The Asian merc falling into a tub of gooey fluid that coats the oaf from head to toe, just like the whitewash that Arthur Houseman's drunkard character falls into and then looks like a ghost afterwards.
Clouseau's animated flashlight-beam shining right at the camera and lighting up the whole screen in yellow during the opening credits, just like Bond's pistol-shot creates a "blood-filled screen" when he fires at the camera in the beginning of the J.B. films.
