Series / Radio Enfer

The cast of Season 2.^note From left to right: Jocelyne Letendre, Léo Rivard, Maria Lopez, Camille Bergeron, Rodolphe Giroux, Carl Charest, Vincent Gélinas, Dominique Vachon, and Jean-Lou Duval.

"You're listening to Radio Enfer!"^note "Vous écoutez Radio Enfer!"

—Any character at the end of nearly every teaser

Radio Enfer (Hell Radio) is a French-Canadian sitcom filmed in front of a Studio Audience that aired for 6 seasons from 1995 to 2001, for a total of 143 episodes. It centers on a group of teenagers who are in charge of the titular high school radio station.

The series begins when Carl Charest, The Leader of the radio crew, fires the only other two members after having a feud with them. To replace them, he decides to hire his cousin, Léo Rivard, as a technician and to hold auditions for new members, which results in Camille Bergeron and Maria Lopez joining the crew. A few episodes later, Jean-Lou Duval joins them as a reporter in charge of covering extracurricular activities. The crew sometimes have to deal with Vincent Gélinas, who is the leader of the student newspaper "Étudiants debout!" ("Standing up student!") and Carl's rival. Other characters introduced during the first season include Jocelyne Letendre (the school psychologist), Rodolphe Giroux (the principal), and Firmin Laplante (a math teacher). Later seasons introduce characters such as Dominique Vachon (who joins Vincent's newspaper crew during her First Appearance), Germain St-Germain, Jean-David Vézina (both he and Germain join the radio crew during their respective first appearances), and Gontran Galgouri (a science teacher) to name a few.

In 2022, the first season's cast reunited for Les Retrouvailles Radio Enfer, a short live show at Gala ComedyHa! Fest. Framed as a 25-year high school reunion, it shows Carl, Jean-Lou, Maria, Léo, Camille and Jocelyne arriving for a party celebrating the old radio crew, and sadly, things didn't turn out as planned for any of them.

The show also got an English-Canadian adaptation titled Radio Active.

Radio Enfer provides examples of:

• The '90s: It started its run in 1995 and ended in early 2001.
• Accidental Misnaming: When Jean-Lou becomes incredibly smart, he accidentally refers to Carl and Léo as Charles and Géo respectively.
• Actor Allusion:
  • In the Season 2 premiere, Maria asks Camille what did she see in Léo. After saying that he's cute (among other things), she adds that he looks like "the guy from 4 et demi" (which was a popular French-Canadian TV series at the time). Robin Aubert, Léo's actor, played a character in that series.
  • Jocelyne is played by Micheline Bernard. During an episode where a secret agent comes to school after mistaking Jean-David for being another secret agent, the agent accidentally keeps calling Jocelyne "Micheline".
• Ageless Birthday Episode: Averted during a Season 1 episode centered on Carl's birthday, which is specifically his 16th one.
  • Which makes the whole timeline of the series extremely weird, as five years total are shown to pass between Seasons 1 and 5, but if the character turns 16 in Season 1, he would only have one more year of high school left (in the French Canadian system).
• Agony of the Feet: Maria stomps on Jocelyne's foot while the latter is wearing a hot-dog costume, thinking it was actually Carl with whom she is angry at.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Maria has a brother who fits this trope and appears at the end of a Season 1 episode where Carl tries to get a date with her. Carl ends up having to babysit the younger brother while Maria goes on a date with some other guy, much to Carl's disappointment.
• Anything but That!: As part of a ploy to make Giroux help Carl get his driver's license so that the latter could give her lifts to school, Maria tries to convince the principal that helping a student get his license would make him look like an endearing father figure, which could then impress the cafeteria cook, Mrs. Champoux (whom Giroux fell in love with). While the principal wonders which student could need his help, Carl walks into the room while being pestered by Germain asking him signs-related questions. Upon realizing that the cocky student is the one he was looking for, Giroux exclaims in a panicky tone "Not Carl Charest!" before reluctantly agreeing to help him with his license.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • In the Halloween Episode, Jocelyne and Giroux debate over which one between the radio crew and the newspaper crew should win a trip to France that they organized. Giroux is convinced it should be the former, while Jocelyne thinks it should be the latter. He then asks her if she realized that she will be spending two weeks with the big mouth that is Vincent Gélinas. Jocelyne then admits he has a good point and agrees that the radio crew members should be the winners.
  • Vincent comments that Jean-Lou is pitiful and would have difficulties finding a place in society due to how slow-witted he is, leading to this exchange with Carl:
    Carl: No, no, no, don't worry. Jean-Lou is perfectly adapted to society because society is built BY slow-witted FOR slow-witted.
    Vincent: Well. You're exaggerating a little, Charest, don't you think?
    Carl: Okay, I exaggerate?
    Vincent: Yeah.
    Carl: Okay, who's the Prime Minister of Canada?^note The answer being Jean Chrétien at the time.
    [Beat]
    Vincent: Yeah, you're right.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: At the beginning of a Season 2 episode, Jean-Lou comments to Camille that there are a lot of misfortunes around the world. She agrees by saying the following:
  Camille: For sure. There are wars in Africa, there are millions of jobless people in Europe, there are billions of people on the poverty line in the United States, and here Jean Chrétien is still Prime Minister.
• Babies Ever After: The Retrouvailles live show reveals this is what happened with Léo and Camille... much to Léo's chargin.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: In the first episode of Season 2, Carl tells Maria about the stuff Léo and Camille did during summer vacation as a couple. He says that Camille managed to "déniaiser"^note a French word that can mean either "to smarten up" or "to lose one's virginity" Léo. Maria thinks Camille made Léo lose his virginity, only for Carl to clarify that Camille made Léo go shopping, much to Maria's disappointment.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game:
  • In a Season 2 episode, Laplante refuses to let Carl pass his math test after learning that the latter cheated (which he only did because he forgot about the exam due to his father making him spend too much time getting ready to succeed the latter in his bowling business). Aware of the teacher's habit of lying, which includes mentioning that he used to be a CIA agent, Léo decides to lie as well by saying that Carl is not a student, but an agent working for the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) who has investigated on a case involving kidnapping in Hollywood. Laplante completely falls for it.
  • In the first episode of Season 3, Maria decides to manipulate Camille and Dominique into hating each other by telling lies regarding the latter dating Léo after the former broke up with him. Once Camille and Dominique realize they've been manipulated, they decide to tell a lie about Maria to the latter's moral teacher, who then forces her to do some homework that Carl was supposed to do.
• The Bet: Several instances of this trope, particularly between Carl and Vincent, such as:
  • Vincent bets that Carl couldn't spend 24 hours without insulting anyone. Carl loses when he insults Jocelyne's husband Gilbert after the latter insulted Jean-Lou.
  • Carl bets that Vincent couldn't beat Jean-Lou in a game of chess (in an episode where Jean-Lou becomes smart after hitting his head during a gym class). Carl loses when Jean-Lou becomes an idiot again.
  • Vincent bets that Carl couldn't be able to get a date with Maria (which was before the latter two hooked up for the first time). Carl wins by convincing Dominique, who is known for being into astrology, to help him in exchange of a part of Vincent's betting money. She falsely predicted to Maria that the next guy who will talk to her will be the right one for her. And when Maria overheard Carl saying that he might finally own his first car, she took this opportunity to have a date with him.
  • Maria mocks her grandmother for knitting and thinks it's ridiculous. Her grandma responds by making a bet about Maria being able to knit anything within a day, with Maria getting $20 if she succeeds. What she ends up knitting ends up in a fire, making her lose her bet.
  • In a Season 5 episode, Carl bets that Germain and Jean-David could build a shelf within a day. If they aren't able to, Maria could then have her new radio show. The bet is cancelled when Maria manages to get a job at a fashion boutique. If the bet hadn't been cancelled, she would have won given that the shelf fell into pieces after Mr. Giroux threw a piece of paper at it.
• Better as Friends: In the Grand Finale, even though they were supposed to get married, Jocelyne and Giroux ultimately decide against it and to remain friends.
• Big Damn Heroes: Carl has to deal with a bully named Magnant, who keeps stealing his money. When Carl refuses to give him money, the bully grabs him and attempts to punch him right in the face, only for Jean-Lou to grab his fist in the nick of time before proceeding to twist Magnant's wrist into submission.
• Blackmail:
  • When Léo refuses to help Carl and Maria cheat at a test, the latter threatens to tell Camille that he kissed some other girl:
    Léo: Hey! That's not even true!
    Maria: I know that's not true, but who do you think she's gonna believe, huh? Her best friend... [angrier tone] or the jerk who cheated on her?
  • Carl decides to pull a prank on Maria because she keeps making fun of his calves (It's a Long Story), but Germain tells him he couldn't let him do that. Carl then replies that he would tell Agathe Vachon-Leduc (Germain's Abhorrent Admirer) where Germain is if the latter tries to interfere.
• Bland-Name Product: One episode has Maria trying to get a job for a company known as Pupperwhale, which is basically Tupperware with a different name.
• Bookends: Carl is the first character to appear in the first episode, ending its teaser by saying "You're listening to Radio Enfer!" while looking into the camera. In the Grand Finale, he's also the last character to appear, looking into the camera as he says, "You have listened to Radio Enfer."
• Borrowed Catchphrase: During the episode where Vincent dates Dominique, he uses her Mad Libs Catchphrase by saying "Like the Robidoux would say, manure doesn't stick on a tractor which had its Simoniz.":
  Carl: Huh, Dominique lent you her Robidoux proverb dictionary? Gotta say it's serious [between you two] and it's real!
