Dancing Pepé

I have not seen this cartoon. Nor do I think anyone has. However, I have read a brief synopsis of it which reads as follows: A squirrel with a head-cold falls for Pepe on the dance floor until a friend of hers gives her some Clariton. Which of course cures the cold and she finds out how stinky he really is, and so forth. This is not a mere shaking up of a formula meant to keep Pepe's routine fresh. This is sabotage. But not on Larry Doyle's part. For you see, sometime during the '90's, some 'holier-than-thou' political-correctness gurus proclaimed that Pepe Le Pew was incorrect. That his classic routine was lashing out against women and that he promoted rape fantasies or some such nonsense. Thus, Pepe was suppressed during this time. In Space Jam all he was allowed to do was be stinky. However, in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, a scene was planned where Pepe would go after Penelope once again but the "powers-that-be" at Warner Bros. were afraid of any back-lash from any radical 'anti-entertainment groups' so the scene was cut. And, like in Space Jam, Pepe could only be stinky. However, the story-line of Dancing Pepe is going too far in the other direction. Now, not only is Pepe not allowed to do his chase schtick, he now has to be the one who is chased. He has literally been neutered by the political correctness movement. You can almost hear the hairy armpits rustling as the members of any or all the radical women's groups shout "dance MALE dance!" as he is now their slave. Okay, I'm sure some will feel that last line "went too far". But you have to admit, this scenario is a complete 180 for Pepe. While it was done as a punchline in such cartoons as For Scent-imental Reasons or Little Beau Pepe, here it's just sadly ironic. A once great figure reduced to not a shadow but rather a bizarro-type mirror image of his former self.