Line #61 Radio/LesDeuxMinutesDuPeuple


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3	''Les 2 Minutes du Peuple'' ("''The 2 Minutes of the People''") is a series of comedic [[RadioDrama radio skits]] by Quebecois humorist François Pérusse. Its Quebec French version debuted on radio in 1990, and its French version in 1996. In Europe they ended in 2012, while in Québec they "ended" in 2016, only to be followed by a virtually identical SpiritualSuccessor called "Pérusse Express" (which slightly focuses more on news both local and worldwide).
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5	Each skit is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin two-minutes long]], and tackles subjects such as everyday situations, the life of [[HistoricalDomainCharacter historical characters]], current events, and {{parod\|y}}ies of TV shows, game shows, songs, and celebrities. The series dialogue is a never-ending HurricaneOfPuns mixed with some SurrealHumor, and is most remembered for its sped-up high-pitched voices, which enforced its RapidFireComedy.
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7	Pérusse has also produced several albums called "L'Album du Peuple" ("''The People's Album''"). They're a compilation of various radio sketches remixed by the author, sometimes they're slightly longer, shorter, or different. The albums also contain funny songs. He has also created a few TV shows in Quebec.
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11	!! The albums:
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13	* 1991 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 1
14	* 1992 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 2
15	* 1994 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 3
16	* 1995 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 4
17	* 1996 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 5
18	* 1997 - L'Album du Peuple (Made for France) - Tome 1
19	* 2002 - L'Album Pirate [[note]] An album of unreleased content that never made it to radio. It's called the "pirate" album because Pérusse "[[DigitalPiracyIsEvil pirated]]" it himself.[[/note]]
20	* 2002 - L'Album du Peuple (Made for France) - Tome 2
21	* 2003 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 6
22	* 2007 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 7
23	* 2011 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 8
24	* 2013 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 9
25	* 2015 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 10
26	* 2017 - Best Ove! [[note]]A compilation of his favorite content, and yes, the "Ove" [[FunetikAksent isn't a typo]][[/note]].
27	* 2020 - L'Album du Peuple - Tome 11
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29	The series has received numerous awards, and has become a staple of Francophone culture. It has notably been parodied or referenced by numerous {{Audio Play}}s.
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31	François Pérusse's official Youtube channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0vWI_4ksC3BbbM7Zn2P7_w here]].
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33	!! The TV shows:
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35	* 1999-2001 - ''Le Journul'' (The Jour-Null, also renamed the Nothing Day in one episode): Short, 50-second sketches that covered a topic of recent news. The short sketch was made the night prior, and then sent to the animators on the following morning; and they had to animate it (using mo-cap and CGI) to air that same day, at 6:00 PM during the news.
36	* 2000 - ''La Série du Peuple'' (The People's Series), preceded by an hour-long special.
37	* 2006 - ''On s'écoute parler'' (We Listen to Ourselves Talking), a sequel series to Le Journul.
38	* 2012-2013 - ''Pérusse Cité'' (WesternAnimation/BensCity)
39	* 2014-2019 - ''La Tite Chambre'' (The Lil' Chamber), a parody of all-day sports channels and their commentators. Pérusse would make these from watching moments without sound and then making up what he thought they were saying. The results sometimes came out almost more coherent than the actual text.
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43	!''Les Deux Minutes'' provides examples of:
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45	* AccidentalTruth: In one of the "Columbo du Peuple" segments, the killer lures his friend to murder him in a nearby street by suggesting they might find "a fuschia camel playing accordion". Later, when he gets arrested, Columbo reveals to him they found the body [[BrickJoke because their attention was caught by exactly this]].
46	* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
47	** There is this sketch where a thief contacts the director of the ''Caisse de Dépôt et Placements du Québec'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisse_de_d%C3%A9p%C3%B4t_et_placement_du_Qu%C3%A9bec Quebec Deposit and Investment Fund]] via phone in the middle of the night and gloats about how he stole an unspecified large amount of money. The director protests that this is the "deposit fund" belonging to average joes, and the thief replies it looks more like a "withdrawal fund" right now, which makes both guys laugh.
48	---> '''Thief''': (''in-between fits of laughter'') "You just got fucked over so bad!"
49	---> '''Director''': "Meh, it's not like it's my money."
50	** Régis Labeaume (current mayor of Québec City as of November 2020) finds out Elvis Presley's [[ElvisLives hiding spot]] to convince him to come play in a concert in Québec City. Elvis is originally pretty pissed, but when Régis starts cracking puns on Elvis' songs and old age, Elvis starts cracking some too.
51	** Gilles Micro's interview with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi starts off with this, and the skit turns into both interviewer and intervewee doing silly wordplay with Yogi's name, transcendental meditation and other subjects to each's delight.
52	* AlwaysMurder: Columbo du Peuple sketches.
53	* AmbiguousRobot: Spock is turned into this in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' parodies. In some sketches he's said to be Vulcan, in others he's apparently an android.
54	* AntennaAdjusting: The final gag in "Nos Amis Les Animaux" has Dr. Touchette repairing a little boy's "defective lobster" by adjusting its antennas until they can receive the "Seafood Radio" station.
55	* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: The "gars qui magasine" ("Guy who shops") sketches normally feature an average guy with average means trying to find good prices to buy everyday goods and services, however in some sketches he apparently has enough money to buy a Boeing 747 or even the ''planet Mars''. RuleOfFunny is in full effect.
56	* ArbitrarySkepticism: The male protagonist in the "Slangster House" segments regularly insists the house isn't actually haunted through the earlier segments, even though at this point he has seen undead coming several times to his house.
57	* ArtificialLimbs: One guy who got his legs [[AnArmAndALeg bitten off]] by a literal MamaBear asks General Electric to make him prosthetic limbs. Since he only has 1000$ to spare the only thing he can buy is two refrigerators, so they ''graft them to him''. Right after that the guy falls down a flight of stairs and fractures his crisper drawer and icemaking machine.
58	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: A European sketch involving a game show quiz has a contestant asked in what US state is TheWhiteHouse located. The White House is in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC (District of Columbia) which is not a state, but a federal district (sandwiched between the states of Virginia and Maryland).
59	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: One long-dead Pharaoh {{Mummy}} is interviewed about AncientEgypt, specifically the construction of the Pyramids. The interviewer asks questions about Cleopatra, nevermind the Pyramids were 2000 years old by the time Cleopatra came around. It does make for nice puns though.
60	* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In the 5th ''Album du Peuple'' Pérusse ends up in jail for failing to produce an album for his record label. Breach of contract is a civil offense, not a criminal one, so he wouldn't go to jail for it.
61	* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: A guy [[BurgerFool who makes hotdogs in a Costco]] applies for a job at the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanLawEnforcement FBI]], which is described as a "secret service" handling ''foreign'' intelligence, rather than a federal police force. The FBI agent doing the job interview also mentions they suspect UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin to be creating a new [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]]. This is redundant, since the [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia Russian Federation]] already ''has'' a successor to the KGB, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service FSB]]. And there's no way a FBI agent would just tell ''that'' to a potential recruit. The recruiter does mention that you need prior experience with intelligence or police work, or you start ''really'' from the bottom of the ladder. In reality you need both prior experience ''and'' a college degree. And to top it all off the recruiter then tells the guy they have a "small" case they could give him involving an Al-Qaeda front operating in Washington D.C.
62	* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The sketch set in a military submarine is referred to by Pérusse as being in the Army and not the Navy.