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs:
  • When Carl complains about the possibility of giving two more hours of airtime to Maria, who would spend that time talking about lipsticks and Mel Gibson, Jean-David then states he had no idea that Mel Gibson wore lipsticks.
  • While filling out the form for her honeymoon, Jocelyne laughs at how funny it is to write Rodolphe Giroux's name as the spouse, only to find it weird as well. She then thinks about writing Brad Pitt's name on it, only to find it weird too and think about writing "Brad Giroux" instead.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Teaser nearly always ends with one of the characters directly looking to the camera and saying "You're listening to Radio Enfer!" In most cases, it was justified, due to the fact they were in a radio booth with a window leading to the cafeteria, meaning they could have simply looked at the students present in said cafeteria. Other times, they did it outside of the radio booth, thus actually breaking the fourth wall in those cases.
  • In one case, Vincent even grabs the camera and restrains it in place so that the cameraman wouldn't bother Carl and Maria while the latter two are busy making out.
• Broken Record: After Dominique and Jocelyne lie by saying that Germain became a millionaire, Carl keeps saying "Oh boy, oh boy..." in shock. It's only after Maria falsely claims that Claudia Schiffer is in the cafeteria that he snaps out of it.
• Brown Bag Mask: When the student association is hosting a poll to determine who is the most popular radio host, Jean-Lou is among the most popular ones while Vincent is the least popular. The latter tries to imitate the former's style in order to increase his popularity. However, this instead makes him even less popular, causing a riot among the students. As a result, Vincent decides to wear a brown bag mask to hide his identity during one scene.
• Building of Adventure: Almost every episode takes place at school, with the large majority of them taking place entirely inside of it.
• Call-Back:
  • During an episode where Maria tries to film a workout video for a contest, Jocelyne mentions to her hand puppet Frisou that one time when they called her husband Gilbert to complain about him, which happened earlier in the Little Red Riding Hood episode.
  • After Ms. Pitzikini arrives at Maria's Pupperwhale presentation, the teenager presents her to Mr. Giroux and brings up the fact that he once came to Pitzikini's fashion boutique:
    Giroux: [looking very interested in her] You recognize me?
    Pitzikini: [bluntly] Not at all.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Léo's mother comes to school in order to talk to Camille about the latter breaking up with her son. When Léo shows up, he starts ranting to his mother about the latter still treating him like a 3 years-old kid.
• Cannot Keep a Secret:
  • Jocelyne feels the need to tell to both Jean-Lou and Mr. Giroux that Carl was depressed after he filled out a psychological test (he wasn't depressed, he just didn't care about the test).
  • In that same episode, Jean-Lou explains to Vincent that he should be kind to Carl because of his depression, only to remember that Jocelyne told him to keep it a secret.
  • During the episode following the one where they hooked up for the first time, Carl and Maria reveal to Vincent and Camille respectively that they were no longer in love with each other, with the latter two having to promise not to tell anybody about it. Camille accidentally tells it to Vincent, who then ends up telling it to her as well because he was tired of keeping it a secret.
• Cassandra Truth: As part of Dominique's social experiment, Germain lies to Carl and Maria, claiming that he won $1 million. At the end of the episode, he finally comes clean and admits that he's not a millionaire. Maria thinks he's suffering from amnesia and hits him with a frying pan, but he explains that he lied so he could get their support in order to become the president of the International Frog Collector Association, resulting in Maria wrongly believing he still has amnesia and repeatedly hitting him in the head with the frying pan.
• Chased Off into the Sunset: Some episodes end with someone chasing someone else out of the radio crew's room.
  • The Halloween episode has Jean-Lou accidentally insulting Mr. Giroux, causing the radio crew to lose the opportunity to win a trip to France. Vincent then arrives, congratulating Jean-Lou because the newspaper crew ended up winning the trip. This is followed by Jocelyne arriving and announcing that the trip was unfortunately cancelled, but that it'll be replaced with a trip to Ottawa. Vincent is disheartened, given that his parents brought him to that city too many times during family trips. He then starts chasing after Jean-Lou in anger.
  • One episode has Camille suffering from a burnout, so the other characters agree to replace her with all her chores while she is taking a break for a week. Once she comes back and realizes she now has a lot of free time, Jean-Lou asks her if she's willing to teach him how to be a DJ, which happened earlier in the episode and turned into a disaster. Camille's reaction is to angrily ask Jocelyne where is the baseball bat that she used during her therapy session and proceeds to chase after Jean-Lou.
  • Vincent decides to do a video about the radio crew for one of his courses, filming the crew over the course of the episode. At the end, it turns out he edited the video in a way that made fun of the radio crew. Camille responds by destroying the VHS tape, only for Vincent to reveal he made a copy. This is immediately followed by the radio crew and Jocelyne chasing after him.
  • Jean-Lou comes up with an idea for an invention, which consists of a rat trap. Laplante helps him build the trap and even manages to sell it to a manufacturer. He then makes Jean-Lou sign a contract which gives to the latter the full rights to the invention. However, it's only immediately after the signature that Laplante admits the manufacturer's teckel ended up stuck in the invention, resulting in the manufacturer suing in response. Realizing that Laplante managed to shift the blame entirely on Jean-Lou thanks to the contract, Jean-Lou, Carl, and Maria chase after Laplante to get their hands on the contract. However, unlike other instances of this trope, Maria manages to block the door to the radio crew's room, resulting in Laplante electing to run into the radio booth and shutting the door.
  • Jocelyne has been dreaming of owning an off-road vehicle. She was hoping to get the money for it by being a speaker at several conferences (with a pretty good salary) over several years. When one such conference, where she was suffering from amnesia due to several blows to the head done by a frying pan, results in her no longer being able to do conferences, Germain points out that she won't get her off-road vehicle because of that. Jocelyne then asks "What off-road vehicle?", making Germain realize she's still suffering from amnesia and tries to hit her again with the frying pan. It ends with Jocelyne running away from Germain, while Carl, Maria, and Dominique are trying to stop him.
• Christmas Episode: The first season had one, which included a gift exchange between the main characters that turned into a disaster, and a play based on The Nutcracker.
• City with No Name: It's never specified in which city the school is located.
• Clip Show: Downplayed. Two episodes feature flashbacks to two or three previous episodes, but it only lasts one single scene before they move on with the rest of the actual plot.
• Closet Geek: In spite of his general cool guy demeanor and manner of dressing, Carl plays Dungeons & Dragons with Leo on lunch periods, and is dedicated enough to it that he'd make up a lie about his grandmother being deathly ill to not miss a game for a meeting with M. Giroux.
• Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Maria's father once promises her that he will give her a Mobylette if she stops thinking about guys all the time. She agrees to it, only to have a hard time keeping her eyes off Giroux's nephew, Carol.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: While practicing speleology with Vincent and Léo at school, Dominique is able to reach the part above the girls' locker room. Both Vincent and Léo fight over going there as well, with the latter pulling the former's pants to prevent him from going there, thus exposing Vincent's underwear much to Léo's amusement.
• Continuity Nod:
  • In a Season 2 episode, when Vincent, Dominique, and Léo are practicing speleology with the school's air vent, the latter says he isn't in a hurry to go there because of the big, disgusting critters with tattoos on them. This is a reference to a Season 1 episode where Léo traveled through the school's air vents and came across critters that fitted that description.
  • At the beginning of an episode where Dominique has to deal with a feud between her divorced parents, Jean-Lou arrives to the room by excitedly saying that the others can vote for him. Carl then asks in annoyance if Jean-Lou is presenting himself to the elections again before adding that the latter shouldn't count on the former to help him out again, referencing an episode from the previous season where this happened. Jean-Lou then replies it has nothing to do with elections, but rather with a survey to determine who's the most popular between the radio hosts.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: When Laplante learns that Carl, Léo, and Maria cheated on his math test, he interrogates each of them to figure out how they did it. When interrogating Léo, Laplante threatens to make him watch all the school's concert band rehearsals.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot:
  • One episode has Giroux installing a security system following the theft of some equipment at the radio crew's room. Carl, Maria, Germain, and Jean-Lou all end up stuck there because of that. At the end, it's revealed that Galgouri borrowed the equipment and left a note to Giroux, who forgot to read it alongside other notes. When Carl and Maria learn about this, they're not amused in the slightest.
  • Another episode has both Carl and Camille failing at a chemistry exam in Galgouri's class. They then try his newest invention, a helmet that gives you the right answers to an exam. Ultimately, Carl still fails at a history exam, while Camille decides not to use the helmet and still gets an excellent grade at said history exam. At the end, it's revealed that their lower grades were because Galgouri used another machine he invented to automatically correct exam copies in his place and make him save time. After the machine gives a grade of 9,000% to the bully known as Killer Barrette, Galgouri realizes his mistake and gives better grades to Carl and Camille. The latter goes from 42% to 92%, while the former goes from 8% to 38%.
• Courtroom Episode: After Carl launches a rubber band and hits one of his teachers' eye, Mr. Giroux wants to give him two weeks of detention. Vincent then suggests that a trial should be made in relation to this because he was outraged by Giroux using more disciplinary methods due to the school inspector Carole Péloquin. The trial is approved by Péloquin herself, who serves as the judge for this trial, which also has Giroux as the plaintiff, Vincent as Carl's lawyer, and Jean-Lou as the witness.
• Crossword Puzzle: Jean-Lou decides to do some of those in one episode to forget about his worries. The episode ends with him trying to solve the last crossword puzzle he has, which is an eight-letter word describing someone "who acts or talks foolishly". Carl and Vincent (who are angry that Jean-Lou revealed to Jocelyne that Carl wasn't depressed at all, thus preventing them from getting anything they wanted) decide to give him the answer by simultaneously yelling "IMBECILE!" to him.
