I just remember the cat getting painted, that’s why Pepe thought she was a skunk. It’s not that she blamed him for molesting her, she just wasn’t attracted to skunks. Pepe could never be disabused of the notion that eventually she would succumb to his charms because almost any female skunk would. But she’s not a skunk, she’s a cat.
I remember very clearly watching the cartoon, and he smelled. She was constantly gagging and trying to get away from the smell, that's the reason she wanted nothing to do with him. It's not about molestation. But of course, people are trying to make it something way more than what it is.
Yeah that’s right. That wafting stink was a total deal breaker for her. Now I can appreciate Stormy Daniels basic reaction to Trumps advances
And if he had been a cat, she would have eventually succumb to sweet tender “is that cat being murdered?” feline love making.
Yes and then she fell in a bucket of water and washed off the paint, while Pepe’ got in some paint. He didn’t recognize her and asked if she’d seen a beautiful mademoiselle skunk. Then her heart starts beating out of her chest and she pursues Pepe’.
Oh, cool
Eventually it turns around on Pepe though. For some reason the cat falls in love with him so then he's the one running away.
The raping of the rapist!
Lol...No means Yes to Pepe.
Everything means yes to Pepe.
Oh, ma petite flower, come to ze casbah wiz me. Mua, mua, mua!
I would ask you to come to ze Casbah wiz me, but we are already 'ere, no?
This made me crack up
Homeboy would get #metoo’d so fast these days.
Pepe Le Pew, one of my favs!
Sex Pest Le Peu
Casual rapist Le Peu. He sure is a horny bastard.
You're not wrong, but what I think the younger crowd fails to realize is that he's actually an anti-French joke! They don't shower and don't wear deodorant and think they're irresistible to the ladies!
We have a skunk visit us often taking advantage of my wife's feral cat feeds outback. Guess what we named him? The little bastard got me twice in the dark walking by...
in Brazil he was Pepe le gambe.
Sadly, Pepe hasn't aged well.
Rapey le pew
This is hilarious! I might borrow to use in conversation. 
Might want to pass on that at the staff meeting.
🤣🤣
Have it! For a leetle keeess ma cherie…..
Yeah, I think it's sad that the woke crowd has ruined everything. This was such a good cartoon.
No….Pepe LePew was never good. He made me want to watch Foghorn Leghorn vs that stupid dog
Luckily I live in SC so I get reminded of Foghorn Leghorn every time the Governor speaks.
Have you heard Kay Ivey speak? Guv'ner Meemaw is the worst
I have family in Bama. They make fun of her daily. Bamans, Bamaians, Bammers? keep voting for her because she has those old strawberry hard candies in her purse, I guess?
We as a nation tend to vote for the ones that hurt us the most. Workers at Mercedes tried to unionize and they passed some kind of law that inhibited it pretty quickly. Guess she promised them cheap uneducated labor forever
Ah say ah say look at me when I'm talking to you boy.
Foghorn leghorn - “AH SAY! AH SAY!”
Barnyard Dawg
Anybody stopping you from watching it?
Nah, even as a late 80’s kid I knew this shit was wrong. Personally never found it funny.
I love cartoons that normalize sexual assault. It's so funny! If a girl says no, you just gotta push harder. Hahaha. The woke crowd doesn't teach their daughters these important lessons
I always hated Pepe Le Pew as a kid. I couldn't wait for the next cartoon to start when one of his came on...
Edit: before the anti-woke crowd starts whining, I was a kid watching these in the 1970s. I was far too young to realize his advances were inappropriate. I hated him because he just wasn't funny and the cartoons were repetitive. Five decades later I can remember the plots to scores of Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, etc. cartoons I enjoyed, but I can't remember a single Pepe Le Pew story except that he painted his white stripe black occasionally to look like a cat. 🤷♂️
Fair enough. But for anyone to say this is promoting rape is just woke lunacy.
When you say 'woke,' you should specify woke left or woke right.
