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A comedy film franchise that spun off 2 animated ones. In its original form, information technology totaled ix films over 30 years. The offset of them were directed and co-written by Blake Edwards and starred Peter Sellers. Henry Mancini composed the soundtracks, including an iconic main theme.

The Films:

• The Pink Panther (1963): Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven) is a Gentleman Thief who operates nether the identity of "The Phantom". Inspector Jacques Clouseau is a French detective who is trying to track him down in Switzerland before he tin can steal the prized treasure of the kingdom of Lugash, the Pink Panther diamond (a large jewel then named because of a pinkish, panther-shaped flaw), from a visiting princess. Alas, Clouseau is such a fool that he is easily outsmarted past way of the combined forces of the Phantom, his nephew, the princess herself, and the Phantom's key accomplice...Clouseau'due south own wife. While the thieves were the focus of this film, Clouseau, as played by Peter Sellers, was the character the subsequent films were based around, starting with...
• A Shot in the Dark (1964): Clouseau, now unmarried, is called to the aristocratic Ballon household to solve a murder. His judgment is immediately clouded by his infatuation with the prime suspect, Maria Gambrelli, fifty-fifty as more than murders pile upwards around her. His bungling drives his boss, Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), to homicidal madness. In the concurrently, we also encounter Cato Fong (Burt Kwouk), Clouseau's Chinese manservant who - on Clouseau's orders - keeps springing surprise martial arts attacks on him.
• Inspector Clouseau (1968): Sellers and Edwards opted out of this installment in which Clouseau, at present played by Alan Arkin, investigates a bank robbery in England, leading to him having to cease a gang and uncover The Mole in Scotland Yard. Lacking any other recurring characters, this one is generally disregarded.
• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975): The Pink Panther is stolen from a Lugash museum, and Clouseau is chosen upon to seek information technology out once more. The testify suggests the Phantom is responsible, but in fact Sir Charles Lytton has been framed. The picture follows the parallel plots of Clouseau abaft Lytton's wife to Switzerland and Lytton's journeying to Lugash to attempt and notice out who actually did information technology. Dreyfus' attempts to kill Clouseau lands him in an institution at the end, leading directly into...
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976): Three years after (though the flick was only made one year after), Dreyfus is seemingly cured, but having to encounter up with Clouseau before he can exist released, the therapy is undone. Dreyfus escapes and organizes a criminal gang that kidnaps an inventor and his daughter. Forcing the former to build a Disintegrator Ray, Dreyfus threatens to unleash it on the world unless Clouseau is killed, and many countries immediately send assassins subsequently Clouseau equally he sets out to end Dreyfus himself.
• Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978): Clouseau is now and so famous that the head of the French mob, to evidence his mettle to the American Mafia, puts out a hit on him - 3 really, as Clouseau'due south luck saves him from death each time. The thing is, the tertiary fourth dimension appears to have been the charm to anybody else, leaving Clouseau to get undercover with Cato to figure out who wanted him dead. Oh, and Dreyfus is "cured" by the news of Clouseau'southward death, and fix free again.
• Romance of the Pinkish Panther: Never made because Sellers Died During Product. Peter Sellers, who bought out the rights to the character later having a falling-out with Blake Edwards, wrote a script in which Clouseau falls in dearest with the Swish Cat-Burglar he is chasing. Eight days after Sellers delivered the script to United Artists in 1980, he died. Nowadays one can find said script floating around the internet.

Subsequently Peter Sellers' untimely decease, Blake Edwards decided to continue the serial with new atomic number 82 characters.