• Cue the Flying Pigs: A carpenter assistant named Raymond has trouble getting work done because of something that happened during his childhood, so Jocelyne decides to help him with his problem and succeeds. When Vincent learns about this, he is so surprised by the fact that Jocelyne proved to be an efficient psychologist that he is convinced there is a hen somewhere in the world that started growing teeth. This is a reference to the French saying "...when hens will have teeth", which has the same meaning as "...when pigs fly".
• Curtain Call: Each episode ends with all the actors who appeared in the episode breaking character and walking towards the cheering audience.
• Disguised in Drag:
  • During the Halloween episode, the members of the radio crew have to disguise as each other. Carl is the one forced to dress like Maria, much to his displeasure.
  • Another episode has Jean-Lou putting on a dress to participate in a personality contest. Although in this case, he had no idea that only girls were allowed to participate until being told by Carl.
  • One episode has Carl and Vincent do that to infiltrate a girls-only reunion.
  • Jean-David and Germain do this in order to help out with Maria's new job at a fashion boutique by pretending to be customers.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Alexandre Dusseault-Dumont, the star of a Show Within a Show, once made fun of the fact the writer of his show had trouble coming up with new names for the characters. The writer responds by killing off his character.
• Distracted by My Own Sexy: While going to the washroom because of a Potty Emergency, Carl is distracted by seeing his reflection in the mirror.
• The Door Slams You: Done several times to some of the characters within the radio crew's room, like when Giroux is testing a security system only to get hit in the face when Jean-Lou opens the door.
• Dope Slap: Often done to Jean-Lou when he says or does something stupid, usually by Carl.
• Double Standard:
  • One episode has the girls writing fake letters to have fun at the expense of the guys who would respond to them and see which one would receive the most letters. Léo overhears this and tells Carl about it, while also saying that he felt betrayed by Camille. Carl then comments that when a guy is too in love with a girl, she takes him for granted and looks for someone else... before angrily adding that it's only guys who are supposed to do that.
  • Soon after, in that same scene, Carl says to Léo that if they were the ones who wrote fake letters, they would have been called mean monsters, machos, and sexists.
• Double Take:
  • Maria has this reaction after Jocelyne announces that she decided to become a bachelor and thus divorce from her husband Gilbert.
  • When Maria is preparing a Pupperwhale presentation, she makes sure everything is okay while checking the location for said presentation:
    Maria: Okay, my Pupperwhale dishes will remain there, I'm gonna place my vice-president here, my guests will be a little bit everywhere, I'm gonna be over there... [notices a rat behind the couch] the rat won't be h... [looks back at the rat again] The rat!? [jumps on the couch and screams at the top of her lungs]
• Downer Ending: The Retrouvailles live show reveals things didn't turn out all that good for the crew in the 25 years since graduating: Carl is a radio DJ in the middle of nowhere (specifically, Matagami), Maria sells off-brand fashion accessories at a flea market on the outskirts of Quebec City, Léo and Camille are a bit miserable with seven children and an eighth on the way, Jean-Lou is the school janitor and still lives with his mother, and it turns out Jocelyne lied about her psychology credentials all along. And while Léo and Camille ended up together, Carl and Maria's relationship didn't last.
• Dream Sequence: One episode has Vincent telling Dominique about various dreams he had, with Dominique trying to find out the meaning of those dreams using a book. At the end of the episode, it's revealed he never had those dreams and made them up because he wanted to be closer to Dominique after learning they were step-siblings.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Jocelyne hires a sergeant (played by Alain Zouvi) to help her out guiding students to their future career after she becomes the school counselor. He turns out to be this trope immediately after Jean-Lou signs up to join the army.
• Duck Season, Rabbit Season: One episode begins with Carl depressed for getting a grade of only 8% on his chemistry exam. Vincent jokes about Carl not studying correctly while he was at Maria's home. Carl then points out that he at least has a girlfriend, while Vincent points out he at least didn't have 8%. They kept using the same arguments until:
  Carl: No girlfriend!
  Vincent: 8%!
  Carl: 8%!
  Vincent: No girlfriend!
  Carl: Eh!
  Vincent: Hey, that's enough!
• Dumbass Has a Point: The teens once complain about the prices at the cafeteria becoming too expensive. Jean-David then suggests that there should be a second cafeteria that would serve as a competitor, which in turn would force the actual cafeteria to lower its prices. Germain thinks it's a good idea, only for this trope to be immediately subverted when Jean-David adds that having two cafeterias would make it possible to eat twice for the same price, causing everyone else to be reminded that he's an idiot (although Vincent thinks the overall idea has merits and they decide to make their own cafeteria).
• Ear Ache: Giroux does this to both Carl and Dominique during separate Season 5 episodes:
  • When Carl claims on the radio that Giroux has drawn a mustache on a poster of Pamela Anderson, Giroux angrily interrupts the radio show by pulling Carl's ear.
  • After everyone realizes they've been manipulated by Dominique, they agree with Giroux's suggestion of making her do a week of community service after school. The principal then drags Dominique out of the radio crew's room by pulling her ear.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The first season had quite a few things that made it stand out from the following seasons. For starters, the first two episodes took place in an entirely different room before the students moved to the more well-known one for the rest of the series. The music for the opening credits sounded a little bit differently. Also, Vincent's newspaper crew included three rarely seen students, instead of only him and Dominique (the latter being introduced in the second season), and they occupied the radio crew's former room instead of the radio crew's former CD closet.
• Easy Amnesia: Jocelyne hits herself with a frying pan in one episode to prove that one can avoid feeling pain with enough concentration, leading to this trope. Other characters get hit on the head with it throughout the rest of the episode (some more than once), but she's the only one who seems to suffer from amnesia every time she gets hit.
• Election Day Episode: The episode "L'école en campagne" ("The School in Campaign") is about Jean-Lou running for First Cycle President because he always liked election campaigns. He loses at the end, but he then decides to run for Class President.
• Embarrassing First Name: After constantly being asked questions about being in the army by the main characters, Sgt. Brodeur starts breaking down and complains that his superior is constantly giving him orders all while yelling his last name as if like he never had a first name when that's obviously the case, leading to this exchange:
  Vincent: Oh yeah? What is it?
  Sgt. Brodeur: ...Arnaud.
  Maria: [gleefully smiling] Arnaud? Oh, it's so cute!
  Sgt. Brodeur: Oh yeah, I know it's cute, but nobody calls me that anymore. They only say "BRODEUR! BRODEUR! BRODEUR!"
• Enemy Mine: During an episode of the first season, back when they still disliked each other, Carl and Vincent decided to work together so that Giroux wouldn't be transferred to another school and be replaced by another principal, whom Vincent compared to Freddy Krueger.
• Engineered Public Confession:
  • After Giroux is fired by Carole Péloquin (the school inspector) and replaced by Laplante as the principal, Maria gets the idea of making Laplante state out loud how he truly feels about Péloquin without being aware of her presence. It works, resulting in Péloquin allowing Giroux to get his job back.
  • Vincent spends almost the entirety of Season 5 having a crush on Camille without having the courage to tell her about it. In the season finale, having enough of this, Carl decides to make Vincent express his feelings in the radio booth after discreetly turning on the microphone. Everyone at the school hears it... except Camille, who is listening to her Walkman at that moment.
• Epic Fail: A carpenter named Raymond manages to renovate Jocelyne's office and even goes so far as to add a window to the nearby room. Jocelyne is pleased by it... until she realizes that the other room is the men's washroom.
• Everyone Can See It: Léo's feelings for Camille before they hooked up, according to Carl:
  Léo: Carl... do you think there are many people who noticed about me and Camille?
  Carl: No, no. No, seriously, not that many. Only those who have two eyes.
  Léo: Stop joking! [I mean,] Jean-Lou, for instance...
  Carl: No, Jean-Lou has eyes. It's just he doesn't have a brain to understand what he sees.
  Léo: And Camille?
  Carl: Oh, I don't know about Camille. I should go ask her [about it].
• Exact Words:
  • After Giroux complains to Vincent that he gave the former only 38% while grading the school staff in his newspaper, Carl tells the principal that he would have given him a rating higher than that. Giroux thanks him for his support and leaves before Vincent criticizes Carl for being such a bootlicker. The latter replies that he never said he would give the principal a rating higher than 40%.
  • One episode has the following exchange occurring right after Laplante enters the radio crew's room:
    Carl: Oh, no. Not Mr. Laplante. Not my favorite teacher.
    Laplante: Don't be a bootlicker, the Cat Charest. I know you hate my guts.
    Carl: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. "NOT my favorite teacher."
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Giroux once mistakes a nurse for Ms. Huguette Champoux (whom he was dating at the time), not realizing that she is actually her sister, Laurette. When the latter clarifies who she is, she adds that Giroux is the second person to make that mistake that day, the first being Carl:
  Giroux: Yeah, but it's him who told me that... [realizes what happened and starts to frown] Ah, he wanted to mock me, huh?
• "Eureka!" Moment: When Laplante becomes principal instead of Giroux, he starts abusing his power, which makes Giroux comments that, at this rate, Laplante would become someone like Pinochet, Napoleon, or Stalin, and how big his ego had become. Maria then gets an idea on how to have Laplante be fired from that job, which consists of making him say what he really thinks of the school inspector Carole Péloquin without knowing of the latter's presence.
• Facepalm: Jocelyne once manages to make her hand puppet Frisou do this in response to her husband Gilbert Comically Missing the Point regarding going on a movie date with her.
• Fate Worse than Death: Played for Laughs. In the first episode of Season 3, when Camille learns that something happened to Léo, she worries that he might be dead. Maria then replies with a deadpan tone that it's actually worse than that and it turns out Léo's father bought a motel in Miami, thus forcing him and his family to move there.
