For Scent-imental Reasons
| For Scent-imental Reasons | |
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| 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-first 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.
Detailed summary
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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 with me to ze Casbah - we shall make beautiful musics together right here!
Pepé: Zis leettle love bundle. Now she is seeking for us a trysting place. Touching, is it not? Come, my leettle peanut of brittle! I will help you! Wait for me! Wait!
Pepé: You know, it is possible to be too attractive.
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Colognes
- Gun pistol
- A Barrel of water
- A sky blue paint bucket
Vehicles
Production
Development
Filming
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
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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- It initially ran uncut on Cartoon Network. However, the entire glass chamber scene was edited out in later airings.[2]
Errors
Accolades
| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Award | March 23, 1950 | Best Animated Short Film | For Scent-imental Reasons | Won |
Legacy
- 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.
- Although initially unnamed in this short, the cat would be dubbed "Penelope" in The Cats Bah, among other aliases such as "Fifi" in Two Scent's Worth, and "Fabrette" in Really Scent. Penelope's name wasn't solidified until Carrotblanca in 1995, in which the posters billed her as such.
- While it was edited for time, this movie would be used in The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie.
In popular culture
- In the 2024 film Joker: Folie À Deux, Arthur watches this short on television while he is at Arkham State Hospital.
Critical reception
In other languages
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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.
References
- ↑ "Pepé le Pew: Stinky". blog.chuckjones.com. Archived from original on original on October 3. 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Guide: E-F". The Internet Animation Base. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
