Scent-imental Romeo

Scent-imental Romeo
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Airdate:	24 March 1951 Blue Ribbon reissue: 11 April 1959
Series:	Merrie Melodies
MPAA Number:	14154
Production Number:	1157
Copyright Renewed:	11 March 1977
Starring:	Pepé Le Pew Penelope Pussycat
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc
Director:	Chuck Jones
Written By:	Michael Maltese
Producer:	Eddie Selzer
Animated By:	Phil Monroe Ben Washam Ken Harris Lloyd Vaughan
Layout Artist:	Robert Gribbroek
Background Artist:	Philip DeGuard
Film Editor:	Treg Brown
Musician:	Carl Stalling

Scent-imental Romeo is a 1951 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.

Title

The title is a pun on the word "sentimental."

Plot

A hungry Penelope Pussycat disguises herself as a skunk, so she can be fed at the zoo, but Pepé of course thinks she's the real thing, and uses his Maurice Chevalier impression, in an attempt to win her over.

Caricatures

• Maurice Chevalier

Censorship

• When this cartoon was shown on ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, the part where Penelope bashes Pepe on the head with a club (though not a previous scene where she hits him with a mallet) was shortened from three times to one.
• When Cartoon Network (American; overseas Cartoon Network channels have aired this uncut) aired this short, the entire part where Pepe opens a bottle of champagne and tries to serve it to Penelope was cut. This edit is rather odd and a tad ironic, considering that Cartoon Network aired "The Cats Bah"'s beginning, which also had Pepe opening a bottle of champagne, uncut and uncensored while ABC, which left in the champagne part in this cartoon, edited the beginning of "The Cats Bah" because it showed champagne. The edited version also airs on the American feed of Boomerang while overseas Boomerang channels have aired this uncut. Despite Cartoon Network's and Boomerang's American channels deleting this scene, a short clip of it appears in the Cartoon Network Groovies music video "L'Amour A Une Odeur"[1] (located at the 0:58 mark)

Availability

(1985) VHS
Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales

(1985) Beta
Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales

(1996) VHS
Looney Tunes Collection - Pepe le Pew

(2011) DVD
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best

(2012) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc One

(2012) DVD
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc One (optional audio commentary by Greg Ford and optional music-and-sound-effects-only audio track)

Streaming

HBO Max Latin America / Brazil (2021 - 2024)

Max Latin America / Brazil (2024 - )

Quotes

• "What is the meaning of this, Monsieur? You shall leave from my second." - Pepé Le Pew

Notes

• This cartoon marks Pepé Le Pew's first appearance in the Merrie Melodies series, after having remained exclusive to the Looney Tunes series throughout the 1940s.
• This is also Pepe's first cartoon made during the 1950s.

Gallery

Title card (with Nickelodeon bug)

TV Title Cards

The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show

External Links

• "Scent-imental Romeo" on the SFX Resource