• Feud Episode:
  • A Season 5 episode has Camille telling Vincent that Carl seemingly insulted Maria by calling her a "tarte" (which literally means "pie", but is a French slang to refer to someone as an idiot), with Vincent publishing an article about it. Once Carl and Maria learn about it, all four of them are angry at each other until they eventually reconcile.
  • Another episode has Dominique has manipulating Mr. Giroux into hating Carl, Carl into hating Maria, Maria into hating Germain, Germain into hating Vincent, and Vincent into hating Maria. She does this as part of a psychological exercise to have them all releasing tensions and frustrations by getting their anger out of them. At the very end, once they realize they have been manipulated by Dominique, they stop hating each other in favor of hating her.
• First Girl Wins: And First Boy Wins too, in the Retrouvailles stage show it's revealed that Léo and Camille reunited at some point and have had eight children together in the past four years.
• Flash Forward: In a Season 2 episode, Dominique tries to predict what will happen to the then-current main characters when they will become adults. This is used as a framing device for a high school reunion set in the future. Although, considering some of the things that happened to the characters in the following seasons, that high school reunion will likely not happen the way it was portrayed in that episode.
• Forgotten Anniversary: One episode has Carl forgetting the sixth month-anniversary of him dating Maria (which is very important to the latter, due to the fact she never had a relationship that lasted that long), which causes him to try to find a gift for her before the end of the day.
• Framed Face Opening: From Season 3 onwards, the opening credits are done this way.
• Freudian Slip:
  • When Vincent accidentally tells Carl that Dominique is his sister, he immediately fixes that mistake by saying that he meant she's his sister metaphorically speaking.
  • After Vincent gains the reputation of being a really good kisser, Maria asks Carl to get some lessons from him. When Carl tries to ask Vincent about it, he accidentally says, "Vincent, kiss me." Carl is embarrassed and Vincent is taken aback by this until the former corrects himself and asks, "Show me how to kiss, okay?"
• Fun with Acronyms:
  • Before Sgt. Brodeur convinces Jean-Lou to join the army, the former tells the latter that, in the army, what he needs to keep in mind is the word ANE (which is the French word for "donkey"). It stands for "Annihilate the enemy", "Neutralize the enemy", and "Eliminate the enemy".
  • When Galgouri mentions that he intends to quit the school, he says that he plans to join the M.I.T. At first, the other characters think he's referring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, only for Galgouri to clarify that he's actually referring to the "Mouvement des inventeurs de Tétreaultville" ("Tétreaultville Inventor Movement").
• Funny Answering Machine: Carl recorded the message on the answering machine in the radio's room, resulting in what follows:
  Carl: You have reached the radio's room, but we cannot answer. Maria is primping herself in the washroom, Camille is trying to grow up, Jean-Lou still hasn't understood how the phone works, and I am recording this message.
• G-Rated Drug: In the second episode of Season 2, Camille takes some pills to lose weight she gained during summer vacation. She ends up doing and saying things that made no sense, like sharpening a felt-tip pen and obsessing over an extremely tiny stain on her desk.
• The Ghost: Several characters are mentioned throughout the show but never appear, particularly some of the teens' respective relatives. There are also other students that are mentioned but never appear, including Agathe Vachon-Leduc (a girl Carl once described as looking a bit like Hulk Hogan, and whom Germain was scared of) and Sarah Gagné (a girl who's considered to be one of the hottest at school by the guys).
• Got Me Doing It: After Carl gets upset because of some mistakes done in relation to him in the yearbook, Dominique wonders out loud why he's so upset while talking in a Totally Radical way. Vincent then points out she just talked like Jocelyne likely because of often she hangs out with her and warns her that at one point everyone will refer to her as Jocelyne Jr.
• Grand Finale: The Season 6 finale, which centers on Jocelyne and Giroux's wedding, along with the students getting ready for the prom and going their separate ways.
• Groin Attack: When Maria and Camille are hired as camp counsellors, they practice with their friends some of the games they'll be doing at the camp. One game consists of having Vincent stand on a plank of wood and lift him until he reaches the ceiling (although it was part of a prank to scare him, as he never reached the ceiling and only thought so because Maria held a book right above his head). While trying to stand on the plank, Vincent trips and hurts his groin against it.
• HA HA HA—No:
  • Jocelyne tells the teenagers that they are having a day off. They are quite happy about it (except for Germain, who wanted to make his oral presentation for his chemistry class about zinc and cobalt), until she tells them that it's because of a special day she's organizing for the Joy of Life Week. Maria then asks if they couldn't just go to their courses instead, to which Jocelyne replies with this trope.
  • Carl is carrying a garment bag when he comes across Jean-David also carrying a garment bag. Upon realizing this, Jean-David cheerfully tells Carl that they are alike, only for the latter to briefly chuckle and say "No." before leaving.
• Halloween Episode: The first season had one, which included the radio crew disguising themselves as each other.
• Harmless Electrocution: Several characters end up being electrocuted without dying. One such example is in the Season 2 finale when Vincent officially becomes a member of the radio crew. The episode ends with him getting electrocuted when he turns the microphone on, with said electrocution happening as part of his initiation.
• Heroic BSoD: Upon being told that Germain won a million dollars (which wasn't true at all), Carl is so shocked by it that he keeps saying "Oh, boy..." over and over and nothing else. He does the same thing later on in that same episode upon learning that Jocelyne is suffering from amnesia, and once more when she is bleeding at the head. Maria makes him snap out of it by claiming that Claudia Schiffer is at the cafeteria.
• High School: It goes without saying that this is the main setting of the entire series.
• High-School Sweethearts: A flash-forward episode portrays Léo and Camille as this trope, even though later episodes indicate it will likely not happen.
• Hilarious Outtakes: Almost every episode ends with bloopers shown during the end credits.
• Hypno Pendulum: Jocelyne uses one to hypnotize Jean-Lou and Carl in one episode where she becomes an hypno-therapist.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • Jocelyne wishes good luck to Vincent for an interview he was having, with the latter saying that she should wish him 'crap' instead (wishing 'crap' to someone in French is the equivalent in English of wishing someone to "break a leg"). Jocelyne then prevents him from fully saying that word, stating a student can get a week of detention from school psychologists for saying it. This is immediately followed by her having trouble dipping a baby-cut carrot in a dipping sauce, exclaiming 'Crap!' in annoyance.
  • One episode revolves around the teens playing a game with a teacher named Hervé Duguay, in which case they use nerf guns to kill their opponents. Mr. Giroux catches Camille and Vincent playing that game and reprimands them in his office, telling them to grow up. They agree, only for Hervé to show up and shoot Giroux, revealing that the latter was playing that game as well. Naturally, the principal earns a glare from Vincent and a smug smile from Camille, much to his embarrassment.
  • Another episode has Camille, Maria, and Jocelyne complaining about men, due to Camille's then-boyfriend, Fred, going to a concert with his ex because Camille wasn't available. The three of them complain about how men are treating women as if like they were their slaves, all while giving orders to Jean-Lou like if he was their slave.
  • Carl once lies to Jean-Lou by saying he had an indigestion to explain why he didn't help the latter with his homework. This is immediately followed by Laplante (who is known for lying rather frequently) criticizing Carl for lying.
  • During an episode where he kept being bullied by Killer Barette, Germain thought the bully's name was weird, causing Carl to reply:
    Carl: Oh yeah, you're one to talk, Germain St-Germain.
  • When Carl tries to use Vincent's apartment for a date that he is planning to have with a girl named Catherine, Vincent is angry when he finds out about it, with Dominique agreeing by saying "Carl, it's really bad to invade someone's private life like that." The irony being that she herself invaded Vincent's private life during that episode.
  • Germain tries to tell Jocelyne and Dominique about him wanting to be the president for the International Frog Collectors Association, but they both ignore him while having their own conversation. Then, Dominique asks Germain what he thinks about people's reaction when someone becomes a millionaire, only for the nerd to reply that he wasn't listening. This is immediately followed by both her and Jocelyne criticizing him for that, with Jocelyne saying that it's very impolite to not listen when someone talks.
• I've Heard of That — What Is It?: When Camille tells Vincent and Dominique that she managed to invite Marie-Thérèse Schmout (a world-renowned anthropologist), they're both excited, only for Vincent to ask who is she.
• I Have This Friend:
  • Jocelyne asks Maria and Camille some advice to meet a man for a 'friend' of hers that the teens apparently never met. Both Maria and Camille could tell right away that she was talking about herself.
  • One season later, she does the same thing by telling Camille and Dominique about a 'friend' of hers who has a problem. Immediately, Dominique bluntly tells her that she has no friends and is obviously talking about herself.
• I Read It for the Articles: After Vincent agrees to publish Carl and Léo's Joe the Hamster comic in his newspaper to fill out two pages, said newspaper becomes more popular than ever. He complains about how people are reading it only for the comic. Dominique tries to reassure him by stating that maybe people are reading his articles, only for Vincent to sarcastically reply "Oh yeah. We're becoming like Playboy; people are reading us for our articles!"
• Iconic Sequel Character: Dominique, Germain, Pr. Galgouri, and Jean-David are all major characters who were introduced after Season 1.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction:
  • Mr. Giroux tells Camille that the janitor, Mr. St-Georges, is a professional who knows what he's doing. Soon after, Jean-Lou, who is in the room behind Giroux's office while working under St-Georges' orders, accidentally makes a hole in the wall with a drill, with the hole being not too far from the principal's head:
    Giroux: [traumatized] Phew! I almost ended up having a third eye!
