Pepé Le Pew is an animated character from the

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'' and ''

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'' series of cartoons, introduced in 1945. Depicted as a French anthropomorphic

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, Pepé is constantly on the quest for love and pursuit of romance but typically his skunk odor causes other characters to run away from him. Although initially a feature character with his own series of shorts, Pepé has drawn increasing criticism as treating the harassment of clearly unwilling women as a subject of humor. The female characters in his films often flee in fear of him, and his behavior is seen as a form of

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and implied

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Premise

Pepé Le Pew storylines typically involve Pepé in pursuit of a female

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, whom Pepé mistakes for a

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("la belle femme skunk fatale"). The cat, who was retroactively named Penelope Pussycat, often has a white stripe painted down her back, usually by accident (such as by squeezing under a fence with wet white paint). Penelope frantically races to get away from him because of his putrid odor, his overly aggressive manner or both, while Pepé hops after her at a leisurely pace.

Settings

The setting is always a echoing with fractured French. They include Paris in the springtime, the

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, or the little village of N'est-ce Pas in the

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. The exotic locales, such as

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, are drawn from the story of the 1937 film '' Pépé le Moko''. Settings associated in popular culture with romance, such as the

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or the

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, are sometimes present. One episode was in the

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, with Pepé seeking to work as a Legionnaire at a French military outpost.

Reversals

In a role-reversal, the 1949 short '' For Scent-imental Reasons'' ended with an accidentally painted blue (and now terrified) Pepé being pursued by a madly smitten Penelope (who has been dunked in dirty water, leaving her with a ratty appearance and a developing head cold, completely clogging up her nose). It turns out that Pepé's new color is just right for her (plus the fact that the blue paint now covers his putrid scent). Penelope locks him up inside a perfume shop, hiding the key down her chest, and proceeds to chase the now-imprisoned and effectively odorless Pepé. In another short, '' Little Beau Pepé'', Pepé, attempting to find the most arousing

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with which to impress Penelope, sprays a combination of perfumes and colognes upon himself. This resulted in something close to a love potion, leading Penelope to fall madly in love with Pepé in an explosion of hearts. Pepé is revealed to be extremely frightened of overly-affectionate women ("But Madame!"), much to his dismay, as Penelope quickly captures him and smothers him in more love than even ''he'' could imagine. And yet again, in '' Really Scent'', Pepé removes his odor by locking himself in a

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plant so Penelope (known in this short as 'Fabrette'; a black cat with an unfortunate marking) would like him (this is also the only episode that Pepé is acutely aware of his own odor, having checked the word "pew" in the dictionary). However, Penelope (who in this picture is actually ''trying'' to have a relationship with Pepé because all the male cats of

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take her to be a skunk and run like blazes, but is appalled by his odor) had decided to make her own odor match her appearance and had locked herself in a Limburger cheese factory. Now more forceful and demanding, Penelope quickly corners the terrified Pepé, who, after smelling her new stench, wants nothing more than to escape the amorous female cat. Unfortunately, now ''she'' will not take "no" for an answer and proceeds to chase Pepé off into the distance, with no intention of letting him escape. Although Pepé usually mistakes Penelope for a female skunk, in '' Past Perfumance'', he realizes that she is a cat when her stripe washes off. Undeterred, he proceeds to cover his white stripe with black paint, taking the appearance of a cat before resuming the chase. To emphasize Pepé's cheerful dominance of the situation, Penelope is always mute (or more precisely, makes only natural cat sounds, albeit with a stereotypical "le" before each one) in these stories; only the self-deluded Pepé speaks (several non-recurring human characters are given minimal dialogue, often nothing more than a repulsed "Le pew!").

