They canceled Speedy Gonzales because they thought he was offensive to Hispanics. Hispanics complained because he was their favorite character so they uncanceled him.
I grew up watching Pepe in the 80’s and never once did the character make want to go sexual harass anyone. When does it all stop? Someone somewhere is offended by something. Easily offended people offends me so I think we should cancel them.
I never found Pepé’s cartoons inappropriate; and I always got a kick out of someone yelling “Sacré bleu, un skunk de pew!”. Next, they’ll want to cancel Elmer Fudd, saying that he promotes gun violence.
I don't think we should cancel these characters. We should just learn how to communicate with our children & teach them right from wrong. I never acted like these characters, because I had parents that taught me how to act.
during a presentation of some classic WB cartoons, host Charles Solomon pointed out that all the violence shown in them never caused him to drop an anvil on anybody's head; i guess his parent(s) taught him how to act, too.
I still have a fondness for the movies and cartoons I grew up with. If you are really honest about it, Pepe's behavior's doesn't really promote assaulting women. Pepe gets what he deserves.
Right? The old cartoons are just fine. The snowflakes of today just can't take a joke. Besides it's not like he was ever celebrated or seen as some sort of hero in those original shorts. He is the butt of the joke, the one we are supposed to laugh at because he's so unaware of how non smooth and non romantic he is. Whether or not one finds it funny it's still obvious that's he's seen as a silly fool, even children get that. But various cartoons actually end with her chasing him and he hates it. That's seen as him getting his comeuppance, be careful what you wish for and all that. Why aren't the old cartoons given credit for getting across that lesson so to speak. And for that matter why isn't Penelope equally seen as a bad guy for throwing herself at pepe despite it being clear that he begging her to back off.
Now every character that's shown on the screen for children have to not include any sexual references, or even worse, cartoons that are real even though they're clearly fictitious.
Pepe and Speedy are both alive and well on MeTV. I would much rather see them than characters who, while they might be inoffensive, are also not entertaining.
Yeah I watch toon in with me and the Saturday morning cartoon lineup on metv every chance i get and was surprised that speedy Gonzalez and Pepe cartoons are still shown very often. Not upset or complaining about it but pleasantly surprised that meTV didn't let cancel culture stop them from showing what they wanna show.
In theory yes... Then again in theory communism works... In theory... Hence why sadly we need those annoying warning stickers on cartoons because too many parents don't do what you are suggesting... A sad statement on modern life but a correct one nonetheless...
The last couple generations don't know whats real today they live in a virtual world of Social Media with little real contact with others, they learn to drive in video games then think that's how to drive in the real world until they find out the hard way there's no reset button when they crash and burn.
Looking for things to be “offended” by is the new national pastime. I honestly don’t think people are actually offended, they’re just miserable and like making others miserable too.
I grew up watching these cartoons. Even young kids knew the difference between cartoons & the real world. Violence & sexual harassment never occurred to us, not to downplay the problems of domestic violence & harassment & abuse - that's all too real, but cartoons are there to make us laugh. Political correctness can go too far; then it's kill-joy & buzz-kill. Sadly no mention was made of the 'Pepe Le Moko' movie starring Jean Gabin - the tongue-in-cheek inspiration for the character's name. Great movie, but with subtitles. Boyer did the remake with spoken English called 'Algiers,' also a good one. Pew!
I bet that not a single French person has ever been offended by Pepè. Correct me if I’m wrong, but French people are open minded and have a sense of humor so I think that the cancellation of a classic cartoon character is just another example of virtue signaling
Ah! A sense of humor! We used to have that here. Sad, those people who know what's best for us have made that a de facto crime among their subjects. We must be happier since then. Aren't we?
@@ilikenothingtoo Interesting point. I grew up listening to Chico Marx (Jewish) do an Italian accent. Not I, nor did any of my peeps get offended. We loved it.
Thanks for sharing this. I think we are getting way to sensitive with these things. When I was a kid, I knew that this was a cartoon and it never had me thinking about doing any type of the behavior displayed in a cartoon.
I despair that some people seem incapable of distinguishing real life from a cartoon. These and many other cartoons accurately reflect the era and values when they were made. We can't, and we shouldn't "cancel" that because we can learn from it. Some people are just looking for reasons to be offended to justify their own vitriolic and spiteful existence. If you are upset by a cartoon skunk and so mentally delicate, it distresses you, you have serious issues.
If the genders were reversed and Penelope was always chasing Pepe, no one would say a word. I also think it sad and weird that people feel they have to impose their feelings upon animals, and cartoon animals at that.
There is a commercial, I think for a perfume, featuring a woman who picks up a guy at a party. The commercial ends with her walking out the next morning without saying a word, and the lovesick guy calling out to her from his balcony as she walks away. You know if the genders were switched, there'd have been outrage.
I have a theory on ; Why they removed the definition of the word GULLIBLE from every dictionary around the world. The word has no meaning now. You can fìnd " gullible, but as if they think we know something we still can't prove anÿthing.
Yes this is getting out of hand. Being mad about a cartoon character that hasn't aged well because they negatively portray a race or ethnic group is one thing as I can see why that might be harmful, though usually I think people just can't take a joke and need to learn it's ok to laugh at yourself, but there is seriously something wrong with you if you're offended by the exploits of an animated male animal chasing a female animal. It's not like he ever caught her and started raping her right in front of our very eyes. He thinks he's romantic but he's not that's the joke. While pursuing her he gets his comeuppance that's also part of the joke. And a good number of his shorts end with the girl cat actually wanting him but him not liking her anymore and running away from her. Do people actually watch the cartoons or do they just look for the next thing to be offended about and just pick and choose things that look kinda bad and blow them up from there?
Working in publishing, and later in libraries, I found there's no-one more easily offended than that huge body of sad people who rise from their beds every day bound and determined to be offended by something or other. Almost always something the rest of a healthy population takes in their daily stride.
I just KNEW I remembered a film, from when I was a child in the 70's, that had a character with Pepe Le Pew's antics in it. Thanks for reminding me what it was called.
I was a child in the 50s and always believed that Pepe was a characterization of the famous French actor Maurice Chevalier, who always broke the 4th wall in movies and commented straight into the camera and to the audience. He was a romantic at heart. Check out the classic movie GiGi.
years ago, a statue of Pepe' and his love interest was prominently displayed in the Museum of Television & Radio (or whatever it was, and is, called); something tells me said art has been removed.
I grew up with 50's and 60's cartoons: Pepe LePew (and Mr Magoo, Foghorn Leghorn and others) and never once was I tempted to emulate that behavior. It was funny because it was absurd humor on a level that even a 10 year old recognizes. And that doesn't need to be apologized for.
I honestly despair for society. Why, with all these cancellations of "harmful" influences, is society getting sicker?? Shouldn't it be magically improved?? 😑😑😑
I was a child during the 60's and Pepe was a favorite character. Sexual misconduct doesn't arise from watching cartoons. Canceling Pepe Lepew isn't going to effect a decrease in sexual crime. Some have lost an healthy perspective while promoting their agenda. That is the real shame.
