Move over Garfield, I recently rediscovered The Pink Panther animated short films. So beautifully simple, they convey a great story without the use of words through brilliant color, illustration, and jazzy theme music. The Pink Panther began his life as the main character in a series of animated short films that originally appeared in the opening and closing credit sequences of the 1963 live-action feature film The Pink Panther.

The first entry in the series, 1964′s The Pink Phink, featured the Panther harassing his foil, a little moustached man resembling an animated version of the feature films’ Inspector Clouseau, by constantly trying to paint the little man’s blue house pink. See video above. The first episode and more are available on Netflix. Enjoy.

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