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[]
Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales
Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales
Longitude and Looneytude: Globetrotting Looney Tunes Favorites
Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 1, All Stars
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Censorship[]
The version shown in 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 was not canonized 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". Also, although not actually mentioned by that name, the color guide for "Louvre Come Back to Me!" shows that Penelope was renamed Felice in that cartoon.
- The ship that Penelope disembarks from appears to be the “S.S. Phyllis Selzer”. Producer Eddie Selzer’s daughter is named Phyllis.
- This short was featured in the last installment of Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon that aired 11 September 1999, alongside "Porky in Wackyland", "The Daffy Duckaroo", "To Beep or Not to Beep", "Tree for Two", and "Of Rice and Hen".
Gallery[]
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TV Title Cards[]
References[]
External Links[]
- The Cats Bah at 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 | |||