Jon Stewart once referred to the cartoons and "The Pepe Le Peu No Means Yes Hour." What people don't realize is that in the 1940, 50s & 60s these cartoons were actually aimed at adults, not kids. TV made them kid cartoons and many cartoons were censored on television because of the explicit violence.
Not until the late '70s, I believe. In the '50s and '60s, there always seemed to be some kind of violence in a cartoon. It was part of the zeitgeist of the era.
I have always been entertained by Pepe. Of course seeing how he was a cartoon character, and he always had a form of comeuppance, I actually learned to not be like Pepe in life. I feel that if he actually had no repercussions in the films, it would be a terrible character, and people may actually emulate his behavior. As far as completely canceling him, it's too much. He could have a place as a background character in the very least, to being rewritten to adapt him to a modern world; perhaps now he is still French, but tries to pair couples up on blind dates.
Moe Howard once made the following point, which I think also applies to Pepe: "If a family has a problem child, then it doesn't make any difference - if they watch a Western, they are liable to grab a gun and kill somebody. But a normal child never gets anything difficult out of the Stooge comedies."
I'm glad that I'm old enough to have grown up with cartoons like this. And glad that I'm old enough that I won't be around much longer in a world without them!
I grew up on this character and other like him. Unfortunately, there are not so smart and lacing self-confident people that have no respect for the past, or anything that doesn't fit their little way of thinking. They are a trend and soon will be forgotten, and these characters will come back to the screen.
What a lot of people forget is that these cartoons were never intended for children. Most of the characters (including Bugs) smoked, drank, used intoxicating substances such as ether, shot people, grabbed and kissed women without permission, et cetera. If Pepe deserves to be cancelled, so do all the other Looney Tunes characters.
This is getting way out of control. People need to realize Pepe is just a cartoon. No skunk stands on his hind legs, speaks English with a French accent, and forcefully kisses black cats he mistakes for a female skunk. Bluto behaves even worse than Pepe: he grabs Olive Oyl and says, "How about kiss Babe?" But he's also just a cartoon. If you're offended by him and Pepe, don't watch them. But quit trying to cancel them: that's censorship.
I was a child in the 50s and grew up watching all of these "now forbidden" cartoons. This was back in the early days of TV when homes were just starting to have TVs in them. I never thought there was anything real about the cartoons, and as a child, I never saw anything sexualized about them. Of course, this was back when shows were forbidden to show two adults in the same bed; it was always twin beds. It's the adults these days that read the sexual content into them. I believe that it wouldn't be a problem if parents and schools taught about our bodies in a healthy way by not being afraid of naming body parts by their scientific names and teaching the kids how babies are formed without adding religion into it. That's what Sunday school and parent conversations should include. The Constitution states separation of Church and State and we are ignoring that. In my opinion, as a septuagenarian, religion has come to have too much control over our society. The Constitution states freedom of religion but doesn't say that it should have control over everyone's lives. You are free to believe what you want but you are not free to impose your beliefs on everyone else. We have gone back to the puritanical ways of this country's beginning and it isn't part of what a democracy is.
ANYTHING involving the great MEL Blank, particularly involving voice overs is extremely healthy for those from 2 to 12! I'm 74, he probably saved my life!
I grew up in 90s Romania. TV was not very regulated until late 90s early 2000s. I watched a lot of movies, tv shows and cartoons in English and by the time I was 6 I already understood the language in a basic form. As my parents keep telling me, I understood well enough that I would laugh at some jokes before they could even read the subtitles. Anyway, I watched Cartoon Network a lot in those days, and at that time it was filled with old cartoons from the 50s,60s and 70s. Some of those cartoon would often use more adults jokes and expressions that at the time would go over my head, but it helped me learn a bigger vocabulary and be familiar with older expressions and idioms. I also remember watching horror and thriller movies before the age of 10 that later would be rated for ages above 12 and 16 and there wasn't a lot of parent supervision for watching these, because they were either at work or were busy with chores. This situation was common to my entire generation in my country. The 90s were a pretty rough time, with economic problems and a fast changing society. People weren't familiar with various issues related to TV or weren't technologically savy yet to know how to put passwords or locks on TV channels if they could afford more moderns device. What I'm trying to say is that we weren't traumatized by what was on TV, we had other issues at home or at school that could be way more traumatic. Children are way more capable of understanding things and withstanding hardships than what adults now give credit. Of course I wouldn't propose to give free reign to children now, to watch anything with out some control or supervision at all, but we shouldn't be so stressed out serious about it. Sheltering children too much will make them dysfunctional adults. It's better to have them ask awkward questions from seeing something on TV or UA-cam now than them awkwardly dealing with it later on among strangers. I'm also part of the generation that played violent video games as teenagers. Keeping all of this in mind, Romania has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
Pepe La Pew was first introduced in 1945, and if they are having a fit about him now, 78 years later, some people have way too much time on their hands. It's a cartoon. It's not real. Get over it. People shouldn't be hyper sensitive.
Instead of cancelling him they could try pairing him up with different characters & come up with unique scenarios on how these pairings would work out, like have it where a fashion mogul is coming out with a new line of skunk fur clothing and needs hunters to catch skunks to be skinned for their fur, Elmer Fudd gets wind of this & learns that the fashion guy will pay big bucks for each skunk, so Elmer goes out skunk hunting, and he runs into Pepe, and Pepe must pull off tricks to avoid Elmer's hunting tactics, Or have it where Pepe's car breaks down in front of Witch Hazel's house & she's needs like a skunk liver or something for her newest brew, and she invites Pepe into her house to stay the night, but all Pepe wants is to use the phone, so Pepe needs to avoid the terrors of a haunted house & a witch who wants to take one of his organs, Or have it where Pepe ends up in the Himalayan Mountains thinking he's in the Rocky Mountains for some winter sports, but he bumps into Hugo the Abominable Snowman, who just happens to have a stuffed-up nose so he can't smell, and he thinks that Pepe is a pussy cat that he wants to name George & keep as a pet, so Pepe has to do whatever he can to convince Hugo that he is not what Hugo thinks Pepe is, Stuff like That would be pretty decent ways to use Pepe without making him seem like a Lady's Man, I swear these excectives today are such morons!
You do realize, don't you, that the scenarios you listed, or variations, were already done by other cartoon characters. I'm not saying that those ideas are bad, as they could work with this generation (they were all done originally over half a century ago, for crying out loud) and would be brand new, fresh ideas. The only thing that might be problematic is the skunk-fur coats. PETA would sue because "Wearing fur is murder!" according to them, and an injunction would be laid down that would prevent the release of any cartoons about that subject.
for most of my years of watching Monsignor Le Pew, his behavior never bothered me. three-ish years ago, i heard a comedian's take on the character; don't remember his name, but he was upset because of how Pepe' acted, and how his (comedian's) child was absorbing the skunk's inappropriate moves on the ladies.
