Pepe Le Pew No Longer Making “Beautiful Musics” With Warner Bros.

[Xprimentyl]

Cancel culture has it latest victim; the over-the-top French stereotype and his aggressive sexual advances are not slated to be in future Warner Bros. productions.

This is silly. If anyone could make any reasonable correlation between an animated skunk wooing a cat with a stripe accidentally painted on her back and the storied history of sexual assault that extends well before Le Pew’s inception 75 years ago (like, literally since humans have been around,) I’d like to see that data, please. Yes, a lot of older cartoons have a lot of offensive imagery by modern standards, but Le Pew? Was any young boy laying on his stomach in front of the television on a Saturday morning and taking romantic advice away from a skunk that can’t even tell the difference between himself and another species? Are there any sexual assault victims suffering PTSD when they see Le Pew forcing his unrequited smooches on the poor kitty?

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

I thought they cut that show years ago for the exact same reason. Had no idea it was still going. Oh well, the second grief is usually easier. It served a small part of my suppressed childhood well enough, a good run. The lesson that a skunk looks exactly like a cat if both are black with white stripe is a lesson that'll stay with me to the death bed.

 

[Jarrito3002]

I mean Dave Chappelle exposed that man years ago.



Now is this is to me a little overreaction but I am not annoyed by it Pepe is probably the weakest Looney Tune in the bunch. Like Bugs is a super star so his blackface antics can be brushed to the side but Pepe can be put on chopping block.

I don't people are going 1:1 emulate Pepe Le Pew that is usually not how that works. Pepe joke is one long turn a bunch of no's into yes and if not just keep going. The only time I remember this being turned around on him in one episode and he wasn't feeling it which was some good vindication. But most of the world doesn't have cartoon memory call back useless mutant power I have so to most people Pepe was the rapey skunk guy which was the joke.

Like I said I put him at F of the Looney Tunes tier list but you can probably find him all blinged out on overpriced XXXL sized shirt in the right places.

 

[SilentPony]

I remember reading the problem isn't that Pepe Le Pew is a serial rapist, that's been obvious for years. Even as a kid my siblings and I joked he should be in jail.
The problem is his scene was him hitting on some actress and she tells him no, he keeps at it, and she like sucker punches him and has this big "No means no!" scene, which was meant to show little girls to stand up for themselves. And they cut that scene and the actress is a little pissed because she thought that was a good message.

 

[BrawlMan]

Cancel culture has it latest victim; the over-the-top French stereotype and his aggressive sexual advances are not slated to be in future Warner Bros. productions.

This is silly. If anyone could make any reasonable correlation between an animated skunk wooing a cat with a stripe accidentally painted on her back and the storied history of sexual assault that extends well before Le Pew’s inception 75 years ago (like, literally since humans have been around,) I’d like to see that data, please. Yes, a lot of older cartoons have a lot of offensive imagery by modern standards, but Le Pew? Was any young boy laying on his stomach in front of the television on a Saturday morning and taking romantic advice away from a skunk that can’t even tell the difference between himself and another species? Are there any sexual assault victims suffering PTSD when they see Le Pew forcing his unrequited smooches on the poor kitty?

This is nothing new and has nothing to do with canceled culture. Pepé Le Pew has always been seen as a problem child ever since the mid to late nineties and early 2000s. He's a cartoon character from a different era and all of his shorts have not aged well. As long as they leave Fifi Le Fume alone, I don't care.

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[Dreiko]

Isn't canceling Pepe anti-french racism?

I mean, they have a greeting over there that entails groping tits lol.

 

[Silvanus]

Where am I going to get my sex ed now?! School didn't help; they just gave me a banana and a deflated balloon.

 

[SilentPony]

Where am I going to get my sex ed now?! School didn't help; they just gave me a banana and a deflated balloon.

That's a healthier understanding than the Locksmith of Love's version of sex. The only thing to learn from Le Pew is that 100 nos and a yes means yes.

 

[Avnger]

The problem is his scene was him hitting on some actress and she tells him no, he keeps at it, and she like sucker punches him and has this big "No means no!" scene, which was meant to show little girls to stand up for themselves. And they cut that scene and the actress is a little pissed because she thought that was a good message.

Well of course that scene was removed. How dare that actress censor Pepe's right to free speech! So much for the tolerant radical antifa feminist left.

Where am I going to get my sex ed now?! School didn't help; they just gave me a banana and a deflated balloon.