  • In response to Dominique believing that Vincent is having a neurosis, Jocelyne says what follows:
    Jocelyne: Vincent is a very balanced lil' guy. I only have good things to say about him. Aside from the fact he's arrogant and a complete nerd.
  • After Vincent says that girls are obsessed with their bodies, Carl says the following while looking at a magazine:
    Carl: I don't understand why. It feels like they think that guys like us are only attracted by looks even though frankl... [notices the picture of a hot-looking girl] Eh, boy! Have you seen that hottie! [Vincent excitedly comes over to look at the picture.]
  • Giroux has to do a report on the radio crew. He tries to motivate himself by saying that he has to do it by himself and that he doesn't need any help. This is immediately followed by him spotting Dominique walking by his office and telling her that he needs her help.
• Inadvertent Entrance Cue:
  • One episode has the teens working on a stage show adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. They need someone to play the grandmother. Maria says it needs to be someone who's not afraid to be ridiculous. A few seconds later, Mr. Giroux shows up and says he had this feeling he arrived at the right time, not knowing what the teens have in mind.
  • When Dominique starts planning for an anger-related psychological exercise involving the other main characters, she realizes she first needs an idiot for it. Cue Giroux entering the room.
  • Maria has to prepare a Pupperwhale presentation in order to become a saleswoman for that company. Carl comments that the only people who goes to those kinds of presentations are people who are tacky and with no life. This is immediately followed by Giroux entering the room and being excited at the sight of the Pupperwhale products brought by Maria.
• Intimidating Revenue Service: When Laplante tries to find out how Carl, Maria, and Léo cheated on an exam, he claims that he made people tougher than Léo talked before. Carl sarcastically asks if it was during the Vietnam War or when he was working for the CIA, like Laplante claimed to have done. The latter replies that it was when he was working as a taxman.
• Is This Thing Still On?: Happens quite a few times. For example, The Teaser for a Season 1 episode has Léo saying "Testing, testing, 1-2, check..." to the microphone before Carl tells him that he's on the air. Léo promptly faints, given that he's rather shy when it comes to talking in public.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When Jean-Lou tries to come up with ideas for making an invention during a contest, he suggests lights that are on when it's daylight and a car whose engine works with a photoelectric cell. Laplante, who is forced to help Jean-Lou, points out that the former wouldn't work if it's nighttime and that the latter wouldn't work either if the sun was covered by a cloud.
• "Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal: Among the questions the teenagers use to question Sgt. Brodeur's flawed logic, Vincent asks him if he would jump off a bridge if his superior ordered him to do so. Brodeur replies that his superior would never ask him to do that. Carl then asks him if he's sure about it. Brodeur tries to come up with an argument, only to reply "No."
• Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: When Jocelyne tells the teens that the Minister of Education would send a school inspector for an anonymous visit, she explains how she became aware of it:
  Jocelyne: It's Mr. Giroux who told me that.
  Carl: And you rely on that?
  Jocelyne: Of course not! No, but my hairdresser, the pretty Line, has a cousin who knows someone who has a brother who works with the ex-wife of a mechanic who often changes the engine oil in the deputy minister's car, who told him that.
  Camille: Oh, THAT is much more reliable for sure!
• Lame Pun Reaction: After Camille makes a pun with the word "speleology" by calling Léo "Spéléo Rivard", the latter is unable to genuinely laugh at it because, seeing how he is no longer in a relationship with Camille, he doesn't feel obligated to laugh at her jokes.
• Language Barrier: One episode features a girl from Edmonton named Pamela, whose native tongue is English. She is friends with Camille and has come in town to learn French for one week, while Camille would come to Edmonton with her the following week. Carl tries to seduce her by speaking English and making a bilingual song for her. As for Jean-Lou, he has a lot of trouble understanding her (and vice-versa). Pamela manages to improve her French by the end of the episode after dating Carl.
• Later-Installment Weirdness: For the final season, the music for the opening credits sounds quite a bit different from how it did between Season 2 through 5. Also, every episode except for the second part of the Grand Finale starts with a Framing Device involving Jocelyne stuck in a freezer and telling to a camera the circumstances that led to her being stuck there.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the first episode of Season 2, when Jean-Lou appears in the radio crew's room, he proudly exclaims that "Radio Enfer is back!" Of course, he's referring to the fact that the radio station is back after the summer vacation, but he could also be referring to the fact that the series was coming back for a second season.
• Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: In the Season 1 finale's final scene, Carl decides to make everyone except Léo and Camille leave the room so that his cousin could finally reveal his feelings to his crush.
• Let's See YOU Do Better!: Mr. Giroux once makes two contests where two students would be able to become either principal or psychologist for a day, replacing Giroux and Jocelyne respectively, so that students can see how hard it is to be in their shoes. Vincent becomes the principal for a day, while Camille becomes the psychologist because Jean-Lou submitted her name. At the end, after Vincent is unable to do anything productive, Giroux appears with an Étudiants debout! newspaper he made himself where he criticizes the student's incompetency before admitting the whole point of this contest was so that Vincent would know what it's like to be criticized after a day of work like that.
• Like an Old Married Couple: One episode has Camille and Vincent having to pretend that they're a couple for a few days as part of some homework for their moral course. Camille starts to act like her grandmother, which causes Vincent to act like his grandfather.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Vincent learns that his father also happens to be Dominique's father. He's thus forced to break up with her, the latter never knowing who her real father is.
• Mistaken for Cheating:
  • During the episode where Carl and Maria hooks up for the first time, the latter becomes extremely jealous when she sees the former dancing with another girl, immediately breaking up with him. In reality, the other girl is Maria's own cousin, Louisa, who was teaching Carl a few dance moves with a CD she brought with her.
  • Dominique manipulates Carl into believing that Maria is cheating on him by saying she had a date with someone else whom she's waiting a phone call from. In reality, Maria is planning a surprise for Carl by organizing a meeting between him and his idol, a DJ known as Super Full Max.
  • While Carl is practicing kissing with a mannequin named Annie, both Dominique and Camille see him with the mannequin and think it is a real person from afar, thus causing them to think that Carl is cheating on Maria. Not too long afterwards, Maria enters the room and makes the same mistake, even going so far as to furiously slap the mannequin in the face before realizing her mistake.
• Mistaken for Gay: Bisexual in this case. When Jean-Lou asks Camille out for dinner, Laplante starts laughing obnoxiously and thinks the former has a crush on the latter. Then, Jean-Lou asks Fred out for dinner as well, causing Laplante to be confused and ask the former if he also has a crush on Fred. Jean-Lou replies by sarcastically imitating the teacher's obnoxious laugh. In reality, Jean-Lou is inviting both Camille and Fred separately in order to stop a feud between these two.
• Moment Killer: Just when Vincent is about to finally reveal his feelings to Camille, Carol (Camille's ex) appears in the room, much to Vincent's frustration. Fortunately, Carol is only there to announce that he's no longer in love with Camille, and it doesn't take too long before Vincent admits to Camille that he loves her.
• Mustache Vandalism: One episode begins with Carl claiming on the air that Mr. Giroux did this on a poster of Pamela Anderson. Hearing the teenager making this lie makes Giroux furious, even more so after learning that it was Carl himself who drew a mustache on said poster.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: After learning that Dominique is his sister, Vincent is under the impression that Carl is trying to seduce her and that she has a crush on him. He tells Carl to stop doing that, who bluntly tells Vincent at the end that he isn't trying to seduce Dominique and vice-versa, much to the young journalist's relief.
• Naked People Are Funny: Carl makes Galgouri believe that the latter's invisible potion works so that he could make a fool of himself during a job interview and not be hired. That's exactly what happens afterwards, as Galgouri removes his clothes during the interview to show that he's invisible, only to end up naked and scare the female interviewer away.
• Nepotism: When Jean-Lou asks Carl how to get a job, the latter tells him to bring a CV to whichever company he wants to work for. Jean-Lou then asks what they will do with the CV, to which Carl jokingly replies that they usually throw it to the garbage and hire the boss' children.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After Giroux learns that Jocelyne has chosen him to be her spouse for a honeymoon contest, he's convinced that it's a good thing after Germain reads an excerpt from a romance novel to him. Dominique then points out how ridiculous these novels are, which makes Giroux change his mind and put the contest form into the paper shredder. It takes less than a minute later before Dominique realizes the mistake she committed.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • One episode features a talent agent named Ronnie Angello, whose name was inspired by René Angélil (Céline Dion's late husband and manager).
  • Another episode has Camille being able to get an interview with Marie-Thérèse Schmout, a world-renowned anthropologist who spent 30 years studying primates in Africa and who brings to mind Jane Goodall.
• Not What It Looks Like:
  • Carl and Maria are both stuck in the radio room and decide to practice a scene from Romeo and Juliet to pass time. However, Jean-Lou enters the room and is moved because he thought the moment they had was so cute, not realizing that they weren't a couple. He then accidentally locks them in the room to Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone. Carl and Maria have to explain what was going on in order to make him open the door.
  • During her first day working in a clothing boutique, Maria has to deal with Carl wanting to get some excuses from her for not telling him about the real reason why she was rude to him for one week. She reluctantly agrees to kiss him in order to apologize and make him leave. Just as they are kissing, her boss arrives and thinks that is how Maria is treating customers, having no idea that Carl is actually her boyfriend.
• Obfuscating Stupidity:
  • A subverted example: Laplante thinks that Jean-Lou is the kind of guy who pretends to be stupid in order to date girls after seeing the latter asking Camille out to a dinner (which was part of a plan Jean-Lou came up with to make Camille reconcile with her then-boyfriend, Fred), only for Jean-Lou to say that he's not pretending.
