History YMMV / JoueurDuGrenier

** On vit vraiment dans une saucisse.[[note]]Literally "We really live in a sausage." A spoof on ''Film/TheDarkKnight'''s meme "We live in a society" that originated from a stream where Fred and friends played ''{{VideoGame/Worms}}'', only for them to notice the house they were taking shelter in had a sausage for a roof. Cue fans latching on the term, which eventually wormed its way back to Fred, with him referring to the ''Giganotosaurus'' in ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' as the "dinosaur that lives in a sausage".[[/note]]

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In several of his older videos, he unironically used Internet memes that were popular at the time of their uploads (late 2000s-early 2010s), such as ''Shoop Da Whoop'' or parodying the ''Bref'' TV series. Due to average meme longevity, these tend to be dated and awkward when viewed again nowadays. Fred himself calls the "Shoop" meme a ''"time capsule"'' when looking at it again ten years later. He also embarrassingly looked back at jokes where he'd do a BriefAccentImitation of an Asian person, and give the excuse that it was "another time". The ''Castlevania'' video also makes references to Tiktok and the 2022 French presidential election, specifically to Anne Hidalgo's low approval ratings.

* SpiritualAdaptation: The story parts in "Games and Metal" are very similar to ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', since they're about an epic journey set in a world mixing HeroicFantasy and HeavyMetal, with music being an integral part of fights, and encounters with BlackMetal and HairMetal-based antagonists.
* SpiritualSuccessor:

* SpiritualSuccessor: The ''Dragon's Dogma'' ads. They aren't released as ''Joueur du Grenier'' episodes (the title of the series is ''Dragon's Dogma -- Fred and Seb'', Fred doesn't wear any of the iconic shirts) but are filled with the same snarky humour that the ''Joueur du Grenier'' and ''Papy Grenier'' series. The ad sequences for Free-to-Play games (and [=NordVPN=]) which open the videos since the end of 2018 are similar in tone to the ''Dragon's Dogma'' videos.
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** In the ''Christmas Specials'' special episode, Fred concludes the introduction of his review of ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' by stating that "if you're a dumbass, you've watched all nine [''Star Wars'' films]". At the time, there were only eight canon films (the prelogy, the original trilogy, ''he Force Awakens'', and ''Rogue One'' -- ''The Last Jedi'' was released less than a week before the video[[note]]Fred points out during his speech the special [=JdG=] should be released roughly at the same time as the new ''Star Wars'' movie[[/note]]), the ninth being the ''Holiday Special'', which receives a very negative review. Fred himself hated the ''Star Wars'' third trilogy; in the behind-the-scene comment for the video, he pointed out his sentence also qualifies if you change the context to a conversation about the three canon trilogies.

** The ''Tomb Raider'' episode mocked Youtube's monetization policy and was immediately followed by the ''Duke Nukem Forever'' episode, which behind-the-scene production was marked by a lot of issues with Youtube.[[note]]Fred wanted to create an episode which completely respected Youtube's content policy but doing so resulted in altering the episode so much (pixelation made several jokes impossible to understand) that he eventually decided to not bother and released an uncensored version (which was quickly flagged as Mature). A censored version was released later but quickly demonetized, despite being made according to actual Youtube content guidelines.[[/note]]

** Patounes' game.[[note]]Game where the goal is to collect items. Named after a joke in the review of ''The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure'', where Fred uses the word "patounes" (an informal word meaning "little paw") to refer to the lion's footprints you have to collect.[[/note]]

** The review of ''Asterix and the Great Rescue'' starts with a parody of the usual opening of the ''Asterix'' books and animated adaptation, with the Gauls' village replaced by Fred's face and the Roman forts replaced by (then) current-gen consoles. This video is one of the first of the channel and has been released while Fred and Seb lived in Southwestern France. A few years later, they moved to live in Fougères, a town located in North-East of Brittany, so in the general area where Asterix's village was supposed to be found.

** His ''My Little Pony'' parody "Battle for Pony Land" made before the season finale of the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' that does show a war between ponies.
** Early in his career, Fred made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xHOJ6e2kc a special episode]] (not available in the channel) where he continuously gave genuine praise to ''VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames'' while keeping his usual angry tone and acting[[note]]the point of the parody being "that's why I don't review good games", since it just doesn't fit the spirit of the ''Joueur du Grenier'' show[[/note]]. In 2019, ''Aladdin'' was reviewed in a regular ''Jeux en Vrac'' episode.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the Glen A. Larson series' special, Seb shows Fred an episode of ''Series/HeilHoneyImHome'', to the bafflement of the latter. A couple hours after the episode's upload, Fred posted a tweet clarifying that yes, ''Heil Honey I'm Home!'' was a real series. Many comments were in the vein of "It looked so absurd I was sure it was a joke the [=JdG=] team created for the episode." The context of the scene in the episode (Seb browsed an alternate universe version of Netflix, and chose the show after name dropping fictional series which titles were puns based on real ones) probably didn't help.

