History YMMV / ThePinkPanther

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''A Shot in the dDrk'' is definitly the darkest film of the entire franchise. ''Strikes Again'' occasionally borders on second place, though the latter is more BlackComedy.

** Most of "A shot in the dark" and "the Pink Panther strikes again", even for a BlackComedy.
* DarkerAndEdgier: "A shot in the dark" is definitly the darkest of the entire franchise. "Strikes Again" occasionally borders on second place, though the latter is more BlackComedy.
* EarWorm: The theme tunes from both ''The Pink Panther'' (which would also be used for the subsequent films) and, to a lesser extent, ''A Shot in the Dark'' - even more so once the cartoons got hold of them. The theme from ''A Shot in the Dark'' was first used in cartoons in the Panther short ''Dial P For Pink'' and later became the theme for the Inspector cartoons.

** Dreyfus may count too. Besides Sellers' epic portrayal as Clouseau, his insanity caused by Clouseau is one of the others reasons people watch the films. Because of this, Dreyfus would even be carried over into the reboot films.

* FanonDiscontinuity: For some - if not most - fans, only the five films Sellers actually did count. As for ''Trail of...'' the scenes of Sellers it used ''can'' be counted as the deleted material from ''Strikes Again'' that they actually were; the rest of the film can be taken or left. Even some VHS and DVD packages of the films only include the Sellers entries that MGM/UA has the rights to (see MissingEpisode). Many die-hard fans consider the newer movies to not count, and generally avoid them at all costs.

** "I would like a "damburgah!"

* NightmareFuel: The whole of ''A Shot in the Dark'', especially if you hate murder mysteries. The animated credits - and the jazzy theme - come right after [[spoiler:the first of fourteen murders]]. It's the darkest of all films (especially because all the other films are about theft/fraud/kidnapping rather than murder). While the character's deaths in other films are basicly PlayedForLaughs (remember the carnival scene in Strikes Again?), the deaths in this film are actually ''realistic'' murders.
** "Strikes Again" has the creepy castle, the giant laser cannon that can make entire buildings disappear and the creepy organ.

* ReplacementScrappy: Two, in Clifton Sleigh (in "Curse") and Jacques Grambelli/Clouseau Jr. (in "Son of"), since both characters and actors were fighting a losing battle with the memory of Clouseau. Many fans didn't appreciate it very well that there are other persons like Clouseau in the world. However, Clifton and Jacques II were a bit more sane and sophisticated then Clouseau Sr. And they were also more a klutz while Clouseau was a total fool.

** 1968's "Inspector Clouseau" is this towards "The Pink Panther" and "A Shot In The Dark" for many fans, simply for not featuring Sellers and Blake Edwards.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: ''A Shot In The Dark'', regarded by many as the best of the films.
** ''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'' is considered by many to be better than the previous movie, ''Return'' and if not, the best in the entire series.

* HoYay: In "The New Pink Panther Show": Manly Man, and Eggz the chicken from ''Hamm-N-Eggz'', who falls into CampGay territory.
* JumpingTheShark: ''The Pink Panther and Sons''.

* NightmareFuel: The whole of ''Shot in the dark'', especially if you hate murder mysteries. The animated credits - and the jazzy theme - come right after [[spoiler:the first of fourteen murders]]. It's the darkest of all films (especially because all the other films are about theft/fraud/kidnapping rather than murder. While the character's deaths in other films are basicly PlayedForLaughs (remember the carnival scene in Strikes Again) the deaths in this film are actually ''realistic'' murders.
** "Strikes Again" has the creepy castle, the giant laser cannon that can make entire buildings disappear, the creepy organ.
** Some of Clouseau's disguises, though it's more for comic relief.

** "Strikes Again" has the creepy castle, the everything destroying DesintegratorRay, the creepy organ.

** Dreyfus crosses the line in ''Strikes Again'', as he blackmails the world into killing Clouseau.

** Dreyfus getting his TwitchingEye because of Clouseau and trying to kill the latter.

* NightmareFuel: The whole of ''Shot'', especially if you hate murder mysteries.
** The animated credits - and the jazzy theme - come right after [[spoiler:the first of fourteen murders]].

* CompleteMonster: ''Dreyfus himself'' (out of all men) became this at the end of Strikes Again, as he was about to completely destroy England, probably killing millions of people all just because of his obsession over Clouseau. If it weren't for Clouseau being there to stop him, [[FridgeHorror think about the things that would happen...]]

** Dreyfus crosses the line in ''Strikes again'', as he blackmails the world into killing Clouseau.

** The animated credits come right after [[spoiler:the first of fourteen murders]].

* HarsherInHindsight: Rich Little, who voiced the Pink Panther at the end of "Sink Pink" and "Pink Ice," had to dub an extremely ill David Niven in ''Trail'' and ''Curse''.

* GrowingTheBeard: As the series progressed so did the quality of writing.

** 1968's "Inspector Clouseau" is this towards "The Pink Panther" and "A shot in the dark" for many fans, simply for not featuring Sellers and Blake Edwards.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: ''A Shot in the Dark'', regarded by many as the best of the films.

* CompleteMonster: ''Dreyfus himself'' (out of all men) became this at the end of Strikes Again, as he was about to completely destroy England, probably killing millions of people all just because of his obsession over Clouseau. If it weren't for Clouseau to stop him, [[FridgeHorror think about the things that would happen...]]

