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Correcting a typo in a celebrity's name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StA9phane_Bern)


* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The [[BitCharacter Bit Personality]] of episode 101 is TheDandy, with an annoying aristocratic accent and a lot of cheerful disdain. His mannerisms were inspired by journalist Stéphane Berne, and called Stéphane Burne after him ("burne" being colloquial for "testicle").

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The [[BitCharacter Bit Personality]] of episode 101 is TheDandy, with an annoying aristocratic accent and a lot of cheerful disdain. His mannerisms were inspired by journalist Stéphane Berne, Bern, and called Stéphane Burne after him ("burne" being colloquial for "testicle").
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** Invoked in the last episode ever released: the team spends the first third of the episode looking for the long gone character of the Man with the Tie, because Mathieu gets asked about him at every convention. The meeting is awkward, because Matheiu doesn't want him back on the show, and the Man with the Tie doesn't care to say anything to the audience.
--> ''The Man with the Tie:''' Welp, see you in five years.

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** Invoked in the last episode ever released: the team spends the first third of the episode looking for the long gone character of the Man with the Tie, because Mathieu gets asked about him at every convention. The meeting is awkward, because Matheiu Mathieu doesn't want him back on the show, and the Man with the Tie doesn't care to say anything to the audience.
--> ''The '''The Man with the Tie:''' Welp, see you in five years.
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The show's uniqueness comes from the host's SplitPersonality, making him assume different identities (The Geek, The Hippy, The Boss, The Professor, The Panda, and formerly The Girl) reacting in their own ways and even [[TalkingToHimself discussing with each other]] for [[HilarityEnsues maximum comedic effect]].

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The show's uniqueness comes from the host's SplitPersonality, making him assume different identities (The (the Geek, The Hippy, The the Hippie, the Boss, The the Professor, The the Panda, and formerly The the Girl) reacting in their own ways and even [[TalkingToHimself discussing with each other]] for [[HilarityEnsues maximum comedic effect]].



* TheBusCameBack: When Mathieu tries to get himself in the [[TookALevelInKindness spirit of the earlier seasons.]]
--> '''The Girl:''' Yay, I'm back!
** Invoked in the last episode ever released: the team spends the first third of the episode looking for the long gone character of the Man with the Tie, because Mathieu gets asked about him at every convention. The meeting is awkward, because Matheiu doesn't want him back on the show, and the Man with the Tie doesn't care to say anything to the audience.
--> ''The Man with the Tie:''' Welp, see you in five years.



** The Professor has "It's a very good question !" and "You see, it's simple...", the Hippy has : "You took too much [drugs], dude !" and the Boss has only a catch word : calling everybody "Kiddo".

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** The Professor has "It's a very good question !" and "You see, it's simple...", the Hippy Hippie has : "You took too much [drugs], dude !" and the Boss has only a catch word : calling everybody "Kiddo".



* ContinuityNod: In episode 87, the Hippie happily claims that he got a door to make jokes about in relation to a video. In episode 90, as Mathieu acknowledges that his argument is kicking down an open door (=beating a dead horse), he illustrates the idiom by acting it out. Cue the Hippie complaining about the treatment to his door.



--> '''Hippy:''' "Duuuuuuuuuuuuh !"

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--> '''Hippy:''' '''Hippie:''' "Duuuuuuuuuuuuh !"



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The [[BitCharacter Bit Personality]] of episode 101 is TheDandy, with an annoying aristocratic accent and a lot of cheerful disdain. His mannerisms were inspired by journalist Stéphane Berne, and called Stéphane Burne after him ("burne" being colloquial for "testicle").



* TookALevelInKindness / TookALevelInJerkass: While Mathieu gets meaner and angrier with every seasons, later episodes almost exclusively tackle corporations or genuine assholes and the system that suports these people, while earlier episodes mocked random people who were just being awkward online. The Season 5 finale, in which [[spoiler: Mathieu is killed by the mourning brother of someone DrivenToSuicide by his mockery]] , shows that he is aware of his impact and that the change was a conscious decision.



* SelfDeprecation : Regarding its "competition" with WhatTheCut, apparently. In a late episode of season 4, during a (fake) FAQ where a fan asks him how it feels to have less subscribers than Antoine Daniel, Matthieu flips his shit and threatens said fan before asking for another question. And then, in a skit during episode 100, Matthieu can be seen wearing a "I prefer WhatTheCut anyway" T-shirt.

