Pepé Le Pew is not featured in any current Warner Bros. TV projects and there are no current plans for the controversial cartoon skunk to return, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The news comes one day after it was reported Pepé Le Pew was scrubbed from the upcoming Space Jam 2. And while all that news falls days after a New York Times opinion piece in which the character was said to have"normalized rape culture," the decision to both scrub him from the film and not have him return for TV projects was made more than a year ago.
The Times' piece ran in wake ofDr. Seuss Enterprises announcing it would stop publishing six booksbecause of racist and insensitive imagery.
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