History YMMV / CurseOfThePinkPanther

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: ''Film/TrailOfThePinkPanther'' focused on the new character Marie Jouveat investigating the disappearance of Inspector Clouseau. The film ended with Marie still hopeful that Clouseau will be found, which makes the viewer believe that she will return in the sequel. While there is a female newsreader in ''Curse'', she isn't Marie, and has little-to-no impact on the Clouseau investigation.
** According to the script, the female newsreader was originally intended to be Marie Jouvet.

* {{Tearjerker}}: The wax museum scene. The sad mournful music as Clifton looks at all the various disguises can a bring a tear to the viewer's face as the sight of all those disguises, costumes, and outfits that brought laughter and joy to millions of viewers are now being used to mourn Chief Inspector Clouseau. Not only that, Cato is refusing to return the disguises to Prof. Balls because, even though he voices his displeasure at certain aspects of having been Clouseau's live-in manservent, he feels that the costumes serve greater value as memorializing the late Chief Inspector. He must have valued Clouseau very much to turn his apartment into a museum while enduring racist and threatening answering machine messages from the irate professor.

* UncannyValley: The wax figures of Clouseau featured in his apartment-turned-museum can look pretty unsettling in the dark, most notably the Swedish fisherman disguise from ''Revenge''. The inflatable "instant companion" and the costumes from the Valencia parade can come off as this.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: ''Film/TrailOfThePinkPanther'' focused on the new character Marie Jouveat investigating the disappearance of Inspector Clouseau. The film ended with Marie still hopeful that Clouseau will be found, which makes the viewer believe that she will return in the sequel. While there is a female newsreader in ''Curse'', she isn't Marie, and the events from ''Trail'' are assumed to have played out differently.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: ''Film/TrailOfThePinkPanther'' focused on the new character Marie Jouveat investigating the disappearance of Inspector Clouseau. The film ended with Marie still hopeful that Clouseau will be found, which makes the viewer believe that she will return in the sequel. But she doesn't return in ''Curse'' and is not even mentioned.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Like ''Trail'' and ''Son'', the film is hated by most of the fandom and is considered strong evidence that the franchise's success was due more to Peter Sellers than to Blake Edwards.

* VindicatedByHistory: While ''Curse'' initially received very poor reviews from critics and failed miserably at the box office, the film has since been dubbed a GuiltyPleasure or even a decent film by those who don't compare Ted Wass to Creator/PeterSellers.

* UncannyValley: The wax figures of Clouseau featured in his apartment-turned-museum can look pretty unsettling in the dark, most notably the Swedish fisherman disguise from ''Revenge''. The inflatable "instant companion" and the costumes from the Valencia parade can come off as this.

* UncannyValley: The wax figures of Clouseau featured in his apartment-turned-museum can look pretty unsettling in the dark, most notably the Swedish fisherman disguise from ''Revenge''. The inflatable "instant companion" and the costumes from the Valencia parade can come off as this.
* VindicatedByHistory: While ''Curse'' initially received poor reviews from critics and failed miserably at the box office, the film has since gone on to gain a modest cult following.

* BillingDisplacement: Creator/DavidNiven receives top billing for this film despite his character, Sir Charles Litton, only appearing in a select few scenes.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The heavy use of synthesizers in the film's score and the computers make this film a product of The'80s.

* VindicatedByHistory: While ''Curse'' initially received poor reviews from critics and failed miserably at the box office, the film has since gone on to gain a modest cult following.
* YouLookFamiliar: Graham Stark, who usually plays Professor Auguste Balls in both ''Revenge'' and ''Son'', plays "Bored Waiter" in this film.

* VindicatedByHistory: While ''Curse'' initially received poor reviews from critics and failed miserably at the box office, the film has since gone on to gain a modest cult following.

* BillingDisplacement: Creator/DavidNiven recives top billing for this film despite his character, Sir Charles Litton, only appearing in a select few scenes.

* {{Sequilitis}}: Like ''Trail'' and ''Son'', the film is hated by most of the fandom and is considered strong evidence that the franchise's success was due more to Peter Sellers than to Blake Edwards.

* UncannyValley: The wax figures of Clouseau featured in his apartment-turned-museum look pretty unsettling in the dark, most notably [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/theswedishfisherman_5.png the Swedish fisherman disguise]] from ''Revenge''.
* VindicatedByHistory: While ''Curse'' initially received poor reviews from critics and failed miserably at the box office, the film has since gone on to gain a cult following.

* VindicatedByHistory: While ''Curse'' initially received poor reviews from critics and failed misrabley at the box office, the film has since gone on to gain a cult following.

* UncannyValley: The wax figures of Clouseau featured in his apartment-turned-museum look pretty unsettling in the dark, most notably the Swedish fisherman disguise from ''Revenge''.
* VindicatedByHistory: While ''Curse'' initially received poor reviews from critics and failed misrabley at the box office, the film has since gone on to gain a cult following.

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* VindicatedByHistory: While ''Curse'' initially received poor reviews from critics and failed misrabley at the box office, the film has since gone on to gain a cult following.