YMMV / OSS 117

• Hilarious in Hindsight: In these films, Jean Dujardin is an agent of the French secret services in The '50s and The '60s, and a gag had him greet everyone at the office by their names that sounded very (almost caricaturally) French. In An Officer and a Spy, he's the head of a French secret service in the 1890s, and still comes across such kinds of names. Plus there's the added bonus of subtler comically serious undertones.
• Memetic Mutation: The Jean Dujardin comedy films have generated a good chunk of memes in the French Internet community, with the character having become a Fountain of Memes.
  • "J'aime me beurrer la biscotte." ("I love to butter my biscotti") ^note An idiom that usually means "I love doing nothing", but in some circles it means "I love to masturbate"
  • Humorous comparisons◊ of President Emmanuel Macron to this incarnation of OSS 117 are not rare.

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