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By Bryan Reesman, journalist and cultural criticDuring my religious viewing of Looney Tunes episodes during my early years, I enjoyed all of the characters except one: the obsessive skunk named Pepe Le Pew who kept chasing around Penelope Pussycat and other feline females.
I was too young to get the sexual connotations of what was going on â I thought girls were icky until the third grade anyway. But something stunk about this prancing dude, and it wasnât just his noxious spray. The Maurice Chevalier wannabe kept smothering these poor ladies, who clearly had no desire to be anywhere near him. He reminded me of annoyingly clingy kids who tried too hard to fit in at school and were starved for attention. But worse.
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OPINIONWhy cancel culture will boomerang against those who indulge in itMore recently â though long before cancel culture routinely sparked national headlines over this kind of thing â it became clear to me that Pepe was basically a stalker who would never accept ânoâ from a woman.
Comedian Dave Chappelle seemed to have had a similar realization. Two decades ago, he did a routine about how he was excited to show his nephew some Pepe Le Pew cartoons because he remembered how funny they were. Upon watching them again, he thought, âGood God, what kind of fâ-ing rapist is this guy?â
LeBron James in âSpace Jam: A New Legacyâ: A first lookMARCH 5, 202101:07Now, the cartoon creep wonât be stinking up the room much longer. Last week, it began circulating that his appearance in âSpace Jam: A New Legacyâ has been excised. Though the recent tweets from New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow asserting that Pepe helped normalize rape culture focused attention on the distressing critter, it turns out the âSpace Jamâ sequelâs director, Malcolm D. Lee, apparently decided not to go forward with a planned sequence back in the summer of 2019.
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When my cat temporarily sprained a foreleg, I found scrapes on her back from going under fences rather than over. I rigged the gate to be open just enough to let her pass and everything healed up in another two weeks.
Zykoic almost 4 years ago
Blue skunk.
Kind&Kinder almost 4 years ago
Yay! Heâs number 1 !
dwane.scoty1 almost 4 years ago
Pepe LePew gag arriving shortly, unless the woke censors wake up!
distortion Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Who paints the bottom edges of a fence?
Zebrastripes almost 4 years ago
LOL! Now he looks like a blue skunk with stripes!
PO' DAWG almost 4 years ago
Newly released CD, âPepe LePewâs Got The Bluesâ ( I almost wrote album )
jandjdevore almost 4 years ago
By Bryan Reesman, journalist and cultural criticDuring my religious viewing of Looney Tunes episodes during my early years, I enjoyed all of the characters except one: the obsessive skunk named Pepe Le Pew who kept chasing around Penelope Pussycat and other feline females.
I was too young to get the sexual connotations of what was going on â I thought girls were icky until the third grade anyway. But something stunk about this prancing dude, and it wasnât just his noxious spray. The Maurice Chevalier wannabe kept smothering these poor ladies, who clearly had no desire to be anywhere near him. He reminded me of annoyingly clingy kids who tried too hard to fit in at school and were starved for attention. But worse.
Related
OPINIONWhy cancel culture will boomerang against those who indulge in itMore recently â though long before cancel culture routinely sparked national headlines over this kind of thing â it became clear to me that Pepe was basically a stalker who would never accept ânoâ from a woman.
Comedian Dave Chappelle seemed to have had a similar realization. Two decades ago, he did a routine about how he was excited to show his nephew some Pepe Le Pew cartoons because he remembered how funny they were. Upon watching them again, he thought, âGood God, what kind of fâ-ing rapist is this guy?â
LeBron James in âSpace Jam: A New Legacyâ: A first lookMARCH 5, 202101:07Now, the cartoon creep wonât be stinking up the room much longer. Last week, it began circulating that his appearance in âSpace Jam: A New Legacyâ has been excised. Though the recent tweets from New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow asserting that Pepe helped normalize rape culture focused attention on the distressing critter, it turns out the âSpace Jamâ sequelâs director, Malcolm D. Lee, apparently decided not to go forward with a planned sequence back in the summer of 2019.
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mistercatworks almost 4 years ago
When my cat temporarily sprained a foreleg, I found scrapes on her back from going under fences rather than over. I rigged the gate to be open just enough to let her pass and everything healed up in another two weeks.
gammaguy almost 4 years ago
PoleCAT?