The world’s most famous cartoon skunk appears to be the latest victim of the cancellation culture.
The Hollywood Reporter reported Monday that Looney Tunes icon Pepé Le Pew is not in a current Warner Bros. TV project. does not appear and that there are no current plans’ for the return of the character.
THR also reported that Le Pew will also not appear in the upcoming LeBron James movie “Space Jam 2”, the sequel to the Looney Tunes movie from the 90s starring Michael Jordan. Le Pew appears alongside the Chicago Bulls legend in the first film.
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According to the report, the decision to sniff the famous skunk was taken ‘more than a year ago’.
Deadline also reported that a scene with Le Pew and actress Greice Santo was shot back in June 2019, but ‘left on the cutting room floor’.
Last week, amid the uproar over the cancellation of six Dr Seuss books for racist footage, New York Times columnist Charles Blow focused on Le Pew, who he said was ‘normalized rape culture’, as well as Looney Tune Speedy Gonzales ” whose friends helped popularize the biting stereotype of the drunk and hilarious Mexicans. ‘
Blow doubles his attack on the beloved skunk on Twitter.
“RW blogs are crazy bc. I said Pepe Le Pew has added to the rape culture. Let’s see. 1. He grabs / kisses a girl / stranger, repeatedly, without permission and against her will. 2. She struggles to get away from him, but he will not release her. 3. He locks a door to prevent her from escaping, ‘Blow wrote on Saturday while sharing a montage of Pepé Le Pew.
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He continued, ‘It helped boys learn that’ no ‘does not really mean no, that it was part of’ the game ‘, the starting point of a power struggle. It learned to overcome the harsh, even physical, objections of a woman. normal, adorable, funny. They did not even give the woman the ability to SPEAK. ‘
Critics slammed Blow’s review of Le Pew.
“Amazing how malicious and unacceptable this interpretation is. Of course Pepé the Pew is disgusting, that’s the point of this character and this cartoon!” exclaimed artist Tim Soret. “First of all, the Looney Tunes characters are obviously not designed as role models. They behave in the most insane, stupid, obsessive and reprehensible way. Their flawed nature is why it is morally acceptable and so regressively funny to see them over and over failed miserably.Pepé the pew is a skunk: he stinks literally.They could not design a more obvious signal … His unconsciousness of his own smell * reflects * his unconsciousness of his own flippant attitude . ‘
Soret continues: “He is too absorbed by his seduction to even realize that he is confusing a cat as a skunk (paint would somehow end up on her back in absurd ways, that’s the show’s joke) . “
“If Charles Blow had not spent his time obsessively watching children’s pictures to cancel, he would not have embarrassed himself so much. Just because he does not understand the characters and their messages does not mean that children do not have the same problem. “, the conservative author AG Hamilton responded.
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“Pepe LePew was a rapist pervert and was bad, we understood that. Literally everyone who watched this cartoon had this Speedy Gonzales, was not a rapist pervert, was funny, fast and the good guy. The takeaway is Charles Blow who writes a NY TIMES column Looney Tunes has never seen, ”Conservative commentator Stephen Miller concluded.
Comedian Gabriel Iglesias, who speaks Speedy Gonzales in ‘Space Jam 2’, defends his own cartoon character amid the new investigation.
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“I’m the voice of Speedy Gonzales in the new Space Jam. Does that mean they’re going to try to cancel Fluffy too? You can’t catch me canceling the culture. I’m the fastest mouse in all of Mexico,” Iglesias tweeted on Saturday.