Citations:pandamonium

Noun: "(humorous) furor caused by or involving pandas"

 * 1972, "Pandas settled in National Zoo", Lodi News-Sentinel, 21 April 1972:
 * First Lady Pat Nixon, who received them on behalf of all Americans, said "Thank you so much for this gift of pandas for children of all ages, including me. I'm sure pandamonium will break out."
 * 1977, National Geographic, Volume 151, page 580:
 * "Pandamonium" reigns in the Nation's Capital. Hsing-Hsing, shown nibbling a stalk of bamboo, and his look-alike, Ling-Ling, are packing them in at the Washington Zoo.
 * 1980, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia Yearbook, page 205:
 * The "pandamonium" they evoked included 32,000,000 visitors, panda dolls, panda candy, and records of the couple's crying routine.
 * 1980, Ann Blackman, "Will Hsing-Hsing, Ling-Ling finally have a fling-fling", The Lewiston Journal, 3 April 1980:
 * If the capital's furry fun couple doesn't finally get its act together and produce pandamonium, National Zoo officials say they will take matters into their own hands, so to speak.
 * 1982, Discover, Volume 3, page 105:
 * In Washington the panda watch is over, but Madrid erupts in pandamonium.
 * 1987, Douglas Martin, "About New York; Year of the Panda Is Lengthened By a Few Days", The New York Times, 4 November 1987:
 * But Sunday was the last day of the pandas' six-month visit and the "pandamonium" was supposed to be over.
 * 1988, Joseph P. Griffith, Pandas!, Gallery Books (1988), ISBN 0-8317-6720-0, page 14:
 * When she arrived on December 18, 1936, the first wave of "pandamonium" began, with reporters and photographers pressing forward to see the infant in its wicker basket.
 * 1988, Scott R. Robinson, "Chinese cooking is an art", The Bryan Times, 16 August 1988:
 * Ever since it was known that the Toledo Zoo would be exhibiting a pair of the endangered giant pandas, a state of "pandamonium" has existed in this part of Ohio.
 * 1988, Newsweek, Volume 112, Issues 10-18, page 132:
 * Concerned about the dwindling stock of pandas, the zoo's curators arranged to send him to Mexico City where three nubile females await him. Along the way, he was scheduled to make a three-month guest appearance in Cincinnati. The attendant pandamonium, the keepers thought, would produce receipts to cover Chia Chia's future expenses.
 * 2000, Patty Rhule, "Animal magnetism", Portsmouth Daily Times, 3 December 2000:
 * Washington, D.C., is poised for pandamonium as it awaits the arrival of Tian Tian and Mei Xiang from China, with luck by New Year's.
 * 2012, Robert Colvile, "I just don’t get this obsession with the cute and the cuddly", The Telegraph, 4 April 2012:
 * Certainly, Edinburgh Zoo’s attempts to persuade Tian Tian and Yang Guang to make sweet, cumbersome love have received blow-by-blow coverage – and offered journalists an excuse to trot out all the old favourites about “pandamonium”, and the keepers being “bamboozled” by the pair’s reluctance to get adequately acquainted.