Pinto Pink

The Pink Panther
Episode 32

Air date	July 19, 1967
Written by	John W. Dunn
Directed by	Hawley Pratt
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Pinto Pink is a 1967 episode of The Pink Panther series of theatrical shorts, released July 19, 1967.

Plot[]

The Pink Panther is stuck in the middle of the hot desert and seems to be trying to head to Anaheim, suitcase in hand. Upon seeing the road sign showing that Anaheim is 1250 miles away, he tries to hitch a ride, but the cars keep going by, then he tries to flag down a car by pulling up his pink "sock" showing his pink-and-white-striped leg, but the car runs over it, causing him to yell in pain.Across the road, a dumb looking white horse starts wildly laughing at him showing his horse teeth, his front legs perched on the fence. Suddenly the pink panther has an idea, he can ride the horse to Anaheim (shown in a thought bubble). Crossing over to the horse's field, he tries to pet the horse, but the horse steps on his foot, as he tries to pull his foot away from the horse, he pulls his foot out of his pink sock (showing again his pink and white striped leg and foot) and yells in pain, for this he kicks the horse's rear. The horse does not seem impressed and promptly kicks the pink panther backwards (while not moving the rest of his body) sending the pink panther flying into the side of a wooden barn, rotating a few times on a wooden plank. This again causes the horse to laugh madly.Pink has the idea of getting onto the horse using a ladder, he leans the ladder up against the horses rear and starts to climb. The horse appears annoyed and promptly kicks the ladder up into the air. Amazingly, Pink only realizes this has happened when he approaches the top of the ladder and sees to his horror that he is about 1000 ft above ground.We see a birds eye view of the horse in his field by the barn getting smaller as the ladder gets higher. Pink rushes to climb down the ladder as it starts to fall again. Amazingly the ladder sticks in the ground vertically as it hits ground level, and the panther simply steps off and walks away.Pink then emerges from the barn carrying a saddle which he attempts to put on the horse who has an evil grin on his face. As Pink tries to lift the saddle onto the horse, the horse takes a few steps away. Pink sides up to him and tries again at which point the horse then tears off to the top of a hill - we see him as a silhouette on top of the hill and hear him with his manic horse-type-laugh.We next see the horse eating from a trough stood under a tree. Pink is in the tree and lowers the saddle onto the horse, he then drops himself into the saddle. For a moment, the horse looks like he wonders what on earth is going on, then he turns and sees the panther and his facial expression changes from one of confusion to one of anger. Pink kicks his legs as if to tell the horse to giddy up, the horse suddenly flies into a spin fight with Pink and emerges with the panther on all fours, saddle on his back, with the horse sat in the saddle. Pink crouches there in disbelief as the horse lets out another of his manic horse laughs.Pink attempts to get on the horse, but fails. He puts roller skates on the horse, and gets on, but the horse roars down the hill, fast, and the horse and the Pink Panther end up landing on a train track, and the train chases them, in the end,Pink ends up crashing into a "STOP" sign sending him flying into the Anaheim sign. Shortly after, we see Pink covered in bandages, the Anaheim sign "repaired" with rope, and again he is trying to hitch a ride. A van comes zooming past Pink, not stopping to offer him a ride, with the horse in the back laughing in the same hysterical manner at the poor old panther

Notes[]

The episode has a laugh track which was generated by Walter Greene and Henry Mancini.
This cartoon is available on the Official Pink Panther YouTube channel.
DePatie–Freleng remade this cartoon as a Daffy Duck short, Daffy Flies North - from the 1980 Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement TV special. (watchable on the Boomerang streaming service.)

Availability[]

Pinto Pink is available on the Official Pink Panther YouTube channel.
Pinto Pink is in the fifth episode of season 1 of The Pink Panther Show on Amazon Prime and Vudu.
Pinto Pink is available on the DVD The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, Vol. 1: Pranks in the Pink as well as the 5-DVD and 9-DVD collections.
Pinto Pink is available in the Pink Panther vol. 1 Blu Ray set.

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

Pinto Pink

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