For Scent-imental Reasons

For Scent-imental Reasons
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	November 12, 1949
Run time	7:03
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Mike Maltese
Animation	Ben Washam Ken Harris Phil Monroe Lloyd Vaughan
Director(s)	Charles M. Jones
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For Scent-imental Reasons is the two hundred and sixty-third Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on November 12, 1949. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Chuck Jones.

When Pepé invades a perfume shop at Paris, a shopkeeper recruits a female cat to stop him. However, an accidental painting of a white stripe causes the skunk to mistake the cat as his potential lover.

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Memorable quotes

Gendarme: Sacre Fellis! LE PEW!

Gendarme: Le kittée quel terrible odeur!
Perfume shop owner: Allez, Gendarme! Allez! Retournez-moi! This instance! Oh, pauvre moi, I am ze bankrupt…
Cat: Le mew? Le purrrrrrr.
Perfume shop owner: Ah, le pussy ferocious. Remove that skunk, that polecat pole from ze premises. Avec!

Pepé: Ahh! Le belle femme skunk fatale! (clicks tongue) Do not come weeth me to zee Casbah - we shall make beautiful musics together right here!

Pepé: Zis leettle love bundle. Now she is seeking for us a trysting place. Touching, eez eet not? Come, my leettle peanut of brittle! I will help you! Wait for me! Wait!

Pepé: You know, eet eez possible to be too attractive.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Perfume shop owner	Mel Blanc
Pepé Le Pew	Mel Blanc
Gendarme	Mel Blanc
Female Cat	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • France
    • Paris
      • Parfume Shop

Objects

• Colognes
• Gun pistol
• A Barrel of water
• A sky blue paint bucket

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Crew credits

• Layouts: Robert Gribbroek
• Backgrounds: Peter Alvarado

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 12, 1949 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a play on "for sentimental reasons." You're welcome.
• The MPAA number for this short is 13024.
• Edward Selzer, who produced the short, thought nothing funny about a skunk speaking with a French accent and wanted Chuck Jones to stop making these cartoons. Despite this, when the short won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, Selzer proudly accepted it anyway.
• It is the only Warner Bros. Cartoons short that won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject to be directed by Chuck Jones.
• When this short aired on ABC, the scene where Pepé fakes his suicide to lure the cat out of the glass chamber was removed. Additionally, the line that Pepé says before falling out the window, "Vive l'amor, we die together," was altered to just "We die together," removing the first part of his sentence.
• It initially ran uncut on Cartoon Network. However, the entire glass chamber scene was edited out in later airings.

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient	Result
Academy Award	March 23, 1950	Best Animated Short Film	For Scent-imental Reasons	Won

Everlasting influence

• This cartoon would solidify the template for most subsequent shorts starring Pepé Le Pew, building off from his first appearance in Odor-able Kitty in 1945.
• While it was edited for time, this movie would be used in The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • October 28, 2003: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 on DVD.
  • November 15, 2011: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 on Blu-ray.
  • December 27, 2011: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best on DVD.