Back in the '40s & 50's, these cartoons were shown in theaters between double features (anyone remember those) TO ADULTS! When I was a kid, I hated Pepe doing all of that yucky, icky stuff! LOL I liked Bugs, Daffy & Elmer's three ways...with Daffy's beak being shot into different positions on his head. But none us brought a gun to school to shoot our teacher like today.
That's because adults had their guns and children had theirs... that they knew were toys. Ad kids were taught about gun safety, either as part of their citizenship classes in school, or in hunter safety courses. When they started to ban toy guns (even water pistols seemed to have been banned in favor of super-soakers [which in effect could be even more violent than a water pistol, and do more damage]) seems to be about the time that these school shootings and other mass shootings began.
I forgot what cartoon it was, but one time Pepe actually talked about making love. OAN: I was always annoyed at how the writers figured that adding _le_ to the front of an English word would suddenly make the word French (not to mention that _le_ is pronounced “luh“, not “lay”; _les_ is pronounced “lay“).
Would you really be silly enough to confuse 1940s slang with today's?? Back then, you'd want to "make" the "love" start to exist by being romantic; hence, "making love". Pinning a flower on a lapel or dress could've been part of "making love". Today "making love" might mean effing one's brains out, but in the 1940s it was a LOT more innocent.
To answer that question, YES. I get being sensitive but it's going TOO far when cancelling a cartoon character for no honest to goodness reason. Pepe Le Pew was in his own right, a character that schmoozes the form of being amorous and that was his charm despite him being a skunk. Now I do remember my visits at my local expo back in the day and they did have a DVD of banned cartoons. But I feel anime had it a hell of a lot worse when brought overseas. Episodes got cut from their original run, scenes got deleted cause of it being too graphic but that's nothing cause we either poof a skunk out of existence cause he was a parody of a famous actor, or tone down the sex appeal of a female bunny and people just did NOT LIKE THAT. I mean if I had a kid, I'd expose them to what I grew up with, sat right alongside them and explain why all the changes, THEN show the original and leave the judgment call if the choice of watching the original or the dub version was worth watching. Animation EXISTS for a reason and that should never be denied to any generation whose curious about it.
As a society, we’ve become way too sensitive about everything. Do kids today catch on to the references of Maurice Chevalier or Charles Boyer? I imagine the overwhelming majority of kids don’t even know who these men were. My in-laws, who.have passed some time ago, adored Pepe. But they were born in the late 1920s. This is a generational issue, and the cancellation is rather a matter of anachronism. They once tried to cancel the 14th century poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut for being anti-Semitic. The man had taken minor orders with the Catholic Church. And, as a citizen of 14th century Europe, of course he was anti-Semitic. Just about everyone then was. It was “normal” then, just as Pepe was “normal” for his time. This is a classic example of taking political correctness too far. And let’s face it - sexism in our current culture cannot, and should not, be blamed on an old cartoon character. Pepe isn’t the cause - in fact, he rightfully can be seen as a victim of it.
People are getting WAY to sensitive and childish about what they consider offensive. Pepe is a classic Looney Tunes character, and does not deserve to be swept aside.
This low-grade woke censorship is annoyingly horrific, even worse, it is almost stalinist. Cartoons are a hideous waste of time. Children should be learning a second language or a third language, or spending time being physically active. The content is so mindless that any character stereotypes are the least of the concerns. Mindless children's entertainment has many defects, and they come bundled together. People aren't perfect with one fatal flaw, such as being a crackhead but having a 1600 SAT, and a great work ethic, and stellar moral character. I am going to be honest.... as a person who lean toward being a Democrat when I was younger, but with many libertarian tendencies, and then abandoning the idiotic and inconsistent ideologies of political parties, and then abandoning ideologies altogether. All ideologies are unachievable and unrealistic and require the perfectibility of human beings. I do not have a limited or parochial perspective. Instead of having children, I traveled the world, and after a lifetime of seeing what works, and what doesn't work, in societies all over the world, this low-grade woke censorship is annoyingly horrific, even worse, it's almost stalinist.
Pepe Le Pew deserves much more recognition than being criticized by many SJW society in harming his career in animation. Though I understand about his “behavior” to women but it’s fictional. There’s plenty of awfulness in today’s society about any concept that should be inappropriate like adult swim shows and South Park. But thanks to Blow’s evil words he could do lot of harm than good for his children even us fans alike. Warner Bros, please give him a chance so he can’t stink at any women even the fans, too.
I understand now why this is a good idea but however maybe they should of never done this!!! It's like ignoring a significant piece of cartoon history!!! Can't have that now can we?
I watched these cartoons when I was a child and laughed my ass off at them , at no time did I want to go out and assault any girl or woman . If anyone thinks that these cartoons are insensitive or provocative they need to go get their head examined. Long live Pepe 👍🏻.
The persons who canceled REFUSED to research all the Pepe storylines. If they were responsible, they would have discovered that Penelope came out on top in a few cartoons. And where is the proof that watching Pepe influences people to commit sexual assault? When I was a kid, I used to tie a blanket around my neck, jump off the picnic table, and try to fly like Superman. I heard tales of other kids doing the same thing, but on the rarest occasions, a few broke a leg. Why don't we cancel Superman? These are Looneytune cartoons. The theme of this universe is fun.
Another case of "it's too hard to fix" so let's rewrite history and pretend it didn't happen. I think these critics read waaaaaaaay too much in these cartoons. Strangely enough, I grew up with him and didn't end up a serial rapist. Go figure.
Wiley Coyote wasn't wearing blackface, he had been blown up by one of his traps that had backfired! Good grief, I grew up watching these cartoons. They just were supposed to be fun.
I’m so tired of people doing this! Thank you for doing this! It’s so sad how Hollywood tries to erase all these characters we loved…. I really hope you make a video about characters like Hello Nurse and so many other beautiful female characters like her getting either erased or changed, and especially girly characters getting changed into strong female characters (Bo Peep and Princess Peach), it’s getting ridiculous… Stop changing characters and quit canceling them and leave them alone! I’m so glad I grew up with these old original cartoons before they ended up ruining them like this in reboots and everything… Remember when everyone loved these characters and knew the difference between a cartoon and real life? What happened to that?
It's funny that you say it's "Hollywood" doing this stuff. No, you have two groups making enough noise to try to drive this stuff out of easy reach. As another person who commented noted, they really aren't "cancelled" - they are still easily found online if you want to see them, but they are being dropped from being included in "new" productions. The 2 groups are actually diametrically opposed and both accuse the other of "muzzling free speech" when, in fact, both groups are responsible for promoting "censorship" . You have the extreme far right holy rollers who proclaim themselves christians but act the same as the people the flood was designed to "wash away", and the extreme left wing, over-the-top social justice warriors who get offended if you look in their general direction. Pathetic, both groups.
