Pink Panther cartoons (for which I have a soft spot) often feel recycled, even when they're not. The artists responsible for them were all veterans, and if they hadn't told these exact jokes before, they'd told many like them - only, in the Panther cartoons, they're told for the first time in an almost perfectly minimal style, shorn of such things as intricate artwork, complicated animation, camera movement, and personality. (The Pink Panther's distinguishing feature is that he doesn't have one. He may, at most, have moment-to-moment motivation.)
There's always a cunning exactness to the design, and the artwork is often attractive - although, in this cartoon, it's a touch TOO minimal for that to be the case. The Panther is long and thin, and so are girders, and so are wooden planks, and apart from these things (and a blue sky background), there's not a lot to look at. That's the cost of applying the Pink Panther style to a construction site. The benefit is that no bad cartoon, I'll be willing to wager, has ever been made about a construction site. They're too rich in possibilities. So the gags are good, the humour unlaboured and unforced, the timing assured. At the very least it's a decent effort.
There's always a cunning exactness to the design, and the artwork is often attractive - although, in this cartoon, it's a touch TOO minimal for that to be the case. The Panther is long and thin, and so are girders, and so are wooden planks, and apart from these things (and a blue sky background), there's not a lot to look at. That's the cost of applying the Pink Panther style to a construction site. The benefit is that no bad cartoon, I'll be willing to wager, has ever been made about a construction site. They're too rich in possibilities. So the gags are good, the humour unlaboured and unforced, the timing assured. At the very least it's a decent effort.