• Trail of the Pink Panther (1982): Using mostly deleted scenes from Strikes Over again and new footage with other regulars, Clouseau once again is called to Lugash to seek the stolen Pink Panther. When his plane vanishes, Television reporter Marie Jouvet (Joanna Lumley) decides to investigate his disappearance past interviewing those who knew him well, turning the second half of the film into a Prune Show. The motion-picture show was shot alongside...
• Curse of the Pink Panther (1983): 1 year after Clouseau'southward disappearance, Dreyfus sabotages the search for a peachy detective to seek him out. Instead, the globe's worst detective, Clifton Sleigh of New York Metropolis (Ted Wass), is put on the case. The audience learns the ultimate fate of Clouseau and the diamond, merely Sleigh...non so much.
• Son of the Pink Panther (1993): X years later on the previous film's events, a Revision of what happened in A Shot in the Dark reveals Clouseau sired a son, Jacques Gambrelli (Roberto Benigni). 1 mean solar day on his vanquish in the south of France, his path accidentally crosses with those of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin of Lugash and Dreyfus all at once. And then Dreyfus realizes, given the father'southward track record, that it might not be such a bad idea to have this junior Clouseau track her down. This had the misfortune of being the final moving-picture show of both Henry Mancini and Blake Edwards.

In 2006, the franchise was rebooted under the original championship The Pink Panther, with Steve Martin as Clouseau and Jean Reno as a new sidekick, Ponton. Aside from Clouseau, Dreyfus was the only graphic symbol carried over from the original films (played past Kevin Kline in the first, and John Cleese in the 2nd). This managed to yield ane sequel in 2009. Despite their almost completely negative disquisitional reception, the 2006 film was a sleeper striking, with over $80 one thousand thousand domestic, but the sequel was less fortunate, ending the Steve Martin run.

The Animated Characters:

• The kickoff film had animated credits, produced by De Patie Freleng Enterprises, that featured a "literal" representation of the flaw in the eponymous diamond. This proved and so popular with audiences that non simply would all the subsequent films (including the reboot) accept blithe credits, the character — an anthropomorphic mute — was spun off into a series of animated shorts the following year, and warrants its own folio.
• Considering A Shot in the Dark did not involve the diamond itself, the Panther didn't feature in the credits (from Strikes Once again onwards, he does even if the diamond isn't involved) simply a caricature of Clouseau did. This went over well enough that a shorter-lived series of shorts focusing on "The Inspector" (voiced by Pat Harrington) and his sidekick Deux-Deux (a gendarme) was made in the mid-1960s. The Clouseau blithe graphic symbol, re-designed to more closely resemble Peter Sellers, appeared in the credits for all the subsequent films from Render through Trail, always futilely pursuing the Panther. The Replacement Scrappy characters got their own animated equivalents for Curse and Son, and a Martin-styled Clouseau effigy appears in the reboot.

Now has a character canvas; at that place are loads and loads of them, and then feel free to aid it grow.

The series also inspired a fan-made feature motion picture known as Shadow of the Pink Panther .

In 2020, some other reboot was announced to be in production by MGM, this time existence a alive action/CGI hybrid focused on the Pink Panther grapheme. The flick is currently poised to be directed by Jeff Fowler of Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) fame and to be produced past not but moving picture series creator Walter Mirisch but too Julie Andrews, the widow of Blake Edwards.

