#Phew cartoon series
Very often, since the Pepe series are set in France beginning with the Academy Award-winning " For Scent-imental Reasons", many of these side characters tend to react to this with exaggerated French accents (and very often, are given minimal dialogue, often nothing more than a repulsed, "Le pew!").Ī skunk often identified as Pepé appears in the Art Davis-directed cartoon " Odor of the Day" (1948) in this entry, the theme of romantic pursuit is missing as the skunk (in a nonspeaking role, save for a shared "Gesundheit!" at the finish) vies with a male dog for lodging accommodations on a bitterly cold night. Pepé Le Pew cartoons typically feature the amorous polecat pursuing what he believes is a "female skunk." Usually, however, the supposed female skunk is actually a black cat who runs away from Pepé because of either his putrid odor or overly assertive manner or both, but the skunk won't take "no" for an answer, and hops after her at a leisurely pace.Ī running gag often found in the Pepe Le Pew cartoons are instances of the side characters encountering skunks (either Pepe or any cat in skunk disguises, such as Penelope Pussycat) and fleeing away from their putrid odor and/or skunk-like appearances in a comical fashion at the start of the cartoon. A prototype Pepé appears in the 1948 cartoon " Bugs Bunny Rides Again", but sounds similar to Porky Pig.Īn antecedent in 1944's " I Got Plenty of Mutton" is a ram called Killer Diller that behaves very much as Pepé later would, pursuing a reluctant female, speaking with a French accent (Mel Blanc used the same voice as he would for Pepé), smothering the female with kisses, constantly turning up in the victim's hiding places, and nonchalantly bouncing after a frantically scrambling target. However, in the short film Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood, Chuck says Pepé was actually based on himself, but that he was very shy with girls, and Pepé obviously was not. There have been theories that Pepé was based on Maurice Chevalier. For the remaining cartoons Jones directed, Pepé retained his accent, nationality, and bachelor status throughout. This differs from later entries in several areas: Pepé spends his time in pursuit of a male cat, who has disguised himself as a skunk with a Limburger scent in order to scare off a bunch of characters mistreating him in the closing gag, Pepé is revealed to be a philandering, hen-pecked American skunk named Henry with a wife and children. 12.3.1 Rosnoc/Magazine Management (Australia)Ĭhuck Jones first introduced the character, originally named Stinky, and once called Henry, in the 1945 short " Odor-able Kitty".12.2.4 Looney Tunes (Burger King Promo).
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