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* IsThisThingStillOn: In one of the "Columbo du peuple" segments, the husband, after going through the trouble of murdering his wife, calls for the police. After feigning distress, the police asks him to wait, and he starts singing along with the transition music, happy to finally be rid of his wife. At the end of the segment, Columbo reveals the phone was ''still'' recording at that point and so he heard everything.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: A common motive for murder among the killers in "Columbo du Peuple" is that their wives are absolutely awful people.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: One long-dead Pharaoh {{Mummy}} is interviewed about AncientEgypt, specifically the construction of the Pyramids. The interviewer asks questions about Cleopatra, nevermind the Pyramids were 2000 years old by the time Cleopatra came around. It does make for nice puns though.
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* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: A {{Mummy}} of a long-dead Pharaoh is interviewed about the construction of the Pyramids of AncientEgypt, specifically knowing if the Pyramids were built in corruption [[note]]Corruption in the construction industry is a big issue in Québec politics[[/note]].
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** There's this guy who's convinced that his wife is cheating on him. "There's somebody behind this" he says out loud before going to pick up the phonebook for a Private Detective's phone number. It turns out there's really someone hiding behind the phonebook who says hi in a ridiculous high-pitched voice.
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* EvilDebtCollector: There is this false advertisement for a debt consolidation society where an actor describes their service as "instead of several companies calling you about your debts it's just one company that calls more often and starts their sentences with "listen well asshole"".
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* NiceGuy: Jean-Charles is a recurring character who takes this trope to ridiculous levels, though in his [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness first appearance]] he was only nice to his coworkers and when he came home he had no problem telling his girlfriend to shut the fuck up, which was never brought up again.
* NeverLendToAFriend: One sketch has a couple realizing they need money for groceries so the man calls one of his friend to recover a 20$ (100 Francs in the European version) debt from a friend, with the friend in question doing anything to change the subject away from the debt and the man trying his best to get his money back.
* NeverLendToAFriend: One sketch has a couple realizing they need money for groceries so the man calls one of his friend to recover a 20$ (100 Francs in the European version) debt from a friend, with the friend in question doing anything to change the subject away from the debt and the man trying his best to get his money back.
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* TheFunInFuneral: So many!
** One funeral had the dead man's best friend sings an upbeat silly song to cheer up everyone which only results in making people cry and the priest eventually steps in and asks him to go sit back in the pews.
** And there's another one where the family's artist recites a serious poem, and the audience asks for more but the only other material he has is a vulgar poem. HilarityEnsues.
** One funeral had the dead man's best friend sings an upbeat silly song to cheer up everyone which only results in making people cry and the priest eventually steps in and asks him to go sit back in the pews.
** And there's another one where the family's artist recites a serious poem, and the audience asks for more but the only other material he has is a vulgar poem. HilarityEnsues.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Always PlayedForLaughs, including over the silliest things like ''losing a TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} game''.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: A recurring theme in some of the more recent sketches is the Has-Been artist reduced to doing lame commercials because his albums don't sell anymore.
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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: The song "Saint-Néant" ("Néant" means void in French) takes this trope and runs away with it.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: {{God}}, UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, {{Satan}}, {{Dracula}}, SantaClaus, Franchise/{{Zorro}}...
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* SubStory: One memorable sketch is set in a submarine, complete with constant background *PING* noises and some HotSubOnSubAction when they encounter a Russian submarine.
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* TurbineBlender: A French sketch (as in, for France) where SantaClaus visits UsefulNotes/BillClinton aboard Air Force One ends with Santa getting shredded by the turbine on the way out.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: {{Invoked}}. A lot of times English sentences are poorly translated in Québec French for comedic/punny effect.
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** Back when he was alive, Music/MichaelJackson was the butt of jokes where he falls apart.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Virtually always a type 2 whenever they show up, especially during the Bush and Trump administrations. Though to be fair Pérusse loves throwing [[TakeThat Take Thats]] at pretty much everyone.
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* EveryManHasHisPrice: An advertising agent initially refuses to do an advertising campaign for a [[WarForFunAndProfit weapons company]] out of [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules principles]], but quickly changes his tune when the company executive offers him a 3 million dollars bribe.
* EverythingTalks: Well not ''everything'', but a lot of things talk.
