A hungry blue aardvark is on a never-ending quest to catch a clever red ant named Charlie. Using absurd gadgets, elaborate traps, and sheer determination, the aardvark tries to outsmart his tiny prey—but Charlie always finds a way to escape. Packed with slapstick humor, jazzy music, and witty dialogue, this classic animated series from DePatie-Freleng Enterprises delivers fast-paced comedy in every episode. Originally released as theatrical shorts from 1969 to 1971, the series later became a beloved part of The Pink Panther Show.
The Ant and the Aardvark (Season 1)
The Ant and the Aardvark (Episode 1)
Air date: 1969-03-05
Overview: The Ant and the Aardvark
Hasty but Tasty (Episode 2)
Air date: 1969-03-12
Overview: The Aardvark is bedeviled by a portable hole which removes the ground beneath him on the edge of a cliff and lets the air out of a balloon suspending the Aardvark above the Ant onto whom the Aardvark plans to drop an anvil; anvil does not crush the Ant but hits the fallen Aardvark on his head.
The Ant from Uncle (Episode 3)
Air date: 1969-03-19
Overview: To bar the Ant from subterranean refuge, the Aardvark strives to plug every ant hole in existence and, to his dismay, discovers a hole of volcanic proportions which is the dwelling of Charlie's huge, older kin.
I've Got Ants in My Plans (Episode 4)
Air date: 1969-03-26
Overview: The Aardvark finds further opposition, in the form of another hungry aardvark, to his aim of ant intake - and so ensues a battle of aardvarks for digestive possession of Charlie, with use of spread-on-ground thumb tacks and rubber cement, plus jet-powered stilts and a tripping rope.
Technology, Phooey (Episode 5)
Air date: 1969-04-02
Overview: Aardvark's computer contraption that he consults for advice on how to catch the Ant only guides the Aardvark through an exercise of painful futility.
Never Bug an Ant (Episode 6)
Air date: 1969-04-09
Overview: The Aardvark's vacuum cleaner, intended by him to inhale the Ant after his own snout becomes corked and bottled, ingests an angry bear.
Dune Bug (Episode 7)
Air date: 1969-04-16
Overview: The Ant is spending his vacation at the beach, but the Aardvark sniffs him out. A Life Guard mistakes Aardvark for a dog a repeatedly kicks him off the beach. Ultimately Aardvark is send off to the Dog Pound.
Isle of Caprice (Episode 8)
Air date: 1969-04-23
Overview: The setting: two South Sea islands. On one: a hungry, shipwrecked Aardvark. On the other: an army of (food) Ants. The Aardvark knows that this is true because he sees the Ants in his spyglass. All that you have to do is swim right over there... except that there's a mean old shark who won't let that happen. The Aardvark tries, but he fails. Next, he gets a surfboard. The shark eats that as if it's newspaper.
Scratch a Tiger (Episode 9)
Air date: 1969-04-30
Overview: The Aardvark is hungry. He spots an anthill. Inside is the Ant. It seems that dinner is for sure. One problem: the Ant has a friend who owes him a favor... a tiger. Returning the favor, the tiger guards the Ant and his pals from the Aardvark.
Odd Ant Out (Episode 10)
Air date: 1969-05-07
Overview: A grocery truck loses a shipment of chocolate-covered ants. The Aardvark and another green aardvark fight over a can of ants, which they can't seem to open.
Ants in the Pantry (Episode 11)
Air date: 1969-05-14
Overview: The Bongo Pest Control Agency gets a call for an ant problem, so the Aardvark intercedes to take care of the call himself.
Science Friction (Episode 12)
Air date: 1969-05-21
Overview: The Ant is captured by a scientist and placed in an insect specimen container within the scientist's mobile laboratory, and fortunately for the Ant, his host does not approve of the Aardvark's Ant-snatching attempts.
Mumbo Jumbo (Episode 13)
Air date: 1969-05-28
Overview: The Ant's "lodge brothers" come to his rescue and thwart the Aardvark's nefarious plans.
The Froze Nose Knows (Episode 14)
Air date: 1969-06-04
Overview: The Aardvark shiveringly pursues the Ant after a snowfall has covered their habitat.
Don't Hustle an Ant with Muscle (Episode 15)
Air date: 1969-06-11
Overview: Whilst hiding out in a house after escaping from being chased by the Aardvark, the Ant discovers a bottle of "Vitamins for Strength" and after eating a couple of them, becomes ten times stronger than he used to be- much to the Aardvark's displeasure!
Rough Brunch (Episode 16)
Air date: 1969-06-18
Overview: The Aardvark chases The Ant, but this time The Ant has found a new pal in a termite.
From Bed to Worse (Episode 17)
Air date: 1969-06-25
Overview: After being run over by a truck, both the ant and the aardvark wind up in the hospital with broken legs. However that, along with sharing the room with an aggressive bulldog, doesn't stop the aardvark from continuing to pursue the ant as his dinner.
Seasons
Episodes 17