Gus: I mean, I'd say yes, strictly due to the acting chops on Pepe Le Pew, even if it is...uncouth to talk about his work these days.
Melanie: I'm surprised it caught on back then...he's...I mean it's kinda grody how pushy he is and yet it's played for laughs.
Gus: Well it was aimed at kids anyway, I don't think they were thinking about the implications of each scenario, much less that kids would read anything deeper into it, or act it out. The bulk of it is low-brow "I smell super bad" humor anyway.
Vernon: Funny thang too...I always figured Maris was like...mostly horses.
Val: Can confirm actually, I've visited Ellie in Maris once or twice, and like...eighty percent of the mammals there are some sorta long-legged prey, usually horses.
Gus: Which makes it all the funnier that the 'pushy Prench skunk stereotype' became the dominant thought when folks thought of Marisians. The native population of Mustelids is like...fractionally tiny. But here we are...and then we had Fifi to re-enforce that image in the late eighties.
Vernon: Heh, I remember her...purty sure Zach had a lil' crush on that gal when we was growin' up. I distinctly remember finding a pin-up o' her under his bed.
Joel: Nice. Your brother has pretty good taste.
Gus: Naturally between the two of them, skunks have developed that flirtatious, romantic reputation...which they cling to for dear life because before that all they had was being seen as 'stinky'.
Broomie: And that stereotype is still fighting neck and neck alongside the romantic thing.
Melly: Can you call that a stereotype if it's true?
Dawn: I mean, there's a reason most skunks elect to have their spray glands removed...it's very...leaky from what I've heard. So they never quite know if they're going to have a slight accident and start stinking up the place...it sounds rough. It's better to just nip it in the bud and get rid of them as they don't...I mean it's not really a needed mechanism in modern times anyway.
Gus: I dunno, I mean it did save Fifi's life when that stalker tried to pounce on her in the 90s.
Melanie: She still has her glands?
Gus: Prench Skunks are very big believers in being 'all-natural'. A few stinky situations in life are worth remaining 'in-tact' to them. Plus it was part of her act...though it was super exaggerated. Although she sprayed that boar so thoroughly that he was left blinded and puking, and the police had to carry him off while covering their own mouths with handkerchiefs.
Joel: You're pretty knowledgable about the Gus...didn't take you for a prench physical comedian fan...
Gus: I am literally just reading this stuff off Wikipawdia on my phone.
Joel: Aww...and here I thought you were cultured.
Gus: Stinky comedy isn't high-class comedy...it's not cultured. And it's not funny.
Val: Sexual assault-based comedy, on the other paw, is hilarious...
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