Dial 'P' for Pink

Pink Panther Odyssey Part IV

Back on form after the strangely meandering and confusingly titled "stamp" mall run, this brilliantly deft burglar v a random safe-dwelling panther is gloriously explosive fun with a fantastically witty ending. A very consistent one and a serious lark.

This is a great, slick Pink Panther cartoon - one of his earlier ones - where he outsmarts a bumbling robber who wants to take away the panther's safe in his apartment.

From constantly having the safe fall on him from being blown away by a bomb, the robber hilariously falls for the panther's slick tricks.

There's no dialog or laugh track in this short, and the music score is perfect - classic Pink Panther that what makes these earlier cartoons funny, exciting and full of substance.

Overall, great little cartoon. Wished all robbers could be outsmarted like this.

Grade A

This one is number 4 in the list of The Pink Panther's cartoons. This is definitely one of my favorites. So simple, yet so enjoyable. This one can make anyone give some good laughters.

This is original, creative, hilarious and has lots of imagination too. In this story, our friend feline deals with a thief who wants to crack a safe. Unfortunately for the thief, whenever he tries to do anything to the safe, his attempts always turn against him, thanks to Pinky (who's hidden inside the safe). Pinky makes the thief's life miserable, causing him to fall off the window, returning explosives to the thief (which always explode on the thief)...

There are many good gags in this. Even the ending is absolutely hilarious.

What makes the cartoon even funnier is that, most of the time, the thief doesn't even know that the Pink Panther is inside the safe and, as such, doesn't understand what's happening to him.

Probably still looking for a place to get some sleep, the Pink Panther has strangely chose a safe in a random building to catch some Zs. But some burglar dude turns up with the intention of breaking in. Old Pinky has fun changing locks and tormenting him, as usual. The little burglar dude can hardly believe his eyes when he finally sees whats inside, but the hijinks don't end there. Cleverly, Pinky convinces the burglar to take away the safe even though he suspects a bomb is inside.

There are plenty laughs to be had in this cartoon and by this point Pinky's cleverness was beginning to match even that of Bugs Bunny. The Pink Panther is a great character and I love him.

I seem to be alone in thinking that the Pink Panther cartoons are fairly awful. This one does little to convince me otherwise, with predictable gags and horrible animation. In Dial P for Pink, a burglar tries to break open a safe, but doesn't realise that it is home to The Pink Panther, who isn't happy about being disturbed.

Why is The Pink Panther living inside a safe, especially one in which the top and sides open like doors, rendering it totally useless? Who knows, but this idea leads to lots of weak jokes in which the panther is able to nip in and out of the safe to cause all sorts of problems for the burglar. The gag in which the burglar mistakes a radio for the safe is lifted straight out of one of the Pink Panther movies.