Wild Over You

Wild Over You
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	July 11, 1953
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Michael Maltese
Animation	Ben Washam Lloyd Vaughan Richard Thompson Abe Levitow Ken Harris
Director(s)	Charles M. Jones
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Wild Over You is the three hundred and seventeenth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on July 11, 1953. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by Edward Selzer and directed by Chuck Jones.

During the Paris Exposition of 1900, a female wild cat escapes from her confines at a zoo cage. To avoid being caught, she paints herself as a skunk, but her disguise also gains the attention of Pepé Le Pew.

Memorable quotes

Pepé: If you have not tried it, do not knock it.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Pepé Le Pew	Mel Blanc
Le Wild Cat	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • France
    • Paris
      • Zoo
      • Eiffel Tower

Objects

• Net
• Black and white paint cans

Vehicles

• Hot air baloon

Music

The music was composed by Carl Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: July 11, 1953 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• This is the first Pepé Le Pew cartoon to have Maurice Noble credited for layouts, and the first to have Abe Levitow be credited for animation work.
• This is the third of only three cartoons where Pepé is not in love with Penelope, the other one being Scent-imental Over You and Odor-able Kitty. It is also one of the few Pepé cartoon in which Penelope is absent, not counting his cameo in the Sylvester and Tweety short Dog Pounded.
• When the wildcat is first seen, she is hiding behind a sign stating "No Pate de Fois Grass", which is meant to be a warning to keep off the grass, but it is a play on "pate de fois gras", a French delicacy made of fattened goose or duck liver.

Legacy

• The far shot of the crowd fleeing the zoo in fear was later reused in the 1957 Merrie Melodies short Ducking the Devil.
• A clip of the hot air balloon ending was featured at the end of the Valentine's Day TV special Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • December 27, 2011: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best on DVD.