Current Events > WB took out Pepe Le Pew but Alex and The Droogs are in the Space Jam trailer

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superman 2000 posted...

My point is, if realistic rapists can be treated as casual spectators to a basketball game, then a cartoon skunk whose whole gimmick was just being overbearingly romantic while stinky shouldn't be remotely problematic.

Yep, I can agree with this. And like I said, all of the LT people are "actors" in their own universe.

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SSJPurple posted...

You are right

But some people are idiots

Yeah lol it's just so transparent in this case that I'm surprised people actually try to defend it

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Nobody outside of die-hard Loony Tune fans care to make a distinction between them being actors or not. As far as they know, Pepe Le Pew is the skunk who talks and forces himself on a cat. They don't care that he is actually a skunk actor playing the role of a skunk that forces himself on a cat.

It's a largely meaningless point to make.

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king kong is in this and he put hes finger up a girls dress and sniffed it

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pepe isn't a rapist. it's fucking looney tunes

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ledbowman posted...

king kong is in this and he put hes finger up a girls dress and sniffed it

Lmaooooo I wasnt expecting this and it killed me

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Theyre literally just background characters in a crowd filled with other WB characters. Pepe would actually have a role in the movie and his entire character is simply being a sexually offending skunk. If they put him in theyd have to change who he is completely so they just left him out. This isnt rocket science lol.

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TheVipaGTS posted...

Theyre literally just background characters in a crowd filled with other WB characters. Pepe would actually have a role in the movie and his entire character is simply being a sexually offending skunk. If they put him in theyd have to change who he is completely so they just left him out. This isnt rocket science lol.

They already changed who he was, before.
They changed who Lola was a number of times.
Also Penelope chased Pepe half the time and no one is complaining about her.

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Lmao, why put the Clockwork Orange guys in the film to begin with? I couldn't really give a shit about it, but it's such a weird IP to insert into a film about Looney Toons playing basketball lol.

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Rapists, murderers, and in the book Alex is a pedo. Remember those two girls he had a fast-forward threesome with? In the book they were literally children

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ledbowman posted...

king kong is in this and he put hes finger up a girls dress and sniffed it

Whoa, which version of King Kong did THAT? xD

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TheVipaGTS posted...

If they put him in theyd have to change who he is completely so they just left him out. This isnt rocket science lol.

Again, see Space Jam 1. He was included, had a few lines, and did nothing that had anything to do with being a sexual predator. You can always just play off his stereotypical French charm and mannerisms, assuming one has an iota of imagination and can view things outside of their most extreme interpretation.

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superman 2000 posted...

Again, see Space Jam 1. He was included, had a few lines, and did nothing that had anything to do with being a sexual predator. You can always just play off his stereotypical French charm and mannerisms, assuming one has an iota of imagination and can view things outside of their most extreme interpretation.

I mean, he's a fucking skunk. Just make one or two odor jokes and call it a day. This idea that he HAS to be rapey is short-sighted.

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We al grew up on Pepe and it never normalized being a stalker and pervert.

Neither did we want to shoot our best friend in the face because we saw Bugs Bunny do it.

Bugs was also planting smooches on people all the time. Who gives a shit.

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It's weird because the scene that Pepe Le Pew was in, it was trying to show that sexual harassment was wrong and even the actress loved the scene because she gets to, literally, slap some sense into him. When the other director left and got a new one, they immediately axed the scene.

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I don't really care about this discussion, but I am going to leave this here
https://twitter.com/jason1749/status/1416078735879643137

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If WB really cared about their brand then they wouldn't have the Cry Baby King in the movie.

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masterpug53 posted...

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the number of people who have seen a Pepe Le Pew cartoon vastly outweighs the number of people who have actually sat down and watched A Clockwork Orange.

The number of people who remember rape from ACO vastly outnumbers the number of people who remember a rape in a Pepe cartoon because it never fucking happened in a Pepe cartoon.

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eston posted...

Rapists, murderers, and in the book Alex is a pedo. Remember those two girls he had a fast-forward threesome with? In the book they were literally children

alex is 15 in the book.

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Prestoff posted...

It's weird because the scene that Pepe Le Pew was in, it was trying to show that sexual harassment was wrong and even the actress loved the scene because she gets to, literally, slap some sense into him. When the other director left and got a new one, they immediately axed the scene.

This. The scene he was originally in was legit calling out the stuff old Pepe Le Pew cartoons were known for.

Also, FWIW, in New Looney Tunes, they shifted his character to a spy agent who's evading biohazard units trying to arrest him. I think he casually hits on a fox-lady spy a couple of times, but only insofar as he like, offers her chocolates or his eyes turn into hearts or something, but she turns him down everytime.

Either way, the idea Pepe Le Pew can't be modernized to not fit for modern audiences is silly.

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It's the definition of virtue signaling.

They don't care about Pepe Le Pew's antics so much as they care about getting recognition for opposing a controversial character.

FortuneCookie posted...

They don't care about Pepe Le Pew's antics so much as they care about getting recognition for opposing a controversial character.

Pepe Le Pew controversial...what a world.
I wonder if they would go after Fifi as hard.

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superman 2000 posted...

Again, see Space Jam 1. He was included, had a few lines, and did nothing that had anything to do with being a sexual predator. You can always just play off his stereotypical French charm and mannerisms, assuming one has an iota of imagination and can view things outside of their most extreme interpretation.

Sure. Or you can also just not put him in if his role would be that trivial. Who cares lol.

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TheVipaGTS posted...

Sure. Or you can also just not put him in if his role would be that trivial. Who cares lol.

Most characters except Bugs, Daffy, and Lola were only given a small bit of spotlight in the original film anyway. Everyone else just had a moment or two and a handful of lines of dialogue. Pepe's removal was just virtue signalling; it is what it is.

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Incredible.
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I remember seeing them when the trailer first came out and I thought it was so bizarre.

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For those unaware, in the novel Alex rapes two 12 year olds, making him a child rapist.

Heavy_D_Forever posted...

Space Jam needed a wee bit of the ol' ultra violence

Lmao

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I think people are really taking a deleted scene in Space Jam 2 a bit too seriously. Pepe is still a character they use. It's not like he's blacklisted.

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lmao

I never minded Pepe's antics. They're all just wacky cartoon characters; who gives a shit?

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