The glaring inaccuracy in Pepe Le Pew cartoons

Can we take a moment to talk about Pepe Le Pew?

When you were a kid you would laugh at this French skunk making amorous advances on an accidentally painted cat.

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But when you reach adulthood, the default reaction is: "Hey! Leave her alone!"

Pepe Le Pew is hardly a welcome presence in the #metoo era, now that society's finally evolved from "it's funny when a skunk encroaches on a cat's personal space" to "it's gross and seedy and that skunk should be ostracised".

But this is the real shock of Pepe Le Pew.

There. Are. No. Skunks. In. France.

Yep, Pepe Le Pew is a French skunk in the world of Warner Bros' Looney Tunes.

But that particular animal is entirely limited to the Western Hemisphere, namely Canada, the US and Mexico.

Not only that, Pepe Le Pew was based on a cartoon writer named Tedd Pierce, who had no connection with France at all.

If Pickle was French, we'd be pretty miffed at this slight on our nationality.

But Pickle is Australian, and as a result feels accurately represented by our national depiction in Looney Tunes.