Louvre Come Back to Me!


Louvre Come Back to Me! is a 1962 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The short was released on August 18, 1962, and stars Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat in their last cartoon of the "classic" Warner Bros. animation age.

Plot

In Paris, Pepé Le Pew is strolling and causing a disturbance with his fumes. At one point Penelope Pussycat is walking with a ginger cat and Pepé's stink causes the ginger cat to faint and Penelope to spring into the air in shock, her back making contact with a fresh white-painted flagpole before she falls right into Pepé's arms. As Pepé introduces himself, Penelope scurries away.
Pepé chases Penelope into the Louvre, with the ginger cat following. Pepé's stench ruins a couple of sculptures as well as thwarting the ginger cat's ambush attempt and he terrifies Penelope in the sculpture gallery, even as he paints a picture of her, she scurries away again and Pepé "accidentally" paints the dust cloud she left onto his picture.
The ginger cat then pumps himself with air in an attempt to simultaneously look strong and muscular and hold his breath while he confronts Pepé. Pepé plays along with the confrontation as a duel, miming a miss and a defeat. The ginger cat in the meantime slowly suffocates and finally, the air he fights very hard to hold in is forced out, launching himself into the Hall d'Armour and trapping himself in a suit of armor. Pepé wonders where everyone has gone to and after remarking that "War is fine, but love is better", he immediately picks up on where Penelope went.
Pepé finds Penelope hiding in the air conditioning machine below the Louvre and, thinking she had found a trysting place for them, traps her in it with himself. Pepé's fumes spread through the Louvre spoiling various works of art, the cartoon ending with the fumes causing the Mona Lisa to talk. She breaks the fourth wall and says "I can tell you chaps one thing. It's not always easy to hold this smile."

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