I also like Steve Martin but I think Peter Sellers was PERFECT. You just shouldn't mess with perfection. As for the cartoons, I loved them. Until they did the newer ones where he talked. The Pink Panther is NOT supposed to talk! I think those were short lived. Pink Panther cartoons are classic. Like watching those old original Looney Toons before the elder Blanc died. His son just isn't quite as good as he. Think Pink!

Last night I saw "The Pink Panther Strikes Again". After I saw this thread, I really wanted to see it again. "Strikes Again" is best one.


Clouseau: There is someone in this room who knows more about the murder than he is telling.
Mrs. Japonica: Murder?
Clouseau: What was that you said?
Mrs. Japonica: I said "murder".
Clouseau: What murder?
Mrs. Japonica: I-I-I don't know, y-you said "murder".
Clouseau: I said murder? *You* said murder!
Mrs. Japonica: No, I said murder because *You* said murder.
Clouseau: *I* said murder?

**Quoted from imdb.**

I laughed like a hysteric!

"You are suspended for six months, without pay, effective immediately! Have you anything to say?"
"Could you lend me fifty francs?"

Classic. If memory serves, another of my favorite bits is from the same movie (Return of the Pink Panther): the light bulb gag. Remember the bit with the bulb that keeps shooting out of its socket? The noise it makes is hilarious. I'm smiling now just thinking about it, and I don't think I've seen the movie in ages. I may have to put that DVD box set on my Christmas list....

Blake

"You are suspended for six months, without pay, effective immediately! Have you anything to say?"
"Could you lend me fifty francs?"

Classic. If memory serves, another of my favorite bits is from the same movie (Return of the Pink Panther): the light bulb gag. Remember the bit with the bulb that keeps shooting out of its socket? The noise it makes is hilarious. I'm smiling now just thinking about it, and I don't think I've seen the movie in ages. I may have to put that DVD box set on my Christmas list....

Blake

I'm going to say it again...the pure genius here is Blake Edwards. Creating the sound of the lightbulb was his idea. Having Closeau do gymnastics on the stairwell to disastrous effect was his idea. Not only did Edwards direct the Pink Panther movies but he co-wrote the screenplays. It's his ear that came up with those hysterical bits of dialogue.

It was Sellers who embodied Closeau to perfection, but without Blake Edwards' writing and direction, the Pink Panther movies would not be the classics they are.

I loved the big "chase scene" from (I think) the first Pink Panther with the two gendarmes dressed as the front and back of a horse and the older man sitting in a chair to watch the inevitable collision.

Also the scene where Clouseu is interrogating the bank robbery's blind lookout with the "minkey".

I remember my dad laughing his ass off at the fight scenes with Cato, which looking back now were funnier than a tongue stuck to a flagpole!

Also the scene where Clouseu is interrogating the bank robbery's blind lookout with the "minkey".

I love that scene and quote from it frequently. Part of what I do is credential physicians, which means I'm always on the lookout for licenses.

"Do yew 'ave a lee-zonce furr zat minkey?"

People think I'm nuts, but then, I work in Psychiatry.