Season 1
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Les 3 coups
When Thomas notices three irregular knocking noises, he can't get them out of his head.
Tropes related to "Les 3 coups":
- Downer Ending: Thomas doesn't find any cure against the three knocking sounds.
- Gratuitous Italian: Thomas promises to cook "Linguine alle vongole" for his wife Maria.
- Gratuitous Panning: The shrink asks Thomas if he can hear the knocking noises on his left ear or his right ear (while speaking through the left or right canal).
- Hell Is That Noise: The whole premise of the episode.
- Only Sane Man: Inverted. Thomas constantly hears three knocking sounds while the rest of his entourage doesn't notice anything.
- Psychological Horror
- Sanity Slippage: Thomas slowly starts to lose his mind after he notices the three knocking sounds and constantly complains about it.
- Shout-Out
- The three knocking noises are referred to as "ba-ba-bam", just like the name of the studio behind Noises. The jingle for Bababam studios is also those same three noises.
- Max is on his way to meet someone named Jean Gabin.
- Terrible Ticking: "Ba-ba-bam", the three knocking sounds which drive Thomas crazy.
Jeu, set et match
A couple is having an argument while assisting a tennis match at the Roland-Garros tournament.
Tropes related to Jeu, set et match:
- Crappy Holidays: Quentin complains about a weekend trip where he and Justine stayed in tents under constant raining.
- Like an Old Married Couple: The whole episode is one long argument between Justine and Quentin. Despite all the insults they throw at each other, they still love each other.
- No True Scotsman: Justine criticizes the fact that Quentin wears a Star Wars T-shirt but hasn't seen any of the films.
- Shout-Out: Quentin feels like he's in an episode of The Walking Dead.
- Suddenly Shouting: Justine suddenly screams during her final rant.
- Take That!: Quentin complains about
Chasse à l'homme
Julie and Mathieu are running away from men chasing them, though they have no idea why. This situation leads to them spending the night together.
Tropes related to Chasse à l'homme:
- Accidental Misnaming: Julie calls Mathieu "Philippe".
- Am I Just a Toy to You?: Mathieu wants to know more about Julie while she prefers to move on to something else.
- Bewildering Punishment: Mathieu and Julie have no idea why there were chased. Julie suggests that Mathieu was the only target.
- Blind Date: Mathieu and Julie have met through a dating app which puts two people in scripted situations. Mathieu has never met Julie prior to the date.
- Plot Twist: Julie actually uses a dating app which puts her and her future date in scripted situations. Based on Matthieu's reaction, it seems only Julie is in the know about the scripted part.
- Shout-Out: Julie likes to listen to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Music/Orelsan.
- We Will Spend Credits in the Future: Julie spends her money in "credits".
Interrogatoire
Paola is violently interogated by two women about a bomb she has planted. Thousands of lives are at risk.
Tropes related to Interrogatoire:
- Downer Ending: While Paola gives the location of the bomb, it explodes as planned. The production crew also thinks it ends on a sad note during The Tag.
- Fingore: Liz suggest cutting Paola's fingernails with a knife.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: Liz (good cop) and Jan (bad cop).
- Gratuitous Panning: The episode starts in the right canal until the interrogation begins.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Jan and Liz quickly resort to torture practices while interrogating Paola. They excuse it on the fact that they are not in a police station and thus can have "more creativity".
- One-Word Title
- Short-Runner: It is the shortest episode of Noises, lasting under six minutes.
- Shout-Out: The opening theme of The Magic Roundabout can be heard during the credits.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: During The Tag, a slowed-down version of The Magic Roundabout's theme song.
Silencio
Jack is a write who lives in a noise-infested world. Using an illegal sound-repelling drug named "Silencio", he is desperately looking for a solution against the silence-free system he lives in.
Tropes related to Silencio:
- Descent into Addiction: Jack is dependent on the "Silencio" drug.
- Downer Ending: [[spoiler: In order to feel
- Driven to Suicide: Jack shoots himself as way to feel "eternal silence".
- One-Word Title
- Society Is to Blame: Jack isn't fit to the silence-free system he lives in and delivers a long speech about it.
Jouets d'enfer
Léo is a troubled kid who is bothered by the Living Toys in his room. They want him to pull a trick on his younger brother Timothé.
