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It should be noted that skunks have a limited amount of spray, and if they run out, it can take a couple of weeks for them to get it back. That's why they threaten you as much as they think they can get away with -- "StopOrIWillShoot" in animal form (which might explain the trouble ''Series/MythBusters'' had acquiring some of the spray). Their distinctive coloration (not necessarily the skunk stripe) relates to this as well, serving as a warning signal to both humans and wildlife. And the spray isn't total protection, for the skunk's enemies include [[KungFuProofMook the owl]] -- owls have a [[DisabilityImmunity poor sense]] [[NoSell of smell]], so skunks scramble for the nearest hole or thistle branch.

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It should be noted that skunks have a limited amount of spray, and if they run out, it can take a couple of weeks for them to get it back. That's why they threaten you as much as they think they can get away with -- "StopOrIWillShoot" in animal form (which might explain the trouble ''Series/MythBusters'' had acquiring some of the spray). Their distinctive coloration (not necessarily the skunk stripe) relates to this as well, serving as a warning signal to both humans and wildlife. And the spray isn't total protection, for the skunk's enemies include [[KungFuProofMook the owl]] -- owls have a [[DisabilityImmunity poor sense]] [[NoSell of smell]], so skunks scramble for the nearest hole or thistle branch.
branch. Additionally, skunks are careful not to release spray that could smell up their own fur, and so do not resort to chemical warfare when fighting amongst themselves, resulting in bloody battles between males.
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* Kelly Collier's ''The Imposter'' follows a skunk trying to get adopted by a human family by pretending to be a dog. With help from some other urban critters he disguses himself, but before the effectiveness of the disguise can even be determined, he winds up blowing his cover by releasing a blast of spray in a fit of nervousness.
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* A whole game was built around this. ''VideoGame/PunkySkunk'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, a Platformer in which your main offensive weapon was your spray. It was trying to ride the TotallyRadical wave.

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* A whole game was built around this. ''VideoGame/PunkySkunk'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, Platform/PlayStation, a Platformer in which your main offensive weapon was your spray. It was trying to ride the TotallyRadical wave.
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* Mari Torigoe's book ''Skunk Puu-chan'' makes a point of clarifying that skunks don't ''normally'' stink unless they feel threatened enough to use their spray on someone, and goes into detail about the warning signs they give before doing so, such as stomping and aiming their hind ends at a threat. Puu-chan and the other young skunks learn all about the specifics of using their natural defense in school, though when it comes time to practice using it, Puu-chan is too embarrassed and only finds the courage to do so in order to protect a friend from a hungry fox.


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* ''William the Backwards Skunk'', one of Creator/ChuckJones's children's books, is about a skunk who's just a stinky as [[WesternAnimation/PepeLePew that other skunk character]] Jones helped create. However, due to being born with an odd fur pattern that has his stripe on his underside rather than along his back, he causes some confusion for other animals who can't see to tell what animal he is until they're close enough to get a whiff of his "perfume".


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* ''Chucklewood Critters'': The episode "Scenter of Attention" focuses on the critters taking in a young skunk named Eugene after a wildfire destroys his home and separates him from his family. While everyone tries their best to be welcoming, Eugene's habit of giving off a stench whenever he's startled -- and he startles easily -- makes it difficult for him to find acceptance even after Franklin tries to assuage everyone's worries about it by explaining what it's used for. He does end up earning everyone's favor by using his stench to save Abner from a pack of wolves, though even then they still opt to plug their noses just to be safe.
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Contrary to their harmless-looking images, truly-evil skunks are a commonplace in fiction, due to the fact their stinky and poisonous smells, [[EvilWearsBlack among other things]], associate them with [[PoisonIsEvil the malice]], because EvilSmellsBad. Skunks are rarely portrayed as good in most of fiction (and if they are, that's PlayedForLaughs), and are often seen as UnpleasantAnimalCounterpart where the WeaselMascot (or FriskyFerret specifically) exists.

