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Encyclopedia: Pepe Le Pew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | In a series of Warner Bros. cartoons, Pepe Le Pew (voiced by Mel Blanc imitating Charles Boyer's Pepe le Moko from Algiers (1938), a remake of the 1937 French film Pepe le Moko [1]) is a French skunk who always strolls around in Paris in the springtime, when everyone's thoughts are of love. |
 | | Normally, Pepe's romantic interests should include female skunks ("petite femme skunk"), but each episode invariably revolves around Pepe pursuing a "skunk", who, unbeknownst to him, is usually a hapless fl cat (retroactively named Penelope) that inadvertently gets a white stripe painted down her back. |
 | | Chuck Jones, Pepe's creator, says that Pepe was based (loosely) on the personality of his Termite Terrace colleague, writer Tedd Pierce, a self-styled "ladies' man" who reportedly always assumed that his infatuations were requited. |
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