Louvre Come Back to Me!

Louvre Come Back to Me!
Looney Tunes (Pepé Le Pew) series
Directed by	Chuck Jones Maurice Noble (co-director)
Produced by	David H. DePatie.
Story by	John Dunn
Voices by	Mel Blanc Julie Bennett (uncredited)
Music by	Milt Franklyn
Animation by	Bob Bransford Ken Harris Tom Ray Richard Thompson
Backgrounds by	Phillip DeGuard Tom O'Loughlin
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	August 18, 1962 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	6:28
Language	English
Preceded by	A Scent of the Matterhorn

Louvre Come Back to Me! is a 1962 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. It is the last Pepé Le Pew cartoon of the "classic" Warner Bros. animation age.

Plot

In Paris, Pepé is strolling and causing a disturbance with his fumes. At one point a female cat (not Penelope Pussycat) is walking with a ginger cat and Pepé's stink causes the ginger cat to faint and the female cat to spring in the air, getting her back on a fresh white-painted flagpole before she falls right into Pepé's arms. As Pepé introduces himself, the female cat scurries away.

Pepé chases the female cat into the Louvre, the ginger cat following. Pepé's stench ruins a couple of sculptures (correcting one into the Venus de Milo) as well as thwarting the ginger cat's ambush attempt and he terrifies the female cat in the sculpture galley, even as he paints a picture of her ("Don't move, darling. I want to remember you just as you are."), she scurries away again ("Aw, shucks... You moved!").

The ginger cat pumps himself with air in an attempt to hold his breath while he confronts Pepé. Pepé plays along the confrontation as a duel, miming a miss and a defeat. The ginger cat in the meantime suffocates and puffs out all the air he held in, launching himself into the Hall d'Armour. Pepé wonders where everyone has gone to and immediately picks up on where Penelope went.

Pepé finds the female cat hiding in the Air Conditioning machine and traps her in it with himself. Pepé's fumes spread through the Louvre spoiling various works of art, the cartoon ending with the fumes causing the Mona Lisa to talk ("I can tell you chaps one thing. It's not always easy to hold this smile.").

Edited versions

• The whole sequence of the ginger cat's challenge with Pepé is left out in Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island for unknown reasons.

Availability

• DVD - Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best
• VHS - Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island

External links

• Louvre Come Back to Me! at IMDb
• Louvre Come Back to Me! at the Big Cartoon DataBase