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* SelfDeprecation : Regarding its "competition" with WhatTheCut, WebVideo/WhatTheCut, apparently. In a late episode of season 4, during a (fake) FAQ where a fan asks him how it feels to have less subscribers than Antoine Daniel, Matthieu flips his shit and threatens said fan before asking for another question. And then, in a skit during episode 100, Matthieu can be seen wearing a "I prefer WhatTheCut WebVideo/WhatTheCut anyway" T-shirt.


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* SpearCarrier: Minor personalities appear every once in a while in an episode, such as [[ChurchMilitant the Monk]] (to dicuss religion and/or purity culture), [[LeatherMan the Nazi]] (to discuss fascism), [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ronald McDonald]] (to discuss capitalism), [[CorruptHick the Redneck]] (to be the discriminatory moron) and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the Man with the Tie]]. The gimmick of season 6 was supposed to have a new personlity with every episode ([[TheDandy Stéphane Burne]], the Old Man and the Caveman).

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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When they initially appeared, the Boss and the Geek were respectively a cynical businessman and a trollish DeadpanSnarker.



* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When they initially appeared, the Boss and the Geek were respectively a cynical business and a trollish DeadpanSnarker.
* CrossOver: Several of the personalities appear in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-3JRWytn4U an episode]] of ''Minute Papillon'' (another humourous French Youtube series), which is set in the catacombs. It includes the Prof finding the Girl's skull and the Boss being revealed to be Satan himself.

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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When they initially appeared, the Boss and the Geek were respectively a cynical business and a trollish DeadpanSnarker.
* CrossOver: Several of the personalities appear in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-3JRWytn4U an episode]] of ''Minute Papillon'' (another humourous French Youtube series), which is set in the catacombs. It includes the Prof Professor finding the Girl's skull and the Boss being revealed to be Satan himself.



--> '''The Boss'': Try killing me if you can, Doc.

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--> '''The Boss'': Try killing Boss''': Kill me if you can, Doc.
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* BackstoryOfTheDay: Upon reviewing a video of a little girl reacting to her very first hunting kill, Mathieu says that they leaned more towards mushroom gathering in his family. Hallucinogenic shrooms, to be exact. The hippie's hat is then revealed to be a keepsake from his grandfather.


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* EyeScream: The Boss apparently hides occular piercings under his sunglasses.

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* DefiantToTheEnd: Whenever Mathieu is threatened, the Boss is the personality that comes out to taunt his oponent, be it [[spoiler: Dr Frederick trying to supress the personalities via SPD treatment]] or [[spoiler: Maxime holding a gun to Mathieu's head]].
--> '''The Boss'': Try killing me if you can, Doc.



* DumbBlonde: One of the personality but she haven't stay very long. He acknowledged that it would come as sexist, and had trouble writing for this role, whereas the others came naturally to him.

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* DumbBlonde: One of the personality was labeled "the Girl", but she haven't didn't stay very long. He acknowledged that it would come as sexist, and had trouble writing for this role, whereas the others came naturally to him. However, in several instances, she's a lot sharper than her male co-personalities, like when she points out that the subject of a video is using a curling iron, which all the guys assumed was a dildo.



* IronicName: Jeanne, the AI that accompanies Mathieu through season 5. Her name is a reference to UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, which is somewhat confirmed by her invoking the meme of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen loudly and unpromptedly screaming "Jeanne! Help us!" in public during a news segment. One of her functions is being a [[ManOnFire firewall]].

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* IronicName: Jeanne, the AI that accompanies Mathieu through season 5.6. Her name is a reference to UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, which is somewhat confirmed by her invoking the meme of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen loudly and unpromptedly screaming "Jeanne! Help us!" in public during a news segment. One of her functions is being a [[ManOnFire firewall]].



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the season 4 finale, the personialities start not rising to obvious bait during the commentary section, which confuses Mathieu. It's because they are being suppressed by [[spoiler: Dr Frederick's split personality disorder treatment]].



