History Series / DansUneGalaxiePresDeChezVous

** Otherwise, [[CanadaEh Hockey]] and ''especially'' the Montreal Canadiens.

* BloodBrothers: Childhood best friends Bob and Flavien who have indeed made a pact by mixing their saliva in the principal's coffee.

** When they discovered a planet named O'Vegas, the Captain has an inner monologue where he asks some existential questions… [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and some that are not so existential]]:

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: During an [[ImagineSpot imagine spot]] where a Jedi master praises Flavien, he cites his test results for magic (98%), dark side studies (99%) and street-hockey (114%).

** Brad's childhood in particular borders on a running gag, as it doubles as his FreudianExcuse. He once insults someone by saying terrible things about their childhood, culminating with "Kids at school once had a contest of whom could throw the biggest rock at you, and your teacher won." only to stop and say "No wait, that's my childhood."

* AnythingThatMoves: The Devil says he is into everything under 5 Km/H.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: This is the first sign to the viewer that Nicotine is [[TheVamp not]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing trustworthy]].

* TeleporterAccident: Ironically not with the Telefax, but with Pétrolia's demoleculariser device.

* ToThePain: Flavien's plan for Brad after he killed a mime and his child. Bob mentions he stole every pointy and sharp objects in the armory, including the staples.

* [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Universe's Most Beautiful Woman]]: Nicotine deliberately turned herself into a Vule, a race which is considered to be the most beautiful women in the universe, so that she can get close to Earthlings and steal their DNA.

'''Brad:'''Poor Valence, risking her life because a number seven couldn't learn his place.

* LoveYouAndEverybody: An invoked inversion of this is done by Bob; when he takes Mirabella having called him "fatso" as proof of her having a crush on him, Flavien points out that everyone calls him that, only for Bob to insist that they all like him, too.

** Even being absent from an episode doesn't keep him immune from misfortune, as Pétrolia once briefly suggested to Valence that he should be awakened from regenerescence instead of Bob (since interrupting the process can ''kill'' people, if not done properly).

** While Valence is the ship's psychiatrist, even she isn't immune to going crazy when under pressure.

** One episode is about an asteroid the size of Saskatchewan about to collide with Earth. [[DirtyCoward Brad]] refuses to do something about it and assumes Earth can defend itself by sending [[Film/{{Armageddon}} Bruce Willis]] or something.

* HypocriticalHumor: Bob criticizing Elvis Presley's weight/eating habits, jealousy aside, when Elvis is seen eating an amount of food Bob is known to multiply UpToEleven by the hour.

* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Flavien and Pétrolia. This gets exaggerated in one episode, when Flavien states to Valence that they broke up ''[[UpToEleven 86 times]]''. Note that this happened in a single day.

* VillainRespect: The ghost of captain Fafard admits he watched the Captain from the realm of the dead and liked what he saw. Unfortunately he is too stubborn in accomplishing his mission and wants his original crew on Earth, losing considerate time by doing it, making him the MonsterOfTheWeek.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: Averted, if it wasn't because Linda didn't possess Brad's scientist degree they would have kept her, Bob and Flavien were even willing to gamble their life over having Brad's back to his old personality. The Captain even has to stop Valence from smacking Brad again when he says they didn't need him.

* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: Before undertaking a long voyage to the tommy-cod constellation, Serge teaches a self-defense class to the crew. It doesn't go particularly well, from Pétrolia not even restraining herself from punching Brad to Flavien cutting a wooden plank by pulling out an electric saw. This leads to [[ItMakesSenseInContext Brad karate-chopping houseflies]] afterwards.

* WithCatlikeTread: While Brad and Pétrolia are sneaking around looking for the creature that Flavien saw, the former sneezes, his cell phone rings, he steps on a squeak toy, and he stumbles into a drum set that [[BehindTheBlack just happened to be there]].

