History WesternAnimation / MoiRenart

The plot is about Renart, a cocky and joyful young fox, who goes in Paris and decides to set up an agency where he says he can do ''any'' job. He often badgers his greedy and grumpy uncle Ysengrin who is a car salesman, gets in trouble with the law, and tries to seduce beautiful vixen journalist Hermeline.

* SettingUpdate: From MiddleAges to the 1980s.

''Moi Renart'' ("I, Renart") is a French animated series first broadcast in 1986, made by Bruno-René Huchez, who was behind several popular French animated series in TheEighties.

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It is a very loose adaptation of ''[[Literature/ReynardTheFox Le Roman de Renart]]'', an anthology of satirical tales written in the French Middle Ages. The original stories were about a fox called Renart outwitting other animals as they try to chase food. Those tales were so popular that [[AKindOfOne it even replaced in French vocabulary "goupil" with "renard" (French for fox)]].

The animated series is set in [[GayParee Paris]] during TheEighties, and has a much more comedic tone than the original stories. The characters are practically humans with a FurryLens.

[[caption-width-right:347:"A star is born!"]]

The animated series is set in [[GayParee Paris]] during TheEighties. The characters are practically humans with a FurryLens. It has a much more comedic tone, and more often than not, HilarityEnsues.

* OffModel: The characters will sometimes look very weird for a second or two, such as Renart showing a very cartoony face when in shock or Ysengrin being suddenly twice as large as Renart when standing next to him. One episode even had the sky randomly turn ''purple'' for a scene, for no reason.
** The Fil-à-Film VHS releases had mostly '''AWFUL''' cover art, obviously done by some crony who used a screen-still as reference to clumsily reproduce something that looks like a bad child tracing (and Fil-à-Film had a lot of awful cover art to offer!).

** Paprika Magot from the ''The Kiosk Affair'' appears as a Tarzan-girl who rescues Renart from a gorilla in the "Vieux Roublard" segment in the first two episodes.
** Hélène from ''The Vixen'' appears in the "Vieux Roublard" segment where she is being wooed by a pig (who could be Natta).

* OffModel: The characters will sometimes look very weird for a second or two, such as Renart showing a very cartoony face when in shock or Ysengrin being suddenly twice as large as Renart when standing next to him.

* AttractiveBentGender: Renart impersonates a woman several times, and they are more often attractive than not. Even ''his own uncle'' wants to touch Renart's leg when he is impersonating a cleaning lady. What is less attractive is his incapacity in making an attractive female voice.

-->'''Moufflard:''' What are you writing again, you idiot?"

* LatexPerfection: Renart is able to impersonate female characters with a good latex mask. There's also an episode where villains frame him for a bank robbery by masquerading as Renart himself.

* MsFanservice: Many of the female characters. Such as Hermeline.

** In the ''James Bomb'' episode, Pelé and Budvilin disguise themselves as ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' and ''Manga/CandyCandy'', respectively. Both were popular anime in France at the time (although Candy is still depicted as human!).

* WidgetSeries: It is a weird French thing.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Renart has a tiny white non-anthropomorphic monkey called Marmouset as a pet and sidekick.

* ALoadOfBull: Mac and his teammates in ''Renart Big Mac''.

-->'''Budvilin:'''"Well, I am writing that I can't write!"

* GeneralRipper: General Bigeard shows some slight aspects of this.

* PaperThinDisguise: Some of Renart's disguises amount to that: he easily impersonates General Bigeard by simply tucking his ears in a cap and putting a big band-aid on his snout!

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Pelé and Budvilin, Moufflard's two henchmen. Pelé is the mean smarter one, Budvilin is the dumb nicer one.