History ComicBook / LePetitSpirou

[[folder: The animated series]]
* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: happens to Spirou in an episode of the animated series.

The comic was adapted into a 78 episode animated series. There is also a live-action movie adaptation planned for release in the fall of 2017.

* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: happens to Spirou in an episode of the animated series.

** Combined with FutureMeScaresMe and FreudianExcuse when one kid imagines himself as a GeneralRipper, dictator or even [[SelfDemonstrating/DarthVader Sith Lord]]... before Spirou gives him back his teddy bear, stolen by the local bully.

!!Tropes:

* AbhorrentAdmirer: The school librarian is head-over-heels in love with Mr. Mégot, but he's completely oblivious to it.

* CorruptChurch: The local priest is hardly an admirable example for the youth.

* TheInspectorIsComing: One strip has the school inspector quiz the students on incredibly obscure facts, but they answer with ease. The final panel reveals the inspector's son gave the kids the answers to the questions in exchange for a piece of the take (a large amount of candy paid by the teacher).
* TheTalk: One strip has the kids go around asking how babies are made. Unfortunately, they ask the teachers. Miss Chiffre gives a hopelessly romantic version involving her fiancé, the math teacher puts a pencil in a cup, and Mégot turns it into a sports metaphor.

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* TheArtifact: Spirou, his parents and grandfather all wear a hotel groom costume, even though there doesn't seem to be a hotel near them.

* ExpandedUniverse: ''Le Petit Spirou'' could also arguably be considered a prequel to ''Spirou'' — some gags acknowledging his heroic destiny — but except for that there are no references nor even cameos between the two comics.

** Whereas the woodshop teacher's class consists exclusively of enamored girls, to the boys' disgust... [[{{Hypocrite}} as they head for their Hot Teacher-taught class, sewing.]]

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every book is titled after a different StockPhrase of parents everywhere.

* MsFanservice: Damn near every woman in the series, from Spirou's mother to the teachers.

The comic was also adapted into a 78 episode animated series.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Cassius' (the black kid) uncle is the school cook, and once shows up in SavagePiercings, a banana-leaf-belt and a huge cast-iron pot, asking who wants more missionary stew.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The shop teacher, a hunky blond Adonis, is desperately in love with the hideous school librarian. Who rejects his advances, being herself in love with the utterly repulsive gym teacher who's unaware of her affections, and is, somehow, in an occasional relationship [[HotGuyUglyWife with an incredibly attractive woman]].

* HotGuyUglyWife: The shop teacher, a hunky blond Adonis, is desperately in love with the hideous school librarian. Who rejects his advances, being herself in love with the utterly repulsive gym teacher ([[AllLoveIsUnrequited who's unaware of her affections]], and is, somehow, in an occasional relationship with an incredibly attractive woman).

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Oh yeah!

* SinisterSchnoz:
** Monsieur Mégot, the sport teacher has a large nose due to his drinking.

* ChildhoodBrainDamage: Several strips have Spirou as a baby smashing his head into various objects, but showing no real trauma. In one case, he knocked skulls with a dog in an oncoming car. SPirou has a CranialEruption, the dog now thinks it's a chicken.

* AdultsDressedAsChildren: One strip has Spirou's grandfather dressed in Spirou's clothes acting like a kid with a bad report card while Spirou chews him out. Then it turns out it was to help Spirou rehearse for the same thing.

* DirtyKid: All the children are very interested in sex and nudity, for kids their age. Spirou in particular goes to a magazine store to buy adult magazines and is in love with his math teacher. Hell, even just looking at the front art gives you a brief indication that he's sexually attracted to older women.

* TheFaceless: We never see Spirou's father's face, it's always just out of frame. Though one strip indicates he has a gigantic mustache.

** Combined with FutureMeScaresMe and FreudianExcuse when one kid imagines himself as a GeneralRipper, dictator or even [[SelfDemonstrating/DarthVader Sith Lord]]... before Spirou gives him back his teddy bear, stolen by the bully.

* HotTeacher: Miss Claudia Chiffre, a buxom {{meganekko}} with a tendency to wear miniskirts.
** One strip shows that nearly every teacher in the school is one of these, with Spirou getting excellent grades in every subject taught by one of them (except gym class, obviously).

* SinisterSchnoz: Monsieur Mégot, the sport teacher has a large nose due to his drinking.

* ComicBookTime: An interesting variation: when the Spirou series started out, Le Petit Spirou was supposed to be about Spirou's youth, thus the nostalgic atmosphere (Spirou's grandfather having fought in WorldWarOne, for starters), but as the series went on, modern elements (one strip features cellphones that were decades ahead of what the early series could have dreamed of but laughably outdated by today's standards) kept finding their way in.

Another huge difference is that the series is not an adventure comic series. It's a [[GagSeries Gag Comic]] with one gag per page. But most of all, and this is the reason for the series' popularity, many jokes revolve around [[SexComedy Bawdy Comedy]] and sexual innuendos. Though never vulgar, it's still far more naughty and subversive than the original ''Spirou and Fantasio''. To give another example, the aforementioned Catholic priest is often depicted as being a hypocrite who doesn't really shy away from looking at sexy women on the sly (and is even implied to have an illegitimate son).

* FutureBadass: One strip has a sequence where Spirou imagines himself growing up to be an absolute monster so he can beat up a childhood bully.

** Combined with FutureMeScaresMe and FreudianExcuse when one kid imagines himself as a GeneralRipper, dictator or even [[DarthVader Sith Lord]]... before Spirou gives him back his teddy bear, stolen by the bully.

* AmazinglyEmbarassingParents: Cassius' (the black kid) uncle is the school cook, and once shows up in SavagePiercings, a banana-leaf-belt and a huge cast-iron pot, asking who wants more missionary stew.

* MrsFanservice: Damn near every woman in the series, from Spirou's mother to the teachers.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: One strip has Spirou going for a walk with his grandfather with a toy gun, asking him about the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne war]]. His grandfather starts telling him about his buddies in the trenches. By the end of the strip the gun is lying forgotten on the ground.
--> So did you win?\\
Those across lost the war. We lost -lists all the buddies he was talking about.-

* TheFaceless: We never see Spirou's father's face. It's always just out of frame.

* HotForTeacher: All the male students, especially Spirou, are in love with Miss Claudia.

** One strip has Spirou get excellent grades in every subject taught by one of these (except gym class).
* NostalgiaFilter: The film has a very enjoyable nostalgic feel to it, down to the local Catholic priest and Spirou's grandfather who actually is a veteran of the UsefulNotes/FirstWorldWar.

* SinisterSchnoz: Monsieur Mégot, the sport teacher has a large nose.

* TheFaceless: We never see Spirou's father's face. It always just out of frame.

** Masseur. In French "Masseur" sounds like "ma soeur", "My sister". This allows Suzette to trade photos of the naked Masseur for treats, as people understand "Je te donnerai une photo de masseur nue" ("I'll give you a nude photo of Masseur") as "Je te donnerai une photo de ma sœur nue" "I'll give you a nude photo of my sister".

Another huge difference is that the series is not an adventure comic series. It's a [[GagSeries Gag Comic]] with one gag per page. But most of all, and this is the reason for the series' popularity, many jokes revolve around BawdyComedy and sexual innuendos. Though never vulgar, it's still far more naughty and subversive than the original ''Spirou and Fantasio''. To give another example, the aforementioned Catholic priest is often depicted as being a hypocrite who doesn't really shy away from looking at sexy women on the sly (and is even implied to have an illegitimate son).

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