Amora Amore

Aroma Amore is the second segment of the episode Furrball Follies. It was directed by Arts Vitello and written by Sherri Stoner.

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A red shadow silhouette is shown of Fifi grabbing Furrball's arm as he tries in vain to escape her grasp. Even though their faces can't be seen it's clear that Fifi is smiling while Furrball is panicking.

Plot
As we last left Furrball, he is still being chased by the two larger Alley Cats Amby and Floyd, from the last episode, As he is being chased Furrball briefly pauses as the words sacaredicus caticus appear which mean scaredy-cat, Buster and Babs appear in trench coats and tell the viewers that while Furrball keeps dreaming of a home, Fifi La Fume keeps dreaming of love and for her ideal boyfriend. We then see Fifi in her Cadillac home, Dressed in her pajamas and slippers, Reading a romance novel about a girl called Dakota and her relationship with a boy named Bradley, who had accepted a scholarship to a distant college. As she looks out the window she claims she knows her true love is out there somewhere, we are cut back to Furrball, who hides from the two bully cats in the sewers Amby and Floyd then split up and Shortly afterwards, Furrball comes out of the sewers to see that he is safe he sigh's in relief that he gave them the slip and is about to walk away only to be run over by an Acme Street Painter truck. He gets a white stripe that goes down his back and tail, He dizzily gets to his feet and unsteadily walks to the Acme Junkyard leaning against the fence to get his breath back, when Fifi see's him, she see's the white stripe and mistakes him for a male skunk, Her eyes turn into pink hearts with her heart beating out of her chest and exclaims she's going to cover him up, she begins to look for him, but before she leaves she looks in her mirror and see's she is "petite frumpy" and give's herself a makeover. After removing the curlers from her hair and changing from her pajamas to her natural beauty, she puts on her ribbon then applies her favorite perfume; Le Stink, and seeks out her "little crepe-skunkette". While searching for Furrball, Fifi catches the attention of a construction worker, who is about to do the wolf whistle, only to stop in the middle when he smells her and uses a jackhammer to hammer himself to the ground.

We are then cut to Furrball who is looking for food, he takes out a rotten fish from a garbage can. He smells it and even though it smells bad, he figures it's better then starving and reluctantly tries to eat it anyway, when suddenly before he can swallow it, he and Fifi encounter eachother. As Fifi waves enticingly to him, Furrball shyly points to himself as if to say "Who? me?" when she confirms she means him he immediately spits out the fish, then freshens up his breath with mint spray and leaps into Fifi's arms. Fifi then happily twirls him around in her arms before hugging him close and begins to shower him in kisses, and at first he enjoys her kissing him, but suddenly he notices a strange smell that's worse then the rancid fish he spat out, Furrball then notices Fifi's tail which had been hidden before and see's her stripe and realizes she is a skunk (as he must have thought she was a cat before) now full of terror he leaps out of her arms and runs off, but Fifi just giggles and thinks he is playing hard-to-get and pursues after her "little pepperoni of passion" playfully. When Furrball's far enough away from her he turns around a corner of the street, and stops to catch his breath wondering why a skunk would have the hots for him, he then sees the stripe on his reflections back on the Tv screen at a TV/video discount store, and finds out that Fifi thinks he is a skunk. As he picks up his tail to inspect the stripe, he then notices another tail next to him and discovers it is Fifi's, who had snuck-up on him and she immediately wraps it arond him so he can't escape, she brings him nose to nose and gazes lovingly into his eyes saying his love for her is true blue but he eventually manages to escape her grasp.

In the next scene, we see Furrball in the Acme Park, where he's on the fountain with his tail in the water trying desperately to scrub the paint off himself with no success (as it takes more then water to remove street paint). Suddenly, Fifi surprises him when she emerges from the fountain wearing goggles and a snorkel while dressed in a red onepiece swimsuit and scares him away. Later, he tries to hide out in the Ferris wheel of the Acme Carnival, but his relief doesn't last long as Fifi is in the car above him. As she leaps down and tries to grab his arms to bring him closer to her saying she thinks it's time he met her family, Furrball jumps out of the Ferris Wheel, much to Fifi's disappointment. As Furrball is falling, we see the two bully cats at the carnival, looking for him. He lands on Amby as soon as they see eachother he tries to run but they easily catch him, however before they can beat him up they then see the white stripe on his back mistake him for a real skunk and try to run away in fear, only to crash into a test your strength machine, and get knocked out cold. Furrball then hears Fifi calling him and begins to run again, once outside the carnival he then notices some blue paint cans and a brush, relieved he then paints over the white stripe on his back. When Fifi exits the carnival she asks Furrball, who she now sees as a cat, if he has seen the cute boy skunk anywhere, Furrball holds his breath and shakes his head "No," and a heartbroken Fifi walks away, crying at being abandoned. Furrball feels sorry for her and tears fall from his eyes feeling guilty that he's upset her, wanting to cheer her up as even she doesn't deserve to be sad. He comes up with a plan that will work to both of their advantages, he grabs some black and white paint cans and paints the two knocked-out alley cats making them look like skunks, and when they wake up Fifi sees them and believes they are "Two King-sized Crepe-skunkettes!" they flee from her in terror and she immediately gives chase after her "polecat ponies of love". The cartoon ends with a satisfied Furrbal, now happy for Fifi (and gaining revenge on his tormentors at the same time), He smiles and winks at the viewers before painting the screen black, ending the cartoon.

Trivia

 * The episode segment, Aroma Amore follows the order of the Pepe Le Pew cartoons, (a skunk chasing a cat), but with the genders reversed as Fifi is shown to be a female while Furrball is shown to be a male.
 * This is among the episodes that show even if he's dirt poor Furrball has a heart of gold.
 * It kinda odd that Fifi wouldn't recogzine Furrball since they both attend the same school.
 * Aroma Amore was adapted into a single coloring book in the 90's with with K-9 Kitty.