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* UnexplainedRecovery: How Brett got out of his coffin during the second season remains unseen. He even lampshades it (breaking the fourth wall in the process) by telling that if his life was a TV show, every detail of this spectacular evasion would be included in the DVD edition. Which wasn't even the case.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: How Brett [[spoiler:Brett]] got out of his coffin during the second season remains unseen. He even lampshades it (breaking the fourth wall in the process) by telling that if his life was a TV show, every detail of this spectacular evasion would be included in the DVD edition. Which wasn't even the case.
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* BuriedAlive: [[Spoiler:Brett]] had to face this delicate situation in the show's second season. He got better, thanks.
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* EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins: Subverted: When at the North Pole, Britany was enraptured to see a penguin and ran to get closer to it... much to the horror of Brett as the penguin was in fact a nun (which hilariously was percieved as life-threatening).
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* EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins: Subverted: Subverted. When at the North Pole, Britany was enraptured to see a penguin and ran to get closer to it... much to the horror of Brett as the penguin was in fact a nun (which hilariously was percieved as life-threatening).
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* EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins: Subverted: When at the North Pole, Britany was enraptured to see a penguin and ran to get closer to it... much to the horror of Brett as the penguin was in fact a nun (which hilariously was percieved as life-threatening).
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* {{Flashback}}: {{Flashback}} and FlashbackEffect: Nearly every episode has at least one. one flashback. They begin with a bright white light and feature a distinct music that only plays during those. It, of course, is ''always'' played with, the characters are well aware of them and "gaze" at the flashbacks to trigger them. Ashley even claimed once [[BlindedByTheLight that her eyes hurt because of the flashback's white light effects]] an put on sunglasses before the next flashback was triggered..
** One episode even has a FlashbackWithinAFlashback (that of course is lampshaded by Criquette ''within'' the first flashback).
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** One episode even has a FlashbackWithinAFlashback (that of course is lampshaded by Criquette ''within'' the first flashback).
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* NoFourthWall: The source of a boatload of gags. The characters are constantly commenting on how the series' special effects are superb ([[SpecialEffectFailure when they are absolutely pathetic]], are aware of the serie's soundtrack, bump into the cameras, etc. In the series' finale, Clifford even ''goes out of the scene into the backstage'', with Criquette protesting as it "destroys the illusion".
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* NoFourthWall: The source of a boatload of gags. The characters are constantly commenting on how the series' special effects are superb ([[SpecialEffectFailure when they are absolutely pathetic]], pathetic]]), are aware of the serie's soundtrack, bump into the cameras, etc. In the series' finale, Clifford even ''goes out of the scene into the backstage'', with Criquette protesting as it "destroys the illusion".
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* PaperThinDisguise: Used rather often, but the most shining example hail from a scene from the third season, when Brett masqueraded as sister Brenda ''solely'' by putting a name tag reading "Brenda" on his suit. And it '''worked'''.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Used rather often, but the most shining example hail hails from a scene from the third season, when Brett masqueraded as sister Brenda ''solely'' by putting a name tag reading "Brenda" on his suit. And it '''worked'''.
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* ShovelStrike: Such fates befalls twice on poor Madge, ''in the same night''. Earlier in the show, Criquette had Madge write a letter where she formulated a plan to ''murder'' her that exact same way.
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* ShovelStrike: Such fates fate befalls twice on poor Madge, ''in the same night''. Earlier in the show, Criquette had Madge write a letter where she formulated a plan to ''murder'' her that exact same way.
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* {{Slapstick}} and SlapstickKnowsNoGenderSlapstickKnowsNoGender: A prominent source of gags in the show.
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* AirVentPassageway : when they want to leave the hospital as fast as possible. They could have taken the door, but that would have been to simple, I guess. After taking the passageway, they get lost, find themselves exactly where they had been in the first place, and have to take the air vent passage once again to finally get out of the hospital.
