"The Cat's Bah"(1954)-Looney Tune, featuring Pepe Le Pew
Director: Charles M.(Chuck) Jones
Story: Michael Maltese
Animation: Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan -
Layouts: Maurice Noble -
Backgrounds: Phil DeGuard -
Voices:: Mel Blanc - (Bea Benaderet also appears briefly as the owner of Penelope)
Musical Direction: Carl Stalling
Pepe Le Pew tells the story of how he first met Penelope the cat abroad in Morocco. Once again, the cat gets a white stripe inadvertantly painted down her back, and Pepe Le Pew mistakes her for a skunk. "You do not have to come with me to the Casbah...we are ALREADY HERE!", says the amorous French skunk as he embraces the terrified cat. This film is unique for several reasons, besides being one of the best of the Pepe Le Pew films. It is the only Pepe film to directly reference the origin of Pepe's Name..."Pepe Le Moko", the character from actor Charles Boyer's 1939 movie. If you watch closely, you can see that Pepe's apartment room here is next door to that of "Pepe Le Moko". The title is a parody of the line "Come with me to the Casbah". Yet another notable aspect of this cartoon is the opening...Pepe, wearing a red bathrobe, offers the audience a glass of champagne and a cigarette, from the point-of-view of the audience. There is undeniably a connection between this cartoon and Christopher Walken's character "The Continental" on Saturday Night Live decades later.