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The films feature examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Inspector Clouseau has the title character drawing the allure of the heart-aged extremely Scottish married woman of Superintendent Weaver, much to Arkin'south dismay. In the plane ride habitation, she reveals herself to Clouseau as the widow of Weaver (due to Mr. Weaver being clubbed to death) and at first Clouseau thinks she wants revenge... only to pull out some lingerie and say it's for their first night alone in Paris. Cue Clouseau bailing out of the plane with a parachute!
• All Asians Clothing Conical Straw Hats: When Clouseau goes to Hong Kong in the third human activity of Revenge, he initially wears a stereotypical "Chinaman" disguise, conical harbinger hat and all.
• Amusing Injuries: Dreyfus in particular is prone to these.
• Blithe Credits Opening: A serial tradition. De Patie Freleng Enterprises (later Marvel Productions, Ltd.) produced them for most of the films, although Richard Williams' studio did the honors for Render and Strikes Again. Kurtz and Friends produced the title sequence for the 2006 remake - and information technology's a great one!
• Animation Crash-land: Richard Williams' Return and Strikes Again title sequences are a spectacular example of this trope, with both sequences showcasing far smoother and fluid animation compared to the other sequences.
• The Anticipator: Parodied when the late Peter Sellers plays Inspector Clouseau. Clouseau has directed his manservant Cato to assail him at random to sharpen his defensive skills. Though he knows Cato has The Determinator perseverance, but inconceivably foolish counters and stupefying luck have thwarted all of Cato'south attempts.
  • This running gag is reversed in the reboots, in them Clouseau is the one trying to attack his partner and Ponton is the one anticipating and effortlessly fending them off, though in his case it's simply because Ponton actually knows how to defend himself.
• Anti-Hero: Clouseau. Also Dreyfus in A Shot in the Night until his Face–Heel Turn, and again in the last 4 original-season films later two movies of straightforward villainy. He's strictly this in the reboot.
• Artifact Title: Strikes Once more, Revenge, and Son don't involve the Pink Panther diamond at all, merely they had to piece of work in the animated character somehow...
• The Bad Guy Wins: In Curse we accept a instance of "The Bad Girls Win," as Chandra turns Clouseau to the nighttime side and gets him to get her consort, and and so Lady Litton (Clouseau's ex-wife) steals the Pinkish Panther diamond, and this fourth dimension the Littons apparently hang on to it permanently.
• Beta Couple: Maria Gambrelli and Charles Dreyfus in Son.
• Big Bad
  • Dreyfus in The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once again, while serving as a secondary villain in A Shot In The Nighttime and Return Of The Pink Panther and an antihero in his half dozen other appearances.
  • The French Connection in a three-film story arc, Revenge, Trail and Curse. Douvier is their boss in Revenge while Bruno Langlois is their boss in Trail and Curse.
• Blackness Comedy: Most of A Shot in the Dark and The Pink Panther Strikes Over again, owing to unusually high torso counts. (Son of has that too, owing to the nature of the villains and the climactic siege, just that'southward typical activity movie background provender.)
• Breakout Graphic symbol: Clouseau might be moving-picture show's well-nigh successful example, or at least a close 2d to Captain Jack Sparrow. The Pink Panther animated character counts as well.
• Brick Joke: In the opening title sequence for the original 1963 motion picture, the Pinkish Panther cartoon character walks up and prepares to comport an invisible orchestra, merely to be pulled off phase past a Vaudeville Claw. In the 2006 reboot he returns and manages to conduct the actual paper notes.
• Butt-Monkey: Several characters, just Dreyfus is the poster boy of the franchise, even when he becomes a Big Bad in Strikes Over again.
• The Cameo: Several over the original series, either unbilled or nether a pseudonym.
  • In Curse Roger Moore, billed as "Turk Thrust II", plays the postal service-Magic Plastic Surgery Clouseau.
  • In Son, Nicoletta Braschi, Roberto Benigni'due south wife and frequent costar turns up at the end every bit Jacques's twin sister.
• Can't Go in Trouble for Nuthin'
• Celebrity Paradox: It's never outright stated — but obvious to the audition — in Expletive that the reason Clifton Sleigh doesn't realize that Clouseau had Magic Plastic Surgery is because he at present looks, and is played past, Roger Moore, and Moore and the James Bail movies exist in this universe.
• Character Outlives Player: Trail of the Pink Panther was made later the death of Peter Sellers. Rather than having the character of Inspector Clouseau die in the picture, he is instead shown to be alive and well on a deserted island subsequently surviving a plane crash; the subsequent motion-picture show Curse of... reveals he got Magic Plastic Surgery to look like Roger Moore, and did a Face up–Heel Turn to settle downwardly with a gem thief countess.
• Swish Cat-Infiltrator: Claudine in Return and Simone in Expletive. The unmade Romance of the Pink Panther had ane of these as the film's antagonist, and would have ended with Clouseau making a Face up–Heel Turn out of dear for her.
• Clueless Detective: Clouseau might exist the all-time-known example.
• Colour Character
• The Comically Serious: George Sanders as Benjamin Ballon, though footage of him (and about of the other actors who worked with Sellers) corpsing has surfaced.
