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=== [[The Pink Panther|The films]] ===
* [[Actor Allusion]]:
** In ''Strikes Again'', Dreyfus is fond of playing the pipe organ a la The Phantom of the Opera. Herbert Lom, who played Dreyfus, played the titular Phantom in a 1962 film adaption.
** In the 2006 remake, Clive Owen plays 006. Clouseau asks him if he wasn't good enough to be 007. Clive Owen was at one point considered for the role of [[James Bond]].
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** Italian Maria Gambrelli in "A Shot in the Dark" was played by German Elke Sommer.
* [[Fake Russian]]: Lesley Anne-Down (British) as the Russian spy Olga in ''Strikes Again''.
* [[Funny Character, Boring Actor]]: [[Peter Sellers]].
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:
** Apparently [[The Lion King|Scar]]/[[Die Hard|Simon Gruber]] has taken an interest in fencing and became an instructor in France who trained The Tornado serial thief.
** For the original films: [[Dr. Strangelove|Doctor Strangelove]], [[Being There|Chance the gardener]], [[The Party|Hrundi]] as Inspector Clouseau.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: George Sanders, the voice of [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Shere Khan]], plays Ballon in ''Shot''.
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: Averted with Peter Sellers, David Niven, and Robert Wagner; played straight with most of the others.
* [[Missing Episode]]: Sort of - MGM/UA doesn't own the rights to ''Return'' (currently, Universal/Focus Features does) so while all are available on DVD, there's never been a proper box set of the five "true" Sellers films. MGM is also not allowed to mention "Return" in any published material, either. They do however hold the rights to release it digitally.
* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: Partial motivation for Sellers being willing to reprise the role of Clouseau in the 1970s (the other was getting enough clout to get ''[[Being There]]'' [[Doing It for the Art|greenlit]]).
* [[Old Shame]]: Alan Arkin, not surprisingly, considers making ''Inspector Clouseau'' a mistake. He has rarely spoken much about the film in the years since, but one time Arkin did explain why he took up the role. In the late-60s he was becoming a fairly well-known actor and thought that as a movie actor, he could do whatever role was offered to him, and he could do it easily. He admits that the failure of ''Inspector Clouseau'' [[Break the Haughty|knocked him off his high horse.]]
* [[The Other Darrin]]: The Clouseaus besides Sellers, of course, but several other recurring characters were played by different actors from film to film (see the trope entry) in the classic series. In the rebooted series, Kevin Kline played Dreyfus in the first entry, but was replaced with John Cleese in the second.
* [[Star-Making Role]]: Peter Sellers was already a huge star in the United Kingdom thanks to ''[[The Goon Show]]'' and a list of TV and film credits that was already in the double digits, and had made inroads in North America with ''[[The Mouse That Roared]]'' and his work with [[Stanley Kubrick]], but Inspector Clouseau was the role that made him an international success.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: In ''Strikes Again'', the insane man who breaks into the television broadcast is identified through a photograph someone took off a TV screen.
* [[Throw It In]]: Occasionally; for instance, the "synchronized watches" bit in ''Shot'' was largely improvised by Peter Sellers and Graham Stark.
** Also Clouseau's line 'a rit of fealous jage' was supposedly a slip up (there is an outtake where Sellers and [[George Sanders]] both crack up at it) which was later re-filmed as part of the script.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
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** In the early stages, Paul Giamatti was considered for the role of Dreyfus in the reboot, and there were even plans for a [[Running Gag]] that would have had the Pink Panther animated character worked into the actual story by having him appear as Dreyfus's madness-induced hallucinations.
** Plans to incorporate Cato into the reboot were scrapped when the filmmakers couldn't get [[Jackie Chan]] for the role.
** The reboot originally had a stylized title sequence where the Panther was animated with CGI. It was dropped and was replaced with a traditionally animated opening with the Panther and Clouseau.
=== [[The Pink Panther (animation)|The cartoons]] ===
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