** The "Apicerie" [[labelnote:Explanation]] A corruption of the French word "épicerie", a grocery store[[/labelnote]] is a show about grocery shopping and frequently [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext interviews food]] like asparagi, [[LetsMeetTheMeat hot-dog sausages]] and a palm tree (for its "heart of palm").
** "Rénovons avec Gaetan", a renovation show, often showcase talking tools as a RunningGag, like a beam detector or a talking saw (which screams "yumyumyum cherry wood that's so good yumyum" when they make it cut cherry wood and also warns "careful about your [[{{Fingore}} fingers]]!" whenever your fingers get too close for safety.
* EverythingTalks: Well not ''everything'', but a lot of things talk.
** The "Apicerie" [[labelnote:Explanation]] A corruption of the French word "épicerie", a grocery store[[/labelnote]] is a show about grocery shopping and frequently [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext interviews food]] like asparagi, [[LetsMeetTheMeat hot-dog sausages]] and a palm tree (for its "heart of palm").
** "Rénovons avec Gaetan", a renovation show, often showcase talking tools as a RunningGag, like a beam detector or a talking saw (which screams "yumyumyum cherry wood that's so good yumyum" when they make it cut cherry wood and also warns "careful about your [[{{Fingore}} fingers]]!" whenever your fingers get too close for safety.
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** Characters will sometimes break the fourth wall to comment on the [[WhoWritesThisCrap quality]] of their puns and jokes.
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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: The "gars qui magasine" ("Guy who shops") sketches normally feature an average guy with average means trying to find good prices to buy everyday goods and services, however in some sketches he apparently has enough money to buy a Boeing 747 or even the ''planet Mars''. RuleOfFunny is in full effect.
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** In one Columbo du Peuple episode, the one where the guy [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext disguises his dead wife as a phone]], it's {{Implied}} the murderer plugs in the phone line in her ass, judging by the fart noise heard.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hartley Bob Hartley]] (yes, a real life person) is the coach variant. Not content with coaching hockey teams, he coaches all kinds of people, like (now retired) UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} mayor Gérald Tremblay, the ''Parti libéral du Québec'', the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics Liberal Party of Canada]], and he even takes odd jobs that let him scream at people, like [[BurgerFool drive-thru clerk]], [[RidiculouslyLongPhoneHold phone hold voice actor]] or GPS voice actor.
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* RagsToRiches: {{Exaggerated}} and PlayedForLaughs in one sketch where a guy wants to buy the Montréal's Canadian. He became rich by running a store that sells sewing machine spare parts in some ass end of nowhere town in Québec, but he also had a sideline making educational websites ("educational" here referring to learning how to [[TheInternetIsForPorn better suck dick]]).
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The "Recettes à Pierrette" [[labelnote:English]]Pierrette's Recipes, a cooking show[[/labelnote]] have the titular Pierrette, an old but sarcastic lady and her assistant, a younger and very slutty woman, trade vicious insults just as much as they cook.
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Pérusse has also produced several albums called "L'Album du Peuple" ("''The People's Album''"). They're a compilation of various radio sketches remixed by the author, sometimes they're slightly longer, shorter, or different. The series has received numerous awards, and has become a staple of Francophone culture. It has notably been parodied or referenced by numerous {{Audio Play}}s.
albums also contain funny songs.
!! The albums:
* 1991 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 1
* 1992 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 2
* 1994 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 3
* 1995 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 4
* 1996 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 5
* 1997 - L'Album du Peuple (Made for France) - Tome 1
* 2002 - L'Album Pirate [[note]] An album of unreleased content that never made it to radio. It's called the "pirate" album because Pérusse "[[DigitalPiracyIsEvil pirated]]" it himself.[[/note]]
* 2002 - L'Album du Peuple (Made for France) - Tome 2
* 2003 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 6
* 2007 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 7
* 2011 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 8
* 2013 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 9
* 2015 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 10
* 2017 - Best Ove! [[note]]A compilation of his favorite content, and yes, the "Ove" isn't a typo[[/note]].
