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    Pepé Le Pew - Wikipedia

    • Pepé Le Pew is an animated character from the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, introduced in 1945. Depicted as a French anthropomorphic striped skunk, 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 ch… See more

    Premise

    Pepé Le Pew storylines typically involve Pepé in pursuit of a female black cat, whom Pepé mistakes for a skunk ("la belle … See more

    Production

    Pepé was created at Warner Bros. Cartoons by animation director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese. Animation producer Eddie Selzer, who was then Jones' bitterest foe at the studio, once profanely commente… See more

    First appearanceOdor-able Kitty (January 6, 1945)
    Designed byBob Givens (1945) · Robert Gribbroek (1947–present)
    AliasHenri, Pepe Henri Le Pew (full name)
    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… See more

    Cancelled film

    In October 2010, it was reported that Mike Myers 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 Ju… See more

    Voice actors

    Mel Blanc (1945–1989)
    • Gilbert Mack (Golden Records records, Bugs Bunny Songfest)
    Jeff Bergman (Bugs Bunny's 50th Birthday Spectacular, Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes, Boomerang bumper, The Looney Tunes Show (season … See more

    Filmography

    Shorts (1945–1962)
    All 18 shorts directed by Chuck Jones unless otherwise indicated.
    1. Odor-able Kitty (1945) (only appearance and mention of Pepé Le Pew's wife)
    2. Fair and Worm-er (1946) … See more

    See also

    Little 'Tinker – a character with an identical premise from competitor MGM. See more