For Scent-imental Reasons

For Scent-imental Reasons is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short released in 1949. It was directed by Chuck Jones, written by Michael Maltese, and featured the characters Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat (all voices were done by Mel Blanc). It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was the first Chuck Jones directed cartoon to win this award.

This cartoon was featured in The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

Dialogue

Pepé: [sings] Affaire d'amour ? Affaire de cœur ? Je ne sais quoi… je vive en espoir. [Sniffs] Mmmm m mm… un smella vous finez… [Hums]

Gendarme: Le kittee quel terrible odeur !! [runs away]

Perfume Shop Owner: Arrêt Gendarme !! Arrêt !! Retournez-moi !! This instonce!! [crying] Oh, pouvre de moi! I am ze bankrupt!

Penelope Pussycat: Le mew. Le purr.

Perfume Shop Owner: Ah, le pussy ferocious. Remove that skunk, that polecat pole from the premises. Avec!

[He tosses Penelope in the store and the cat crashed to a table and knocks down a bottle of white hair dye.]

Penelope: (Smells skunk) Sniff, sniff, sniff-sniff, sniff-sniff.

Pepé: Quel est ? [notices cat] Ahh… le belle femme skunk fatale… [clicks tongue twice]

Voice cast

• Mel Blanc as Pepe Le Pew / Perfume Shop Owner / Gendarme / Cat (voice)