63	* ArtisticLicenseSpace:
64	** An European sketch involving the mission control for a Mars probe ([[ShownTheirWork correctly]]) states that the distance between Mars and the sun is around 230 000 000 kilometers. One of the astronomers asks if this means the probe won't risk being [[HurlItIntoTheSun attracted into the Sun's orbit]]. In practice it's surprisingly hard to crash something into the Sun, since this would require cancelling a lot of orbital velocity (around 30 km/s if you're in Earth's orbit), and any professional astronomer would know this.
65	** Another European sketch features a malfunctioning space shuttle drifting away from the Earth. It's impossible to just "drift" away from Earth unless you deliberately fire up your engines to accelerate in the prograde direction.
66	* AssShove: One Blues singer featured on a "radio communautaire" [[labelnote:English]] Community Radio [[/labelnote]] is dying of some weird illness and had an harmonica installed in his ass so he can keep playing since he can't play normally anymore.
67	** In one Columbo du Peuple episode, the one where the guy [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext disguises his dead wife as a phone]], it's {{Implied}} the murderer plugs in the phone line in her ass, judging by the fart noise heard.
68	** A radio ad for a bakery, "The Bakery Behind My House", is about visiting an old lady's house so she puts pastries in your [[CurseCutShort behi-]].
69	** Another ad for a lousy kindergarten brags that their staff watch TV while your toddlers shove crayons up their asses.
70	** There's an interview where Jean Charest (the former Prime Minister of Québec) is on TV and ([[ItMakesSenseInContext eventually]]) gets into a brawl with the host and somehow attempts to fight by shoving his fingers in the other guy's ass.
71	* AuthorAppeal: Pérusse puts in a lots of references to things he likes in his sketches, like hockey, the music industry, ''Franchise/StarTrek'', the Beatles, the Rolling Stones...
72	** He was fascinated by advertising from a young age, and would make parody ads for fun when he was little. One of his first claim to fame was doing advertisement for an album by a Québec singer, and several of his sketches feature joke advertisements. With his fame from the ''Deux Minutes du Peuple'' he's been hired by real companies to make real advertisements.
73	** Criticisms of the overexposure of children to sexually-loaded or otherwise unwholesome content crop up in more recent works, [[RealitySubtext around the time François Pérusse became a father in real life]].
74	--> '''Children show puppet:''' "You can drop the "acting adapted for children" because at 3 years old they're already watching Music/{{Rihanna}} clips while playing in their Pull-Ups."
75	** Cracks at extended warranties pop up often, apparently Pérusse considers them a scam.
76	--> '''Cooking show host:''' "I need you to stuff [[note]]The term in French for "stuffing" in a culinary context is "''fourrer''". In Quebec vernacular French "''fourrer''" also means "to scam" or "to con" someone[[/note]] the quails."
77	--> '''Cooking show assistant:''' "Alright. (''To the quail'') You know my little quail, modern washing machines have more electronics, meaning they break down more often. If I was you I'd go with an extended warranty."
78	* {{Autodoc}}: A Québec sketch features a guy getting a rectum exam from one of them, everything is fine at first until the Autodoc goes [[AIIsACrapshoot haywire]] and gives him [[BlackComedyRape several more]].
79	** A French sketch has a prototype machine made to simulate a real doctor: the machine just tells you to take some pills and leave it alone so it can play golf.
80	-->"[[TakeThat Wow, it's like a real doctor!]]"
81	* AwfulWeddedLife: A common motive for murder among the killers in "Columbo du Peuple" is that their wives are absolutely awful people.
82	* BackFromTheDead: There are sketches where a famous historical figure like [[UsefulNotes/LetatCestMoi Louis XIV]], UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison or Music/LudwigVanBeethoven come back to life and try to convince a modern day person to hire them or buy their products, or in the case of Louis XIV, convince the French government to let him reign as a monarch again.
83	--> '''Business owner:''' Thomas Edison? Weren't you dead?
84	--> '''Thomas Edison:''' Yeah but I didn't feel like it anymore.
85	* BadBoss:
86	** Master Charbonneau, a bandmaster and one-shot character, learned that one of his violonists slept with his wife so he destroys the guy's violin and fires him on the spot.
87	** Mister Le Malin, a CorruptCorporateExecutive at the head of a EvilInc [[ToxicInc polluting company]], fires 500 employees a week ForTheEvulz and hires Asiatic children that he doesn't even pay (but he makes them trip once in a while).
88	* BadGuyBar: A certain sketch revolves around a mild-mannered musician playing (poorly) in a vicious [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels outlaw biker]] bar (where the background noises are constant burps, farts and punches). His first statement is an announcement to the owner of a "Harley-Davidson, who's fuel tank is decorated with a woman's sex, of which the two labias are slightly spread by the former's fingers" that his motorcycle had a 12-gauge shotgun shell fired at it. He goes on to play and is interrupted by a guy [[TranquilFury gently asking]] that he plays something better or get lost. The musician tells him "[[TooDumbToLive eat shit, fat sack with the same family name]]". Immediately, without skipping a beat, the background noises is replaced by harps playing, and the musician wonders "why am I floating on a cloud with these winged people?"
89	* BearsAreBadNews: A TV show host interviews a guy who lost his legs in a [[NoodleIncident paper towel accident]] - in reality he had his legs bitten off by a literal MamaBear after [[TooDumbToLive he tried to wipe her cub with a]] [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext paper towel]].
90	-->'''Mr. Boilard:''' Hey if these paper towels [[note]]In French they are called ''essuie-tout'', literally "wipe everything" [[/note]] can wipe everything then surely they can wipe this grizzly bear grizzly over there?
91	-->'''His girlfriend:''' Hey watch out its mom is right next to it!
92	-->'''Mr. Boilard:''' Don't worry I'll say hi to her too!
93	** In an parody ad, a man is about to be attacked by a bear when a friend calls to tell him about the great deals at a sporting goods store. He decides he'll leave a leg for the bear and go buy a single ice skate at said store.
94	* BerserkButton: Frédéric [[UnfortunateName Fif]] [[note]]A homophobic slur for a gay man in Quebec French[[/note]] [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this in a "customer-calling-their-lawyer" sketch. In a bar someone told him "''Tasse-toi le fif!''" ("Get out of the way, [the] faggot!"). Frédéric Fif [[FisticuffProvokingComment punched him]] ([[AccidentalMurder accidentally killing him]], hence the need for a lawyer) and told his lawyer that it wasn't "''Fif''" that offended him, but being called "''[[FelonyMisdemeanor Le]]''" (lit. "The").
95	* BestialityIsDepraved: The European sketches had hospital-themed episodes featuring a certain Doctor Malcolm. In one of them there was a patient who needed to give a sperm sample. Doctor Malcolm gave him a porn magazine to help him, but it turns out he accidentally gave him a magazine about the life of insects. The doctor apologizes, but the patient says it's alright because there was a really pretty looking dragonfly on one of the pages so he managed to make it work.
96	* BlindIdiotTranslation: {{Invoked}}. A lot of times English sentences are poorly translated in Québec French for comedic/punny effect.
97	* BloodOnTheDebateFloor: While there's no physical violence, the sketches set in the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics Canadian parliament]] or the Québec parliament always feature [=MPs=] yelling, shouting or viciously insulting each other.