• Continuity Snarl: Chief Inspector Dreyfus himself is the simply, merely big one in the whole series, which otherwise seems pretty consistent with itself. Starting from the ending of the second picture, Dreyfus e'er somewhen turns mad, tries to murder Clouseau and is e'er taken to an insane Asylum… The movie following the start time this happened included the idea that he was supposedly cured (though coming together Clouseau once again makes him turn mad again), and afterward released; however, at the terminate of this movie, he gets killed off. In the adjacent, he's back at the insane asylum for no particular reason, and once again thought cured, and once over again released. And it'south non that the previous movie is not catechism to the others — at that place are references to it fabricated in later movies. In the side by side movies, he's just back as primary inspector with no explanation at all. Manifestly, nobody remembers that 1° he was previously disintegrated and two° he had destroyed the U.Due north. building and sabotaged a satellite earlier that.
• Absurd and Unusual Punishment: In Strikes Again, the method Dreyfus uses to torture the professor'due south daughter is by scratching a chalkboard while wearing meat-packer'southward gloves.
• Da Master: Principal Inspector Charles Dreyfus is a comedic example. From Strikes Again onward, Clouseau himself takes over this position (though being Da Chief, he is more than gentle to his fellow policemen) and Dreyfus resents this when he finds out.
• Dating Catwoman: Provides the premise of the unmade Romance of the Pink Panther. The Russian Spy in Strikes Over again counts as well.
• Depth Charade: A faked alien invasion in an episode of the animated series.
• Early on Installment Weirdness: In A Shot in the Dark, Cato only wears his signature black outfit the first time we see him, and has a bunch of other outfits he wears throughout the film. In all the films that follow he sticks to his blackness outfit, outside of the odd disguise in Revenge.
  • The Pink Panther is an even bigger instance. Let'south see: No Main Dreyfus, no Cato. Clouseau isn't the principal focus, with David Niven actualization in far more scenes! It'southward also the longest Pinkish Panther film, clocking in at virtually two hours. And while at that place is still a little slapstick one-act present, it'southward nowhere almost the levels of the sequels, with most of the humor existence very dry out. Needless to say, information technology's a jarring feel if yous've seen any of the sequels showtime.
• Ensemble Dark Equus caballus: Clouseau was just a supporting character in the original picture.
• Fake Shemp:
  • Any time you lot tin't clearly see Clouseau'southward face in whatsoever of the three '70s sequels, odds are he'due south being played by Peter Sellers' stunt double, Joe Dunne. Peter Sellers' health was rapidly declining in these years from the heart disease that eventually killed him in 1980.
  • Trail is congenital effectually this concept, though flashbacks to his youth near the cease accept him played by younger actors in a variant on The Other Darrin.
• Filming for Easy Dub: The later entries with Sellers used this with his stuntmen; Trail does this with a stand up-in to tie the deleted scenes together.
• "Friends" Hire Command: It'south hard to imagine how Clouseau could afford that huge apartment overlooking the Seine on an Inspector's salary, especially when y'all consider the fact that he and Cato wreck the place every movie.
• From Bad to Worse: The opinions of critics and viewers akin on the films after Peter Sellers died.
• Funny Foreigner: Clouseau; his disguises contain other nationalities in the same manner.
• Gay Paree: With occasional detours to Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, etc.
• Gentleman Thief: Sir Charles Lytton and his associates. The boredom motivation is central to the plot of Return.
• Girl of the Calendar week: Shot, Strikes Again, and Revenge all have these. The first was given a Revision for Son.
• Going for the Big Scoop: Marie in Trail, especially every bit it becomes clear that at that place are a lot of people who would prefer Clouseau gone forever.
• Half-Identical Twins: In Son, Jacques and Jacqueline Gambrelli.
• Halfway Plot Switch: Trail, which starts as a typical Clouseau misadventure and makes the switch when he goes missing, turning the protagonist role over to Marie as she investigates the disappearance.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Dreyfus goes from antihero to villain in A Shot in the Dark, remains a villain in The Render of the Pink Panther, appears to take recovered his sanity at the beginning of The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again but ends up becoming the moving picture'southward principal villain, and seems to take, for the about office, reformed in the subsequent films.
• Hero Insurance: One has to wonder who would be stupid enough to provide Clouseau with homeowner's insurance given how frequently his flat gets trashed.
• Hollow-Sounding Head: In Son Jacques Gambrelli accidentally knocks on his mother's brow (he'd been knocking on a door she'd suddenly opened) producing a loud empty audio.
• Homage: Sellers' portrayal of Clouseau is more than a footling evocative of Jacques Tati's Hulot character (fifty-fifty the names are similar), while the slapstick physical comedy in the serial owes a great deal to Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, etc.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Cato Fong in the original series, Ponton in the Reboot.
• Hypocritical Humor: When Clouseau first meets Yuri, he mocks his Russian accent:

