Inspector Dreyfus??


How could he be in this movie? When he was killed in the last movie by the doomstay machine?

"Take Your Time, Leave Mine Alone!"

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To be quite honest, that whole doomsday machine thing was stupid anyway. I hated The Pink Panther Strikes Again. Too much Lom, not enough Sellers.

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Yea but the scenes with Sellers were hilarious...like when he visits the house where the doctor was kidnapped or when he tries to get into the castle or my favourite the dentist scene.

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The business with the melting wax face and the laughing gas... those were in the Revenge PP?

I'm trying to put together my favorite scenes:
1) The one above described
2) Nudist colony "Doo-Doo dead" in "Shot in the Dark"
3) Dutchboy wig / pirate costume with pegleg & parrot that over-inflates and shoots off his shoulder.

Is 3 in Revenge too?

PS
"Another highlight finds Clouseau disguised as an old sea captain, complete with a leaky inflatable parrot" -Apparently!

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Oups sorry the scene I described was in Return of thbe pink panther.

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That is to say... the Dentist scene --melting wax face and laughing gas--
that was in RETURN, right?

And -if I finally have it straight--
the sea man with inflatable parrot was in REVENGE.

Please correct me or confirm if you can?
THanks,
Maggot

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Yup that's right...I confuzed the two.

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Oh, fer crissakes,
I have been assured that Dentist scene was in ...STRIKES AGAIN!
(Someone oughtta organize those "bits" into an index- I find it surprizing that some obsessive film student hasn't already put it on WWW, but if it has been done -Google can't find it!)

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Ok the parrot scene is in Return and the dentist scene is in Strikes again....Now I'm sure that's it, 'cause I just checked.

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"Ok the parrot scene is in Return and the dentist scene is in Strikes again....Now I'm sure that's it, 'cause I just checked. "-You

"OK, so dentist scene was in STRIKES AGAIN
and the Pirate/bursting parrot scene was in REVENGE." -the other guys
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Bbbbbut... the other guys *swear* that the parrot was in *REVENGE* (as above)!
HOW certain are you, Lionphish???
-Maggs




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*beep*...seriously I meant to type Revenge....geeze I've made so many mistakes on this board I better just not say anything anymore...

"I have so many problems I think about killing myself, but that wouldn't solve them all."

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I didn't really think anything in Strikes Back was funny at all. The stunts they did have were stupid, but not in the funny way. It was trying too hard to make me laugh. It was like if you made a movie like Airplane! and didn't deliver the lines seriously, but instead, forced your own acting into the lines and thus put it over the top and ruined it. It was a mess.

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I like the scene where everyone's attempting to assassinate Clouseau. Of course, that's in Strikes Again...

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I think that the man who created the laser in Pink Panther Strikes Again (Dr. something) created it so it would perhaps only vaporize for a temporary set of time, so Dreyfus could do no harm. Hence.. Dreyfus appearing in this movie.

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So how do you think Dreyfus winds up back in the mental institution? Did he just leave the castle and go back to the mental instituion or the police found him and took him back.

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The Pink Panther Strikes Again is a Cartoon Movie. It's a lot of fun and My favorite behind A shot in the Dark, and the Original. I'll be honest if you can't watch this movie and laugh at it, you may just have to pull the stick out of your rear.

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I think "Strikes Again" could be interpreted as being some delusion of Dreyfus'. (BTW, it's my least favorite Panther movie with Sellers, not counting "Trail.")

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The movies are so cartoonish anyway, does it really require an explanation?


When you think about it, all the ray really did was make Dreyfus disappear. He was still walking around on invisible legs, sitting playing the organ without a torso, etc.

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When it comes to continuity in the PP movies, this seems to be the most controversial point, the one that confuses everyone.
Well, what more can I say after all that's been said so far? Apparently Blake Edwards didn't care a great deal about continuity, and as great as those films turned out to be, Edwards was trying to profit, so he'd write the script with whatever idea he'd come up with that could end up in a funny film, so it was pretty much a matter of convenience, and that's why sometimes there is continuity and sometimes there isn't.
So, as said before, don't go busting your back trying to figure out what goes where in the Panthers, just watch them and be glad that Sellers and Edwards ever crossed paths.

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I don't understand it either. I'm making my way through the boxset and the running order is 'The Pink Panther', 'A Shot in the Dark', 'The Pink Panther Strikes Again', 'Revenge of the Pink Panther' and 'Trail of the Pink Panther' so I too can't understand how Herbert Lom is back after being vaporised?? The dentist scene in strikes again is hilarious!

It seems the boxset is missing Return and a few of the others? How many are there?

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Let's face it. A Pink Panther movie without inspector Dreyfus wouldn't be half as good. Everybody liked how he was the only one aware what a total moron Clouseau is but somehow Clouseau always solved the case in the eyes of the media and this angered Dreyfus even more. As Dreyfus put is so brilliantly to his shrink: "There's not any man like him anywhere in the world".

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All true, but they could have explained it somehow.

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I have a theory, since the machine was overloaded what if it caused Dreyfus to be transported back into the mental institution instead of being vaporized?

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Aaahhh, let's just say that, while wearing his straightjacket in the rubber room, Dreyfus hallucinates the entire scenario that comprises "Strikes Again."
His sanity begins to improve when he realizes that he doesn't really want to end up the way he did in his hallucination (being molecularly disassembled at the end of "Strikes Again"); finally, Dreyfus is given a clean bill of mental health and is held blameless for all the homicides he committed (in his bungled efforts to kill Clouseau) in the previous Pink Panther flicks "on account of temporary insanity."

Or maybe the French judicial system figured he got off too easy, and how better to give Dreyfus his just desserts than to give him back his old job as Inspector Clouseau's long-suffering boss?

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Dreyfus shouldn't have appeared in any more Pink Panther films after Pink Panther Strikes Again. And he certainly wouldn't have been allowed baclk in the police.

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Well, the powers that be sure looked the other way after the accidental homicides Dreyfus committed (while trying to kill Clouseau) in "A Shot in the Dark," didn't they?

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Hallucination is the way I see it. In Strikes Again we get to peer into Dreyfus' mind in the midst of a psychotic episode, all from the comfort of a neighboring room with a window to his.

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Agreed. Strikes Again was a dream in Dreyfus' mind.

What's a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?

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