''Louvre Come Back to Me!'' is a 1962

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directed by

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. The short was released on August 18, 1962, and stars

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in his last cartoon of the "classic" Warner Bros. animation age.

Plot

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, Pepé is strolling and causing a disturbance with his fumes. At one point

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is walking with a ginger cat and Pepé's stink causes the ginger cat to faint and Penelope to spring into the air in shock, her back making contact with a fresh white-painted flagpole before she falls right into Pepé's arms. As Pepé introduces himself, Penelope scurries away. Pepé chases Penelope into the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

, with the ginger cat following. Pepé's stench ruins a couple of sculptures (correcting one into the '' Venus de Milo'') as well as thwarting the ginger cat's ambush attempt (who Pepé mistakes for a sculpture due to him turning white; the cat's teeth, whiskers, tail, and nose fall off, which, after briefly fleeing, he comes back to sweep up before slinking off again) and he terrifies Penelope in the sculpture gallery, even as he paints a picture of her ("Don't move, darling. I want to remember you just as you are."), she scurries away again and Pepé "accidentally" paints the dust cloud she left onto his picture ("Aw, shucks... You moved!"). The ginger cat then pumps himself with air in an attempt to simultaneously look strong and muscular and hold his breath while he confronts Pepé. Pepé plays along with the confrontation as a duel, miming a miss and a defeat. The ginger cat in the meantime slowly suffocates and finally, the air he fights very hard to hold in is forced out, launching himself into the Hall d'Armour and trapping himself in a suit of armor. Pepé wonders where everyone has gone to and after remarking that "War is fine, but love is better", he immediately picks up on where Penelope went. Pepé finds Penelope hiding in the air conditioning machine below the Louvre and, thinking she had found a trysting place for them, traps her in it with himself. Pepé's fumes spread through the Louvre spoiling various works of art (the limp watches on

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's '' The Persistence of Memory'' turn erect and break while the head and insects pass out, the heads of the couple on

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's ''

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'' retreat into their bodies in the manner of turtles, the person overseeing the workers on Jean-François Millet's ''

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'' shoots a starting pistol causing the workers to dash off like sprinters, and the color on

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's ''Two Dancers'' falls off turning it into a paint-by-numbers picture), the cartoon ending with the fumes causing the ''

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'' to talk. She breaks the fourth wall and says ("I can tell you chaps one thing. It's not always easy to hold this smile.").

Crew

*Co-Director & Layouts:

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*Story: John Dunn *Animation: Richard Thompson,

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*Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin &

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*Film Editor:

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*Voice Characterizations:

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*Music:

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*Produced by

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*Directed by

Home media

* VHS - ''The Looney Tunes Video Show Vol. 3'' * DVD - '' Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best'' * DVD - ''

Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island ''Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island'' (also known as ''Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island'') is a 1983 ''Looney Tunes'' traditionally animated compilation film directed by Friz Freleng and Phil Monroe with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. c ...

References

External links

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