Pink on the Cob

The Pink Panther
Episode 61

Air date	May 29, 1969
Written by	Jack Miller
Directed by	Hawley Pratt
Music score	Walter Greene
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Pink on the Cob is the 61st Episode in the Series Blake Edwards' Pink Panther

Story[]

Corn farmer Pinky goes to war with a pair of crows stealing his corn.

Plot[]

The episode opens with Pink opening a corn stand, when he goes to collect some corncobs, he notices several eaten cobs, upon checking the cornfield, he finds out that two crows are eating his corn. Pink shoos the crows away and puts a scarecrow near the cornfield before going back to his stand.

After collecting some cobs, Pink awaits for costumers, meanwhile, the crows fly to the scarecrow and steal its hat and shirt, disguising themselves as a person, they then walk to Pink's stand and ask him for a cob, the upper crow eats some cobs and the lower places several ones on the shirt's pockets. Pink, finding out about this, pills out a shotgun and tries to shoot at the crows, who then try to flee but fail, and Pink drives them away with a couple of gunshots.

Later, Pink elaborates a simple trap, that being a box with a stick, and puts two cobs as bait. The crows come and, upon seeing the cobs, they run to them and apparently fall into the trap. Pink goes to check, but suddenly hears hammering inside the box, surprised by this, he lifts the box, and finds out that the crows have somehow built a car, and he gets run over by them.

Sometime later, Pink paints some action-delayed grenades yellow, making them look like corncobs, he places the grenades around the cornfield and goes back to the stand as the crows, hiding on a hay bale approach to the cornfield, they take the grenades, mistaking them for corncobs, and run away, but the grenades explode on them, blowing their cover and even some of their plummage.

Pink later uses a war weapon near the cornfield, with the crows setting a base on a mountain, one of them orders the other to get the cobs from the cornfield, and the other complies, the crow then flies to the cornfield and gets several corncobs even avoiding Pink's shots from the weapon. As a result, Pink gets some cement and bricks, and builds a brick wall on the cornfield. The crow flies back down to the cornfield to get more cobs, but crashes with the wall and some of the bricks fall on the crow.

Later, Pink is back at the stand, and notices the crows, now severely injured because of the battle, leaving the cornfield. Feeling that he took extreme measures of protecting the cornfield which resulted on the crows ending up very crippled, Pink feels remorseful of his actions and takes the crows back to the cornfield and lets them eat the corn. One of the crows calls a huge flock of crows and all of them fly to the cornfield and eat all of it, even the scarecrow, as a result. Pink closes the stand by putting an "Out of Business" sign and leaves.

Characters[]

Pink Panther
Crows

Credits[]

The Pink Panther Theme by: Henry Mancini
Director: Hawley Pratt
Story: Jack Miller
Music Score: Walter Greene
Animation: Don Towsley, Manny Perez, Don Williams, Manny Gould
Layout: Dick Ung
Background: Tom O'Loughlin
Film Editor: Lee Gunther
Camera: John Burton, Jr.
Production Supervisor: Jim Foss
Coordinator: Harry Love
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Color by Deluxe
Produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng

Notes[]

The title is play on the phrase "Corn on the Cob".
This cartoon inspired parts of some of the Coloring Books from Western Publishing.
This cartoon also inspired the Tiger Electronics - The Pink Panther - LCD Handheld Game.

Availability[]

Streaming[]

Pink on the Cob is available on the Official Pink Panther YouTube channel.
Vudu - Pink Panther Show: Season 2

DVD/Blu Ray[]

VHS[]

VHS - Pink Panther - Pink Bananas

Gallery[]

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