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Inspired by ''{{Peanuts}}'', the series is in its vast majority composed of one-page gags about a little boy and his dog from the 60's European middle class.

For the other series by Roba, see ''LaRibambelle''.

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Inspired by ''{{Peanuts}}'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', the series is in its vast majority composed of one-page gags about a little boy and his dog from the 60's European middle class.

For the other series by Roba, see ''LaRibambelle''.
''ComicStrip/LaRibambelle''.



* GoodGriefAnotherPeanutsShoutOut: In one gag, Bill is upset about Boule laughing to tears on a ''{{Peanuts}}'' comic book. To attract his attention, he covers himself with flour and executes Snoopy's dance! ''{{Peanuts}}'' was referenced a second time when, while Boule's family was travelling in the USA, Charlie Brown and Snoopy made a brief {{Cameo}}.

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* GoodGriefAnotherPeanutsShoutOut: In one gag, Bill is upset about Boule laughing to tears on a ''{{Peanuts}}'' ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' comic book. To attract his attention, he covers himself with flour and executes Snoopy's dance! ''{{Peanuts}}'' ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' was referenced a second time when, while Boule's family was travelling in the USA, Charlie Brown and Snoopy made a brief {{Cameo}}.
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* AlliterativeTitle: ''Boule et Bill''.

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* GoodGriefAnotherPeanutsShoutOut: In one gag, Bill is upset about Boule laughing to tears on a ''{{Peanuts}}'' comic book. To attract his attention, he covers himself with flour and executes Snoopy's dance! ''{{Peanuts}}'' was referenced a second time when, while Boule's family was travelling in the USA, Charlie Brown and Snoopy made a brief {{Cameo}}.



* ShoutOut: In one gag, Bill is upset about Boule laughing to tears on a ''{{Peanuts}}'' comic book. To attract his attention, he covers himself with flour and executes Snoopy's dance! ''{{Peanuts}}'' was referenced a second time when, while Boule's family was travelling in the USA, Charlie Brown and Snoopy made a brief {{Cameo}}.

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* AnimatedAdaptation: two, the 2005 one being the only (a bit) famous.

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* AnimatedAdaptation: two, Two, the 2005 one being the only (a bit) famous.



** In one of the longer stories Snoopy and Charlie Brown, from ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} have a cameo.
* CanineCompanion: Bill.



* HouseWife: Boule's mom.



* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Charlie Brown and Snoopy have a cameo in the album "Globe-trotters". To make it lawyer friendly, a footnote is included on the page that says "Thank you, Charles M. Schultz".

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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown and Snoopy Snoopy]] have a cameo in the album "Globe-trotters". To make it lawyer friendly, a footnote is included on the page that says "Thank you, Charles M. Schultz".
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''Boule et Bill'' (''Billy and Buddy'' in the English translations) is a [[{{Franco-Belgian Comics}} Belgian comic series]] created by Jean Roba in 1959 and still running since.

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''Boule et Bill'' (''Billy and Buddy'' in the English translations) is a [[{{Franco-Belgian Comics}} [[FrancoBelgianComics Belgian comic series]] created by Jean Roba in 1959 and still running since.
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* BecomingPartOfTheImage: Dog Bill crashes head-first through a fence during a game of soccer. On the other side of the fence, there turns out to be a giant advertising poster with a dog on it, and Bill’s head has crashed through it in such a way that it replaced the head of the dog on the poster. People that walk by even comment on how original this poster looks because of it.
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* AllThere in theManual: According to a concept book, Boule's dad and mom are respectively named Pierre and Carine.

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* AllThere in theManual: AllThereInTheManual: According to a concept book, Boule's dad and mom are respectively named Pierre and Carine.
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* AllThereintheManual: According to a concept book, Boule's dad and mom are respectively named Pierre and Carine.

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* AllThereintheManual: AllThere in theManual: According to a concept book, Boule's dad and mom are respectively named Pierre and Carine.

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* AllThereintheManual: According to a concept book, Boule's dad and mom are respectively named Pierre and Carine.



* IntellectualAnimal: Bill doesn't speak but understands perfectly everything.
* InterspeciesRomance: has a passionate relationship with the other pet of the family, Caroline the turtle.