* [[spoiler:WriteBackToTheFuture: Failed epicly in the second movie via Website/YouTube.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: When Valence interrogates a female alien in the movie by slapping her Brad comments he could have done it.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Thanks to the Romano Fafard having pushed away a giant ateroid from its planned trajectory, the Earth has been saved from certain danger! [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu Then the crew finds out the ship is stuck onto said asteroid]].

* SuperDoc: Mirabella was supposed to be one but she actually lied to escape the police, Serge has some of the greatest doctors coded on his program so he can pull it off. Subverted with Petrolia who became the ship's doctor when Serge was destroyed and Valence supported him so she could cope with her friend's death. She only got the job when trying to split the specialties (making Bob a chiropractor and Brad a dentist despite them never having studied) was even more impractical than a BackAlleyDoctor like Petrolia.

* TakeThat: O'Vegas ends with not so subtle jab at Loto-Québec, a government who controls gambling industries and make money out of gambling addict.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Brad and Falbo does it one episode where they have to work together for precise shooting, when the Captain forces them to drop their enmity they work flawlessly together.

* ToThePain: Flavien's plan for Brad after he killed a mime and his child, Bob mentions he stole every pointy and sharp objects in the armory including the staples.

-->'''Captain:''' So in summary we are stuck in a different epoch and we killed the father of humanity, that makes for a charged morning.

* UngratefulTownsfolk: When the humans in Limbo tries to kill the crew for taking so long in the second movie the captain replies that it's not like they stopped in every Bed'n Breakfast and how ungrateful they are that they risked their life trying to find a new planet for them. The spirits calm themselves but [[spoiler: reveals the scientists underestimated the climate changes and two billions already died and more will if they don't find a solution]].

** The ship was revealed to be built by Spitfire Industries, and thus built on the cheap by cutting every possible corner and with planned obsolescence. Truly a hallmark of Spitfire Industries if there was one, it's a wonder it even made it off the Earth to begin with.

'''Brad:'''It's guaranteed to break!
** The lack of proper replacement parts means that every time android Serge explodes, he's rebuilt a bit more cheaply by Petrolia. She already made him out of junk and transistors to begin with which makes the compatibility an issue.

'''Captain:''' And what doesn't work with what you just told me?

* LiteralMinded: When the Captain increasingly becomes this as the result of an artificially-induced memory loss, which annoys Brad to no end.

* LoveTriangle: Both Bob and Flavien compete for Petrolia's affections. [[spoiler: In the series finale, she chooses Bob and lets down Flavien gently who backs down gracefully and wishes them well.]]

* MidSeasonUpgrade: Serge after being destroyed in the virtual game comes back with new applications as Serge 2. With every crew member putting some add-ons. Among other thing he was given enough encyclopedic knowledge to become the new doctor (and the only competent one the ship ever had), an emotional tank so he can release his emotions properly instead of going on rampage when Pétrolia is in danger, super hearing and a thermometer in his pinky finger. As Serge 3 he keeps everything but also a 1001 functions he can be set to with a remote, from plumber to stupid teenager, but the crew stopped using it because of how easy it was to exploit Serge.

** In the series the crew picks up a mime (ItMakesSenseInContext) on a planet who lays an egg ([[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext kind of sense]]) and become Flavien's pet. Brad being allergic to Mimes telefaxed him on a shooting planet (planet who moves too fast they go out of orbit). At first it sounds funny but then they found the footage where [[spoiler: Brad beat the mime who tries to stay with his egg on the ship, after succesfully getting rid of the mime Brad realized the egg is still there but the planet with the mime is too far, so he decides to let the egg on another planet to be ''eaten by beasts'']] then it's back to being funny with Brad's nonchalant attitude.
-->'''Brad:''' Brad is good. Brad feed the animals. Well just to clean that and after that uncle Brad is going to bed because [yawn] been a long day.

