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For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)

For Scent-imental Reasons poster
Directed by
Chuck Jones
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
7 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 78 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A skunk named Pepe Le Pew pursues a white cat who accidentally gets a stripe of white paint down her back. He mistakes her for a female skunk and tries to woo her as she tries to escape his affections.

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What happens

For Scent-imental Reasons (stylized as for Scent-imental Reasons) is a 1949 American Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The short was released on November 12, 1949, and featured the debut of Penelope Pussycat (who is unnamed in this cartoon). It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1949 and was the first Chuck Jones-directed cartoon and the second short produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons to win this award (after Tweetie Pie won in 1947). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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