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* SignsOfDisrepair: The titular [[GreasySpoon snack bar]] in the ''Snack-Bar chez Raymond'' song has a neon sign that say "Restaurant" but it has missing letters so it now says "'''Rest'''aur'''ant'''" (meaning "leftover" in French, as in "tonight we're eating leftovers").
--> ''Le soir l'annonce à s'allume mais il manque des lettres dedans, faque au lieu de restaurant c'est marqué restant.''
--> (In the evening the sign lights up but it's missing letters, so instead of restaurant it's written [leftovers])
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: An European sketch involving the mission control for a Mars probe ([[ShownTheirWork correctly]]) states that the distance between Mars and the sun is around 230 000 000 kilometers. One of the astronomers asks if this means the probe won't risk being [[HurlItIntoTheSun attracted into the Sun's orbit]]. In practice it's surprisingly hard to crash something into the Sun, since this would require cancelling a lot of orbital velocity (around 30 km/s if you're in Earth's orbit), and any professional astronomer would know this.
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* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: One sketch features an airport control tower operator who is perfectly fluent in Japanese ([[RuleOfFunny or at least the faux Japanese Pérusse came up with]]) but can only awkwardly mumble "Hum... hello... yes yes my tailor is rich" in English when an English-speaking pilot shows up.
--> '''Colleague:''' Fuck, you can speak Japanese?
--> '''Control Tower Operator:''' Well obviously, do you think I'm an idiot?
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--> '''Colleague:''' And you can't even speak English?
--> '''Control Tower Operator:''' Do you want me to tap dance while I'm at it?


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* ScavengerWorld: {{Downplayed}} with one pilot at some point flying a Tupolev lamenting that they don't make replacement parts for it anymore.
--> '''Pilot:''' Problem with my craft, I think I'll crash down.
--> '''Control Tower Operator:''' What's your plane?
--> '''Pilot:''' Tupolev [...] Do you have spare parts for Tupolevs?"
--> '''Control Tower Operator:''' No actually I've never seen any.
--> '''Pilot:''' [[GallowsHumor Well look outside your window you'll see a big pile]].
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--> '''Business owner:''' Thomas Edison? Weren't you dead?
--> '''Thomas Edison:''' Yeah but I didn't feel like it anymore.

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** Criticisms of the overexposure of children to sexually-loaded or otherwise unwholesome content crop up in more recent works, [[RealitySubtext around the time François Pérusse became a father in real life]].
--> '''Children show puppet:''' "You can drop the "acting adapted for children" because at 3 years old they're already watching Music/{{Rihanna}} clips while [[ADateWithRosiePalms playing in their Pull-Ups]]."
** Cracks at extended warranties pop up often, apparently Pérusse considers them a scam.
--> '''Cooking show host:''' "I need you to stuff [[note]]The term in French for "stuffing" in a culinary context is "''fourrer''". In Quebec vernacular French "''fourrer''" also means "to scam" or "to con" someone[[/note]] the quails."
--> '''Cooking show assistant:''' "Alright. (''To the quail'') You know my little quail, modern washing machines have more electronics, meaning they break down more often. If I was you I'd go with an extended warranty."



** Back when he was alive, Music/MichaelJackson was the butt of jokes where he falls apart.

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** Back when he was alive, Music/MichaelJackson was the butt of jokes where he falls apart.apart or is rotting alive.



* IndianBurialGround: The "[[HellHotel Motel Les Quételles]]" in the Halloween specials is built on one.



* InnOfNoReturn: The Slangster Resort

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* InnOfNoReturn: The Slangster ResortResort. Also the "Villa mais vivra pas longtemps" ("Villa" is phonetically similar to "live there", the pun translates to "Live there but won't live long"). The Halloween specials tend to feature these a lot.



* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Cricket the special agent in the action movie uses punches to get answers, ranging from interrogating suspects to getting his best buddy to tell him what he's going to get for his birthday.

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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: JackBauerInterrogationTechnique:
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Cricket the special agent in the action movie uses punches to get answers, ranging from interrogating suspects to getting his best buddy to tell him what he's going to get for his birthday.birthday.
** Cops in the PoliceProcedural parodies frequently indulge in this.
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* TheDreaded: Bob Hartley is this, due to his [[DrillSergeantNasty Coach Nasty]] LargeHam speeches that chews out people who annoy him like vendors [[EpicFail incompetent people]] or AcceptableTargets like politicians.