98	* BodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs in the "radio communautaire" sketches, where the incompetent host presents musicians who suffered some outlandish absurd accidents that damaged their bodies. Examples include Tata Boutlamine, an African pianist who plays with only [[{{Fingore}} one finger]] following a [[NoodleIncident coffee grinder accident]], Half-a-Papa-Joe, a blues singer who [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sawed himself in half]] vertically in a sawmill accident and now can only sings half of his lyrics and Adélbert Gadbois, who sings without a jaw after he confused a power saw with a toothbrush.
99	** Back when he was alive, Music/MichaelJackson was the butt of jokes where he falls apart or is rotting alive.
100	---> '''Gameshow host''' : "So, Michael, how's the new nose?"
101	---> '''MJ''' : "Not bad, not bad, I just gotta avoid laughing, heh heh heh" ''nose falls off'' "Aww"
102	** Captain Kirk suffers a TeleporterAccident in a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' parody. He's apparently been inverted and he can only mumble, but [=McCoy=] advises him not too out of fear he'll damage his boots trying to speak. Spock jokes that he's not Captain Kirk anymore but Kirkptain Ki.
103	** One episode of a talk show features the story of a woman who suffered various unfortunate accidents and eventually had her nervous system amputated, and even her ''intuition'' had to be amputated at some point. She's supposed to visit the show's host soon, someone will bring her in inside a small cardboard box. .
104	** In Tome 5 there are baseball commentators who wish good luck to the cousin of one player who's about to have his rib cage surgically removed. There's also a mention of a player's grandmother having a rare disease called a "cistite" where you burp, fart and shit by both ends.
105	** Many of the patients in the Hospital Soap Opera sketches have these kind of issues. As always, it's PlayedForLaughs.
106	* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: A {{Mummy}} of a long-dead Pharaoh is interviewed about the construction of the Pyramids of AncientEgypt, specifically knowing if the Pyramids were built in corruption [[note]]Corruption in the construction industry is a big issue in Québec politics[[/note]].
107	* BuriedAlive: Nearly happens to some DreadfulMusician playing in a crummy bar who says he wants to be buried with his electronic organ. The crowd goes crazy and attempts to climb on the stage to do just that.
108	--> '''Musician''':"[[OhCrap NOT RIGHT NOW! NOT RIGHT NOW]]! When I'll die!"
109	-->'''Guy in the crowd''': [[ImpliedDeathThreat That could be arranged too]].
110	* [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan (French) Canadian Equals Hockey Fan]]: François Pérusse is a big hockey fan, and hockey is a recurring theme in many of his sketches.
111	* CartridgesInFlight: One of the [[https://youtu.be/vPgksNgzPIA?t=36 cartoons]] on the "DVD du Peuple" features a cop handling a .38 caliber bullet ([[{{BFG}} the size of a tank shell no less]]) that he found on a crime scene, showing the rim and primer of the cartridge still attached. {{Justified\|Trope}} by the [[SurrealHumor surreal]] nature of the cartoons.
112	* CensoredForComedy: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cL9QEArri0 Chanson grivoise]]" ("Lewd Song"), a Music/GeorgesBrassens {{Expy}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cL9QEArri0 sings about a man watching a porno]], with bleeped out ([[RhymesOnADime rhyming]]) offending words with increasingly ridiculous sound effects. In the second part, the sound guy screws up and censors everything ''but'' the dirty words.
113	** "Les Mots D'Amour" off of Tome 5 is a joyful song about insults, some of which get censored with a high-pitched voice saying "beep".
114	* ChainedToARailway: One life insurance company proudly advertises that they will insure you even if your pants are stuck to a railway and the train is coming.
115	* ChezRestaurant: The song ''Snack Bar Chez Raymond'' is about a particularly nasty junk food restaurant. Notably, with Pérusse being francophone, this trope is not about a fancy restaurant but a GreasySpoon instead, which reflects reality more.
116	* ComicallyInappropriateFuneralUrn: When the "Guy who Shops" has to arrange a funeral service for his dead grandfather-in-law (Mona's grandfather) he phones a funeral house that informs him the cheapest urn is at least 700$. He immediately asks Mona if they still have Mason jars.
117	--> '''Funeral House Guy:''' Sir, WithAllDueRespect [[DueToTheDead to the departed]]...
118	--> '''Guy who Shops:''' Are you trying to imply we don't respect our jams?
119	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In a "Columbo du Peuple" segment, a man announces his wife that he now hates her, and, among other, cannot stand how she constantly sings in the bathroom:
120	-->'''Wife''': Could you possibly love another one?
121	-->'''Husband''': No, even in another bathroom, that wouldn't change anything!
122	* ConspicuousConsumption: Flip Gagné, an artist interviewed by Louis-Paul in a ''Community Radio'' segment, laments about voting at the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics federal level]], saying it costs 300 million dollars every time. [[BaitAndSwitch It turns]] out it's because he votes at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Dubai, complete with a buffet and the voting urn is Music/{{Shakira}}'s ass-crack.
123	* CouchGag: Almost every "live TV" episode starts with an opening gag about TheAnnouncer messing up, whether he's late, sick, intoxicated, lazy, or too stressed to say the title of the show correctly.
124	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: {{Exaggerated}} and {{Parodied}} with monsieur "[[LouisCypher Le Malin]]" (a nickname associated with the Devil in French) who is the owner of [[EvilInc Associated Devils And Destructive For The Humanity Incorporated]]. He's a complete {{Jerkass}} [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain who makes catcalls to female employees]], fires 500 employees a week ForTheEvulz, hires Asiatic children to work without pay in a sweatshop and [[BadBoss occasionally makes them trip just for fun]]. His company manufactures completely useless, radioactive, cancer-inducing garbage that can explode in your face and clone your credit card. He even goes out of his way to grab recycling bins, put them in his car and throws the content to the trash. The sketch he's featured in revolves around him trying to buy PR for his company.
125	--> '''Advertising Company Director:''' So you ignore the governmental norms?
126	--> '''Mister Le Malin:''' The only "norm" I know is the e'''norm'''ous black toxic cloud around my factory.
127	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Mr. Shidelabedellester in the hospital soap opera has been diagnosed with a Type 1 Malignant Melanoma in the throat...
128	--> '''Mr. Shidelabedellester:''' What does that mean?
129	--> '''Dr. Malcolm:''' Well you see, it's like this tiny mouse...
130	--> '''Mr. Shidelabedellester:''' Forget these ridiculous metaphors, I'm an adult, tell it to me straight!
131	--> '''Dr. Malcolm:''' [[BrutalHonesty You'll die horribly in your vomit within the next 48 hours]].
132	--> '''Mr. Shidelabedellester:''' (''Holding back tears'') Well... and what happened to the little mouse?
133	* DeadAir: Louis-Paul Fafard-Allard, the animator of the community radio station CDKC [[note]]The letters CDKC, when pronounced in Québec French, sounds like "CD cassés" (broken [=CD=]s) or "C'est des cassés" (They're flat out broke)[[/note]] is ''really'' bad at his job.
134	* DeathCourse: Exaggerated for comedy in the "film d'action" segment, where the hero is asked to stop a madman from blowing up the planet. In order to reach said villain, he has to first swim naked in a dangerously swirly torrent filled with sharks, then go hanged to a helicopter by one hair with only a small stick as his weapon to wander in a radioactive field filled with T-Rex and terrorists armed with machine guns until he reaches a fortified strongbox requiring a ridiculously complicated code and disarms an atomic bomb about to blow up in 10 seconds, which he can only stop by cutting one of the [[WireDilemma 450 multi-colored wires]].