* RapeAsComedy: Mathieu himself is clearly against rape, as seen when he reviews Mister X's speech about "soft rape", but it doesn't stop his Boss persona from being a shameless sex offender and having a very questionable sens of humor. He often mentions his many "feats" or fetishes, even though the other personas try their best to interrupt or censor him before it becomes too dark or creepy. He even rapes [[ButtMonkey the Geek]] in a dark basement at one point, [[LiteralSplitPersonality however that works]], and Default!Mathieu doesn't really seem to care..
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: To a guy who believes rape can be enjoyable for the women.
--> '''Mathieu:''' So Mr X, you wanted to give your opinion? So let me give you mine. Your simplistic views are dangerous and stupid and we see through your st-st-stuttering that you know stricly nothing about relationships. I don't know whether you are ignorant, crazy or retarded but in all cases you justify a crime. The next time you want to give your opinion about a subject, speak about something you know like your behavior therapy. Meanwhile, you may turn your camera off, leave your pc and shut up.

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* RapeAsComedy: Mathieu himself is clearly against rape, as seen when he reviews Mister X's speech about "soft rape", but it doesn't stop his Boss persona from being a shameless sex offender and having a very questionable sens of humor. He often mentions his many "feats" or fetishes, even though the other personas try their best to interrupt or censor him before it becomes too dark or creepy. He even rapes [[ButtMonkey the Geek]] in a dark basement at one point, [[LiteralSplitPersonality however that works]], and Default!Mathieu doesn't really seem to care..
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: To a guy who believes rape can all women secretly want to be enjoyable for the women.
raped and gives tips.
--> '''Mathieu:''' So Mr X, you wanted to give your opinion? So let me give you mine. Your simplistic views are dangerous and stupid and we all can see through your st-st-stuttering that you know stricly nothing about relationships. I don't know whether you are ignorant, crazy or retarded mentally challenged, but in all cases you justify cases, you're justifying a crime. The next time you want to give your opinion about a subject, speak about something you know know, like your behavior therapy. Meanwhile, you may turn your camera off, leave your pc PC and shut up.



** In the season 5 finale, we finally learn who the mysterious masked man is. [[spoiler:He's Maxime Lassault, a young milliardaire whose teenage sister was DrivenToSuicide after people kept making fun of her for being seen on the show. This drove him insane and made him hellbent on taking revenge on Mathieu.]]

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** In the season 5 finale, we finally learn who the mysterious masked man is. [[spoiler:He's Maxime Lassault, a young milliardaire billionaire whose teenage sister was DrivenToSuicide after people kept making fun of her for being seen on the show. This drove him insane and made him hellbent on taking revenge on Mathieu.]]


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* TranquilFury: About the girls in a video who are throwing bags of trash at garbagemen from several floors of height instead of taking them out like normal people, and giggling about it before uploading it online themselves. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Matthieu is ice cold]] in his treatment of them, which is [[ImColdSoCold acknowledged by the other personalities]].
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* IronicName: Jeanne, the AI that accompanies Mathieu through season 5. Her name is a reference to UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, which is somewhat confirmed by her invoking the meme of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen loudly and unpromptedly screaming "Jeanne! Help us!" in public during a news segment. One of her functions is being a [[ManOnFire firewall]].
--> '''Jeanne:''' I am Jeanne. Help me, that name is so lame.
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* AbortedArc: The end of the series, and the mystery about the user and Jeanne. It seems that having sort of written himself into a corner was one of the reasons Mathieu stopped the show.


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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: When the split personalities are [[spoiler: separated as individual programs after their mutual body is killed]], Mathieu seems to find them a lot easier to be around and calls them his friends on several occasions.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: To a guy who [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped believes rape can be enjoyable for the women.]]

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: To a guy who [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped believes rape can be enjoyable for the women.]]

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The show's uniqueness comes from the host's SplitPersonality, making him assume different identities ([[ButtMonkey The Geek]], [[TheStoner The Hippy]], [[ExtremeOmnisexual The Boss]], [[MadScientist The Professor]], [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers The Panda]] and formerly [[DumbBlonde The Girl]]) reacting in their own ways and even [[TalkingToHimself discussing with each other]] for [[HilarityEnsues maximum comedic effect]].

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The show's uniqueness comes from the host's SplitPersonality, making him assume different identities ([[ButtMonkey (The Geek, The Geek]], [[TheStoner Hippy, The Hippy]], [[ExtremeOmnisexual Boss, The Boss]], [[MadScientist Professor, The Professor]], [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers The Panda]] Panda, and formerly [[DumbBlonde The Girl]]) Girl) reacting in their own ways and even [[TalkingToHimself discussing with each other]] for [[HilarityEnsues maximum comedic effect]].
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Mathieu stopped the series on December 2016, justifying his decision due to being bored about the series as a whole.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: ''All'' the personalities save for the Professor are agape while watching the video of a girl teaching Japanese words to her viewers... While shooting from a high-angle shot and wearing tight clothing with ''lots'' of cleavage.

