Son of the Pink Panther Panther films. Gambrelli closes the film with the line: "That felt good!" following by the image of Gambrelli freezing as the animated Pink Panther walks across the still of Jacques, until an animated Gambrelli suddenly cuts away the head of live-action Gambrelli and pops out of the hole, dropping the head on the Panther's foot; the enraged Panther chases him into fading blackness. Note: Claudia Cardinale played the Princess in the original "Pink Panther" film. Here she returns as Maria Gambrelli, the part originally played by Elke Sommer in "A Shot in the Dark". This was the first "Pink Panther"
The Pink Panther Strikes Again thereafter, a cartoon image of Clouseau emerges from the water, which has been tinted pink, and begins swimming, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pink Panther character is waiting below him with a sharp-toothed, open mouth (a reference to the film "Jaws", made further obvious by the thematic music). The film ends when the animated Clouseau gets chased by the Pink Panther as the credits roll. "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" was rushed into production owing to the success of "The Return of the Pink Panther". Blake Edwards had used one of two scripts that he and Frank Waldman