The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther | A Shot in the Dark

Sign: "HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIQUE" (0:00)

The psychiatrist tells former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus, referring to smoking, "You quit."
Charles: ”I’m a patient you consider to be completely rehabilitated... soon to appear before the sanity board.”
Quinlan: ”... an obvious trick like that would have sent you into a towering rage.”
Charles: ”You are a good psychiatrist...”
Quinlan: ”I was just making sure that you are not a better liar than I am a psychiatrist.” (0:01)

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau hits a croquet ball, striking Charles in the head. After getting out of the water he falls unconscious. (0:04)

Woman, striking Clouseau on the head: "Pervert."
Charles tells Clouseau, ”I was hit on the head.”
Clouseau: ”You could receive the concussion...”
Charles: ”Probably the shock of... seeing you here again today. ”
Clouseau: ”Well, I received a report from the sanity commission...”
Clouseau: ”Yes, we made quite a few changes since you went crazy.”
Charles: ”... I will have my interview with the sanity commission...” (0:05)

Animations suggestive of King Kong, The Sound of Music, Singin' in the Rain, Sweet Charity. (0:11)

Clouseau strikes his butler Cato Fong in the head with a kendo shinai, rendering him unconscious. (0:19)

Clouseau tells Cato, "... former Chief Inspector Dreyfus has escaped from the insane asylum... the poor man is crazier than anyone gives him the credits for." (0:20)

By telephone, Charles tells Clouseau, "The purpose... is to honor one of this city’s most dedicated, brave and selfless public servants."
Clouseau: ”I have replaced the lunatic Dreyfus as Chief Inspector.”
His telephone strikes Charles on the head. (0:23)

Clouseau tells Sgt. François Chevalier, "... this mad bomber must be apprehended..." (0:25)

One man strikes another in the head (off camera) with a pistol. (0:29)

Clouseau strikes beekeeper Stutterstutt with a mace.
Clouseau tells Mrs. Leverlilly, ”That would account for your exaggerated hysteria....” (0:35)

Clouseau strikes himself in the head. (0:38)

Superintendent Quinlan answers Inspector Alex Drummond, "Because... their great detective is a fool." (0:38)

Butler Ainsley Jarvis dressed as a woman (0:41)

Jarvis slugs a man in the face. A brawl follows with multiple head injuries. (0:44)

Professor Hugo Fassbender tells Charles, "You’re mad."
Charles: ”Mad?... Mad?... Napoleon was the maddest of them all.” (0:47)

Drummond tells Quinlan, referring to Charles, "... an inmate at the state facility for the criminally insane."
Quinlan: ”That’s one crazy chief inspector talking about another crazy chief inspector.” (0:51)

Clouseau tells Quinlan, "... perhaps to meet the lunatic Dreyfus." (0:53)

Defense secretary: "... a weapon like that in the hands of a crazy Frenchman." (0:56)

Charles tells Fassbender, "Ah, the dreams I had..." (0:56)

Secretary of State Henry Kiissinger tells President Gerald Ford, "And, crazy or not, anyone who has..."
”... a certified lunatic would...” (1:00)

Assassin Olga Bariosova tells Clouseau, "... no man had ever been able to involve me emotionally until tonight."
Clouseau: ”Anyway, this is the man who can lead me to the lunatic, Dreyfus...” (1:15)

Fassbender tells Charales, "You are mad."
Charles: ”Madness does not preclude achievement.”
”A madman.” (1:18)

Clouseau tells the hotel clerk, "That is what I have been saying, you idiot." (1:20)

Charles tells Clouseau, "Please give me something to put me out."
Clouseau: ”Put you out?... you must wear this special anesthetic cotton wool... On no account look out from under the anesthetic cotton, because that ruins the whole effect of the anesthetic on the eyes.”
”Just rearranging the furniture in order to give you the full effect of the anesthetic.”
”I was, uh, preoccupied with the anesthetic... Now, the anesthetic, nitrous oxide.”
”That is the anesthetic...”
Both laugh inappropriately.
Charle: ”... it’s giving me hallucinations...” (1:27)

Clouseau tells Olga, "... a little song we used to sing in the Resistance to keep up the courage..."
”Cato, you imbecile...” (1:40)

Animated reference to Jaws. (1:42)