  Clouseau: I'll exist honest with you. I - I find your accent quite funny. Where are you "fvam"?
  Yuri: From Russian federation. Gluant recruited me from the Russian military gym.
  Clouseau [mocks Yuri]: Do-practice-do-ba-ba-loo. You demand to work on your emphasis.

• Iconic Sequel Character: Cato and Dreyfus didn't announced until the 2d film.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: From Render onward, all of the titles (and credits) involve the Pink Panther phrase and animated character even if the diamond is not part of the plot.
  • The Pink Panther animated shorts all have the word "pinkish" in the title, and nigh of the Inspector shorts are puns on French words or phrases.
• Idiot Hero: Trope Codifier.
• In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: Some of the '70s films have Edwards' name every bit office of the full onscreen title, i.e. Blake Edwards' The Return of the Pink Panther.
  • The cartoons accept the championship "Blake Edwards' Pink Panther" when he appears.
• Incredibly Obvious Bomb: Plenty from Return onwards.
• Insistent Terminology: Main Inspector Clouseau (from Strikes Again onwards) frequently reminds us of his full title.
• Inspector Oblivious: Clouseau'south opening scene in Return hinges on him getting distracted from a depository financial institution robbery. Moreover he'southward dim enough to accept bombs - the Incredibly Obvious kind, mind you - from suspicious persons without a idea, just realizing what they are just before it's as well tardily. (Revenge: "Special delivery, a bomb! Were you expecting one?")
• Instrumental Theme Tune: One of the catchiest ever, courtesy of Henry Mancini.
• Juggling Loaded Guns: Chief Inspector Dreyfus keeps in his office desk-bound both a real gun and a lighter that looks merely like said gun. Hilarity Ensues with predictably vehement results, such as when his assistant Francois, hearing a gunshot, bursts in the office to meet the top half of Dreyfus' face looking upwards at him from behind his desk:

  Dreyfus: Don't just stand there, idiot — call a doctor. And so help me discover my nose!