* MundaneUtility: Bob asks Serge during a spiritualist session to summon a dead pizza deliveryman, turns out he doesn't do delivery pass eleven pm.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Captain Patenaude did it twice over the series, the first time when he covered for Brad expelling a mime to avoid Brad from being lynched only for him to see the video of how Brad did it and once when he almost killed the whole crew over his obsession with ending the mission fast.

* NeutronBomb: The T-bomb is specifically this trope, a bomb that damages no buildings but kills all lifeforms. The first movie has the Roberto-menard crew contemplating using a similar clean bomb that does this and adjusts the pants leg size.

* NoSell: Prince Richard can take a paralyzing charge and a destructive one without problem, his son [[spoiler: Flavien]] can do the same if angered enough.
* NobodyCanDie: Despite the high risks and consequences for failure, the characters, both main and special guests (except the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Sith Lord]]), ultimately survive, as crewmembers come back from the brink of death and Serge gets rebuilt semi-regularly. [[spoiler:The movies completely subvert this, as the Romano-Fafard crew has to blow up one of their own Earth crews, and it's ultimately revealed that people on Earth like Bob's parents have started to die out in mass.]]

* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Brad really should have listened to weapons training before the rest of the crew were possessed by an alien rock. Thankfully, even while possessed, the Captain is lucid enough to show him how to take the safety off on the paralysing gun.
* NoodleIncident: In 2023 the United States tried to invade Lachine, not China but rather the borough of the city of Montreal called Lachine, helped by the surrounding city of Longueuil and Laval they were able to fend them off. It's only relevant to explain [[spoiler: how two American missiles went of course in space and accidentally hit Barzotti.]]

-->'''Bob:''' Flavien, I there is something hard under my hand (blows the sand) IT'S A MINE, i PUT MY HAND ON A LANDMINE!

* OpenSecret: Valence and Charles being a couple was supposed to be hidden for the first two seasons but aside Brad, who wants to use it to demote the captain, no one cared and just rolled eyes when they tried justifying why they are naked or tongue kissing each other.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Flavien is a doormat who sees the captain as a surrogate father and has UndyingLoyalty toward him so when he disobeys an order it means things are bad. The biggest example being when the captain (who was in DespairEventHorizon mode after figuring out it's been four years the mission was undergoing) tries to rush through two stars instead of taking a detour even though a the heat would kill most of the crew even if it works, Flavien finally had enough when the rest of the crew lost consciousness and disobeyed.
** When Bob taking Brad's advice on becoming meaner leads to him appalling everyone else and rejection by Pétrolia, he [[AchillesInHisTent stays tucked in his bed and refuses to budge, thinking that he's a loser]]. Then Flavien states to the Captain that Bob...didn't have supper. Which [[PaintingTheFourthWall appeared on-screen in big letters]]. He normally eats a lot.
** One time after waking up from regenerescence, Brad gets ignored by an amnesiac Bob and Flavien, he assumes that they decided to drive him crazy instead of beating him up. It's only when the Captain also ignores him that Brad realizes something's wrong, as he rationalizes that the Captain wouldn't partake in Bob and Flavien's shenanigans.

* PercussiveTherapy: "Fronto-Laminated Board Therapy", invented by Dr. Gaetan Vunderbarf, according to Valence is a therapy that consists of slamming a patient's (Read:Brad's) head into their laminated MDF board piece of furniture until the patient's good side comes out. It actually works when Bob slams Brad hard enough, it makes Brad's [[AlternateIdentityAmnesia super nice alternate personality]] "Linda" come out.
* PetTheDog: Brad eventually feels some genuine remorse for his action in the final two episodes, although he [[KarmaHoudini never really makes up for the mountains of crap]] he caused up to that point. He did save the crew's life a few time but they tend to forget or sidetracked by more pressing matter.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Brad goes full supremacist on aliens, even donning a Hitler mustache when saying what he plans to do with the Barzots, has some misogynistic streak (when Valence is the next in line to be captain after Charles and Flavien lost their memories, he reacts with horror at the thought a woman might find the planet) and is pro-slavery (not by race just anyone that's not him). [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also, he once classified Bob's gender as "primate"]].

