The Cats Bah

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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

The Cats Bah is a Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones. Released in 1954, it stars Pepe Le Pew.

Title

The title is a play on "casbah," a sort of fortress found in old citadels of North Africa.

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.

Cast

• Mel Blanc as Pepe Le Pew, Penelope Pussycat
• Bea Benaderet as Penelope's Mistress (unc.)

Availability

• VHS - Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales
• Laserdisc - Longitude and Looneytude: Globetrotting Looney Tunes Favorites
• DVD - Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best

Censorship

ABC airings of this cartoon on "The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show" omits the entire pre-flashback introduction, in which the camera assumes the point of view of a reporter interviewing Pepe "in his digs". No doubt because the skunk offers to the unseen reporter some champagne.

Gallery

Title Card (Unremastered Golden Jubilee VHS version)

Title Card (DVD Version)

Lobby Card