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** Episode 4 mocks the French actor Samuel Le Bihan's [[DullSurprise wooden acting]] with a barely animated deepfake of him.

* ''Film/MacAndMe'': a ripoff of Film/{{ET}}.

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Karim and Kamel are alternate selves, but both movie buffs. However when Kamel mentions stuff like ''Film/{{ET}}'', Karim doesn't even know who Steven Spielberg is. [[spoiler: Turns out the possessed Jérémy and Loony Mustached Operator are somehow erasing good movies from existence, leading to Karim and the whole world not remember that they even existed]].

* DamnedByFaintPraise: The least insulting word Karim comes up with to describe Creator/RobSchneider's filmography is "existent".
* DarkReprise: The 8th episode opens with pseudonym!Morvan singing a slowed-down, disturbingly ominous version of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNI9falAtqY Allô, allô, monsieur l'ordinateur]]''.

* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: While it's generally assumed that Karim's universe is ours (aside from the Pseudonyms), as the films in it are the same as in reality (whereas in Kamel's universe, at least one real movie, ''Highlander 2'', doesn't exist until Arturo sends it to the team), it's somewhat implied that it might actually be a slightly different parallel universe since according to Episode 1, Gilles is the one who created ''You Can Leave Your Hat On'' in this universe rather than Music/RandyNewman.

* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: While it's generally assumed that Karim's universe is ours, as the films in it are the same as in reality (whereas in Kamel's universe, at least one real movie, ''Highlander 2'', doesn't exist), it's somewhat implied that it might actually be a slightly different parallel universe since according to Episode 1, Gilles is the one who created ''You Can Leave Your Hat On'' in this universe rather than Music/RandyNewman.

* RiddleForTheAges: Many. What are the Pseudonyms and why do they want to erase good movies from existence? Why did Arturo bring Kamel's team to Karim's universe? Why can Archimed Kebab's reel undo the Pseudonyms' Great Substitution and why did he make it? Why did he leave riddles to find it? It's hard to tell whether these questions were meant to be answered in future seasons

* RetCon: While ''Crossed'' treated Kamel as Karim's second personality, ''Chroma'' reveals they're different individuals, which contradicts a few gags.

** Episode 4 mocks the French actor Samuel Le Bihan's [[DullSurprise wooden acting]].

** {{Discussed}} in Episodes 9 and 10, in which Kamel explains why he believes ''{{Film/Halloween}}'' and ''Gremlins'' are misinterpreted as perverted for the former and racist for the latter by some analyses.

-->'''Karim''': Cool! Let's party ''(cue everyone partying)''

* ImNotDoingThatAgain: In the ''Troll 2'' review, he notes that the only way to be scared by the film would be "to watch it on a smartphone, chased by twenty hungry wolves." Before adding "And that's something I'll never do [[NoodleIncident again]]."

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In Episode 12, when Morvain asks how long it took him to find the reel projector (needed to watch the reel they found in episode 10), Karim answers "four months." Four months is the actual time it took for the episode to come out due to technical issues.

** Many of Morvan's jokes have this effect on Karim, he's so fed up with them he even [[DisproportionateRetribution headbutts him]] in the opening of Episode 1.

The first (and only) season is complete with 12 episodes:

* InMemoriam:
** Episode 8 is dedicated to Aïssa Aumar, Karim's grandfather.
** Episode 11 is dedicated to Michael Ballhaus, the cinematographer of ''Goodfellas''.

** Discussed and defined in Episode 4, in which Karim regards the instances of this trope in ''Signs'' as lazy writing, while Kamel points out that depending on how you interpret the film, these instances might actually be unrelated events misconstrued by the main characters as divine signs.
* CloudCuckooLander: Jérémy Morvan. In Episode 5, he shows glimpses of his appartment and day to day life, with emphasis on his hippopotamus and tiger slippers. His AlternateSelf Jérémy Morvain shares this trait, for instance in Episode 12, we him sleep and eat ''simultaneously''.

* AccidentalMurder: PlayedForLaughs in Episode 8 when the aforementioned [=DVD=] ends up stuck in the skull of an unfortunate [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext man in a pastis bottle costume]] who just happened to be standing next to Gilles when Karim tried to throw the [=DVD=] at him to prevent the Loony Mustached Operator from stealing it and missed. Unlike [[spoiler:the ending of Episode 12 where Morvain kills Morvan, forcing the team to [[DisposingOfABody get rid of his body]] and [[StartingANewLife disappear]]]], this is merely a short gag which is irrelevant to the plot and never mentioned again.

* BrickJoke: In the first episode, Morvan mentions the "Pseudonyms", undefined monsters that "drink your blood and replace it with urine". A few episodes later, [[spoiler:the Pseudonym-possessed Loony Mustached Operator and Morvan]] are shown to bleed urine.[[note]]It's a pun on the French expression "pisser le sang" ("to piss blood" i.e to bleed heavily), inverted in "saigner de la pisse" ("to bleed piss")[[/note]]

* CloudCuckooLander: Jérémy Morvan. In Episode 5, he shows glimpses of his appartment and day to day life, with emphasis on his hippopotamus and tiger slippers.

* EldritchAbomination: The Pseudonyms are tentacled monsters that can possess people, drink their blood and replace it with urine, and erase good movies from existence, we have no idea where they come from or even ''why'' they even do any of these things.

* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: Also discussed in several episodes, especially in Episode 6, in which Karim explains that he considers that unlike ''Troll 2'', ''Mac and Me'' is just atrocious and not worth watching because it completely distorts the meaning of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', the film it plagiarizes, with constant ProductPlacement and the removal of the entire ComingOfAgeStory elements of ''E.T.''.

* SoBadItsHorrible: Also discussed in several episodes, especially in Episode 6, in which Karim explains that he considers that unlike ''Troll 2'', ''Mac and Me'' is just atrocious and not worth watching because it completely distorts the meaning of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', the film it plagiarizes, with constant ProductPlacement and the removal of the entire ComingOfAgeStory elements of ''E.T.''.

* SoBadItsGood: Discussed at length in Episode 1, as Karim analyzes why exactly ''Troll 2'' is considered a bad movie even though it's very enjoyable.

* BaitAndSwitch: The seventh review starts with Orson Welles telling Karim in a dream to review [[Film/CitizenKane a film that revolutionized cinematic techniques, where the titular character dies early on and where we learn what happened through flashbacks recounted by people who knew him.]] Karim proceeds to review ''Vidocq''.

* DisposingOfABody: In the last episode, [[spoiler: the corrupted Morvan is shot in the head by Morvain, leading to an epilogue where the crew goes to a farm to cut up the body and throw the pieces in a river.]]