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Contrary to their harmless-looking images, truly-evil skunks are a commonplace in fiction, due to the fact their stinky and poisonous smells, [[EvilWearsBlack among other things]], associate them with [[PoisonIsEvil the malice]], because EvilSmellsBad. Skunks are rarely portrayed as good in most of fiction (and if they are, that's PlayedForLaughs), and are often seen as UnpleasantAnimalCounterpart where the WeaselMascot (or FriskyFerret specifically) exists.
exists. A ClothespinNosePlug may be used as a comical tactic of blocking out the skunk's smell.
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* ''Fanfic/BornToBeWilde'' plays this for horror by combining it with GasMaskMooks. Harvey is a skunk who wears a gas mask, harbors a deep obsession with flame and setting things alight, and bottles his own spray to make offensive bombs.
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** One of the 'Researcher Trio', Sherlock, is an Earth Pony/Great Skunk hybrid, and, due to his pacifistic nature, prefers to use his musk in self-defense over inflicting actual harm. He ends up becoming a Cleric of Aldhika, one of the Great Skunk Pantheon, which actually makes his musk considerably more potent.
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You know what this is going to be about. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Skunks stink.]] It's a known fact. What isn't so well known (at least among fiction creators) is ''why'' they smell. Some works portray it correctly, as a stream of stinky liquid coming out the butt. (The glands are very near the anus proper. Cats and dogs have the glands too, but for marking territory.) Others show a cloud of gas coming out the butt, maybe accompanied by [[{{Fartillery}} farting sounds]]. Sometimes the stuff comes out the tail, an example of ArtisticLicenseBiology which can be less {{squick}}y than the former two. Perhaps unfairest of all, skunks are frequently shown as just plain ''stinky'', 24/7! Not surprising, therefore, if VisibleOdor comes into play.

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You know what this is going to be about. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Skunks stink.]] It's a known fact. What isn't so well known (at least among fiction creators) is ''why'' they smell. Some works portray it correctly, as a stream of stinky liquid coming out the butt. (The glands are very near the anus proper. Cats and dogs have the glands too, but for marking territory.) Others show a cloud of gas coming out the butt, maybe accompanied by [[{{Fartillery}} farting sounds]].farting]] or aerosol spraying sounds. Sometimes the stuff comes out the tail, an example of ArtisticLicenseBiology which can be less {{squick}}y than the former two. Perhaps unfairest of all, skunks are frequently shown as just plain ''stinky'', 24/7! Not surprising, therefore, if VisibleOdor comes into play.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'': In "Stink. Stank. Stunk.", it is revealed that Chef has to face an angry skunk which comes for him every year on the anniversary of the day he accidentally stepped on its tail.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Casper}}'' short "Spunky Skunky" has the friendly little ghost befriend a lonely skunk whose odor has driven the other animals away. By the end, Casper's convinced them to play together, though the others are wearing clothespins on their noses.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Casper}}'' short "Spunky Skunky" has Skunky" is centered around Casper befriending a skunk who is spurned from playing baseball with some local animals, prompting the friendly little critter to try to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, only to fall into a white can of paint and think he's become a ghost. Casper rolls with it just so he can have a friend, but the act is up when the skunk falls into water and washes off the paint—and realizes that Casper is a ghost befriend a lonely and flees. Later on, the skunk whose odor has driven the tries to save his other animals away. By friends from a hungry wolf by spraying him, but to no avail, as the end, Casper's convinced them wolf puts on a gas mask. Casper, fortunately, arrives to play together, though save the others are wearing day, earning the skunk's friendship back and also earning the respect of the others, who wear clothespins on their noses.noses for the skunk's sake when they play baseball.



* The Peruvian DVD collection ''Video Cuentos'' (Video stories) includes the low budget cartoon "El Zorrillo Perfumin" (Perfumin the Skunk). The title character is a baby skunk that is ostracized by the other young animals of the forest because of his smell, but later gains their respect after using the latter to defend them from a hungry wolf.

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* The Peruvian DVD collection ''Video Cuentos'' (Video stories) Stories) includes the low budget cartoon "El Zorrillo Perfumin" (Perfumin the Skunk). The title character is a baby skunk that is ostracized by the other young animals of the forest because of his smell, but later gains their respect after using the latter to defend them from a hungry wolf.
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* The Peruvian DVD collection ''Video Cuentos'' (Video stories) includes the low budget cartoon "El Zorrillo Perfumin" (Perfumin the Skunk). In it, the title character is ostracized by the other young animals of the forest because of his smell, but later gains their respect after using the latter to defend them from a hungry wolf.

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* The Peruvian DVD collection ''Video Cuentos'' (Video stories) includes the low budget cartoon "El Zorrillo Perfumin" (Perfumin the Skunk). In it, the The title character is a baby skunk that is ostracized by the other young animals of the forest because of his smell, but later gains their respect after using the latter to defend them from a hungry wolf.
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* The [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] audio webseries ''Podcast/TheBookshopSkunk'' is a downplayed example. Oreo the eponymous skunk mentions customers holding their noses around him and in general getting fewer people coming into the store [[ForcedTransformation while he's in that particular form]], and even occasionally jokes about it to the listener. But the implication is that it's more due to FantasticRacism than him actually smelling bad, which he doesn't seem to and instead just smells of "old books and slight cheddar". As a consequence of [[TouchedByVorlons presiding over a magical boostore]] he does gain the ability to manifest [[VisibleOdor constructs made out of a scent]] he can give off, but rather then the scent being inherently unpleasant, he can will it to be whatever he chooses and usually opts for nice smells instead. A visual indicator that he doesn't smell bad is that his scent clouds are a pleasant pink instead of sickly green.