Pepe le Pew being Cancelled is a Perfect example of how Cancel Culture is Not only Ruining the Future of Animation, But also is Ruining our Beloved Society!!! I'm Still optimistic that Pepe will Return. Maybe Not Today, Maybe Not Tomorrow, But he will Return. (Hopefully)
The truth is, these cartoons were always made for ADULTS, not chhildren. During the golden age of Hollywood, the short would precede a feature film, from Gone With the Wind to The Great Race in 1965 when the last WB Looney Tunes shorts, barring those horrible Seven Arts toons, were released. Society is so woke about every single issue that we are taking away the evidence of our evolution, our consciousness of wrong and right, what was "okay" yesterday, and with one or two brave voices, came the realisation that just because we've been accepting of a behaviour, doesn't mean it's really "okay". I always saw Pepe as clueless, because he's unaware that he smells bad, and his parents obviously didn't teach him the difference between lady skunks and tuxedo cats. I think he even went gay for Sylvester once! Point: There are lots of squeaky clean cartoons for small children. Leave the Looney Tunes to their original and intended audience, the 18+ crowd.
Absurd and Ironic) as children those so called sensitive WOKE folks Enjoyed these cartoons as children How Fast they have forgotten that they themselves were children at one point and their parents let them watch these Classics cartoons it so dumb and ridiculous. Even when I was a kid I found pepe le pew such a hilarious character. Too much sensitive folks that are just too WOKE. Looney tunes is such a safe and fun Classic cartoon.
This is so diotic, parents do your job instead of having your face buried in social media complaining about everything all the damn time! As a guy, who had lots of friends male and female...I didn't know one person who acted like this or complained about a cartoon characters behavior.
"Only recently did millennials and zoomers grow old enough to realize Pepe is a punchline, not a role model. Howerver, allergic to nuance these crybabies demand the character be removed because they fail to see that he is entirely the butt of every joke he's a part of, in more ways than one."
Pepe Le Pew not as well known as Bugs Bunny? I beg to differ on that, because when I was a child I loved him. He was so funny, especially the ones where the tables were turned on him and he ran away.
Be careful, you might set off some threats of hate speech. This generation has gotten so over-sensitive about even letting us think. Love your work, thank you.
Let's be honest, the fact that people are attempting to make Pepe go away is only going to encourage people to remember him, and to seek out these so-called "forbidden" cartoons of his out of spite for the "establishment" if for no other reason. It amazes me that so much effort has been put in to such a futile gesture.
This modern "sensitive" society is only "sensitive" on things they don't like, but have no reservations offending the rest of us with they're outlandish lifestyles and demonstrations.
it annoys me when things like this happen, people start whinging about cartoons or films or other stuff and it ends up being cancelled or changed at the end of the day it's just a tv program not real and most people can work that out I used to watch cartoons after school and films or at the weekend and it hasn't me into some nut who goes around trying to kill everyone in site, at the end of the day if someone doesn't like something don't watch it there is no one forcing them to watch.
I always assumed Pepe was inspired by Maurice Chevalier, not that most people today remember who he was. People need to repeat to themselves "this is just a show and I should really just relax" or even better, do some research before they start witch hunting.
So it's not Pepe's looks that makes the cat sprint for her life but it's his odor that chases her away, huh? I guess an argument can be also made for his fur color too?
Censoring to the point of ignoring a past as it didn't happen is irresponsible and denies the generation opportunities to learn from the mistakes of the past so they could've learned from.
Which one is worse? The Pepe Le Pew character, or teachers teaching 3 and 4 year old's they can be the opposite of what they are meant to be, such as a boy being a girl and a girl being a boy? I wish they would cancel the view, but it hasn't happened yet
So its OK to have a bunch of 7 years olds go to watch Trans drag dances but they can't watch a harmless cartoon that makes them laugh? We have lost our f ING minds.
They canceled Speedy Gonzales because they thought he was offensive to Hispanics.
Hispanics complained because he was their favorite character so they uncanceled him.
They did edit one with his cousin. One of the ones with Slowpoke Rodriguez, he pulled a gun on the Gatos.
@@anthonybanchero3072 Nah. Saw Slowpoke on Me TV's early morning cartoons not long ago .
I didn't know that! Interesting!
Compare that to the Frito Bandito, who was cancelled because Hispanics objected to that character.
Yes because that’ll stop inequality, take out all the minorities
I used to be employed by the Fruito Bandido. Back before people found out they racists if they belive Mexicans are going to steal their corn chips.
I grew up watching Pepe in the 80’s and never once did the character make want to go sexual harass anyone. When does it all stop? Someone somewhere is offended by something. Easily offended people offends me so I think we should cancel them.
Many of us look at Millennial and Gen-Z and regret not using birth control more often.
Absolutely beautiful..... thank you 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I totally agree with your comments about easily offended people.
I never found Pepé’s cartoons inappropriate; and I always got a kick out of someone yelling “Sacré bleu, un skunk de pew!”. Next, they’ll want to cancel Elmer Fudd, saying that he promotes gun violence.
@@13thwho I wouldn't be at all surprised.
I don't think we should cancel these characters. We should just learn how to communicate with our children & teach them right from wrong.
I never acted like these characters, because I had parents that taught me how to act.
That sounds dangerously like good parenting and common sense to me.
during a presentation of some classic WB cartoons, host Charles Solomon pointed out that all the violence shown in them never caused him to drop an anvil on anybody's head; i guess his parent(s) taught him how to act, too.
You got a point.
@John Morgan Was she offensive? The foul mouthed rooster character was more offensive.
@John Morgan Don't give them any ideas.
I still have a fondness for the movies and cartoons I grew up with. If you are really honest about it, Pepe's behavior's doesn't really promote assaulting women. Pepe gets what he deserves.
That was always part of the laugh, when she whomped him somehow.
Right? The old cartoons are just fine. The snowflakes of today just can't take a joke. Besides it's not like he was ever celebrated or seen as some sort of hero in those original shorts. He is the butt of the joke, the one we are supposed to laugh at because he's so unaware of how non smooth and non romantic he is. Whether or not one finds it funny it's still obvious that's he's seen as a silly fool, even children get that. But various cartoons actually end with her chasing him and he hates it. That's seen as him getting his comeuppance, be careful what you wish for and all that. Why aren't the old cartoons given credit for getting across that lesson so to speak. And for that matter why isn't Penelope equally seen as a bad guy for throwing herself at pepe despite it being clear that he begging her to back off.
We are getting ridiculous about cartoons, as a kid I knew that they were not real before I started school
For real! I was not traumatized by watching Pepe LePew case the female cat or Wile E. Coyote trying to blow up The Road Runner with dynamite!
@@Maki-00 Yep, we knew it was pretend just like when we played Cowboys and Indians
@@kirkmorrison6131 Yup! I can’t believe that I used to bring my toy cap guns to school! They’d probably arrest a kid for that now, LOL!
@@Maki-00 Yep, when I was in High School, we took our deer rifles to school and left them in the cars.
Now every character that's shown on the screen for children have to not include any sexual references, or even worse, cartoons that are real even though they're clearly fictitious.
Pepe and Speedy are both alive and well on MeTV. I would much rather see them than characters who, while they might be inoffensive, are also not entertaining.
