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September is another great month for fans of animation, with the returns of Disenchantment and Lower Decks, and the premiere of Krapopolis.

The upcoming Looney Tunes film Space Jam: A New Legacy will depict the iconic cartoon characters using guns, in contrast to their recent revival on HBO Max. The trailer for the new movie, a sequel to 1996’s Space Jam, shows a gag where Yosemite Sam uses his revolvers to shoot holes in a basketball. The scene presents a play on words, with Daffy Duck telling Yosemite Sam to “shoot the ball.” Instead of understanding the command in the colloquial sense, Sam whips out his revolvers and starts indiscriminately shooting at the ball, also making Swiss cheese out of Daffy’s face:

The cartoon made headlines after a columnist said Pepe "normalized rape culture."

The French skunk - who spends most of his time in luckless pursuit of a female cat who is repelled by his advances and noxious smell - hit the headlines last week after a 'New York Times' columnist said Pepe Le Pew 'normalised rape culture'. Photo: Filepic French skunk Pepe Le Pew will not appear in an upcoming Space Jam sequel and is not planned to feature in any new Looney Tunes cartoons, sources familiar with the productions told AFP Wednesday (March 10), as a debate swirls over sexism and "cancel culture" in Hollywood. The lovelorn cartoon animal - who spends most of his time in luckles...

Pepe Le Pew, whose appearance in Space Jam 2 has been cancelled Credit: Alamy The cancel culture debate stinks. Quite literally, this time. The latest name to be tossed on the ever-growing scrapheap of problematic, un-PC stars is, ahem, Pepe Le Pew, the randy French skunk from the Looney Tunes cartoons. Pepe – who debuted in the 1945 short Odor-able Kitty – was set to appear in the upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy, in a scene with Jane the Virgin star Greice Santo. Now Deadline reports that the loved-up Pepe has been scrapped from the film. The news comes after New York Times columnist Ch...