History Series / VousLesFemmes

* StraightMan: The girls alternate in the role of the straight man and the comic lead. Frequently, Judith is the "straight man" and butt of the joke, while Olivia delivers the comic punchline or provides some slapstick visual humour. this is not an absolute and the roles have reversed.

%%* StraightMan: Usually but not always Judith.

* EverybodySmokes: The show takes this as a self-evident truth. This is France, after all.[[note France has the highest percentage of smokers in Western Europe, although shaded by every Balkan nation. France is the only Western European country where the percentage of smokers actually went ''up'' in the early 2020's. [[/note]]. Quite often, [[RandomSmokingScene central actress Judith Siboni is seen nursing a cigarette]].

* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: Judith Siboni and Olivia Cotê are clothes-shopping together. The visibly slender Judith takes a summer sundress from a rack and asks Olivia for a honest opinion at to whether she'd look fat wearing this. Olivia suggests trying it on. Judith retreats to the changing room. When she comes out, she is visibly about four clothes sizes larger under the new dress.[[note]]A fat-suit that makes her look possibly eighty pounds larger with exaggerated stomach and arse[[/note]]. Olivia takes a critical look and says "Yes, it does make your bum look ''a little bit'' bigger".

Heavily inspired by the anarchic and absurdist British sketch show ''Series/SmackThePony'' which was also an all-female comedy ensemble playing in the Theatre of the Absurd, a typical VLF episode on French TV would be an ultra-short cartoonish presentation offering two short sketches of no longer than three minutes' duration, punctuated by the show's distinctive credits and theme music. The original short presentations have since been repackaged as "standard length" half-hour and one hour shows, and have been extensively broadcast around the world, taken up, among others, by the Creator/{{BBC}}, who subtitled them for British audiences.

* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: Judith Siboni and Olivia Cotê are clothes-shopping together. The visibly slender Judith takes a summer sundress from a rack and asks Olivia for a honest opinion at to whether she'd look fat wearing this. Olivia suggests trying it on. Judith retreats to the changing room. When she comes out, she is visibly about four clothes sizes larger under the new dress.[[note]]A fat-suit that makes her look possibly eighty pounds larger with exaggerated stomach and arse[[/note]]. Olivia takes a critical look and says "Yes, it does make your bum look bigger".

* DramaQueen: Usually but not always Olivia (as in the ''[[https://youtu.be/iktQMAahRZY?si=zMInlcZHHPEF7Gcq&t=74 Coq au Vin]]'' sketch).

* {{Homage}}: A sketch where a woman (Olivia) explains to a friend in the swimming pool changing room that she really hasn't bothered to shave very much this winter as there's no point really, (then turns to reveal a small undergrowth of pubic hair escaping from her swimming costume), is lifted completely from ''Series/SmackThePony''.
** As with [=STP=], there is a ''lot'' of humour set in and around swimming baths.

* StraightMan: Usually but not always Judith.
* WardrobeMalfunction: The girls find they are at the same job interview. When Judith suffers from a severe wardrobe malfunction, of which she is oblivious, it's plain that Olivia is struggling with her conscience and on the verge of telling her. She opts to remain silent and wishes Judith good luck as she goes in. With her [[NippleAndDimed left breast exposed]].
* [[ManChild Woman Child]]: Olivia throws a massive toddler tantrum at being told the shocking truth, that, you know, just now and again, you could be putting too much ''vin'' in the ''coq au vin''. She refuses to accept this and rolls around in the grass and mud and dead leaves in the park, a late-thirty-something toddler screaming that she does ''not'' put too much wine into her coq au vin, punching and kicking the ground as she does so.

It is also worth stressing that ''most'' of the sketches would be Safe For Work. However, be advised that every so often, at seemingly random intervals... online compilations '''will''' include some [=NSFW=] stuff.

* DramaQueen: Usually but not always Olivia (as in the ''Coq au Vin'' sketch).

* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: The show definitely looks this way from outside, as if special care has been taken to make the sketches into visual gems or even to resemble extracts from longer movies. Most of the time the cast are dressed stylishly and more than presentably - even (or especially) when indignities or social humiliation are about to be perpetrated.

* KinkyRolePlaying: There is a recurring gag where Judith Siboni thinks of ever new scenarios to get her husband interested in sex. The problem is that she gets so wrapped up in the role that she loses sight of the reason ''why'' she is role-playing in the first place. Dressed as a FrenchMaid, she is distracted by a stubborn stain in the carpet and ignores her husband so as to get the cleaning kit out. Dressed as a stern teacher, she delivers a long and tedious classroom lesson in an abstract academic subject.

* NippleAndDimed: This show has a moderate (but not excessive) amount of nudity which would make it near-impossible to screen on American television, as in those sketches the nudity is part of the set-up and punchline. If anything illustrates the difference between European and American attitudes to nudity, it's a prime-time comedy show where the principal actresses/comediennes going nude is seen as no big deal and a natural part of the comedy. Even the similar British show ''Series/SmackThePony'' stopped well short of its cast doing nude scenes; the comparable British attitude is that people in sitcoms are funny enough in their underwear (if the script calls for it) and should not go any further. [[note]]It should be emphasised that in over 90% of the sketches on [=VLF=], Olivia and Judith perform fully dressed and on-screen nudity is an occasional thing for them[[/note]]