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Friz Freleng was one of the main Looney Tunes directors at Warner Bros. until the studio closed.

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Friz was parodied in Back in Style, where after being laid off from Warner Bros., he erases the head off a sketch of Bugs Bunny and replaces it with a feline's head, dubbing it "The Gray Panther" and brags to Chuck Jones "I got me an idea and you don't!", much to Jones' frustration. This is a reference to the fact that Freleng co-created the character of the Pink Panther. His voice in the episode is extremely similar to that of Yosemite Sam, who then appears immediately afterwards and comments "I just lo-oves the way he talks!" Many people who worked with Freleng found him to be rather similar to Yosemite Sam.

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