Talk:Pepé Le Pew

message: What is supposed my sweet peanut of brittle to refer to ?!? I know no ma petite cacahouete fragile ???
:English adjectives rarely follow nouns.  The compound noun peanut brittle denotes a candy made of peanuts and hard (that is, brittle) candy.  So, it's French style, not French, ma petite chou.
So when it is written more creative mangling of French expressions with English ones, such as "Sacre Maroon!", or "my sweet peanut of brittle, you mean the creative mangle comes from the adjective following the noun ? And that is enough to give a polish to make believe it is sort of french ? weird....
Mon petit chou will be just fine :-)
:Yeah, it's not the best example of a Maltese Malapropism, but the best I could come up with at the time.  I'll replace it later.  I know there's one with "cabbage" in it for petit chou, too, but I can't remember it exactly.... 
::Maltese Malapropism ? why maltese ?
::No matter how I disguise myself, you smell me out! ???
::“You are the corned beef, and I am the cabbage.  The corned beef is nothing without the cabbage.”
::I like these two links  and  (excellent !)
::I feel very much at home with them, heard a lot of them...
:I guess the only really french part of "peanut of brittle" is the use of "of" as a genitive, in a way that seems awkward in English.   And by the way, I thought "peanut" was "arachide", not "cacahouete"...
::both actually. Cacahouette is what we eat with a beer on the sofa (so, the whole seed or the fruit when we peel it ourselves). Arachide is either the plant, or the oil from the seed, or the pasta in processed food. In this case, it would rather be translated by peanut.
 
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There are other layers of cleverness in the "my sweet peanut of brittle". It points to the French habit of using food terms as endearment "ma petite chou-fleur". There is also the "peanut" "petite" sound-similarity. It also follows the form "vision of love", a heightened poetic form, with the operative nouns replaced by nonsense.
:Hum. Not chou-fleur, chou. Chou is something made with flour, water and sugar. Chou-fleur is the vegetable. That is important, for many of our little-nonsense-butsocute-names are from sweet things, "mon chou", "mon sucre d'orge", "ma crotte en chocolat". Lot's of sugar, round looking, sticky.
:While the use of veggie names is less pleasant. Asperge (too high and thin), patate (stupid), navet (sickly white skin)...
:Try once calling a prospective girlfriend "mon petit chou-fleur". The result may be interesting. David.Monniaux 19:19, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Old text

message: This whole section "Relationship with Penelope Pussycat" reeks of original research. Either some sources need to be cited aside from the cartoons themselves, or the section should be neutered and/or removed. -- BrianSmithson 02:06, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And I don't remember any Pepe shorts getting banned...yet. WAVY 10 19:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: The introductory paragraph uses too many informal words and really does not make much sense.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.94.22 (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. It's way too cutesy. PurpleChez (talk) 23:14, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Paragraph 

message: If you put "Pepé Le Pew" and "stalker" into Google you get many interesting results, including this choice quote:
"Unfortunately, it seems as if Warner Bros.' licensing department wants to portray Pepe and Penelope more as "sweethearts" than as a deranged stalker and his prey."
PMA 07:25, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pepé Le Pew a stalker? 

message: Should one accent both e's or just the last one? The French Wikipedia, for example, spells it "Pépé". - furrykef (Talk at me) 10:00, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pepé or Pépé? 

message: This should surely be moved to Pepé le Pew (lower-case "l"). — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 12:08, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: I think the article should also note that Pepe often swiches places of words in his phrases like:
-Sweeting is such part sorow.
-A kiss is just a sigh, a sigh is just a kiss.
-Nobody know how I am dry.
-It the spring a yung mans love lightly turns to thoughts of fancy. (The word "lightly" is new to me in this phrase)
-Hey wait a just minute.
-The arms of Pepe are about you all the day live long.
-All is love in fair and war.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.198.224.123 (talk) 00:47, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jumbling up words 

