Pink Panther and Pals

Pink Panther and Pals is a Spin-Off from The Pink Panther, launched in 2010. The series serves as a reboot to the original Pink Panther cartoons, as well as its main sister cartoon The Ant and the Aardvark. It consists of 26 sets of episodes: Two Pink Panther shorts, with a The Ant and the Aardvark short in between.

The Pink Panther is mostly his usual self but has been aged down to a teenager; he engages in a lot of misadventures, commonly to help others or just have fun. On the other hand, the Little Man, here named Big Nose, takes up a more pronounced role as the main antagonist of the Panther shorts - he always opposes the panther in one way or another, and commonly performs immoral deeds and/or uses underhanded tactics to win. The two are frequently accompanied by Big Nose's pet dog, whose morals are inconsistent, and a horse based on one who gave the panther trouble in some original shorts, but this one is his ally more often than not.

While The Ant and the Aardvark follows the same general formula it did before, the setting is now consistently a jungle, and the Aardvark's schemes are generally more elaborate. Like Pink, Ant has regressed to a teenager, and dropped the name "Charlie" as well. A new recurring character is added: an elephant named Eli, Ant's best friend and frequent bodyguard.


 * And I Must Scream: Big Nose gets a serving in The Pink Painter Show.
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Big Nose's "tantalizing hint" photos in the episode Wild Pinkdom.
 * All Just a Dream: The episode
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space: The episode One Small Step for Ant. Averted in Astro Pink.
 * Bears are Bad News: One in The Aardvark's New Moves; he believes Ant is a piece of bacon (after he was hypnotized by Aardvark into believing it himself) and beats Aardvark up when he refuses to give the "bacon".
 * Black and White Morality
 * Some The Ant and the Aardvark shorts fall into Black and Gray Morality instead, as does The Pink Painter Show.
 * The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The game show in Pink or Consequences; El Destructo (Big Nose) and Jr. (Dog) continuously sabotage the contestant by unplugging their answering podium, switching the bicycle for a tricycle, etc.
 * Curb Stomp Battle: A number of episodes.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Ant.
 * Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Many of Big Nose's underhanded tricks to top Pink Panther directly backfire on him.
 * Epic Fail: Big Nose has quite a few of these, especially when he has the spotlight. Pink Panther himself is also still prone, though not as much as in the original cartoons.
 * Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower: The episode Cleanliness is Next to Pinkliness revolves around flexing this trope; the premise is there isn't enough water for both main characters to shower at the same time.
 * Her Codename Was Mary Sue: Pink Panther's comic in Pink! Pow! Kaboom!, to the point that he actually becomes his character.
 * Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: If the panther is involved, the word "Pink" will show up.
 * Jerkass: Big Nose is the de facto example, though some episodes like The Pink Painter Show have the panther being even more so.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: Eli gets one in Eli the Aardvark after Aardvark unintentionally drops a boulder on him. Aardvark convinces him they're brothers for his advantage, until another boulder returns Eli to normal. ￼
 * Laser-Guided Karma: Big Nose and Aardvark are prone to this. A sloth in The Aardvark's New Moves also gets a serving. ￼
 * Literal Genie: The episode If Wishes Were Ants (featuring The Ant and the Aardvark).
 * Mad Scientist: Big Nose in A Pink and Stormy Night.
 * Scooby-Dooby Doors: In Pinxillated. the panther pulls one with the holes in a Whack-a-Mole game.
 * Reel Pink has a notable example with the arrangement of seats in a theater.