, a new Saturday morning series was produced entitled ''[[Pink Panther and Sons]]''. In this incarnation (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions with Freleng serving as creative producer for the series), the still-silent Pink Panther was a father of his two talking sons, Pinky and Panky. While popular, critics complained that there was not enough Pink Panther to maintain interest for a full 30 minutes.<ref name=beck/>

A new series of cartoons were created in 1993, simply titled ''[[The Pink Panther (1993 TV series)|The Pink Panther]]'', produced by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation]], premiered in [[Television syndication|syndication]] in 1993, and had the Pink Panther speaking with the voice of [[Matt Frewer]] (of ''[[Max Headroom (TV series)|Max Headroom]]'' fame). DePatie and Freleng served as creative consultants on the series. Unlike the original shorts, not all episode titles contained the word "pink", although many instead contained the word "panther". Voice impressionist [[John Byner]] returned to voice both [[the Ant and the Aardvark]].<ref name=beck/>

[[File:Pink Panther 2.jpg|alt=Pink pather cosplay|thumb|Pink panther [[Cosplay]]]]

In July 2007, [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.]] and [[Jordan]]'s Rubicon animation company began co-production of the animated series ''[[Pink Panther and Pals]]'', a [[prequel]] to ''[[The Pink Panther Show]]'', portraying a teenaged panther and his friends. The 26 episode TV series premiered worldwide in spring 2010 on [[Cartoon Network]]. On December 7, 2011, a new 22-minute holiday special entitled ''A Very Pink Christmas'', starring the classic iteration of the panther, aired on ABC Family.<ref name=beck/>

== Popular culture ==
[[File:Pink Panther Coruna.jpg|thumb|Engraving of the Pink Panther in [[A Coruña]], [[Spain]]]]
The Pink Panther is known as ''Nathu'' and ''Pangu'' in East and South Asia, ''Paulchen Panther'' (Little Paul the Panther) in [[Germany]] and ''Пинко розовата пантера'' (Pinko the Pink panther) in [[Bulgaria]]. He remains a popular character. In addition to the regular airing of the classic cartoon, the panther also appears in the following:

=== Advertising ===
* ''The Pink Panther Show'' opening theme was used by [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]] in a viral campaign of Pink Mercurial Vapor IV football boots using the French football star [[Franck Ribery]] mimicking the character of the Pink Panther.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMPwBTl8gGE |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201180235/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMPwBTl8gGE |archive-date=2008-12-01 |url-status=dead|title=YouTube |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2013-12-13}}</ref>
* [[Owens Corning]] has featured the character for many years as an advertising [[mascot]] for their pink-colored residential [[building insulation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcbrT1AUE7I |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/lcbrT1AUE7I |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=Pink Panther "Fuel Bill Monster" Attic Blanket ad |work=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/news/article_1295663.php/MGM_and_Owens_Corning_continue_Pink_Panther_licensing_agreement|title=MGM and Owens Corning continue Pink Panther licensing agreement|work=M&C Movie News|date=April 24, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205043929/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/news/article_1295663.php/MGM_and_Owens_Corning_continue_Pink_Panther_licensing_agreement|archive-date=December 5, 2008}}</ref>
* The character has also been used as an advertising mascot for [[Sweet'n Low]] artificial sweetener, which is housed in pink-colored packets. One television commercial for the product to promote ''[[The Pink Panther 2]]'' features [[Regis Philbin]] talking to a [[taxi cab]] driver. After the camera changes the view, the driver is revealed to be the Pink Panther.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/creative/new-campaigns/e3id7384c515bcc8fbcba53f3bdf62ea65e |title=Regis Philbin Touts Sweet 'N Low |publisher=Adweek |access-date=2013-12-13}}</ref>

=== Feature films ===
[[File:The Pink Panther (26119002600).jpg|alt=October 19th, 2020|thumb|Pink panther car 1960s]]

The Pink Panther was considered for one of the possible cameos in the 1988 film ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/who-framed-roger-rabbit-sequel-or-prequel.4591571/|title = Who Framed Roger Rabbit Sequel or Prequel}}</ref>