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* TheDreaded: Bob Hartley is this, due to his [[DrillSergeantNasty Coach Nasty]] LargeHam speeches that chews out people who annoy him like vendors vendors, [[EpicFail incompetent people]] or AcceptableTargets like politicians.



** TheInternetIsForPorn: Jokes about porn websites are common.

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** * TheInternetIsForPorn: Jokes about porn websites are common.
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** There's an interview where Jean Chrétien (the former Prime Minister of Québec) is on TV and ([[ItMakesSenseInContext eventually]]) gets into a brawl with the host and somehow attempts to fight by shoving his fingers in the other guy's ass.

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** There's an interview where Jean Chrétien Charest (the former Prime Minister of Québec) is on TV and ([[ItMakesSenseInContext eventually]]) gets into a brawl with the host and somehow attempts to fight by shoving his fingers in the other guy's ass.
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* WorkingClassPeopleAreMoron: The sketches parodying ''L'amour est dans le pré'' (a reality TV show where city women visits bachelor farmers with the hope of them falling in love) portray the farmers as dumb and unsophisticated hicks (not that the city women are much smarter).

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* WorkingClassPeopleAreMoron: WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: The sketches parodying ''L'amour est dans le pré'' (a reality TV show where city women visits bachelor farmers with the hope of them falling in love) portray the farmers as dumb and unsophisticated hicks (not that the city women are much smarter).
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* MistakenForRacist: In one of the sketches parodying ''L'amour est dans le pré'' [[note]] A romantic reality TV show where city women visit young bachelor farmers hoping to fall in love with them[[/note]] a woman of Asian origins complain that the farmer always talk about her "yellow butt" ("''Derrière jaune''" in French). The farmer explains that he's not talking about her yellow butt but about his "John Deer" tractor ("John Deer" and "''derrière jaune''" are relatively close phonetically in Quebec French).


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* WorkingClassPeopleAreMoron: The sketches parodying ''L'amour est dans le pré'' (a reality TV show where city women visits bachelor farmers with the hope of them falling in love) portray the farmers as dumb and unsophisticated hicks (not that the city women are much smarter).
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* 1999-2001 - ''Le Journul'' (The Jour-Null, also renamed the Nothing Day in one of episode): Short, 50-second sketches that covered a topic of recent news. The short sketch was made that morning, and then sent to the animators who had to animate it (using mo-cap and CGI) to air that same day, at 6:00 PM during the news.

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* 1999-2001 - ''Le Journul'' (The Jour-Null, also renamed the Nothing Day in one of episode): Short, 50-second sketches that covered a topic of recent news. The short sketch was made that morning, the night prior, and then sent to the animators who on the followung morning; and they had to animate it (using mo-cap and CGI) to air that same day, at 6:00 PM during the news.
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* 1999-2001 - ''Le Journul'' (The JourNull, also renamed the Nothing Day in one of episode): Short, 50-second sketches that covered a topic of recent news. The short sketch was made that morning, and then sent to the animators who had to animate it (using mo-cap and CGI) to air that same day, at 6:00 PM during the news.

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* 1999-2001 - ''Le Journul'' (The JourNull, Jour-Null, also renamed the Nothing Day in one of episode): Short, 50-second sketches that covered a topic of recent news. The short sketch was made that morning, and then sent to the animators who had to animate it (using mo-cap and CGI) to air that same day, at 6:00 PM during the news.



* 2006 - ''On s'écoute parler'' (We Listen to Ourselves Talking), a sequel series to Le JourNul.

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* 2006 - ''On s'écoute parler'' (We Listen to Ourselves Talking), a sequel series to Le JourNul.Journul.

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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 albums also contain funny songs.

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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 albums also contain funny songs. \n He has also created a few TV shows in Quebec.



François Pérusse's official Youtube chain can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0vWI_4ksC3BbbM7Zn2P7_w here]].

