Friz Freleng so popular that United Artists, distributors of "The Pink Panther", had Freleng produce a short cartoon starring the character, "The Pink Phink" (1964). After "The Pink Phink" won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), Freleng and DePatie responded by producing a whole series of Pink Panther cartoons. Other original cartoon series, among them "The Inspector", "The Ant and the Aardvark", "The Dogfather", "Roland and Rattfink" and "Crazylegs Crane", soon followed. In 1969, "The Pink Panther Show", a Saturday morning anthology program featuring DePatie–Freleng cartoons, debuted on NBC. "The Pink Panther" and the other original DePatie–Freleng series would
Groovy Aardvark album were in English. After the release the band toured for two months in Québec. Groovy Aardvark released a second album "Vacuum", in 1996. The band toured in Canada, the United States and Europe. Their final concert was staged in August 2005. In 2012 the band came back together for a reunion show at the Montreal FrancoFollies festival. The following musicians joined and departed during the band's existence: Groovy Aardvark Groovy Aardvark was a Canadian rock band active from 1986 to 2004 in the Québec music scene. They performed in English and in French. In 1986, the band Schizophrenic Muff