The Cats Bah

Deprecated

We have moved to portable infoboxes using the new Template:Shorts

Please do not use this template anymore. It is left here for reference purposes.

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 Warner Bros 1954x08 Pepe The Cats Bah (The Cat's Bah)

The Cats Bah is a 1954 Looney Tunes cartoon 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 ends wooing 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 (though it should be noted that ABC once aired the 1951 Pepe cartoon "Scent-imental Romeo" and left the entire scene of Pepe opening a bottle of champagne and serving it to the cat uncensored).

Gallery

Title Card (Unremastered Golden Jubilee VHS version and version shown on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang)

Title Card (remastered version as seen on DVD)

Lobby Card

Colorized Lobby Card