History WesternAnimation / TheTripletsOfBelleville

* NationalStereotypes: The film pokes fun at various aspects of the French, such as frog eating and their obsession with the Tour de France (or the Circuit de France as it's called in-world); it also shows that the population of America is morbidly obese.

* LazyArtist: Averted: The film's sumptuous detail is a major reason for its critical acclaim.

* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzags]] throughout the movie. The
mafia are [[LemmingCops pretty]] [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy incompetent]] but are genuinely menacing at times, such as when the bookie [[spoiler:shoots the cyclist]].

** Special mention must be the newspaper Madame Souza read about the conspiracy about the French mafia kidnapping cyclists from the Tour de France, using them for their own benefits. There's even a picture of someone's skull with a hole on its head, apparently dug up from wherever it was buried. [[spoiler:And when you consider the fate of that one cyclist that fell off of his bike, it's assumed that they've been doing this for a long time and have been getting away with it]]!

* EyesAlwaysShut: The mafia Donsa and the triplets
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzags]] throughout the movie. The mafia are [[LemmingCops pretty]] [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy incompetent]] but are genuinely menacing at times, such as when the bookie [[spoiler:shoots the cyclist]].

* GratuitousEnglish: "No money, no burguer!"
* GratuitousItalian: The hilarious barbershop song.

* MeaningfulName: Champion

** When the film breaks, RTF switches over to a tape of a performance of Bach on piano. The pianist is immediately identifiable as Glenn Gould.

** The accordion player getting gnats stuck in her teeth at the Tour de France is [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Horner Yvette Horner]] (and according to an interview, that scene from the movie was pretty much TruthInTelevision).

* PedestrianCrushesCar: One of the gangster cars flips after hitting a BabyCarriage; the baby was just that big.

* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzags]] throughout the movie. The mafia are [[LemmingCops pretty]] [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy incompetent]] but are genuinely menacing at times, such as when the bookie [[spoiler: shoots the cyclist]].

** Special mention must be the newspaper Madame Souza read about the conspiracy about the French mafia kidnapping cyclists from the Tour de France, using them for their own benefits. There's even a picture of someone's skull with a hole on its head, apparently dug up from wherever it was buried. [[spoiler: And when you consider the fate of that one cyclist that fell off of his bike, it's assumed that they've been doing this for a long time and have been getting away with it]]!

* GainaxEnding:

** Actually, this trope might be averted, being the whole film, up until that point, could possibly be seen as and is more likely a flashback.

* LullDestruction: Averted: Moments of quiet appear where they would in a live action film.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed

** And when the film breaks, RTF switches over to a tape of a performance of Bach on piano. The pianist is immediately identifiable as Glenn Gould.
** Don't forget Charles de Gaulle, seen on the television set later in the film.

* FakeAmerican: "No money, no [[PinkPanther hamburgurs]]!"

** [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/TheIllusionist He moved to Scotland and got a job as a department store genie!]]]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: No matter how many times you've watched this movie, there are things you might've missed because of the crazy.

* DreadfulMusician: Subverted. Madame Souza has a very good ear in music, and can make do with a bicycle wheel's spokes as a tuned percussive instrument with just a bit of adjusting, yet when you hear her play the piano...

* LeFilmArtistique: ''Oh'', yeah.

* ButtSticker: Two of the women in the opening scene has her husband stuck on her butt and he is revealed to be flattened and another one has her husband stuck between her butt cheeks, the latter of which may be ''dead'' from asphyxiation.

!!''The Triplets of Belleville'' provides examples of tje following tropes:

* ButtSticker: One of the women in the opening scene has her husband stuck on her butt. He may be ''dead'' from asphyxiation. Another one has her husband stuck between her butt cheeks

* ConspicuousCG: Though the movie embodies the classic cel animation style, there are moments where one notices... well, conspicuous CG.

* EyesAlwaysShut: The mafia Dons.

** Actually, this trope might be averted, being the whole film, up until that point, could possibly be seen as a flashback.

* Paper-ThinDisguise: Souza's disguising herself as the mechanic, with oven mitts for ears.

** The opening sequence, "Belleville Rendez-vous", is [[ShowWithinAShow a film]] from TheRoaringTwenties, and features caricatures of classic stars such as Django Reinhardt and a topless Josephine Baker. The tap dancer who is eaten by his shoes is FredAstaire. The joyful conductor is a caricature of French singer Charles Trenet.

* ButtSticker: One of the women in the opening scene has her husband stuck on her butt. He may be ''dead'' from asphyxiation.

*** Actually, this trope might be averted, being the whole film, up until that point, could possibly be seen as a flashback.

* ButtSticker: One of the women in the opening scene has her husband stuck on her butt.

* {{Badass Grand|pa}}ma: Madame Souza is a tiny, club-footed old woman who is persistent enough to follow an ocean liner across the entire Atlantic in a ''foot-pedalled boat'', at night, during a huge storm at sea, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic to the accompaniment of Mozart's "Mass in C Minor - Kyrie"]]. She kicks over a car too.