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Published on: 2/5/2007
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My guess is that DFE had a new writer (Jim Ryan) doing stories, instead of John W. Dunn.
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Maybe Ryan wanted to take "Inspector" cartoons to a new direction.
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Jim Ryan appears to have become the new head writer for the series starting with "Le Quiet Squad" and working all the way through "Le Ball and Chain Gang".You'll notice the disappearance of Deux-Deux in the series seems to coincide with Ryan taking story writing responsibilites in lieu of Dunn.
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Jim Ryan was a good writer but was much too inconsistent.Some of the Inspector shorts he wrote like "Le Quiet Squad", "Le Bowser Bagger", and "Les Miserobots" are quite funny but he also wrote some real stinkers such as "Tour De Farce" (one of my least favorite Inspector shorts) and "Le Ball and Chain Gang" (there was no point to this short.It's just more or less about an angry husband and wife bickering while the Inspector himself is just a background character!).Even on the Pink Panther series, Jim Ryan was quite hit-and-miss.Again, he wrote some quite funny shorts in that series such as "Pink Posies", "Prefabricated Pink", "The Hand is Pinker Than the Eye", and "Psychedelic Pink" (which is actually a top favorite of mine) but also wrote some pretty terrible shorts such as "Come on In!The Water's Pink" and "Pink Sphinx".
Jim Ryan seems to have left the studio around 1968 or so but even after his leave, Dunn still seems to have been away from the Inspector series.
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Even on the Pink Panther series, Jim Ryan was quite hit-and-miss.Again, he wrote some quite funny shorts in that series such as "Pink Posies", "Prefabricated Pink", "The Hand is Pinker Than the Eye", and "Psychedelic Pink" (which is actually a top favorite of mine) but also wrote some pretty terrible shorts such as "Come on In!The Water's Pink" and "Pink Sphinx".