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* The [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] audio webseries ''Podcast/TheBookshopSkunk'' is ''Podcast/SibyllineSounds'' has a downplayed example. Oreo the eponymous skunk mentions customers holding their noses around him and in general getting fewer people coming into the store [[ForcedTransformation while he's in that particular form]], and even occasionally jokes about it to the listener. But the implication is that it's more due to FantasticRacism than him actually smelling bad, which he doesn't seem to and instead just smells of "old books and slight cheddar". As a consequence of [[TouchedByVorlons presiding over a magical boostore]] he does gain the ability to manifest [[VisibleOdor constructs made out of a scent]] he can give off, but rather then the scent being inherently unpleasant, he can will it to be whatever he chooses and usually opts for nice smells instead. A visual indicator that he doesn't smell bad is that his scent clouds are a pleasant pink instead of sickly green.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Casper}}'' has the friendly little ghost befriend a lonely skunk whose odor has driven the other animals away. By the end, Casper's convinced them to play together, though the others are wearing clothespins on their noses.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Casper}}'' short "Spunky Skunky" has the friendly little ghost befriend a lonely skunk whose odor has driven the other animals away. By the end, Casper's convinced them to play together, though the others are wearing clothespins on their noses.



* The Peruvian DVD collection ''Video Cuentos'' (Video stories) includes the low budget cartoon "El Zorrillo Perfumin" (Perfumin the Skunk). In it, a baby skunk is ostracized by the other animals because of his smell, but later gains respect from them after scaring away a hungry wolf.

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* The Peruvian DVD collection ''Video Cuentos'' (Video stories) includes the low budget cartoon "El Zorrillo Perfumin" (Perfumin the Skunk). In it, a baby skunk the title character is ostracized by the other young animals of the forest because of his smell, but later gains their respect from them after scaring away using the latter to defend them from a hungry wolf.
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** One of the children, Gweneth, [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2020/kk0111.html used her musk]] as part of a ploy to extract R.L. out of a situation where he was injured, and trapped in a salt lick by deer.
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** Skunk stink was of course the entire point of almost every WesternAnimation/PepeLePew short. That, and [[MemeticMolester feline molestation]]. In one cartoon, Pepe becomes aware of his own odor problem when he looks up the word that everyone says in his presence -- "Pew!" -- and is quite horrified by what he discovers. Pepe immediately goes to [[spoiler:Henri's Deodorizing Service, and goes into a vat filled with chlorophyll.]] His girlfriend, however, runs straight into one of the vats [[spoiler:in Pierre's Limburger Cheese Company.]]

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** Skunk stink was of course the entire point of almost every WesternAnimation/PepeLePew short. That, and [[MemeticMolester feline molestation]].molestation. In one cartoon, Pepe becomes aware of his own odor problem when he looks up the word that everyone says in his presence -- "Pew!" -- and is quite horrified by what he discovers. Pepe immediately goes to [[spoiler:Henri's Deodorizing Service, and goes into a vat filled with chlorophyll.]] His girlfriend, however, runs straight into one of the vats [[spoiler:in Pierre's Limburger Cheese Company.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'': In "[[Recap/KampKoralS1E25TheTasteOfDefeatScaredySquirrel The Taste of Defeat]]", Plankton tries to shock some skunk snails into stinking up Narlene's restaurant. The snails turn on him and spray him instead. Karen has to [[TomatoSkunkStinkCure put him in a can of tomato juice]] to get rid of the smell.
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** The Stinkwells, a duo of skunk brothers working for C.L.A.D.E. as inventors, are implied to be constantly smelly to the extent that even the inventions they create sometimes stink. Most of their appearances have one of them accidentally farting just to drive the point home.
** One episode features a honey badger who's eager to point out that he ''also'' can shoot a stinky spray from his rear, which he uses to ward off bees. The Stinkwells even comment on it while specifying that it's not as potent as a skunk's, but nevertheless it winds up coming in handy when Sam uses it for infiltrating a bee hive... by begrudgingly letting himself get covered in spray.
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[[caption-width-right:349:What a real stinker!]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': Scudworth's SitcomArchNemesis is a whacky skunk named Skunky Poo, whose screws with him in a way that parodies the sort of antics seen in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. Every time Scudworth suffers an AmusingInjury in one of their segments, it's always capped off with Skunky Poo spraying him in the face.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': Scudworth's SitcomArchNemesis is a whacky skunk named Skunky Poo, whose screws with him in a way that parodies the sort of antics seen in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. Every time Scudworth suffers an AmusingInjury in one of their segments, it's always capped off with Skunky Poo Skunky-Poo spraying him in the face.

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