Think Before You Pink

The Pink Panther
Episode 58

Air date	March 19, 1969
Written by	Sid Marcus
Directed by	Germain Adolph "Gerry" Chiniquy
Music score	Walter Greene
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Think Before You Pink is the 58th Episode in The Series.

Synopsis[]

The Pink Panther is having trouble crossing an avenue. He then tries various methods to accomplish this task.

Plot[]

The Pink Panther is standing in the sidewalk waiting the traffic light to change. When the traffic light reads "Walk", he start crossing, but he walks too slow and the traffic starts to flow again, forcing him to return to the sidewalk. He tries again, but this time the traffic light reads "Halt", making him to stop walking in the middle of the avenue causing him to be hit by a car.

In the third attempt, there is no traffic on the avenue, but whenever he steps outside the sidewalk the traffic starts flowing. He goes to a store called "Senior Miss Wearing Apparel" and disguise himself as an old lady. He starts crossing again, but a motorcycle stops on his skirt reveling his identity, forcing him to return to the sidewalk.

He goes to a costume store and gets a "Super Eagle flying suit". From the top of a building, he tries to soar to the other side, but hits a billboard.

In another attempt to cross the avenue he goes to the National Pedestrian Club where he is taught how to cross a street by the Little Man.

The plan A is to make a pole vault across the street. He fails by falling inside an open manhole.

The plan B is to use a firework rocket to cross the street, but it explodes instead .

The next plan is to ride a horse wearing an armor, a sword and a shield. He and the horse start to cross, but the traffic lights reads "Retreat", making the horse to return to the sidewalk and causing the Pink Panther to be hit by a car (again!).

The plan C (which should be called "plan D") is to use the power lines as a tightrope. He starts crossing using an umbrella to get equilibrium, but throws it away when he gains confidence. He then starts playing around in the power line, steps on a stripped wire an get electrocuted.

The plan D (which should be called "plan E") is to use a cannon to get to the other side. It is said to never fail, but what happens is the opposite, exploding with the Pink Panther inside it.

He tries another strategy. From a window at top of an building called Hightower Hotel he starts to build a bridge with wood planks. The bridge starts to lean and the fixed part on the window sill came lose, making him fall.

The last plan is to disguise himself as a mother cat with her kittens. It actually works and he mocks the traffic about his success. But his joy doesn't last too much as a grand piano falls on his head.

Characters[]

Crew[]

Director: Germain Adolph "Gerry" Chiniquy
Story by Sid Marcus
Producers: David H. DePatie & Friz Freleng
Music Score (Additional): Walter Greene
Animators: Warren Batchelder, Manuel Perez, Manny Gould, Herman Cohen, Don Williams
Layout: Jack Miller
Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin
Film Editor: Lee Gunther
Camera Operator: John Burton, Jr.
Production Supervisor: Jim Foss
Production Coordinator: Harry Love

Trivia[]

This is the only Pink Panther cartoon whose opening credits have separate lines for David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng (with "Cats and Bruises" being the Warner Brothers equivalent).

Videos[]

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