Penelope Pussycat
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Penelope Pussycat is a fictional character
, an anthropomorphic cat
featured in the Warner Bros.
classic Looney Tunes
animated shorts. Though typically a non-speaker, her "meows" and "purrs" were most often provided by Mel Blanc
using a feminine voice. In the 1959 short "Really Scent", she was voiced by June Foray
. , her only real speaking role was in the 1995 short Carrotblanca
where she was voiced by Tress MacNeille
. It can be postulated with the inconsistencies in her naming that every sighting of her is simply a random black cat until 'Penelope' was named on screen in Carrotblanca using the black cat animation. In 2011, she will be voiced by Tara Strong
in The Looney Tunes Show
.
. Penelope is a typical black and white pussycat
, though by some means or another, she often finds herself with a white stripe down her back, whether painted intentionally or by accident.
She finds herself constantly being chased by the overly enthusiastic Pepè, but on occasion the pursuing has been done by Penelope. On one occasion, Penelope has fallen into a barrel of water and develops a cold, and finds herself strongly attracted to Pepe after he has fallen into a bucket of blue paint. In another short (where she is called "Fabrette"), she is a black cat with an unfortunate fur pattern of a white stripe down her back making her resemble a skunk and having difficulty finding love because of her appearance. She is attracted to Pepe, yet cannot cope with his odor. Both try to overcome this using similar methods. She locks herself in a limburger factory, and presumably uses the stinky cheese to make herself not only attractive to Pepe with her scent, but also in an effort not to smell his odor. At the same time Pepe, has immersed himself in deodorants in efforts to neutralize his odor "problem".
Penelope Pussycat will appear in The Looney Tunes Show
episode "Trail By the Train" voiced by Tara Strong
.
She remained without an official name for many years, up until "Carrotblanca
" (a parody of Casablanca
) was released in 1995. her name was then canonized as "Penelope Pussycat", as many advertisements for the short credited her as "Penelope Pussycat in her first speaking role".
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
, an anthropomorphic cat
Cat
The cat , also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felids and felines, is a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests...
featured in the Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
classic Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...
animated shorts. Though typically a non-speaker, her "meows" and "purrs" were most often provided by Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros...
using a feminine voice. In the 1959 short "Really Scent", she was voiced by June Foray
June Foray
June Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters...
. , her only real speaking role was in the 1995 short Carrotblanca
Carrotblanca
Carrotblanca is a 1995 8-minute Looney Tunes cartoon. It was originally shown in cinemas alongside The Amazing Panda Adventure and The Pebble and the Penguin...
where she was voiced by Tress MacNeille
Tress MacNeille
Tress MacNeille is an American voice actress best known for providing various voices on the animated series The Simpsons, Futurama, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Disney's House of Mouse, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Rugrats, All Grown Up!, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and Dave the...
. It can be postulated with the inconsistencies in her naming that every sighting of her is simply a random black cat until 'Penelope' was named on screen in Carrotblanca using the black cat animation. In 2011, she will be voiced by Tara Strong
Tara Strong
Tara Lyn Strong is a Canadian actress, voice-over artist, singer, who is best known for her voice work in cartoons.-Early life and career:...
in The Looney Tunes Show
The Looney Tunes Show
The Looney Tunes Show is a packaged show, created for Cartoon Network, and broadcast from 2002 to 2005. It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The show featured cartoon shorts from the original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon series produced from 1930 to 1969.-External links:...
.
Character history and personality
Penelope Pussycat is best known as the often bewildered love interest of Looney Tunes' anthropomorphic skunk, Pepé Le PewPepé Le Pew
Pepé Le Pew is a fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, first introduced in 1945. A French skunk that always strolls around in Paris in the springtime, when everyone's thoughts are of "love", Pepé is constantly seeking "l'amour" of his own...
. Penelope is a typical black and white pussycat
Cat
The cat , also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felids and felines, is a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests...
, though by some means or another, she often finds herself with a white stripe down her back, whether painted intentionally or by accident.
She finds herself constantly being chased by the overly enthusiastic Pepè, but on occasion the pursuing has been done by Penelope. On one occasion, Penelope has fallen into a barrel of water and develops a cold, and finds herself strongly attracted to Pepe after he has fallen into a bucket of blue paint. In another short (where she is called "Fabrette"), she is a black cat with an unfortunate fur pattern of a white stripe down her back making her resemble a skunk and having difficulty finding love because of her appearance. She is attracted to Pepe, yet cannot cope with his odor. Both try to overcome this using similar methods. She locks herself in a limburger factory, and presumably uses the stinky cheese to make herself not only attractive to Pepe with her scent, but also in an effort not to smell his odor. At the same time Pepe, has immersed himself in deodorants in efforts to neutralize his odor "problem".
