Pink Pajamas is a 1964 animated

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 short

Short subject

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

, directed by Friz Freleng

Friz Freleng

Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....

 and Hawley Pratt

Hawley Pratt

Hawley Pratt was an American film director, animator, and illustrator. He is best known for his work during the heyday of Warner Bros. Cartoons and as the right-hand man of director Friz Freleng as a layout artist and later as a director...

, featureing Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures...

' Pink Panther

The Pink Panther (character)

The Pink Panther is the main and title character in the opening and closing credit sequences of every film in The Pink Panther series except for A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau. His popularity spawned a series of theatrical shorts, merchandise, a comic book, and television cartoons...

 finding refuge in a strange house much to the confusion of its alcoholic owner. The film was the second Pink Panther

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bungling French police detective Jacques Clouseau that began in 1963 with the release of the film of the same name. The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers...

 animated short produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises

DePatie-Freleng Enterprises

DePatie-Freleng Enterprises was a Hollywood-based animation production company, active from 1963 to 1981. They produced theatrical cartoons, animated series, commercials, title sequences and television specials. Notable among these is The Pink Panther film titles and cartoon shorts and the Dr....

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Plot

A homeless Pink Panther is roaming the streets late at night, barely able to keep himself awake. He manages to find a flop house, but gets tossed out as quickly as he enters. Eventually, he finds his way into a cozy, nearby home, and washes up for bed. Soon afterward, the sauced homeowner stumbles in and crashes to bed, completely unaware that the Pink Panther is occupying his bed. Only after the homeowner gets himself a hotwater bottle and places it in his bed does the boiling feline make himself known.

Having never seen the Pink Panther before, the homeowner is convinced that he is hallucinating, and phones Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid movement which says its "primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety." Now claiming more than 2 million members, AA was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio...

 (AA). The AA rep comes over (still in his pajamas), smells the alcohol on the homeowner's breath, and sternly proceeds to remove every bottle of booze in the house, tossing them out into the trash can at the curbside. The two guys are then about to drink a toast to sobriety (via a glass of milk) when the Pink Panther strolls through the house, looking for the bed. Realizing that the drunk guy had not been hallucinating after all, both guys run out of the house and chase after the garbage truck in an attempt to retrieve the liquor.

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