For Scent-imental Reasons
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For Scent-imental Reasons is a 1949 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short, directed by Chuck Jones, written by Michael Maltese, and starring Pepe LePew. It won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).
[edit] Synopsis
When a black cat accidentally gets a white stripe down her back, everyone assumes she is a skunk, including Pepe Le Pew. The love-stricken Pepe then tries to woo her, whereas she tries to avoid his smell.
[edit] Trivia
- Although this is not Pepe's first cartoon, this is the first where a cat accidentally gets a white stripe down her back (the first one, "Odor-Able Kitty" had a male cat and the second one, "Scent-imental Over You", had a chihuahua glue on skunk fur), a formula which was then used in all of Pepe's cartoons from this point on.
- Some television versions cut out the entire sequence where Pepe tries to coax the cat out of a glass case because near the end of the gag, Pepe puts a gun to his head and pretends to commit suicide. Cartoon Network left the glass case/suicide gag uncut for sometime until 2003, when they cut this gag and Pepe's line as the cat is standing on the window ledge that alludes to the fact that the cat is committing suicide to prove her love for him.