Yeah I watch toon in with me and the Saturday morning cartoon lineup on metv every chance i get and was surprised that speedy Gonzalez and Pepe cartoons are still shown very often. Not upset or complaining about it but pleasantly surprised that meTV didn't let cancel culture stop them from showing what they wanna show.
Back then, people had sense enough to know that cartoons weren’t real and that they should not be imitated in real life!
Kids don’t think like that
In theory yes... Then again in theory communism works... In theory... Hence why sadly we need those annoying warning stickers on cartoons because too many parents don't do what you are suggesting... A sad statement on modern life but a correct one nonetheless...
@@scograham Millions of people my age thought jus like that.
The last couple generations don't know whats real today they live in a virtual world of Social Media with little real contact with others, they learn to drive in video games then think that's how to drive in the real world until they find out the hard way there's no reset button when they crash and burn.
@@KRich408 Those were my exact thoughts on people driving these days.
Looking for things to be “offended” by is the new national pastime. I honestly don’t think people are actually offended, they’re just miserable and like making others miserable too.
Which seems to be embodied in the current "Karen" phenomenon.
I grew up watching these cartoons. Even young kids knew the difference between cartoons & the real world. Violence & sexual harassment never occurred to us, not to downplay the problems of domestic violence & harassment & abuse - that's all too real, but cartoons are there to make us laugh. Political correctness can go too far; then it's kill-joy & buzz-kill. Sadly no mention was made of the 'Pepe Le Moko' movie starring Jean Gabin - the tongue-in-cheek inspiration for the character's name. Great movie, but with subtitles. Boyer did the remake with spoken English called 'Algiers,' also a good one. Pew!
I bet that not a single French person has ever been offended by Pepè. Correct me if I’m wrong, but French people are open minded and have a sense of humor so I think that the cancellation of a classic cartoon character is just another example of virtue signaling
Well did French call it "racist" back then when they were considered "romantic"...? Pepe was an over-exaggeration of that.
Ah! A sense of humor! We used to have that here. Sad, those people who know what's best for us have made that a de facto crime among their subjects. We must be happier since then. Aren't we?
In France he had an Italian accent.
@@ilikenothingtoo Interesting point. I grew up listening to Chico Marx (Jewish) do an Italian accent. Not I, nor did any of my peeps get offended. We loved it.
@@aldonapolitano5979 "Sweeting is such part sorrow, no...?"--Pepe Le Pew 😉
Thanks for sharing this. I think we are getting way to sensitive with these things. When I was a kid, I knew that this was a cartoon and it never had me thinking about doing any type of the behavior displayed in a cartoon.
I despair that some people seem incapable of distinguishing real life from a cartoon. These and many other cartoons accurately reflect the era and values when they were made. We can't, and we shouldn't "cancel" that because we can learn from it. Some people are just looking for reasons to be offended to justify their own vitriolic and spiteful existence. If you are upset by a cartoon skunk and so mentally delicate, it distresses you, you have serious issues.
SS You are absolutely rIght! I’m so tired of seeing every think being destroyed! Come on! Stop being so damn sensitive!
If the genders were reversed and Penelope was always chasing Pepe, no one would say a word. I also think it sad and weird that people feel they have to impose their feelings upon animals, and cartoon animals at that.
Even more acceptable would be "Pierre" chasing Pepe! You don't want to be called a homophobe, do you?
There is a commercial, I think for a perfume, featuring a woman who picks up a guy at a party. The commercial ends with her walking out the next morning without saying a word, and the lovesick guy calling out to her from his balcony as she walks away. You know if the genders were switched, there'd have been outrage.
NRPS
I have a theory on ; Why they removed the definition of the word GULLIBLE from every dictionary around the world. The word has no meaning now. You can fìnd " gullible, but as if they think we know something we still can't prove anÿthing.
Yes this is getting out of hand. Being mad about a cartoon character that hasn't aged well because they negatively portray a race or ethnic group is one thing as I can see why that might be harmful, though usually I think people just can't take a joke and need to learn it's ok to laugh at yourself, but there is seriously something wrong with you if you're offended by the exploits of an animated male animal chasing a female animal. It's not like he ever caught her and started raping her right in front of our very eyes. He thinks he's romantic but he's not that's the joke. While pursuing her he gets his comeuppance that's also part of the joke. And a good number of his shorts end with the girl cat actually wanting him but him not liking her anymore and running away from her. Do people actually watch the cartoons or do they just look for the next thing to be offended about and just pick and choose things that look kinda bad and blow them up from there?
Working in publishing, and later in libraries, I found there's no-one more easily offended than that huge body of sad people who rise from their beds every day bound and determined to be offended by something or other.
Almost always something the rest of a healthy population takes in their daily stride.
Pepe Le Pew satirzed a character named Pepe Le Moko from a film entitled "Algiers". It's not to be taken seriously. It's a freaking cartoon!
I just KNEW I remembered a film, from when I was a child in the 70's, that had a character with Pepe Le Pew's antics in it. Thanks for reminding me what it was called.
I was a child in the 50s and always believed that Pepe was a characterization of the famous French actor Maurice Chevalier, who always broke the 4th wall in movies and commented straight into the camera and to the audience. He was a romantic at heart. Check out the classic movie GiGi.
years ago, a statue of Pepe' and his love interest was prominently displayed in the Museum of Television & Radio (or whatever it was, and is, called); something tells me said art has been removed.
I grew up with 50's and 60's cartoons: Pepe LePew (and Mr Magoo, Foghorn Leghorn and others) and never once was I tempted to emulate that behavior.
It was funny because it was absurd humor on a level that even a 10 year old recognizes. And that doesn't need to be apologized for.
I honestly despair for society. Why, with all these cancellations of "harmful" influences, is society getting sicker?? Shouldn't it be magically improved?? 😑😑😑
I was a child during the 60's and Pepe was a favorite character. Sexual misconduct doesn't arise from watching cartoons. Canceling Pepe Lepew isn't going to effect a decrease in sexual crime. Some have lost an healthy perspective while promoting their agenda. That is the real shame.
Jon Stewart once referred to the cartoons and "The Pepe Le Peu No Means Yes Hour." What people don't realize is that in the 1940, 50s & 60s these cartoons were actually aimed at adults, not kids. TV made them kid cartoons and many cartoons were censored on television because of the explicit violence.
Not until the late '70s, I believe. In the '50s and '60s, there always seemed to be some kind of violence in a cartoon. It was part of the zeitgeist of the era.
Excessive violence? Oh lord whatever ya do DO NOT search for Wilkins Coffee Ads... They leave those old WB / MGM Shorts cold.
When I was a lityle girl, the Pepe & Penelope cartoons were some of my favorites & I rented them repeatedly on VHS.
I have always been entertained by Pepe. Of course seeing how he was a cartoon character, and he always had a form of comeuppance, I actually learned to not be like Pepe in life. I feel that if he actually had no repercussions in the films, it would be a terrible character, and people may actually emulate his behavior.
