Line #37 WesternAnimation/AvezVousDejaVu


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3	''Avez-vous déjà vu... ?'' (''Have you ever seen...?'') is a weird French animated series. Each episode lasts one minute or less, and presents something that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you have probably never seen]]. Like spitting houses. Or a [[RecycledINSPACE Space soap opera]]. Or [[SerialKiller a serial-killer egg]].
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5	150 episodes were released, starting in 2006, each around 45 seconds long. The narrator of the series' original version is Creator/AlainChabat, who is a master of French nonsensical humor.
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7	!!HAVE YOU EVER SEEN... A list of tropes appearing in ''Avez-vous déjà vu... ?''
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9	* AlienInvasion: One episode features a group of aliens discussing laughter, to try and initiate peaceful relationships with the human race. However, because they're so huge compared to humans, they end up [[BlackComedy inadvertently destroying buildings by throwing pies at them, or crushing people by trying to tickle them]].
10	* AnimateInanimateObject: The focus of many episodes.
11	* ArtShift: The animation style changes from episode to episode. Compare "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCLfhVYthKo A guy who's laughing all the time]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJvuzLQAZ4U A noise shop]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-HT4_Mgpo A tourist group on Mars]]", for instance.
12	* BearsAreBadNews: As shown in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czBeuM7DUv4 Un ours gonflable]]" ("An inflatable bear").
13	* BlackComedy: Some of the episodes fall under this. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA9ZoSky0ws Une fanfare dans un champ de mines]]" (a marching band in a minefield) may be the most extreme example.
14	* BlindWithoutThem: La Fée Fagot.
15	* BodyHorror: "Un rendez-vous de squelettes", i.e. "A date between skeletons". Doesn't sound that bad? Remember that skeletons "live" in the human body. Now think what happens when they get out for the night. [[spoiler:Still better than when they invite their date home, though]].
16	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: From "Un mec qui se plaint tout le temps" ("A guy who's always complaining"):
17	--> ''Oh no, my tie is ugly. Oh no, my strawberries are flabby. [...] Oh no, I have a flabby strawberry stain on my ugly tie.''
18	* CaptainErsatz: [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Grodzilla]].
19	* CassandraTruth: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4grnGEmXAE Les predictions de Nostradamus des Cavernes]]" ("The predictions of Nostradamus of the caves").
20	* CatchPhrase: The title, and the ending: "Maintenant, oui." ("Now, you have.")
21	* CrapsaccharineWorld: Any episodes involving the toupoutous, gentle sweet murdering tellietubbies.
22	* DisproportionateRetribution: "Super-Roi, le Super-Héros des Rois" ("Superking, the superhero of Kings). The King orders the decapitation of all bakers, milk producers and cows in the kingdom. The reason? His cousin's slice of bread and butter fell down on the buttered side.
23	* EpicFail: A few episodes feature these.
24	** The most extreme example may be "Un crime pas parfait du tout", which is the absolute opposite of ThePerfectCrime (see also ImplausibleDeniability below).
25	** A villain trying to pull a SadisticChoice (see below)... on [[WonderTwinPowers twin superheroes]].
26	* GreatEscape: "Une évasion de raviolis" ("a ravioli escape").
27	* GrossoutShow: Not the entire show, but some of the episodes definitely fall under this: for example, one episode revolves around an elderly alien imitating a human exploding for his grandkids.
28	* HopeSpot: "Une fanfare dans un champ de mines" (a marching band in a minefield) goes about as well as you would expect. In the end, however, [[spoiler:a single musician escaping the minefield... Only to be mowed down by a sniper]].
29	* ImplausibleDeniability: The assassin in "un crime pas parfait du tout". He is caught, in the house, with the knife inside the victim. His alibi is that he was at the movies at the moment.
30	* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Poppi, a small dog that can only bark, but that everybody seems to understand. He has appeared in several shorts as a witness in court, a hostage negotiator, a Shakespearean actor and a radio show host -- on an advice spot, no less.
31	-->'''Caller:''' Hello, Poppi? I have been with my husband seventeen years now, but lately I find that he is...\
32	'''Poppi:''' Woof.\
33	'''Caller:''' Yes, that's it! And sometimes I even...\
34	'''Poppi:''' Woof.\
35	'''Caller:''' I'LL KILL HIM! I'M GONNA FLAY THE SWINE!! ''[click]'' ''[dial tone]''
36	* LetsMeetTheMeat: Taken to the LogicalExtreme with "Nuf Nuf à l'école des charcutiers" -- Nuf Nuf is a young pig attending a butchers' school, and he even brags that being a pig makes him the best at it.
37	* MagicPlasticSurgery: In a few episodes.
38	** "Une poule qui veut devenir un éléphant" ("A chicken who wants to become an elephant") gets exactly what she wants.
