| Louvre Come Back to Me! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Chuck Jones Maurice Noble (co-director) |
| Story by | John Dunn |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn |
| Animation by | Bob Bransford Ken Harris Tom Ray Richard Thompson |
| Backgrounds by | Phillip DeGuard Tom O'Loughlin |
| Studio | Warner Bros. |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Language | English |
Louvre Come Back to Me! is a 1962 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. It is the last Pepé Le Pew cartoon (not counting revivals and appearances in 1980s and 1990s shorts).
In Paris, Pepe is strolling and causing a disturbance with his fumes. At one point Penelope is walking with a ginger cat and Pepe's stink causes the ginger cat to faint and Penelope to spring in the air getting her back on a fresh white-painted flagpole before she falls right into Pepe's arms. As Pepe introduces himself, Penelope scurries away.
Pepe chases Penelope into the Louvre, the ginger cat following. Pepe's smell ruins some of the sculptures (and corrects a Statue of Liberty-esque sculpture into the Venus de Milo!). Pepe thwarts the ginger cat's ambush attempt (due to the smell causing the cat to turn white- making him look like the sculptures -and his whiskers, teeth, tail and nose to fall off, which the cat sweeps up before leaving the scene) and terrifies Penelope in the sculpture galley, even as he paints her picture, she scurries away again.
The ginger cat pumps himself with air in an attempt to hold his breath while he confronts Pepe. Pepe plays along the confrontation as a duel, miming a miss and a defeat. The ginger cat in the meantime suffocates (changing color as he does so; blue, then green, then red) and puffs out all the air he held in, launching himself into the Hall d'Armour in the process. Pepe wonders where everyone has gone to and immediately picks up on where Penelope went (The whole sequence is left out in Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island).
Pepe finds Penelope hiding in the Air Conditioning machine and traps her in it with himself. Pepe's fumes spread through the Louvre spoiling various works of art (even causing the Mona Lisa to talk).