Therapeutic Pink (1977) User Reviews

A decent Pink Panther cartoon with two interest points

[TheLittleSongbird · 6/10 · 21 August 2014]

The Pink Panther cartoons on the most part are very entertaining, some of them classics and a lot of them good. There are a few disappointing ones but none of them so far have been "bad" to me, even my least favourite (the rather pointless) Pink-In. Therapeutic Pink is another example of being neither the best or worst of the series, ranking it it would be somewhere around lower middle. The animation was a mixed bag here, it's fluid at least and all the characters are well-drawn, to see the Little Man flesh-coloured was one of the interest points, but the backgrounds are rather sparse and hasty-looking and the colours lacking in vibrancy(the number of colours in each scene also kept minimally). As said before the simple, minimalist style was always there in the Pink Panther cartoons but usually in a more colourful and elegant way, this was at the stage where simplicity was close to slightly too simplistic instead and like they were working to tighter deadlines. The pacing at times does lag and starts to get a touch repetitive towards the end. The story is nice enough if predictable, once the Little Man arrived on the scene I kind of know how Therapeutic Pink was going to end, and it was a little stretched, the dog very easily could have let go of Pinky's tail earlier than it did. And the big man in the white clothes but outside of stopping Pinky trying to escape his role was on the pointless side, few Pink Panther supporting characters are even more of a jerk than him either. The music is very beautiful and catchy though with the distinctive jazzy slinkiness, the theme tune is still a classic. Therapeutic Pink also signals the other interest point in that it was the last cartoon to be scored by Walter Greene and Bill Lava. The gags mostly are amusing and well-timed, none hilarious but no obvious misfires even with the repetition. The characters drive Therapeutic Pink very well, Pinky is cool and likable as well as funny and you do feel sorry for him. The dog is really cute in appearance and doesn't come across as too antagonistic. The Little Man is an amusing character and you do have to love his facial expression at the end. In conclusion, not great but decent and also interesting for two aspects with the Little Man and the music. 6/10 Bethany Cox

That dumb dog!

[OllieSuave-007 · 3/10 · 14 August 2016]

I could say that most dogs featured on Pink Panther cartoons are annoying as heck, and this one is no exception. After seeing the Pink Panther starving and hearing his stomach growling, a small dog got alarmed and bit on the panther's tail and wouldn't let go, forcing the cat to go to the hospital, run by a team of inept doctors.

I wished that the panther would have just flung or smack that dumb dog off his tail. It seems that the later Pink Panther cartoon features the character as somewhat more bad-luck pronged, clueless and less crafty and clever. It's too bad that the panther let's things get in his way more, making his later cartoons less entertaining and funny.

Grade D--

During this Our Modern 21st Century . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 19 January 2023]

. . . most people are familiar with X-Rays and CAT scans, but at a loss when anyone brings up "f-l-u-o-r-o-s-c-o-p-y." This F- procedure is so "old school" that even this site's spellchecker rejects it for being too anachronistic. However, since it is at the center of the plot for THERAPEUTIC PINK, it is crucial to know a little bit about it. Old Tom Edison and others began tinkering with this F- procedure in the 1890's. For decades, the main use of this method of conducting internal bodily exams was for shoe fitting. After thousands of incidences of severe burns and cancer, nearly every American department store pulled these infernal devices from their shoe sections. Naturally, this development freed up all of the F machines for America's hospitals, which stay in business when accidents and cancer happen.