That's more than most of the US receives

 

[Buyetyen]

Hi, I'd like a Nothingburger with extra-large emptiness fries and a Coke Nihil.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

Johnny Bravo said to be increasingly concerned

 

[McElroy]

How many times did Liz say no to Jon? If cats could talk, Garfield would have some scary things to tell.

 

[Avnger]

Johnny Bravo said to be increasingly concerned

Johnny Bravo is actually somewhat of a different case. Unlike Pepe, his actions are never rewarded; Johnny never "wins" by sexually harassing a woman to exhaustion. He's treated exactly as he should be: a disgusting, harassing stalker until/unless he changes his ways.

 

[Jarrito3002]

Johnny Bravo is actually somewhat of a different case. Unlike Pepe, his actions are never rewarded; Johnny never "wins" by sexually harassing a woman to exhaustion. He's treated exactly as he should be: a disgusting, harassing stalker until/unless he changes his ways.

Plus there was a whole episode where he gets turned into a woman learns how it feels from the opposite end and was like this is some bullshit.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

How many times did Liz say no to Jon? If cats could talk, Garfield would have some scary things to tell.

In fairness about 2 years ago I went to a friends wedding and his wife said in her speech something about "Yeh I said no to him when he first asked me on a date because I wanted him to prove to me he was determined not because I didn't actually want to at least have a date with him". They've been together for 12 years and have a daughter.

Some people are a bit strange.

on the more pure Pepe Le Pew idea I've also seen it the other way round where a girl was clearly chasing after a guy and he really wasn't interested in her that way. That led to some trouble I will say eventually........

 

[Jarrito3002]

In fairness about 2 years ago I went to a friends wedding and his wife said in her speech something about "Yeh I said no to him when he first asked me on a date because I wanted him to prove to me he was determined not because I didn't actually want to at least have a date with him". They've been together for 12 years and have a daughter.

Some people are a bit strange.

Good for them but that sentiment of "prove your determination" is a no bueno. Say yes or no and move on if you are into me as I am into you lets meet in the middle and see where this goes none of this extra obstacle course nonsense.

Even in the current social political climate that idea is just going to keep fueling the "make the no into a yes" attitude and we are all going to sit around playing with our thumbs wondering why is nothing changing....

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

Good for them but that sentiment of "prove your determination" is a no bueno. Say yes or no and move on if you are into me as I am into you lets meet in the middle and see where this goes none of this extra obstacle course nonsense.

Even in the current social political climate that idea is just going to keep fueling the "make the no into a yes" attitude and we are all going to sit around playing with our thumbs wondering why is nothing changing....

Agreed even I was thinking "Really" at that lol. The prove your determination thing is rather silly

 

[ObsidianJones]

Nothing against you personally, Xprimental. You're my dude. We ride together, we die together, Bad Boys 4 life.

But I don't get how this is cancel culture other than the fact that we can affix that to the shifting of the populous's zeitgeist away from things others might consider benign.

The problem with everything should be allowed due to free speech is that we're allowing a number of 'acceptable' casualties due to capitalistic endeavors. I won't say Gangsta rap made people go shoot up situations. but I knew a good number of people trying to chase that stupid video life instead of paying attention in school that they had to make hard rebounds.

I don't see the issue of reasonable limits of what children can consume based on them not understanding what they are seeing other than exaggerated faces and funny violence that gets them to laugh. I mean, we almost universally know that a 5 year old shouldn't watch porn. We know that forcible assault on a woman isn't suitable for a young mind to associate with.

Hell, we basically teach our younger generation on how to interact with society via what media they consume. And they learn. They just emulate. What's wrong with making sure they are emulating things that are acceptable in society?

 

[Agema]

How many times did Liz say no to Jon? If cats could talk, Garfield would have some scary things to tell.

Nothing wrong with some mutually accepted flirting.

 

[ObsidianJones]

How many times did Liz say no to Jon? If cats could talk, Garfield would have some scary things to tell.

Nothing wrong with some mutually accepted flirting.

Building off Agema's post, if person A asks person B out, and person B says no. No harm no foul.

If Person A asks person B out once again, and person B again says no... Ok, you had to shoot your shot again.

Person A tries one more time with Person B. Person B is starting to get annoyed. One should learn to back off.

Here comes A again. Ok, an argument for Harassment is beginning.

I'll admit to a little bias. I do not understand why you would persist on asking someone out who isn't interested as long as they declared they aren't interested in you.

"I'm sorry, finals are coming up and I need to study" says nothing about you. So, yeah, I get asking out again in this scenario.

"I'm sorry, I'm not interested in you that way" says there's nothing happening here. Why would you ever try again?