Can't we all just NOT get along?

[seriousfic]

You remember those old Pepé Le Pew cartoons where he chases the black cat with the accidental white stripe around? Well, I just saw a commercial for some... text message phone thing where the cat DELIBERATELY PAINTS A WHITE STRIPE ON HERSELF, then calls up Pepé Le Pew to exchange cutesy messages. What the fuck? Look, I realize a children's cartoon about a French skunk trying to rape a cat doesn't play the same nowadays, but if you're going to bring it back, must you make it diametrically opposed to the entire canon? Why not Babs and Buster Bunny? They're about as relevant and at least they actually have a mutual attraction to each other.

What's next? Popeye and Bluto holding hands?

And the whole thing with the deliberate painting just raises a bunch of disquieting questions. Does Pepé Le Pew know she's not a skunk or is she deceiving him? Is it some... kink thing? Look, commercial, you brought these questions up, not me!

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I don't know--wasn't there one where the cat actually does return Pepe's amorous intentions, but when she gets all up in his business with her mrowing and purring, he loses it? He can't handle actually having to go through with it, which is some kind of hilarious commentary on hypermasculinity and the ways in which men are forced to behave as leches as a result of social conditioning, or some such. That or Pepe was gay and in the closet.

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Wasn't there that episode of Sex and the City where Miranda angrily took up the construction worker who kept hitting on her. He balked and said he was married.

Yes, I have watched Sex in the past. Sue me.