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The Cats Bah

Directed By:		Chuck Jones
Produced By:		Eddie Selzer (uncredited)
Released:		March 20, 1954
Series:		Looney Tunes
Story:		Michael Maltese
Animation:		Ben Washam Lloyd Vaughan
Layouts:		Maurice Noble
Backgrounds:		Philip DeGuard
Film Editor:		Treg Brown (uncredited)
Voiced By:		Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet (uncredited)
Music:		Carl Stalling
Starring:		Pepé Le Pew Penelope Pussycat
Preceded By:		Bugs and Thugs
Succeeded By:		Design for Leaving

Pepe_Le_Pew_-_(Ep._10)_-_The_Cat's_Bah — Pepe Le Pew - (Ep. 10) - The Cat's Bah

Warner_Bros_1954x08_Pepe_The_Cats_Bah_(The_Cat's_Bah) — Warner Bros 1954x08 Pepe The Cats Bah (The Cat's Bah)

The Cats Bah is a 1954 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones.

Title

The title is a play on "casbah," a sort of fortress found in old citadels of North Africa, and the 1948 film Casbah, which features a man named Pépé le Moko who falls in love with a French tourist.

Plot

Penelope is an American tourist who by a mishap has a white stripe of paint down her back. She finds herself being chased by the love-sick Pepe Le Pew in the Casbah, who woos her by doing a rendition of "As Time Goes By".

Availability

VHS - Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection (Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales)
VHS - Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 1, All Stars
LaserDisc - Longitude and Looneytude: Globetrotting Looney Tunes Favorites
DVD - Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best

Censorship

The version shown on ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show edits out the entire beginning in which the camera assumes the point of view of a reporter interviewing Pepe, due to the presence of alcohol and cigarettes^[1] (though ABC once aired the 1951 Pepe cartoon "Scent-imental Romeo" left in a similar scene of Pepe opening a bottle of champagne and serving it to the cat uncensored, and Cartoon Network, which censored the champagne part in "Scent-imental Romeo", aired this short uncut).

Notes

This is the first cartoon in which Penelope Pussycat is given her name, though her name has not been made official yet until the release of "Carrotblanca" (1995); after this cartoon's release, she went under different names/aliases in a few Pepe Le Pew shorts, for example Fifi in "Two Scent's Worth" and Fabrette in "Really Scent".

Gallery

References

↑ http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-c.aspx

External Links

The Cats Bah on the SFX Resource

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

[1] ttp://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-c.aspx

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-|Animators = Ben Washam<br>Lloyd Vaughan
+[[File:Warner Bros 1954x08 Pepe The Cats Bah (The Cat's Bah)|thumb|center|280px]]
-|Layout-artist = Maurice Noble
+|Animators = [[Ben Washam]]<br>[[Lloyd Vaughan]]
-|Background-artist = Philip DeGuard
+|Layout-artist = [[Maurice Noble]]
-|Sound effects = Treg Brown (uncredited)
+|Background-artist = [[Philip DeGuard]]
-|Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]]}}
+|Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]] (uncredited)
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+|Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]]
-'''The Cats Bah''' is a ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short directed by [[Chuck Jones]].  Released in 1954, it stars [[Pepe Le Pew]].
+}}
+'''The Cats Bah''' is a [[1954]] ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short directed by [[Chuck Jones]].
-==Title==
+== Title ==
-The title is a play on "casbah," a sort of fortress found in old citadels of North Africa.
+The title is a play on "casbah," a sort of fortress found in old citadels of North Africa, and the 1948 film ''Casbah'', which features a man named Pépé le Moko who falls in love with a French tourist.
-==Plot==
+== Plot ==
-Penelope is an American tourist who by a mishap has a white stripe of paint down her back. She finds herself being chased by the love-sick Pepe Le Pew in the Casbah, who ends wooing her by doing a rendition of ''As Time Goes By.''
+Penelope is an American tourist who by a mishap has a white stripe of paint down her back. She finds herself being chased by the love-sick Pepe Le Pew in the Casbah, who woos her by doing a rendition of "As Time Goes By".
-==Cast==
+== Availability ==
+* VHS - ''[[Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection]] ([[Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales|Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales)]]''
-*[[Mel Blanc]] as Pepe Le Pew, Penelope Pussycat
+* VHS - ''[[Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition]]'' Volume 1, All Stars
-*[[Bea Benaderet]] as Penelope's Mistress (unc.)
+* LaserDisc - ''[[Looney Tunes LaserDiscs|Longitude and Looneytude: Globetrotting Looney Tunes Favorites]]''
+* DVD - ''[[Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best]]''
+== Censorship ==
+The version shown on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show'' edits out the entire beginning in which the camera assumes the point of view of a reporter interviewing Pepe, due to the presence of alcohol and cigarettes<ref>http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-c.aspx</ref> (though ABC once aired the 1951 Pepe cartoon "Scent-imental Romeo" left in a similar scene of Pepe opening a bottle of champagne and serving it to the cat uncensored, and Cartoon Network, which censored the champagne part in "Scent-imental Romeo", aired this short uncut).
+== Notes ==
+* This is the first cartoon in which [[Penelope Pussycat]] is given her name, though her name has not been made official yet until the release of "[[Carrotblanca]]" (1995); after this cartoon's release, she went under different names/aliases in a few Pepe Le Pew shorts, for example Fifi in "[[Two Scent's Worth]]" and Fabrette in "[[Really Scent]]".
 == Gallery ==
+<gallery>
-[[File:The Cats Bah title card.png|left|thumb|220x220px|Title Card (DVD Version)]]
+The Cats Bah.jpg|Title Card (Unremastered [[Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection|Golden Jubilee VHS]] version and version shown on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang)
-[[File:The Cats Bah.jpg|left|thumb|220x220px|Title Card (Before Remastering)]]
+The Cats Bah title card.png|Title Card (remastered version as seen on DVD)
-{{Template:PepeLePewShorts}}
+Ltajw&m-10.png
+Ltajw&m-11.png
+PS117.jpg|Lobby Card
+_mainniam (1).jpg|Colorized Lobby Card
+</gallery>
+== References ==
+{{reflist}}
+== External Links ==
+[https://sfx-resource.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cats_Bah_(1954) The Cats Bah] on the SFX Resource
+{{PepeLePewShorts}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Cats Bah, The}}
 [[Category:Looney Tunes Shorts]]
 [[Category:Shorts]]
 [[Category:Pepe Le Pew Cartoons]]
 [[Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones]]
-[[Category:Penelope Pussycat Cartoons]]
 [[Category:1954]]
 [[Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling]]
 [[Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese]]
-[[Category:Cartoons animated by Ben Washam]]
-[[Category:Cartoons animated by Lloyd Vaughan]]
-[[Category:Cartoons with layouts by Maurice Noble]]
 [[Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard]]
 [[Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown]]

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