The woke left may have recognized that Pepé is jokingly rapey, but the woke right are the ones trying to force women to be kitchen-dwelling cock puppets so they can be Pepé.
I think it could have just lived as a product of its time, if it hadn't been for all the people who made it obvious that this kind of thinking is actually a real threat from the woke right.
Actually, I think Pepe was ahead of his time. The kitty's distress was clearly portrayed, as was Pepe's complete unawareness of anything other than his own desires. He was so focused that he didn't even realize she was a cat rather than a skunk. He was conniving, manipulative, and couldn't take "no" for an answer. But he was so charmingly inept that I couldn't help but laugh at his antics and love his cartoons.
Yep the first, best example of sexual harassment!
(but TBH I loved it back in the day!) 😏
He was a masher!
Leave that kitty alone!
Masher is a word that I've only heard in cartoons..
😁
I dont recall seeing him in Space Jam, and that came out damn near 3 decades ago.
It’s like the animal version of Donald Trump. Misogynistic and he stinks.
Yep.
Savoire faire is everywhere
Jesus, I just had a flashback. Thanks for that
I loved the one cartoon where the kitty came after ‘ol Pepe and gave him a taste of his own medicine.
You know, Pepe wasn't supposed to be a role model. He was an example of how you are not supposed to act. The fact that he is completely oblivious to the fact that nobody wants him around. Nobody appreciates his advances and he is blissfully unaware of how nauseating he is to the general public.
I always took it that the whole gist of Pepe as a character was to not be that way.
As I recall from an interview with Chuck Jones, he is a parody of one of his co-workers, Tedd Pierce, a guy with immense confidence that thought that he was a ladies man but whose affections and infatuations were not reciprocated.
"We could make ze beautiful musics together, no?"
Let me caress your wheeskers…
"Ah, the L'amour!
Ah, the Toujours!"
Zo it is true? I am, a pew?
“I must find out, what this “pew” means.”
One of my favorite lines!
That sexual assault in cartoon form, no doubt. First evidence of the "Me Toon" movement.
🤣🤣🤣
My husband and I were just talking about Pepe the other day. He turned up, inexplicably at the end of a Sylvester episode, trying to make out with ol' Puddy Tat. The skunk is a little problematic these days.
he always was. It's not like he was presented as a hero to be barracked for. He was designed to make a mockery of sleazy men. The cat was the sympathetic character.
I actually have a seriescell of Pepe and Kitty, signed by Chuck Jones himself hanging on my wall. I've had it for like 25 years. It also has a COA in an envelope with it.
I wonder the value now (it was $1,500 when it was first sold, and there's only 500 out there)
I also have a Foghorn Leghorn getting dragged by the chicken hawk cell (unsigned)
I’d love to have either of those!
He was persistent I’ll give him that. Pretty sure he’d be up on charges today
"Look Pepe, I'm sorry. But as your agent I have to tell you..in today's animation market there's just no place for a French rapist."
That silly cat always walking underneath the painted ladder and then playing hard-to-get.
She only would have been painted up like that if she wanted it…
/sarcasm
Mixed Signals, for sure.
My mom loved him. I think it was the French accent.
Le mew, le purr.
Yes?
R/usernamechecksout
It really showed how that kind of behavior was not welcomed and Pepe didnt realize he was in the wrong. I never as a kid or an adult ever look at it like oh he’s a sexual predator and it needs to be removed.
When he tries to fuck a cat, it’s entertainment.
When I do it, suddenly the police are involved.
The Bill Cosby of the animal kingdom
I’m trying to find you my pigeon
I’m looking someplace to find you
Wasn’t there an episode where they “changed roles” and the cat was after Pepé?
My sister had a black cat growing up and the way she’d runt Hough this house always reminded me of this cat.
Yep, that happened. If I recall, she rubbed herself in Limburger cheese and went after him!
IIRC, this happened just as Pepe had discovered that he stinks (“No, not me!”) and heads to a deodorant shop to address his situation.
“For her, I will make myself dainty.”
