No connections. And I’m good at names.
And in looking over the answers, I did watch the Pink Panther cartoons as a kid long ago, and liked them… Still meaningless. Ah well.
DePatie-Freleng also did several Saturday morning cartoons–and, most memorably, a crop of Dr. Seuss specials. (The Cat In The Hat, The Lorax, Dr. Seuss On The Loose, and a few others.)
First name I thought of was David DePatie, who ran the cartoon studio in association with Friz Freleng.
(Before checking thread)
DePatie-Freling, a spinoff of the old Warner Brothers animation unit. As I recall, they did a series of Pink Panther shorts, among other things.
(after checking)
Yes!
No idea.
And now that I’ve googled it I’m likely going to quickly forget.
Without checking: DePatie Freleng is an animation studio. They did the Pink Panther.
I shall now read the rest of this thread.
Depatie-Freleng. Cartoons from my childhood. What do I win? I should probably read the rest of thread to find out. 
Responding after having read only the thread title — DePatie Frehling — from the credits of the Pink Panther cartoons.
Not that you asked for age, but I’m 30 and didn’t know it at all.
“So, what do you do when making long interstellar voyages without your wife, Admiral Ackbar?”
DePatie-Freleng was the only connection I could make. Apparently that’s the one.
Yeah, any cartoon that needs a laugh track is doing something wrong.
Damn. I used to watch those Pink Panther cartoons all the time as a kid, but the name meant nothing to me.
They were supplying the demand at the time. The quality animation of the movie era was produced for profit. Television demanded inexpensive children’s programming and DePatie-Freleng and Hanna-Barbera responded. Without that long period of low quality animation the art form could have been lost. Computer animation was seen as the future for quality in the medium but actually failed miserably because of the high costs involved, and lack of art. Don Bluth blew away the competition with The Secret of Nimh by reverting back to the classic animation techniques, which in a convoluted way provided the impetus to continue the development of computer animation in the future with a greater emphasis on the quality of the art, stories, and characters. We ended up with the best of both worlds, and a thriving industry.
I have not read the thread, or looked anything up. Here goes:
It is an animation producer who worked with a guy named Freleng, possibly on Pink Panther animation.
No, never heard of the name.
Definitely recognized the name (and the connection to The Pink Panther) without having to look it up, having watched many many episodes of that cartoon as a kid.
Just to note that most of the Pink Panther shorts (much like Looney Tunes, Mickey Mouse, and Tom & Jerry) were originally created for showing as short subjects in movie theaters. DePatie and Freling started making Pink Panther cartoons in 1964, but the Saturday morning Pink Panther show didn’t begin airing until 1969.
Just to note that I meant to say the animation of the movie era was not produced for profit. In other words, the shorts weren’t sold individually, they were an added attraction and the cost was eaten by the studios. During the most prolific period the costs were pretty low though, the animators were making chicken feed.
I immediately associate it with Freleng, as in DePatie-Freleng, producers who do … I wanna say cartoons?