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* 1991 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 1
* 1992 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 2
* 1994 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 3
* 1995 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 4
* 1996 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 5
* 1997 - L'Album du Peuple (Made for France) - Tome 1
* 2002 - L'Album Pirate [[note]] An album of unreleased content that never made it to radio. It's called the "pirate" album because Pérusse "[[DigitalPiracyIsEvil pirated]]" it himself.[[/note]]
* 2002 - L'Album du Peuple (Made for France) - Tome 2
* 2003 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 6
* 2007 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 7
* 2011 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 8
* 2013 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 9
* 2015 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 10
* 2017 - Best Ove! [[note]]A compilation of his favorite content, and yes, the "Ove" isn't a typo[[/note]].
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* BodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs in the "radio communautaire" [[labelnote:English]] Community Radio [[/labelnote]] sketches, where the incompetent host presents musicians who suffered some outlandish absurd accidents that damaged their bodies. Examples include Tata Boutlamine, an African pianist who plays with only [[{{Fingore}} one finger]] following a [[NoodleIncident coffee grinder accident]], or one where a singer [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sawed himself in half]] vertically so he only sings half of his lyrics.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In the 5th ''Album du Peuple'' Pérusse ends up in jail for failing to produce an album for his record label. Breach of contract is a civil offense, not a criminal one, so he wouldn't go to jail for it.
* AssShove: One Blues singer featured on a "radio communautaire" [[labelnote:English]] Community Radio [[/labelnote]] is dying of some weird illness and had an harmonica installed in his ass so he can keep playing since he can't play normally anymore.
** A radio ad for a bakery, "The Bakery Behind My House", is about visiting an old lady's house so she puts pastries in your [[CurseCutShort behi-]].
** Another ad for a lousy kindergarten brags that their staff watch TV while your toddlers shove crayons up their asses.
* AuthorAppeal: Pérusse puts in a lots of references to things he like in his sketches, like hockey, the music industry, ''Franchise/StarTrek'', the Beatles, the Rolling Stones...
** He was fascinated by advertising from a young age, and would make parody ads for fun when he was little. One of his first claim to fame was doing advertisement for an album by a Québec singer, and several of his sketches feature joke advertisements. With his fame from the ''Deux Minutes du Peuple'' he's been hired by real companies to make real advertisements.
* BestialityIsDepraved: The European sketches had hospital-themed episodes featuring a certain Doctor Malcolm. In one of them there was a patient who needed to give a sperm sample. Doctor Malcolm gave him a porn magazine to help him, but it turns out he accidentally gave him a magazine about the life of insects. The doctor apologizes, but the patient says it's alright because there was a really pretty looking dragonfly on one of the pages so he managed to make it work.
* BodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs in the "radio communautaire"[[labelnote:English]] Community Radio [[/labelnote]] sketches, where the incompetent host presents musicians who suffered some outlandish absurd accidents that damaged their bodies. Examples include Tata Boutlamine, an African pianist who plays with only [[{{Fingore}} one finger]] following a [[NoodleIncident coffee grinder accident]], or one where Half-a-Papa-Joe, a blues singer who [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sawed himself in half]] vertically so he in a sawmill accident and now can only sings half of his lyrics. lyrics and Adélbert Gadbois, who sings without a jaw after he confused a power saw with a toothbrush.
* [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan (French) Canadian Equals Hockey Fan]]: François Pérusse is a big hockey fan, and hockey is a recurring theme in many of his sketches.
* AssShove: One Blues singer featured on a "radio communautaire" [[labelnote:English]] Community Radio [[/labelnote]] is dying of some weird illness and had an harmonica installed in his ass so he can keep playing since he can't play normally anymore.
** A radio ad for a bakery, "The Bakery Behind My House", is about visiting an old lady's house so she puts pastries in your [[CurseCutShort behi-]].
** Another ad for a lousy kindergarten brags that their staff watch TV while your toddlers shove crayons up their asses.
* AuthorAppeal: Pérusse puts in a lots of references to things he like in his sketches, like hockey, the music industry, ''Franchise/StarTrek'', the Beatles, the Rolling Stones...
** He was fascinated by advertising from a young age, and would make parody ads for fun when he was little. One of his first claim to fame was doing advertisement for an album by a Québec singer, and several of his sketches feature joke advertisements. With his fame from the ''Deux Minutes du Peuple'' he's been hired by real companies to make real advertisements.
