Hoenest on Instagram: "🎬 Fact: Pepé Le Pew (1945–present) Created by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese, the world’s most famous animated skunk was loosely based on a real person: their colleague Tedd Pierce, who considered himself a “ladies’ man” and mistakenly believed every infatuation he had was mutual. The character’s signature “pseudo-French” or “Franglais” dialogue was achieved by simply adding “le” to English words or creatively mangling French syntax. One of his shorts, For Scent-imental