* ProperlyParanoid: Flavien once got suspicious of the [[HonestJohnsDealership planet salesman Réal Estate]], even when looking at his ad before they meet up with him, leading to arguing with the captain about the offer for the planet Eden being too good to be true. Sure enough, [[spoiler: it turns out that Eden's plant life has a high level of radioactivity, which the crew learned about after Bob had the misfortune of eating one of its fruits]].
* ProphecyTwist: Bob's dreams don't end the way the crew thinks they do. Most notably, [[spoiler:the Jedi in his dream seeked a chosen apprentice...to destroy him.]]

* RightBehindMe: When Bob and the captain have a heart-to-heart talk about how Elvis Presley's presence has caused the crew's behavior to change for the worst and how they can't just tell him to leave the ship, they both turn around and see him. They then turn back and Bob claims they weren't talking about him, since there are plenty of Elvises. Thankfully, [[IJustWantToBeNormal he is just as disappointed as them about it]].
* RousseauWasRight: A space custom agent run an emotional scan on the crew and find them to have too much repressed emotions, what he judges the reason why Earthling are more aggressive than most races, safe for Pétrolia and Serge, both having never lived on Earth (and Serge is a robot), implying it's more society than humanity that is inherently corrupt.

* SanitySlippage: Despite being a comedy a lot of the crew does suffer from the stress and missing their loved ones on Earth. Brad tries everything in the first episode to go back on Earth when he realizes the mission will take longer and might have him die anonymously, the Captain goes crazy at the end of Season 2 and Bob suffers from an acute melancholia during one episode known as "Earth sickness [[note]]mal de Terre[[/note]]" that makes him even worse than Brad when he tried to turn back to Earth.

* SchizoTech: Actually a plot point in one episode, when Serge needs a transistor to live Brad and the crew point this is decade behind and nothing in the modern Romano Fafard has one. Except boomboxes and other commodity items who are generally used as gags.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Mostly because they don't care, using kilometers and Celsius to measure thing in space and giving numbers that are either too small (the distance between stars) or too high (space temperature is beneath absolute zero).
* ScrewDestiny: Valence tries to enforce this to discredit a fortuneteller who said they won't find a planet, as she is pretty shown to be the real deal they have to try screwing small predictions. Used word for word by Bob.
-->'''Bob''': (quoting his father) My dumbest of son, leaving to save humankind, Bob you screwed destiny.

* SenselessSacrifice: Brad's AlternateIdentityAmnesia, Linda, sacrifices herself so Brad can return when the ship's windshield develops a crack that threatens the entire ship. No one can read the planetary scan reports and figure out which planet it would be safe to do repairs on, and Linda being Brad's opposite, is friendly and sociable but inept at science. When Brad's personality returns, he immediately reads the report and points out that ''any'' of the planet would've been safe to use. The crew could've just picked one at random.

* ShaggyDogStory: The second movie. [[spoiler: The crew discovers that they have reached the end of the universe and that there is no habitable planets for the humans, yet in their discoveries, they found a time rift who leads to a past version of Earth (in 2007). Charles Patenaude sends a message to the earthlings only for it to become an Internet Meme. So not only they failed to find a planet for the humans but the process will repeat itself in an other timeline.]]

-->'''Bob:''' It led to a game that's really boring. And that's what scared Flavien.//

* FictionalVideoGame: [[ShmuckBait "Try to save the king if you can."]] It's a virtual reality game that seems to be a parody of VideoGame/KingsQuest, right down to the TrialAndErrorGameplay (it took Flavien 34 tries to get past the first puzzle (get past a acid-urinating skunk)), MoonLogicPuzzle (the solution was to piss on said skunk) and NintendoHard (the last "puzzle" is to defeat [[BigBad Olaf]] [[FinalBoss the warrior]] and apparently, no one has ever beaten him before). The goal of the game is to go through 10 challenges to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin save the king]]. The only difference is that injuries in the game [[YourMindMakesItReal becomes real]]. Really, this game that appears in a single episode could have it's own trope list.