message: I don't know if someone has realized or if it is intended by the creator...but PEW is pronounced very much like PU which in French is the sound of "PUE" which means "STINKS".
The verb PUER is "to stink" and all the conjugations for the singular persons of the present of the indicative are pronounced [py] (IPA) which is very similar to English PEW.--Espazolano (talk) 20:05, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of the name 

message: I submit that the cartoon Odor of the Day is incorrectly treated here. This 1948 short features an animated cartoon character that is a humanized skunk, executed by staffers of the Warner Bros. animation division, specifically directed by Art Davis. A similarity in visual design to the character then very recently created by Chuck Jones is to be expected, and that's as far as any resemblance to Pepé goes. Further note that at this point Jones had made only three pictures with him (out of 16 from his unit), and the first clearly had no intent of a series behind it, not with that closing gag. Unless someone can find a source with credibility (as opposed to one littered with errors of a non-typographical nature that any reasonably knowledgeable fan of these cartoons would catch on first reading) that flatly refers to Odor 's skunk as Pepé Le Pew, this article should not come as close as it does to treating him as such. --Tbrittreid (talk) 23:02, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Late but whatever: Anyone in doubt over this need only consult his recent Looney Tunes Super Stars release, Pepé le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best, as this particular short is included on that DVD. I think it's an open and shut case, and thus it should be treated as starring Pepé le Pew in this article. LazyBastardGuy 01:13, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Odor of the Day'' 

message: I am curious - the article says he was dropped from the film for unknown reasons - where are they getting this from? Mavericker (talk) 03:59, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pepe Le Pew In Who Framed Roger Rabbit 

message: For your information, the french version had been based for a long time on french actor Yves Montand and his recognizable accent (between french and italian ones) ; his vocabulary was based on his famous lines and song lyrics (it was actually a good choice in my opinion). More recently, French Pepé simply became Italian, using partly italian language as the original uses french. ~~  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.194.64.46 (talk) 12:54, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There has been at least three dubbings for Pepé in french - first one with no special accent, then the Yves Montand one and finally the italian one. The Montand accent wasn't italian in any way but from Marseille, typical of south of France. 86.238.5.13 (talk) 23:51, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  French Version 

message: Though I am sure it was done with good intentions, IP  has, over 21 edits changed a lot of info in the  parameter of the infobox. Granted, the infobox already contained a number of specifics, but my position is that the content isn't warranted because it clutters the infobox. I removed much of the content in this edit, which was reverted without explanation by the IP in this edit. The basis of my removal is that the  parameter instructions of Template:Infobox character read simply: "Name of the person(s) who voiced the character". There's no instruction to list the myriad shows, commercials, etc. in which the voice actor performed the role, or even the date ranges, which I chose to leave. The purpose of article prose is to detail this sort of content, if it is in fact noteworthy. The infobox is intended to summarize sourced prose found elsewhere in the article, not to be a substitute for sourced article prose. For these reasons, I have removed the content again. If the IP editor feels that it should be included, they are invited to discuss the reasons why here. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 07:54, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clutter in Voice parameter 

message: This is an opinion piece, and I think it's worthy of mentioning in the article.
It's called, "Actually, the Now-Blacklisted Pepé Le Pew Taught Young Boys to NOT Be Sex-Pests."
Apparentky, wikipedia won't let me post the link. But I think the writer makes a great point. You can google the title of the piece. I think there should be a way to add this point of view to the article.
Axml21jkd6 (talk) 05:12, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You're joking, right?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.243.24.147 (talk) 09:39, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeah, Axml21jkd6, how dare you suggest a source not sanctioned by Wikipedia's politburo? Be more tolerant and inclusive! Samedie (talk) 20:55, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actually, the Now-Blacklisted Pepé Le Pew Taught Young Boys to NOT Be Sex-Pests 

message: Maintenance tags should not be removed without precedence. Also I do not fully understand  too statements in the lead. The second removed statement was explained, but the first was not. (Oinkers42) (talk) 17:21, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unexplained Removals