135	* DistinctionWithoutADifference: In a Columbo Du Peuple segment, a BadBoss is about to murder an employee. This exchange occurs.
136	--> "I'm starting to find you bothersome, Davidson."
137	--> "Because [[HeKnowsTooMuch I know too much]]?"
138	--> "No, because you don't ignore enough."
139	* {{Dracula}}: One 2012 sketch had him call the Election Directors to get on Québec's electoral list.
140	* DreadfulMusician: A common source of humor, especially in the "community radio" sketches. Pérusse is a big fan of music and has [[WriteWhatYouKnow background as a musician]] and WordOfGod is that a lot of it is inspired by his younger days when he was much less competent.
141	** A recurring character is the unnamed bar/lounge singer who plays in crummy loser establishments.
142	* DrillSergeantNasty: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hartley Bob Hartley]] (yes, a real life person) is the coach variant. Not content with coaching hockey teams, he coaches all kinds of people, like (now retired) UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} mayor Gérald Tremblay, the ''Parti libéral du Québec'', the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics Liberal Party of Canada]], and he even takes odd jobs that let him scream at people, like [[BurgerFool drive-thru clerk]], [[RidiculouslyLongPhoneHold phone hold voice actor]] or GPS voice actor.
143	* DrivenToSuicide: Always PlayedForLaughs, including over the silliest things like ''losing a TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} game''.
144	* {{Eagleland}}: Virtually always a type 2 whenever they show up, especially during the Bush and Trump administrations. Though to be fair Pérusse loves throwing [[TakeThat Take Thats]] at pretty much everyone.
145	--> '''Quebec Inventor''': That's typical of you Americans, when you'll run out of oil you'll take our oil. When you run out of timber you'll take our timber. When you run out of water you'll take our water.
146	--> '''USA Secretary of the Environment''': That's right!
147	--> '''Quebec Inventor''': You're really remorseless!
148	--> '''USA Secretary of the Environment''': No worries, we'll just go take your remorses.
149	* EasyEvangelism: {{Exaggerated}} in one of the European police sketches where the criminal is a {{cult}} leader who calls the police department and manages to convert the cops in a few words.
150	* ElSpanisho: A cooking show host mentions going to a Latin American country and a handsome customs agent asked her if she had no metal objects and she wanted to say "exactly" in Spanish and said "[[NotHelpingYourCase Exacto]]".
151	* ElvisLives: Used a few times.
152	** In one sketch he's a part of a concert (broadcasting live from his hiding spot to do back vocals) at the Centre Bell in Montréal, where a little-known singer is performing on-stage as the main act, accompanied by the Music/SpiceGirls in the nude, Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/MichaelJackson who [[BackFromTheDead resurrects]] on stage.
153	** In another Régis Labeaume (mayor of Québec City) manages to somehow guess his hiding spot, and talks him into performing in Québec City with Paul [=McCartney=].
154	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: A lot of the musicians that are featured on the "radio communautaire" sketches play absurd instruments. One of them plays a [[TrashCanBand drying machine]] (he literally just bangs on his machine, it's as bad as it sounds), another just hums songs through his nose on some street corner.
155	* EveryManHasHisPrice: An advertising agent initially refuses to do an advertising campaign for a [[WarForFunAndProfit weapons company]] out of [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules principles]], but quickly changes his tune when the company executive offers him a 3 million dollars bribe.
156	* EverythingTalks: Well not ''everything'', but a lot of things talk.
157	** In one sketch a vacationing couple is worried they left a burner on the stove on as one of them checks their phone messages. The stove left them a message letting them know they left two burners on.
158	** The "Apicerie" [[labelnote:Explanation]] A corruption of the French word "épicerie", a grocery store[[/labelnote]] is a show about grocery shopping and frequently [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext interviews food]] like asparagi, [[LetsMeetTheMeat hot-dog sausages]] and a palm tree (for its "heart of palm").
159	** "Rénovons avec Gaetan", a renovation show, often showcase talking tools as a RunningGag, like a beam detector or a talking saw (which screams "yumyumyum cherry wood that's so good yumyum" when they make it cut cherry wood and also warns "careful about your [[{{Fingore}} fingers]]!" whenever your fingers get too close for safety).
160	* EvilDebtCollector: There is this false advertisement for a debt consolidation society where an actor describes their service as "instead of several companies calling you about your debts it's just one company that calls more often and starts their sentences with "listen well asshole"".
161	* EvilLaugh: Parodied in one of the "Série Policière" sketch, where the police chief gets a call from a terrorist who keeps punctuating each of his lines by a sardonic laugh. [[SubvertedTrope Turns out he is just standing next to a friend who keeps telling him jokes while he's on the phone, prompting him to laugh]].
162	* ExactlyWhatIMeantToSay: When his boat is leaving, Cartier orders to "crap off", prompting one of the crewmembers to try to correct him by saying it's "cast off". Turns out he really ''did'' mean that- he was ordering the toilets' evacuation.
163	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7OQ3d6GV0I Chanson fausse]]" ("Out of Tune Song") consists in a song performed out of tune with tone deaf singing and random silly lyrics.
164	* ExactWords: In the "film d'action" segment, the villain shows a map to the protagonists, then gloats that in three seconds, Australia won't be on it anymore. Three seconds later, he rips the part of the map showing Australia.
165	-->"[[FauxHorrific A fresh new map... you monster!]]"
166	** There's this guy who's convinced that his wife is cheating on him. "There's somebody behind this" he says out loud before going to pick up the phonebook for a Private Detective's phone number. It turns out there's really someone hiding behind the phonebook who says hi in a ridiculous high-pitched voice.
167	* ExiledToTheCouch: One TV reporter discusses gender relations with his (female) co-host and says something along the line of "I don't want to generalize but you girls are all fucking insane" on live TV. Immediately his phone rings and the reporter's girlfriend is implied to do this.
168	--> '''TV guy:''' "If I like the living room's couch? Why yes, why, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint do you want to buy another]]?"
169	* EyeScream: A documentary about the village of "Apaquifuts" in "Padladejistan" (a weird mix of {{Qurac}} and {{Ruritania}}) has a woman pull out a chicken's eye to make a "chicken eye soup" (It's a pun that's too complicated to translate).
170	** There is an advertisement for an optometry firm called the "Compass in the Eye" ("Compass" as in the circle drawing tool, not the thing that tells you were the north is).
171	* FallenOnHardTimesJob: A recurring theme in some of the more recent sketches is the Has-Been artist reduced to doing lame commercials because his albums don't sell anymore.
172	* FalseReassurance: In the second "Slangster House" segment, the couple meet with a blind old man and ask him if the story about someone hanging herself in the house is true. The old blind man assures them these are "Grandma's stories"... which he means [[NotHyperbole literally]]; his grandmother was the one who hanged herself.
173	* FateWorseThanDeath: An in-universe joke involves two torture rooms in {{Hell}}, one has you BuriedAlive in [[{{Squick}} raw sewage]] for an hour, after which they take you out, set fire to your [[GroinAttack ballsack]] and you have to extinguish it with a crowbar, after which you're plunged in the sewage again, rinse and repeat. The other room has you be forced to listen to a DreadfulMusician from a lousy cocktail lounge who plays (poorly) a cheap electronic organ. Everyone who goes to Hell chooses the former room.
174	* FictionalPoliticalParty: A journalist thinking of entering politics hesitates between three parties, the far-right GTTDQ, the far-left CDQQ and the extreme center LQ. (Phonetically, in Quebec French, GTTDQ sounds like "''J'ai tété des culs''" (I suckled asses), CDQQ sounds like "''C'est des cucus''" (They're naive idiots) and LQ sounds like "''el cul''", a corruption of "''le cul''", meaning "the ass".
