Review of For Scent-imental Reasons

" . . . attractive," a frazzled Henry-the-Skunk (a.k.a., Pepe Le Pew) whines to the camera at the close of his Oscar-winning performance in FOR SCENT-IMENTAL REASONS. This animated short from Warner Bros. begins with Henry in his habitual serial rapist "Pepe" mode, wife and kids nowhere to be seen. Surprisingly, this French-accented fake is somehow in ancient France now. As always, the object of his inter-species sexual predation is a hapless animal (in this case, a female cat) who's been accidentally splashed with a white paint stripe along the lines of skunk markings. (If a similar mishap happened to "transform" a sea gull into a duck, even an amorous Daffy would wait until the painted gull waddled and quacked BEFORE concluding that it WAS a duck!) Pepe\Henry has no such compunctions. He targets the victims of his unrequited lust purely on the basis of Lookism. Female Oscar voters probably swung the statuette in favor of this particular Pepe\Henry episode because of its ending. Through another chance occurrence, Ms. Kitty simultaneously loses her skunk markings AND her sense of smell, just as Mr. Skunk is dyed an attractive shade of blue. The tables are turned for once, as Ms. Kitty heatedly pursues the now balky skunk. Hence Pepe's Complaint.