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* AirVentPassageway : when they In teh third episode of the show, Ashley, Brett and Peter want to leave the hospital as fast as possible. They could have taken Having to chose between the door, but door ("simple, efficient, probably infaillible") and the air-vent passageway ("complicated, completely inefficient and potentially dangerous") they chose the latter. Worst, after that would have been to simple, I guess. After taking the passageway, escape, they get lost, find themselves exactly where they had been in at the first place, starting point and have to take chose the air vent passage once again to finally get out of the hospital.air-vent '''''AGAIN'''''.
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* ButtMonkey: Madge.Poor, poor Madge. Over the course of the show, she got punched countless amounts of times, run over by a car, shot with tranquilizer darts, crushed thrice by a safe, sprayed with teargas, hit with a car muffler and many, ''many'', '''MANY''' more.
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* EvilTwin: Brad and Brenda.Brenda both went to some extremes to get rid of their brother Brett. And yet in the finale they '''still''' go along.
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* NoFourthWallNoFourthWall: The source of a boatload of gags. The characters are constantly commenting on how the series' special effects are superb ([[SpecialEffectFailure when they are absolutely pathetic]], are aware of the serie's soundtrack, bump into the cameras, etc. In the series' finale, Clifford even ''goes out of the scene into the backstage'', with Criquette protesting as it "destroys the illusion".
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* LampshadeWearing: A deleted scenes parodies this: By just taking a puny sip of alcohol, Brett acts completely drunk and quickly places a lampshade on his head.
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* MedicalDrama : Brett, Ashley and Crystale played in a Medical Drama called ''Medical Drama''.aptly named... ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Medical Drama]]''.
* MachoMasochism: Peter Malboro suffers from a rather extreme case of this trope. For example, he once refuse to take a seat in a car running at high speed in order to prove his masculinity... by staying on the car's ''roof'' instead.
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**A deleted scene from the same episode shows another sequence of the same kind, this time about an anecdote about dancing. The end of it? "And so my voice managed to open the space shuttle's landing gear, and my duck à l'orange was a success!"
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* ScrabbleBabble: Parodied in one scene where Criquette and Brett play together. Apparently, the "wqt", the "ffiffu", the "zzz" and the "txtxtx" all are nocturnal aquatic animals. Hmm.
**That being said, in a later episode, Becky's answering machine mentioned the wqt and gave the same definition than Criquette did when playing Scrabble, so it ''might'' be a real animal in the serie's world.
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* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: The characters keep saying out loud how they feel to make sure the audience understands.
-->'''Criquette:''' "I’m sad. You can understand that I am sad, because I’m crying while holding my sister’s picture."
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The series ends with Brett's grandpa revealing that [[ButtMonkey Madge]] is Brett's mother.]]
* ThinkingOutLoud: They all do this quite often, sometimes leading to some characters telling their evil plans out loud for everyone to hear. See DidIJustSayThatOutLoud.
-->'''Criquette:''' "I’m sad. You can understand that I am sad, because I’m crying while holding my sister’s picture."
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The series ends with Brett's grandpa revealing that [[ButtMonkey Madge]] is Brett's mother.]]
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* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: The characters keep saying out loud how they feel to make sure ShovelStrike: Such fates befalls twice on poor Madge, ''in the audience understands.
-->'''Criquette:''' "I’m sad. You can understandsame night''. Earlier in the show, Criquette had Madge write a letter where she formulated a plan to ''murder'' her that I am sad, because I’m crying while holding my sister’s picture."
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The series ends with Brett's grandpa revealing that [[ButtMonkey Madge]] is Brett's mother.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The series ends with Brett's grandpa revealing that [[ButtMonkey Madge]] is Brett's mother.]]
* ThinkingOutLoud: They all do this quite often, sometimes leading to some characters telling their evil plans out loud for everyone to hear. See DidIJustSayThatOutLoud.
-->'''Criquette:''' "I’m sad. You can understand that I am sad, because I’m crying while holding my sister’s picture."
