Pepe’s “stalker tendencies” never bothered me that much. Spike from Happy Days, on the other hand… now HE was DISTURBING.
I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet: on the relatively recent Tiny Toons, there’s a character named “Fifi la Fume” or something like that who is always involved in essentially the same plot as every Pepe cartoon. But, see, she’s a GIRL, so it’s FUNNY, I suppose.
I’m pretty sure that there’s also an episode of Pepe where he gets de-stinked somehow (falls into a vat of perfume, maybe?) and the cat is chasing HIM.
Ha! That cartoon druggie link insinuated that Yogi and BooBoo are gay! After a very long argument last year, I was convinced that I was the only person on earth who saw that.
And I wonder when I sing along with you, if everything could ever feel this real
forever,
If anything could ever be this good again.
–Foo Fighters
Hey, now ! Zere is no “two bewt” zere ! Ze stink is part and parcel of wat makes us ze greatest loveurs of ze weurld. Of curse, yoo AHmehricans woodun’t anderstand - you 'ave no kültchüre.
Joke aside, while Pepe doesn’t particularly offend me I’ll admit I sometimes do have conflicting feelings re-watching Tom & Jerry cartoons as a reluctant adult - they’re clearly written and designed expecting the viewer to cheer for Jerry ; but Jerry is *such *a deliberately provocative douche most of the time, and Tom only suffers grievous bodily harm because he can’t help feeding the troll… It’s kinda sad, really, when you think about it for much too long and have had a little too much to drink.
ETA: FUCK ! Zombied without my consent ! Or knowledge. There oughta be laws.
I’m wondering if this thread is older than Cafe Society. It might be. Anyway, moved from Great Debates. And fixing the title. His name is Pepe le Pew, not PePe La Pue.
Godzooky, though (as I recall) was an element in the otherwise unremarkable Godzilla cartoon right from the start. Scrappy-Doo is an addition to an established premise, and it was a good premise up until then.
Exactly- for instance, in one episode, Pepe and the female cat both fell out a window. She landed in a barrel of water and he landed in a bucket of blue paint. She came out looking horrible and he came out both handsome and odor-free… at which point SHE started chasing him lustfully, while he ran for his life, whining, “Perhaps it eez possible to be TOO attractive.”
It’s a lot like the old Benny Hill sketches that some feminists find offensive. Sure, Benny ogles and pursues nubile girls half his age… but the sketch ALWAYS ends up with Benny running for dear life, to the tune of “Yakkity Sax.”