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Louvre Come Back to Me!
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Wikipedia article
'Louvre Come Back to Me!' is a 1962 Warner Bros. 'Looney Tunes' cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The short was released on August 18, 1962, and stars Pep Le Pew in his last cartoon of the "classic" Warner Bros. animation age.
Plot
In Paris, Pep is strolling and causing a disturbance with his fumes. At one point Penelope Pussycat is walking with Claude Cat and Pep's stink causes Claude to faint and Penelope to spring in the air, her back making contact with a fresh white-painted flagpole before she falls right into Pep's arms. As Pep introduces himself, Penelope scurries away.
Pep chases Penelope into the Louvre, with Claude following. Pep's stench ruins a couple of sculptures (correcting one into the 'Venus de Milo') as well as thwarting Claude's ambush attempt (who Pep mistakes for a sculpture due to him turning white; the cat's teeth, whiskers, tail, and nose fall off, which he sweeps up before fleeing) and he terrifies Penelope in the sculpture gallery, 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 and Pep "accidentally" paints the dust cloud she left onto his picture ("Aw, shucks... You moved!").
Claude pumps himself with air in an attempt to hold his breath as well as look strong and muscular while he confronts Pep. Pep plays along with the confrontation as a duel, miming a miss and a defeat. Claude in the meantime slowly suffocates and finally, the air he fights very hard to hold in is forced out, launching himself into the Hall d'Armour. Pep wonders where everyone has gone to and after remarking that "War is fine, but love is better", he immediately picks up on where Penelope went.
Pep finds Penelope hiding in the air conditioning machine below the Louvre and traps her in it with himself. Pep's fumes spread through the Louvre spoiling various works of art (the limp watches on Salvador Dal's 'The Persistence of Memory' turn erect and break while the head and insects pass out, the heads of the couple on Grant Wood's 'American Gothic' retreat into their bodies in the manner of turtles, the person overseeing the workers on Jean-Franois Millet's 'The Gleaners' shoots a starting pistol causing the workers to dash off like sprinters, and the color on Edgar Degas's 'Two Dancers' falls off turning it into a paint-by-numbers picture), the cartoon ending with the fumes causing the 'Mona Lisa' to talk. She breaks the fourth wall and says ("I can tell you chaps one thing. It's not always easy to hold this smile.").
Crew
*Co-Director & Layouts: Maurice Noble
*Story: John Dunn
*Animation: Richard Thompson, Bob Bransford, Tom Ray & Ken Harris
*Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin & Philip DeGuard
*Film Editor: Treg Brown
*Voice Characterizations: Mel Blanc & Julie Bennett
*Music: Milt Franklyn
*Produced by David H. DePatie & John W. Burton
*Directed by Chuck Jones
Home media
* VHS - 'The Looney Tunes Video Show Vol. 3'
* DVD - 'Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best'
* DVD - 'Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island'
References
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