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François Pérusse's official Youtube chain channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0vWI_4ksC3BbbM7Zn2P7_w here]]. \n

!! The TV shows:

* 1999-2001 - ''Le Journul'' (The JourNull, also renamed the Nothing Day in one of episode): Short, 50-second sketches that covered a topic of recent news. The short sketch was made that morning, and then sent to the animators who had to animate it (using mo-cap and CGI) to air that same day, at 6:00 PM during the news.
* 2000 - ''La Série du Peuple'' (The People's Series), preceded by an hour-long special.
* 2006 - ''On s'écoute parler'' (We Listen to Ourselves Talking), a sequel series to Le JourNul.
* 2012-2013 - ''Pérusse Cité'' (WesternAnimation/BensCity)
* 2014-2019 - ''La Tite Chambre'' (The Lil' Chamber), a parody of all-day sports channels and their commentators. Pérusse would make these from watching moments without sound and then making up what he thought they were saying. The results sometimes came out almost more coherent than the actual text.
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* FictionalPoliticalParty: A journalist thinking of entering politics hesitates between three parties, the far-right GTTDQ, the far-left CDQQ and the extreme center LQ. (Phonetically, in Quebec French, GTTDQ sounds like "''J'ai tété des culs''" (I suckled asses), CDQQ sounds like "''C'est des cucus''" (They're naive idiots) and LQ sounds like "''el cul''", a corruption of "''le cul''", meaning "the ass".
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* ItWontTurnOff: When Bob Hartley's voice was randomly selected to be the guiding voice for a car GPS, the driver was less than amused at being yelled at and insulted by the GPS and asked his girlfriend to change or turn off the voice, and she said she couldn't despite her efforts.
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The French word used ("queue") can mean both "tail" and "cock/dick" and I'm starting to believe more and more that Pérusse intended it as "cock" rather than "tail".


* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Parodied in the "Slangster Resort" [[note]] Not to be confused with Slangster House segments, which are European[[/note]] series where a couple is vacationing in a town called "Saint-bloodthirsty gooey thing with three rows of [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily teeth]]" and they need to find a street called "Half-eaten corpse with the Devil's tail in its mouth".

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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Parodied in the "Slangster Resort" [[note]] Not to be confused with Slangster House segments, which are European[[/note]] series where a couple is vacationing in a town called "Saint-bloodthirsty gooey thing with three rows of [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily teeth]]" and they need to find a street called "Half-eaten corpse with the Devil's tail cock in its mouth".

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: One tip given for saving money at Halloween involves using the same decorations for both Halloween and Christmas and suggests something like a Santa Claus impaled on a candy cane.



* IntimidatingRevenueService: An employee of Revenu Québec (the Québec IRS) calls SantaClaus to harass him because he hasn't produced any income reports and he threatens Santa with an audit. [[spoiler: It's {{Subverted}} when it turns out that it's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer prank-calling Santa]] [[spoiler: but then it's DoubleSubverted when it turns out that Rudolph got audited and he called Santa to warn him that he was getting audited too]].



* IntimidatingRevenueService: An employee of Revenu Québec (the Québec IRS) calls SantaClaus to harass him because he hasn't produced any income reports and he threatens Santa with an audit. [[spoiler: It's {{Subverted}} when it turns out that it's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer prank-calling Santa]] [[spoiler: but then it's DoubleSubverted when it turns out that Rudolph got audited and he called Santa to warn him that he was getting audited too]].
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* {{Corpsing}}: A common source of humor. Out-of-universe, Pérusse mentioned he had a hard time finishing a sketch involving him singing [[HollywoodToneDeaf horrible gibberish]], before it's revealed that this is Music/{{Rihanna}}'s [[TakeThat normal singing voice]] before AutoTune kicks in because he couldn't stop laughing.
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Anne-Marie in the "Gambling Problem" fake [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PSAs]] uses any reason as an excuse to go to the casino. "Ah the weather sucks I'll go to the casino, ah there's nothing good on TV I'll go to the casino, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick ah I hit my head and I'm losing all my blood I'll go to the casino]]."
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* {{Fingore}}: Tata Boutlamine, the Nigerian-Dakar pianist, has lost all fingers except one in a coffee grinder accident.
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* CartridgesInFlight: One of the [[https://youtu.be/vPgksNgzPIA?t=36 cartoons]] on the "DVD du Peuple" features a cop handling a .38 caliber bullet ([[{{BFG}} the size of a tank shell no less]]) that he found on a crime scene, showing the rim and primer of the cartridge still attached. {{Justified}} by the [[SurrealHumor surreal]] nature of the cartoons.