** BottomlessPit: Subverted, as the pit under the bridge ''does'' have a bottom.

* FirstNameBasis: Aside the Captain everyone is called by their first name unless they are victim of FullNameUltimatum (Brad got wise to it after a few) or the person is so angry they call him by last name. Valence calls the captain Charles in private but she is the only one he will let and a flashback episode shows the Captain was on a LastNameBasis at the start and warmed up to the crew.

* FromZeroToHero: At his first appearance, Flavien is even dumber than Bob and is listed as the less important man on the ship in importance AND utility. At the end of the series and in the movies, he’s an heroic and reasonable Second officer.
* GiverOfLameNames: Pétrolia starts calling planets over bottle of shower products in the second movie, when the Captain calls her on it she says it's not her fault they discovered multiple planets, comets, stars and star systems and yet still need to find one to call home.
* GlamourFailure: The first movie's robot clones of the cast can be indentified by vomiting at hearing the word "Earthling". This works even for the Bob clone in the beginning but everyone thought he had reflux from eating too much berries. He was dispatched when Flavien noticed [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay he]] ''[[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay didn't]]'' [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay ask a question]].

* GoingDownWithTheShip: The Captain says in times of crisis a captain must be on deck and go down with the ship, then gets lost in comparisons.

* GoodParents: Bob is the only one mentioned to have nice and caring parents that were around to raise him [[spoiler: Bob meets them when the spaceship is temporarily in limbo and breaks down crying.]]

* GreatWhiteHunter: The Captain in one episode gets a bit too much into hunting a creature on the ship, dressing as such and covering himself in monster's female urine.

* GuiltByAssociationGag: Serge sometimes gets blamed for being in cahoots with other crew members, when they do big mistakes. This gets hilariously reversed when he, Bob and Flavien are called out by Captain Patenaude.

* HellIsThatNoise: In-Universe, the Zorglon's greeting annoys the Captain because he vaguely remembers it. He finally realizes it's the same signal the U.S.S Creampuff receives before they were destroyed.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: The Captain's, Brad's and Flavien's. Brad's parents didn't like him because they wanted a daughter (and dressed him as a girl for the first few years of his life), Flavien was an orphan who was moved from foster home to foster home (of his mothers once sent him to a girl's summer camp because the boy's was full and she didn't want him around during the summer), and the Captain had a very distant relationship with his father, even though he doesn't seem to realise it (he considers his father telling him "it's raining" a very intimate moment).

* HyperspaceArsenal: Brad always has a few hidden weapons, be it a gun behind his hair or a pipe in his vest, to attack someone in a cowardly manner. When he is part of a competition that forbids weapon the Captain suspects he is armed and orders him [[https://youtu.be/KdsNAAWlnc8?t=320 to hand them over ]] while Bob and Flavien, the other contestants, give him a judging look as Brad planned everything from shooting them with a pistol to slugging them with a hockey stick.

** The Captain keeps butchering Crapin's name only for the alien to politely correct him, when Crapin calls him Padenaute the Captain lashes at him angrily for not being able to call someone by their name.

* IconicSequelCharacter: Pétrolia and Serge were introduced in Season 2, but managed to be as iconic as the other main characters and to even eclipse in popularity their Season 1 predecessors (AKA Mirabella and Falbo).

'''Brad:''' Once! I bought some and then resell them, at a ''higher price''.

* {{Jerkass}}: Dear lord, Brad Spitfire. He's not just a self-serving conniving bastard who will sell out everyone faster than he can yell "Please kill HIM first!" but is immensely ''proud of that fact'', stating that this is the essential survival trait that has made the Spitfire family thrive and succeed. When he recovers his memory after alien {{Phlebotinum}} gives everyone EasyAmnesia, the first he does is try to be ''sure'' he's back to normal:

* KickTheDog: They made a cake for his five thousandth dick move, the milestone being his reaction to Bob dying.