As far as completely canceling him, it's too much. He could have a place as a background character in the very least, to being rewritten to adapt him to a modern world; perhaps now he is still French, but tries to pair couples up on blind dates.
Moe Howard once made the following point, which I think also applies to Pepe: "If a family has a problem child, then it doesn't make any difference - if they watch a Western, they are liable to grab a gun and kill somebody. But a normal child never gets anything difficult out of the Stooge comedies."
AMEN !!!
Are we losing Common Sense to cater to people with difficulties ?
I'm glad that I'm old enough to have grown up with cartoons like this. And glad that I'm old enough that I won't be around much longer in a world without them!
People are getting so sensitive that you can’t do anything without someone getting upset about it.
I grew up on this character and other like him. Unfortunately, there are not so smart and lacing self-confident people that have no respect for the past, or anything that doesn't fit their little way of thinking. They are a trend and soon will be forgotten, and these characters will come back to the screen.
What a lot of people forget is that these cartoons were never intended for children. Most of the characters (including Bugs) smoked, drank, used intoxicating substances such as ether, shot people, grabbed and kissed women without permission, et cetera. If Pepe deserves to be cancelled, so do all the other Looney Tunes characters.
I can't belive that they haven't cancelled all cartoons , guess they will soon enough . GROW UP PEOPLE ! T he world is going to hell
I love Pepe Le Pew. He is one of the great lovers of the animation world. He loves love. For people to cancel him is to say they do not love.
I think you've hit the nail square on the head with that comment (or is that too violent an idea?).
This is getting way out of control. People need to realize Pepe is just a cartoon. No skunk stands on his hind legs, speaks English with a French accent, and forcefully kisses black cats he mistakes for a female skunk.
Bluto behaves even worse than Pepe: he grabs Olive Oyl and says, "How about kiss Babe?" But he's also just a cartoon. If you're offended by him and Pepe, don't watch them. But quit trying to cancel them: that's censorship.
I grew up with classic Looney Tunes, I never meet anyone who acted like Pepe, Kids are not stupid they can tell real life from cartoons
Today's society is way too sensitive. We need to stand up to this nonsense.
I was a child in the 50s and grew up watching all of these "now forbidden" cartoons. This was back in the early days of TV when homes were just starting to have TVs in them. I never thought there was anything real about the cartoons, and as a child, I never saw anything sexualized about them. Of course, this was back when shows were forbidden to show two adults in the same bed; it was always twin beds. It's the adults these days that read the sexual content into them. I believe that it wouldn't be a problem if parents and schools taught about our bodies in a healthy way by not being afraid of naming body parts by their scientific names and teaching the kids how babies are formed without adding religion into it. That's what Sunday school and parent conversations should include. The Constitution states separation of Church and State and we are ignoring that. In my opinion, as a septuagenarian, religion has come to have too much control over our society. The Constitution states freedom of religion but doesn't say that it should have control over everyone's lives. You are free to believe what you want but you are not free to impose your beliefs on everyone else. We have gone back to the puritanical ways of this country's beginning and it isn't part of what a democracy is.
ANYTHING involving the great MEL Blank, particularly involving voice overs is extremely healthy for those from 2 to 12! I'm 74, he probably saved my life!
Mel Blanc* but I understand why you made a typo. It's kind of hard if you haven't seen his name before in writing.
I grew up in 90s Romania. TV was not very regulated until late 90s early 2000s. I watched a lot of movies, tv shows and cartoons in English and by the time I was 6 I already understood the language in a basic form. As my parents keep telling me, I understood well enough that I would laugh at some jokes before they could even read the subtitles.
Anyway, I watched Cartoon Network a lot in those days, and at that time it was filled with old cartoons from the 50s,60s and 70s. Some of those cartoon would often use more adults jokes and expressions that at the time would go over my head, but it helped me learn a bigger vocabulary and be familiar with older expressions and idioms. I also remember watching horror and thriller movies before the age of 10 that later would be rated for ages above 12 and 16 and there wasn't a lot of parent supervision for watching these, because they were either at work or were busy with chores.
This situation was common to my entire generation in my country. The 90s were a pretty rough time, with economic problems and a fast changing society. People weren't familiar with various issues related to TV or weren't technologically savy yet to know how to put passwords or locks on TV channels if they could afford more moderns device.
What I'm trying to say is that we weren't traumatized by what was on TV, we had other issues at home or at school that could be way more traumatic. Children are way more capable of understanding things and withstanding hardships than what adults now give credit.
Of course I wouldn't propose to give free reign to children now, to watch anything with out some control or supervision at all, but we shouldn't be so stressed out serious about it. Sheltering children too much will make them dysfunctional adults. It's better to have them ask awkward questions from seeing something on TV or UA-cam now than them awkwardly dealing with it later on among strangers.
I'm also part of the generation that played violent video games as teenagers.
Keeping all of this in mind, Romania has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
Pepe La Pew was first introduced in 1945, and if they are having a fit about him now, 78 years later, some people have way too much time on their hands. It's a cartoon. It's not real. Get over it. People shouldn't be hyper sensitive.
Just from the thumbnail, it was going to be Pepe or Speedy
Instead of cancelling him they could try pairing him up with different characters & come up with unique scenarios on how these pairings would work out,
like have it where a fashion mogul is coming out with a new line of skunk fur clothing and needs hunters to catch skunks to be skinned for their fur, Elmer Fudd gets wind of this & learns that the fashion guy will pay big bucks for each skunk, so Elmer goes out skunk hunting, and he runs into Pepe, and Pepe must pull off tricks to avoid Elmer's hunting tactics,
Or have it where Pepe's car breaks down in front of Witch Hazel's house & she's needs like a skunk liver or something for her newest brew, and she invites Pepe into her house to stay the night, but all Pepe wants is to use the phone, so Pepe needs to avoid the terrors of a haunted house & a witch who wants to take one of his organs,
Or have it where Pepe ends up in the Himalayan Mountains thinking he's in the Rocky Mountains for some winter sports, but he bumps into Hugo the Abominable Snowman, who just happens to have a stuffed-up nose so he can't smell, and he thinks that Pepe is a pussy cat that he wants to name George & keep as a pet, so Pepe has to do whatever he can to convince Hugo that he is not what Hugo thinks Pepe is,
Stuff like That would be pretty decent ways to use Pepe without making him seem like a Lady's Man, I swear these excectives today are such morons!
You do realize, don't you, that the scenarios you listed, or variations, were already done by other cartoon characters. I'm not saying that those ideas are bad, as they could work with this generation (they were all done originally over half a century ago, for crying out loud) and would be brand new, fresh ideas.
The only thing that might be problematic is the skunk-fur coats. PETA would sue because "Wearing fur is murder!" according to them, and an injunction would be laid down that would prevent the release of any cartoons about that subject.
for most of my years of watching Monsignor Le Pew, his behavior never bothered me. three-ish years ago, i heard a comedian's take on the character; don't remember his name, but he was upset because of how Pepe' acted, and how his (comedian's) child was absorbing the skunk's inappropriate moves on the ladies.