Variations

Sometimes this formula is varied. In his initial cartoon, '' Odor-able Kitty'', Pepé (who was revealed to be a French-American skunk named Henri in this short) unwittingly pursues a red tabby cat who has intentionally disguised himself as a skunk (complete with the scent of Limburger cheese) in order to scare off a bunch of characters who have mistreated him. '' Scent-imental Over You'' has Pepé pursuing a female Chihuahua who has donned a skunk pelt (mistaking it for a fur coat). In the end, she removes her pelt, revealing that she is a dog. However, he then reveals to the audience that he is a real skunk. In '' Wild Over You'', Pepé attempts to seduce a female

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who had escaped a zoo (during what is called "Le grande tour du Zoo" at a 1900 exhibition) and painted herself to look like a skunk to escape her keepers. This cartoon is notable for not only diverging from the Pepé/female-black-cat dynamic, but also rather cheekily showing that Pepé likes to be beaten up, considering the wildcat thrashes him numerous times. ''Really Scent'' is also a subversion with Penelope (here called Fabrette) attracted to him from the beginning, removing the need for Pepé to chase her as ''she'' goes to ''him''. But Pepé's scent still causes a problem for her as they try to build a relationship.

Production

Pepé was created at Warner Bros. Cartoons by animation director

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and writer

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. Jones wrote that Pepé was based (loosely) on the personality of his

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colleague, writer Tedd Pierce, a self-styled "ladies' man" who reportedly always assumed that his infatuations were reciprocated. In a short documentary film, ''Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood'', Jones told an interviewer (perhaps jokingly) that Pepé was actually based on himself, except that he was very shy with girls. Animation producer Edward Selzer, who was then Jones' bitterest foe at the studio, once profanely commented that no one would laugh at the Pepé cartoons. However, this did not keep Selzer from accepting an award for one of Pepé's pictures several years later. Prior to the character's creation, the 1944 ''Looney Tunes'' short, ''I Got Plenty of Mutton'', directed by

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and written by Melvin Millar, features an antecedent premise with a hungry wolf dressing up as a ewe to fool a ram named Killer Diller from guarding a flock of sheep (a gag later adapted by Jones in his Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog cartoons). The infatuated ram proceeds to aggressively romance the horrified wolf in a style identical to Pepé, with Mel Blanc using the same faux-French accent and endearments featured in the later Pepé cartoons, with Diller even employing the same prancing gait later associated with Pepé for his pursuit. When the character of Pepé was more fully developed for cartoons of his own,

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based Pepé's voice on

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's Pépé le Moko from ''

'' (1938), a remake of the 1937 French film '' Pépé le Moko''. Blanc's voice for the character closely resembled a voice he had used for "Professor Le Blanc", a harried violin instructor on ''

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''. There have also been theories that Pepé's voice was based on singer

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. In Pepé's short cartoons, a kind of pseudo-French or

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is spoken and written primarily by adding the French article ''le'' to English words (as in "''le'' skunk ''de'' pew") or by more creative mangling of English expressions and French syntax, such as ''"Sacré maroon!"'', ''"My sweet peanut of brittle"'', ''"Come to me, my little melon-baby collie!"'', ''"Ah, my little darling, it is love at first sight, is it not, no?"'', and ''"It is love at sight first!"'' The writer responsible for these

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s was

. An example of dialogue from the

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-winning 1949 short '' For Scent-imental Reasons'' illustrates the use of French and broken French: :Pepé: (sings) ''Affaire d'amour? Affaire de coeur? Je ne sais quoi, je vive en espoir…'' (sniffs) ''Mmmm m mm… un smell à vous finez…'' (hums) :Gendarme: ''Le kittée quel terrible odeur!'' :Proprietor: ''Allez, Gendarme! Allez! Retournez-moi! This instonce! Oh, pauvre moi, I am ze bankrupt…'' (sobs) :Cat/Penelope: ''Le mew? Le purrrrrrr.'' :Proprietor: ''A-a-ahhh. Le pussy ferocious! Remove zot skunk! Zot cat-pole from ze premises! Avec!'' :Cat/Penelope: (smells skunk) ''Sniff, sniff, sniff-sniff, sniff-sniff.'' :Pepé: ''Quel est?'' (notices cat) ''Ahh! Le belle femme skunk fatale!'' (clicks tongue twice)

