The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, Vol. 5: The Ant and the Aardvark
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Actor: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: TCFHE/MGM
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, Vol. 5: The Ant and the Aardvark
DVD Review: Ant and Aardvark are great characters
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this item as a gift for my mother. She remembered the old cartoons and was pleased to hear they were finally available for purchase. She was very pleased and laughed again and again at the blue guy. Like all great cartoons it can be enjoyed by the very young and the more mature. You cannot go wrong purchasing this DVD set. DVD Review: just as I remembered
Summary: 5 Stars
What a nostalgic trip! Possibly I enjoy the antics of the ant and the aardvark even more as an adult than I did as a child!DVD Review: The Aardvark
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this Cartoon, even though the Pink Panther himself is NOT shown
on this DVD, so if you want just the Aardvark episodes, this is it!
DVD Review: Quality American cartoonship
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD collects the complete episodes, in chronological order, of this series of cartoon shorts that were broadcast, at least when I saw them in syndication, in tandem with The Pink Panther. While it may be possible to gripe that some of the plots seem recycled from other cartoon series, e.g. Tom & Jerry; Sylvester & Tweety (Friz Freleng worked at Warner Bros. before moving to DePatie-Freleng), I don't think plot originality is terribly important in humorous cartoons. Watch the nonchalant ant and the preciously inept aardvark (transmogrifications of Dean Martin and Jackie Mason, respectively) go at it in the classic American way: the underdog always comes out on top. To the tune of perfectly hokey Vaudville music. One of my favorite aspects of Fritz Freling cartoons in general (including The Pink Panther, The Inspector, and others as well) is actually the backdrop. I enjoy the way he weaves together what seems to be, in this case, Southern Africa and the American Southwest. His technique is very simple but warm and surreal, impressionistic and memorable; and his intense use of colors make me think, I hope not presumptuously, that he may have been touched by the psychedelic era if not by the psychedelics themselves. It's good art; don't let that go unnoticed!
Here are some brief sketches of the episodes I am watching, in order, in case you are hunting for something specific:
1) THE ANT AND THE AARDVARK: the ant absconds into his hill with food from a picnic. The aardvark attempts to smoke him out with a cigar but ends up taking in too much smoke and inhales an entire lake to cool off.
2) HASTY BUT TASTY: The ant attempts another picnic-invasion, this time on a motorcycle. The aardvank employs numerous methods to block his passage on the road, including his own motorcycle, a hot-air balloon, and "liquid hole". What I want to know is: is the aardvark a member of the Boilermakers Union??
3) THE ANT FROM UNCLE: Various hijinx (none based on "The Man from UNCLE" as you might think), including an attempt to get the ant to visit the respectable Ant's Club (the Aardvark's stomach). This is the episode in which we first hear mention of the ant's name as Charlie, as well as meet his "aunt" (the puns NEVER cease.)
4) I'VE GOT ANTS IN MY PLANS: A $100-a-plate ant dinner is rudely interrupted as the aardvark and his green doppelganger battle it out like angry lovers over Charlie.
5) TECHNOLOGY, PHOOEY: The aardvark assembles a huge MIT-style mainframe computer to give him advice about catching ants. He bungles it anyhow and ends up in quicksand. He then buys a remote-controlled ant-stamper...
6 NEVER BUG AN ANT: Watch as an entire bear is sucked through Charlie's hill by force of the aardvark's vacuum cleaner; a sugar trail that leads to disaster; the aardvark inadvertantly assist Charlie force a watermelon into his hill; the aardvark turn pale and retch from blowing ant killer down a false hill; dynamine thrown down the false hole; the destruction of Charlies' furnature by shotput and magnet (very clever, aardvark!)
7) DUNE BUG: the first to take place away from the surreal Freeling landscape. Hijinx on the beach. The aardvark, mistaken for a dog, is thrown off the beach multiple times by a lifeguard.
8) ISLE OF CAPRICE: We have two adjacent islands, on one of which is marooned one aardvark (THE aardvark) and on the other some ants (none of which is Charlie, curiously enough); the dynamic here is mainly between the aardvark and a shark that swims between the islands (the ants are only seen through the glass). All manner of floatation devices, air propulsion, tightrope paraphrenalia, etc. is employed but to no avail. The shark (and the palm trees) are against the idea of the aardvark fulfilling his appetite.
9) SCRATCH A TIGER: Charlie and his friends receive protective services from a tiger who owes Charlie a favor (for removing a thorn from his foot). However, in the end, the aardvark removes a thorn from the same tiger's foot and is this owed a favor of similar weight. The tables are turned.
10) ODD ANT OUT: Green and blue aardvarks wage war over a can of chocolate-covered ants that falls from the back of a lorry; neither of them has a can-opener. When the can finally does open, guess who is inside!
11) ANTS IN THE PANTRY: Bongo Pest Control, 402 Bongo Road. The aardvark intercepts a call and beats the technician to the scene: a bungalow, which gets thrashed in the proceedings, as does the aardvark. He ends the episode eating spaghetti in a spaghetti parlor.
12) SCIENCE FRICTION: Charlie is studied in a "scientific expedition" trailer by an entomologist. The aardvark attempts to steal him by employing bamboo snout-extension, by outright bumrushing the trailer, and other methods.
13) MUMBO JUMBO: Brothers of the Forest Lodge 202 members are vowed to protect one another; when the aardvark moves in on Charlie, Tiny the Elephant goes to bat. Landmines in a scale, et cetera!
14) THE FROZE NOSE KNOWS: Snow hijinx on skis, as Charlie tries to collect food for winter. Bet you can't imagine what happens to the aardvark on a frozen pond.
15) DON'T HUSTLE AN ANT WITH MUSCLE: Charlie takes vitamins (steroids?) that give him superhuman strength; the aardvark sucks in ball bearings and has magnet trouble. When the vitamins wear off, drama increases.
16) ROUGH BRUNCH: a termite helps Charlie avoid the aardvark by taking him home to a huge Victorian house that the termites are eating to the ground. The aardvark doesn't know which way to run. The sky is magenta in evening...
17) FROM BED TO WORSE: Both Charlie and the aardvark break their legs in an auto accident and are placed in an veterenary clinic beside a vicious dog, in this final episode....
DVD Review: The Advark is a classic
Summary: 5 Stars
The Advark is a classic - you will laugh until you cry! Well worth purchasing for your pink panther collection.
Description of The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, Vol. 5: The Ant and the Aardvark
The Pink Panther: The Ant & The Aardvark Classic Cartoon Collection features all 17 episodes of the original cartoon series. For the first time on DVD, parents can relive the hilarity as these two characters go head to head.General DVDs
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