Pepé Le Pew but sounds similar to Porky Pig. In the shorts, a kind of pseudo-French or Franglais is spoken and written primarily by adding "le" to English words (example: "le skunk de pew"), or by more creative mangling of French expressions with English ones, such as ""Sacré Maroon!"", ""My sweet peanut of brittle"", ""Come to me, my little melon-baby collie!"" or ""Ah, my little darling, it is love at first sight, is it not, no?"", and ""It is love at sight first!"" The writer responsible for these malapropisms was Michael Maltese. Some dialogue from the Oscar-winning 1949 short "For Scent-imental Reasons": Blanc's
What a Cartoon! company to pay for the whole program. In addition to the eventual spin-offs, the "What a Cartoon!" short "Larry and Steve" by Seth MacFarlane featured prototypes of characters that would later go on to become MacFarlane's massively successful "Family Guy". The "What a Cartoon!" project and its assorted spin-offs brought Cartoon Network more commercial and critical success, and the network became an animation industry leader as the 1990s drew to a close. In 2001, coinciding with the death of William Hanna, Hanna-Barbera Productions merged with Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network opened its own production arm, Cartoon Network Studios, in