You should have called him Pussyfoot
I remember this one! 
Are Pepe Le Pew catoons still aired on TV given he’s a sexual predator & borderline rapist?
There more pertinent question is are any of those good old Warner Bros. cartoons still being aired, given that they’re actually funny and smart?
Have you ever actually watched any of them? That poor coyote is just trying to survive and just get tons of abuse from that smug bird.
I like you … wait, what? No. It’s not the coyote’s fault! You started off good and then just went off the rails.
HEY! HEY! Who asked you guys? Besides this thread is about Pepe. Stop hijacking the thread with all this nonsense.
Someone should just own up that a lot if these classic toons were NOT “Children’s” fare.
Pepe, in his general presentation as a B-flick boulevardier, was ostensibly a takedown of the arche/stereotype of the suave European who would supposedly just seduce the pants off any naive young lady (and now that I think of it probably had an element of the the mid-century American stereotype that Europeans did not bathe often and thus smelled…); notice how his target is usually absolutely unimpressed, meaning the archetype is imploded right off the bat. But beyond that, Pepe’s portrayal was a takedown of the not-nationally-specific “Ladies’ Man” or what is now, 60 years later, the Pick-Up-Artist. The obliviousness, the self-delusion, the not taking no for an answer, the casual disregard for how the target of his unwanted attentions was quite repulsed, even more the basic utter cluelessness about how it was a cat that had a painted stripe, not a fellow skunk.
Pepe’s **not **the hero, he’s the clown.
Heck, Pepe’s toons should be widely seen and screened so this behavior can be mocked.
And while we’re at it: Bring back Speedy. He always ended up *outsmarting *everyone else! Who the hell complained???
Hmm. JRDelirious, so you’re saying that Pepe was the precursor to the catcall video?
An interesting theory.
9:30 to 10:30 am every weekday on Cartoon Network. Hope you don’t have Dish.
Hey, Speedy’s just as much a lothario:
Mouse 1: “I know Speedy Gonzales. He goes steady with my sister.”
Mouse 2: “Speedy Gonzales, he goes steady with everyone’s sister!”
Pepe’s fault is painfully obvious: Unless he addresses the audience–which he often does–his eyes are closed, which to me betokens ignorance. That, along with the vise - like grip of his “forearms,” seems to be the crux of the story line–along with the hapless cat being conveniently mute. Pepe is also too stupid to distinguish between the natural smell of a female skunk and the fumes of whatever variety of paint got spilled on the cat.
Is it true that they don’t show Speedy Gonzales cartoons anymore, because somebody-or-other decided that they’re un-PC?
“All the pretty girls are in love with Speedy Gonzales. The rest are chihuahuas.”
Um, I believe it is spelled “seester.”
Yeah, pretty much, even though (broad brush) Latin America in general apparently loves the shit out of him.
I don’t know if they show them as part of the classic Looney Tunes run, but he’s a main character on the Looney Tunes Show.
They lampshaded the un-PC-ness of Porky and Speedy in the movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Speedy and Porky are having lunch in the Warner Bros. commissary and Porky says to Speedy, “F-first they tell me to l-lose the st-stutter, then they tell me I’m not f-funny anymore. It’s a p-pain in the b-butt being p-politically c-c-correct.” Speedy replies, “You’re tellin’ me.”
They did, but then they brought him back.
From Wikipedia:
You think Pepe Le Pew cartoons were bad - check out pre-Hays Code Betty Boop cartoons! :eek:
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You think Pepe Le Pew cartoons were bad - check out pre-Hays Code Betty Boop cartoons! :eek:
Betty was in the first Popeye cartoon. She was a hula dancer in a carnival and you could quite clearly tell that she wasn’t wearing anything under the lei around her neck.
I sure could! Did you see Popeye cover his eyes when he was onstage? :eek:
I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him and pat him and pet him and rub him and caress him and…
This is a prime example of why I hate all the contemporary Looney Tunes films (where contemporary is anything done after 1980 or thereabouts). It seems like they’re written by people who have heard about the classic shorts, but never actually saw them.
Porky Pig did not stutter! That’s Gabby Goat. Porky stammered. There’s a difference.
When Space Jam came out I wrote some parody lyrics called “I watched cartoons, when cartoons wasn’t cool” which included the lines
The characters they mix up
They really miss the boat.
They think they’re doing Porky
When they talk like Gabby Goat.
I watched cartoons. When cartoons wasn’t cool.