Later appearances

Pepé appeared with several other Looney Tunes characters in

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's 1972 made-for-TV special '' Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies''. In the

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film Daffy Duck's studio was producing in the story, Pepé played assistant to

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(played by Yosemite Sam). Pepé was going to have a cameo in ''

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'', but was later dropped for unknown reasons. In the 1995 animated short '' Carrotblanca'', a

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/ homage of the classic film ''

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'', both Pepé and Penelope appear. Pepé (voiced again by Greg Burson) as Captain Renault and Penelope (voiced by

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) as "Kitty Ketty" (modeled after

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's performance as Ilsa). Unlike the character's other appearances in cartoons, Penelope (as Kitty) has extensive speaking parts in ''Carrotblanca''. Pepé appears in the 1996 film '' Space Jam'' (voiced by

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). Pepé also appeared on the 2006 direct-to-DVD movie '' Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas'' (voiced again by Joe Alaskey) as one of Daffy's employees. A baby version of Pepé Le Pew appeared in '' Baby Looney Tunes'', voiced by

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. In the episode "New Cat in Town", everyone thought that he was a cat. In another episode, titled "Stop and Smell Up the Flowers", Pepé Le Pew is shown to be good friends with a baby Gossamer. Pepé Le Pew has appeared in ''

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'' episode "Members Only", voiced by René Auberjonois in season one and by

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in season two. He was present at the arranged marriage of Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny, in which Lola eventually fell in love with Pepé. He also made a short cameo appearance with Penelope Pussycat in the Merrie Melodies segment "Cock of the Walk" sung by

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. He appeared in his own music video "Skunk Funk" in the 16th episode "That's My Baby". He also appeared again in another Merrie Melodies segment "You Like/I Like" sung by Mac and Tosh. His first appearance in the second season was in the second episode entitled "You've Got Hate Mail", reading a hate-filled email accidentally sent by

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. He also had a short appearance in the Christmas special "A Christmas Carol" where he takes part in the song "Christmas Rules." In "Gribbler's Quest," Pepé Le Pew is shown to be in the same group therapy with Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, and Yosemite Sam. Pepé appeared in '' Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run'', voiced again by Jeff Bergman, as the head of a major

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for whom Lola wants to create a signature scent. Pepé also appeared in '' New Looney Tunes'' (formerly called ''Wabbit''), voiced by

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, in the role of a

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-like

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. Pepé made a cameo appearance in the ''

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'' reboot series in the second season episode "Yakko Amakko". The character appeared in the video games '' The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout'', '' Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage'', '' Space Jam'', '' Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 3'', ''Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 4'', '' Looney Tunes: Back in Action'', '' Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal'', and ''Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem''.

Criticism

The character has been criticized due to his antics being perceived as perpetuating stereotypes of French culture. Amber E. George, in her 2017 essay "Pride or Prejudice? Exploring Issues of Queerness, Speciesism, and Disability in Warner Bros. Looney Tunes", describes Pepé's actions towards Penelope Pussycat as "

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, and

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" and noted that Pepé's qualities mock the French people and their culture. Linda Jones Clough, the daughter of Pepé's creator, says she does not think anyone would watch Pepé cartoons and be inspired to rape someone, but she saw the choice to temporarily discontinue his appearances as an appropriate decision. Clough also suggested something that reflected her father's vision, to write him as a job-seeker who keeps getting rejected, but changes up his routine thinking he is perfect. Gabriel Iglesias, voice of Speedy Gonzales in ''Space Jam: A New Legacy'', said that he could not say that he ever saw the character in a negative light and that growing up watching the original cartoons, he said that it was just from a different time. At the

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, a slideshow named "Woman in U.S. Animation" shows cartoons that shows "imagery that implies sexual assault", including Pepé Le Pew. In March 2021, as a result of controversy surrounding the character, Pepé Le Pew was reported to be removed from modern

projects until further notice, starting with '' Space Jam: A New Legacy''. However, the character has been seen in later projects. According to Gabe Swarr, the Animaniacs episode "Yakko Amakko", which featured a cameo of the character, was written before the controversy.

