History WebVideo / JoueurDuGrenier

* TooDumbToLive: Said word-for-word in the ''LOTR'' review (see ArtificialStupidity).

** The intro sequence shot in Fred's old room, with Fred himself [[FormerlyFat looking]] ''[[FormerlyFat very]]'' [[FormerlyFat different]]. The first video of 2015 lampshades it by treating the New Year's resolution of getting a new title sequence with a hearty round of HaHaHaNo. Fred himself has stated that he liked how the opening sequence became less and less representative of the actual show with time, and doesn't want to change it since everybody associates it with him.

* {{Irony}}: One of the ''Fort Boyard'' games was very difficult to properly install, because Mindscape (the publisher, which eventually went bankrupt) forgot to add the CD-key in the box, requiring calls to the now-defunct tech support to get one. For a licensed adaptation of a game show in which ''keys are a MacGuffin''.

* StealthPun: The ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' game features a thief in bright red clothing named Carmen, who runs into the skeletons of [[WesternAnimation/GoDiegoGo Diego]] and [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]], and says she'll have to do without him from now on. In French, "WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego" is phonetically identical to "Carmen sans Diego" ("Carmen without Diego").

Frédéric "Fred" Molas (born 26 November 1982), a.k.a. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/joueurdugrenier Le Joueur du Grenier]]'' ("The Attic Gamer") is a French Website/YouTube-based retro video game {{review}}er who plays mostly [[Horrible/VideoGameGenerations horrible]] (and mostly [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames licensed]]) games since 2009, but also a few merely NintendoHard games, with his sidekick Sébastien Rassiat (born 12 October 1982) (a.k.a. Seb). The [=JdG=] team received a third member (Karim Debbache, host of ''WebVideo/{{Crossed}}'') in early 2013, who mostly serves to write some videos' scenarios and occasionally makes a cameo. In late 2019, WebVideo/{{Sad Panda|QAndA}} also joined the team as a manager for planning, casting and production, as well as doing behind-the-scenes videos on recent episodes.

* ButterflyOfDoom: Parodied in ''Bible games'', where after receiving an ominous fortune cookie (Respectively "You will die today" for Fred and "The guy to your right will die today" for Seb), Fred tosses the deli chinese food to the trash, but the remaining juice shorts out a power outlet, causing a fire on a nearby curtain that then chews through a rope, releasing an enormous ceiling blade... [[SubvertedTrope that misses them both]]. Then Fred gets a cramp and dies.

Frédéric "Fred" Molas (born 26 November 1982), a.k.a. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/joueurdugrenier Le Joueur du Grenier]]'' ("The Attic Gamer") is a French retro video games {{review}}er who plays mostly [[Horrible/VideoGameGenerations horrible]] (and mostly [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames licensed]]) games since 2009, but also a few merely NintendoHard games, with his sidekick Sébastien Rassiat (born 12 October 1982) (a.k.a. Seb). The [=JdG=] team received a third member (Karim Debbache, host of ''WebVideo/{{Crossed}}'') in early 2013, who mostly serves to write some videos' scenarios and occasionally makes a cameo. In late 2019, WebVideo/{{Sad Panda|QAndA}} also joined the team as a manager for planning, casting and production, as well as doing behind-the-scenes videos on recent episodes.

--->'''Truck Driver:''' Ah, yes, you said that you're coming to see your brother, right? He lived nearby, you said? In Raccoon City! There's nothing left but raccoons since Umbrella started to leave-
--->'''Claire Redfield:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! Know! That!]]

* AsYouKnow: From the very beginning of the episode, and throughout the review of the first live-action ''Dragon Ball'', Fred and Seb mock how often the characters, especially the villain, exposition about the Dragon Balls for no reason and to nobody in particular.

* BrownNote: "If my ears could vomit, they would!" or variations are said about many games' DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound.

** In "Games and Metal", the segment about the ''Wayne's World'' game is introduced by a summary of the movie. Fred mentions the main character's show contains product placement and that he has an Asian girlfriend, then laughs about how unrealistic it is.

* TheTheTitleConfusion: Fred isn't too sure whether the sub-title for ''Prince of Persia 2'' is "''The Shadow & Flame The''" or "''The The Shadow & Flame''" (it's actually "''The Shadow & the Flame''").

* WeirdCrossover: {{Invoked}} in the ''Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac'' review of in ''Club [=JdG=]''. After pointing several times that the plot combines Saint Seiya-esque elements (armors, magical powers, etc.) ''and'' stuff like mundane elite soldiers wielding assault rifles, tanks, attack helicopters, etc., Fred wonders if the plot has been written by a kid who was playing at the same time with two different collections of toys. Cue a ''Saint Seiya'' action figure next to a ''Franchise/ActionMan'' one.

