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unusual facts about Pink Panther



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Golders Green is a community in London, England, probably most known for the Golders Green Crematorium which is the final resting place for many famous Brits including The Who drummer Keith Moon, famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and comedic actor Peter Sellers, star of the 1960s Pink Panther movies.

Alf Bigden

Amongst other credits, Bigden played the drums on many of the James Bond scores, with Henry Mancini for the Pink Panther movies, as well as Oliver!, The Dam Busters and The Dirty Dozen.

Georg Thomalla

However, Thomalla was mostly known in Germany as a voice-over artist, dubbing particularly comedians, such as Peter Sellers as Inspector Closeau in the Pink Panther movies, and he also was the standard German dubbing voice of Jack Lemmon from 1955 up until 1998.

Manny Gould

In 1964, Gould was animating on the Linus The Lionhearted television cartoons for Ed Graham Productions, then the following year began working as an animator at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises on the Pink Panther and Tijuana Toads shorts and several series for television.


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The song "Wish" from The Original Sin was an inspiration for the song "You Ain't Got Me" by French cyberpunk band Punish Yourself as stated on the sleeve notes of their Pink Panther Party album.

Owens Corning

The company was referred to several times in the Family Guy episode "The Former Life of Brian" when the Pink Panther dies from his body being one-third Owens-Corning Fiberglass Insulation.

Pink DaVinci

The Pink Panther is strolling the streets of Italy when he spots Leonardo da Vinci painting what appears to be his newest masterpiece, the Mona Lisa.

Pink Pajamas

Having never seen the Pink Panther before, the homeowner is convinced that he is hallucinating, and phones Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).

Pink Piper

The Pink Panther is a traveling Pied Piper of Hamelin who encounters an old English village home besieged by pesky rodents.

Pinknic

The plot of the cartoon, which involves a mouse wanting to eat the Pink Panther for dinner, was recycled from Friz Freleng's 1953 cartoon Snow Business.

Swell Foop

The title is taken from a spoonerism for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," first spoken by the tongue-twisted Peter Sellers character in the 1964 movie The Pink Panther.

The Pink Phink

In the 2009 series Pink Panther and Pals, a scene from "A Pinker Tomorrow" in which the Pink Panther tricks the Little Man (Big Nose) to cover the outside of the house in paint, is homage to the original short.

The Return of the Pink Panther

Richard Williams, the creator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Thief and the Cobbler, and Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, did the animated open and close titles for this picture and The Pink Panther Strikes Again, due to DePatie-Freleng's work on the Pink Panther shorts and other cartoon projects for TV and film.