History WebVideo / JoueurDuGrenier

** The ''James Bond Jr.'' has a gameplay scene where the plane piloted by the player is [[OneHitPointWonder instantly destroyed after its hit-box touches a leaf protruding from a tree branch]]. The episode's Mid-Review Sketch ends with the big bad[note]The CEO of Mauvais Jeux Inc. in his first appearance[/note] fleeing in a helicopter and hitting a leaf.
--->Oh, a leaf! [cue kaboom]

** In the ''Harry Potter'' video, the Sorting Hat tells "Texas Granger" (the Hermione Expy) she should be worried to be "two weeks late". Later in the video, she's seen using a pregancy test. Also, there's an early joke that "Henri" got his scar in a traffic accident; [[spoiler:the main villain wants to kill him for running over his mom in said accident.]]

** His ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' ''Jeux en Vrac'' video has Fred note the nonindicative name of the game by holding an actual syphon filter in his hand and quipping that "since I've shown it on screen, it counts as a business expense." The last twenty seconds of the video are dedicated to Fred making as many chores-related puns as possible ("the devs really cleaned up their shit" while holding toilet paper, for example) since "If I show these on screen I can count them as business expenses too!"

** In the ''Daikatana'' video, the section about the game's disastrous sound design has a gag with Jean-Michel Bruitages comitting suicide by defenestration. A few minutes later, the segment about sound design ends with his body's fall landing in Fred's gaming room.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: The ''Bazar'' review of ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' has Seb rate the movie "DGAF out of 20", and Fred liking it even less.
* BrownNote: "If my ears could vomit, they would!" or variations are said about many games' annoying sounds

** "But what I love in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyz95hcUUDA this tutorial]] is when they stop you during the action to give you [[SarcasmMode really useful advice]] like: 'To jump, press the jump button.' Thank you CaptainObvious."

** One of the ''hors-série'' episodes was ''about'' christmas specials: ''Series/{{ALF}}''[='s=] special with the LittlestCancerPatient, ''He-Man''[='s=] special, and ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''.

'''Winston:''' You welcome, [bleep]!

** In the ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer1990'' review during the ''Comics' Videogame Part 2'', to finish the game Fred summons a "Japanese" gamer he introduces as "Mr Nakajima", who angrily retorts he's a Frenchman named "François Lebreton". In the earlier episode ''Unsorted Japanese Games'', the ''Super Monkey Daibouken'' review features the same actor as Kaoru Nakajima, one of this game's real life developer.

* CreepyCrossdresser: Alluded in the ''Links: Faces of Evil'' video about the ugliness of the animated cutscenes, in which Seb mentions that a friendly female NPC actually looks like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen]][[note]]Former leader of the main far-right French political party, and father of its current leader[[/note]] disguised as a woman.

-->Oh, a leaf! [cue kaboom]

** "[[OneHitPointWonder Oh, a leaf.]]"

->''"The year is 2000 AD, and all Gaul is playing high definition consoles. All? No! In one small village, there is a gamer who still holds out against the invaders."''

* BileFascination: InUniverse. The principle of the show is watching a guy reviewing SoBadItsGood[=/=]DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible video games. BileFascination by proxy.

** An audio example in the ''Captain Planet'' review. After Fred dies in ThatOneLevel, he [[StunnedSilence stays still for a few seconds]] before unleashing [[ClusterFBomb an absolute deluge of obscenities]]. We only hear the beginning of it before sound is replaced by a small musical piece... [[ParodiedTrope which proceeds to end to soon]], allowing us to get another glimpse at it before it restarts. "Oops, it seems this musical piece wasn't long enough."

* RelaxOVision: When [=JdG=] mentions that one of the objectives in ''Brad Stallion'' is to ''hump a sheep'', the action is censored by a montage of flowers, as Grenier's horrified screams can be heard.

* YankTheDogsChain: In ''Hook'' for the NES, after going through a painful first level, he is amazed at how surprisingly good the following flying level is, before he realizes said level is also very short. He compares the experience with giving a lollipop to a child just to enjoy taking it away a few seconds later.

* AntiClimaxBoss: InUniverse. [=JdG=] has this problem with ''VideoGame/DarkCastle'', ''Waterworld'', ''VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaGenesis'' (UsefulNotes/MegaDrive) and the ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1989 TMNT NES]]'' game.

** When reviewing ''China Syndrome'' on UsefulNotes/Atari2600, he argues about the plot being "completely unrealistic". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami The video was posted in April 2011 and said plot involves a nuclear incident triggered by an earthquake somewhere in Asia]]... The intentional irony is made even more unsettling by a unusual camera angle while he is saying this.

** At the end of the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture II'' and ''III'' review, Grenier goes back in time to prevent himself from testing the games. As a result, he ends up testing ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' on UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance instead (the Website/YouTube picture even shows that he is wearing the "good game" shirt). At the beginning of the following episode, he's shown reviewing (and praising) that same game with an idiot smile before coming to his senses.

** David Goodenough is ''the'' lazy video-game developer, occasionally with disastrous consequences. His exploits include been involved in a nuclear explosion (no details given) and contributing to the UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 because of his poor job on the ''ET'' adaptation on the Atari 2600. The only commentary he makes about the quality of ''Daemon Summoner'' is "Hey, it's not so bad, and at least the box closes correctly."

** A more discreet (and maybe unintentional) aversion: when he plays ''My Little Pony'' (GBA) on his UsefulNotes/NintendoDS, it has a flashcart plugged in.

