The Pink Blueprint

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The Pink Blueprint
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Directed by Hawley Pratt
Story by John Dunn
Produced by David H. DePatie
Friz Freleng
Bill Orcutt
(production supervision)
Edited byChuck McCann
Music by William Lava
Animation by Warren Batchelder
Don Williams
Norm McCabe
Dale Case
Laverne Harding
Layouts byDick Ung
Backgrounds byTom O'Loughlin
Color process Deluxe
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • May 25, 1966 (1966-05-25)
Running time
6:24
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

The Pink Blueprint is the 18th cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series. [1] A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980.

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Plot

A building contractor (the "Little Man") arrives on the site of a house being built. The Pink Panther emerges from inside a barrel on the site and sees the house's blueprints. The design has blue overtones and a more traditional "milk carton" shape; disgusted by the design on the blueprint, the Panther swaps it out for a "pinkprint", which, conversely, depicts a house that is futuristically rounded, sleek, and all pink, before sinking back into the barrel. Upon coming across the pink version of the blueprint, the contractor simply crumples it up and tosses it aside before continuing onward with his job. In response, the Pink Panther decides that if anyone will build his dream home, it will have to be himself.

The Pink Panther, continually eluding the sight of the contractor, begins working on the site himself, causing mishap after mishap to befall the contractor all the while in a series of gags. Ultimately, the Panther's deeds are finally exposed to the contractor, who furiously gives chase. Pink takes refuge in a paint shed, and the contractor boards up the door to ensure no further interference.

Inside the shed, the Pink Panther finds a bucket of blue stain, giving him an idea; he dips his "pinkprint" into the bucket to dye it blue. Reaching out through a hole in the shed door, the Panther swaps out the original blueprint in the contractor's pocket for his own. Upon returning to the site and seeing the blueprint he now has, the contractor immediately gets to work, and, when all is said and done, the house is finally finished, and he drives away contently. As the Pink Panther tunnels out from the ground through the shed, he is delighted to see what appears to be the outlandish house he wanted, but as he runs inside, it is revealed to really be the boringly-designed house the contractor was going to build, with a fancy-looking pink "facade" (false-front wall) loosely tacked onto the front for disguise. [2]

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