The Ant and the Aardvark on demand service Amazon Video. When "The Ant and the Aardvark" first appeared on "The New Pink Panther Show" in the fall of 1971, the series became wildly popular, so much in fact that the duo became a featured part of the NBC series. Even though the 17 entries remained popular throughout the broadcast run of "The Pink Panther Show", no new entries were produced. The series used several unique production techniques for the period. The aardvark's body was solid blue: his only clothes—a pair of blue shorts and matching T-shirt—were a matching blue. Similarly, Charlie Ant was solid red,
Aardvark (search engine) statistics. The name Mechanical Zoo was chosen in homage to the machine-like aspect of its applications, including Aadvark and other animal-named products that were intended for future release. When a user joined Aardvark, aardvark was added to the user's IM buddylist. Users submitted questions by email or IM. Aardvark guided the user through the question process by providing messages that confirmed receipt of the question and explained any actions required of the user. IM users were able to use a variety of "IM commands"—one word messages that could be used to fine-tune the question parameters, invite new users, or get