Bully for Pink

The Pink Panther
Episode 14

Air date	December 14, 1965
Written by	John W. Dunn
Directed by	Hawley Pratt
Music score	William Lava
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Bully for Pink is the fourteen animated short starring the Pink Panther.

Synopsis[]

After fantasising about performing as a torero, Pink Panther borrows a red cape from a magician so he can perform at the local bullring. However, the red cape has a few magic abilities that Pink Panther and the Bull weren't expecting.

Plot[]

Pink Panther wants to become a toreador, but a swarm of moths eat his cloak. Then when he gives up, he sees Marvelo the Magician. Panther borrows Marvelo's cloak, and has trouble with an outsmarting bull, and a crabby magic rabbit inside the cape. The panther splits him in two. When the bull runs in the cape, the rabbit leaves the cape, and the bull gets his behind back. Then the swarm of moths return, and eat Pink Panther's cape one more time , making it spell "THE END

Characters[]

Pink Panther (Character)
Bull
Marvelo the Magician
Rabbit

Credits[]

DIRECTOR: Hawley Pratt

STORY: John W. Dunn

PRODUCERS: David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng

ANIMATION: Warren Batchelder, Norman McCabe, Don Williams

LAYOUT: Dick Ung

BACKGROUNDS: Tom O'Loughlin

FILM EDITOR: Lee Gunther

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: Bill Orcutt

MUSIC: William Lava

Trivia[]

A different rendition of "The Pink Panther Theme" is featured during the opening and closing theatrical credits. The intro music starts quiet but then gets loud, but after that the theme gets normal onwards in other episodes.
Remade in 1979 as Toro Pink.
The Little Man doesn't appear.
The bull sounds like an elephant.
This short was made at a time that all things Latin were popular: Man of La Mancha, Herb Alpert, Yago Sant'gria, and the newly rediscovered avocado.
Among the names displayed are Tecate (a popular Mexican beer) and Calexi & Co., a play on the border town of Calexico.
William Lava did a great job on the soundtrack, which was full of Latin-inspired music as well as Pink Panther's familiar theme song.
The opening credits show a very Man of la Mancha-esque silhouette of a bull and a matador.

Goofs[]

Pink’s eyes turn white when closing the gate lever, then they turn back to yellow.

Videos[]

The_Pink_Panther_in_"Bully_for_Pink" — The Pink Panther in "Bully for Pink"

Blake Edwards' Pink Panther
1964 Shorts The Pink Phink ⦿ Pink Pajamas
1965 Shorts We Give Pink Stamps ⦿ Dial "P" for Pink ⦿ Sink Pink ⦿ Pickled Pink ⦿ Pinkfinger ⦿ Shocking Pink ⦿ Pink Ice ⦿ The Pink Tail Fly ⦿ Pink Panzer ⦿ An Ounce of Pink ⦿ Reel Pink ⦿ Bully for Pink
1966 Shorts "Pink Punch ⦿ Pink Pistons ⦿ Vitamin Pink ⦿ The Pink Blueprint ⦿ Pink, Plunk, Plink ⦿ Smile Pretty, Say Pink ⦿ Pink-A-Boo ⦿ Genie with the Light Pink Fur ⦿ Super Pink ⦿ Rock A Bye Pinky
1967 Shorts Pinknic ⦿ Pink Panic ⦿ Pink Posies ⦿ Pink of the Litter ⦿ In the Pink ⦿ Jet Pink ⦿ Pink Paradise ⦿ Pinto Pink ⦿ Congratulations It's Pink ⦿ Prefabricated Pink ⦿ The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye ⦿ Pink Outs
1968 Shorts Sky Blue Pink ⦿ Pinkadilly Circus ⦿ Psychedelic Pink ⦿ Come On In! The Water's Pink ⦿ Put-Put, Pink ⦿ G.I. Pink ⦿ Lucky Pink ⦿ The Pink Quarterback ⦿ Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pink ⦿ Pink Valiant ⦿ The Pink Pill ⦿ Prehistoric Pink ⦿ Pink in the Clink ⦿ Little Beaux Pink ⦿ Tickled Pink ⦿ Pink Sphinx ⦿ Pink Is a Many Splintered Thing ⦿ The Pink Package Plot ⦿ Pinkcome Tax
1969 Shorts Pink-A-Rella ⦿ Pink Pest Control ⦿ Think Before You Pink ⦿ Slink Pink ⦿ In the Pink of the Night ⦿ Pink on the Cob ⦿ Extinct Pink
1971 Shorts A Fly in the Pink ⦿ Pink Blue Plate ⦿ Pink Tuba-Dore ⦿ Pink Pranks ⦿ The Pink Flea ⦿ Psst Pink ⦿ Gong with the Pink ⦿ Pink-In ⦿ Pink 8 Ball
1974 Shorts Pink Aye ⦿ Trail of the Lonesome Pink
1975 Shorts Pink DaVinci ⦿ Pink Streaker ⦿ Salmon Pink ⦿ Forty Pink Winks ⦿ Pink Plasma ⦿ Pink Elephant ⦿ Keep Our Forests Pink ⦿ Bobolink Pink ⦿ It's Pink, But Is It Mink? ⦿ Pink Campaign ⦿ The Scarlet Pinkernel
1976 Shorts Mystic Pink ⦿ The Pink of Arabee ⦿ The Pink Pro ⦿ Pink Piper ⦿ Pinky Doodle ⦿ Sherlock Pink ⦿ Rocky Pink
1977 Shorts Therapeutic Pink
1978 Shorts Pink Pictures ⦿ Pink Arcade ⦿ Pink Lemonade ⦿ Pink Trumpet ⦿ Sprinkle Me Pink ⦿ Dietetic Pink ⦿ Pink U.F.O. ⦿ Pink Lightning ⦿ Cat and the Pinkstalk ⦿ Pink Daddy ⦿ Pink S.W.A.T. ⦿ Pink and Shovel ⦿ Pinkologist ⦿ Yankee Doodle Pink ⦿ Pink Press ⦿ Pet Pink Pebbles ⦿ The Pink of Bagdad ⦿ Pink in the Drink ⦿ Pink Bananas ⦿ Pinktails for Two ⦿ Pink Z-Z-Z ⦿ Star Pink A Pink Christmas
1979 Shorts Pink Breakfast ⦿ Pink Quackers ⦿ Toro Pink ⦿ String Along in Pink ⦿ Pink in the Woods ⦿ Pink Pull ⦿ Spark Plug Pink ⦿ Doctor Pink ⦿ Pink Suds
1980 Shorts Supermarket Pink Olym-Pinks
1981 Shorts Pink at First Sight
1995 Shorts Driving Mr. Pink