Back in the '40s & 50's, these cartoons were shown in theaters between double features (anyone remember those) TO ADULTS! When I was a kid, I hated Pepe doing all of that yucky, icky stuff! LOL I liked Bugs, Daffy & Elmer's three ways...with Daffy's beak being shot into different positions on his head. But none us brought a gun to school to shoot our teacher like today.
That's because adults had their guns and children had theirs... that they knew were toys. Ad kids were taught about gun safety, either as part of their citizenship classes in school, or in hunter safety courses. When they started to ban toy guns (even water pistols seemed to have been banned in favor of super-soakers [which in effect could be even more violent than a water pistol, and do more damage]) seems to be about the time that these school shootings and other mass shootings began.
I forgot what cartoon it was, but one time Pepe actually talked about making love.
OAN: I was always annoyed at how the writers figured that adding _le_ to the front of an English word would suddenly make the word French (not to mention that _le_ is pronounced “luh“, not “lay”; _les_ is pronounced “lay“).
Would you really be silly enough to confuse 1940s slang with today's??
Back then, you'd want to "make" the "love" start to exist by being romantic; hence, "making love". Pinning a flower on a lapel or dress could've been part of "making love".
Today "making love" might mean effing one's brains out, but in the 1940s it was a LOT more innocent.
Pepe LePew hasn't been "canceled." His cartoons are shown on TV all the time and freely available on DVD.
To answer that question, YES. I get being sensitive but it's going TOO far when cancelling a cartoon character for no honest to goodness reason. Pepe Le Pew was in his own right, a character that schmoozes the form of being amorous and that was his charm despite him being a skunk. Now I do remember my visits at my local expo back in the day and they did have a DVD of banned cartoons. But I feel anime had it a hell of a lot worse when brought overseas. Episodes got cut from their original run, scenes got deleted cause of it being too graphic but that's nothing cause we either poof a skunk out of existence cause he was a parody of a famous actor, or tone down the sex appeal of a female bunny and people just did NOT LIKE THAT. I mean if I had a kid, I'd expose them to what I grew up with, sat right alongside them and explain why all the changes, THEN show the original and leave the judgment call if the choice of watching the original or the dub version was worth watching. Animation EXISTS for a reason and that should never be denied to any generation whose curious about it.
As a society, we’ve become way too sensitive about everything. Do kids today catch on to the references of Maurice Chevalier or Charles Boyer? I imagine the overwhelming majority of kids don’t even know who these men were. My in-laws, who.have passed some time ago, adored Pepe. But they were born in the late 1920s. This is a generational issue, and the cancellation is rather a matter of anachronism. They once tried to cancel the 14th century poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut for being anti-Semitic. The man had taken minor orders with the Catholic Church. And, as a citizen of 14th century Europe, of course he was anti-Semitic. Just about everyone then was. It was “normal” then, just as Pepe was “normal” for his time. This is a classic example of taking political correctness too far. And let’s face it - sexism in our current culture cannot, and should not, be blamed on an old cartoon character. Pepe isn’t the cause - in fact, he rightfully can be seen as a victim of it.
1:15 that’s not blackface, he’s dark because of an explosion.
People are getting WAY to sensitive and childish about what they consider offensive. Pepe is a classic Looney Tunes character, and does not deserve to be swept aside.
These cartoons were NOT intended for children. It's parody/satire of a trope, "the great lover", a la The Sheik (Valentino) &c.
Considering how often Pepe ends up being chased by Penelope, I think the cancellers out there are a bunch of hypocrites.
No Pepe "Le" Pew Should Not Have Been Cancelled!!!!!!
Skunks need love too 😢
This low-grade woke censorship is annoyingly horrific, even worse, it is almost stalinist.
Cartoons are a hideous waste of time. Children should be learning a second language or a third language, or spending time being physically active.
The content is so mindless that any character stereotypes are the least of the concerns.
Mindless children's entertainment has many defects, and they come bundled together.
People aren't perfect with one fatal flaw, such as being a crackhead but having a 1600 SAT, and a great work ethic, and stellar moral character.
I am going to be honest.... as a person who lean toward being a Democrat when I was younger, but with many libertarian tendencies, and then abandoning the idiotic and inconsistent ideologies of political parties, and then abandoning ideologies altogether. All ideologies are unachievable and unrealistic and require the perfectibility of human beings.
I do not have a limited or parochial perspective. Instead of having children, I traveled the world, and after a lifetime of seeing what works, and what doesn't work, in societies all over the world, this low-grade woke censorship is annoyingly horrific, even worse, it's almost stalinist.
Pepe Le Pew deserves much more recognition than being criticized by many SJW society in harming his career in animation. Though I understand about his “behavior” to women but it’s fictional. There’s plenty of awfulness in today’s society about any concept that should be inappropriate like adult swim shows and South Park. But thanks to Blow’s evil words he could do lot of harm than good for his children even us fans alike. Warner Bros, please give him a chance so he can’t stink at any women even the fans, too.
I understand now why this is a good idea but however maybe they should of never done this!!! It's like ignoring a significant piece of cartoon history!!! Can't have that now can we?
If you are getting romantic advice from a cartoon skunk then you have bigger problems than whether Pepe was a little aggressive.
I watched these cartoons when I was a child and laughed my ass off at them , at no time did I want to go out and assault any girl or woman . If anyone thinks that these cartoons are insensitive or provocative they need to go get their head examined. Long live Pepe 👍🏻.
That's NOT Wyle E. Coyote in "blackface"!
HE IS CHARRED FROM AN EXPLOSION!!! 🙄
Have these people seen how cats get amorous? Pepe was a mild representation..
The persons who canceled REFUSED to research all the Pepe storylines. If they were responsible, they would have discovered that Penelope came out on top in a few cartoons. And where is the proof that watching Pepe influences people to commit sexual assault? When I was a kid, I used to tie a blanket around my neck, jump off the picnic table, and try to fly like Superman. I heard tales of other kids doing the same thing, but on the rarest occasions, a few broke a leg. Why don't we cancel Superman? These are Looneytune cartoons. The theme of this universe is fun.
Just shows this new cancel culture has more power than the first amendment. Terrible what America has turned into. 😢😢😢
Another case of "it's too hard to fix" so let's rewrite history and pretend it didn't happen. I think these critics read waaaaaaaay too much in these cartoons. Strangely enough, I grew up with him and didn't end up a serial rapist. Go figure.
This is like the lunatics screaming about CRT.
America is becoming a laughingstock overseas.
Wile E Coyote with blackface ? What color of face is he supposed to have after dynamite blows up in his face? 🙄
Pepe was also one of the least funny WB inventions, being a one-joke character.
I never did care for him but not because of the obvious reasons, he just wasn't funny to me
Cancel the cancellers....
The cat also SA pepe a few times yet she's still the victim
Wiley Coyote wasn't wearing blackface, he had been blown up by one of his traps that had backfired! Good grief, I grew up watching these cartoons. They just were supposed to be fun.
I always take my cue for action from Cartoon Characters. They are much more reliable than Hollywood celebrities or Pop Stars.
