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| Pepe Le Pew is getting cut. |
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HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE NOW! VOTE THESE DUMBASS LAWMAKERS OUT OF OFFICE! STOP SUPPORTING ALL FORMS OF EXTREMISM!
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RAPE IS RAPE!
YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!
This stinks.
The far-right upset over "cancel culture."
They're upset over President Joe Biden calling the lifting of mask mandates "neanderthal thinking."
They are upset over six Dr. Seuss books being taking out of rotation for depicting African and Asians in a negative light.
They're upset over Hasbro stripping the Mr. from Potato Head.
They're concerned about New York governor Andrew Cuomo's sexual harassment allegations than Texas governor Greg Abbott's role in the electric grid nearly collapsing and Mississippi governor Tate Reeve's role in the collapse of water supply in the state.
They are not concerned about the 550,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus. They are not concerned about the thousands of Americans being out jobs due to the pandemic.
They are worked up over migrants coming to the United States from the southern border. They are worked up over transgender children being allowed to play sports that fits their gender.
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| Warner Bros. Animation confirms that Pepe Le Pew will no longer be in current rotation. |
They are worked up over companies still enforcing wearing masks in their businesses. They are trying to pass state legislation that rolls back voting rights.
They are not concerned about white extremist violence being sparked by Washed Up 45, Republican lawmakers, Newsmax, OANN, Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, Sean "Softball" Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Breitbart and the dead corpse of Rush Limbaugh.
Republicans are crying and screaming about cancel culture. This new invented term is about pressure campaigns to change the culture or pull offensive themes out the mainstream.
Things that depict Blacks, indigenous Americans, immigrants, Jews and sexual abuse are being called out. Some companies are hearing this. Twitter and Facebook are about to put the hammer on misinformation and conspiracy theories. Even classic sitcoms, movies and animated shorts are getting woke.
Looney Tunes characters that promote racism, misogyny and sexual abuse are getting cut from rotation.
The folks at AT&T and Warner Media are taking this stuff seriously in the wake of George Floyd's murder.
Enter the hapless romantic Pepe Le Pew and the Black cat named Penelope.
The iconic Mel Blanc voiced the role of Pepe Le Pew, the skunk who couldn't resist the love of a French Black cat who he mistakens for a female skunk. He relentlessly tries to court her despite her repeated rejections.
Penelope ends up getting paint on her Black fur and it immediately attracts Pepe. He goes through a handful of attempts to court her only to be rejected, beaten to a pulp or even chased by Penelope when he inadvertently loses his stink.
Charles Blow sees this as a part of the toxic culture that leads to rape. And he wrote a piece on it.
This helped teach boys that “no” didn’t really mean no, that it was a part of “the game”, the starting line of a power struggle. It taught overcoming a woman’s strenuous, even physical objections, was normal, adorable, funny. They didn’t even give the woman the ability to SPEAK.
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) March 6, 2021
“RW blogs are mad bc I said Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture. Let’s see. 1. He grabs/kisses a girl/stranger, repeatedly, w/o consent and against her will. 2. She struggles mightily to get away from him, but he won’t release her 3. He locks a door to prevent her from escaping.” It’s true … Penelope Pussycat was often in Pepe’s clutches.
With the Looney Tunes French skunk besieged by controversy in the wake of New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow slamming that the cartoon character “added to rape culture,” Deadline has learned that a hybrid live-action animation scene between Jane the Virgin actress Greice Santo and Pepe Le Pew, shot back in June 2019 for Space Jam 2 was left on the cutting room floor.
The Pepe Le Pew character will likely be a thing of the past across all media. Warner Bros. also has no current TV series featuring the skunk and there are no plans to have him appear on Looney Toons, Bugs Bunny Builders, Tiny Toons Looniversary or future projects, sources confirmed to Deadline.
The live-action Space Jam 2 scene was filmed by the pic’s first director, Terence Nance. As we first reported in July 2019, Nance left the production with Malcolm D. Lee taking over. Under the direction of Lee, Pepe Le Pew was eliminated from the sequel a while ago and never animated for the live-action footage which was shot. According to sources who saw a rough cut three months ago, they didn’t see any kind of cameo by the skunk.
I understand that Pepe’s firing from Space Jam: A New Legacy has nothing to do with the recent remarks made by the New York Times’ Blow.
But wait until you hear about the scene with Pepe which was cut.
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| The love is gone. |
Pepe was set to appear in a black-and-white Casablanca-like Rick’s Cafe sequence. Pepe, playing a bartender, starts hitting on a woman at the bar played by Santo. He begins kissing her arm, which she pulls back, then slamming Pepe into the chair next to hers. She then pours her drink on Pepe, and slaps him hard, sending him spinning in a stool, which is then stopped by LeBron James’ hand. James and Bugs Bunny are looking for Lola, and Pepe knows her whereabouts. Pepe then tells the guys that Penelope cat has filed a restraining order against him. James makes a remark in the script that Pepe can’t grab other Tunes without their consent.
Upon learning that her scene with Pepe was cut, Santo was upset according to her spokesperson. The actress-singer has been a victim of sexual harassment and has spoken out against it; even recording a debut single “Você Você” back in February 2018 with multi- Grammy-winning producer Humberto Gatica to empower women to stand up to sexual predators and sexual harassment. Santo even has a non-profit, Glam with Greice, which aims to empower victims of domestic violence to change their lives for the better. Santo took joy in shooting the Space Jam sequel scene with Pepe, because the skunk finally gets his comeuppance.
A spokesperson for Santo tells Deadline today, “This was such a big deal for Greice to be in this movie. Even though Pepe is a cartoon character, if anyone was going to slap a sexual harasser like him, Greice wished it would be her. Now the scene is cut, and she doesn’t have that power to influence the world through younger generations who’ll be watching Space Jam 2, to let younger girls and younger boys know that Pepe’s behavior is unacceptable.”
Warner Bros has encountered problems before in recent years over Looney Tunes‘ politically incorrect characters. Last June, the new Looney Tunes streaming on HBO Max banned Elmer Fudd from using a gun, given the modification in response to US gun violence.
When reached, Warner Bros. did not provide comment on Pepe’s elimination for Space Jam: A New Legacy. James is a producer on the sequel alongside Ryan Coogler, Duncan Henderson, and Maverick Carter.
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