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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore ([[UsefulNotes/OldFrenchMoney the franc before 2002]]), sport, political or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain), defunct RealityTV shows... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore ([[UsefulNotes/OldFrenchMoney the franc before 2002]]), sport, political or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Jacques Chirac and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain), defunct RealityTV shows... the list goes on and on.
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* CreatorBacklash: Alain Duverne, the creator of the puppets, left the show after 2007 when he realized the writers were becoming more concerned about [[{{Anvilicious}} inserting their views agressively]] rather than being funny. He thought Nicolas Sarkozy could have made a funny character by playing on his Creator/LouisDeFunes mannerisms, but instead they "[[GodwinsLaw portrayed him like a Nazi]]".

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** ''Les Guignols'' could be considered a French version of ''Series/SpittingImage''. Probably inspired others, such as caricaturist Serge Chapleau in Québec, who created ''Et Dieu Créa Laflaque'' ("And God Created Laflaque"), which follows a similar formula of making fun of events in the news, talking to exaggerated versions of political and cultural faces.

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** The success of ''Series/LeBebeteShow'' spawned a rival in ''Les Guignols de l'info''. ''Le Bébête Show'' itself would attempt to follow the example of ''Les Guignols'' by abandoning its ''[[Series/TheMuppetShow Muppet Show]]'' puppet caricatures in favor of regular human puppets, and failed.
** ''Les Guignols de l'info''
could be considered a French version of ''Series/SpittingImage''. Probably inspired others, such as caricaturist Serge Chapleau in Québec, who created ''Et Dieu Créa Laflaque'' ("And God Created Laflaque"), which follows a similar formula of making fun of events in the news, talking to exaggerated versions of political and cultural faces.
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* LongRunners: The show lasted from August 1988 all the way to June 2018.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore ([[UsefulNotes/OldFrenchMoney the franc before 2002]]), sport, political or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain), defunct RealityTV shows... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore ([[UsefulNotes/OldFrenchMoney the franc before 2002]]), sport, political or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain), defunct RealityTV shows... the list goes on and on.
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** The French and Spanish versions shared puppets, and the puppets of people who are not famous in one country are sometimes recycled as average, non-famous citizens in the other. This can be bizarre if you watch either version while being familiar with the other, because the host puppet (PPD in ''Les Guignols'', [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xv9Is9Altk/U9fMtnYoKlI/AAAAAAAAFpg/m8gxgcAIZpA/s1600/4hpinoguinol.jpg Hilario Pino]] in ''Los Guiñoles'') is particularly prone to this.

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** The French and Spanish versions shared puppets, and the puppets of people who are not famous in one country are sometimes recycled as average, non-famous citizens in the other. This can be bizarre if you watch either version while being familiar with the other, because the host puppet (PPD in ''Les Guignols'', [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xv9Is9Altk/U9fMtnYoKlI/AAAAAAAAFpg/m8gxgcAIZpA/s1600/4hpinoguinol.jpg Hilario Pino]] in ''Los Guiñoles'') is particularly prone to this.

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* PropRecycling: The French and Spanish versions share puppets, and the puppets of people who are not famous in one country are sometimes recycled as average, non-famous citizens in the other. This can be bizarre if you watch either version while being familiar with the other, because the host puppet (PPD in ''Les Guignols'', [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xv9Is9Altk/U9fMtnYoKlI/AAAAAAAAFpg/m8gxgcAIZpA/s1600/4hpinoguinol.jpg Hilario Pino]] in ''Los Guiñoles'') is particularly prone to this.

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The French and Spanish versions share shared puppets, and the puppets of people who are not famous in one country are sometimes recycled as average, non-famous citizens in the other. This can be bizarre if you watch either version while being familiar with the other, because the host puppet (PPD in ''Les Guignols'', [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xv9Is9Altk/U9fMtnYoKlI/AAAAAAAAFpg/m8gxgcAIZpA/s1600/4hpinoguinol.jpg Hilario Pino]] in ''Los Guiñoles'') is particularly prone to this.this.
** ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' also sometimes used puppets from ''Series/LesMinikeums'' as young extras or incidental characters, as the shows shared a workshop and some puppeteers.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: When Vincent Bolloré took over Canal+ in 2015, he had the show's airing schedules reduced, fired most of the writers, made sure it became less and less political, and had puppets of celebrities like Music/JustinBieber and reality TV personalities put forth. The show's audience ratings plummeted and it was eventually terminated in October 2018, three months after its 30th anniversary.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: When Vincent Bolloré took over Canal+ in 2015, he had the show's airing schedules reduced, fired most of the writers, made sure it became less and less political, and had puppets of celebrities like Music/JustinBieber and reality TV personalities put forth. The show's audience ratings plummeted sank rock bottom and it was eventually terminated in October 2018, three months after its 30th anniversary.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: When Vincent Bolloré took over Canal+ in 2015, he had the show's airing schedules reduced, made sure it became less and less political, and had puppets of celebrities like Music/JustinBieber and reality TV personalities put forth. The show's audience ratings plummeted and it was eventually terminated in October 2018, three months after its 30th anniversary.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: When Vincent Bolloré took over Canal+ in 2015, he had the show's airing schedules reduced, fired most of the writers, made sure it became less and less political, and had puppets of celebrities like Music/JustinBieber and reality TV personalities put forth. The show's audience ratings plummeted and it was eventually terminated in October 2018, three months after its 30th anniversary.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: When Vincent Bolloré took over Canal+ in 2015, he had the show's airing schedules reduced, made sure it became less and less political, and had puppets of celebrities like Music/JustinBieber and reality TV personalities put forth. The show's audience ratings plummeted and it was eventually terminated in October 2018, three months after its 30th anniversary.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore ([[UsefulNotes/OldFrenchMoney the franc before 2002]]), sport, political or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore ([[UsefulNotes/OldFrenchMoney the franc before 2002]]), sport, political or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)...Saint-Germain), defunct RealityTV shows... the list goes on and on.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport, political or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the ([[UsefulNotes/OldFrenchMoney the franc before 2002), 2002]]), sport, political or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport sport, political or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given it satirizes political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given it satirizes the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given it satirizes political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand all the way to Music/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given it satirizes political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand all the way to Music/JohnnyHallyday Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given it satirizes political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media celebrities who are now deceased, soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given it satirizes political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media celebrities personalities who are now deceased, deceased (from president François Mitterrand all the way to Music/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given it satirizes political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media celebrities who are now deceased, football teams that were once laughing stocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given it satirizes political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media celebrities who are now deceased, football soccer teams that were once laughing stocks laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given it satirizes political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore (the franc before 2002), sport or media celebrities who are now deceased, football teams that were once laughing stocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain)... the list goes on and on.