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* DistractedByTheSexy: ''All'' the personalities save for the Professor are agape while watching ''Japanese Word of the video of Week'', a girl teaching canceled Youtube series about learning Japanese words to whose host was a girl known for her viewers... While shooting from a high-angle shot and wearing ''peculiar'' style (high-angle shots, tight clothing with ''lots'' of cleavage.clothes and very ample cleavage):



--> '''Geek:''' My New Year resolutions are to stop being whiny, stop having low self-confidence [...], and stop using our facebook account to ask girls for pictures of their boobs.

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--> '''Geek:''' My New Year resolutions are to stop being whiny, stop having low self-confidence [...], and stop using our facebook Facebook account to ask girls for pictures of their boobs.
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The show's uniqueness comes from the host's SplitPersonality, making him assume different identities ([[ButtMonkey The Geek]], [[TheStoner The Hippy]], [[ExtremeOmnisexual The Boss]], [[MadScientist The Professor]], The Panda and formerly [[DumbBlonde The Girl]]) reacting in their own ways and even [[TalkingToHimself discussing with each other]] for [[HilarityEnsues maximum comedic effect]].

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The show's uniqueness comes from the host's SplitPersonality, making him assume different identities ([[ButtMonkey The Geek]], [[TheStoner The Hippy]], [[ExtremeOmnisexual The Boss]], [[MadScientist The Professor]], [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers The Panda Panda]] and formerly [[DumbBlonde The Girl]]) reacting in their own ways and even [[TalkingToHimself discussing with each other]] for [[HilarityEnsues maximum comedic effect]].
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* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: The host spend five minutes bashing that a guy who believes you can rape girls "softly" and that they secretly want to be raped.

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* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: The host spend five minutes bashing that a guy who believes you can rape girls "softly" and that they secretly want to be raped.It's also one of the few moments he doesn't use use [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness sarcasm or joke about what he said]].
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Episode 101, released on friday 13 November 2015, contains a joke about a TV edit of a character jumping out of a window, with an "allahu akbar !!" sound effect and a fake explosion. Later that day, over 100 people are killed in Paris during an islamic terror attack...
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Episode 101, released on friday 13 November 2015, contains a joke about a TV edit of a character jumping out of a window, with an "allahu akbar !!" sound effect and a fake explosion. Later that day, over 100 people are killed in Paris during an islamic terror attack...
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* BrainUploading : [[spoiler: Basically how Matthieu "survived" the finale of season 5 : his mind got uploaded by an unknown benefactor on Internet.]]
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* SelfDeprecation : Regarding its "competition" with WhatTheCut, apparently. In a late episode of season 4, during a (fake) FAQ where a fan asks him how it feels to have less subscribers than Antoine Daniel, Matthieu flips his shit and threatens said fan before asking for another question. And then, in a skit during episode 100, Matthieu can be seen wearing a "I prefer WhatTheCut anyway" T-shirt.

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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The masked man commits suicide, sure, but he did manage to accomplish his objective of taking Mathieu and Dr. Frederick with him.]]



* DarkerAndEdgier: Starting from the final episode of season 4, the show introduces a rather serious narrative at the end of the episodes, culminating in [[WhamEpisode the finale of season 5]].



* TheReveal: In the season 4 finale, [[spoiler: we learn than he was interned in an asylum several months earlier in order to cure him for his split personality disorder. As an early step for his (unsuccessful) therapy, he lived in an exact replica of his flat, complete with all his toys and stuff. He created season 4 in a BedlamHouse.]]