* BestialityIsDepraved: The European sketches had hospital-themed episodes featuring a certain Doctor Malcolm. In one of them there was a patient who needed to give a sperm sample. Doctor Malcolm gave him a porn magazine to help him, but it turns out he accidentally gave him a magazine about the life of insects. The doctor apologizes, but the patient says it's alright because there was a really pretty looking dragonfly on one of the pages so he managed to make it work.
* BodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs in the "radio communautaire"
* [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan (French) Canadian Equals Hockey Fan]]: François Pérusse is a big hockey fan, and hockey is a recurring theme in many of his sketches.
* DeadAir: Louis-Paul Fafard-Allard, the animator of the community radio station CDKC [[note]]The letters CDKC, when pronounced in Québec French, sounds like "CD cassés" (broken [=CD=]s) or "C'est des cassés" (They're flat out broke)[[/note]] is ''really'' bad at his job.
* DreadfulMusician: A common source of humor, especially in the "community radio" sketches. Pérusse is a big fan of music and has [[WriteWhatYouKnow background as a musician]] and WordOfGod is that a lot of it is inspired by his younger days when he was much less competent.
** A recurring character is the unnamed bar/lounge singer who plays in crummy loser establishments.
** A recurring character is the unnamed bar/lounge singer who plays in crummy loser establishments.
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: A lot of the musicians that are featured on the "radio communautaire" sketches play absurd instruments. One of them plays a [[TrashCanBand drying machine]] (he literally just bangs on his machine, it's as bad as it sounds), another just hums songs through his nose on some street corner.
* EyeScream: A documentary about the village of "Apaquifuts" in "Padladejistan" (a weird mix of {{Qurac}} and {{Ruritania}}) has a woman pull out a chicken's eye to make a "chicken eye soup" (It's a pun that's too complicated to translate).
* NoBudget: In-universe, [=CDKC=] community radio is this.
* {{Scatting}}: A lot, especially in his songs.
* SelfDeprecation: One sketch features a "has-been" singer who makes lame and repetitive songs, we get to hear them and they're basically remixed versions of ''Assis-sur mon tracteur'', a song Pérusse made for the 6th ''Album du Peuple''.
* SillyLoveSongs: All of his love songs, ''Asis-sur mon tracteur'' [[labelnote:English]]Sitting on my tractor[[/labelnote]], ''De Rien'' [[labelnote:English]]It's nothing, as in the thing you'd reply when someone says "thank you"[[/labelnote]], ''Tu Fababounes'' [[labelnote:English]] A corruption of "tu fais la baboune", "you're making a grumpy face" [[/labelnote]].
* SelfDeprecation: One sketch features a "has-been" singer who makes lame and repetitive songs, we get to hear them and they're basically remixed versions of ''Assis-sur mon tracteur'', a song Pérusse made for the 6th ''Album du Peuple''.
* SillyLoveSongs: All of his love songs, ''Asis-sur mon tracteur'' [[labelnote:English]]Sitting on my tractor[[/labelnote]], ''De Rien'' [[labelnote:English]]It's nothing, as in the thing you'd reply when someone says "thank you"[[/labelnote]], ''Tu Fababounes'' [[labelnote:English]] A corruption of "tu fais la baboune", "you're making a grumpy face" [[/labelnote]].
* SpeakingSimlish: Whenever he needs to make a foreign language, real or not, he'll just make up some vaguely French-Canadian gibberish. It helps him sneak in more puns.
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** There are just ''so many'' of these in the series. Here's a short list: whatever current administration is UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} city. The UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} government, the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics Federal]] government, the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem American]] government, other world governments, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, [[UsefulNotes/TheMounties Canadian police]], [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Kim-Jong Un]], Québec's education system...
* TheUnpronounceable: Many characters, such as inspectors or doctors, have names that sound like complete gibberish.
* TheUnpronounceable: Many characters, such as inspectors or doctors, have names that sound like complete gibberish.
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** There are just ''so many'' of these in the series. Here's a short list: whatever current administration is UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} city. The UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} government, the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics Federal]] government, the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem American]] government, other world governments, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, [[UsefulNotes/TheMounties Canadian police]], [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Kim-Jong Un]], Québec's education system...system, ''the entirety of humanity''...
* TheUnpronounceable: Many locations or characters, such as inspectors or doctors, have names that sound like complete gibberish.
