The Assorted Mammary and Zoological Controversies of Space Jam: A New Legacy

[domino harvey]

If we really want to get pedantic, which you clearly do, you all are writing the name of the novel wrong: though the animal's name contains no hyphen, it does in the title of the novel (Moby-Dick) (or, to get realllly pedantic, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale)

[dustybooks]

I'm not the only one that found Pepe a boring character, am I? His schtick wore itself out after the first cartoon I saw way back when, and during the Looney Tune episodes on Saturday mornings I used his cartoons and the commercials as chances to go off an do something else. The only interesting thing was seeing how the cat was going to come off looking like a skunk. Hell, I forgot he existed until I read about this.

Don't remember having much of an opinion on them as a kid, but because Chuck Jones' style is so appealing to me, I get a kick out of them now. Also actually getting the Boyer / Chevalier joke as an adult makes him more amusing, at least for me.

[Gregory]

I hate to be That Pedantic Guy but misclassifying animals is triggering to me* - skunks are weasels and not rodents! They’re more closely related to dogs and cats than they are to mice and squirrels.

I hate to be that other pedant but skunks haven't been classified the Mustelidae family for a while; they're now understood to be part of their own family.

From the Pepe Le Pew wiki

In July 2016, it was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con that Max Landis was penning a Pepé Le Pew feature film for Warner Bros.[14] There haven't been no new information since then due to sexual assault allegations against Landis in 2017 and it was confirmed to be cancelled on March 8, 2021 as the character will not appear in future Warner Bros. projects.[15]

Come again?

[Brian C]

I hate to be that other pedant but skunks haven't been classified the Mustelidae family for a while; they're now understood to be part of their own family.

Touché. Apparently I conflated the superfamily Musteloidea with the family Mustelidae, and now I’ve been exposed as a mere wannabe pedant.

[Maltic]

From the Pepe Le Pew wiki

In July 2016, it was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con that Max Landis was penning a Pepé Le Pew feature film for Warner Bros.[14] There haven't been no new information since then due to sexual assault allegations against Landis in 2017 and it was confirmed to be cancelled on March 8, 2021 as the character will not appear in future Warner Bros. projects.[15]

Come again?

For this pedantic thread, I did consider adding a [sic], even though the quotation is from Wikipedia.

[swo17]

I just pray we all remember this thread come awards time

[spectre]

Man, if I had a carrot for each time I've heard someone refer to a rabbit as a rodent (as opposed to a lagomorph, its correct designation), I'd have some very well-fed rabbits.

[knives]

Or a hare as a rabbit.

[Brian C]

Well OK, but hares and rabbits are merely different genera in the same family, right? That's not really comparable to confusing entire orders.

[Zot!]

Interesting factoid while Pepe le Pew is a skewering of an oversexed unwashed Frenchman (is that contraction still ok to use?), in the French version, the voice of "Pépé le putois" was dubbed using a heavy Italian accent in a vocal caricature of Yves Montand, who was born Ivo Livi, making Pépé le putois the French Speedy Gonzalez.

I cant remember anything negative about Speedy Gonzalez, in fact the 1986 World Cup mascot bore more than a passing resemblence.

[tenia]

I suppose the issue wasn't so much Speedy himself that almost every single other Mexicans being designed as sleepy lazy drunkards.

[domino harvey]

I just watched the entire Pepe le Pew repertoire and, like, how many times can a cat conceivably get painted with a white stripe? Other than that, they were okay for the first 2/3 or so of their run, but the final suite of cartoons was awful and I doubt anyone was sad when he finally left the screen. Best French joke was how they spelled Daniel Boone’s name, and I liked that Renoir’s La grande illusion was named checked by Pepe in two different cartoons! Other than that, they’re all very similarly structured and hit the same jokes, but some of those jokes are funny (“Le mew”). Pearl-clutching about Pepe’s predilections is occasionally justified, but mostly overblown considering how these cartoons depict him on the whole as more of a nuisance than an actual threat (these are all essentially the same as all the other Looney Tunes cartoons: studies of frustration, so there can’t be any fruition anyways)