  • Maria pretends to be a naive bootlicker to make Laplante talk and make him insult the school inspector Carole Péloquin so he could lose his job as the principal.
• Oh, Crap!: This happens so frequently that listing every instance would take all day. This includes that time when Carl realizes he forgot to send the invitations for Maria's Pupperwhale presentation.
• One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Jocelyne and Giroux have a discussion before taking part in a stage show. The former is talking about her relationship with her husband Gilbert, while the latter is talking about having difficulties concerning the one line he's supposed to say during the stage show. By the end of it, Jocelyne is under the impression that Giroux agreed to go on a date with her in order to make Gilbert jealous.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Every time Jean-Lou declines to eat something, it's a sign that he's not in a normal state.
  • Vincent notices that something wrong is happening to Carl because the latter didn't insult the former at all for an entire day, which is because Carl is preoccupied with his father wanting him to take over his bowling business.
  • Jean-Lou thinks it's odd when Carl is reading his horoscope in a magazine for girls and when Maria forgets Jean-Lou owed her money (not knowing that Carl and Maria just had their first romantic kiss the day before). Giroux also finds it odd when Maria is arguing in Carl's favor about an upcoming talent contest:
    Giroux: [to Maria] Since when are you defending Carl?
    Jean-Lou: Ever since she no longer cares about money and that Carl is reading his horoscope.
  • Vincent finds it strange when his father calls him "my dear son" right before revealing the truth about Dominique being Vincent's sister:
    Vincent: "My dear son"? It must be really serious.
  • After Giroux makes a compliment on her outfit, Maria finds it odd that he's being so nice to her. He then mentions that the school board sent him a new directive about trying to be closer with his students. At the end, it turns out said directive was from a piece of paper that was from five years ago and thus outdated.
• Pie in the Face: After reading in a magazine for women that women love to be surprised, Galgouri puts a pie on Jocelyne's face to surprise her. He does it again to her the next day (this time for comedy), except with plaster because he ran out of whipped cream.
• Playing Drunk: As part of his initiation to join the radio crew, Vincent has to pretend to be drunk and insult the adult of his choice. He decides to insult Carole Péloquin, Jocelyne's childhood friend... which then backfires when Péloquin reveals that she's the school inspector coming for an anonymous visit and decides to give the school a negative report.
• Post-Kiss Catatonia: Vincent is telling the other main characters that, while having a CPR course with Sarah Gagné (an unseen character often considered by guys to be one of the hottest girls at school), his mouth-to-mouth practice with her, which became a kiss, was so good that she fainted. The others have a hard time believing that, so he decides to kiss the nearest girl to prove it, which ends up being Camille. The latter's reaction after being kissed by Vincent is this trope.
• Potty Emergency:
  • During Maria's first day of work at a fashion boutique, her boss notices she is moving her body like someone who needs to go to the bathroom. Maria then replies that she hadn't gotten the chance to go to the bathroom ever since she arrived at the boutique, making her boss say that she only needed to say it and allow her to get rid of this problem.
  • Carl has this problem during an episode where he and Jean-David are watching a women's beach volleyball game on TV at school.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: Joël Marin (Vincent) was added to the opening credits starting with the second season. Isabelle Drainville (Dominique) was also included for those of the third, fifth, and sixth seasons. Micheline Bernard (Jocelyne) and Vincent Magnat (Germain) were included since the fourth season, while Pierre Claveau (Giroux) got this treatment for the last two seasons. Finally, both Bruno Blanchet (Galgouri) and Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge (Jean-David) were added for the last season.
• Rage Breaking Point: When Carl is mistaken for being depressed and wanting to drop out of school after he fills out a psychological test, he takes advantage of it by getting anything he wants from everyone else trying to be kind towards him. Vincent tries his best to not be angry towards him and his demands. That is until Carl asks him to bring a nearby garbage can closer to him.
• A Rare Sentence: During the episode where Vincent is dating Dominique, the former's father states that he never thought he would ever say the words "Vincent's girlfriend".
• "Rashomon"-Style: This is the plot of the Season 4 finale. Vincent tries to figure out who stole a prize envelop during a gala. High-strung Camille, who was in charge of the whole night, sees everyone as moving in slow motion, while Maria's version is similar to a soap opera (complete with love and betrayal). Jean-Lou's version (which nearly broke Vincent) was a children's TV show and focused on a cake instead of the prize.
• Readings Blew Up the Scale: Laplante is accused of a crime and given the lie detector treatment. Once the detector is functioning properly, he tells a lie about how he apparently fought King Kong while protecting his students. The device immediately breaks down in smoke.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • When Jocelyne's then husband, Gilbert (a shoe salesman who collects McDonald's toys), visits the school, he insults Jean-Lou over his appearance. Carl then gives him the following speech:
    Carl: Hey! That's enough with the bad jokes! Before talking about others' face, have you seen yours?! Have you ever seen your face in a mirror?! Probably not. You must not be able to last more than five seconds in front of a mirror! Now listen to me well, Jean-Lou may not be all that, but he won't end up a shoe salesman, okay?! And besides that, he doesn't collect McDonald's toys, is that clear?!
  • Jocelyne's younger sister, Sylvie, shows up to film a report about the school. However, her older sister keeps making all the decisions regarding said report. Eventually, Sylvie's breaking point is when Jocelyne tells her not to film Maria working at a restaurant they are eating at, claiming the teenager isn't photogenic. This leads to the following conversation:
    Sylvie: Jocelyne?
    Jocelyne: What?
    Sylvie: I'm fed up with you.
    Jocelyne: Huh? Talk louder, I didn't hear you.
    Sylvie: [screaming and getting Jocelyne and everyone else's attention] I'M FED UP WITH YOU! It's been a week since I'm trying to do my report on the school, and it's been a week since you're not leaving me alone! "Do this, do that, don't do this, don't do that", you never stopped! Every time I had an idea, you always had a better one! You prepared questions for all my interviews, you booked my appointments by yourself without asking me, you even decided what I would be eating for every lunch hour!
    Jocelyne: [nervous] I-I just wanted to help you.
    Sylvie: No, you don't wanna help me! You wanna manipulate me, control me, lead me! You wanna live in my shoes!
    Jocelyne: But Coucoune...
    Sylvie: DON'T CALL ME COUCOUNE ANYMORE! [giving Jocelyne a Death Glare] Don't call me anymore!
• Rescue Romance: Carl saves a girl who was knocked out in the chemistry lab after he saw smokes coming from the lab and heard someone coughing loudly from it. Unfortunately, that girl is Manon Boutin, with whom Carl is not attracted to at all and who becomes an Abhorrent Admirer to him, much to his annoyance.
• Reveal Shot: Jocelyne is shown talking to someone about her husband Gilbert. It's then revealed that she’s actually talking to her hand puppet, Frisou, who is sitting on a pile of books on top of a chair.
• Riddle for the Ages: Jocelyne went on a trip to Las Vegas, but completely forgot what happened during that trip. Fortunately, some pictures were taken during said trip, with one of them revealing that she won $25,000. However, Jocelyne realizes she has no idea what happened to all that money, and the episode ends immediately after.
• Right Behind Me:
  • While talking with Mr. Giroux, Vincent is badmouthing Carole Péloquin without realizing that she's right behind him. Carl tries to warn him, but Vincent doesn't catch on until it's too late.
  • Carl claims while on the radio that Giroux drew a mustache on a poster of Pamela Anderson. Vincent tries to make him stop after noticing that Giroux is standing right outside the radio booth and listening to what Carl is saying, but the latter keeps going until the principal grabs him by the ear.
• Rummage Fail: Maria tries to find her ATM card from her purse, but keeps pulling out items like a tissue box, a slinky, a lantern, and a brick, resulting in Carl making the following snarky comment:
  Carl: Do you have an entire hardware store inside of that? Because you could ask the little clerk in your purse if he hadn't seen your card.
• Running Gag:
  • Maria's habit of dumping her boyfriends after only one week.
  • Vincent criticizing Mr. Giroux in his newspaper.
  • Vincent being made fun of for not having a girlfriend.
  • Camille being made fun of for her small stature, including comparing her to The Smurfs.
  • Laplante's habit of lying by claiming he did some amazing things at the age of 16 while living in Denmark just to impress everyone else, such as being a CIA agent.
  • Whenever Jean-Lou notices that he's annoying Carl, the former will ask "Couch?", while the latter will reply "Couch!" This is followed by Jean-Lou sitting on the couch behind Carl's desk and remaining quiet.
• School Newspaper News Hound: The school newspaper "Étudiants debout" subvert it and play it straight (except for the production values which are treated rather realistically). Its main writer, Vincent Gélinas, uses it to smear anyone he doesn't like (or at least Accentuate the Negative), while screaming "It's a SCANDAL!!!", including the principal (which backfired spectacularly). In fact, in an aversion of this trope, the newspaper club's (of which Vincent soon becomes the only member thanks to his jerkassery before getting a new member with Dominique) budget gets cut quite often when the principal has enough of his crap. In the later seasons, though, he's shown to be capable of being a competent journalist following his Character Development (unfortunately, the damage is already done and he always ends up being the only one reading his own newspaper):
  Vincent: [after getting another budget cut] My next editorial will be bloody! [makes quick throat slashing noises] Even if I have to write it on toilet paper!
  Mr. Giroux: Good. For once, your newspaper will be useful for something.
• School Play:
  • One episode has the teens being forced to make a school play based on a fairy tale that would appeal to elementary school students so that their radio station (and the newspaper) wouldn't be shut down after a prank Carl pulled on Mr. Giroux.
