Pepé Le Pew human characters are given minimal dialogue, often nothing more than a repulsed "Le pew!"). Sometimes this formula is varied. In his initial cartoon, "Odor-able Kitty", Pepé (who was revealed to be an American skunk named Henry in this short) unwittingly pursues a "male" cat who has deliberately disguised himself as a skunk (complete with the scent of Limburger cheese) in order to scare off a bunch of characters who have mistreated him. "Scent-imental Over You" has Pepé pursuing a female "dog" who has donned a skunk pelt (mistaking it for a fur coat). In the end, she removes her pelt,
What a Cartoon! Dog", "Mike, Lu & Og", "Sheep in the Big City", "Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?", "", "Grim & Evil" and "Megas XLR" as well as Fox's "Family Guy". The series is influential for birthing a slew of original Cartoon Network hits and helping to revive television animation in the 1990s. Once it had several original shorts, those became the first Cartoon Cartoons (a collective term for retro Cartoon Network original series). From 2005 to 2008, "The Cartoon Cartoon Show" was revived as a block for reruns of older Cartoon Cartoons that had been phased out by the network. Fred Seibert