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* FollowTheLeader: Les Guignols could be considered a French version of ''Series/SpittingImage''. Probably inspired others, such as caricaturist Serge Chapleau in Québec, who created ''Et Dieu Créa Laflaque'' ("And God Created Laflaque"), which follows a similar formula of making fun of events in the news, talking to exaggerated versions of political and cultural faces.

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* FollowTheLeader: Les Guignols FollowTheLeader:
** ''Les Guignols''
could be considered a French version of ''Series/SpittingImage''. Probably inspired others, such as caricaturist Serge Chapleau in Québec, who created ''Et Dieu Créa Laflaque'' ("And God Created Laflaque"), which follows a similar formula of making fun of events in the news, talking to exaggerated versions of political and cultural faces.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: There are real, voice-activated "[[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%AEte_%C3%A0_coucou Boîtes à coucou]]" (Cuckoo Boxes) toys inspired by Johnny's in the show.

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* {{Defictionalization}}: There are real, voice-activated "[[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%AEte_%C3%A0_coucou Boîtes "boîtes à coucou]]" coucou" (Cuckoo Boxes) toys inspired by Johnny's Johnny Hallyday's in the show.

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* PropRecycling: The French and Spanish versions share puppets, and the puppets of people who are not famous in one country are sometimes recycled as average, non-famous citizens in the other. This can be bizarre if you watch either version while being familiar with the other, because the host puppet (PPD in ''Les Guignols'', [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xv9Is9Altk/U9fMtnYoKlI/AAAAAAAAFpg/m8gxgcAIZpA/s1600/4hpinoguinol.jpg Hilario Pino]] in ''Los Guiñoles'') is particularly prone to this.



* YouLookFamiliar: The French and Spanish versions share puppets, and the puppets of people who are not famous in one country are sometimes recycled as average, non-famous citizens in the other. This can be bizarre if you watch either version while being familiar with the other, because the host puppet (PPD in ''Les Guignols'', [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xv9Is9Altk/U9fMtnYoKlI/AAAAAAAAFpg/m8gxgcAIZpA/s1600/4hpinoguinol.jpg Hilario Pino]] in ''Los Guiñoles'') is particularly prone to this.
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* FollowTheLeader: Les Guignols could be considered a French version of ''Series/SpittingImage''. Probably inspired others, such as caricaturist Serge Chapleau in Québec, who created ''Et Dieu Créa Laflaque'' ("And God Created Laflaque"), which follows a similar formula of making fun of events in the news, talking to exaggerated versions of political and cultural faces.
** The show had a localized version in the Spanish station of Canal+ (''Las Noticias del Guiñol'') and its influence can be seen in later Spanish sketch programs like TVE's ''La Hora de José Mota'' and Creator/TV3's ''Polònia'', even though the parodies are done this time by human actors.



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* YouLookFamiliar: The French and Spanish versions share puppets, and the puppets of people who are not famous in one country are sometimes recycled as average, non-famous citizens in the other. This can be bizarre if you watch either version while being familiar with the other, because the host puppet (PPD in ''Les Guignols'', [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xv9Is9Altk/U9fMtnYoKlI/AAAAAAAAFpg/m8gxgcAIZpA/s1600/4hpinoguinol.jpg Hilario Pino]] in ''Los Guiñoles'') is particularly prone to this.
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* TalkingToHimself: Around 30 actors voice over 300 characters, so this is bound to happen. Most notable with the Sylvestres.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Some {{Catch Phrase}}s were never actually said by the people the puppets satirize.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: There are real, voice-activated "[[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%AEte_%C3%A0_coucou Boîtes à coucou]]" (Cuckoo Box) toys inspired by Johnny's in the show.

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* {{Defictionalization}}: There are real, voice-activated "[[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%AEte_%C3%A0_coucou Boîtes à coucou]]" (Cuckoo Box) Boxes) toys inspired by Johnny's in the show.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: There are real, voice-activated "[[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%AEte_%C3%A0_coucou Boîte à coucou]]" (Cuckoo Box) toys inspired by Johnny's in the show.

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* {{Defictionalization}}: There are real, voice-activated "[[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%AEte_%C3%A0_coucou Boîte Boîtes à coucou]]" (Cuckoo Box) toys inspired by Johnny's in the show.
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