De-Patie-Freleng Enterprise's The Inspector, perhaps their second most popular, better and biggest in number of cartoons after The Pink Panther series, series is made up of thirty four cartoons. The first being 1965's 'The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation' and the last being 1969's 'Carte Blanched'. Not all the cartoons in the series were particularly great, some average or less, but most are well worth watching.

1967's 'Le Pig-Al Patrol' fits under that distinction. Consider it among the better The Inspector cartoons and the best of the 1967 cartoons as far as the previous ones of that year go. It is one of the well above average, even good, The Inspector cartoons, well made and enjoyable. Also one of the funnier 1967 The Inspector cartoons. At the same time, it's not one of the series' most inventive as an overall whole.

Story-wise, it is relatively formulaic and some of the pacing could have been a touch tighter.

Pig-Al is a great villain and among the better ones of the series perhaps, the best and most memorable in a while. The chemistry between Pig-Al and The Inspector sparkles, important for 'Le Pig-Al Patrol' to work as it centres pretty much only on them. Pat Harrington does a particularly great job and Marvin Miller was interesting.

Gags, mostly physical and visual, are many and they are very funny and clever. Do agree that the air and cab door gag was a standout and also loved those signs. It could have been sharper at times but the wit and irony are done well. It was a shame that Deux Deux and the great personality contrasts between him and the Inspector are missing, but their absence don't have too much of a big hole.

'Le Pig-Al Patrol' is fine visually. The animation is simple but never cheap-looking, while the somewhat abstract backgrounds have nice attention to detail, more so than the Pink Panther cartoons (not a knock at all on the animation of that series), and don't look sparse. But it is the deep and rich colours that stand out in this regard. Liked the jauntiness and jazzy slinkiness of the music, which didn't sound too cheap or repetitive.

In summation, well above average and well done. 8/10

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