-->'''Brad:''' "If you don't (let me go) I blow up the ship's hull with [[ChewingTheScenery EXPLOOOOOOSIVE CHAAARGES]]!"
--> And that's only the first episode.

-->'''Bob:''' It led to a game that's really boring. And that's what scared Flavien.
*** Earlier in the same episode, he asks Flavien if seeing his bank account is what scared him stiff.

* TheDevilIsALoser: He's evil. He has no friends, no family, no girlfriend and think he sucks. He just want to retire. All he need is a [[DealwithTheDevil successor]].

* DumbMuscle: Falbo acts like an hyperactive teenager and has a reputation of being Earth's most terrifying mercenary. He made a tank say uncle.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Since Brad is an unpleasant backstabbing coward, the crew is mostly fine with calling him names and physically assaulting him as he can take as much as he can dish. However, when the Captain is so angry at him stalling the mission so he can loot a planet for diamonds he calls him a wuss (feluette), everyone winces at it. Pétrolia says the Captain would have been better throwing rocks at him and he apologizes to Brad in the next scene.
* EvilCounterpart: The crew of the Roberto-Menard. Their ship is a [[EvilIsBigger bigger]] version of the Romano-Fafard, they are dressed in yellow to contrast the crew's RedIsHeroic and have zero qualms about cleaning an alien planet of all sapient life. For comparison when Brad took over in the third season and tried to do the same with the Barzot the crew reluctantly followed him and made sure to make no casualty, with Flavien almost strangling Brad to death when he decided to use a bomb that only kill living being.

-->'''Brad:''' To get rid of the spiders I thought mixing a stray cat with a [[MorallyBankruptBanker banker.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite Brad's jerkassery and the abuse the crew does, the captain admits calling him a sissy was over the line. Petrolia even mentions throwing rocks at him would have been better.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Brad in a complaining rant does something ridiculously stupid while handling explosives. Luckily they were near the canon so they could shoot it out of the ship.

'''Captain:''' And what doesn't work in what you just said to me?

* FantasticallyIndifferent: The crew all in all take meeting with supernatural being rather well, mostly bothered by what they are attempting to do than their nature. The captain's reaction to a ghost hijacking his ship to go back to Earth is simply being unnerved with what happens if he succeeds.
-->'''Captain:''' If we arrive on Earth without having found a planet, there'll be at least five billions humans lining up to give us a good beating.\\

* FantasticRacism: While a lot of aliens have prejudices over Earthling, most are willing to at least hear the crew out (and Brad screwing it up by confirming their prejudices). Other aliens, however, will shoot on sight or refuse privileges they give to other races.

** Therapy with Valence. Aside one case where she used an experimental PercussiveMaintenance on Brad, she is usually caring.

* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Speaking French]]: Mostly played straight, but not always; the Zorglons communicate with musical tones, while the natives of the planet Ouch speak with their own language (which requires subtitles, for the viewers' convenience, and [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels Valence's attempts to imitate it]] [[FiFeeFauxPas go poorly]]).

* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Speaking French]]: Mostly played straight, but not always; the Zorglons communicate with musical tones, while the natives of the planet Ouch speak with their own language (which requires subtitles, for the viewers' convenience, and [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels Valence's attempts to imitate it]] [[FeeFiFauxPas go poorly]]).

** Valence trying to cover up the Captain's breakdown, as he is walking around half-naked screaming nonsense while hitting a cauldron on his head, saying it's a therapy to combat anxiety. While she admits she doesn't believe Brad will ever fall for it the rest of the crew however...

** Brad when it comes to injuries or covering his betrayals, otherwise he can manipulate the crew when brings his A-game.
** Mirabella says she is good at bluffing but she never comes up with good lies for when someone doubt her medical knowledge. Valence sees through it ad the Captain has some doubts while everyone else are either too dumb or indifferent to notice.

