History Series / LesFillesDaCote

* CanadaEh: Cécile Auclert (Fanny) is a French-Canadian born in Montreal. Apparently her Quebecois accent isn't all that noticeable in-show and InUniverse she is French.

* IKissYourFoot: Fan sites refer simply to Episode Twenty-Two, a strangely large proportion of which is taken up with the three girls sitting on the sofa and arguing, at length, as to which of the three has the sexiest feet. As always the camera angle is low, and the focus of attention is on their bare feet. [[FanService For quite some time]]. Daniel and Marc are called in to arbitrate. Suggestions have been made that this focus on the female foot is a dictate on the part of [[FootFetish the producer]], and is not un-known in other AB productions.

* KavorkaMan: Marc. his attempts to get off with one of the girls - beginning with Magalie, but he considers the other two to be acceptable back-up targets - drives a lot of the humour, especially when he fails miserably or gets put down. Incredibly, by the end of the show's run he has suceeded with both Magalie and Claire, although neither relationship lasts very long. Magalie, apparently, realises what a blunder she has made and [[PutOnABus apparently flees]] to UsefulNotes/{{Peru}} to get away from him.

* LongRunnerCastTurnover: This show only lasted three years in both its formats. But an ''insane'' production schedule meant this sitcom (which verged on a comic SoapOpera) meant 336 episodes were created. It kept its full original cast for the first 130 episodes. But Cécile Auclert (Fanny) dropped out first, exhausted by the workload, and was followed very quickly by Hélène le Moignic (Magalie) for broadly the same reason. Later in the series, Thierry Redler (Marc) dropped out of the show. With half the original core cast gone, the prducers experimented with new Girls Next Door and a new flatmate for Daniel, but eventually conceded the best thing to do was to reboot it entirely with a pretty much brand new cast as ''Les Nouvelles Filles D'à Coté''. In the second run, only Claire (Christianne Jean) and Gérard (Gérard Vives) remained from the original cast. [[note]]Thierry Redler eventually returned to reprise the fan favourite Marc[[/note]].

* TheNineties: The show is an advert for everything thought chic or fashionable or stylish in France in the 1990s. Even though it looks vaguely dated today, the show and the people in it are still easy on the eye.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Gérard Vives plays Gérard. he also plays the occassional character of Gérard's identical twin brother Berny. HilarityEnsues.

* CloudCuckoolander: Georgette Bellefeuille, with her obsessions with strange animal welfare charities, such as a league for the protection of baby pigeons, and her eccentric Good Works. Also Marc, with his unrealistic desire to make his money as a writer and novellist - his novel hardly gets past the first chapter. He is frequently called out on this, even by the long-suffering Daniel.

* GayBestFriend; Gérard is the GBF to the three girls who share the apartment. He also manages to be this to Daniel and Marc in the flat next door.

* LastMinuteHookup; at the end of the show's first incarnation, before the reboot with a pretty much brand new cast, it is strongly hinted Marc gets off with Claire and [[PutOnTheBus they depart as a couple, possibly to Brussels]]. Apparently Claire was worn down and couldn't be bothered to say "non!" any more.

* MrFanservice: the three male leads are above-averagely good looking and the gym setting allows opportunities for them to be seen in workout clothing.

* TheBusCameBack: Fanny's reappearance towards the end of the first series run.

* TriangRelations: lots of them. Described in the show description above.

* CampGay: Gérard is a stereotypical gay man taken UpToEleven.

* GuysAreSlobs: Marc. Although his slobbishness - more of an InformedAttribute - is taken UpToEleven by the arrival, towards the end of the series run, of genuine FatSlob Charly.

* AbsenteeActor:
** The heavy and unrelenting production schedule - 170 episodes were made and broadcast in a ''fifteen month'' period - took its toll on the actors. Hélène Le Moignic (Magalie) couldn't stand it any more; after 135 episodes and [[HostilityOnTheSet acrimonious backstage rows]] with Cécile Auclert (Fanny) she simply quit and walked out. A sucession of newcomers were trialled to replace her and notoriously autocratic producer [[ControlFreak Jean-Luc Azoulay]] took revenge by having it written in to the series that in a moment of madness Magalie had robbed the safe at the gym - ''and'' had an affair with the execrable Marc. The character had then fled to South America, overcome with shame over both misdemeanours.
** At around the same time, Cécile Auclert was excluded from the show after she pleaded for the murderous and intense production schedule to be slowed down a little. What amounted to three shows a week for over a year was taking a toll on her. It is very possible that the autocratic [[TheSvengali Azoulay]] did this to both actresses in order to MakeAnExampleOfThem. InUniverse, Fanny's absence was explained on an attempt to patch things up with her husband. She leaves the show pretty much for good after 133 episodes; (Le Moignic quit definitively after 135) and returnes briefly for three episodes shortly before the show's ending. During a period where only Christianne Jean (Claire) remained of the original three, other Girls were trialled, one of whom, Karen Cheryl, became a core character in the sucessor series. Similarly, Thierry Redler (Marc) left the show for a while, being replaced for a while by the ManChild and appaling FatSlob Charly Chemouny.