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Pink Panther Odyssey Part XVIII

This Oscar-nommed short (and the first to be played on telly) feels like a wise doubling-down on the original Pink format a bit - going back to the template of the original and essentially just being a series of abstract obfuscations involving only the panther and the "little man". It's solid, gently surreal but the laugh track is a dated contrivance that prevents it from absolutely recapturing the original's vibe.

This cartoon story turns into a competition to see how can build a better house: the Pink Panther or his rival, The Little White Man. At first, they have the same project site but each doesn't like the other guy's designs. The Man has blueprints for a standard house while the PP's plans call for some futuristic design.

Most of the story involves the PP playing havoc with the White Man's attempts to build the house. The Panther also gets effective assistance from a runaway buzz saw.

This was "okay," nothing super, and, sad to say, marred by the always-insult laugh track, something totally uncalled-for in a cartoon. We can decide when to laugh, thank you. I wound up playing most of this with the sound off, so as not be annoyed. However, I missed hearing the sound-effects.

This cartoon was nominated for a Academy Award. It's a fairly good cartoon, although it is quite similar to The Pink Phink in conception, tone and execution. Not really a terribly novel cartoon by any means, but great fun and very entertaining. Recommended.

The pointy nose man is building a generic-looking house, while the Pink Panther wants him to build a huge, modern and slick-style house mansion. He attempts to exchange his blueprint with the man's, but his plan doesn't work. Therefore, the panther secretly uses the man's materials to build the house according to his plans.

It's a pretty slick and funny cartoon, with a good helping of slapstick humor and gags, including the part where a bed of nails lands on the man. There's a lot of back and forth of building, and tearing down and rebuilding. But, it has a good pace to it and serves us quite a bit of laughs.

Grade B+

In this Oscar-nominated cartoon, The Pink Panther turns up a the building site of his new house and replaces the boring blueprint of the ordinary house with an exciting pinkprint of a much fancier one. The single teamster working on the house is having none of it and sticks to making the boring house.

The typical game of outsmarting and tricky follows but the gags and visual jokes that defy the laws of physics are all very imaginative and well done. For a six minute cartoon there are loads of laughs crammed into such a short running time. And the twist at the end is the funniest of them all!