=== Games ===
{{see also|List of Pink Panther games}}
{{more citations needed section|date=January 2015}}
The Pink Panther is featured in multiple computer and video games:
* ''The Pink Panther'' (1983), a hand-held LCD game from [[Tiger Electronics]].<ref>[https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/PinkPanther.htm ''The Pink Panther'' LCD game] at Electronic Handheld Game Museum</ref>
* ''[[Pink Panther (video game)|Pink Panther]]'' (1988), published by [[Gremlin Graphics]] for various home computers.
* ''[[Pink Goes to Hollywood]]'' (1993) for the [[Sega Genesis|Genesis]] and [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/genesis/563335-pink-goes-to-hollywood|title=Pink Goes to Hollywood for Genesis - GameFAQs}}</ref>
* ''[[The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril]]'' (1996)
* ''[[The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink]]'' (1997)
* ''The Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit'' (2003) for PC, PlayStation and Game Boy Advance<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/games/the-pink-panther-pinkadelic-pursuit|title=The Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit (Game Boy Advance)}}</ref>
* ''Pink Panther's Epic Adventure'' (2015) for iOS and Android
* In 2004, {{nihongo|''CR Pink Panther''|CRピンクパンサー|CR pinkupansā}}, a series of four pachinko games has been released in Japan by Fuji Shogi.

=== Products ===
* In [[Spain]], a ''Pantera Rosa'' cake is sold. It is coated in pink icing.<ref name="Bimbo">[http://www.bimbo.es/productos/merienda/bimbo-pantera-rosa Official page] of the Pantera Rosa cake at the site of [[Bimbo (Spain)|Bimbo]], its maker.</ref><ref name="Viruete">[http://www.viruete.com/articulos/2004/Pantera%20Rosa.htm Nostalgic weblog post] in a Spanish-language weblog. It includes pictures.</ref>
* Pink Panther wafers are available in the United Kingdom.
* In the U.S. From 1972 to about the late 1970s, Post Cereal produced Pink Panther Flakes as a sponsorship deal with [[United Artists Corporation]]. They consisted of smaller sphere-shaped corn cereal colored bubblegum-pink.

=== Television appearances ===
==== List of animated shows ====
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:30px;"|Series number
!style="width:250px;"|Title
!style="width:100px;"|Broadcast run
!style="width:150px;"|Original channel
!style="width:175px;"|Total # episodes
!style="width:30px;"|Total # seasons
|-
|1
|''[[The Pink Panther Show]]''
|1969–1979
|[[NBC]] (1969–1978)<br>[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (1978–1979)
|Three 6-minute shorts + bumpers per half-hour
|10
|-
|2
|''[[Pink Panther and Sons]]''
|1984–1986
|NBC (1984–1985)<br>ABC (1986)
|26 episodes
|1
|-
|3
|''[[The Pink Panther (TV series)|The Pink Panther]]''
|1993–1996
|[[Broadcast syndication|Syndication]]
|60 episodes
|2
|-
|4
|''[[Pink Panther and Pals]]''
|2010
|[[Cartoon Network]]
|26 episodes
|1
|}

==== List of animated specials ====
* ''[[The Pink Panther in: A Pink Christmas]]'' (1978)
* ''[[The Pink Panther in: Olym-Pinks]]'' (1980)
* ''[[The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight]]'' (1981, [[Valentine's Day]] special)
* ''A Very Pink Christmas'' (2011)

