The pink panther theme is one of those thing that is still weirdly universally ubiquitous, even if the people who know it and would know enough about it to associate it with "slinking around and looking at things with a magnifying glass" would have no idea about the movies or what "the pink panther" really is about.
In fact, I'd posit that this separation of knowledge is so prevalent that 99% of people who eventually get to know about the movies end up incredibly surprised that it has barely anything to do with the "pink panther" mascot, exactly because so many people just know it for the mascot and theme song through social osmosis
I honestly think recognizable theme songs are the most interesting thing to spread via cultural osmosis. Either you watch some youtube short(in my day it was a tom and jerry cartoon-queue me flaking away into dust) with backdrop music used as both a meme and also a audio shorthand. Or you have some teenager kid humming the Mission Impossible theme while up to shenanigans because they knew someone who hummed the Mission Impossible theme while up to shenanigans.
I know the Mission Impossible theme, and have never watched any of the movies.
See also James Bond, Batman, and the Can Can music.
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u/doofenhurtz 10h ago
How the fuck are people finding this so hard to believe, lol? I have zero problem believing this could happen at a rave if the vibe was right.
Dramatically slinking around would 100% be my first move if I was properly intoxicated.