Wednesday, December 29, 2010

 I like pink panther...



 Cartoon shorts featuring the Pink Panther and the
Inspector. There were three cartoon shorts with
additional black-out gag vignettes between the first
and second and between the second and third cartoons.
The Pink Panther is almost always mute. Some newly
animated between-cartoon vignettes had the panther
and the Inspector together. In one memorable one,
the Pink Panther plays badminton with the
Inspector and Sergeant Deux-Deux.

 In September, 1971, The Pink Panther Show becameThe Pink Panther Meets the Ant and the Aardvark,a new NBC Saturday morning series. The Inspectordisappeared, and the characters of the secondcartoon in every episode were an easy-going ant named Charlie, and a hungry aardvark (with a snoutthat operates like the hose of a vacuum cleaner),who wants to eat the Ant. Comedian John Byner,imitatedconsummate American singer-entertainerDean Martin for the voice of the Ant and provided distinct inflections of rabbi-turned-comic JackieMason for the plaintive but resolute words of the Aardvark.
In September, 1976, NBC expanded its Pink Panther
Show to 90 minutes, and cartoons with the panther,
the Inspector, and the Ant and the Aardvark were
joined by cartoon shorts starring new DePatie-Freleng
animation stars, Fatso and Banjo- the Texas Toads,
a pair of intellectually-challenged, Rio Grande-region
amphibians always in search of flies and fun, and
black-suited Misterjaw, a self-important,
scheming shark voiced by Arte Johnson.

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