** At one point in the ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' ''Papy Grenier'', Papy describes himself as a "cannibalistic killer of women but with the mind of a child". The exact sentence ("''cannibale tueur de femmes, mais avec une âme d'enfant''") uses the French localization's names of three actual perks from the game ("Cannibal", "Ladykiller", and "Child at Heart").

* GeniusBonus: In the VideoGame/EnterTheMatrix episode, Seb (as the boss of Infogrames) says to Fred!Neo that they "plan to invade politics very soon". Behind him on the screen, you can see footage of Bruno Bonnell, the real life former CEO of Infogrames, who became a parliament member for Emmanuel Macron’s party La République en Marche in 2017.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: The ''Tomb Raider: Search for the Mysterious Green Dollar'' video is obviously a very caustic satire of Youtube's monetization policies, including Laurent Croft's rant at the end of the video, but this speech may also work as a denunciation of PoliticalOvercorrectness, a phenomenon which actually was criticized by Fred in other videos and in interviews.

** In his "Bazar du Grenier" Let's Plays, he has received some flack for his ''VideoGame/GettingOverIt'' video, because he was seen as trying to emulate the average popular let's player, with many random "wacky" video tricks.

** The first RPG-themed video has TheGrimReaper telling Fred he'll die before the end of the year. It was released in early 2012, before Fred noticeable weight's loss and persona change, which themselves resulted in the meme about the real (fat) Fred being replaced by a thinner actor. ''An actual joke from an earlier episode unintentionally contains a clue supporting the "fake JDG" theory'', predicting Fred disappearance approximatively at the time he logically would according to the meme.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the Glen A. Larson series' special, Seb shows Fred an episode of ''Series/HeilHoneyImHome'', to the bafflement of the latter. A couple hours after the episode's upload, Fred posted a tweet clarifying that yes, ''Heil Honey I'm Home!'' was a real series. Many comments were in the vein of "It looked so absurd I was sure it was a joke the [=JdG=] team created for the episode." The context of the scene in the episode (Seb browsed an alternate universe version of Netflix, and choose the show after name dropping fictional series which titles were puns based on real ones) probably didn't help.c

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the Glen A. Larson series' special, Seb shows Fred an episode of ''Series/HeilHoneyImHome'', to the bafflement of the latter. A couple hours after the episode's upload, Fred posted a tweet clarifying that yes, ''Heil Honey I'm Home!'' was a real series. Many comments were in the vein of "It looked so absurd I was sure it was a joke the [=JdG=] team created for the episode." The context of the scene in the episode (Seb browsed an alternate universe version of Netflix, and choose the show after name dropping fictional series which titles were puns based on real ones) probably didn't help.

** The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' special episode (mostly based on the [[Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000 2000]] and [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod 2005]] films) reviews them as being SoBadItsGood, and [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsTheBookOfVileDarkness the third one]] is even worse. Fred concludes the episode by commenting a trailer for the then-upcoming[[note]]The special was released in the end of November 2022, the latter movie was released in mid-April 2023[[/note]] ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'', pointing out it just looks like an average adventure-comedy mix, and him hoping it could be "a good surprise" anyway is immediately followed by Seb playing the SarcasmMode sound effect featured earlier in the episode. Months later, Fred and Seb dubbed minor characters in the French version of this very movie (the reanimated dead in the cemetery scene). Also, Fred [[https://twitter.com/Frederic_Molas/status/1644080383581904896?cxt=HHwWgICz2b2Z-dAtAAAA tweeted]] that the movie ''really'' was a good surprise.

* AcceptableTargets:
** Politicians. He makes fun of right-wing politics often, which is ironic since in real life, [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn he is more or less open about being right-wing himself]]. He has even collaborated several times with Usul, a leftwing youtuber who notably wrote the ''Tropico V'' narrative let's play. He also takes little shots at French trade unions and such, though.
** Youtube. Or, more precisely, its monetization policies and heavy (and sometimes nonsensical or hypocritical) censorship policies.

** In the "Disney ripoffs" episode, he is at shock at a ''Pocahontas'' episode where a tribe has their nipples bloodily ripped off by hooked ropes, and finds it gruesome (it is based on the real-life Sun Dance ritual). He reacts by driving to a Buffalo Grill restaurant to kick a totem pole[[note]]Buffalo Grill is a French steakhouse chain which is Old West-themed and the totem pole is an iconic part of the sites[[/note]]. While this kind of joke can be seen as funny to his French audience, it would be ''much'' more controversial to an actual American audience as Native Americans are considered UnacceptableTargets nowadays.

** The ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'' special episode (mostly based on the [[Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000 2000]] and [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod 2005]] films) reviews them as being SoBadItsGood, and [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsTheBookOfVileDarkness the third one]] is even worse. Fred concludes the episode by commenting a trailer for the then-upcoming[[note]]The special was released in the end of November 2022, the latter movie was released in mid-April 2023[[/note]] ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'', pointing out it just looks like an average adventure-comedy mix, and him hoping it could be "a good surprise" anyway is immediately followed by Seb playing the SarcasmMode sound effect featured earlier in the episode. Months later, Fred and Seb dubbed minor characters in the French version of this very movie (the reanimated dead in the cemetery scene). Also, Fred [[https://twitter.com/Frederic_Molas/status/1644080383581904896?cxt=HHwWgICz2b2Z-dAtAAAA tweeted]] that the movie ''really'' was a good surprise.

