Pink Panzer

The Pink Panther
Episode 11

Air date	September 15, 1965
Written by	David "Dave" Detiege
Directed by	Hawley Pratt
Music score	William Lava
Episode Guide
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Pink Panzer is the eleventh animated short starring the Pink Panther.

Characters[]

The Pink Panther
Harry
The Narrator/The Devil

Synopsis[]

An offscreen narrator (later revealed to be the Devil) pits the Pink Panther and his neighbor Harry against each other over unreturned garden tools.

Plot[]

The episode begins with the Pink Panther resting outdoors on a sunbed with a book. His neighbor Harry is mowing the lawn nearby and he greets the Panther, stating that the morning is beautiful. The protagonist agrees with Harry and returns to his rest.

The narrator asks the Pink Panther, how does he feel and how long was it, when Harry has been keeping the lawnmower, which starts tempting him to rise against his neighbor, reminding about the lawnmower borrowed from the Pink Panther last summer. The narrator also tempts Harry about the borrowed lawnmower, claiming that the Pink Panther is about to take it back, thus Harry should protect the tool he obtained. When the Pink Panther comes to Harry's house for his lawnmower, his neighbor grabs the Pink Panther, yells about the lawnmower, throws him outside his house and pushes the tool on Pink Panther's back and breaks it, while saying that he is giving back the borrowed lawnmower.

The conflict between the Pink Panther and Harry escalates when the narrator reminds the Pink Panther about the hedge cutters Harry also borrowed from him. Harry is not willing to give them back, as he did look after them as if those were his own tools, especially since he did sharpen them. Harry decides to set a trap for his Panther neighbor, who comes again for his hedge cutters, which are hanging on Harry's shed wall, connected with a string to a box that turns out to be Harry's hideout. The neighbor pops out from the box, armed with a gun pointed at the Pink Panther, who flees.

Shortly afterward, the Narrator asks the Pink Panther, how does he feel about Harry's tree growing at the border between their real estates, especially since the leaves are falling on Pink Panther's lawn. The Narrator suggests the Pink Panther cutting the branches above his lawn. Once the leaves are removed, the Pink Panther witnesses Harry sawing off the part of the Pink Panther's house which was built on Harry's ground.

Having experienced the aggression from his neighbor, the Pink Panther decides to build a brick wall after the Narrator's suggestion, hoping it would prevent Harry from his aggressive conduct. The plan works opposite than it was supposed to, as Harry becomes more aggressive when he sees the wall being built. Once he is done with watering his flowers, Harry wears a steel helmet and approaches the wall with a towed cannon he is pushing. The Pink Panther witnesses Harry preparing ammunition for his cannon and the Narrator suggests him bringing his own artillery. Harry's preparations are disturbed when Pink Panther drives a huge self-propelled gun close to the wall, with the barrel pointing at Harry.

Being forced to retreat, Harry takes the Narrator's advice that he will not win the war with the first shot without armored support and calls for an entire M48 armored division from the army, which results in a platoon of tanks appearing. The Pink Panther does the same and the conflict escalates into a neighbor war. The first shots are fired by the Pink Panther, who has trouble handling a machinegun's recoil. Harry responds with fire, so does the artillery battery nearby.

At the end of the episode, a devil appears, enjoying the war between the Pink Panther and Harry. He states, that handing over the lawnmower would have been a good idea, then he laughs sinisterly as the episode ends.

Credits[]

Directed by Hawley Pratt
Written by David Detiege
Produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng
Music by William Lava
Animation by Norm McCabe, Laverne Harding, Don Williams
Backgrounds by George de Lado
Voices by Paul Frees

Notes[]

This is one of the few military-themed Pink Panther episodes, along with G.I. Pink.
During the neighbor war escalating, the Pink Panther and Harry seem wearing US Army M1 steel helmets, the pattern used between 1942 and 1985.
This episode includes real-life footage of tanks shooting - those are M48 tanks and M107 self-propelled guns, staple US Army vehicles in the 1950s and 1960s.
The tank from the episode title card looks like it was modeled after the M6 heavy tank, according to its threads and the turret shape.

Gallery[]

Video[]

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
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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
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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
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