This is a fairly funny short with some excellent sight gags and a pretty funny ending. I want to describe some of the gags, so let this serve as a spoiler warning:
This cartoon has the Pink Panther as a sheepherder (literally-he has exactly ONE sheep, though it is a most hungry sheep, as is shown early on when it strips all the ground in its path completely bare of grass) who finds himself in "Cattle County Texas". Texas cattlemen view sheep about the same as millionaires view the tax man. The cattleman in this short is a redheaded version of the little guy with a very short fuse. The Pink Panther tries to set himself up in sheep herding and tries to raise a fence, but the rancher drives the posts (and the Panther) into the ground with a mallet.
The little sheep (who is something of a crybaby) generally either eats or whines to the Panther over something the cattleman or one of his steers have done, though he does get angry once and uses some fence wire like a slingshot, with a steer as ammo and the cattleman as the target. It's hilariously executed.
The cattleman is neither very bright nor very fortunate, He dams off a watering hole, only to do something incredibly stupid and release the water himself. He clearly isn't the brightest penny in the cash register.
He finally does something NO real Texan would even consider-he sends for help from *GASP* Arizona! He tells them that the sheepherder is pink. So, naturally, he gets a bucket of pink paint dumped on his head just in time to get blasted by his help.
The ending is absolutely wonderful! I won't spoil it here! This short is on the Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection and is most certainly worth getting. The entire Collection is worth getting. Recommended.
This cartoon has the Pink Panther as a sheepherder (literally-he has exactly ONE sheep, though it is a most hungry sheep, as is shown early on when it strips all the ground in its path completely bare of grass) who finds himself in "Cattle County Texas". Texas cattlemen view sheep about the same as millionaires view the tax man. The cattleman in this short is a redheaded version of the little guy with a very short fuse. The Pink Panther tries to set himself up in sheep herding and tries to raise a fence, but the rancher drives the posts (and the Panther) into the ground with a mallet.
The little sheep (who is something of a crybaby) generally either eats or whines to the Panther over something the cattleman or one of his steers have done, though he does get angry once and uses some fence wire like a slingshot, with a steer as ammo and the cattleman as the target. It's hilariously executed.
The cattleman is neither very bright nor very fortunate, He dams off a watering hole, only to do something incredibly stupid and release the water himself. He clearly isn't the brightest penny in the cash register.
He finally does something NO real Texan would even consider-he sends for help from *GASP* Arizona! He tells them that the sheepherder is pink. So, naturally, he gets a bucket of pink paint dumped on his head just in time to get blasted by his help.
The ending is absolutely wonderful! I won't spoil it here! This short is on the Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection and is most certainly worth getting. The entire Collection is worth getting. Recommended.