I remember he got dumped in blue paint and she thought he was a handsome rare exotic blue cat
Pepe Le Pew was - and is - one of my very favorites!
When I was a little kid in the 1960s, my family had a cat named Pepe Le Pew. I loved him.
Um if she’s gonna walk around e white paint on her then she’s asking for IT
Le Mew!
What?
Pepe LePew always “meowed” in French: Le Mew!
Oh I see now!!! Hahaha
I always loved the lady cat and her 'La mieu'.
Same 🥰
Le petite femme skunk fatale.
Aaahhh my little darlink ow I leurve you so
I don't like how they did My Guy Pepe Le Pew-when You have other characters that does worser things then him. All he want to do is LOVE HIS/ A WOMAN❤️.
His crush is a cat. He is a skunk. Skunks have a bad odor. That’s why the cat is trying to get away. Let me know the next time you guys with no sense of humor need an explanation.
There was that episode that ended up with him and Penelope trying to fix the problem and ended up with her stinky and him smelling of roses.
I remember when he tried to go after that wild cat.
And when the tables turned when he got dipped in blue body paint
Do kinda wish they'd done a few cartoons operating off his vanity though. It'd have been a stitch watching him do something like try to force himself into the Mr. Universe competition.
Anyone else remember when he did a guest cameo at the end of the Sylvester and Tweety short "Dog Pounded?"
Pepe La-Pew 😘😘😘😘
Pepe Le Pew! That guy was hilarious. Daffy Duck is my favorite though.
Ahhhh Mon Cherie come to the casbah with me
So could not do Pepe today
Pepe is a wild animal, he did not get the PC memo on how to approach the opposite sex.
Ah, Pepe!
These was one of my favorites.
Le skunk. Le pew!
What you need is a little occupational therapy, like making love.
"JUST GRAB THE _____ "
D.T.
He's my favorite
Pepe Le Pew and Speedy González were my favorites
I loved the jaunty little tune that played as he hopped around.
Yeah, this could definitely NOT be made today! Classic.
Oh I care.
Poor Pepé, labeled a sexual deviant and got canceled so sad 😞.
He was REALLY rapey.
One quote from Pepe that I cannot forget is "our love is like a bunch of roses and I am feeling a little thorny".
Yes was funny . But the millennials think that's why we're old perverts 😆
Cancelled by progressive culture
Pepe le pew didn't age well at all.
Certainly can't show this cartoon today, due to it "encouraging sexual assault". It's really silly.
Encourages sexual assault? Oh, I know what you mean. I can't tell you how many times I strapped bottle rockets to my roller skates. If only I had known better.
I can hear him saying, “Mmm mmm mmm’ followed by all the requests for a kiss with his French accent.😊
While she escapes, leaving him hugging the air.
I have always loved Pepe,La Pew & Penelope! Whether or not it’s true or not you just get tired after a while. Everybody is saying that everything that you enjoy when you’re young is evil but anyway, there was a rumor going around at one time or another that Warner Brothers was canceling all things Pepe. they would no longer feature him on any of their new merchandise, etc., etc. etc. blah blah blah. they were trying to cancel him because he wouldn’t accept the word no in his pursuit of Penelope. There was absolutely no harm meant with Pepe! He wasn’t a racist. He wasn’t a stalker. I have Pepe and Penelope embroidered T-shirts from the 80s and I probably went out to eBay and found the rest of them. I will wear them with pride. They were a big part of my childhood and as far as cartoons are concerned Looney Tunes is the best! of course credit goes to Mel Blanc for so many of the voices. you can’t tell me what we have now is any better?.
I can't believe that this guy was kicked off the tv. Fucking snowflakes.
Like the cracked women say. Stop sexualizing a cartoon. Its satire is not to be taken seriously. You don't like the cartoon, then don't watch it.
Don't make porn of something that IS NOT porn.
Outlawed cartoon!
He's making unwanted advances. He should ask permission. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes.