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The series ends with Brett's grandpa revealing that [[ButtMonkey Madge]] is Brett's mother.]]
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** In the first episodes of the series, the credits of news program ''Info Action 24/7'' is an endless list of preposterous roles ("Bitter majorette sinking in alcoholism", "Helmet-less but nonetheless prudent cyclist", etc), all being performed by Ridge Taylor. The sole exception being "Mr Ridge Taylor is dressed by: ''his mother''".
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** In the first episodes of the series, the credits of news program ''Info Action 24/7'' is consist in an endless list of preposterous roles ("Bitter majorette sinking in alcoholism", "Helmet-less but nonetheless prudent cyclist", etc), all being performed by Ridge Taylor. The sole exception being "Mr Ridge Taylor is dressed by: ''his mother''".
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** In the first episodes of the series, the credits of news program ''Info Action 24/7'' is an endless list of preposterous roles ("Bitter majorette sinking in alcoholism", "Helmet-less but nonetheless prudent cyclist", etc), all being performed by Ridge Taylor. The sole exception being "Mr Ridge Taylor is dressed by: ''his mother''".
** The credits of Brett's medical drama ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named "Medical Drama"]]) consist ''solely'' of the word "Credits" scrolling upwards.
** In the first episodes of the series, the credits of news program ''Info Action 24/7'' is an endless list of preposterous roles ("Bitter majorette sinking in alcoholism", "Helmet-less but nonetheless prudent cyclist", etc), all being performed by Ridge Taylor. The sole exception being "Mr Ridge Taylor is dressed by: ''his mother''".
** The credits of Brett's medical drama ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named "Medical Drama"]]) consist ''solely'' of the word "Credits" scrolling upwards.
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** When Brad calls the emergencies as [[spoiler:Becky]] goes into labour (in the end, the interactive voice response would tell him to stop bothering them and to hang up)
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** When Brad calls the emergencies as [[spoiler:Becky]] goes into labour (in the end, the interactive voice response would tell him to stop bothering them and to hang up)
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* AirVentPassageway : when they want to leave the hospital as fast as possible. They could have taken the door, but that would have been to simple, I guess. After taking the passageway, they get lost, find themselves exactly where they had been in the first place, and have to take the air vent passage once again to finally get out of the hospital.
* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Lampshaded when Brett says he probably look ridiculous talking to Criquette while she’s uncounscious. She nods.
* ChristmasSpecial: The Montgomery decide to make a Christmas TV show... in April. Because Christmas magic lasts all year long!
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* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Brenda revealing her evil plans while Criquette right beside her. She was talking to the camera, so she probably thought Criquette could not hear her.
* DumbBlonde: Ashley and Googy, but most notablyMeganMegan.
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* NoBudget : It's a parody of a No Buget soap opera.
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* ShowDontTell: The characters often tell the audience about how they feel instead of showing it. Sometimes they do both.
* ShowWithinAShow : There are lots, including the news report ''Info Action 24/7'', ''Medical Drama'', ''Help, You’re Ugly!'', ''Brett’s Dictation'' and ''Name a Number from 1 to 10''.
* ShowDontTell: The characters often tell the audience about how they feel instead of showing it. Sometimes they do both.
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-->-- '''Brad Montgomery''', ''The fabulous Ball of the Montgomery family'', last episode of the series
This comedy show originated from various skits in the French Canadian program ''[=Le Grand Blond avec un show sournois=]'', which parodied various {{soap opera}} tropes through the lives of fictional archetypes of this kind of genre. The skits proved so popular that these characters finally got their very own TV series ; so was born ''Le Coeur A Ses Raisons''.
The show is entirely dominated by RuleOfFunny and is willingly trying to be [[StylisticSuck absolutely terrible in terms of quality, in an hilarious way]]. Every single trope originating from soap operas is mercilessly parodied, although the creators confess that sometimes they failed to attain the degree of ridicule some actual soap opera shows possess.