** The ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'' special episode (mostly based on the [[Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000 2000]] and [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod 2005]] films) reviews them as being SoBadItsGood, and [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsTheBookOfVileDarkness the third one]] is even worse. Fred concludes the episode by commenting a trailer for the then-upcoming[[note]]The special was released in the end of November 2022, the latter movie was released in mid-April 2023[[/note]] ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'', pointing out it just looks like an average adventure-comedy mix, and him hoping it could be "a good surprise" anyway is immediately followed by Seb playing the SarcasmMode sound effect featured earlier in the episode. Months later, Fred and Seb dubbed minor characters in this very movie (the reanimated dead in the cemetary scene). Also, Fred [[https://twitter.com/Frederic_Molas/status/1644080383581904896?cxt=HHwWgICz2b2Z-dAtAAAA tweeted]] that the movie ''really'' was a good surprise.
--->Dungeons and Dragons was really good, I didn't expect to have such a good time. Pacing is great. There's staging ideas. There's really funny characters (especially one) and a lot of gags which made the audience truly laugh.

** The fake JDG.[[note]]Fred lost a lot of weight since the early episodes, and both his persona and voice evolved as well, to the point he looks like a different man and many fans don't recognize him in person (but they can recognize Seb who still looks the same as he always did). This led to a (mostly tongue-in-cheek) rumor/conspiracy theory that he actually ''is'' another person, in a [[Music/PaulMcCartney "Paul is dead"]] situation.[[/note]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the Glen A. Larson series' special, Seb shows Fred an episode of ''Series/HeilHoneyImHome'', to the bafflement of the latter. A couple hours after the episode's upload, Fred posted a tweet clarifying that yes, ''Heil Honey I'm Home!'' was a real series. Many comments were in the vein of "It looked so absurd I was sure it was a joke the [=JdG=] team created for the episode." The context of the scene in the episode (Seb browsed an alternate universe version of Netflix, and choose the show after name dropped fictional series which titles were puns based on real ones) probably didn't help.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the Glen A. Larson series' special, Seb shows Fred an episode of ''Series/HeilHoneyImHome'', to the bafflement of the latter. A couple hours after the episode's upload, Fred posted a tweet clarifying that yes, ''Heil Honey I'm Home!'' was a real series. Many comments were in the vein of "It looked so absurd I was sure it was a joke the [=JdG=] team created for the episode."

** The ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'' special episode (mostly based on the [[Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000 2000]] and [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod 2005]] films) reviews them as being SoBadItsGood, and [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsTheBookOfVileDarkness the third one]] is even worse. Fred concludes the episode by commenting a trailer for the then-upcoming[[note]]The special was released in the end of November 2022, the latter movie was released in mid-April 2023[[/note]] ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'', pointing out it just looks like an average adventure-comedy mix, and him hoping it could be "a good surprise" anyway is immediately followed by Seb playing the SarcasmMode sound effect featured earlier in the episode. Months later, Fred and Seb dubbed minor characters in this very movie (the reanimated dead in the cemetary scene). Also, Fred [[https://twitter.com/Frederic_Molas/status/1644080383581904896?cxt=HHwWgICz2b2Z-dAtAAAA tweeted]] that it ''really'' was a good surprise.

** The ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'' special episode (mostly based on the [[Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000 2000]] and [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod 2005]] films) reviews them as being SoBadItsGood, and [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsTheBookOfVileDarkness the third one]] is even worse. Fred concludes the episode by commenting a trailer for the then-upcoming[[note]]The special was released in the end of November 2022, the latter movie was released in mid-April 2023[[/note]] ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'', pointing out it just looks like an average adventure-comedy mix, and him hoping it could be "a good surprise" anyway is immediately followed by Seb playing the SarcasmMode sound effect featured earlier in the episode. Months later, Fred and Seb dubbed minor characters in this very movie (the reanimated dead in the cemetary scene), and Fred tweeted after watching it that it really was a very good surprise.

** In some of his earlier episodes, he made a lot of jokes targeted at formerly acceptable targets - that were still trendy in the late 2000's[=/=]early 2010s - that'd have trouble flying following the late 2010s, such as "Asians are smart" jokes, AsianSpeekeeEngrish impersonations, describing a repeatedly-jumping character as an "autist", saying redheads are soul-less or calling a pink level "Faggot city". In the 2020 retrospective "The Tier List of Crappy Games", he mentions the "Faggot city" joke resulted in backlash and that he wouldn’t use that word nowadays. There were occasional sexist jokes as well, and BlackComedyRape that would be taken less light-heartedly years later.