  • A recurring subplot during the fourth season revolves around a radio play written by Vincent.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Giroux tries to help Carl getting his driver's license, only to get hurt in a car accident. This results in the principal having his head wrapped around in bandage and unable to speak properly. When Carl mentions that he's thinking about getting a license to drive a motorcycle instead, Maria asks Giroux if he would be willing to help the teenager with that. The principal's response is to scream in panic and run out of the radio crew's room.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy:
  • In a Season 3 episode, Dominique is convinced that Camille can predict the future and asks her to predict the questions for an upcoming history test. When Camille mentions that she dreamed the other night that she and the others would fail their test, Dominique thinks it was because they didn't know in advance what the questions were and tells her to predict them. They end up failing the test anyway and likely wouldn't have failed it if it weren't for Camille's failed predictions.
  • In a Season 5 episode, thanks to a technique that allows someone to predict the future with teacups, Galgouri checks a prediction aimed at Camille. Said prediction states that a man close to her will put her in danger. As a result, he tries to protect her, only to end up becoming the one that put her in danger in the first place.
• Series Continuity Error: A Season 5 episode has Maria trying to help Dominique get the attention of some guy named Rénald Langlois. At one point, Maria says that a future first boyfriend is a big step and that Dominique shouldn't panic. However, by that point in the series, the latter already dated characters such as Léo, Vincent, as well as Vincent's brother Cédric.
• Share Phrase: The Teaser for the first five seasons always ends with one of the main characters saying "You're listening to Radio Enfer!", usually while hosting their radio show.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Maria teases Léo in the first episode of Season 2 by saying he is too shy to hold his girlfriend's hand, with the girlfriend being Camille. Léo then instinctively says "She's not my...!", causing Camille to be offended while he remembers that they are indeed a couple.
• Shoo Out the Clowns/Shoo Out the New Guy: Every character who appeared during the final season appeared in the second part of the two-parter Grand Finale, with the exception of Germain and Jean-David, who were both comic reliefs. Both of them were sent to the hospital because of an accident caused off-screen by Jean-David in the previous episode. This was likely done so the finale could focus on the characters introduced in the first two seasons. Averted with Galgouri, who was also a comic relief character introduced after Season 2, and yet managed to appear in said Grand Finale and have a prominent part in it.
• Shout-Out:
  • Several references to Asterix have been made:
    • In one episode, Laplante tells a 'true story' about how the daughter of an Eskimo chief was madly in love with him. Jean-Lou then points out it's similar to the plot of the then-latest Asterix movie, which was Asterix Conquers America. Laplante tries to save face by saying that Albert Uderzo was inspired by Laplante's story to make that movie.
    • After Vincent wrote a children's book, he gets interviewed by Jean-Lou who claims that Vincent, by talking about trees on page 63, plagiarized other works such as Asterix and Lucky Luke simply because those other works also featured trees, much to the young writer's annoyance.
    • Camille becomes obsessed with a pretty boy named Éric during an episode. At the end, she gets over it and apologizes to him for using a perfume he was allergic to while also explaining "When I see a perfume bottle, I'm like Asterix, I have to fall into it." In this case, she made a mistake given that it was Obelix who fell into the magic potion.
    • Another episode focuses on Galgouri thinking he managed to invent a potion that makes anyone invisible. At the end of said episode, Jocelyne sarcastically comments that it's time to make a big banquet and for everyone to eat boars.
  • There are also a few references to Batman:
    • Jean-Lou is trying to lose weight, with Maria suggesting him to follow Michelle Pfeiffer's personal diet:
      Maria: That's a diet for you.
      Jean-Lou: With meat and sauce!?
      Maria: No. No, it's a yogurt-based diet, but it works. Because before this diet, it wasn't Catwoman she was supposed to play in "Batman 2", it was the Penguin!
    • During a Season 4 episode, Carl is embarrassed when the others see him wearing a pajama with Batman's logo on it that his mother bought for him but that he doesn't like.
    • The teasers of Season 6 focus on Jocelyne inside a freezer. In one of them, she says that she is starting to understand what Mr. Freeze's wife must be feeling.
  • In the first episode of Season 3, Maria jokingly comments that, given how often Camille has travelled around the world and if she keeps doing that, there'll eventually be a show called Where in the World is Camille Sandiego?.
  • When Carl and Léo become popular thanks to their comic published in Vincent's newspaper, they start wearing sunglasses to remain incognito, causing Dominique to call them The Blues Brothers.
  • While talking to Carl and Camille about a Goth teenager named Cassandre, Jocelyne refers to her look as an "Addams Family" look.
  • When Laplante claims he had an ancestor who lived in the time period of pharaohs and whose name was Nemesis I, fellow teacher Hervé Duguay asks him from what dynasty said ancestor came from. Laplante, misunderstanding the question, replies that he doesn't know because he doesn't watch that show.
  • After Carl makes a blunder by making fun of a renowned talent agent named Ronnie Angello without knowing who he was beforehand, Maria introduces Carl to Angello by calling the former "Gaston Lagaffe".
  • When Jocelyne is threatening Laplante over his refusal to help Jean-Lou for an upcoming inventor contest, both Maria and Camille hum the Dragnet theme in a threatening manner.
  • Vincent teaches Carl how to behave for his upcoming trial and tells him to take some inspiration from "the guy from Primal Fear". Later in that same scene, Vincent tells Carl, regarding his hesitation, to take some inspiration from Paul Newman in The Verdict.
  • There are two instances where Vincent compares somebody to Freddy Krueger:
    • The first time is in Season 1, when he learns that Giroux is going to be replaced by a guy named Martial Boulet as the principal. According to Vincent, some people say that Boulet is "like Freddy Krueger but without the human side."
    • The second time is upon seeing Dominique's atrocious new haircut during a Season 5 episode, where he jokingly wonders if Freddy was the one who cut her hair.
  • After Mr. Giroux started pulling Carl's right ear because the teenager told a lie about the principal on the air, he eventually stops pulling him by the ear about one minute later after Camille says that Carl is going to look like Dumbo if the principal doesn't stop.
  • After seeing Germain and Jean-David acting like idiots (by dope slaping each other and getting into a Wimp Fight) while trying to build a shelf, Carl refers to them as Laurel and Hardy.
  • There are also several references to The Smurfs, particularly when making fun of Camille's short stature.
    • Maria drinks some potion invented by Galgouri that is supposed to brighten the complexion. Unfortunately, she ends up getting a blue skin for six hours, causing everyone (herself included) to make Smurfs-related jokes:
      Maria: [after screaming in horror upon seeing her blue skin] MY LIFE IS OVER! Carl would never wanna date the Smurfette.
  • Carl gets a job as a waiter in a restaurant, where his uniform includes red pants, a red long-sleeved shirt with several yellow buttons on the front, and a rounded red hat. Upon seeing him in that outfit, Camille jokingly asks why he's dressed like Spirou, much to Carl's annoyance.
• Skewed Priorities: Jean-Lou almost found the cure for cancer after he became incredibly intelligent and was about to play a game of chess against Vincent for the purpose of a bet made by Carl. After he loses his intelligence, Camille laments the loss of the cure, while Carl is enraged that he lost $35.
• Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: When Giroux tells Carole Péloquin that Laplante is nothing more than a little liar, the latter denies that, asking for a lightning to strike him if that's the case. All three of them look up and, naturally, nothing happens given that they're inside the school.
• Spit Take: Vincent's father does that when Dominique mentions that her mother's name is Micheline Vachon, who was a woman he met after having a dispute with Vincent's mother. This makes him realize that Dominique is actually his daughter, thus making her Vincent's half-sister.
• Split-Screen Phone Call: In The Teaser for the first episode of Season 3, Carl is calling Maria and telling her he had a nightmare where it was the first day of school, only for Maria to tell him that it is the first day of school. This causes Carl to scream in horror.
• Status Quo Is God: Jean-Lou becomes smart for one episode. He goes back to being an idiot by the end of it.
• Stock Sitcom Grand Finale: The Grand Finale fits this trope to a T. The main characters are present together one last time in the radio crew's room as the teenagers are ready to go to the prom. They have an emotional moment as they realize things will never be the same again. They have a Group Hug before leaving, with Carl being the last one in the room. He takes a Long Last Look at the room, breaks the fourth wall as he says, "You have listened to Radio Enfer." to the camera, turns off the lights, and adds "Ciao baby." before finally leaving. The last thing we see as the credits roll is the empty room.
• Strange Minds Think Alike:
  • One episode has an inspector named Colomb comes to school. Vincent then says it's the same name as the guy who discovered America (Christopher Columbus is known as "Christophe Colomb" in French). The inspector has no idea what the teenager is talking about and says that he shares his name with Christophe Colomb, which is the name of a boulevard. Later, when the inspector says his last name to Giroux, Vincent once again mentions the guy who discovered America. Giroux is confused by it before the inspector once again says he shares his name with Christophe Colomb, causing the principal to realize he's referring to the boulevard.
  • When Carl and Vincent end up stuck inside a freezer, Carl sarcastically says that the rest of their friends will rescue them and that the cafeteria's freezer is always the first place to search. When Germain finds them a few minutes later, he says the following in a non-sarcastic way:
    Germain: Well, I knew I would find you here. The cafeteria's freezer is always the first place to check.
  • While talking with a beggar, Jean-David tells him that "It's hotter in summer than in the countryside." As a response to this, the beggar gives him a plastic lobster claw, seemingly as a gift. As it turns out, the beggar was actually a secret agent whose job was to give the lobster claw (which is actually a microfilm that contains a list of all Canadian spies) to another agent whose password is what Jean-David said.
• Sure, Let's Go with That:
  • Dominique thinks the reason Vincent is breaking up with her is simply to make her suffer because of all the times she refused to date him beforehand, not knowing that it was because they are related. Vincent then pretends that's the reason instead of telling her the truth.