175	* {{Fingore}}: Tata Boutlamine, the Nigerian-Dakar pianist, has lost all fingers except one in a coffee grinder accident.
176	* ForInconveniencePressOne: Used twice with insurance company phone directories. One of them has normal "for X, press Y" options and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick ends]] with "for a reclamation, get lost" [[labelnote:Context in original French]] For these kind of phone directories, "press one" would be explained as "''faites-le un''", literally "do the one". "Get Lost" in the original context was "''Faites de l'air''" (literally "do some air") which has the same connotation. Notice the use of the verb "faites" (the verb "to do", conjugated in the imperative second person plural) in both cases.[[/labelnote]] as its final option. The other one has absurd options like "for an imbroglio, press 1, for a huge fuckup, press 2, for a goddamn mess, press 3".
177	* TheGamblingAddict: Around 2007 Pérusse made a lot of fake public service announcements parodying real ones by the government of Québec that address gambling problems.
178	* GeorgeWashingtonSleptHere: {{Inverted}} and {{Parodied}} in a European Halloween sketch where photos of celebrities are hung on the wall of the InnOfNoReturn. The owner says they're part of the history of the inn, in the sense that they never slept there.
179	* GossipEvolution: The European sketch "Téléphone Arabe" starts with a news report about a man being found dead at the [[UsefulNotes/LeMetropolitain Châtelet Metro Station]] under a billboard promoting rustic cheeses gradually evolves through phone calls into increasingly absurd stories, culminating in "A man who felt love and received in the nose three ablations bitched on his piano with fantastic scandals and noises" before looping back to the original mundane story.
180	* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: Whenever a government ministry is mentioned, it's usually a mix of normal ministerial stuff like "environment" or "tourism" mixed with something absurd like "motel that went bankrupt 5 years ago". Sometimes it's just the absurd stuff. For instance, a fake PublicServiceAnnouncement against texting and driving is a message of the Ministry of Poof Right in the Phone Pole.
181	** A meeting of the Liberal Party of Québec involves various ministers getting in trouble like the Minister of Natural Resources, Boring Rocks and Dandelion Fluff or the Minister of Agriculture, Education, Compulsive Gambling and Warts Stuff.
182	* GotVolunteered: One American federal government official is ordered by his superior to go negotiate with a {{Qurac}} dictator, and he ''really'' doesn't want to.
183	--> '''Negotiator''': Don't send me to negotiate, [[HenpeckedHusband I can't even negotiate with my wife]]!
184	--> '''Boss''': I'm not asking you that much, I'm just asking you to negotiate with an anti-American head of state who sponsors terrorism.
185	* GreasySpoon: Described in graphic detail in the song ''Snack Bar Chez Raymond'', a tiny snack bar built out of half of a schoolbus, "Situe entre deux villages creux, drette su'l bord d'la 132." ("located between two nowhere towns, smack on the side of the 132")
186	* GroinAttack: There is this memorable skit in the 7th album where a guy wearing a [[SharpDressedMan fancy tuxedo]] accidentally zips himself in the scrotum and his buddy has to help him out [[ItMakesSenseInContext by moving his dick out of the way with his mouth]]. [[spoiler: It turns out to be an elaborate plot to save himself some money by getting his dick sucked for free by a friend instead of for 200$ by a prostitute]].
187	** In an European police sketch, the CowboyCop [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogates]] an accomplice by squeezing his balls, and the accomplice then talks in a very high-pitched tone.
188	** One InUniverse joke told by the DreadfulMusician who works in bars involve a torture in {{Hell}} where demons set fire to your ballsack and you need to extinguish it with a crowbar. Said torture is the merciful alternative to the other torture offered in Hell - being in a room with a bar musician who plays a mini-organ.
189	* HauntedHouse: The "Slangster House" segments focus on a couple moving to an old country house that happens to be haunted. However, said haunting mostly come in the form of ghosts and undead showing up at their home to make terrible puns and otherwise be annoying.
190	* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: One French sketch has someone being interviewed about their AlienAbduction in English with the announcer translating. At one point the abductee says "they made me listen to Francis Lalanne's records", which the translator claims is "they made me listen to horrible things".
191	* HisNameIs: PlayedForLaughs in an European "Police Series" sketch where the inspectors interview a dying man who's struggling to speak, and one of the inspector laments that the man they're interrogating will pull of a "grelagah". Cue the dying man who grunts and gasps and sounds exactly like "grrrlghh... gah".
192	* HollywoodAcid: The "Don't Spill The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MluycVsy1jc Bubberblutters]]!" is a [[MyLittlePanzer toy]] that behaves like this.
193	* HornyVikings: A furniture shop received a complaint from a customer that he bought a king-sized bed [[note]]In French it's called a "lit king"[[/note]] but he keeps hitting his [[GroinAttack balls]] on the horned helmet. It turns out the shop accidently sold him a Viking and not a "lit king".
194	* HurricaneOfPuns : It. Never. Stops. There is ''literally'' a pun every five seconds. ''At minimum''.
195	* HypocriticalHumor: When his second-in-command suggests they warn the king of their progresses using a telegraph, Cartier calls him out on the Anachronism. Cue him making one as well later, something his second-in-command points out.
196	* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Parodied in the "Slangster Resort" [[note]] Not to be confused with Slangster House segments, which are European[[/note]] series where a couple is vacationing in a town called "Saint-bloodthirsty gooey thing with three rows of [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily teeth]]" and they need to find a street called "Half-eaten corpse with the Devil's cock in its mouth".
197	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: One tip given for saving money at Halloween involves using the same decorations for both Halloween and Christmas and suggests something like a Santa Claus impaled on a candy cane.
198	* IndianBurialGround: The "[[HellHotel Motel Les Quételles]]" in the Halloween specials is built on one.
199	* IncomingHam: Bob Hartley announces his arrival with his catchphrase of "OUIN", a French-Canadian corruption of "oui" (yes), a bit like "yeah". People about to be verbally torn-apart by him react [[ThisIsGonnaSuck appropriately]].
200	--> [[OhCrap Oh no, not Bob Hartley!]]
201	* INeedToGoIronMyDog: In a sketch, a man win lots of money at the lottery and gets calls from various people want some of it. At some point, he ends the conversation by saying he has "something on the oven who's ringing at the door".
202	* InitiationCeremony: In the submarine mission sketch, everyone on the crew has a nickname that characterizes them and latter gets initiated. The NewMeat wears glasses and is nicknamed "Barniques" (roughly translates as "four eyes") and the other crewmember who nicknamed him asks "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Chien Sale]]" (literally "dirty dog", but has connotations of "vicious asshole") to go fetch "[[OhCrap Gros Bras]]" (literally "big arms") and "[[GagPenis La Verge]]" (an alternate French word for "penis") so they can initiate the new guy.
203	* InnOfNoReturn: The Slangster Resort. Also the "Villa mais vivra pas longtemps" ("Villa" is phonetically similar to "live there", the pun translates to "Live there but won't live long"). The Halloween specials tend to feature these a lot.
204	* IntimidatingRevenueService: An employee of Revenu Québec (the Québec IRS) calls SantaClaus to harass him because he hasn't produced any income reports and he threatens Santa with an audit. [[spoiler: It's {{Subverted}} when it turns out that it's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer prank-calling Santa]] [[spoiler: but then it's DoubleSubverted when it turns out that Rudolph got audited and he called Santa to warn him that he was getting audited too]].
