Celebrate 60 Years of Pepe Le Pew

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Oh my goodness! I forgot to go back to January 6th. I looked up on IMDb that the cartoon "Odorable Kitty" was released January 6th 1945. It was the first cartoon featuring Pepe Le Pew. As you probably know that three months ago was the 60th anniversary of the launch of Pepe Le Pew. I was just curious to back to January 6th. That was three months after that. Here's the story from Matthew Hunter's Too Looney website:

Chuck Jones' amorous French skunk creation, Pepe Le Pew tried and failed to capture the girl of his dreams from 1945 until 1962. The only problem is, Pepe's love interest is generally a black cat with a white stripe painted down her back, and she finds Pepe Le Pew's odor repulsive. Naive Pepe rarely realizes that his odor offends, and thinks that the cat's desperate attempts to escape his arms are merely a game. He never gives up and remains confident and cheerful in his pursuit of love, and occasionally, Pepe wins, though generally when the cat runs out of gas or has no choice. Though primarily set in France, the series found itself in settings worldwide, including Africa, Switzerland, and the United States. In one cartoon from 1959, "Really Scent", Chuck Jones animator Abe Levitow was given a chance to direct a Pepe short, and decided to turn the formula upside down by making the cat, in this case born with an irremovable stripe, love Pepe and try to overlook the odor. In fact, it is often the case that the cat (in some cartoons identified as Penelope, in others Fifi or Fabrette) doesn't mind Pepe's advances at all at first, until she smells him.

Pepe Le Pew! Sorry, three months was already late!