1993 Pink Panther Question

[JPox]

Maybe someone on here will remember this too,
I remember the cartoon "Driving Mr. Pink" from the 1993 series featuring a talking Pink Panther was released theatrically if I'm not mistaken.
I was going through Jerry Beck's Pink Panther guide, but there is no mention about that.
I remember seeing ads for the cartoon being released to theaters and eventually seeing it as part of the show. Am I confusing this with something else?
The cartoon featured the Pink Panther geting into a cab driven by VooDoo Man and hilarity ensues. I'm pretty sure the cartoon was directed by David Feiss (Cow & Chicken) as I recognized the style.

[Philo & Gunge]

I've tried to get a bit of info on this short. All I know is that it was indeed an episode of the 1993 series and it was shown in theaters as a short before The Pebble and the Penguin. :thinkpink

[Marty26]

Oh please. Do we really need to be reminded of this after-school atrocity?

[Brandon Panther]

I kinda liked the 1993 series...:shame:

[dendawg]

I kinda liked the 1993 series...:shame:

Me too. It wasn't really so bad. It's not like it was a live action Tom & Jerry movie.

[Marty26]

I'll admit that it wasn't the absolute worst "classic cartoon revival" I'd ever seen. But, for all intents and purposes, it was pretty subpar. The episode titles were probably the best part. And I don't mean that in a good way (my personal favorite was "The Inspector. Not." :rolleyes: ).

[Matt the Y]

I'll admit that it wasn't the absolute worst "classic cartoon revival" I'd ever seen. But, for all intents and purposes, it was pretty subpar. The episode titles were probably the best part. And I don't mean that in a good way (my personal favorite was "The Inspector. Not." :rolleyes: ).

Yeah, the episode titles were pretty horrid. They also had the weird habit of nicknaming the Pink Panther "Pinky" every so often in the titles just to get the word "pink" in the title somewhere (which wasn't even a pre-requisite in the new series anyway since some titles went without an inserting of the word "pink" anyway!). Other (un)memorable titles include.....

Yeti-Nother Bigfoot Story
Pinky's Pending Pink Slip
Pinky..... He Delivers
Pinky Up the River
Rock Me Pink
Pinky and Slusho
Department Store Pink-Erton
Pinkus Pantherus
Pinkezuma's Revenge
Pinky's Egg-Cellent Adventure
Wet and Wild Pinky
The Three Pink Porkers
It's a Bird! It's a Pain! It's Superfan!
Dino Saur Head
Heart of Pinkness
Weiner Takes All
The End of Super Pink?
A Camp-Pink We Will Go
The Stool Parrot


And, of course, it was probably the biggest mistake in history to give the Pink Panther a voice (that of Matt Frewer). Even Friz himself learned that lesson after "Sink Pink" and "Pink Ice" respectively and retained the Panther's roots as a pantomime character after that. Whereas the original cartoons, for the most part, relied on brilliant pantomime humor, comedy, and sight gags to put the cartoons over, the newer cartoons were mostly just talk! talk! talk! with annoying, unneccessary, bit characters thrown in (VooDoo Man and Muk-Luk to name a few, both of which were voiced by Dan "Homer Simpson" Castellaneta and also a really annoying, albeit intentionally so, non-stop talk-your-head-off parrot voiced by the now-late comedian Charles Nelson Reilly) that made even the occasional sight gags they did register as decidedly weak. And sometimes they put the Panther into the most contrived of all plots ("Service With a Pink Smile" takes a bizarre plot twist; the Panther starts out as a hotel bellhop and then angers a professional wrestler who is staying at the hotel and suddenly switches to becoming a wrestling opponent himself when the wrestler challenges himself - one plotline segues into a completely seperate one altogether!; another one, "Pinkadoon", has the Panther as a taxi driver being transported through time to an ancient mystic city where he has only an hour to rescue his lady taxi fare and escape! WTF?!). I sometimes wonder if the people in charge of making this new series had ever even seen any of the original Pink Panther cartoons at all!!!!!

[Brandon Panther]

Pinky..... He Delivers
Heh-heh, I vaguely remember that title. I think it was a reference to an old pizza tagline from the early 80s/early 90s.

This is why making references to commercials is a mistake. The jokes will become dated and forgotten very quickly. Years from now nobody's going to understand "Can you here me now? Good."

[Matt the Y]

Heh-heh, I vaguely remember that title. I think it was a reference to an old pizza tagline from the early 80s/early 90s.

This is why making references to commercials is a mistake. The jokes will become dated and forgotten very quickly. Years from now nobody's going to understand "Can you here me now? Good."

Or does anybody remember "Whazzzzzzuuuuuuup?" for that matter?

[JERRY BECK]

For the record, DRIVING MR. PINK is indeed listed in my Pink Panther book. It is mentioned in the filmography on page 135.

[JPox]

For the record, DRIVING MR. PINK is indeed listed in my Pink Panther book. It is mentioned in the filmography on page 135.
Why so it is! I never noticed it beside Misterjaw's tail. I only saw the listing in The New Pink Panther episode guide. :o
Did the cartoon feature a widescreen aspect ration?

[JERRY BECK]

DRIVING MR. PINK was planned with the rectangle 1:85 movie screen ratio in mind, so nothing would be lost when shown in a theatre - but I believe it was shot "full screen" 1:33 TV ratio, as all Pink Panther shorts were. It was not made in wide screen in CinemaScope. The only Panther animation in Scope were the opening titles of the Clouseau features.

[WoodpeckerWoody]

For the record, DRIVING MR. PINK is indeed listed in my Pink Panther book. It is mentioned in the filmography on page 135.

Your book is great, helps alots.