The show more than often verges on absurd humour, surrealism and postmodernism. However it also has its own plotlines and shocking scenaristic twists, as strange as they may be, and many spectators actually grew to like the stereotypical characters. With three seasons, the show was cancelled after the [[HolyShitQuotient incredible]] [[TwistEnding revelation]] of the series finale, due to lower ratings. However, good DVD sales and the growing legacy of the show have convinced the network to get a fourth season back in the works.
See also the [[Characters/LeCoeurASesRaisons Character Sheet.]]
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!!This show provides examples of
* BackFromTheDead: One of the early exploits of the show was to kill off every single character in the first season's finale, only to see them resurrected in the second season. The shocking twist was actually that one character ''did'' die in the earthquake. The show pulled it off in a more classic way with Brittany and Brenda, who died in one season but returned in another through convoluted explanations. Granted, whe had not really seen their respective death scenes per se.
* BackupTwin: Parodied with the return of Peter in trying to explain why the twin hadn't been mentionned before. Peter n°1 and Peter n°2 had the misfurtone of having the same clothes, so, when one wanted to go out, the other had to stay at home in his underwear.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: On occasion.
* ButtMonkey: Madge.
* CallingYourAttacks: A CatFight between Criquette and Brenda features this, complete with dramatically echoing voices.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Some of the episode endings. Played for laugh of course.
* DeathIsCheap: Parodied.
* EvilTwin: Brad and Brenda.
* {{Flashback}}: Nearly every episode has at least one.
* GagDub: The show actually manages to be a gag dub of itself. There are two reasons for this; the first to stick with the traditional reputation of soap operas in Québec, the actors do not speak with a Quebecian accent but with a French one, since most of these shows are dubbed in France. The only character with a Canadian accent is Brad. Criquette tries to pull off a French accent and constantly fails at it, making some of her words unintelledgible in the process (you have to speak French to understand how it's funny). Secondly, most of these shows are usually english ones, often badly translated. Therefore the writers of the show modify the wordings of the character's sentences in order to make them sound badly translated from English... although the characters do speak French in the first place. For example the characters always say ''je vais quitter'' (I'm going to break off) instead of ''je vais partir'' (I'm going to leave), which seems like a common bad translation of ''I'm going to leave'' where ''to leave'' can mean ''to break off'' or ''to exit a place'' depending on the context.
* IGotBetter: Used as "Je vais mieux" to explain a few 'deaths'.
* JerkAss: Ridge.
* LineOfSightName: "My colleague, Doctor... Bedside Lamp." Who studied at Bedside Lamp University of Texas. Married to Mrs. Beside Lamp Bedside Lamp.
* {{Melodrama}}: Many jokes are based on the character's complete overreaction to mundane events (like the entire episode on a lack of pitchers).
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Becky, Brenda]]
* NoRespectGuy: Madge.
* OverlyLongGag
* OverlyLongName: Doug Doug Skippy Bob Dracula Perceval Trevor Ricky Jack Lancelot Baby Bat Benny Benny Bo Benny Bananana Bo Benny Benny Bo Benny Montgomery-Rockwell.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The series ends with Brett's grandpa revealing that [[ButtMonkey Madge]] is Brett's mother.]]
* {{Slapstick}} and SlapstickKnowsNoGender
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: A staple, and of course almost always played with.
* {{ThemeNaming}} : [[ThemeTwinNaming The triplets]] Brad, Brett and Brenda,[[AlphabeticalThemeNaming obviously]]. This had led EpilepticTrees to consider Broke, Brooke and Britanny as their possible estranged siblings.
* TokenMinority: Brock Steel.
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-->-- '''Brad Montgomery''', ''The fabulous Ball of the Montgomery family'', last episode of the series
This comedy show originated from various skits in the French Canadian program ''[=Le Grand Blond avec un show sournois=]'', which parodied various {{soap opera}} tropes through the lives of fictional archetypes of this kind of genre. The skits proved so popular that these characters finally got their very own TV series ; so was born ''Le Coeur A Ses Raisons''.
