Pepé le Pew
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
- 1979: Bugs Bunny's wild, daring hunt ( The Bugs Bunny / Road-Runner Movie , with real scenes)
- 1981: The totally crazy Bugs Bunny movie ( The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie , with real scenes)
- 1983: Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
TV Shows
- 1979–1990: Speedy Gonzales - The fastest mouse in Mexico
- 1983–1987: My Name is Rabbit ( The Bugs Bunny Show , 1960–2000)
- 1990-1995: Tiny Toon Adventures (Tiny Toon Adventures)
- 1994: Animaniacs (one appearance)
- 1997: Sylvester and Tweety ( The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries , one appearance)
- 1999: Histeria! (A gig)
- 2002-2005: Baby Looney Tunes
- 2005-2007: Loonatics Unleashed
- 2011–2014: The Looney Tunes Show
- since 2015: The new Looney Tunes Show (New Looney Tunes)
Documentaries
- 1991: Chuck Amuck: The Movie
- 2000: Chuck Jones: Extremes & Inbetweens - A Life in Animation (with stars )
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.
- 1972: Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies (first television production, with real scenes)
- 1977: Bugs Bunny's Easter Special
- 1979: Bugs Bunny's Valentine
- 1979: Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
- 1982: Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television
- 1986: Bugs Bunny / Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary (with star interviews)
- 1988: Bugs Bunnys Hit Parade (Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars)
- 1991: Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes ( Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes , with real scenes, short appearance)
Real films / animated films
- 1996: Space Jam
- 2003: Looney Tunes: Back in Action (short appearance)
Direct-to-Videos
- 1997: Bugs Bunny's Silly Seals (real film / nature educational film)
- 2000: Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (short appearance)
- 2003: Looney Tunes: Reality Check (Webtoons compilation film, short appearance)
- 2003: Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction (Webtoons compilation film)
- 2006: Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
- 2015: Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run (short appearance)
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
- ↑ a b c d Title at Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes on fernsehserien.de
- ↑ Odor-Able Kitty ARD title on cartoonvergleich.blogspot.com. Yosemite Sam, September 8, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
- ↑ a b Pepe the skunk on looneytunesingermany.blogspot.com. Yosemite Sam, January 5, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Warner Cartoons VHS title on looneytunesingermany.blogspot.com. Yosemite Sam, February 25, 2007. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
- ↑ Pepe the skunk in the Foreign Legion Super 8 title on super8rezensions.de. Accessed August 1, 2019.