* TheUnpronounceable: Many locations or characters, such as inspectors or doctors, have names that sound like complete gibberish.
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* EasyEvangelism: {{Exaggerated}} in one of the European police sketches where the criminal is a {{cult}} leader who calls the police department and manages to convert the cops in a few words.
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''Les 2 Minutes du Peuple'' ("''The 2 Minutes of the People''") is a series of comedic [[RadioDrama radio skits]] by Quebecois humorist François Pérusse. Its Quebec French version debuted on radio in 1990, and its French version in 1996.
1996. In Europe they ended in 2012, while in Québec they "ended" in 2016, only to be followed by a virtually identical SpiritualSuccessor called "Pérusse Express" (which slightly focuses more on news both local and worldwide).
* BodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs in the "radio communautaire" [[labelnote:English]] Community Radio [[/labelnote]] sketches, where the incompetent host presents musicians who suffered some outlandish absurd accidents that damaged their bodies. Examples include Tata Boutlamine, an African pianist who plays with only [[{{Fingore}} one finger]] following a [[NoodleIncident coffee grinder accident]], or one where a singer [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sawed himself in half]] vertically so he only sings half of his lyrics.
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* DeathCourse: Exaggerated for comedy in the "film d'action" segment, where the hero is asked to stop a madman from blowing up the planet. In order to reach said villain, he has to first swim naked in a dangerously swirly torrent filled with sharks, then go hanged to a helicopter by one hair with only a small stick as his weapon to wander in a radio-active field filled with T-Rex and terrorists armed with machine-guns until he reaches a fortified strongbox requiring a ridiculously complicated code and disarms an atomic bomb about to blow up in 10 seconds, which he can only stop by cutting one of the 470 multi-colored wires.
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* DeathCourse: Exaggerated for comedy in the "film d'action" segment, where the hero is asked to stop a madman from blowing up the planet. In order to reach said villain, he has to first swim naked in a dangerously swirly torrent filled with sharks, then go hanged to a helicopter by one hair with only a small stick as his weapon to wander in a radio-active radioactive field filled with T-Rex and terrorists armed with machine-guns machine guns until he reaches a fortified strongbox requiring a ridiculously complicated code and disarms an atomic bomb about to blow up in 10 seconds, which he can only stop by cutting one of the 470 multi-colored wires.wires.
* {{Dracula}}: One 2012 sketch had him call the Election Directors to get on Québec's electoral list.
* {{Dracula}}: One 2012 sketch had him call the Election Directors to get on Québec's electoral list.
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* LongRunner: Started in 1990, and François Pérusse is still producing content in 2018.
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* DeathCourse: Exaggerated for comedy in the "film d'action" segment, where the hero is asked to stop a madman from blowing up the planet. In order to reach said villain, he has to first swim naked in a dangerously swirly torrent filled with sharks, then go hanged to a helicopter by one hair with only a small stick as his weapon to wander in a radio-active field filled with T-Rex and terrorists armed with machine-guns until he reaches a fortified strongbox requiring a ridiculously complicated code and disarms an atomic bomb about to blow up in 10 seconds, which he can only stop by cutting one of the 470 multi-colored wires.
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* ExactWords: In the "film d'action" segment, the villain shows a map to the protagonists, then gloats that in three seconds, Australia won't be on it anymore. Three seconds later, he rips the part of the map showing Australia.
-->"[[FauxHorrific A fresh new map... you monster!]]"
-->"[[FauxHorrific A fresh new map... you monster!]]"
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: The male protagonist in the "Slangster House" segments regularly insists the house isn't actually haunted through the earlier segments, even though at this point he has seen undead coming several times to his house.
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* FalseReassurance: In the second "Slangster House" segment, the couple meet with a blind old man and ask him if the story about someone hanging herself in the house is true. The old blind man assures them these are "Grandma's stories"... which he means [[NoHyperbole literally]]; his grandmother was the one who hanged herself.
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* PaperThinDisguise: In one of the "Columbo du Peuple" segments, the murderer somehow manages to disguise his wife's corpse as a phone. It actually seems to work, but backfires when [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext Columbo finds the actual phone in his trash can and presumes it to be his wife, leaving the murderer unable to deny it without admitting the actual corpse isn't the real phone]].