The show is entirely dominated by RuleOfFunny and is willingly trying to be [[StylisticSuck absolutely terrible in terms of quality, in an hilarious way]]. Every single trope originating from soap operas is mercilessly parodied, although the creators confess that sometimes they failed to attain the degree of ridicule some actual soap opera shows possess.
The show more than often verges on absurd humour, surrealism and postmodernism. However it also has its own plotlines and shocking scenaristic twists, as strange as they may be, and many spectators actually grew to like the stereotypical characters. With three seasons, the show was cancelled after the [[HolyShitQuotient incredible]] [[TwistEnding revelation]] of the series finale, due to lower ratings. However, good DVD sales and the growing legacy of the show have convinced the network to get a fourth season back in the works.
See also the [[Characters/LeCoeurASesRaisons Character Sheet.]]
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!!This show provides examples of
* BackFromTheDead: One of the early exploits of the show was to kill off every single character in the first season's finale, only to see them resurrected in the second season. The shocking twist was actually that one character ''did'' die in the earthquake. The show pulled it off in a more classic way with Brittany and Brenda, who died in one season but returned in another through convoluted explanations. Granted, whe had not really seen their respective death scenes per se.
* BackupTwin: Parodied with the return of Peter in trying to explain why the twin hadn't been mentionned before. Peter n°1 and Peter n°2 had the misfurtone of having the same clothes, so, when one wanted to go out, the other had to stay at home in his underwear.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: On occasion.
* ButtMonkey: Madge.
* CallingYourAttacks: A CatFight between Criquette and Brenda features this, complete with dramatically echoing voices.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Some of the episode endings. Played for laugh of course.
* DeathIsCheap: Parodied.
* EvilTwin: Brad and Brenda.
* {{Flashback}}: Nearly every episode has at least one.
* GagDub: The show actually manages to be a gag dub of itself. There are two reasons for this; the first to stick with the traditional reputation of soap operas in Québec, the actors do not speak with a Quebecian accent but with a French one, since most of these shows are dubbed in France. The only character with a Canadian accent is Brad. Criquette tries to pull off a French accent and constantly fails at it, making some of her words unintelledgible in the process (you have to speak French to understand how it's funny). Secondly, most of these shows are usually english ones, often badly translated. Therefore the writers of the show modify the wordings of the character's sentences in order to make them sound badly translated from English... although the characters do speak French in the first place. For example the characters always say ''je vais quitter'' (I'm going to break off) instead of ''je vais partir'' (I'm going to leave), which seems like a common bad translation of ''I'm going to leave'' where ''to leave'' can mean ''to break off'' or ''to exit a place'' depending on the context.
* IGotBetter: Used as "Je vais mieux" to explain a few 'deaths'.
* JerkAss: Ridge.
* LineOfSightName: "My colleague, Doctor... Bedside Lamp." Who studied at Bedside Lamp University of Texas. Married to Mrs. Beside Lamp Bedside Lamp.
* {{Melodrama}}: Many jokes are based on the character's complete overreaction to mundane events (like the entire episode on a lack of pitchers).
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Becky, Brenda]]
* NoRespectGuy: Madge.
* OverlyLongGag
* OverlyLongName: Doug Doug Skippy Bob Dracula Perceval Trevor Ricky Jack Lancelot Baby Bat Benny Benny Bo Benny Bananana Bo Benny Benny Bo Benny Montgomery-Rockwell.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The series ends with Brett's grandpa revealing that [[ButtMonkey Madge]] is Brett's mother.]]
* {{Slapstick}} and SlapstickKnowsNoGender
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: A staple, and of course almost always played with.
* {{ThemeNaming}} : [[ThemeTwinNaming The triplets]] Brad, Brett and Brenda,[[AlphabeticalThemeNaming obviously]]. This had led EpilepticTrees to consider Broke, Brooke and Britanny as their possible estranged siblings.
* TokenMinority: Brock Steel.
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