# Hey, was the Pink Panther gay? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273 "2014-06-07T14:20:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/1 "2014-06-07T14:20:36Z")
One of my favorite cartoons while growing up in the 70s, he swagged his hips, he was so very suave and debonair, he’d sashay so cool as he walked… Then, there’s this picture: [hdwallpaper4all.com](http://www.hdwallpaper4all.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Pink-Panther-Photos-2.jpg) (which brings a smile to my face) I mean, c’mon! (If you haven’t figured it out, let me bonk you on the head with this hammer: I’m being tongue-in-cheek.) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/2 "2014-06-07T14:24:54Z")
What, is there something wrong with that? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/3 "2014-06-07T14:42:12Z")
I figure he was modelled after David Niven, who was in the first movie. Niven was debonair and suave and had a very effeminate way about him sometimes, but was not gay. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/4 "2014-06-07T14:47:18Z")
Nope, he’s not gay, just English. And please don’t say “same thing” ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/5 "2014-06-07T14:59:45Z")
why does a guy all in pink be gay? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/6 "2014-06-07T15:19:59Z")
He was camp, which often goes with gay, but not necessarily. (Mind you, I don’t ever remember seeing him with a lady panther.) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/7 "2014-06-07T15:21:58Z")
It was the 70s. Everything seemed a little gay. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/8 "2014-06-07T15:47:49Z")
I was expecting someone to do a “Gay or European” song from “Legally Blonde” ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/9 "2014-06-07T16:01:41Z")
I seem to recall him wolf-whistling at Capuchine’s name in the credits, so he must have been a horndog. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/10 "2014-06-07T16:42:10Z")
Only in the dark. All cats are gay when it’s dark. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/11 "2014-06-07T17:14:39Z")
Here you are: Pink at First Sight-Kiss the Girl: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbwZKBZ4QfI) ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/12 "2014-06-07T19:47:06Z")
I never found him “gay” (not that there is anything wrong with being gay). He just had naturally cat-like moves. [sub]FWIW: reported for forum change.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/13 "2014-06-07T21:04:09Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > It was the 70s. Everything seemed a little gay. 🙂 Snerk. Perhaps he was gay in the archaic sense? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/14 "2014-06-07T22:17:45Z")
The Pink Panther was straight. [Snagglepuss](http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130810202228/doblaje/es/images/2/2a/Snagglepuss.jpg) was gay. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/15 "2014-06-07T22:22:48Z")
No, but looking back… [Snagglepuss was fabulously flaming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udVCwQzRl2I#t=68). ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/16 "2014-06-07T22:23:49Z")
Ninja-ed by 5 mins. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/17 "2014-06-07T22:47:03Z")
**orcenio** obviously meant to write “fabulously flaming, even!” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/18 "2014-06-07T22:53:56Z")
Well, he had [two sons](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pink_Panther_and_Sons), so I go with not gay. But yeah, Snagglepuss, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/19 "2014-06-07T23:29:14Z")
Swished to Cafe Society (from MPSIMS). ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273/20 "2014-06-07T23:43:40Z")
He wasn’t pink because he was gay; he was pink so he could pimp Owens Corning insulation: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273.md?page=2)