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Penelope Pussycat is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic cat featured in the Warner Brothers classic Looney Tunes animated shorts. Though typically a non-speaker, her "meows" and "purs" were most often provided by Mel Blanc using a femanine voice. In the 1959 short "Really Scent", she was voiced by June Foray. And in her only real speaking role, she was voiced by Tress MacNeille in the 1995 straight-to-video movie, "Carrotblanca".
Character History and Personality
Penelope Pussycat is best known as the often bewildered love interest of Looney Tunes star-skunk, Pepe Le Pew. Penelope is a typical black and white pussycat, though by some means or another, she often finds herself with a white stripe down her back. She talks very seldomly, and has a somewhat shy personality...until she falls in love. When Penelope falls in love, and there is nothing to get in her way, she can be just as passionate and unstoppable as Pepe. Penelope is always on the lookout for romance, but often that romance comes paired with a disturbingly foul odor.
While she finds herself constantly being chased by the overly enthusiastic Pepe, their relationship is certainly not a one-sided attraction. On more than one occasion she has been shown to harbor an equally powerful desire to chase, capture and smother Pepe in overwhelming amounts of passion and romance (much to Pepe's fright, as he has an ironic fear of women trying to capture him). However, while she does find Pepe to be attractive, it is his smell that she cannot stand.
Despite their differences, and a smell strong enough to kill plants where they stand, Penelope is very much in love with Pepe when given the proper opportunity to be with him. On many occasions she will go to great lengths to separate Pepe from his odor, and in the moments where she succeeds, she turns the tables on him and amorously hunts him down with reckless abandon.