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: A lot of the murderers in "Columbo du Peuple" end up caught because they do an absolutely terrible job at covering their tracks.
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* TakeThat: Tons:
** In one of the "Slangster House" segment, after hearing a voice telling him to "buy a chainsaw and cut his wife to pieces" while he was watching teleshopping, the protagonist calls the police and tells them about it, complaining he heard "a voice making him an awful and dishonest suggestion". The cop answers him he shouldn't be expecting anything else when he's watching teleshopping.
** In the Columbo segment, when trying to pass his neightboor as insane, one of the murderers tell Columbo she once saw "a dislocated puppet moving around making random threats". Columbo answers that it's true the President of the United States does show up a lot on TV lately.
** In one of the "Slangster House" segment, after hearing a voice telling him to "buy a chainsaw and cut his wife to pieces" while he was watching teleshopping, the protagonist calls the police and tells them about it, complaining he heard "a voice making him an awful and dishonest suggestion". The cop answers him he shouldn't be expecting anything else when he's watching teleshopping.
** In the Columbo segment, when trying to pass his neightboor as insane, one of the murderers tell Columbo she once saw "a dislocated puppet moving around making random threats". Columbo answers that it's true the President of the United States does show up a lot on TV lately.
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* HauntedHouse: The "Slangster House" segments focus on a couple moving to an old country house that happens to be haunted. However, said haunting mostly come in the form of ghosts and undead showing up at their home to make terrible puns and other similar supernatural occurrences.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Played for Laugh; In "Columbo du Peuple", most murders will open with the future victim abusing their would-be assassins to ludicrous extreme, making it blatantly obvious who will get killed and why. Most memorably, one story opens with a woman insulting her husband before informing him she is going out with another richer man, [[YouCheatingHeart that she cheated on him with all his friends and enemies as well as his boss, the butcher and pretty much everyone else]], she thinks [[TeenyWeenie he has a small penis]], she damaged his car, she doesn't want to do it tonight because she got a headache, and she regrets taking this Life Assurance that'll grant him 15 million dollars when she'll die. Cue the narrator daring us to guess who will die in this story.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Played for Laugh; In "Columbo du Peuple", most murders will open with the future victim abusing their would-be assassins to ludicrous extreme, making it blatantly obvious who will get killed and why. Most memorably, one story opens with a woman insulting her husband before informing him she is going out with another richer man, [[YouCheatingHeart [[YourCheatingHeart that she cheated on him with all his friends and enemies as well as his boss, the butcher and pretty much everyone else]], she thinks [[TeenyWeenie he has a small penis]], she damaged his car, she doesn't want to do it tonight because she got a headache, and she regrets taking this Life Assurance that'll grant him 15 million dollars when she'll die. Cue the narrator daring us to guess who will die in this story.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Played for Laugh; In "Columbo du Peuple", most murders will open with the future victim abusing their would-be assassins to ludicrous extreme, making it blatantly obvious who will get killed and why. Most memorably, one story opens with a woman insulting her husband before informing him she is going out with another richer man, [[YouCheatingHeart that she cheated on him with all his friends and enemies as well as his boss, the butcher and pretty much everyone else]], she thinks [[TeenyWeenie he has a small penis]], she damaged his car, she doesn't want to do it tonight because she got a headache, and she regrets taking this Life Assurance that'll grant him 15 million dollars when she'll die. Cue the narrator daring us to guess who will die in this story.
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* CensoredForComedy: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cL9QEArri0 Chanson grivoise]]" ("Lewd Song"), a Music/GeorgesBrassens {{Expy}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cL9QEArri0 sings about a man watching a porno]], with bleeped out ([[RhymesOnADime rhyming]]) offending words with increasingly ridiculous sound effects. In the second part, the sound guy screws up and censors everything ''but'' the dirty words.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7OQ3d6GV0I Chanson fausse]]" ("Out of Tune Song") consists in a song performed out of tune with tone deaf singing and random silly lyrics.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7OQ3d6GV0I Chanson fausse]]" ("Out of Tune Song") consists in a song performed out of tune with tone deaf singing and random silly lyrics.
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* StylisticSuck: "Chanson fausse" (cf. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin).
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* TheUnpronounceable: Many characters, such as inspectors or doctors, have names that sound like complete gibberish.