  • Maria was acting rudely towards Carl for one week because she was nervous due to getting herself ready to have her dream job of working in a clothing boutique. Carl assumes she was rude to him because he refused to let her do her new radio show. Not wanting to let him know about her real reason, Maria pretends that is indeed the reason.
• Take a Third Option: During a Season 6 episode, Carl has to choose either Camille or Dominique's idea for the prom, as all three of them are involved with organizing it. Camille's idea consists of a costumed prom, while Dominique's consists of something conceptual (like being mimes or wearing a grocery sack on the head). Ultimately, Galgouri suggests a prom themed after South-American culture, which everyone agree is a good idea.
• Take That!:
  • In the third episode of Season 1, Léo paints two big circles on a door. Carl jokingly asks him if he is drawing Mitsou (a Quebecer singer who was popular at the time and who had a generous chest). Léo then jokes that he is actually drawing her IQ.
  • After Carl fails to replace some host for a professional radio station, the program director sends him a compensatory gift. Unfortunately, much to Carl's annoyance, said gift was a CD of Lynda Lemay songs (also a Quebecer singer). He then decides to give it to Dominique, saying the CD is almost as funny as a stand-up show starring Patrick Huard (a comedian who dated Lemay at the time).
  • When Maria's cousin, Louisa, comes to school and asks if they could play a CD of Latino music she brought with her, Carl says it's fine as long as it isn't a CD of Julio Iglesias songs.
  • One episode starts with Maria trying to find her Backstreet Boys CD. When Carl notices a CD on her desk thinking it's the one she's looking for, it turns out to be a Carmen Campagne one (a popular Quebecer singer for children). Camille finds it amusing that Maria has a Carmen Campagne CD of all things (not knowing that Maria took it from her younger brother so he would stop playing it so often), only for Carl to say the Backstreet Boys pretty much have the same age demographic. Later, in that same scene, he says 10 cents is about what a Backstreet Boys CD is worth for.
• Tap on the Head: This is how Jocelyne gets the Easy Amnesia mentioned above by hitting herself with a frying pan. It becomes a Running Gag throughout the episode. For the ending credits, instead of the usual Hilarious Outtakes, they play a montage of every single time someone gets hit on the head by the frying pan (or on the hand, in the case of Dominique).
• The Tape Knew You Would Say That: One teaser has Jean-Lou cleaning the room with a broom until he comes across a cassette tape player. He presses on the play button, causing Carl's voice to be heard from it and say, "You're listening to Radio Enfer!" Confused, Jean-Lou opens the tape player and asks "Carlou?", only to hear Carl's voice once again coming from it and shouting to him to close it, which he does so while being even more confused.
• The Teaser: Every episode starts with a teaser, usually of someone talking in the radio booth and saying something funny before finishing with "You're listening to Radio Enfer!" It's usually, but not always, unrelated to the plot of the episode. For the sixth season, the teasers are about Jocelyne stuck in a freezer and telling to a camera the circumstances that led to her being stuck there, which serve as a framing device for the entire season.
• Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him: In the first episode of Season 6, Carl is mad at Maria because she decided to go to a different school than his after graduating from high school, while Maria is mad at Carl because he forgot to give her a letter stating that not only she was selected for an interview to her preferred school, but she had to make a dress that very same day in order to be accepted. They use this trope while Maria is busy making her dress and using Jean-David as a model, with the latter clumsily repeating what these two are saying and getting hurt by Maria's needle every time he repeats what Carl is saying.
• Tempting Fate: In the Season 5 premiere, Vincent and Dominique have a discussion in the radio crew's room before being interrupted by Jean-David. After the latter leaves, Vincent says to Dominique "We should continue talking about the newspaper before being disturbed by another imbecile." This is immediately followed by Mr. Giroux entering the room to ask them a favor.
• That Came Out Wrong:
  • Camille and Vincent have a homework where they have act like a couple for one week. Here is what happens when they explain it to Carl:
    Vincent: As you can see here, it's been one hour since we're married, but it feels like it's been ten years!
    Camille: [angrily confused] Huh?!
    Vincent: It didn't come out the way I wanted.
  • In that same episode, when Ms. Pitzikini (whom Giroux is attracted to) mentions that she has to deal with the debts left to her by her late husband, we have this exchange:
    Giroux: Oh, you're a widow?
    [Ms. Pitzikini nods.]
    Giroux: Superb!
    [Pitzikini looks offended.]
    Giroux: My condolences.
• To Make a Long Story Short: Vincent is stuck listening to a carpenter assistant named Raymond talking about his tools. Then, similarly to Clue:
  Raymond: So, to make a long story short...
  Vincent: Too late.
• Torture for Fun and Information: While Rodolphe's brother Raymond is interrogating Laplante about a crime he's accused of, he runs out of conventional methods and decides to resort to using a phone book to torture him. Laplante later reveals to the radio club that this actually involved Raymond reading every single name in it, from Aaron to Zybovitch. Laplante finally broke at Zabovitch (for an alibi that innocents him, but still).
• Training from Hell: Jocelyne hires an army sergeant to help her out after she becomes the new school counselor. Immediately after Jean-Lou signs up to join the army, the sergeant makes him go through one of these. It takes the intervention from Carl, Maria, and Vincent for Jean-Lou to get out of this training.
• Truth Serums: Galgouri once invented a relaxing herbal tea, which makes a person so relaxed that their personality is completed changed to the point that they say anything that comes to their mind. Carl decides to use it on Camille, Vincent, and Dominique because they refused to let him participate in an interview with famous ape specialist Ms. Schmout (the reason being that Carl kept making fun of the latter). This leads to an embarrassing moment where Vincent and the two girls almost cause Schmout to leave because they keep insulting her during a practice interview before she gives them a second chance. After the three of them learn what Carl did, they decide to give him a taste of his own medicine, only for Schmout herself to accidentally drink the tea and make a fool out of herself during the official interview.
• The Unreveal: Maria once called Vincent something so mean that it made him cry. It's never revealed what that insult was.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: While discussing ideas about a comic they are making starring a character named Joe the Hamster, Carl and Léo come up with the idea of Joe dating a girl and marrying her, only to realize it was a dude.
• Valentine's Day Episode: The first season has one, which revolves around Carl and Maria competing to get the biggest amount of Valentine's Day cards, while Jean-Lou is depressed due to not having a girlfriend.
• Very Special Episode: A few of them, including one about Germain smoking. Turns out he smoked just to avoid going to a military school his father insisted he would go to.
• We Named the Monkey "Jack": Steve Robidoux, Dominique's former neighbor, had a pig named Rodolphe, which is also Mr. Giroux's first name, much to the latter's annoyance. Subverted in that Steve never even heard of Giroux by the time he decided to give his pig that first name.
• Wham Episode: "Le terrible secret" ("The Awful Secret"), which has Vincent learning that Dominique is his half-sister after he finally managed to hook up with her, only to be forced to break up with Dominique without the latter knowing the real reason behind it.
• Wham Line: Vincent's father telling to his son that Dominique is the latter's half-sister:
  Vincent's father: [after explaining that his wife kicked him out of the house] So, I wandered around. Then I met a woman at St-Pite... [chuckles nervously]
  Vincent: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! If you want to tell me that the woman in question was named Micheline Vachon, that she was living on the Dripping Road, that you two have a daughter, and said daughter is Dominique, I don't wanna know!
  Vincent's father: Vincent, tone it down!
  Vincent: How am I supposed to tone it down?! It's been two years ever since I've been interested in her, that I am madly in love with her, it's finally working, and BANG! She would be my sister!?
  Vincent's father: She IS your sister! And you can't date her!
• Wham Shot: Vincent falls in love with the owner of a lost backpack after reading a poetry book and listening to a cassette tape of Inuit music. He learns that the backpack belongs to Sarah Gagné, one of the hottest girls at school, but is heartbroken to learn she already has a boyfriend. At the end, Carl notices Camille holding the same book and cassette tape, with Camille saying that these two items belong to her and that she let Sarah borrowed them before the latter lost her backpack. This makes Carl realize that Vincent has fallen in love with Camille, with neither of them being aware about it.
• What Does She See in Him?: In the Season 2 premiere, Maria asks this to Camille about Léo.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Carl lies to Camille by saying that his grandmother was in the hospital, possibly even dying, all so that he could play a game of Dungeons & Dragons with Léo instead of going to a meeting with Mr. Giroux regarding moving to another room. Camille doesn't take it well once she realizes it was a lie.
• Whole-Plot Reference: One episode has Germain being befriended by some other student named Max. However, it's later revealed that the latter just wanted to bring him to a diner where other teens would make fun of nerds they 'befriended', similar to the movie The Dinner Game, which is pointed out by Carl at the end.
• Whoopee Cushion: Galgouri and Carl use it to pull pranks on other characters during an episode. Both Galgouri and Jean-David end up farting for real instead.
• Worthy Opponent: In a season 6 episode, after Carl helps Giroux decide whether or not it's a good idea to get married, the latter thanks the former and tells him that they've been two good enemies, thanking the latter and his friends for making him feel alive over the course of the show.
• Write Who You Know:invoked Vincent once wrote a book about five rats at odds with two ferrets. The rats were based on the radio crew, while the ferrets were based on Vincent himself and Dominique. There's also a character named Cruncher Paquette, based on Killer Barrette. Once the latter learns how he was portrayed in that book, Camille then tells Vincent that he would likely spend more than just one week at the hospital if the bully crossed his path.
• You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses: Vincent says this to Maria when she's angry at him, adding he's also easily able to bleed from his nose. She responds by simply raising her arm in anger, causing him to run away in fear.

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