Penelope the Cat is usually portrayed with white eyes, but in The Cats Bah (1954), her eyes are yellow.
Pepe is attired in the very latest of debonair at-home attire: a smoking jacket and an ascot.
The camel shown is the two humped variety, the Bactrian, usually found in Central Asia. The Dromedary camel, with one hump, is native to the desert regions where the cartoon is set.
The framing segments are a spoof on The Continental (1952), an early TV show which featured Renzo Cesana as a playboy who would romance the viewers via the camera's forced perspective.
Pepe lives next door to the star of the film Algiers (1938). Pepe le Moko was played by Gallic star Charles Boyer. The story here, of the Casbah romance, is loosely based on that film, and the suave Pepe Le Pew is modeled on Boyer.
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