-->'''Captain:''' Yes, someone must grab the jackhammer and break the rocks around the ship we would be able to get out.\\
'''Petrolia:''' But will the person have the time to come back to the ship before the asteroid is driven away?\\
'''Captain:''' OF COURSE NOT YOU DUMBASS! Excuse me, I'm tired.
* BatmanGambit: An elaborate one is made to get Brad demoted for poisoning the Captain, they don't have proof so they stage a death and haunting story so Brad confesses out of guilt and fear, even if he didn't he just tried getting rid of Flavien who acted suspiciously.
* BeneathTheMask: Brad takes pride in being a bastard but when someone seriously considers using his memory to make the universe's best horror movie he does not take it well, he starts beating up the alien while yelling that all the people he hurts it was by accident (he has an in and out VitriolicBestBuds relationship with the crew and he never really knew any kindness).

* BigBookOfWar: From the first movie, Brad's personal items include "Betrayal for Dummies." In the series he also has a book saying how to be a jerk.

* BigEater: Bob, The pantry has a sign that says it's his home.

** Brad's childhood is a straight example of HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood. He was outright abused by his parents, violently assaulted by classmates ''and his own teachers''. Even his ImaginaryFriend tried to kill him. Yet stories of Brad's childhood are some of the show's funniest moment.
** Some of Brad's own actions. For example, the crew adopts a mime (who are an alien life form apparently). Said mime gives birth to a egg. Brad, who is allergic to mime fur, decides to get rid of the mime and its egg while the crew is sleeping, by beaming the mime to an exoplanet that's passing by, only to realize as he's beaming the egg after disposing of the Mime that the exoplanet has moved out of ranger and deciding to instead beam it on another nearby planet where the Egg will shatter, and the sun will roast its content. The scene includes Brad ''beating the Mime as it tries to rescue its egg''. And yet the scene is hilarious as through all this Brad is hamming it up, narrating his own actions to himself in the third person (and framing himself as a good guy for what he's doing). He then casually takes the time to clean the Mime's nest and notes he could really go to bed, he's had a long day.

* {{Blackmail}}: Brad extorts money from Flavien when he finds out he has yet to tell Bob about him and Pétrolia.

* BluntYes: When Brad questions if they are really gonna keep Petrolia.

-->'''Bob''': He is a robot. And uh, he is nice. To sum him up I'd say he is a nice robot. [[GoodIsDumb That's why I'm gonna vote to save him]].

** It also works if you say something close enough to the French for "Earthling"[[note]]"Terriens"[[/note]]. Valence exclaims that "You are nothing"[[note]]"T'est rien"[[/note]] and it makes a nearby alien vomit.
* ButtMonkey: Brad. Everybody hates him, rightfully so considering [[TheStarscream his constant failed attempts to assume command]] or [[DirtyCoward trying to sell out his friends to the monster of the week,]] thus the Captain approves any physical violence upon his person, taking part in it on a regular basis.

** Happens also in the series, since their interaction with the Barzots the crew tries to hide they are Earthlings when talking to custom agent and sees sign that says Earthling are forbidden.
* CallingOutForNotCalling: PlayedForLaughs when Valence is reunited with the captain who have been missing[[CliffHanger for some months between two seasons]]. [[KissKissSlap She embraces him then slaps him]], saying he could have called her. He says it would have been too expensive.

** Brad is based of Dr. Smith from ''Series/LostInSpace''. The show even hangs a lampshade over it by having him called as such in an episode. Unlike his inspiration, Brad is treated as more of a joke.

* CastsNoShadow: PlayedForLaughs in the first movie. Brad is so unlikable his own shadow left him asking right of asylum to Valence and even FlippingTheBird when Brad asks it to come back.

