It wasn’t just cartoons that seemed to accept stalking back then. It was everything. Yeah, I know that Pepe Le Pew was shown to be a jerk and didn’t get the female he wanted, but that sort of character was more acceptable back then. Look at any medium back then - movies, cartoons, songs, fiction, etc. Frequently the stalker would end up getting the person they were stalking. Sometimes they were shown to be obnoxious and would have to give up, but you rarely see the outright revulsion that stalking gets today. Stalking often seemed to be portrayed as cute back then, even when the stalker eventually gives up.
I was cheering for the wild cat (from Wild Over You) because she could and did beat the crap out of Pepé, not that that deterred him.
Hell, in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, the brothers beat up everyone in the town, carry off screaming women, and everyone lives happily ever after - and TCM screens the film in the middle of the day.
Yeah, and Roadrunner cartoons are amusing until you have been through the horror of ingesting Earthquake Pills.
And a friend of mine who was nearly killed after trying out this Rocket-Powered Rollerskates still can’t sit through a full episode without crying.
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It’s all just too tragic…
Earthquake pills are 100 times more addictive than meth. Oh yeah, and every time I get a new pair of rocket skates some quakehead rips me off again and the ACME Company products are not eligible for Prime two day free shipping at Amazon !
As Pepe Le Pew would say, “Quelle damage”. But C’est la vie, that’s life in Toontown…right ?
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It’s all just too tragic…
Earthquake pills are 100 times more addictive than meth. Oh yeah, and every time I get a new pair of rocket skates some quakehead rips me off again and the ACME Company products are not eligible for Prime two day free shipping at Amazon !
As Pepe Le Pew would say, “Quelle damage”. But C’est la vie, that’s life in Toontown…right ?
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3 total posts. 2 today in this thread.
Recent hacking of SDMB passwords.
Hmm.
I need a new vendor for earthquake pills and rocket skates. Anyone out there have a suggestion ?
thanks very much,
Mamaw
Beverly Hills, CA
My thoughts are that the writer is ignorant about skunks, and about French. Even if I grant that skunks really can’t talk, cats can’t either. And a skunk should know the difference between skunk scent and the smell of house paint!
Egad!..Antiquarian polecat zombies! They’re so… so… 20th century.
But seriously, I believe 09-20-1999 is the most senior zombie post I’ve seen herein. Nearly 15 years.
true to your word then.
Especially interesting as she was the original reviver of this zombie back in Sept 2012. She joined just to make that post, and then returns 16 months later to revive it again? So all three posts are in this thread.
Weird!
Pepe was a well meaning charmer. The cat was the bitch. She wouldn’t even consider him because he was the wrong race, class, culture, etc. That’s what I got as a kid. She didn’t deserve him.
Women love being stalked. In movies. If the guy is hot. They’ll watch those movies over and over and over.
Don’t blame the cat (who wasn’t necessarily female). The cat was always mute. Suppose he/she told Pepe, “You’re wrong–I’m not even a skunk!”?
I came on here specifically to complain that some of the links in the first part of this thread don’t work! Is there no quality control here? Harrumph!
I hated Pepe Le Pew when I was a kid. I remember very clearly that the cat had a real look of terror of her face when she was pursued. I wanted to protect her and kick some skunk butt. Of course, I was about 5 years old at the time, so I didn’t go hunting skunks in my suburban wilderness preserve. We had possums and squirrels but no skunks.
Ha! More prejudice! 
Blame WallyM7, last seen in 2001.
[Shrug] Well, look at Pepe; he almost always had his eyes closed.