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observed that even Pepé's co-creator Maltese "wasn't (...) too fond of him", and reported Maltese's claim that later Pepé cartoons were the result of the success of the first one.Skunked!
by

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Cancelled film

In October 2010, it was reported that

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would voice Pepé Le Pew in a feature-length live-action/animated film based on the character, although no information about this project has surfaced since. In July 2016, it was revealed at

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that Max Landis was writing a fully-animated Pepé Le Pew feature film for Warner Bros. The movie was cancelled due to sexual assault allegations against Landis in 2017, and a report that the character has not yet been planned to appear in future Warner Bros. productions leaves the feature film in doubt.

Voice actors

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(''Bugs Bunny's 50th Birthday Spectacular'', ''Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes'',

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bumper, ''

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'', '' Looney Tunes River Ride'',

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commercial, '' The Toonite Show Starring Bugs Bunny'', ''Have Yourself a Looney Tunes Christmas'', '' Carrotblanca'', '' The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries'', ''The Looney West'', ''Bugs & Friends Sing Elvis'', MCI commercials, ''Bugs Bunny's Learning Adventures'', ''The Royal Mallard'') * Keith Scott ('' Spectacular Light and Sound Show Illuminanza'', ''The Looney Tunes Radio Show'', ''Looney Rock'')"Keith Scott-"The One-Man Crowd""
Retrieved October 1, 2020. *

('' Space Jam'') * Joe Alaskey (''Crash! Bang! Boom! The Best of WB Sound FX'', '' Tweety's High Flying Adventure'', ''The Looney Tunes Kwazy Christmas'', '' Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas'',

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commercial, TomTom ''Looney Tunes'' GPS) *

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('' Looney Tunes Racing'', '' Looney Tunes: Space Race'', '' Looney Tunes: Back in Action – The Video Game'') *

('' Baby Looney Tunes'') * Bruce Lanoil ('' Looney Tunes: Back in Action'') *

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(''A Looney Tunes Sing-A-Long Christmas'') * René Auberjonois (''

'' (season 1)) *

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('' Mad'') *

( Converse commercials, '' New Looney Tunes'', ''Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem'', ''

'')

Filmography

;Shorts (1945–1962): All 18 shorts directed by

unless otherwise indicated. # '' Odor-able Kitty'' (1945) (only appearance and mention of Pepé Le Pew's wife) # '' Fair and Worm-er'' (1946) (brief appearance; the skunk in this short may or may not be Pepé) # '' Scent-imental Over You'' (1947) (only time Pepé chases a dog instead of a cat) # '' Odor of the Day'' (1948) (directed by Arthur Davis) # '' For Scent-imental Reasons'' (1949) (

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) # '' Scent-imental Romeo'' (1951) # '' Little Beau Pepé'' (1952) # '' Wild Over You'' (1953) # '' Dog Pounded'' (1954) (cameo in a Sylvester and Tweety cartoon; directed by

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) # '' The Cats Bah'' (1954) # '' Past Perfumance'' (1955) # '' Two Scent's Worth'' (1955) # '' Heaven Scent'' (1956) # ''

Touché and Go ''Touché and Go'' is a 1957 Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The short was released on October 12, 1957, and stars Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat. Plot As a street painter paints out a white line in the middl ...

'' (1957) # '' Really Scent'' (1959) (directed by Abe Levitow with Jones' animation unit) # '' Who Scent You?'' (1960) # '' A Scent of the Matterhorn'' (1961) (credited as M. Charl Jones) # '' Louvre Come Back to Me!'' (1962)

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