Tropes related to "Jouets d'enfer'':
- Enfant Terrible: Inverted with Léo who is actually a 17-year old boy who can speak like a toddler.
- Living Toys: Léo's toys talk to him and put him against his younger brother.
- Ominous Music Box Tune
- Plot Twist: Léo isn't a toddler but a 17-year old boy.
- Psychological Horror
- Shout-Out: During The Tag, the production crew names their Top 5 toy-related films: The LEGO Movie, Child's Play (1988), Jingle All the Way, Small Soldiers and Toy Story.
- Vocal Dissonance: Léo is actually a teenager who can mimick the voice of a child. This happened after the birth of his younger brother.
Méli-Mélo
Bob has to take a shower and goes to her brother's place. Later on, Bob discovers various revelations about their love life.
Tropes related to Méli-Mélo:
- Greed: Bob asks for her sister to pay 10 euros for her to use the shower.
- Love Dodecahedron: Sums up Bob and Julie's love life.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Bob doesn't want Julie to date anyone.
- Shout-Out: Julie sings "Dja Dja" by Aya Nakamura.
- Weight Woe: Bob and Julie throw remarks at each other about their weight.
Libération
Gaul leader Vercingétorix is imprisoned and his fate is unsure. However, he wishes to die. A senator bargains the prisoner's fate with Julius Caesar but is later locked with Vercingétorix in his cell.
Tropes related to Libération:
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Vercingetorix wants to die in any way as soon as possible instead of staying in a cell.
- Face Death with Dignity: Vercingetorix prefers to die as a leader of the Gauls instead of remaining a prisoner of the Romans.
- Gratuitous Latin: The credits are spoken in latin by the production crew.
- One-Word Title
- Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: Vercingétorix believes that the Romans are expecting the senator to kill him when he realizes he is locked with him. He tries to manipulate the senator into killing him.
La Ballade de Jules
Jules is a man in a critical condition. While doctors are trying to save his life, he is, while in an unconscious state, commenting on what's happening around him and reminisces on his life.
Tropes related to La Ballade de Jules:
- Ballad of X
- French Accordion: Heard during Jules' purgatory sequences as he is dancing at a bal-musette (a popular french ball).
- Gratuitous Panning: The doctor's voice switches audio canals while he asks for Jules to look around.
- Purgatory and Limbo: Jules appears to be in an equivalent of the purgatory and is asked to wait. Later on, he is at a ball.
- Shout-Out: Jules tries to remember the song "La ballade de Jim" by Alain Souchon. The name of the episode is also a reference to this song.
Les Chachapoyas
Siblings Abigail and Elias are in Amazonia, looking out for the remnant of a civilization called the Chachapoyas.
Tropes related to Les Chachapoyas:
- Adventure
- Big "SHUT UP!": Gérald shouts them regularily after changing his character.
- Cassandra Truth: Abigail and Elias' father believed in the Chachapoyas.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Gérald pretends to be one.
- Gratuitous Panning: The audio stays on the right canal while the characters explore the temple.
- Jungle Opera
- Mayincatec
- Noble Savage: Contrary to what Gérald thinks, Abigail and Elias' father never described the Chachapoyas as savages.
- Shout-Out: Elias tries to solve a room of the Chachapoyas temple like if it was a puzzle from The Legend of Zelda.
- "Shut Up!" Gunshot: Gérald shoots a bullet after being mocked by Abigail and Elias.
- Special Guest: This episode stars Blandine Bellavoir (known for her performance on Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie).
- Take That!
- Elias feels like he's being hunt "like a feminist on the 18-25 forum" (referring to the forums of the French video game site jeuxvideo.com).
- Elias asks for Siri to tell him where the Chachapoyas are located, she replies that she knows about the location of Maria Callas' tomb or Antonio Banderas' vestiary.
- Temple of Doom
Season 2
Hold-Up
Mais imagine que...
Vies suspendues
Mort dans le rétro
Un dernier tour
Punch
Vengeance Derbyesque
Nuclear Ghost
Sonar
Roulette russe
Season 3
Le barrage de Malpasset
A child wants to watch television but has to recite to her father a poem she's learning.
Tropes related to Le barrage de Malpasset
- Dramatization: The story takes place during the break of the Malpasset dam which happened in 1959.
Les Bons Vivants
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