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* IntellectualAnimal: Bill doesn't speak but understands perfectly everything.
everything. Also Caroline, to a lesser extent.
* InterspeciesRomance: Bill has a passionate relationship with the other pet of the family, Caroline the turtle.



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* UnnamedParentUnnamedParent: Through according to a concept book, it's averted. Played straight however in the comic itself.
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* TheCameo: YokoTsuno, {{ComicBook/Natacha}}, Sophie, Isabelle, [[ComicBook/GastonLagaffe Mam'zelle Jeanne]], [[LaRibambelle Grenadine]] and [[FrancoBelgianComics several others female characters]] all make a cameo in a story. [[HeroesLoveDogs They all thought Bill was cute]], much to his chagrin.

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* TheCameo: YokoTsuno, ComicBook/YokoTsuno, {{ComicBook/Natacha}}, Sophie, Isabelle, [[ComicBook/GastonLagaffe Mam'zelle Jeanne]], [[LaRibambelle Grenadine]] and [[FrancoBelgianComics several others female characters]] all make a cameo in a story. [[HeroesLoveDogs They all thought Bill was cute]], much to his chagrin.
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: while all the other albums consist of 1-page gags, the album "Globe-trotters" is a continuous story.


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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Charlie Brown and Snoopy have a cameo in the album "Globe-trotters". To make it lawyer friendly, a footnote is included on the page that says "Thank you, Charles M. Schultz".

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* ArtShift: One gag had Boule telling Bill he needed to be more "serious". Bill then attempted to become more "serious" for a moment and he was drawn as a photo-realistic cocker dog for a panel.



* AuthorExistenceFailure: Roba passed the series to his assistant Laurent Verron before deceding in 2006.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Roba passed the series to his assistant Laurent Verron before deceding passing away in 2006.



* EekAMouse: Boule's mom was once totally creeped out by a mouse in her kitchen so she stood on a table and asked Bill to chase it. This was played totally straight. The joke of the story was that Bill then broke everything in the kitchen but Boule's mom was very grateful towards him.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Boule's mom.



* InterspeciesRomance: the other pet of the family, Caroline the turtle, does not hide loving Bill.

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* InterspeciesRomance: has a passionate relationship with the other pet of the family, Caroline the turtle, does not hide loving Bill.turtle.


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** In the live-action film, he instead wears a striped long-sleeved collared shirt.
* LiveActionAdaptation: In 2013 came a live-action film based on the comic. It starred Franck Dubosc as Boule's dad (cue the WTHCastingAgency accusations) and Marina Foïs as Boule's mom.


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* PottyEmergency:
**Bill has to make Boule stop watching a movie at the theatre because he needs to pee outside. The joke? The movie is set at the Niagara waterfalls (popular idea is that looking or hearing water dripping makes you want to pee).
** Bill, again, found a very beautiful lamppost that he could enjoy peeing under. However, a pack of tourists came by to photograph it and Bill is forced to hold it until they leave, but it's painful.
* RedheadedHero: Both Boule and Bill!


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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bill loves bones. A lot. And regular meat too. Caroline likes lettuce a lot.


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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Boule means "ball". It was always an inherently funny word in French, but nowadays, it has the same unfortunate connotations as "ball" has in English...
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* TheCameo: YokoTsuno, {{ComicBook/Natacha}}, Sophie, Isabelle, [[GastonLagaffe Mam'zelle Jeanne]], [[LaRibambelle Grenadine]] and [[FrancoBelgianComics several others female characters]] all make a cameo in a story. [[HeroesLoveDogs They all thought Bill was cute]], much to his chagrin.

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* TheCameo: YokoTsuno, {{ComicBook/Natacha}}, Sophie, Isabelle, [[GastonLagaffe [[ComicBook/GastonLagaffe Mam'zelle Jeanne]], [[LaRibambelle Grenadine]] and [[FrancoBelgianComics several others female characters]] all make a cameo in a story. [[HeroesLoveDogs They all thought Bill was cute]], much to his chagrin.
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* BritishRoyalGuards: Bill unsuccessfully tries to make them laugh... but they are actually dummies !
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* IntimidatingRevenueService: Boule's dad freaks out when he gets a call by tax assessors--who show up dressed in vampire regalia and introduce themselves as "Leviathan and Lucifer".