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* ChainedToARailway: One life insurance company proudly advertises that they will insure you even if your pants are stuck to a railway and the train is coming.


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* ThreateningShark: PlayedForLaughs, the cartoons often feature paintings of cartoon characters being EatenAlive by sharks.
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* INeedToGoIronMyDog: In a sketch, a man win lots of money at the lottery and gets calls from various people want some of it. At some point, he ends the conversation by saying he has "something on the oven who's ringing at the door".
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François Pérusse's official Youtube chain can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0vWI_4ksC3BbbM7Zn2P7_w here]].
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: A European sketch involving a game show quiz has a contestant asked in what US state is TheWhiteHouse located. The White House is in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC (District of Columbia) which is not a state, but a federal district (sandwiched between the states of Virginia and Maryland).

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* BadGuyBar: A certain sketch revolves around a mild-mannered musician playing (poorly) in a vicious [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels outlaw biker]] bar (where the background noises are constant burps, farts and punches). His first statement is an announcement to the owner of a "Harley-Davidson, who's fuel tank is decorated with a woman's sex, of which the two labias are slightly spread by the former's fingers" that his motorcycle had a 12-gauge shotgun shell fired at it. He goes on to play and is interrupted by a guy [[TranquilFury gently asking]] that he plays something better or get lost. The musician tells him "[[TooDumbToLive eat shit, fat sack with the same family name]]". Immediately, without skipping a beat, the background noises is replaced by harps playing, and the musician wonders "why am I floating on a cloud with these winged people?"



* FateWorseThanDeath: An in-universe joke involves two torture rooms in {{Hell}}, one has you BuriedAlive in [[{{Squick}} raw sewage]] for an hour, after which they take you out, set fire to your [[GroinAttack ballsack]] and you have to extinguish it with a crowbar, after which you're plunged in the sewage again, rinse and repeat. The other room has you be forced to listen to a DreadfulMusician from a lousy cocktail lounge who plays (poorly) a cheap electronic organ. Everyone who goes to Hell chooses the former room.
* ForInconveniencePressOne: Used twice with insurance company phone directories. One of them has normal "for X, press Y" options and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick ends]] with "for a reclamation, get lost" [[labelnote:Context in original French]] For these kind of phone directories, "press one" would be explained as "''faites-le un''", literally "do the one". "Get Lost" in the original context was "''Faites de l'air''" (literally "do some air") which has the same connotation. Notice the use of the verb "faites" (the verb "to do", conjugated in the imperative second person plural) in both cases.[[/labelnote]] as its final option. The other one has absurd options like "for an imbroglio, press 1, for a huge fuckup, press 2, for a goddamn mess, press 3".



** One InUniverse joke told by the DreadfulMusician who works in bars involve a torture in {{Hell}} where demons set fire to your ballsack and you need to extinguish it with a crowbar.

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** One InUniverse joke told by the DreadfulMusician who works in bars involve a torture in {{Hell}} where demons set fire to your ballsack and you need to extinguish it with a crowbar. Said torture is the merciful alternative to the other torture offered in Hell - being in a room with a bar musician who plays a mini-organ.


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* SubliminalSeduction: {{Parodied}} with the Guy Who Shops who calls his cellphone service provider to cancel his mobile phone package. The employee on the line puts him on hold, with the "phone hold" music just being "la-la-laaaas" sung by Pérusse with random "don't cancel your phone service or you're an asshole" messages thrown in with no subtlety.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: There is this sketch where a thief contacts the director of the ''Caisse de Dépôt et Placements du Québec'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisse_de_d%C3%A9p%C3%B4t_et_placement_du_Qu%C3%A9bec Quebec Deposit and Investment Fund]] via phone in the middle of the night and gloats about how he stole an unspecified large amount of money. The director protests that this is the "deposit fund" belonging to average joes, and the thief replies it looks more like a "withdrawal fund" right now, which makes both guys laugh.
--> '''Thief''': (''in-between fits of laughter'') "You just got fucked over so bad!"
--> '''Director''': "Meh, it's not like it's my money."