* WellThisIsNotThatTrope: The ''Takeshi's Challenge'' video starts with Grenier recounting the legend of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanoo-no-Mikoto Susanoo]] in rough Japanese, before ending midstory and saying "This video is not about that."

* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: [=JdG=] does this in [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Kang and Kodos]]'s flying saucer at the end of the ''Bart vs. the Space Mutants'' review.

** The ''Harry Potter'' and ''11th Anniversary'' videos feature Benzaie, shaved and dressed like a British high-schoolgirl, playing a Hermione counterpart.

Frédéric "Fred" Molas, a.k.a. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/joueurdugrenier Le Joueur du Grenier]]'' ("The Attic Gamer") is a French retro video games {{review}}er who plays mostly [[Horrible/VideoGameGenerations horrible]] (and mostly [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames licensed]]) games since 2009, but also a few merely NintendoHard games, with his sidekick Sébastien Rassiat (a.k.a. Seb). The [=JdG=] team received a third member (Karim Debbache, host of ''WebVideo/{{Crossed}}'') in early 2013, who mostly serves to write some videos' scenarios and occasionally makes a cameo. In late 2019, WebVideo/{{Sad Panda|QAndA}} also joined the team as a manager for planning, casting and production, as well as doing behind-the-scenes videos on recent episodes.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: InUniverse.
** He often [[DiscussedTrope asks this questions about video games]] when they get too trippy, such as ''Astérix and the Great Rescue''.
** Also the ''Téléchat'' special.
** And his conclusion about ''Film/BatmanTheMovie''. (Though here it isn't clear whether he's implying it was made on drugs, or if he's [[WatchItStoned advocating taking some to recover from the viewing]]. Probably both.)
** In the ''Nightmare Circus'' review, Fred lampshades the fact he'd been doing this a lot.
--->'''[=JdG=]:''' Okay, then... I know the joke that "the developers have been taking drugs," we've used it way too often in the ''[=JdG=]''... but we should have kept it for this moment, in fact!

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The Papy Grenier series is implied to take place in one of these, possibly as late as the 2060's; in the ''Hogwarts Legacy'' episode, we learn that the legal retirement age is 87, child labor (and child smoking!) is legal (both are satirical TakeThat at unpopular pension reforms and labor code reforms in France), the ''Harry Potter'' fandom has become a (probably literal) religious cult, and an AI impersonating a now-deceased popular French singer has become leader of the bunker Papy Grenier and his grandchildren live in, probably due to some catastrophe.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The Papy Grenier series is implied to take place in one of these, possibly as late as the 2060's; in the ''Hogwarts Legacy'' episode, we learn that the legal retirement age is 87, child labor (and child smoking!) is legal (both are satirical TakeThat at unpopular pension reforms and labor code reforms in France), the ''Harry Potter'' fandom has become a (probably literal) religious cult, and an AI impersonating a now-deceased popular French singer has become of the bunker Papy Grenier and his grandchildren live in, probably due to some catastrophe.

** The third part of the RPG episode casts fellow Youtuber Mathieu Sommet as a human mistaken for a Hobbit. Mathieu Sommet is 165 cm (5'5") tall.

** In the same video, Professor Solid Snape interrogates Henry Butter (Fred), asking among other things the difference between JdG and the AVGN, to which Henry-Fred replies, as to all the other questions, that he doesn't know, barely holding back tears.

** The ''Harry Potter'' video features the Youtuber Cyprien as the animated portrait which guards one of the dorms. His password is "I prefer Norman". Cyprien and Norman are two French Youtuber working in the same niche (they're actually real-life friends and sometimes appear in each other's videos).

* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: In the ''Papy Grenier'' episode for ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'', the magic wand seller sarcastically says he never heard this one when asked for a wood "about a foot long, and very hard."

* MickeyMousing: In the Papy Grenier ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'' video, Fred levitates an enemy whom he slams into the ground, keeping in sync with a SuspiciouslySimilarSong of [[WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix Cylindric the German's theme]].

* MickeyMousing: In the Papy Grenier ''VideoGame/HogwardsLegacy'' video, Fred levitates an enemy whom he slams into the ground, keeping in sync with a SuspiciouslySimilarSong of [[Film/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix Cylindric the German's theme]].

* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: In the ''Papy Grenier'' episode for ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'', the magic wand seller sarcastically says he never heard this one when asked for a wand "about a foot long, and very hard."

** Papy Grenier presents a different interpretation of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': Hyrule as an urban ghetto, the Deku Tree as a pedophile ("I love having small children inside me! I give 'em my nuts!") and Zelda as a complete bitch.

* StereotypeReactionGag: After failing to beat the infamous ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer'', he invites in a Japanese gamer, so he can clear the game with his [[AsianAndNerdy Asian superhuman gaming skills]]. Except "Mr. Nakajima" is really named François Lebreton, was born in France, and is really, really annoyed by the whole thing. He still beats it in a matter of seconds.