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In the season 4 finale, [[spoiler: we learn than he was interned in an asylum several months earlier in order to cure him for his split personality disorder. As an early step for his (unsuccessful) therapy, he lived in an exact replica of his flat, complete with all his toys and stuff. He created season 4 in a BedlamHouse.]]
** In the season 5 finale, we finally learn who the mysterious masked man is. [[spoiler:He's Maxime Lassault, a young milliardaire whose teenage sister was DrivenToSuicide after people kept making fun of her for being seen on the show. This drove him insane and made him hellbent on taking revenge on Mathieu.
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* WhamEpisode: Episode 99, the final episode of season 5. [[spoiler:The masked man's identity and motives are revealed, and he kills Mathieu and Dr. Frederick, though not before ending on a very vague cliffhanger.]]
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* TheBackwardsR: "L'Instant Panda" #87 is a pastiche of Soviet patriotic music with lyrics subtitled this way.
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Starting from September 2014, the show got a monthly "sister show" of sorts, appropriately titled "L'Envers du Décor'' (Read: ''Behind the Scenes"). In addition to showing how Mathieu makes his main show, it also includes bloopers, and FAQ segments where Mathieu answers some of his fans' questions.
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Added the Panda since he is a recurring charachter now but don\'t know what tropes to atatch to it.


The show's uniqueness comes from the host's SplitPersonality, making him assume different identities ([[ButtMonkey The Geek]], [[TheStoner The Hippy]], [[ExtremeOmnisexual The Boss]], [[MadScientist The Professor]] and formerly [[DumbBlonde The Girl]]) reacting in their own ways and even [[TalkingToHimself discussing with each other]] for [[HilarityEnsues maximum comedic effect]].

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The show's uniqueness comes from the host's SplitPersonality, making him assume different identities ([[ButtMonkey The Geek]], [[TheStoner The Hippy]], [[ExtremeOmnisexual The Boss]], [[MadScientist The Professor]] Professor]], The Panda and formerly [[DumbBlonde The Girl]]) reacting in their own ways and even [[TalkingToHimself discussing with each other]] for [[HilarityEnsues maximum comedic effect]].
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: According to one of the "Scoence Infuse" sequences, the Pokemon (who are said to really exist) have been invented in 1948 by a MadScientist who was a former Indian Nazi Communist Cannibal.
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* OminousMusicBoxTune: In #84, one of the videos reviewed is a praise of cosmetic surgery, which ends with some creepy "join us" whisper. Mathieu reacts with a sequence imagining a dystopian future in which cosmetic surgery became mandatory; a scene (a controller visits Mathieu to remind him he still didn't perform the mandatory surgery) is set to such a tune.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When they initially appeared, the Boss and the Geek were respectively a cynical business and a trollish DeadpanSnarker.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few episodes had a different opening, there wasn't the SplitPersonality (the first "Science Infuse" is in the second episode, the question is answered by Mathieu as himself), Mathieu wore the same clothes for the entire episode, spoke slowly, and the background was a white wall with a tv and a laptop.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few episodes had a different opening, there wasn't the SplitPersonality (the first "Science Infuse" is in the second episode, the question is answered by Mathieu as himself), Mathieu wore the same clothes for the entire episode, spoke slowly, and the background was a white wall with a tv and a laptop. When they appeared a bit later, the split personalities weren't as defined as they are now.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few episodes had a different opening, there wasn't the SplitPersonality, Mathieu wore the same clothes for the entire episode, spoke slowly, and the background was a white wall with a tv and a laptop.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few episodes had a different opening, there wasn't the SplitPersonality, SplitPersonality (the first "Science Infuse" is in the second episode, the question is answered by Mathieu as himself), Mathieu wore the same clothes for the entire episode, spoke slowly, and the background was a white wall with a tv and a laptop.
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* CrossOver: Several of the personalities appear in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-3JRWytn4U an episode]] of ''Minute Papillon'' (another humourous French Youtube series), which is set in the catacombs. It includes the Prof finding the Girl's skull and the Boss being revealed to be Satan himself.
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* WeCanRebuildHim: Parodied when the Prof explains how a man's penis can be insured for a million dollars. A spoof of the opening for ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' shows how Mathieu's penis became "The One Million Dollar Dick".

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* WeCanRebuildHim: Parodied when the Prof explains how a man's penis can be insured for a million dollars. A spoof of the opening for ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' shows how Mathieu's penis became "The One Million Dollar Dick".Dick".
* WholePlotReference: During the episode about the (now closed) Youtube channel of the CreepyCrossdresser Tonetta, Matthieu and the boss made several increasingly explicit references about the man being a serial-killer. Cue a recreation of the infamous "Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. I'd fuck me so hard" sequence (from ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''), with The Boss, The Geek, and The Hippie being respectively Buffalo Bill, his captive, and the dog.

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