205	* IsThisThingStillOn: In one of the "Columbo du peuple" segments, the husband, after going through the trouble of murdering his wife, calls for the police. After feigning distress, the police asks him to wait, and he starts singing along with the transition music, happy to finally be rid of his wife. At the end of the segment, Columbo reveals the phone was ''still'' recording at that point and so he heard everything.
206	** One sketch involving a news team covering an union strike has the lead reporter drop this gem, unaware he's already on air.
207	-->'''Reporter:''' "Hey Rodger do I have the time to go drop one? It's gonna come out of my mouth."
208	* ItWontTurnOff: When Bob Hartley's voice was randomly selected to be the guiding voice for a car GPS, the driver was less than amused at being yelled at and insulted by the GPS and asked his girlfriend to change or turn off the voice, and she said she couldn't despite her efforts.
209	* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique:
210	** Cricket the special agent in the action movie uses punches to get answers, ranging from interrogating suspects to getting his best buddy to tell him what he's going to get for his birthday.
211	** Cops in the PoliceProcedural parodies frequently indulge in this.
212	* JailBake: The back art of the 5th album's features Pérusse in prison asking his elderly mom for a cake with a ''lime'' in it (in French, a lime can mean both the fruit, or a nail filer). His mom puts a lime in the cake, to Pérusse's despair.
213	* {{Jerkass}}: The "guy who shops" is a textbook case of this, though sometimes he has a [[JerkassHasAPoint point]] because he's SurroundedByIdiots. Bob Hartley is another big case.
214	* KitschyLocalCommercial: Advertising is one of Pérusse's [[AuthorAppeal passions]] and he gets lots of mileage out of this trope for comedy. They're usually featured on the "community radio" segments, but not always.
215	* LargeHam: Bob Hartley, the coach of the Calgary Flames, lives and breathe this trope whenever he shows up.
216	* LongRunner: Started in 1990, and François Pérusse is still producing new daily content in 2021.
217	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Anne-Marie in the "Gambling Problem" fake [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PSAs]] uses any reason as an excuse to go to the casino. "Ah the weather sucks I'll go to the casino, ah there's nothing good on TV I'll go to the casino, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick ah I hit my head and I'm losing all my blood I'll go to the casino]]."
218	* MallSanta: Ends up with a little girl on his lap who has a ''massive'' SpeechImpediment. He nicknames her "Klépétar" ends up crying after realizing there's no hope of understanding what the little girl says.
219	* {{Manchild}}: Jean Charest, Premier of Quebec from 2003 to 2012, is often portrayed as this (in addition to TheDitz and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}). A particularly impressive case is when "he" does a PSA for his party that ends with him asking ''his wife to come wipe his ass'' like a toddler who just took a dump.
220	* MistakenForRacist: In one of the sketches parodying ''L'amour est dans le pré'' [[note]] A romantic reality TV show where city women visit young bachelor farmers hoping to fall in love with them[[/note]] a woman of Asian origins complain that the farmer always talk about her "yellow butt" ("''Derrière jaune''" in French). The farmer explains that he's not talking about her yellow butt but about his "John Deer" tractor ("John Deer" and "''derrière jaune''" are relatively close phonetically in Quebec French).
221	* MotorMouth: The characters in the skits often talk very fast, sometimes even to the point of deliberately sounding like gibberish. There's also the song ''Vive l'Amour'', whose lyrics comprises of almost nothing but French insults pronounced so quickly after one another, it could give Music/{{Eminem}} a run for his money!
222	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The CEO of Zero Music (the real life label that publishes the ''Albums du Peuple'') makes an appearance in a meta sketch to promote the upcoming Pirate Album (released between the fifth and sixth tomes). He mentions that François Pérusse is one of the most pirated artist in the French-speaking world, with his sketches being downloaded in Quebec, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Cameroon and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otterburn_Park Otterburn Park]] [[note]] A town of around 8000 people in Quebec[[/note]].
223	* MyLittlePanzer: The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MluycVsy1jc BubbleBlutters]]" toy is concentrated HollywoodAcid that you put in a glass of water at which points it bubbles up and dissolves the floor.
224	* NiceGuy: Jean-Charles is a recurring character who takes this trope to ridiculous levels, though in his [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness first appearance]] he was only nice to his coworkers and when he came home he had no problem telling his girlfriend to shut the fuck up, which was never brought up again.
225	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: A lot of the murderers in "Columbo du Peuple" end up caught because they do an absolutely terrible job at covering their tracks.
226	* NeverLendToAFriend: One sketch has a couple realizing they need money for groceries so the man calls one of his friend to recover a 20$ (100 Francs in the European version) debt from a friend, with the friend in question doing anything to change the subject away from the debt and the man trying his best to get his money back.
227	* NoBudget: In-universe, [=CDKC=] community radio is this.
228	* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: In the French version of the "Nos Amis Les Animaux" skit:
229	-->'''Dr. Touchette:''' He can repeat everything I say. I just taught him a new phrase: Coco, "Welcome, Television!"... Coco, "Welcome, Television!"... [[BrokenRecord Coco, "Welcome, Television!"...]] Coco, "Welc-
230	-->'''Coco:''' ''SQUAWK! Hey, here comes that bitch from TV!!''
231	* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: The song "Saint-Néant" ("Néant" means void in French) takes this trope and runs away with it.
232	* OddlySmallOrganization: The UsefulNotes/UnitedNations is an [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] version of this in one skit, consisting of a grand total of '''1''' person, Ban Ki-moon, who just hangs out in the otherwise deserted New York building.
233	* OnePhoneCall: Parodied in one skit where a guy calls a lawyer from a police station. The police didn't just gave him one phone call, they gave him one random phone book opening, and he miraculously landed on the attorney's number, who comments that he was lucky or else the guy would have to get defended by Mister Muffler.
234	* PaperThinDisguise: In one of the "Columbo du Peuple" segments, the murderer somehow manages to disguise his wife's corpse as a phone. It actually seems to work, but backfires when [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext Columbo finds the actual phone in his trash can and presumes it to be his wife, leaving the murderer unable to deny it without admitting the actual corpse isn't the real phone]].
235	* PayEvilUntoEvil: Played for Laugh; In "Columbo du Peuple", most murders will open with the future victim abusing their would-be assassins to ludicrous extreme, making it blatantly obvious who will get killed and why. Most memorably, one story opens with a woman insulting her husband before informing him she is going out with another richer man, that she cheated on him with all his friends and enemies as well as his boss, the butcher and pretty much everyone else, she thinks [[TeenyWeenie he has a small penis]], she damaged his car, she doesn't want to do it tonight because she got a headache, and she regrets taking this Life Assurance that'll grant him 15 million dollars when she'll die. Cue the narrator daring us to guess who will die in this story.
236	* ThePigPen: Implied. [[UsefulNotes/LEtatCEstMoi King Louis XIV]] is BackFromTheDead and wants to talk to a bureaucrat in order to return to power in France. The bureaucrat is not sure if he's the real king until he sniffs and confirms it's the real deal.
237	* PublicDomainCharacter: {{God}}, UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, {{Satan}}, {{Dracula}}, SantaClaus, Franchise/{{Zorro}}...
238	* PublicServiceAnnouncement: Pérusse is a big fan of advertising and he often dabbles in fake [=PSAs=].
