A Pink Christmas.

Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again! Christmas-style, even!

When Warner Bros. shut down their animation department in the early 1960s, they let studio stalwart Friz Freleng and his partner David DePatie take over the facilities. One of their first big breaks was doing the animated opening credits for a Blake Edwards movie, which featured a certain cotton-candy colored feline who went on to become a cartoon star in his own right... By far the best one introduced in the 1960s. He'd have a good run in the dying theatrical short medium before becoming a fixture on television for decades to come.

The usually cool and clever Pink Panther is a bit off his game in this 1978 Christmas special, broke and hungry in a big, cold city. (The Carter-era economy was a real bitch for everyone, it seems!) Poor guy literally can't even get arrested at one point. Of course, it's Christmas, so things work out in the end...

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