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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]].
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: [[Peter Sellers]] died during planning of the unmade "Romance of the Pink Panther". As a result, the project was scrapped, though Blake Edwards would make "Trail" two years later.
* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]: Even more so when you add in the animated spinoffs and their associated merchandise.
* [[Development Hell]]: The reboot was in the works since the turn of the millennium.
* [[Fake Nationality]]: Peter Sellers was an Englishman playing a Frenchman, but beyond this, the character of Clouseau affects several disguises in the course of the series that require him to be various other highly-caricatured nationalities.
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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,
** Apparently [[The Lion King
** For the original films: [[Dr. Strangelove|Doctor Strangelove]], [[Being There|Chance the gardener]], [[The Party|Hrundi]] as Inspector Clouseau.
* [[Hey,
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: Averted with Peter Sellers, David Niven, and Robert Wagner; played straight with most of the others.
* [[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]].)▼
* [[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
* [[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.
* [[Throw It In]]: Occasionally; for instance, the "synchronized watches" bit in ''Shot'' was largely improvised by Peter Sellers and Graham Stark. ▼
* [[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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** Sophia Loren and Walter Matthau were considered for ''Shot'' but were replaced when Blake Edwards stepped in.
** The ''Revenge'' shoot in Hong Kong was almost derailed by monsoon season; the threat of the rain keeping up had Blake Edwards having his assistants check up on Rio de Janeiro as an alternative location.
** The aforementioned ''[
** With regards to the reboot, potential Clouseaus included Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, and Mike Myers. Myers was the most sought-after, but his asking fee was too high.
** 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 (
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]/[[Spell My Name
* [[Hey,
** The 1993 animated version has the main character voiced by [[Max Headroom]].
*** And [[Dan Castellaneta]], aka [[The Simpsons (
*** Wallace Shawn as the Little Man.
** The Ant and the Aardvark, who appeared in supporting cartoons and bumpers on the 1970 ''Pink Panther'', were voiced by comedian John Byner. The voices of the Ant and Aardvark [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|closely resembled]] those of [[Dean Martin]] and Jackie Mason, respectively.
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[[Category:The Pink Panther]]▼
[[Category:Trivia]]
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