Penelope Pussycat will appear in The Looney Tunes Show
The Looney Tunes Show
The Looney Tunes Show is a packaged show, created for Cartoon Network, and broadcast from 2002 to 2005. It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The show featured cartoon shorts from the original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon series produced from 1930 to 1969.-External links:...
episode "Trail By the Train" voiced by Tara Strong
Tara Strong
Tara Lyn Strong is a Canadian actress, voice-over artist, singer, who is best known for her voice work in cartoons.-Early life and career:...
.
Name confusion
For many years, Penelope remained a nameless character, simply referred to as "the black cat". she was eventually given a name in the 1954 short, "The Cat's Bah", where her mistress referred to her as "Penelope". The name was later contradicted in the 1955 short, "Two Scent's Worth", where she was identified as "Fifi". In the 1959 short, "Really Scent", she was referred to as "Fabrette". Confusingly, her mother was named "Fifi".She remained without an official name for many years, up until "Carrotblanca
Carrotblanca
Carrotblanca is a 1995 8-minute Looney Tunes cartoon. It was originally shown in cinemas alongside The Amazing Panda Adventure and The Pebble and the Penguin...
" (a parody of Casablanca
Casablanca (film)
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in...
) was released in 1995. her name was then canonized as "Penelope Pussycat", as many advertisements for the short credited her as "Penelope Pussycat in her first speaking role".
Classic shorts
- "For Scent-imental ReasonsFor Scent-imental ReasonsFor Scent-imental Reasons is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short released in 1949. It was directed by Chuck Jones, written by Michael Maltese, and featured the characters Pepe Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat . It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film...
" (1949) - "Scentimental RomeoScentimental RomeoScentimental Romeo is a 1950 animated short featuring Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat.-Plot:It is springtime in Paris, and Penelope Pussycat is starving, trying to beg the local zookeeper to give her some of the lions' food, who gently but sternly refuses. She then deliberately paints a stripe on...
" (1951) - "Little Beau Pepe" (1952)
- "The Cat's Bah" (1954)
- "Past Perfumance" (1955)
- "Two Scent's Worth" (1955)
- "Heaven Scent" (1956)
- "Touché and GoTouché and GoTouché and Go is a 1957 Merrie Melodies Pepé Le Pew cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.-Plot:As a street painter paints out a white line in the middle of a road, Penelope is being chased by a dog and runs right under the paint tank and getting a white line across her spine whilst the dog crashes into...
" (1957) - "Really Scent" (1959)
- "Who Scent You?" (1960)
- "A Scent of the Matterhorn" (1961)
- "Louvre Come Back to Me!Louvre Come Back to Me!Louvre Come Back to Me! is a 1962 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. It is the last Pepé Le Pew cartoon .-Plot:...
" (1962)
Other media
- "Tiny Toon AdventuresTiny Toon AdventuresSteven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures, usually referred to as Tiny Toon Adventures or simply Tiny Toons, is an American animated television series created by Tom Ruegger and produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. It began production as a result of Warner Bros....
" episode "It's a Wonderful Tiny Toon Christmas Special" (1992) - "CarrotblancaCarrotblancaCarrotblanca is a 1995 8-minute Looney Tunes cartoon. It was originally shown in cinemas alongside The Amazing Panda Adventure and The Pebble and the Penguin...
" (1995) (Her only speaking role) - "Space JamSpace JamAside from Jordan, a number of NBA players and coaches appeared in the film. Larry Bird portrays a friend of Jordan who joins him for a game of golf. When the Monstars steal the NBA players' talent, they invade a game between the Phoenix Suns and the New York Knicks, causing the Knicks' Patrick...
" (1996) - "Tweety's High-Flying Adventure" (2000)
- "Looney Tunes: Back in ActionLooney Tunes: Back in ActionLooney Tunes: Back in Action is a 2003 American live action/animated adventure comedy film directed by Joe Dante and starring Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Timothy Dalton, and Steve Martin. The film is essentially a feature-length Looney Tunes cartoon, with all the wackiness and surrealism typical...
" (2003) - (appears in the deleted scene) - "Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes ChristmasBah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes ChristmasBah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas is a 2006 animated direct-to-video film starring the Looney Tunes and directed by Charles Visser and produced by Warner Bros. Animation...
" (2006) - "Loonatics UnleashedLoonatics UnleashedLoonatics Unleashed is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation that ran on the Kids' WB for two seasons from 2005 to 2007 in the United States, Teletoon in Canada, Kids Central in Singapore, Cartoon Network's Boomerang in Australia, Cartoon Network in the UK,...
" episode "The Hunter" (2007) - (statue of her can be seen in trophy room) - "The Looney Tunes ShowThe Looney Tunes ShowThe Looney Tunes Show is a packaged show, created for Cartoon Network, and broadcast from 2002 to 2005. It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The show featured cartoon shorts from the original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon series produced from 1930 to 1969.-External links:...
" (2011)