Bubble gum Bubble gum Bubble gum is a type of chewing gum, designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble. In 1928, Walter Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum, and stretched more easily. This gum became highly successful and was eventually named by the president of Fleer as Dubble Bubble because of its stretchy texture. The original bubble gum was pink in color because that was the dye that Diemer had most on hand at the
The Pink Phink Short Film, it marked the first time that a studio won an Academy Award with its very first animated short. A laugh track was added to the theatrical Pink Panther cartoons when they were broadcast as part of the "Pink Panther Show" aired on NBC, and this laugh track still appears on when the show is aired on the Spanish language Boomerang TV channel, and the France Channel Gulli. Most American broadcasts currently air minus the laugh track. "The Pink Phink" can be viewed in its original form with full titles and sans laugh track on The Official Pink Panther