Why cartoon skunk Pepé Le Pew got canceled from new ‘Space Jam’ movie (video) By Terry Shropshire Mar 09, 2021 11:36 am LeBron James (Photo credit: Laud A. Okoh of Snap at You Photography) ...

But one familiar character will be staying in the locker room: Sources at Warner Bros. have said that amorous cartoon skunk, Pepé Le Pew, will not be featured in the upcoming film, which is set ...

Jones co-created Pepe Le Pew with Mike Maltese in that period. The feline-groping character made his visual debut under a different name in the short "Odor-able Kitty," released in 1945.

The French skunk was introduced in 1945 and often made unwanted advances to other cartoon characters. The new Space Jam movie Space Jam A New Legacy is set to be released on HBO Max in July.

As of now, a scene with Pepe Le Pew has been cut from Space Jam 2, and Warner Bros. is reportedly scrubbing the character from any future Looney Tunes content on HBO Max and other platforms.

In the March 3 New York Times opinion column by Charles M. Blow, he talks about some of the early cartoons he watched, which included the character Pepé Le Pew. A Looney Tunes Fandom site ...

A New York Times columnist has called out Looney Tunes cartoon character Pepe Le Pew, claiming in a tweet and an op-ed that the amorous French skunk has “added to rape culture.” ...

Even though Pepe is a cartoon character, if anyone was going to slap a sexual harasser like him, Greice wished it would be her,” a spokesperson for Santo told Deadline.