History Main / Jaccuse

* ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'':
** An UnsoundEffect. Don't you wish your arm could do [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20100915 that?]]
** And [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20150618 here,]] Lottie even uses it as an [[CallingYourAttacks called out attack]], like in a manga.

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** And [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20150618 here,]] Lottie even uses it as an [[CallingYourAttacks called out attack]], like in an manga...

* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' once had a drug sniffing dog point at Zonker and say "J'accuse!".

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* ''J'Accuse'': A French zombie movie released in the 1920s filled with as much political weight as can be. The ZombieApocalypse is the sudden uprising of the French dead of WWI, coming back to condemn the guilty living who sent them to die. The whole film is an anti-war polemic, which the director convinced the army was going to be a propaganda flick, so they gave him real soldiers for actors -- 80% of whom died once they went back to the front.

* There's also a 1958 film about Dreyfus, fittingly entitled ''I Accuse!'', directed by and starring Jose Ferrer, along with Anton Walbrook and Viveca Lindfors.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Gilbert says it to Bill while ranting about his plan to sell the family's barbecue sauce.

Once upon a time in France, a renowned writer named Émile Zola penned a [[StronglyWordedLetter scathing open letter to the President]] (published in liberal publisher Georges Clemenceau's newspaper ''L'Aurore'' on January 13, 1898) that accused the government of France's Third Republic of anti-Semitism and corruption in its handling of the Dreyfus Affair of 1894 -- in which an innocent French Army officer, Alfred Dreyfus, who just happened to be Jewish, was used as a scapegoat in a German espionage case (France had recently lost a war to Germany and despised them), when it was quite clear to everyone that the only thing that Dreyfus was guilty of was being Jewish and from the region of Alsace (that was currently under German control). The letter pointed out the weakness of the evidence and several clear occurrences of judicial error and prejudice during Dreyfus's trial, and formally named and accused scores of people of everything from incompetence to crimes against justice and humanity; for someone so prominent and respected as Zola to write something so harsh was a big deal, and for that Clemenceau (who loved picking political fights) set the sensationalist headline, in giant, bold letters: "'''''J'Accuse...!'''''".

* PlayedForLaughs in the Belgian comic ''ComicBook/LeChat'', with a letter from Zola starting with '''J'accuse''' in giant font and the rest of the letter reading "reception de votre letter" (meaning "I acknowledge the letter you sent me"). [[http://www.archives-zoliennes.fr/icono/emile-zola-dans-son-jacuzzi/ Another showed Zola taking a bath]] in his [[{{Pun}} J'accuzzi.]]

* Lester lets one fly in a final season episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' after discovering he and Jeff have been LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding Chuck's double life.

* In ''Series/{{Glee}}'' Stoner Brett yells this during a Brittany Spears performance by the New Directions.
* ''Series/ModernFamily'' had Cam say this after he discovered his husband was keeping his larger clothes in case his diet fails, specifically because it was more dramatic than other ways.

* In ''Series/TheWestWing'' episode "The Indians in the Lobby", President Bartlet attempted to use this on his wife Abbey when he finds out it's her fault they were going to celebrate Thanksgiving in Camp David rather than their family farm in New Hampshire. It didn't work out so well, though:

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' music album ''Arthur's Really Rockin' Music Mix'' has the song "Fern's Detective Tango," which is based on the events of the episode "Binky Rules." In the song, Fern sings about the various reasons why certain characters couldn't have been responsible for the graffiti reading "BINKY RULES," before finally declaring, "Binky, j'accuse!"

** Used as an UnsoundEffect when Kirk accuses Lazarus in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0027.html "The Alternative Factor."]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}:'' Zoidberg says this once, the joke being that he's not French but AmbiguouslyJewish.

* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Lisa complained about her French teacher not actually speaking French. "J'accuse!" "...What the hell is this broad talkin' about?"
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' in the April Fool's Day episode "Terrence and Philip in: Not Without My Anus", only to be sent up with a ChewbaccaDefense.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': When the class takes a trip to the rainforest after the cocoa tree they gifted to Ms. Frizzle had its first crop of beans generously sum to a total of ''one'', they meet Inspector 47, a rather haughty man with a French accent and nicely-tailored suit who is in charge of overseeing the section of rainforest Ms. Frizzle's tree is in. When they ask him what happened to the missing cocoa beans, Inspector 47 accuses Inspector 46 of being jealous of how neat and tidy his section of the forest and placing a curse on the trees, driving off in a jeep shouting, "J'accuse, Inspector 46! J'accuse!"

* ''J'accuse'' is also the French title of the [[Film/AnOfficerAndASpy movie adaptation]] of ''Literature/AnOfficerAndASpy''.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]], Lady Cassandra does this when the Ninth Doctor seemingly discovers the culprit that was attempting to kill them all — because she's hoping he won't realize that she's the real culprit. He does.

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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'' the hero Moist von Lipwig uses a technically complicated plot to replace a message used in a bet with his enemy Reacher Gilt to do a wonderful reveal of Reacher's entire plot and bring him and his minions down using this trope.

* In Creator/AAPessimal's Hogswatchtime story ''Il se Passait au Nuit de Pere Porcher'', DEATH is detained by the Klatchian Foreign Legion, who, whatever ''else'' they may forget, always remember a deserter. [[note]] See ''Discworld/SoulMusic'' by Creator/TerryPratchett[[/note]]. DEATH is arrested with the formula of ''"J'accuse!"'' and is court-martialled. But Discworld literal-mindedness takes over and the court goes off at a tangent concerning a soldier called Corporal Jack Hughes, Hughes the Booze from Third Batallion...

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': When the class takes a trip to the rainforest after the cocoa tree they gifted to Ms. Frizzle had its first crop of beans generously sum to a total of ''one'', they meet Inspector 47, a rather haughty man with a French accent and nicely-tailored suit who is in charge of overseeing the section of rainforest Ms. Frizzle's tree is in. When they ask him what happened to the missing cocoa beans, Inspector 47 accuses Inspector 46 of being jealous of how neat and tidy his section of the forest and drives off shouting, "J'accuse, Inspector 46! J'accuse!"

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* ''J'accuse'' is also the title of the French version of the [[Film/AnOfficerAndASpy movie adaptation]] of ''Literature/AnOfficerAndASpy''.

!!Others

* ''J'Accuse'': A French zombie movie released in the 1920s filled with as much political weight as can be. The ZombieApocalypse is the sudden uprising of the French dead of WWI, coming back to condemn the guilty living who sent them to die. The whole film is an anti-war polemic, which the director convinced the army was going to be a propaganda flick, so they gave him real soldiers for actors -- 80% of whom died once they went back to the front.

* ''J'accuse'' is also the title of the French version of the movie adaptation of ''Literature/AnOfficerAndASpy'' (see below).

* The historical novel ''Literature/AnOfficerAndASpy'', about the Dreyfus Affair, includes a scene where the protagonist ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Picquart Georges Picquart]]) learns about the publishing of Zola's famous letter. The text includes long extracts of the letter.

* ''J'accuse'' ias also the title of the French version of the movie adaptation of ''''Literature/AnOfficerAndASpy'''' (see below).

'''Howland:''' Don't you call me no j'accuse!