• Karma Houdini:
  • Lytton and his accomplices; as the trope entry points out, they are never caught in whatever of their appearances. Clouseau and Chandra are almost this at the terminate of Expletive - they aren't found out by Sleigh, but Lytton'due south wife steals the diamond from them!
  • At the end of Shot, Dreyfus accidentally murders several people trying to impale Clouseau and has a nervous breakdown. He is still Chief Inspector in Return, where he does the same thing again, only this fourth dimension he is actually committed for it.
  • The Pink Panther Strikes Again takes it up to 11. Dreyfus disintegrates the UN building, attempted to destroy England, yet ii movies afterwards, Trail, he is Commissioner again and no i talks about information technology (this is either a Plot Pigsty or just Negative Continuity).
    • A similiar affair happened before Trail in Revenge of..., nobody remembers Dreyfus' scheme in Strikes Once again, and they even ask him to give a eulogy to Clouseau'due south (faked) funeral.
  • Return ends with nobody going to prison for the actual theft of the diamond. Partially justified in that a lot of people idea Colonel Sharkey was in on the conspiracy and he's too dead to defend himself. Claudine Lytton the actual culprit is non seen in the epilogue, though.
• Left Stuck Later on Attack: In Curse of The Pink Panther, the renowned martial artist Ed Parker plays an enforcer for the antagonists, who punches through a metal shed door and gets his arm stuck for a solid 20 seconds before managing to gratis himself.
• Lethally Stupid: Inspector Clouseau. Ask Dreyfus.
• Licensed Pinball Table: Released by Gottlieb in 1981, and very loosely based on Return; click here for details.
• Loads and Loads of Roles: In Inspector Clouseau, Alan Arkin played not only Clouseau, simply every member of the gang while they were disguised as the title graphic symbol with the actors for each character dubbing their lines in over Arkin's dialogue subsequently.
• Mama's Boy: Jacques Gambrelli in Son of the Pinkish Panther, who lives with his Italian female parent, Maria Gambrelli, who was married to Inspector Clouseau, which makes Jacques Gambrelli the son of Inspector Clouseau.
• Mate or Die: How Jacques Gambrelli was conceived, co-ordinate to Maria'south explanation in Son of...: She and Clouseau were stranded on a snowy nighttime, and he suggested they make love to keep warm. Their amore for each other was not a romance for the ages, even so (she regards information technology as a youthful folly), and she never revealed to him that he'd sired a son.
• My Beloved Smother: Maria Gambrelli, who told Jacques that his begetter was a classical musician for fright that he might follow in his male parent's footsteps and get injure.
• No Pronunciation Guide: Deconstructed and played for laughs in the 2006 film when Clouseau goes to a dialect coach to acquire a flawless American emphasis, and she asks him to pronounce the phrase "I would similar to purchase a hamburger". After some extra endeavour, he tin hands pronounce the "I would like to buy" function, but when he tries to properly pronounce the whole sentence, "hamburger" is the only word that gives him problem. This becomes a shibboleth moment when airport security detains him, and asks him what he has in his pockets. At first, he doesn't desire to show them the hamburgers in his coats, but he keeps mumbling "hamburger", because it would be a personal humiliation for him to be seen eating and liking hamburgers. When they find the weapons in his baggage that Dreyfus' mysterious subordinate planted in his baggage, Clouseau bungles it upwardly when he goes to all that endeavor to go along the hamburgers in his pocket.
• Not Fifty-fifty Bothering with the Accent: France seems to have a lot of people with British or American accents in these films, with prominent examples including the original Dreyfus, Benjamin Ballon in Shot, and Philippe Douvier in Revenge. Of item annotation is Bruno Langois of Trail and Expletive. The "French Godfather" would audio more at home running 1 of New York's 5 Families — and dissimilar Douvier, whose accent they at least tried to Paw Moving ridge past establishing that he had spent a lot of his early on career working for the American Mafia before returning to his native France, Bruno's accent is never explained at all.
• Not Me This Time: In the reboot, The Tornado, a serial thief, was believed to take resurfaced and stolen diverse treasures around the world, including the Magna Carta, the Turin Shroud, the Purple Sword, the Pink Panther Diamond (allegedly), and the Pope's band. Turns out, he never actually committed those crimes (for one matter, he would take deduced that the Pink Panther Diamond on display was in fact a forgery had he truly stolen it), it was his scorned lover, Sonia who did the human activity, eventually killing him before they located him.
• Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: Original series merely. The Simpsons made a joke about this: "We at present return to The Render of the Pink Panther Returns".
• I Steve Limit: At that place are two characters named Charles: Sir Charles Lytton (The Phantom) and Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Clouseau's superior).
  • Jacques Gambrelli, though it's justified because he is Clouseau'due south son.
  • There are fifty-fifty ii Simones: Simone Clouseau/Lytton, and Simone LeGree (the Girl of the Week in Revenge).
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Clouseau'due south accent in Return tends to veer between the more than normal-sounding vocalization he used in the showtime ii films, and the thicker, more nasal accent he uses in Strikes Again and Revenge.
• Phantom Thief: The Phantom in the original movies. The Steve Martin movies have the Tornado.
• Plot Pigsty: Trail says that Lytton married Simone after the events of the first picture. If and then, where does Claudine, his wife in Return, fit in?
• Put on a Motorbus: Blake Edwards did this to Clouseau himself to make way for Son of the Pink Panther. That was not a good thought.

