Pepé Le Pew was first introduced in 1945. A French skunk, the cartoon character was often on the quest for love, but his unwanted advances — usually toward a black cat that accidentally got a ...

Another well-known character of your youth is apparently headed for the history books. Pepe Le Pew, the love-struck and relentless skunk in children's cartoons, is getting scrubbed from future ...

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.