Pepé le Pew

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Pepé Le Pew (Eng. "Pepe the skunk") is a fictional character owned by the American entertainment company Warner Bros. , who was best known for a series of animated short films of the same name (cartoons) from the 1940s and 1950s.

The Pepé cartoons, some of which were awarded the Academy Award , mostly describe in a formulaic way how Pepé, a lovable French skunk from Paris - who originally wanted to be called "Stinky", chases after a cat named Penelope (Penelope Pussycat), whom he mistakenly considers a lovely skunk lady because of her skunk-like-looking, white-black-colored fur, while Penelope tries desperately to evade his persistent attempts at conquest.

The Pepé le Pew cartoons

The two main characters, as well as the basic plot premise - Pepé falls in love after Penelope has "conjured up" a white strip of paint on her back due to a mishap (usually touching a freshly painted fence, a ladder or some other staining object) transforms a black cat into a skunk and goes on the "amorous hunt" - the Pepé cartoons go back to the American filmmaker Chuck Jones , who also supervised the production of the first films in the series as a director.

In the original version of the Pepé cartoons, the famous voice actor Mel Blanc , who for decades was the standard English voice of Bugs Bunny , Daffy Duck and Piggy Dick , contributed the distinctive voice of the main character. This is characterized by a thick French accent (or an accent that sounds like it was commonly thought in the US at the time that spoken English sounds with a French accent) as well as a smooth, oily tone and a corresponding language style, the Pepé's characteristics as a seductive sparkling charm (or his ambition to be one). Blanc made it a special trademark of the figure to speak a wild mishmash of English and French (franglais): This is Pepé, who stylizes himself as a Parisian bohemian (he often wears clichéd outfits such as berets and scarfs or a gentleman's dressing gown and smokes cigarettes), not only with a strong French accent and timbre, but also uses French words (or Gallic English words) and French sentence structure principles: This appears most often through the interweaving of the French article le or the question part "non" in English sentences. An example of this is the sentence: "Ah, my little darling, it is love at first sight, is it not, non?" Most of these malapropisms were authored by the screenwriter Michael Maltese . In the French version of the cartoons, Pepes was changed from English streaked with French to French streaked with Italian, making Pepé an Italian accordingly.

The first cartoon about Pepé, The Scent of L'amour (original title: Odor-Able Kitty , a play on the English words adorable - "lovable" - and odor - "smell", a loan term from the French), came to American cinemas on January 6, 1945. Fifteen other short films followed by 1962, most of which were provided in a similar way with titles that were allusive in two ways: On the one hand, the titles emphasized the supposedly inherent characteristic of Pepé as a skunk, smelling bad (for example through words like scent or perfume ), and for Others emphasized his madness of love or Frenchness (with words like Romeo, Beau or sentimental ) and mixed both attributes (stench and madness of love) into humorous word creations that mostly represent amalgams from two known words ( e.g. scent -imental from scent and sentimental or perfumance from perfume and performance ).

Among these films, the short film Thick Air from 1949, which won an Oscar, deserves special mention.

Filmography

Short films

Pepé le Pew starred in 16 short films from 1945 to 1962 in the golden age of American cartoon. He also had a possible brief appearance in Fair and Worm-er (1946) and a brief appearance on the side of Sylvester and Tweety in On the Dog (1954). After the golden age of American animation, he appeared in two other short films. Once in 1979 in Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol , a short film from the TV special Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales , in which he had a short appearance, and again in 1995 in Carrotblanca .

  • LT stands for the Looney Tunes series, MM stands for the Merrie Melodies series
First broadcast (USA) German title Original title familiar characters LT / MM Director Remarks
Jan 6, 1945 The scent of L'amour Odor-Able Kitty Short appearances: Bugs Bunny , mouse similar to Hubie LT Chuck Jones German alternative title: Who adorns himself with stripes from others
28 Sep 1946 - Fair and Worm-er Brief appearance: Mouse similar to Hubie MM Chuck Jones possible brief appearance
March 8 1947 Beloved skunk Scent-imental Over You - LT Chuck Jones newly published as MM
Oct. 2, 1948 Skunks undesirable Odor of the Day - LT Arthur Davis
Nov 12, 1949 thick air For Scent-Imental Reasons Penelope Pussycat LT Chuck Jones Oscar - won; newly published as MM
24 Mar 1951 Julia stinks Scent-imental Romeo Penelope Pussycat MM Chuck Jones
29 Mar 1952 Pepe the skunk in the Foreign Legion Little Beau Pepé Penelope Pussycat MM Chuck Jones German alternative title: Bugs Bunny + Pepe the skunk - Always follow the smell!
July 11, 1953 Lovely masquerade Wild over you - LT Chuck Jones
Jan. 2, 1954 Got to the dog Dog Pounded Sylvester & Tweety , Hector the Bulldog LT Friz Freleng Brief appearance; newly published as MM
20 Mar 1954 - The Cats Bah Penelope Pussycat LT Chuck Jones
May 21, 1955 - Past Perfumance Penelope Pussycat MM Chuck Jones
Oct 15, 1955 Love goes through your nose Two Scent's Worth Penelope Pussycat MM Chuck Jones
31 Mar 1956 It stinks Heaven Scent Penelope Pussycat MM Chuck Jones
Oct 12, 1957 - Touché and Go Penelope Pussycat MM Chuck Jones
June 27, 1959 - Really scent Penelope Pussycat MM Abe Levitov
Apr 23, 1960 - Who Scent You? Penelope Pussycat LT Chuck Jones
Jun 24, 1961 Snow cat A Scent of the Matterhorn Penelope Pussycat LT Chuck Jones
Aug 18, 1962 Love in the Louvre Louvre Come Back to Me! Penelope Pussycat, Claude Cat LT Chuck Jones
Nov. 27, 1979 - Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol Bugs Bunny, Piggy Dick , Sylvester & Tweety, Yosemite Sam , short appearances: Elmer Fudd , Foghorn Leghorn MM Friz Freleng Brief appearance; Part of the special: Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
Aug 25, 1995 Carrotblanca Carrotblanca Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck , Penelope Pussycat, Sylvester & Tweety, Yosemite Sam, short appearances: Barnyard Dawg, Foghorn Leghorn, Pete Puma, Piggy Dick LT Douglas McCarthy

Compilation films

TV Shows

Documentaries

TV specials

Some television specials appeared, most of which consist of old short films. Only Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972) and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979) are original animated productions.

Real films / animated films

Direct-to-Videos

Webtoons

In the early 2000s, several webtoons were published on the Looney Tunes website:

  • 2002: Sports Blab # 2
  • 2003: The Royal Mallard # 5
  • Dating Do's & Don'ts (short appearance)
  • Malltown and Tazboy (short appearance)

Commercials

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Title at Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes on fernsehserien.de
  2. ↑ Odor-Able Kitty ARD title on cartoonvergleich.blogspot.com. Yosemite Sam, September 8, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Pepe the skunk on looneytunesingermany.blogspot.com. Yosemite Sam, January 5, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Warner Cartoons VHS title on looneytunesingermany.blogspot.com. Yosemite Sam, February 25, 2007. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  5. ↑ Pepe the skunk in the Foreign Legion Super 8 title on super8rezensions.de. Accessed August 1, 2019.