The Pink Blueprint

The Pink Blueprint

Year: 1966

Runtime: 7 mins

Director: Hawley Pratt

AnimationComedy

At a construction site, the Pink Panther swaps a standard house blueprint for his own pink, ultra‑modern design. When the diligent carpenter rejects it and sticks to his original plan, the panther hijacks the materials, sabotages the work with a burst of nails and a runaway saw, and slips a blue‑tinted copy of his plan into the carpenter’s pocket. The carpenter unwittingly builds the fancy façade, but the elaborate front collapses, revealing his simple cape‑style home.

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The Pink Panther, voiced by Mel Blanc, arrives on a bustling house-building site where the on-site contractor—nicknamed the “Little Man”—is examining the project’s blueprints. The Panther clambers out from a barrel, eyeing the plans with a mix of curiosity and mischief. The blueprint before him features blue overtones and a traditional, almost milk-carton silhouette. Disgusted by this ordinary design, the Panther swaps it out for a gleaming, pink version—what he calls a pinkprint—that envisions a futuristic, rounded, all-pink house, then slips back into his barrel to observe the reaction.

The contractor, oblivious to the swap, crumples the pinkprint and moves on with his work. This simple act sparks the Panther’s resolve: if anyone is going to build his dream home, it will be him. From that moment, the Pink Panther becomes a covert, if chaotic, foreman, weaving through the site and orchestrating a string of playful, slapstick mishaps that derail the contractor’s progress. Each clever stunt is a small victory for the Panther, a display of cunning as he avoids capture and twists the day toward his own bizarre, pink dream.

As the chase escalates, the Panther escapes into a paint shed, prompting the contractor to block the door to keep him out. Inside, the Panther discovers a bucket of blue stain and hatches a new plan. He dips the pinkprint into the blue liquid, dyeing it a deep blue, and then, through a hole in the shed, swaps the original blueprint in the contractor’s pocket for his own design once again. When the contractor returns, he sees the blueprint in his possession and immediately begins to work, inspired by the Panther’s version of architectural ambition.

Soon the house is completed, and the contractor drives away contentedly, convinced the project has reached its finish. The Panther, having tunneled out from the shed, peeks back to survey the results—only to discover that the “dream” home is not the wildly futuristic pink wonder he envisioned. Instead, it is the plain, conventional structure the contractor had planned all along, with a flashy pink façade added as a deceptive front, a false-front wall designed to dazzle before reality sets in. The final sightline leaves the Panther both disappointed and amused, a reminder that appearances can be altered, but the true nature of the house remains grounded in its simple, boring design beneath the disguise.

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