I'll tell you what I'm definitely not woke but thinking back on it now.My boy was way out of line🤣🤣🤣🤣
As bad as this cartoon made Limburger cheese out to be, it's actually not that bad.
Rape skunk
LePew!
I remember thinking that the cat was Sylvester and that Pepe got both the species and the gender wrong.
Her name is Kitty
Isn’t it Penelope?
Yes that's her name . I was joking
Ah, sorry!
#MoiAussi
Movie star Charles Boyer was part of the inspiration for Pepe!
If at first you don’t succeed in love, try a different cologne
“En Garde!” was my favorite.
He actually makes me think of Marge’s bowling teacher!
When I watched this as a kid I always thought the cat was a BOY! It made it even more hysterical to me!
Pepe and Penelope, sorry, how he got scared when she went after.
Is there ever a time when they were happy together?
But Madame..!!! Control yourself please!
When I lived in Johnstown, PA, there was a house that had a whole family of skunks living under the front porch of the house.
Every night the guy came home from his job, the skunks would retreat to under the porch to their pad
With the benefit of time and hindsight, you could be convinced by the argument that Pepe was a little... problematic.
Metv shows these still on Saturday mornings. The only channel i see him and Speedy
Check out the Looney Tunes series where Lola chooses hin over Bugs
I know what he feels like. 🥹
Le skonk de pew
He's no different than any man, the chase is all he craves... The moment the girl turns the tide, he runs for the hills...
Smooth operator
This takes me back…..My childhood sweetheart who I dated for 11 years used to describe me as a Greek Pepe le’pew
Oh yes. Pepe was the Romeo with stripes.
This is a cartoon. A real cat would eviscerate that creep in real life.
"I always got As in gym..."
I think I witnessed this scene last night in my driveway. I caught it on a security camera - a skunk chased around a neighborhood black and white stray cat. I doubt it was in an amorous way though.
Pepe made me very uncomfortable as a child & I never knew why... something just felt off. I mean, it was funny at first, but after a while...
Charles Boyer, y'all.
See also, Zoot Cat, an early Tom and Jerry.
Finally someone understands me!!!
Don’t think that behavior would fly today
Oh My fifi
*rapist
Looks like me in high school
Could you imagine this being on today. They would have shut it down and called it racist.
More like "rapist".
Pepe Le Rapist 😂
Even as a kid I always hated pepe la pew and wanted the cat to get away and win (I think she always did). I think he wad the one chacter my younger self always groaned with a "not him!"
I used to think being so critical of old cartoons was dumb but some of that stuff was a bit fucked.
Only if you take it that seriously. He was the one being mocked in the cartoon. He was the butt of the joke. Nobody wanted to be around him and were even repulsed by him, yet he had so little self-awareness that he thought he was God's gift to (cats) and was irresistible. The whole joke was "look at this fucking buffoon". He was never meant to be a hero, he was an example of how not to behave.
Good old Pepe Le Rapist
The only sexual education boomers ever got
Huh?
Pepe would have been canceled so hard with modern-day politics even though it was damn funny when he got chased.
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It was creepy back then as well. It was always questionable humor, on the edge. It just keeps hammering the awkward button.
A stinky skunk trying to land some pussy way out of their league. Pretty common trope back then as it is now.
He got canceled
More like rapist but I’m bouts it.
It’s spelled C O N S E N T
A morality tale of teaching men the value of personal hygiene
Yeah, and to take a hint.
Yes, I should have mentioned to value of getting consent
Hahaha! Love Pepe! Imagine blaming cartoons for everything!
The line that precedes this is “… how I would love a duck dinner,” and seals the deal with a smooch. Fudd proceeds forthwith to shoot a disgusted Daffy in the face.
Does Daffy’s bill spin around to the back side of his head while he looks mildly irritated?
I learned one thing with pepe, and it was to never do what pepe does in the cartoons.
He would have gotten crucified during the #Metoo movement.
Teaching kids that no means yes at an early age. 🙄
The Chuck Jones cartoon with Pepe’ falling in the paint and the cat turning about fair play is funny