• Existent Life Writes the Plot: One reason the Running Gag of Clouseau's costumes became more pronounced in Strikes Again and Revenge was because Peter Sellers' health had go too delicate for him to perform equally much slapstick as he wanted to. Trail and Curse, of grade, were completely conceived/made after Sellers had died, and the plots piece of work to recoup for this absence.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Dreyfus frequently threatens to transport Clouseau to Martinique for exasperating him. In A Shot in the Dark, Clouseau was virtually ready to leave when he is reluctantly reassigned to the Gambrelli case by Dreyfus.
• Fridge Deadfall: Cato pulls one off in Return, and again in Son.
• Revenge of the Sequel: Return of, Strikes Once again, Revenge of, Trail of, Expletive of, Son of.
• Roger Rabbit Effect: Several of the films end with the animated Pink Panther interacting in some fashion with the alive-action characters. Son of... does this in the opening credits.
• Running Gag / Sequel Escalation: Clouseau's accent, his disguises in the later films, Cato'due south attacks and the subsequent fights, Dreyfus' murder attempts and his eye twitch, and the Not-Fatal Explosions.
  • "Never await a souvenir horse in the oral cavity" is a pop philosophy amidst disparate characters in Curse.
• Shaped Like Itself:

  Francois: Do you lot know what kind of flop it was?

  Clouseau: (gravely) The exploding kind.

• Sidekick: Hercule is this to Clouseau in Shot. Cato, whose role is largely confined to Clouseau'due south apartment in nigh of the films, becomes this outright in the second one-half of Revenge and later serves the same role in Son for Clouseau, Jr. In The Inspector blithe shorts, Deux-Deux fills this role; in the reboot, it's Ponton who does the same.
• Pregnant Nascence Date
  • Used as an in-joke in Trail — Clouseau was born on September 8, which means he and Peter Sellers share a birthday.
  • In Curse, we larn that Dreyfus was built-in on April 1 (Apr Fools' Day).
• Sins of the Begetter: Quite a few of the jokes of Son of the Pink Panther circumduct effectually the secondary cast hating Jacques Gambrelli, even if he has not done annihilation to them personally (yet), because he is the son of Jacques Clouseau. That includes Dreyfus not knowing what to practise considering he'southward in love with Maria merely Clouseau's breed would be his foster son if they ally and Balls pointing out that Clouseau never paid him in full for the many costumes he purchased and when Gambrelli asks for a disguise for the 3rd deed, Balls makes sure that the villains volition know who to wait for by placing a big "CLOUSEAU" on the back of it.
• Somebody Fix United states the Bomb: In the Sellers films it's a Running Gag from Shot onwards that somebody's going to try to off Clouseau with a flop at some point, be it a Time Flop or Incredibly Obvious Bomb.
• Spiritual Successor: The Neil Simon-penned film After The Fox (1967) features Sellers as a primary criminal nicknamed "The Flim-flam" who uses a phony movie shoot every bit encompass for a gold heist. Much of the humor is identical to that in the Panther films, and there is even a Panther-style opening credit sequence featuring a drawing flim-flam.
• Translation Convention: Parodied equally a Running Gag - everyone is assumed to be speaking French, only simply Clouseau has a French accent.
• Unto Usa a Son and Girl Are Born: Turns out that Jacques Gambrelli/Clouseau, Jr. has a twin sis!
• Walking Disaster Expanse: Virtually of the films' humor revolves effectually the incredible corporeality of destruction and misfortune caused by the impuissant and idiotic Clouseau. In the second film, Dreyfus claims that with ten Clouseaus he could destroy the world. This is not meant every bit a compliment.
• Wallpaper Cover-up: Clouseau and Ponton manage this in the reboot.
• What the Fu Are You Doing?: Clouseau's impromptu "grooming sessions" with Cato.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: In Curse of the Pink Panther, Dreyfus' birth year is said to be 1900. This movie was made in 1983, placing this graphic symbol in his early 80s. Never listen the fact that Dreyfus obviously doesn't await that old (Herbert Lom was only in his 60s), but then comes Son of the Pinkish Panther which takes place 10 years later, significant in that motion picture he must be in his early 90s! Even if Dreyfus was in his early 80s in Curse..., shouldn't he be retired from the police force by and then?
  • It'south more than likely that, due to its phonation tone at the moment, the calculator that was regurgitating Dreyfus' basic information was going to reveal the last 2 digits afterwards 1900, but was cut off by François because of how much it was starting to annoy Dreyfus.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The plot of Inspector Clouseau wraps up pretty speedily later on the gang'south boat sinks without telling if they were arrested or if they got abroad.
  • In Revenge, Dreyfus and Cato are never seen again afterward the fireworks factory explodes until Trail.

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