Really Scent

In New Orleans, two cats, husband Pierre and wife Fifi, give birth to two daughters, Jeanette and Fabrette. However, Fabrette happens to inherit her father's white fur stripes on her body.

The following spring, when Jeanette and Fabrette grow up into adult cats, both of them attempt to find a date. Jeanette manages to woo a cat instantly, but Fabrette is unable to catch the attention of any of the cats due to being confused as a skunk. Meanwhile, Pepé Le Pew has stowed away on a nearby ship. A depressed Fabrette manages to find Pepé, and the two finally makes up for an instant date right away. However, upon realizing Pepé's bad odor, Fabrette flees away.

The narrator tells Fabrette that she should try to remain with Pepé lest she wants to be embarrassed in front of the other cats. She tries to hold her breath to prevent from smelling Pepé's odor, but she slowly suffocates and the narrator tells her that she should not let breathing affect her happiness. Next, Fabrette sprays Pepe's tail with perfume, which fails when the perfume clouds finds it too rancid.

As Pepé tries to reach Fabrette, he notices the people who are running away from his bad smell. He tries to figure out why that is the case, and is shocked to find out what "pew" really means. Aiming to remedy this, Pepé heads to the nearby deodorizing service to be rid of his bad smell.

Fabrette carries a rock tied to her, about to commit suicide by throwing herself off a bridge. However, the narrator suggests that if she cannot stay with Pepé's bad odor, then she should join him by gaining a bad scent herself. She runs to the nearby limburger cheese factory. Pepé and Fabrette finally decides to make up again, but now with the roles inverted, Pepé tries to run away from Fabrette's limburger scent as the cat pursues the skunk. The narrator concludes the story by stating that is love in old New Orleans.

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This is the first short to be directed by Abe Levitow by himself and the first Merrie Melodies short to be directed by Levitow.
This is the third Pepé Le Pew short not directed by Chuck Jones, following Arthur Davis' "Odor of the Day" and Friz Freleng's "Dog Pounded". Of the three, this short is the only one that was completed in Chuck Jones' unit.
This cartoon is unique from the typical Pepé Le Pew short, in that Pepé's feline paramour actually reciprocates the affection instead of constantly attempting to flee. Additionally, unlike other shorts, where the pursued paramour happens to obtain a skunk fur design by paint or a similar substance, the paramour is genetically born with the skunk fur pattern. Lastly, Pepé becomes aware of his odor driving characters away, which is rarely acknowledged by Pepé himself in most of his other cartoons.
When Jeanette and Fabrette first appear in this cartoon as newborn baby kittens, they both bear a striking resemblance to that of Pussyfoot.
This cartoon originally premiered in theaters with the American release of the 1958 Italian import Hercules (Italian: Le Fatiche di Ercole, lit. 'The Labours of Hercules') .

Gallery[]

Pepé Le Pew Cartoons
1945	Odor-able Kitty
1947	Scent-imental over You
1948	Odor of the Day
1949	For Scent-imental Reasons
1951	Scent-imental Romeo
1952	Little Beau Pepé
1953	Wild over You
1954	Dog Pounded • The Cats Bah
1955	Past Perfumance • Two Scent's Worth
1956	Heaven Scent
1957	Touché and Go
1959	Really Scent
1960	Who Scent You?
1961	A Scent of the Matterhorn
1962	Louvre Come Back to Me!
1995	Carrotblanca