Pink Pest Control is the 57th cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series. A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980.

Plot

The Pink Panther's log cabin is besieged by an aggresive termite, which the panther tries unsuccessfully to stop with glue, a rifle, an axe, and insecticide. When all else fails, he renders the pest unconscious and puts it in a corked bottle. The angered termite frees itself and returns to the panther's home. However, the panther has installed steel door, which the termite cannot penetrate. Frustrated, the termite bites a network of fractures through the cabin's structure, and the cabin collapses, leaving only the steel door standing. The enraged Pink Panther orders the termite at gunpoint to help rebuild the cabin by acting as a chainsaw to cut logs into lumber.

Laugh track

The Pink Panther Show

The Pink Panther Show

The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of cartoon shorts produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng between 1969 and 1979. The television series was produced by Mirisch Films and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, and was broadcast on two American TV networks:...

contained a laugh track

Laugh track

A laugh track is a separate soundtrack invented by Charles "Charley" Douglass, with the artificial sound of audience laughter, made to be inserted into television programming of comedy shows and sitcoms.The term "laugh track" does not apply to the genuine audience laughter on shows that shoot in...

 when the Pink Panther cartoons were broadcast on NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

-TV. Most American broadcasts currently air with the laugh track muted; however, Pink Pest Control airs with the orignial laugh track intact on the Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and Portuguese language

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 Boomerang TV channel

Boomerang (TV channel)

Boomerang is a 24-hour American cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. Boomerang specializes in reruns of animated programming from Time Warner's extensive archives, including pre-1986 MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises...

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Further sources

• Meet the Pink Panther; by Hope Freleng and Sybil Freleng http://www.amazon.com/dp/0789313081, (Universe Publishing, 2005).
• The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009S4J2I (2006). [DVD set]. New York: MGM Home Video.
• DePatie-Freleng website