* AdaptationDisplacement: You'll be surprised at how many people think the movies is about an anthro pink panther, or thought the 2006 movie was supposed to be based off the cartoon only to be disappointed.

* JumpingTheShark: ''The Pink Panther and Sons''.

* HoYay: In "The New Pink Panther Show": Manly Man, and Eggz the chicken from ''Hamm-N-Eggz'', who falls into CampGay territory.

* HoYay: In "The New Pink Panther Show": Manly Man, and Eggz the chicken from ''Hamm-N-Eggz'', who falls into CampGay territory.

* ValuesDissonance: In the Sellers films, Clouseau often refers to Cato as "you yellow x" or "my yellow x." The reboot dropped Cato and replaced him with Ponton, a French policeman, and in the second film makes Clouseau an insensitive lecher who blatantly stereotypes everyone he meets by nationality or race, and plays it for laughs.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The time that Clouseau... oh, you know what? This deserves a [[Funny/ThePinkPanther page of its own.]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Henry Mancini's epic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0YI9c3jc90 Pink Panther Theme]] of course. Each film would have a different version of it, but the original is the most remembered. (He also wrote an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78KP5DmXnkA Inspector theme]].)

* CompleteMonster: [[Spoiler: ''Dreyfus himself'']] became this at the end of Strikes Again, as he was about to completely destroy England, probably killing millions of people all just because of his obsession over Clouseau. If it weren't for Clouseau to stop him, [[FridgeHorror think about the things that would happen...]]

* CompleteMonster: Dreyfus became this at the end of Strikes Again, as he was about to completely destroy England, probably killing millions of people all just because of his obsession over Clouseau. If it weren't for Clouseau to stop him.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Mancini's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0YI9c3jc90 Pink Panther Theme]]. (He also wrote an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78KP5DmXnkA Inspector theme]].)
* EarWorm: The theme tunes from both ''The Pink Panther'' and, to a lesser extent, ''A Shot in the Dark'' - even more so once the cartoons got hold of them. The theme from ''A Shot in the Dark'' was first used in cartoons in the Panther short ''Dial P For Pink'' and later became the theme for the Inspector cartoons.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: And how; the 1963 version of ''The Pink Panther'' was meant to be the first in a series of films about the Phantom, the master thief who stole the eponymous diamond, but ended up being all about Clouseau.

* MemeticMutation:
** Clouseau: I want to visit this "Treup".
** Troper: What?
** Clouseau: What?
** Troper: You said "treup".
** Clouseau: No i didn't.

* ReplacementScrappy: Two, in Clifton Sleigh (in "Curse") and Jacques Grambelli/Clouseau Jr. (in "Son of"), since both characters and actors were fighting a losing battle with the memory of Clouseau.
** As for Clifton Sleigh: many fans didn't appreciate it very well that there is another person like Clouseau in the world.

** ''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'' is considered by many to be better than the previous movie, ''Return''.

Clouseau: I want to visit this "Treup".
Troper: What?
Clouseau: What?
Troper: You said "treup".
Clouseau: No i didn't.
* ReplacementScrappy: Two, in Clifton Sleigh and Clouseau Jr., since both characters and actors were fighting a losing battle with the memory of Clouseau.

* FanonDiscontinuity: For some - if not most - fans, only the five films Sellers actually did count. As for ''Trail of...'' the scenes of Sellers it used ''can'' be counted as the deleted material from ''Strikes Again'' that they actually were; the rest of the film can be taken or left. Even some VHS and DVD packages of the films only include the Sellers entries that MGM/UA has the rights to (see MissingEpisode).
** Many die-hard fans consider the newer movies to not count, and generally avoid them at all costs.

* {{Discontinuity}}: For some - if not most - fans, only the five films Sellers actually did count. As for ''Trail of...'' the scenes of Sellers it used ''can'' be counted as the deleted material from ''Strikes Again'' that they actually were; the rest of the film can be taken or left. Even some VHS and DVD packages of the films only include the Sellers entries that MGM/UA has the rights to (see MissingEpisode).
** Many die-hard fans consider the newer movies to not count, and generally avoid them at all costs.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Many critics have argued, ''especially'' in the wake of the reboot, that as popular as they were these were never great films or even good ones. They were loved for Peter Sellers' performances and the animated title sequences, which was why continuing the series after his death didn't work. Interestingly, the {{Biopic}} ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'' has an invented scene where Peter uses the premiere of one of the films to insult Blake Edwards, calling him a hack, and then claiming that people only come to see him perform. The scene is intended to paint him in a bad light, but when you consider this trope, the fictionalized Peter could be seen as just speaking a blunt truth!

* EnsembleDarkhorse: And how; the 1963 version of ''The Pink Panther'' was meant to be the first in a series of films about the Phantom, the master thief who stole the eponymous diamond, but ended up being all about Clouseau.

** Many die-hard fans consider the newer movies to not count, and generally avoid them at all costs.

* The quality of the Post-Sellers films. Most hate them; some don't find them that bad.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Mancini's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0YI9c3jc90 Pink Panther Theme]]. (He also wrote an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78KP5DmXnkA Inspector theme]].)

* The quality of the Post-Sellers films. Most hate them; some don't find them that bad.