Scent-imental over You

Scent-imental over You
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Airdate:	8 March 1947 Blue Ribbon reissue: 26 December 1953
Series:	Looney Tunes
MPAA Number:	11107
Production Number:	1016 1356 (reissue)
Copyright Renewed:	10 May 1974
Starring:	Stinky Fifi
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet (uncredited) Tedd Pierce (uncredited)
Director:	Chuck Jones
Written By:	Michael Maltese Tedd Pierce
Producer:	Eddie Selzer (uncredited)
Animated By:	Phil Monroe Ben Washam Ken Harris Lloyd Vaughan Abe Levitow (uncredited) Basil Davidovich (uncredited)
Layout Artist:	Robert Gribbroek
Background Artist:	Peter Alvarado
Film Editor:	Treg Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Carl Stalling

Scent-imental over You is a 1947 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones.

Title

The title is a play on the song "I'm Getting Sentimental over You."

Plot

Jealous of the other dogs who have fur coats, a hairless Mexican pooch decides to borrow a fur coat and enter the dog show. Unfortunately, she borrows a skunk pelt by accident, which soon frightens the other dogs and attracts the unwanted attention of the amorous skunk named Stinky. Stinky continues chasing her until she finally reveals that she is a dog, much to his surprise. Stinky takes off his fur like a zippered jacket to reveal that he is a dog, capturing the misled pooch's swoon, only to reveal once more that it was just him in a dog costume. He asides, "I am stupid, no?"

Availability

(1992) LaserDisc
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol 2, Side 9, Best Supporting Players

(2011) DVD
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best

Notes

• In this cartoon, the amorous skunk that would be later identified as Pepe Le Pew goes by Stinky (much like how the previous cartoon, "Odor-Able Kitty" has his name as Henry). While the Blue Ribbon title card refers to Stinky as "Pepe Le Pew", the character wouldn't go by that name until 1952's "Little Beau Pepe".
• Unlike the previous cartoon, Pepe/Stinky does retain his Charles Boyer-esque French accent and Maurice Chevalier-esque personality (instead of it being a façade), but his object of unwanted affection is a dog who uses skunk fur to be glamorous rather than a cat who either intentionally or unintentionally gets a white stripe down their back. It wouldn't be until "For Scent-imental Reasons" that this plot conceit would be refined.
• This is one in a few Pepe Le Pew cartoons where the chase takes place in America (or a generic setting that could be America, as seen with "Odor of the Day" and "Odor-Able Kitty") rather than France or a French-speaking region (in the cases of "Little Beau Pepe", "The Cat's Bah", "Two Scents' Worth", "Really Scent", and "A Scent of the Matterhorn").
• This is Abe Levitow's first project for Chuck Jones. He would not be credited until 1953's "Wild Over You".
• The dog, while unnamed in the cartoon, is referred to as "Fifi" on her model sheet.
• The short was originally titled "Forever Ambushed".
• Unlike most restored Looney Tunes cartoons, this cartoon does not have black borders on the opening and ending titles, as revealed in the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best DVD release.
• The United Kingdom airs this cartoon on Cartoon Network and Boomerang as a "Proto-Turner dubbed version", meaning that it has the same color correction as well as the full picture, instead of the pan-and-scan methods the a.a.p. prints had, like both official Turner prints, but keeps the reissue end card and audio ending cue. Other European countries air the "official" EU Turner dubbed version which has the same altered ending music cue (and virtually identical 1947-1948 dubbed ending card).
• Although the original 1946-1955 Looney Tunes ending music cue is preserved on the Blue Ribbon reissue, both USA and EU Turner dubbed transfers replace the original ending music cue with the 1941-55 Merrie Melodies ending music cue.
• On the a.a.p. print as seen from Cartoon Network Latin America and presumably other older pre-1995 airings, as well as on The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 2 laserdisc release, the dog disguise that Pepé wore was shown with a brownish tint. However, on the restored version as seen on Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best shows that it was originally yellow.
  • Pepé's dog disguise in question bears a slight resemblance to that of Chuck Jones' own Charlie Dog, who'd later debut that same year, albeit with a completely different color scheme.
• This is the only Pepé short to end with him happily getting together with the object of his affection (even though it's presented as a plot twist). While several shorts ended with Penelope falling for him, he usually ran away, and she chased him.

Gallery

Pepé Le Pew model sheet (named "Stinky")

Fifi model sheet