A burning question

[pdq]

Was Pepe LePew French or Italian?

I think I know, but this important for my understanding of the world.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....French....he spoke as such....and caricature was 'french-ish'.....

[N-OS X-tasy!]

NewtonMP2100 wrote:
.....French....he spoke as such....and caricature was 'french-ish'.....

...as is his name! Were he Italian, his name would be something like “Pieto LaPew.”

[mrbigstuff]

Pepe is an Italian name, but the giveaway is the accent and the beret. And the last name "Le" which is obviously French.

[Buzz]

Something else. He was/is a French-ish cartoon caricature.
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[PeterB]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6WR6opPmrI

[pdq]

Well, that was my belief too, but here is some background on the crisis. I was remembering the old joke about "heaven is where all the policemen are English, all the mechanics are German, cooks/lovers/etc and hell is where all the policemen are German, all the cooks are English, all the lovers are..." what?

French, I suppose, but then who are the cooks? Fine Italian cuisine is actually pretty darn good, but most people would (I thought) say French is tops. Which makes the Italians the lovers, I guess. I do admit they have that reputation for enthusiasm as well, but what about Pepe LePew? He was the epitome of enthusiasm, and "LePew" sounds French...but then again, "Pepe"? Oh my god, maybe he was Spanish, who also have a reputation for hot-bloodedness.

At at that point I became sure of nothing, and my world started to crumble. I knew I had to turn here.

[rgG]

pdq wrote:
Well, that was my belief too, but here is some background on the crisis. I was remembering the old joke about "heaven is where all the policemen are English, all the mechanics are German, cooks/lovers/etc and hell is where all the policemen are German, all the cooks are English, all the lovers are..." what?

French, I suppose, but then who are the cooks? Fine Italian cuisine is actually pretty darn good, but most people would (I thought) say French is tops. Which makes the Italians the lovers, I guess. I do admit they have that reputation for enthusiasm as well, but what about Pepe LePew? He was the epitome of enthusiasm, and "LePew" sounds French...but then again, "Pepe"? Oh my god, maybe he was Spanish, who also have a reputation for hot-bloodedness.

At at that point I became sure of nothing, and my world started to crumble. I knew I had to turn here.

Also, he was always chasing that poor cat all over Paris, IIRC. The Eiffel Tower was often in the background.
I watched far too many cartoons, as a child.

[rgG]

From the Wiki page, yes Pepé has a Wiki page.



Pepé Le Pew is a character from the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, first introduced in 1945. Depicted as a French striped skunk, Pepé is constantly on the quest for love. However, his offensive skunk odor and his aggressive pursuit of romance typically cause other characters to run from him.[1]

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Premise Edit

Pepé Le Pew storylines typically involve Pepé in pursuit of a female black cat, whom Pepé mistakes for a skunk ("la belle femme skunk fatale"). The cat, who was retroactively named Penelope Pussycat, often has a white stripe painted down her back, usually by accident (such as by squeezing under a fence with wet white paint). Penelope frantically races to get away from him because of his putrid odor, his overly aggressive manner or both, while Pepé hops after her at a leisurely pace.

Settings Edit
The setting is always a mise-en-scène echoing with fractured French. They include Paris in the springtime, the Sahara, the Matterhorn, or the little village of N'est-ce Pas in the French Alps. The exotic locales, such as Algiers, are drawn from the story of the 1937 film Pépé le Moko. Settings associated in popular culture with romance, such as the Champs-Élysées or the Eiffel Tower, are sometimes present.[2]

[Sarcany]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep%C3%A9_Le_Pew

Chuck Jones first introduced the character (originally named Stinky) in the 1945 short Odor-able Kitty (see "Variations"), in which he was revealed to be a married American skunk named Henry who had been faking his French accent.

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