== Charity ==
The Pink Panther is associated with a number of cancer awareness and support organizations. The Pink Panther is the mascot of the New Zealand Child Cancer foundation<ref name="CCF Mascot">[https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/news/publications/army-news/377/ccfbfrg.htm CCF Mascot] Pink Panther is the mascot of the New Zealand Child Cancer Foundation</ref> and for a line of clothing to promote breast cancer awareness.<ref name="PiNKiTUDE">[https://www.1888pressrelease.com/mgm-s-pink-panther-gets-iced-with-new-creations-from-ice-i-pr-81310.html PiNKiTUDE clothing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090820032108/http://www.1888pressrelease.com/mgm-s-pink-panther-gets-iced-with-new-creations-from-ice-i-pr-81310.html |date=2009-08-20 }} The Pink Panther is used for a breast cancer awareness clothing line</ref> California based children's cancer charity The Gary L. Hoop Foundation humorously places The Pink Panther in various locations on its website and in its advertisements, paying homage to both the cartoon and their late namesake Gary Hoop, who once carried "The Pink Panther" as a nickname.<ref name="GarysKids.org">{{Cite web |url=http://www.garyskids.org/news/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325184515/http://www.garyskids.org/news/ |archive-date=2014-03-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Critical reception ==
Animation historian [[Jerry Beck]] has called the Pink Panther "the last great Hollywood cartoon character", noting that "Classic animation pretty much died in the '60s, everyone had kind of bailed out. But his creators didn't rest on their laurels. They didn't make the cartoons to look like [[Warner Bros. Cartoons|Warner Bros.]] cartoons, or [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] cartoons, or the [[UPA (animation studio)|UPA]] look of [[Mr. Magoo|Mister Magoo]] and [[Gerald McBoing-Boing]]. They came up with their own clever new style. The only other important cartoon of the '60s was ''[[Yellow Submarine (1968 film)|Yellow Submarine]]''."<ref name="ottawaxpress.ca"/><ref name=beck/>

The Pink Panther was a notable contribution to the animation art form. Top animation directors such as [[Hawley Pratt]], [[Gerry Chiniquy]], [[Robert McKimson]], and Sid Marcus contributed to a distinctive style, supported by master story writer [[John W. Dunn (animator)|John W. Dunn]]. Produced after theatrical cartooning's golden age of the 1940s and 50s, they were constrained to the [[limited animation]] techniques applied to [[Saturday morning cartoons]] of the 1960s and after. Within these limitations, the Pink Panther made creative use of absurd and surreal themes and visual puns and an almost completely wordless pantomime style, set to the ubiquitous Pink Panther theme and its variations by Henry Mancini. The overall approach is reminiscent of the classic silent movies of [[Charlie Chaplin]] and [[Buster Keaton]].<ref name=beck/>

Cultural references were more muted and stylized, resulting in a cartoon with longer-term, more cross-cultural appeal not shared by contemporaries such as ''[[Yogi Bear]]'' and ''[[The Flintstones]]'', with their greater reliance on contemporary American pop culture. The Pink Panther also remained constrained to the classic six-minute form of theatrical shorts, while contemporaries expanded into longer, sitcom-like storylines, up to a full 30 minutes of broadcast TV in the case of ''The Flintstones''. Freleng's colleagues credit his sense of creative timing as a key element to the cartoon's artistic success. Freleng himself regarded the Pink Panther as his finest achievement and the character he most identified with, according to family and colleagues interviewed on the 2006 DVD release.

== Co-stars of ''The Pink Panther Show'' ==
=== Television ===
* ''[[Misterjaw]]'' (1976)
* ''Texas Toads'' (1976) (rebranded version of ''Tijuana Toads'', using Texan themes instead of Mexican ones)
* ''[[Crazylegs Crane]]'' (1978)
* Annie (1984)
* Chatta (1984)
* Murfel (1984)
* Panky (1984)
* [[Pink Panther and Sons|Pinky]] (1984)
* Punkin (1984)
* Rocko (1984)
* Thelma (1993)
* Horse (2010)

=== Theatrical ===
* ''[[The Inspector]]'' (1965–1969)
* ''[[Roland and Rattfink]]'' (1968–1971)
* ''[[The Ant and the Aardvark]]'' (1969–1971)
* ''[[Tijuana Toads]]'' (1969–1972)
* ''[[The Blue Racer]]'' (1972–1974)
* ''[[Hoot Kloot]]'' (1973–1974)
* ''[[The Dogfather]]'' (1974–1976)

== See also ==
* [[List of The Pink Panther cartoons|List of ''The Pink Panther'' cartoons]]

== References ==
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