In Pepé's short cartoons, a kind of pseudo-French or Franglais is spoken and written primarily by adding the French article "le" to English words (as in ""le" skunk "de" pew") or by more creative mangling of English expressions and French syntax, such as ""Sacré maroon!"", ""My sweet peanut of brittle"", ""Come to me, my little melon-baby collie!"", ""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.