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Each skit is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin two-minutes long]], and tackles subjects such as everyday situations, the life of [[Fr/HistoricalDomainCharacter historical characters]], current events, and {{parod|y}}ies of TV shows, game shows, songs, and celebrities. The series dialogue is a never-ending HurricaneOfPuns mixed with some SurrealHumor, and is most remembered for its sped-up high-pitched voices, which enforced its RapidFireComedy.
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Each skit is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin two-minutes long]], and tackles subjects such as everyday situations, the life of [[Fr/HistoricalDomainCharacter [[HistoricalDomainCharacter historical characters]], current events, and {{parod|y}}ies of TV shows, game shows, songs, and celebrities. The series dialogue is a never-ending HurricaneOfPuns mixed with some SurrealHumor, and is most remembered for its sped-up high-pitched voices, which enforced its RapidFireComedy.
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'''''Les 2 Minutes du Peuple''''' ("''The 2 Minutes of the People''") is a series of comedic [[RadioDrama radio skits]] by Quebecois humorist François Pérusse. Its Quebec French version debuted on radio in 1990, and its French version in 1996.
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* HurricaneOfPuns : It. Never. Stops. There is ''literally'' a pun every five seconds. ''At least''.
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* HurricaneOfPuns : It. Never. Stops. There is ''literally'' a pun every five seconds. ''At least''.minimum''.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Several situations lead up to an increasingly obvious pun, so you can end up groaning before it's even made.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Several situations lead up to an increasingly obvious pun, so you can end up groaning before it's even made.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Some skits have French and French Canadian versions. "Vive l'amour" ("Celebrate Love", 3 minutes of as many insults as the singer can cram in) is remarkable in that it illustrates the profound differences in themes in both countries (the French ones are scatological or sexual, French Canadian sounds like they came from a playground or a church inventory).
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Some skits have French and French Canadian versions. "Vive l'amour" ("Celebrate Love", 3 minutes of as many insults as the singer can cram in) is remarkable in that it illustrates the profound differences in themes in both countries (the French ones are scatological or sexual, French Canadian sounds like they came from a playground or a church inventory).
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'''''Les Deux 2 Minutes du Peuple''''' ("''The Two 2 Minutes of the People''") is a series of comedic [[RadioDrama radio skits]] by Quebecois humorist François Pérusse. Its Quebec French version debuted on radio in 1990, and its French version in 1996.
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'''''Les Deux Minutes du Peuple''''' ("''The Two Minutes of the People''") is a series of comedic [[RadioDrama radio skits]] by Quebecois humorist François Pérusse. Its Quebec French version debuted on radio in 1990, and its French version in 1996.
Each skit is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin two-minutes long]], and tackles subjects such as everyday situations, the life of [[Fr/HistoricalDomainCharacter historical characters]], current events, and {{parod|y}}ies of TV shows, game shows, songs, and celebrities. The series dialogue is a never-ending HurricaneOfPuns mixed with some SurrealHumor, and is most remembered for its sped-up high-pitched voices, which enforced its RapidFireComedy.
The series has received numerous awards, and has become a staple of Francophone culture. It has notably been parodied or referenced by numerous {{Audio Play}}s.
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!''Les Deux Minutes'' provides examples of:
* HurricaneOfPuns : It. Never. Stops. There is ''literally'' a pun every five seconds. ''At least''.
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'''''Les Deux Minutes du Peuple''''' ("''The Two Minutes of the People''") is a series of comedic [[RadioDrama radio skits]] by Quebecois humorist François Pérusse. Its Quebec French version debuted on radio in 1990, and its French version in 1996.
Each skit is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin two-minutes long]], and tackles subjects such as everyday situations, the life of [[Fr/HistoricalDomainCharacter historical characters]], current events, and {{parod|y}}ies of TV shows, game shows, songs, and celebrities. The series dialogue is a never-ending HurricaneOfPuns mixed with some SurrealHumor, and is most remembered for its sped-up high-pitched voices, which enforced its RapidFireComedy.
The series has received numerous awards, and has become a staple of Francophone culture. It has notably been parodied or referenced by numerous {{Audio Play}}s.
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!''Les Deux Minutes'' provides examples of:
* HurricaneOfPuns : It. Never. Stops. There is ''literally'' a pun every five seconds. ''At least''.
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