39	** "Un taureau qui veut devenir un escargot" ("A bull who wants to become a snail") gets... less convincing results.
40	** {{Subverted}} in "Un oeuf qui veut devenir une poule" ("An egg who wants to become a chicken"). [[spoiler:The surgeon proposes a complicated and very expensive operation, but the egg reveals himself as a reporter and calls him a charlatan -- because eggs don't need surgery to become chickens]].
41	** "Deux jumeaux qui veulent devenir siamois" ("Two twins who want to become conjoined"): the doctor even proposes to create ''two'' conjoined couples -- each composed of half of one twin and half of the other.
42	* OurFairiesAreDifferent:
43	** "La Fée Fagot" can create life from wooden objects. [[ButtMonkey Pinocchio]] is often her victim.
44	** Another series of episodes revolves around an overweight, lazy-ass fairy who uses her magic wand to do pretty much everything.
45	* ProfessionalKiller: "Un poisson à gages" ("A Hitfish").
46	* SadisticChoice: A villain takes two women hostage, ties each to a bomb on the roof a different building, and taunts the superhero. [[EpicFail Unfortunately for him]], the superhero is Super-Jumeaux (Super-Twins), with the power of being two people instead of one.
47	* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: "Le fameux cirque Patatras[[note]]avec Grouin-grouin, le jongleur de cochons, Dumba, l’éléphant-canon, Aldo le dresseur de mouettes, avec Soizic l'écuyère pétomane, Raoul, le dompteur de trançonneuses, Gustave, le panda mime, les soeurs Zapatof et leur Xylononne, [=TchouTchou=], le nain mangeur de locomotives, et avec sa corale de caniches funambules, sa femme à barbe trapéziste, ses giraffes cracheuses de feu, ses moules savantes, ses ours équilibristes… Et le grand Patatras lui-même, hypnotisant de sa simple voix une nuée de sauterelles sauvages[[/note]]" ("The famous Patatras Circus[[note]]with Oink-oink, the pig juggler, Dumba, the elephant cannonball, Aldo the seagull tamer, with Soizic the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulist flatulist]] horsewoman, Raoul, the chainsaw tamer, Gustave, the mime panda, the Zapatof sisters and their Xylononne, [=ChooChoo=] the locomotive-swallowing dwarf, and with its chorus of tightrope-walking poodles, its trapeze artist bearded lady, its fire-breathing giraffes, its clever mussels, its equilibrist bears... And the Great Patatras himself, hypnotising with his voice alone a swarm of wild grasshoppers[[/note]]"). So long, in fact, there is just a couple of seconds left for the sketch itself...
48	* ShoutOut:
49	** "[[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds La Guerre des Nez]]" ("War of the noses")
50	** The alien taxi driver episode has one to ''Franchise/StarWars'': as the taxi is flying through space, you can see a Tie Fighter chasing an X-Wing.
51	** The entire episode about a washing machine being possessed by the Devil is one to ''Film/TheExorcist'', complete with SuspiciouslySimilarSong.
52	* SpaghettiKiss: Done with two vaccuum cleaners. You can guess what happens when one of them decides to leave the meat ball to the other.
53	* {{Superhero}}:
54	** "Super-Arbre, le super-héros des arbres" ("Super-Tree, the trees' superhero")
55	** "Super-Roi, le super-héros des rois" ("Super-King, the kings' superhero")
56	** "Une aventure de Super-Jumeaux" ("An adventure of Super-Twins") -- notable in that being twins is their ''only'' superpower.
57	* {{Swashbuckler}}: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGdonS3O_ds A swashbuckling movie made by flies]]".
58	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: in "Une animalerie du futur" ("A pet shop of the future") we learn that [[spoiler:dogs tried to wipe out the human race]].
59	* TwinTropes: The author must have loved these, because there are several episodes revolving around twins.
60	** ConjoinedTwins: One episode is about non-conjoined twins who want to become conjoined.
61	** CoordinatedClothes: Twins in the series always have these.
62	** SingleMindedTwins: This is often the case, to the point that they don't just [[FinishingEachOthersSentences finish each other's sentences]], they SpeakInUnison.
63	*** {{Subversion}} in "Deux jumeaux chez le chirurgien" ("Two twins visiting a surgeon"), where the twins want to get plastic surgery but remain identical to each other. They speak in perfect unison until the surgeon asks what they want to change on their face, at which point they give different answers... And end up fighting (a [[FearfulSymmetry perfectly symmetric]] fight).
64	** WonderTwinPowers: Taken to the (il)logical extreme with Super-Jumeaux (Super-Twins), whose ''only'' power is being twins -- but they'll call it "Ubiquity", thank you very much.
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67	->[[SigningOffCatchPhrase Maintenant,]] [[SeenItAll oui.]][[note]]Now, you have.[[/note]]

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