* ClonesArePeopleToo: When an alien woman plans on cloning the crew and use them as attraction for a zoo, her attempt to shrug it as not being them for real fall into deaf ears as the Captain still won't accept copies of them being used as slaves and animals. Averted however with the clone of Brad that got mixed with a Ricky Martin CD (ItMakesSenseInContext) as the Captain considers it a surreal being and Brad said he'll preserve the genetic code in memoriam as they turn him back into a virtual state. Human cloning has been outlawed on Earth for unspecified reason.

* DarkestHour: The next-to-last episode. Food supplies are down to just one day's worth, oxygen is almost out and only a few planets are within range where they could possibly pick supplies. The first few planets all turn up barren, and everyone is afraid of the last probe returning because another barren planet would mean the entire crew would die and by the failure of their mission, the entire human race. [[spoiler: It's a viable planet with breathable air and edible food!]]

* DespairEventHorizon: This ends up happening in the second film when [[spoiler:The cast ends up in Limbo where they gets news that they have much less time than previously thought]]. They end up [[spoiler:fulfilling the Creamy leader's BatmanGambit of making them destroy a civilization of harmless aliens or, as it actually happened, make them evacuate their own planet so he can use the artifacts inside]].

* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Speaking French]]: Mostly played straight, but not always; the Zorglons communicate with musical tones, while the natives of the planet Ouch speak with their own language (which requires subtitles, for the viewers' convenience, and [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels Valence's attempts to imitate it]] [[FiFeeFauxPas go poorly]]).

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: At the age of ten Brad lost all his money at card so he bet his grandma, he got lucky and ended up with ''four'' grandmas spoiling him with sweets.
* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Brad put a few table in front of a door to stop the brainwashed crew from entering, Gervais has to remind him those are sliding doors. Brad then try to use tape on the door which doesn't do much either.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Pétrolia says that Serge being delayed by 5 seconds isn't so bad, the Captain passively-aggressively quips that they just get the impression of talking to someone from Australia over the phone. Serge laughs at this...5 seconds later.
* AdamAndEvePlot: Because of time travel shenanigans, Brad ended up killing Adam and Pétrolia said the only option was to have Brad replace him, Serge vetoed the idea by saying it will make humanity thin, hypocrite and soiling their pants at the first sign of trouble.
* AffablyEvil: The Devil is quite amiable, although he still wants two souls to punish the crew [[DisproportionateRetribution for playing Paul Piché songs]] and cowers when Valence wakes up old wounds he is willing to relent.
* AliensAreBastards: A lot of alien races do despicable thing such as slavery, gambling and gratuitous murder. Humans are still said to be the worst but that's more because they keep their emotions inside making them more wild.
* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Speaking French]]: Mostly played straight, but not always; the Zorglons communicate with musical tones, while the natives of the planet Ouch speak with their own language (which requires subtitles, for the viewers' convenience, and [[FeeFiFauxPas Valence's attempts to imitate it go poorly]]).

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Invoked before a challenge, Bob, Brad and Flavien are praising each other in this way before being at each other's throat.
-->'''Bob:''' Braaad! My friend, my comrade, my brother. We saw each other what two minutes ago and I still couldn't stop missing you\\
--> '''Brad:''' Oh Bob, my Bob, this prince with an eternal glare, this samurai of redemption, this cantor of joy! Who screams justice! Justice! Justice!
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Brad and Falbo does it one episode where they have to work together for precise shooting,when the Captain forces them to drop their enmity they work flawlessly together.

** The Devil himself is no slouch either, thanks to the talents of his actor and ''Radio Enfer'' regular Alexis Martin.

* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Brad put a few table in front of a door to stop the brainwashed crew from entering, Gervais has to remind him those are sliding doors. Brad then try to use ape on the door which doesn't do much either.

* AcePilot: Bob. The only pilot on earth who knows how to handle a manual transmission spaceship.

'''Flavien:''' *acting poorly* But I do not know, captain. *acting shocked* It's you! A real magician! Normally they pull out rabbits, but...\\

-->'''Captain:''' Yes, someone must grab the jackhammer and breaks the rocks around the ship we would be able to get out.\\