239	--> '''Anti-Gambling PSA''': The following message has been retained and payed, then released, then retained again against the wall with a couple of punches by your [[TheGovernment government]] to remind you that a gambling problem [[CaptainObvious can be a problem]]. Visit the www.governmentthatencouragesyoutogamblethenpretendstocarewhenyourealoser.com
240	* PunnyName: One homeless character is named Ernest Déhef (SDF is the French acronym for the homeless).
241	** A radio interviewer called Gilles Micro (J'ai le micro, "I'm holding the microphone")
242	* RagsToRiches: {{Exaggerated}} and PlayedForLaughs in one sketch where a guy wants to buy the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Montréal's Canadian]]. He became rich by running a store that sells sewing machine spare parts in some ass end of nowhere town in Québec, but he also had a sideline making educational websites ("educational" here referring to learning how to [[TheInternetIsForPorn better suck dick]]).
243	* RepeatToConfirm: One skit about surgeries uses this as the source of several gags, such as suddenly turning into a {{Barbershop Quartet\|sAreFunny}} or the assistant breaking his repetition routine to finish a CurseCutShort.
244	* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: One sketch features an airport control tower operator who is perfectly fluent in Japanese ([[RuleOfFunny or at least the faux Japanese Pérusse came up with]]) but can only awkwardly mumble "Hum... hello... yes yes my tailor is rich" in English when an English-speaking pilot shows up.
245	--> '''Colleague:''' Fuck, you can speak Japanese?
246	--> '''Control Tower Operator:''' Well obviously, do you think I'm an idiot?
247	--> (''Later'')
248	--> '''Colleague:''' And you can't even speak English?
249	--> '''Control Tower Operator:''' Do you want me to tap dance while I'm at it?
250	* {{Scatting}}: A lot, especially in his songs.
251	* ScavengerWorld: {{Downplayed}} with one pilot at some point flying a Tupolev lamenting that they don't make replacement parts for it anymore.
252	--> '''Pilot:''' Problem with my craft, I think I'll crash down.
253	--> '''Control Tower Operator:''' What's your plane?
254	--> '''Pilot:''' Tupolev [...] Do you have spare parts for Tupolevs?"
255	--> '''Control Tower Operator:''' No actually I've never seen any.
256	--> '''Pilot:''' [[GallowsHumor Well look outside your window you'll see a big pile]].
257	* SelfDeprecation:
258	** One sketch features a "has-been" singer who makes lame and repetitive songs, we get to hear them and they're basically remixed versions of ''Assis-sur mon tracteur'', a song Pérusse made for the 6th ''Album du Peuple''.
259	** Characters will sometimes [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] to comment on the [[WhoWritesThisCrap quality]] of their puns and jokes.
260	** Pérusse loves to crack jokes at his own expense, both in his capsules and in real life. In one sketch for instance the characters ask if the one voicing them is "that huge moron" (all of Pérusse's characters are voiced by him).
261	* SelfPlagiarism: Pérusse regularly reuses jokes or plots in Europe and his native Québec. Sometimes a joke that was used years ago will resurface. Pérusse himself mentioned that after a [[LongRunners few decades]] of producing content eventually you run out of original puns.
262	* SelfSurgery: An ad for a tabloid magazine is set up as something mundane and then goes something like this: "Wilfred empties his heart [[note]] "Emptying your heart" is a French expression meaning roughly "getting it off your chest".[[/note]], [[BaitAndSwitch pierces his liver]] and [[BodyHorror cuts his pancreas in small cubes]]. Everything about his self-surgery."
263	* ShotInTheAss:
264	** One guy suffers from a 12 gauge shotgun shot to the ass and walks into an automated clinic and attempts to type his symptoms on the keyboard interface of an AutoDoc. Naturally he keeps mistyping. It's [[BlackComedy funnier]] than it sounds.
265	** More like "Bitten" in the ass. Literature/{{Dracula}} calls the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec's election in order to vote. He eventually reveals that he doesn't bite people in the neck but in the ass, and the whole thing is a misunderstanding due to the Romanian accent of witnesses that Creator/BramStoker interviewed (The French word for "neck" ("cou") is phonetically close to the French word for "ass" ("cul")).
266	* ShowWithinAShow: Many skits are framed as being from a TV show, like the ''Apicerie'' sketches, or radio sketches, like ''Radio Communautaire''.
267	* SillyLoveSongs: All of his love songs, ''Asis-sur mon tracteur'' [[labelnote:English]]Sitting on my tractor[[/labelnote]], ''De Rien'' [[labelnote:English]]It's nothing, as in the thing you'd reply when someone says "thank you"[[/labelnote]], ''Tu Fababounes'' [[labelnote:English]] A corruption of "tu fais la baboune", "you're making a grumpy face" [[/labelnote]].
268	* SignsOfDisrepair: The titular [[GreasySpoon snack bar]] in the ''Snack-Bar chez Raymond'' song has a neon sign that say "Restaurant" but it has missing letters so it now says "'''Rest'''aur'''ant'''" (meaning "leftover" in French, as in "tonight we're eating leftovers").
269	--> ''Le soir l'annonce à s'allume mais il manque des lettres dedans, faque au lieu de restaurant c'est marqué restant.''
270	--> (In the evening the sign lights up but it's missing letters, so instead of restaurant it's written [leftovers])
271	* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Some skits have French and French Canadian versions. "Vive l'amour" ("Celebrate Love", 3 minutes of as many insults as the singer can cram in) is remarkable in that it illustrates the profound differences in themes in both countries: the French ones are scatological or sexual, the French Canadian ones sounds (to the French) like they came from a playground or a church inventory.
272	* SnakeOilSalesman: Doctor Shoobedawee sells extracts of weird animal body parts (like coccyx powder from an albinos porcupine) to cure ailments like "Do I really need to go to work today?" and gives you the energy of getting off your bed or making your way from the Walmart to your car in the parking lot.
273	* SpeakingSimlish: Whenever he needs to make a foreign language, real or not, he'll just make up some vaguely French-Canadian gibberish. It helps him sneak in more puns.
274	* SpeechImpediment: One little girl who sits on the lap of a MallSanta has a spectacular case of this, and she mangles her own name (WordOfGod is that she's called "Jocelyne Bédard") so badly that Santa nicknames her "Klépétar".
275	* StockYuck: The random lyrics of "Chanson fausse" start with the singer mentioning he bought a cake then removed the raisins.
276	* StylisticSuck: "Chanson fausse" (cf. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin).
277	** Occurs very frequently as a source of humor. Pérusse [[WordOfGod mentioned]] that it's much harder to deliberately play music badly in a convincing way, than to play properly.
278	* SubliminalSeduction: {{Parodied}} with the Guy Who Shops who calls his cellphone service provider to cancel his mobile phone package. The employee on the line puts him on hold, with the "phone hold" music just being "la-la-laaaas" sung by Pérusse with random "don't cancel your phone service or you're an asshole" messages thrown in with no subtlety.
279	* SubStory: One memorable sketch is set in a submarine, complete with constant background PING noises and some HotSubOnSubAction when they encounter a Russian submarine.
280	* SurroundedByIdiots: Jacques Cartier in his segment is surrounded by a less-than-competent crew on his boat, something he constantly complains about. Among others, said crew includes a pointless waiter who keeps misinterpreting whatever people say as commands, a vegetarian watchman who gets excited over nothing and a man who thinks himself a cow.
281	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial : In the "Russian Astronauts" segment, a Russian astronaut decides to listen to the Russian news.
