Pink Punch

'Pink Punch' is a Pink Panther cartoon short.

The Pink Panther appears on a stage, advertising his "Pink Punch" drink via a series of placards with, of course, pink lettering. On the placard with the product name, the dot above the "i" in "Pink" is an asterisk. However, the moment he displays it, the asterisk turns green and the audience begins laughing. The Panther tries various stratagems (some involving the drink) to change the asterisk back to pink, but it stubbornly changes back to green, then jumps off the placard and begins taunting him, squirting green ink all over him. When he tries to destroy it, he is confronted with an extremely large, threatening green asterisk, evidently the small one's parent or guardian.

This surreal situation continues in the Panther's laboratory where he's mixing up more Pink Punch. The green asterisk appears with a beach umbrella and towel, and dives into the basin, turning the punch green. The Panther pulls the plug to send the asterisk down the drain, but the large asterisk appears again and forces him to fish the small asterisk out with a plunger. When the Panther flies his small prop plane trailing an advertising banner, the asterisk shows up in midair and falls in love with the airplane's (pink) propellor, proposing (in a series of symbolic messages) that they have a family (of green asterisks), and the propellor pops off the airplane and joins the asterisk, leaving the hapless Panther plummeting to the ground.

Covered in bandages, the Panther limps back to the stage area and grimly puts up more placards advertising "Green Punch", this time in all-green lettering. As he turns away, the asterisk appears again, and turns itself pink.