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Unless there's an early vers where he says something more than "C'est fini, Mèmè." (It's over, Grandma), that is what he says.


'''Champion:''' ''[now an old man]'' Yes, I think that's probably it. It's over, Grandma.

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'''Champion:''' ''[now an old man]'' Yes, I think that's probably it. It's man]''It's over, Grandma.
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* FantasyLandmarkEquivalent: A parody of the Statue of Liberty is depicted as an obese woman holding a hamburger on top of her tablet and an ice cream cone instead of a torch.
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* VisualPun: The maître d of the cafe has an incredibly flexible upper body, and is practically folded in half as the mobsters come in. He's a ''spineless'' man who ''bends over backwards'' to please the mob.

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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Madame Souza and her grandson Champion are Portuguese; as such, they are mostly wearing their flag's red and green.

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Madame Souza and her grandson Champion are Portuguese; as such, they are mostly wearing their flag's red and green.green.
** The titular triplets' names (not that they're [[AllThereInTheManual stated in the movie itself]]) are Rose, Blanche, and Violette, the colors of the French flag (with Violette as a substitute for blue). Rose and Violette wear red and purple, respectively, while Blanche, in a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], wears green instead.
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** Madame Souza is a tiny, club-footed old woman who is persistent enough to follow an ocean liner across the entire Atlantic in a ''foot-pedalled boat'', at night, during a huge storm at sea, to the accompaniment of Mozart's "Mass in C Minor -- Kyrie". She kicks over a car too.

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** Madame Souza is a tiny, club-footed old woman who is persistent enough to follow an ocean liner across the entire Atlantic in a ''foot-pedalled boat'', at night, during a huge storm at sea, to the accompaniment of the Kyrie from Mozart's "Mass Mass in C Minor -- Kyrie".minor. She kicks over a car too.

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* BlackComedy: The film thrives on surreal images and scenes that gleefully tap-dance across the [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror lines separating humor and horror]]. Exhibit A: The entirety of the 1930s-style TV broadcast opening.[[note]] It involves, among other things, Fred Astaire being eaten alive by his own shoes, the male audience members turning into monkeys to eat Josephine Baker's banana dress, and a three-story dancing baby. The rest of the film is more subdued, but not by ''that'' much.[[/note]]

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* BlackComedy: The film thrives on surreal images BigApplesauce: Played with. Belleville is a broad satire of America in which almost every single citizen is incredibly fat -- down to the statue in its harbour, its crosswalk icons, and scenes even its Academy Award statuettes -- but its heavy French influences and architectural flourishes also evoke Montreal and Paris as well as New York. Evgeni Tomov's direction from Chomet in designing the city was to create a place that gleefully tap-dance across the [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror lines separating humor and horror]]. Exhibit A: The entirety of the 1930s-style TV broadcast opening.[[note]] It involves, among other things, Fred Astaire being eaten alive by his own shoes, the male audience members turning into monkeys to eat Josephine Baker's banana dress, and a three-story dancing baby. The rest of the film is more subdued, ''feels'' as if it exists somewhere, but not by ''that'' much.[[/note]] doesn't correspond closely to any real-world location.



* BlackComedy: The film thrives on surreal images and scenes that gleefully tap-dance across the [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror lines separating humor and horror]]. Exhibit A: The entirety of the 1930s-style TV broadcast opening.[[note]] It involves, among other things, Fred Astaire being eaten alive by his own shoes, the male audience members turning into monkeys to eat Josephine Baker's banana dress, and a three-story dancing baby. The rest of the film is more subdued, but not by ''that'' much.[[/note]]



* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Just before we see that the Triplets go fishing with grenades, there's a shot of two frogs crawling into the marsh; [[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty one is three-legged, while the other is two-legged and missing an eye, suggesting that they survived the last time]].

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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Just before we see that the Triplets go fishing with grenades, there's a shot of two frogs crawling into the marsh; [[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty one is three-legged, while the other is two-legged and missing an eye, suggesting that they survived the last time]]. Many also appear shell-shocked and dazed from previous explosions.

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