282	--> '''Russian Newsreader''': Good evening, here’s the news: our country isn’t in a state of crisis. In addition, a Tupolev airplane of the National Company didn’t make an emergency landing in Moscow, this morning at 7:12, and the cause isn’t that the plane’s pieces are too old. A civil servant from the capital, who wasn’t drunk, didn’t kill his wife and kids last night, then didn’t turn the gun on himself.
283	--> '''Russian Astronaut''': It’s terrible, what isn’t happening lately.
284	* TakeThat: Tons:
285	** In one of the "Slangster House" segment, after hearing a voice telling him to "buy a chainsaw and cut his wife to pieces" while he was watching teleshopping, the protagonist calls the police and tells them about it, complaining he heard "a voice making him an awful and dishonest suggestion". The cop answers him he shouldn't be expecting anything else when he's watching teleshopping.
286	** In the Columbo segment, when trying to pass his neighbor as insane, one of the murderers tell Columbo she once saw "a dislocated puppet moving around making random threats". Columbo answers that it's true the President of the United States does show up a lot on TV lately.
287	** There are just ''so many'' of these in the series. Here's a short list: whatever current administration is UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} city. The UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} government, the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics Federal]] government, the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem American]] government, other world governments, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, [[UsefulNotes/TheMounties Canadian police]], [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Kim-Jong Un]], Québec's education system, ''the entirety of humanity''...
288	** One of the sketches involves a guy applying to join an insane asylum. As he discusses with the head of said Asyleum, and mentions he met someone who was saying "I am not crazy, I'm Patrick Bruel!". The head answers him half of what he said was true- he was indeed Patrick Bruel (bashing Patrick Bruel is a Pérusse running gag).
289	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The "Recettes à Pierrette" [[labelnote:English]]Pierrette's Recipes, a cooking show[[/labelnote]] have the titular Pierrette, an old but sarcastic lady and her assistant, a younger and very slutty woman, trade vicious insults just as much as they cook.
290	* TeleporterAccident: Captain Kirk suffers two of them in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' parodies. In one he gets a generous (and hilarious) helping of BodyHorror and gets inverted and can't speak because his boots muffle his mouth. In the second only his [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe upper half]] is teleported away while the legs stay behind, and they kick Scotty's ass as punishment for messing up the teleportation.
291	* TheDreaded: Bob Hartley is this, due to his [[DrillSergeantNasty Coach Nasty]] LargeHam speeches that chews out people who annoy him like vendors, [[EpicFail incompetent people]] or politicians.
292	* TheFunInFuneral: So many!
293	** One funeral had the dead man's best friend sings an upbeat silly song to cheer up everyone which only results in making people cry and the priest eventually steps in and asks him to go sit back in the pews.
294	** And there's another one where the family's artist recites a serious poem, and the audience asks for more but the only other material he has is a vulgar poem. HilarityEnsues.
295	* TheInternetIsForPorn: Jokes about porn websites are common.
296	* TheOmniscient: Mr. Yoko Who-Knows, the Man Who Knows Absolutely Everything, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin knows absolutely everything]] and frequently gives press conferences to journalists where he answers their questions, but everytime the journalists all ask odd questions on the same very specific subject which annoys Yoko Who-Knows to no end.
297	** Régis Labeaume (the current mayor of Québec City as of November 2020) is one, since he "knows everything" (it's supposed to be a TakeThat, calling him a KnowNothingKnowItAll). [[MundaneUtility He uses his omniscience]] to know that ElvisLives, and where he's hiding, so he can invite him to perform in a concert in Québec with [=Paul McCartney=].
298	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In a "Columbo du Peuple" sketch, a man uses various weapons at the same time to kill his wife :
299	--> '''Wife's last words''': What are you doing with that revolver, that knife, that rope, that poison bottle, that water-filled tub and that top of a cliff ?
300	* TheUnpronounceable: Many locations or characters, such as inspectors or doctors, have names that sound like complete gibberish.
301	* ThreateningShark: PlayedForLaughs, the cartoons often feature paintings of cartoon characters being EatenAlive by sharks.
302	* TooMuchInformation: Jean Charest (former Premier of Quebec and general [[TakeThat punching bag]] of Pérusse) once admitted out of nowhere on a television interview that he fantasizes about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Brocoli Annie Brocoli]] [[note]]A French-Canadian children singer[[/note]] and whenever he thinks about her the "[[{{Squick}} sour cream]]" isn't too far away.
303	* ToxicInc:
304	** "[[EvilInc Associated Devils And Destructive For The Humanity Incorporated]]" is a polluting company trying to buy advertising to get a [[SlaveToPR better public image]]. They take this trope to a ridiculous extreme. The company manufactures something that sounds like "Aydersgilf", which is radioactive, not biodegradable, cancer-inducing, completely useless and can eventually blow up in your face and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking clone your credit card]].
305	** A conference on climate change and the environment is [[HypocriticalHumor financed]] by a company called [=ToxoPro=], manufacturer of all kinds of toxic wastes. The conference speaker even has to say their slogan.
306	--> '''Conference Speaker:''' "[=ToxoPro=], [=ToxoPro=], there's fishes floating on their back and you see birds fall from the sky."
307	* TrrrillingRrrs: The George Brassens expy in "Chanson grivoise" does this, as the real Brassens sometimes did it in his own songs.
308	* TurbineBlender: A French sketch (as in, for France) where SantaClaus visits UsefulNotes/BillClinton aboard Air Force One ends with Santa getting shredded by the turbine on the way out.
309	** An earlier sketch in Quebec has this happen to Santa when he finds a house without a chimney and decides to go in through the heat pump instead.
310	* UnsatisfiableCustomer: The "guy who shops" is essentially just this, though sometimes it's because the employees are just morons.
311	** A restaurant waiter has to deal with two idiots who keep asking questions.
312	--> '''Waiter''': Are they gonna ask for my shorts next?!
313	--> '''Male Customer''': Waiter!
314	--> '''Waiter''': Yes?
315	--> '''Male Customer''': Bring us your shorts when you come back!
316	--> '''Waiter''': Right away sir!
317	** The European equivalent of it is even sillier :
318	--> '''Waiter''': Geez, do they want me to go crazy or what?!
319	--> '''Male Customer''': Waiter!
320	--> '''Waiter''': Yes?
321	--> '''Male Customer''': When you come back, can you go crazy, please ?
322	--> '''Waiter''': Of course sir!
323	* WackyCravings: Two cops in one of the police sketches are bored in a patrol car and discuss a gruesome story about a pregnant woman one heard on the radio that morning. They turn out the radio and it turns the gruesome story is a pregnant woman ate disgusting food combinations like chewing gum dipped in salad dressing or dill pickles and bananas.
324	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: The hosts of the ''Apicerie'' ShowWithinAShow secretely put a microphone on the collar of a lady serving free samples at a grocery store. Everytime a customer declines a free sample she mutters insults under her breath towards them.
325	* WireDilemma: The action movie segment ends with the James Bond {{expy}} Cricket having to disarm a nuke capable of causing an EarthShatteringKaboom with a 10 second timer on it. There's 450 little colored wires and he needs to cut the right one. [[spoiler: He accidentally cuts his shoelace at the last second]].
326	* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: The sketches parodying ''L'amour est dans le pré'' (a reality TV show where city women visits bachelor farmers with the hope of them falling in love) portray the farmers as dumb and unsophisticated hicks (not that the city women are much smarter).

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