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For Scent-imental Reasons

Creators	Tex Avery ·
Characters	Bugs Bunny · Daffy Duck · Porky Pig · Elmer Fudd · Foghorn Leghorn · Granny · Lola Bunny · Marvin the Martian · Pepé Le Pew · Speedy Gonzales · Sylvester the Cat · Tasmanian Devil (Taz) · Tweety · Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner · Yosemite Sam · Babbit and Catstello · Barnyard Dawg · Beaky Buzzard · Beans · Bosko · Buddy · Cecil Turtle · Charlie Dog · Claude Cat · Clyde Bunny · Colonel Shuffle · Conrad the Cat · Cool Cat · Egghead Jr. · Foxy · Goofy Gophers · Goopy Geer · Gossamer · Henery Hawk · Hippety Hopper · Hubie and Bertie · Hugo the Abominable Snowman · Inki · Marc Antony and Pussyfoot · Merlin the Magic Mouse · Michigan J. Frog · Miss Prissy · Nasty Canasta · Penelope Pussycat · Petunia Pig · Piggy · Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit · Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog · Sniffles · Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier · Sylvester Jr. · The Three Bears · Willoughby · Witch Hazel
Feature films	Animated films	The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie  (1979) · The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie  (1981) · Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales  (1982) · Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island  (1983) · Daffy Duck's Quackbusters  (1988) · Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation  (1992) · Tweety's High-Flying Adventure  (2000) · Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas  (2006) · The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie  (2024)
	Live action animated films	(1988) ·  (1996) ·  (2003) ·  (2021)
Short films	Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid  (1929) · Porky's Duck Hunt  (1937) · Porky & Daffy  (1938) · What Price Porky  (1938) · The Daffy Doc  (1938) · Daffy Duck & Egghead  (1938) · Porky in Egypt  (1938) . Daffy Duck in Hollywood  (1938) · Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur  (1939) · Wise Quacks  (1939) · Elmer's Candid Camera  (1940) · A Wild Hare  (1940) · You Ought to Be in Pictures  (1940) · Wabbit Twouble  (1941) ·  (1941) · The Henpecked Duck  (1941) · Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt  (1941) · Who's Who in the Zoo  (1942) · Conrad the Sailor  (1942) · Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid  (1942) · Case of the Missing Hare  (1942) · Crazy Cruise  (1942) · Fresh Hare  (1942) · The Wacky Wabbit  (1942) · The Wabbit Who Came to Supper  (1942) · The Hare-Brained Hypnotist  (1942) · Hold the Lion, Please  (1942) · Fox Pop  (1942) · Yankee Doodle Daffy  (1943) · Porky Pig's Feat  (1943) · A Corny Concerto  (1943) · Daffy – The Commando  (1943) · The Wise Quacking Duck  (1943) · To Duck or Not to Duck  (1943) · Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk  (1943) · Super-Rabbit  (1943) · Wackiki Wabbit  (1943) · What's Cookin' Doc?  (1944) · Hare Force  (1944) · Plane Daffy  (1944) · Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears  (1944) · Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips  (1944) · Stage Door Cartoon  (1944) · Little Red Riding Rabbit  (1944) · Tom Turk and Daffy  (1944) · Duck Soup to Nuts  (1944) · Life with Feathers  (1945) · Draftee Daffy  (1945) · Hare Tonic  (1945) · The Unruly Hare  (1945) · Racketeer Rabbit  (1946) · Rhapsody Rabbit  (1946) · Racketeer Rabbit  (1946) · Baseball Bugs  (1946) · Hair-Raising Hare  (1946) · Acrobatty Bunny  (1946) · The Great Piggy Bank Robbery  (1946) · Daffy Doodles  (1946) · Kitty Kornered  (1946) · Walky Talky Hawky  (1946) · Tweetie Pie  (1947) · One Meat Brawl  (1947) · A Pest in the House  (1947) · Easter Yeggs  (1947) · Slick Hare  (1947) · The Goofy Gophers  (1947) · A Hare Grows in Manhattan  (1947) · Gorilla My Dreams  (1948) · A-Lad-In His Lamp  (1948) · Hot Cross Bunny  (1948) · Rabbit Punch  (1948) · My Bunny Lies over the Sea  (1948) · You Were Never Duckier  (1948) · Buccaneer Bunny  (1948) · Daffy Dilly  (1948) · What Makes Daffy Duck  (1948) · Daffy Duck Slept Here  (1948) · Bugs Bunny Rides Again  (1948) · I Taw a Putty Tat  (1948) · Back Alley Oproar  (1948) · Haredevil Hare  (1948) · Odor of the Day  (1948) · Which Is Witch  (1949) · Long-Haired Hare  (1949) · Rebel Rabbit  (1949) · Knights Must Fall  (1949) · Mississippi Hare  (1949) · Daffy Duck Hunt  (1949) · High Diving Hare  (1949) · Bunker Hill Bunny  (1949) · Often an Orphan  (1949) · For Scent-imental Reasons  (1949) · Hippety Hopper  (1949) · Rabbit Hood  (1949) · Canary Row  (1949) · Bad Ol' Putty Tat  (1949) · The Stupor Salesman  (1949) · Hare Do  (1949) · Frigid Hare  (1949) · The Grey Hounded Hare  (1949) · Holiday for Drumsticks  (1949) · Bushy Hare  (1950) · All a Bir-r-r-d  (1950) · Home Tweet Home  (1950) · The Scarlet Pumpernickel  (1950) · Boobs in the Woods  (1950) · Golden Yeggs  (1950) · Big House Bunny  (1950) · Mutiny on the Bunny  (1950) · Rabbit of Seville  (1950) · Homeless Hare  (1950) · Hillbilly Hare  (1950) · What's Up, Doc?  (1950) · French Rarebit  (1951) · Drip-Along Daffy  (1951) · The Fair-Haired Hare  (1951) · Rabbit Every Monday  (1951) · Rabbit Fire  (1951) · Big Top Bunny  (1951) · Tweety's S.O.S.  (1951) · Room and Bird  (1951) · Canned Feud  (1951) · Scentimental Romeo  (1951) · Putty Tat Trouble  (1951) · A Bird in a Guilty Cage  (1952) · Ain't She Tweet  (1952) · Who's Kitten Who?  (1952) · Operation: Rabbit  (1952) · Rabbit's Kin  (1952) · The Hasty Hare  (1952) · Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century  (1952) · Little Beau Pepé  (1952) · 14 Carrot Rabbit  (1952) · Hare Lift  (1952) · Rabbit Seasoning  (1952) · Foxy by Proxy  (1952) · Oily Hare  (1952) · Water, Water Every Hare  (1952) · Bully for Bugs  (1953) · Forward March Hare  (1953) · Robot Rabbit  (1953) ·  (1953) · Lumber Jack-Rabbit  (1953) · Muscle Tussle  (1953) · Duck! Rabbit, Duck!  (1953) · Catty Cornered  (1953) · Wild Over You  (1953) · Hare Trimmed  (1953) · Duck Amuck  (1953) · Fowl Weather  (1953) · Snow Business  (1953) · Sandy Claws  (1954) · Devil May Hare  (1954) · Captain Hareblower  (1954) · Baby Buggy Bunny  (1954) · Bewitched Bunny  (1954) · Bugs and Thugs  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · Knight-mare Hare  (1955) · [[]]  (1955) · [[]]  (1955) · [[]]  (1955) · Beanstalk Bunny  (1955) · Rabbit Rampage  (1955) · [[]]  (1955) · Hare Brush  (1955) · Red Riding Hoodwinked  (1955) · Speedy Gonzales  (1955) · Two Scent's Worth  (1955) · Roman Legion-Hare nbsp;(1955) · Sahara Hare  (1955) · Tweety's Circus  (1955) · Barbary Coast Bunny  (1956) · A Star is Bored  (1956) · Rabbitson Crusoe  (1956) · Half-Fare Hare  (1956) · Stupor Duck  (1956) · Tweet and Sour  (1956) · Tree Cornered Tweety  (1956) · To Hare is Human  (1956) · The High and the Flighty  (1956) · Napoleon Bunny-Part  (1956) · Bedevilled Rabbit  (1957) · Ducking the Devil  (1957) · Tweety and the Beanstalk  (1957) · Birds Anonymous  (1957) · Fox Terror  (1957) · Touché and Go  (1957) · Ali Baba Bunny  (1957) · Show Biz Bugs  (1957) · Bugsy and Mugsy  (1957) · What's Opera, Doc?  (1957) · Now Hare This  (1958) · Robin Hood Daffy  (1958) · Knighty Knight Bugs  (1958) · Don't Axe Me  (1958) · Pre-Hysterical Hare  (1958) · Hare-Less Wolf  (1958) · A Pizza Tweety Pie  (1958) · Hare-Way to the Stars  (1958) · Tweet and Lovely  (1959) · Unnatural History  (1959) · Hare-Abian Nights  (1959) · Apes of Wrath  (1959) · Bonanza Bunny  (1959) · Lighter Than Hare  (1960) · Hyde and Go Tweet  (1960) · Goldimouse and the Three Cats  (1960) · Rabbit's Feat  (1960) · Crockett-Doodle-Do  (1960) · Who Scent You?  (1960) · Person to Bunny  (1960) · Compressed Hare  (1961) · Prince Varmint  (1961) · The Abominable Snow Rabbit  (1961) · Birds of a Father  (1961) · Bill of Hare  (1962) · Louvre Come Back to Me!  (1962) · Shishkabugs  (1962) · Quackodile Tears  (1962) · Wet Hare  (1962) · Transylvania 6-5000  (1963) · Claws in the Lease  (1963) · Hare-Breadth Hurry  (1963) · Mad as a Mars Hare  (1963) ·  (1963) · False Hare  (1964) · Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare  (1964) · Dumb Patrol  (1964) · The Iceman Ducketh  (1964) · Cool Cat  (1967) · See Ya Later Gladiator  (1968) · 3 Ring Wing-Ding  (1968) · Injun Trouble  (1969) · Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century  (1980) · Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny  (1980) · Box-Office Bunny  (1990) · (Blooper) Bunny  (1991) · Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers  (1992) · Another Froggy Evening  (1995) · Carrotblanca  (1995) · Pullet Surprise  (1997) · From Hare to Eternity  (1997) · Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas  (2004)
Television series	(1990-92) · Taz-Mania  (1992-95) · The Plucky Duck Show  (1992) · The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries  (1995-2002) · Baby Looney Tunes  (2002-05) · Duck Dodgers  (2003-05) ·  (2005-07) ·  (2011-13) ·  (2015-2020) · Looney Tunes Cartoons  (2020-24) · Bugs Bunny Builders  (2022-present) · Tiny Toons Looniversity  (2023-present)
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