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For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)

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November 12, 1949
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For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)

Name: For Scent-imental Reasons
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Released: 1949-11-12

Running Time

November 12, 1949
Release Date

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Plot.

Pepé Le Pew invades a Parisian perfumery, where he sniffs the various scents. The shopkeeper runs in horror and recruits a female cat to run the skunk out of the shop. She tosses the cat inside, and a bottle of dye falls over, accidentally painting a white stripe down the cat's back. Pepé gives chase..

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Cast & Crew.

Mel Blanc

Pepe Le Pew / Perfume Shop Owner / Gendarme (voice)

Bea Benaderet

Cat

Michael Maltese

Story

Chuck Jones

Director

Treg Brown

Editor / Sound Effects Editor

Peter Alvarado

Background Designer

Ken Harris

Animation

Carl W. Stalling

Original Music Composer

Edward Selzer

Producer

Phil Monroe

Animation

Robert Gribbroek

Layout Supervisor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
November 12, 1949

Status
Released

Running Time
7m

Content Rating
NR

Genres
Animation Comedy

Last updated: 2025-04-28

This Movie Is About.

cartoon

cartoon cat

cartoon skunk

merrie melodies

Wiki.

For Scent-imental Reasons is a 1949 Warner Bros. 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).