Right! Just the other day I dropped a piano on my bosses head. Boy, was he surprised!
@@aldonapolitano5979: And not an anvil? Or shot a rocket at a bird? Shocking!
People today get up set about a disagreement of how offered they are by you....but you can't be offended.
Double Standard Snow Flakes
I’m so tired of people doing this! Thank you for doing this! It’s so sad how Hollywood tries to erase all these characters we loved…. I really hope you make a video about characters like Hello Nurse and so many other beautiful female characters like her getting either erased or changed, and especially girly characters getting changed into strong female characters (Bo Peep and Princess Peach), it’s getting ridiculous… Stop changing characters and quit canceling them and leave them alone!
I’m so glad I grew up with these old original cartoons before they ended up ruining them like this in reboots and everything…
Remember when everyone loved these characters and knew the difference between a cartoon and real life? What happened to that?
It's funny that you say it's "Hollywood" doing this stuff. No, you have two groups making enough noise to try to drive this stuff out of easy reach. As another person who commented noted, they really aren't "cancelled" - they are still easily found online if you want to see them, but they are being dropped from being included in "new" productions. The 2 groups are actually diametrically opposed and both accuse the other of "muzzling free speech" when, in fact, both groups are responsible for promoting "censorship" . You have the extreme far right holy rollers who proclaim themselves christians but act the same as the people the flood was designed to "wash away", and the extreme left wing, over-the-top social justice warriors who get offended if you look in their general direction. Pathetic, both groups.
Pepe le Pew being Cancelled is a Perfect example of how Cancel Culture is Not only Ruining the Future of Animation, But also is Ruining our Beloved Society!!!
I'm Still optimistic that Pepe will Return. Maybe Not Today, Maybe Not Tomorrow, But he will Return. (Hopefully)
The truth is, these cartoons were always made for ADULTS, not chhildren. During the golden age of Hollywood, the short would precede a feature film, from Gone With the Wind to The Great Race in 1965 when the last WB Looney Tunes shorts, barring those horrible Seven Arts toons, were released. Society is so woke about every single issue that we are taking away the evidence of our evolution, our consciousness of wrong and right, what was "okay" yesterday, and with one or two brave voices, came the realisation that just because we've been accepting of a behaviour, doesn't mean it's really "okay". I always saw Pepe as clueless, because he's unaware that he smells bad, and his parents obviously didn't teach him the difference between lady skunks and tuxedo cats. I think he even went gay for Sylvester once! Point: There are lots of squeaky clean cartoons for small children. Leave the Looney Tunes to their original and intended audience, the 18+ crowd.
Absurd and Ironic) as children those so called sensitive WOKE folks Enjoyed these cartoons as children How Fast they have forgotten that they themselves were children at one point and their parents let them watch these Classics cartoons it so dumb and ridiculous. Even when I was a kid I found pepe le pew such a hilarious character. Too much sensitive folks that are just too WOKE. Looney tunes is such a safe and fun Classic cartoon.
This is so diotic, parents do your job instead of having your face buried in social media complaining about everything all the damn time! As a guy, who had lots of friends male and female...I didn't know one person who acted like this or complained about a cartoon characters behavior.
Only yesterday I dropped a piano on my bosses head from the twelfth floor. Boy, was he surprised!
If Pepe was gay he wouldn't be threatened with cancellation. Chuck would be praised with being so progressive for his day.
"Only recently did millennials and zoomers grow old enough to realize Pepe is a punchline, not a role model. Howerver, allergic to nuance these crybabies demand the character be removed because they fail to see that he is entirely the butt of every joke he's a part of, in more ways than one."
Pepe Le Pew not as well known as Bugs Bunny? I beg to differ on that, because when I was a child I loved him. He was so funny, especially the ones where the tables were turned on him and he ran away.
Be careful, you might set off some threats of hate speech. This generation has gotten so over-sensitive about even letting us think. Love your work, thank you.
Let's be honest, the fact that people are attempting to make Pepe go away is only going to encourage people to remember him, and to seek out these so-called "forbidden" cartoons of his out of spite for the "establishment" if for no other reason. It amazes me that so much effort has been put in to such a futile gesture.
This modern "sensitive" society is only "sensitive" on things they don't like, but have no reservations offending the rest of us with they're outlandish lifestyles and demonstrations.
**sigh** I want to put myself in a cryostasis chamber with a sign that reads "Do not wake me up until we have become a sexually mature species"
it annoys me when things like this happen, people start whinging about cartoons or films or other stuff and it ends up being cancelled or changed at the end of the day it's just a tv program not real and most people can work that out I used to watch cartoons after school and films or at the weekend and it hasn't me into some nut who goes around trying to kill everyone in site, at the end of the day if someone doesn't like something don't watch it there is no one forcing them to watch.
I always assumed Pepe was inspired by Maurice Chevalier, not that most people today remember who he was. People need to repeat to themselves "this is just a show and I should really just relax" or even better, do some research before they start witch hunting.
But, for what it's worth, he was never interesting enough for me to like him that much. Give me Foghorn Leghorn or Coyote and Roadrunner any day.
"Movie sign!"
An upvote for the MST3K reference! 🙂
@@chrissherlock4190 i bow. curtsey. whatever the "correct" gesture is, i acknowledge and appreciate your reply, Chris.
So it's not Pepe's looks that makes the cat sprint for her life but it's his odor that chases her away, huh? I guess an argument can be also made for his fur color too?
You can still watch all of these cartoon characters on ME TV. They haven't canceled Pepe or Speedy.
Those who don't like Pepe Le Pew are humorless to begin with. I loathe censorship. It is the tyranny of art.
Censoring to the point of ignoring a past as it didn't happen is irresponsible and denies the generation opportunities to learn from the mistakes of the past so they could've learned from.
Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. If we cancel characters like Pepe we can't learn from them.
I think people are being babies about Pepe. I grew up with Mr. Le Pew and so did my brothers and we turned out fine.
Why did they cancel Pepe? Because of their shame that they are not man enough to match the worlds greatest lover.
I get the feeling that every Looney Tunes character will be dealing with some form of controversy.
Way too sensitive without a doubt.
Loving the channel by the way.
So...nobody ever thought to revamp the character? You know, change his MO?
Pepe was pretty much one joke. You’ve seen one…you’ve seen them all.
"Today's Sensitive Society"... a total euphemism.
Which one is worse? The Pepe Le Pew character, or teachers teaching 3 and 4 year old's they can be the opposite of what they are meant to be, such as a boy being a girl and a girl being a boy? I wish they would cancel the view, but it hasn't happened yet
They cancel Pepe. Did they cancel Glen Quagmire on Family Guy?
So its OK to have a bunch of 7 years olds go to watch Trans drag dances but they can't watch a harmless cartoon that makes them laugh? We have lost our f ING minds.
Says the generation that grew up with bugs in drag 😂
@@angelinacamacho8575 What are you talking about?
also,the cancel culture.
Sucks you can't have stereotypes in old cartoons these days.