** The hoverboard levels in the second ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem game. Hitting any person, dog or sidewalk edge makes the hero lose a life.

* MoodDissonance: In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xHOJ6e2kc special episode]], he reviews ''VideoGame/{{Aladdin|VirginGames}}'' on UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis to demonstrate why he ''doesn't'' review good games. During the entire video, he keeps an angry face and tone... while continuously praising the game.

** Commented while reviewing the UsefulNotes/MegaDrive version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'':

** On ''Batman & Robin'': "This game was made by a company named Probe, so you already know it will live forever in the annals." Cue an UsefulNotes/XBox achievement.

** After playing through ''Back to the Future Part II'' and ''Back to the Future Part III'', he goes back in time to steal these games from himself so that he would never have played them. In the timeline he created, he has reviewed ''My Little Pony'' on the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance instead.

--->'''[=JdG=]:''' The [[UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar Jaguar]] tried to penetrate the market with its 64 bits[[note]]"bit" is pronounced the same as the French word for "dick"[[/note]]... ''[video reeling back]'' That console presented itself as the first 64-bit console.

** In the mid-review sketch of the ''[=RoboCop=]'' episode, a tiktoker snaps at Rob for shooting him, as it was insanely "dangerous", even though the tiktoker what ''drinking bleach'' at the exact time the incident happened.

** In ''Mission: Impossible'', Fred plays an Ethan Hunt expy named "Méthane" (a gas), which would have been "Ethyne" in the English subs.

** In the ''Nightmare Circus'' review, Fred lampshades the fact he'd been doing this a lot.

** "The Worst Toys" includes a few examples of marketing disasters. The most blatant was probably the release of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9decins_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res Médecins Sans Frontières]] action figure line, intended to make children more aware of humanitarian crises in Africa... but also happened to be roughly the same size as ''Franchise/GIJoe'' toys, meaning that kids could now include African civilian victims in their war scenes. Fun for everybody!

** In the ''Harry Potter'' and ''Anniversary Part 2'' videos, the wizardry school parodying Hogwarts is in France but features houses and prefects.[[note]]Outside of Britain, many ''Harry Potter'' readers[=/=]watchers assumed houses and prefects were invented for the series' fictional setting instead of being real aspects of British school system[[/note]]

** The ending of ''Games and Metal'' has Fred and Seb returning the ''Revolution X'' cart to the store they bought it. The scene has been shot in their town's actual videogame store, and the actor playing the store clerk is the store's owner in real life.

-->'''[=JdG=]:''' So, for some reason, ''Cool World'' was adapted into a fuckton of games. On Game Boy, NES, Super NES, Atari ST, Amiga... You've gotta explain the marketing here, I mean, why so many games? Who's gonna buy 'em? Who did you buy games for, back then? Kids! Who's gonna watch this movie? Not kids, I hope, that would be weird!

** When reviewing ''Film/HomeAlone2'' on the [=SNES=], he quickly finds out that an ennemy can kill you if you don't move immediately to the right.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny:
** {{Invoked}} in the first ''Ces jeux qui m'ont marqué'', when Fred explains playing ''Wing Commander III'' at the time of its release blew his mind due to the novelty of a game with so many FMV cutscenes in it, while pointing out it became the norm in the +25 years years which passed since this era.
** Also {{invoked}} in the ''Castlevania'' review, where he mentions that the first game's use of {{Antepiece}}s, gradually ramping of the difficulty as the levels go on rather than throw everything at the player from the start (as was commonplace at the time) seem like obvious game design tips in the present days but were a huge deal at the time.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: InUniverse. Brought up in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb-oHOu3igg review]] of the video game adaptation of ''Film/CoolWorld'':

** The episode about ''Franchise/RoboCop'' games opens with Fred commenting the 1980s trend to produce toys and videogames based on ultraviolent movies (mentioning ''Film/TheTerminator'' and ''Film/RoboCop1987'' as examples of the phenomenon), pointing out the oddity of setting children as the intended target of merchandising based of movies they're not supposed to have watched.

** The episode about ''Franchise/RoboCop'' games opens with Fred commenting the 1980s trend to produce toys and videogames based on ultraviolent movies (mentioning ''Film/TheTerminator'' and ''Film/RoboCop1987'' as examples of the phenomenon), pointing out the oddity of setting children as the intended target of merchandising based of movies they're not supposed to watch.

* AntiClimaxBoss: InUniverse. [=JdG=] has this problem with ''VideoGame/DarkCastle'', ''Waterworld'', ''Franchise/JurassicParkSegaGenesis'' (UsefulNotes/MegaDrive) and the ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1989 TMNT NES]]'' game.

* AntiClimaxBoss: InUniverse. [=JdG=] has this problem with ''VideoGame/DarkCastle'', ''Waterworld'', ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' (UsefulNotes/MegaDrive) and the ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1989 TMNT NES]]'' game.

* NostalgiaFilter: Completely averted since Grenier's specialty is to test old and bad video games. He is quick to remind the audience that the earlier video games didn't have many AntiFrustrationFeature that nowadays would be taken for granted, such as characters automatically facing the opponent in fighting games, that they usually cost an arm or that with the lack of Internet it was very easy to be fooled into buying a bad game.

* MisaimedMarketing: [[invoked]] [=JdG=] comments on this about how ''Film/CoolWorld'', a movie that's quite adult, has so many {{Licensed Game}}s, which you'd expect would be mostly played by children.