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There is this sketch where a thief contacts the director of the ''Caisse de Dépôt et Placements du Québec'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisse_de_d%C3%A9p%C3%B4t_et_placement_du_Qu%C3%A9bec Quebec Deposit and Investment Fund]] via phone in the middle of the night and gloats about how he stole an unspecified large amount of money. The director protests that this is the "deposit fund" belonging to average joes, and the thief replies it looks more like a "withdrawal fund" right now, which makes both guys laugh.
--> ---> '''Thief''': (''in-between fits of laughter'') "You just got fucked over so bad!"
--> ---> '''Director''': "Meh, it's not like it's my money."



* AmbiguouslyHuman / AmbiguousRobot: Spock is turned into this in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' parodies. In some sketches he's said to be Vulcan, in others he's apparently an android.

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* AmbiguouslyHuman / AmbiguousRobot: Spock is turned into this in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' parodies. In some sketches he's said to be Vulcan, in others he's apparently an android.
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* ExiledToTheCouch: One TV reporter discusses gender relations with his (female) co-host and says something along the line of "I don't want to generalize but you girls are all fucking insane" on live TV. Immediately his phone rings and the reporter's girlfriend is implied to do this.
--> '''TV guy:''' "If I like the living room's couch? Why yes, why, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint do you want to buy another]]?"

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* 2017 - Best Ove! [[note]]A compilation of his favorite content, and yes, the "Ove" isn't a typo[[/note]].

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* 2017 - Best Ove! [[note]]A compilation of his favorite content, and yes, the "Ove" [[FunetikAksent isn't a typo[[/note]].typo]][[/note]].



-->'''Mr. Boilard:''' Hey if these paper towels [[note]]In French they are called ''essuis-tout'', literally "wipe everything" [[/note]] can wipe everything then surely they can wipe this grizzly bear grizzly over there?

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-->'''Mr. Boilard:''' Hey if these paper towels [[note]]In French they are called ''essuis-tout'', ''essuie-tout'', literally "wipe everything" [[/note]] can wipe everything then surely they can wipe this grizzly bear grizzly over there?



* MotorMouth: The characters in the skits often talk very fast, sometimes even to the point of deliberately sounding like gibberish. There's also the song ''Vive l'Amour'', whose lyrics comprises of almost nothing but French insults pronounced so quickly after one another, it could give Music/{{Eminem}} a run for his money!



* MotorMouth: The characters in the skits often talk very fast, sometimes even to the point of deliberately sounding like gibberish. There's also the song ''Vive l'Amour'', whose lyrics comprises of almost nothing but French insults pronounced so quickly after one another, it could give Music/{{Eminem}} a run for his money!



* 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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* 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 countries: the French ones are scatological or sexual, the French Canadian ones sounds (to the French) like they came from a playground or a church inventory).inventory.



* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial : In the "Russian Astronauts" segment, a russian astronaut decides to listen to the russian news.
--> '''Russian Newsreader''': Good evening, here’s the news: our country isn’t in a state of crisis. In addition, a Tupolev airplane of the National Company didn’t make an emergency land in Moscow, this morning at 7:12, and the cause isn’t that the plane’s pieces are too old. A civil servant from the capital, who wasn’t drunk, didn’t kill his wife and kids last night, then didn’t turn the gun on himself.

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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial : In the "Russian Astronauts" segment, a russian Russian astronaut decides to listen to the russian Russian news.
--> '''Russian Newsreader''': Good evening, here’s the news: our country isn’t in a state of crisis. In addition, a Tupolev airplane of the National Company didn’t make an emergency land landing in Moscow, this morning at 7:12, and the cause isn’t that the plane’s pieces are too old. A civil servant from the capital, who wasn’t drunk, didn’t kill his wife and kids last night, then didn’t turn the gun on himself.
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* ChezRestaurant: The song ''Snack Bar Chez Raymond'' is about a particularly nasty junk food restaurant. Notably, with Pérusse being francophone, this trope is not about a fancy restaurant but a GreasySpoon instead, which reflects reality more.
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* GeorgeWashingtonSleptHere: {{Inverted}} and {{Parodied}} in a European Halloween sketch where photos of celebrities are hung on the wall of the InnOfNoReturn. The owner says they're part of the history of the inn, in the sense that they never slept there.

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