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* IntimidatingRevenueService: Boule's dad freaks out when he gets a call by tax assessors--who show up dressed in vampire regalia and introduce themselves as [[HartToHart "Leviathan and Lucifer".Lucifer"]].
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* AnimalTalk: Mostly played straight, but played with on one occasion, when Bill found himself unable to understand other dogs of foreign pedigree, each speaking in his own country's language.

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For the other series by Roba, see LaRibambelle.

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For the other series by Roba, see LaRibambelle.
''LaRibambelle''.


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* LimitedWardrobe: Boule always wears the same yellow shirt and jean overalls. Lampshaded when his father takes him shopping for a new outfit, and he ends up buying the exact same one.
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* TheCameo: YokoTsuno, {{ComicBook/Natacha}}, Sophie, Isabelle, [[GastonLagaffe Mam'zelle Jeanne]] and several others [[FrancoBelgianComics women]] all made a cameo in a story. [[HeroesLoveDogs They all thought Bill was cute]], much to his chagrin.

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* TheCameo: YokoTsuno, {{ComicBook/Natacha}}, Sophie, Isabelle, [[GastonLagaffe Mam'zelle Jeanne]] Jeanne]], [[LaRibambelle Grenadine]] and several others [[FrancoBelgianComics women]] several others female characters]] all made make a cameo in a story. [[HeroesLoveDogs They all thought Bill was cute]], much to his chagrin.
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* TheCameo: YokoTsuno, {{ComicBook/Natacha}}, Sophie, Isabelle, [[GastonLagaffe Mam'zelle Jeanne]] and several others [[FrancoBelgianComics women]] all made a cameo in a story. [[HeroesLoveDogs They all thought Bill was cute]], much to his chagrin.
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* IntimidatingRevenueService: Boule's dad freaks out when he gets a call by tax assessors--who show up dressed in vampire regalia and introduce themselves as "Leviathan and Lucifer".
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For the other series by Roba, see LaRibambelle.
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* AscendedExtra: One of the last gags by Roba featured a thief who befriended Bill. Said thief is a half-reoccuring (appears at least once a book) character of the Verron period.

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* AscendedExtra: One of the last gags by Roba featured a thief who befriended Bill. Said thief is a half-reoccuring (appears at least once a book) an album) character of the Verron period.
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* AscendedExtra: One of the last gags by Roba featured a thief who befriended Bill. Said thief is a half-reoccuring (appears at least once a book) character of the Verron period.
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* TheLongtarin: Agent 22, a recurring nemesis of the characters in the early albums.

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* TheLongtarin: MeddlesomePatrolman: Agent 22, a recurring nemesis of the characters in the early albums.
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* TheLongtarin: Agent 22, a recurring nemesis of the characters in the early albums.

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* {{Balloonacy}}: Bill once accidentally bit into a stick attached to balloons and flew away with it.



* ShoutOut: In one gag, Bill is upset about Boule laughing to tears on a ''{{Peanuts}}'' comic book. To attract his attention, he covers himself with flour and executes Snoopy's dance !

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* ShoutOut: In one gag, Bill is upset about Boule laughing to tears on a ''{{Peanuts}}'' comic book. To attract his attention, he covers himself with flour and executes Snoopy's dance !dance! ''{{Peanuts}}'' was referenced a second time when, while Boule's family was travelling in the USA, Charlie Brown and Snoopy made a brief {{Cameo}}.
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''Boule et Bill'' (''Billy and Buddy'' in the English translations) is a [[FrancoBelgianComics Belgian comic series]] created by Jean Roba in 1959 and still running since.

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''Boule et Bill'' (''Billy and Buddy'' in the English translations) is a [[FrancoBelgianComics [[{{Franco-Belgian Comics}} Belgian comic series]] created by Jean Roba in 1959 and still running since.



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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Roba passed the series to his assistant Laurent Verron before deceding in 2006.

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