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1	'''''Salut Les Geeks''''' ("Hello geeks") is a French Website/YouTube series hosted by Mathieu Sommet. Like WebVideo/WhatTheCut, it can be considered a French equivalent of WebVideo/EqualsThree, since it reviews/makes fun of weird videos from all over the internet.
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3	The show's uniqueness comes from the host's SplitPersonality, making him assume different identities (the Geek, the Hippie, the Boss, the Professor, the Panda, and the Girl) reacting in their own ways and even [[TalkingToThemself discussing with each other]] for [[HilarityEnsues maximum comedic effect]].
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5	The weekly nature of the show allows it to follow actualities and even [[FourthWallMailSlot interact with its audience]] during its ''Science Infuse'' and ''Instant Panda'' segments.
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7	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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9	Mathieu stopped the series on December 2016, justifying his decision due to being bored about the series as a whole.
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12	!!''Salut Les Geeks'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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14	* 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.
15	* AscendedExtra: Master Panda initially appeared in short musical sequences from time to time. He eventually gets his own sequence in each episodes since the beginning of the fourth season.
16	* 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.
17	* TheBackwardsR: "L'Instant Panda" #87 is a pastiche of Soviet patriotic music with lyrics subtitled this way.
18	* BadassInANiceSuit: The Boss can prove to be quite intimidating, threatening or even dangerous, like when he [[TheBusCameBack evades from prison with seemingly no effort]], and of course he always wears his business suit and his sunglasses.
19	* BadBadActing: When Default!Mathieu tries to replace the Boss after he's arrested.
20	* 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.
21	* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The masked man commits suicide, sure, but he did manage to accomplish his objective of taking Mathieu and Dr. Frederick with him.]]
22	* {{Bambification}}: Subverted. One episode has the cast being horrified by a video of a deer eating a bird.
23	* BrainUploading : [[spoiler: Basically how Matthieu "survived" the finale of season 5 : his mind got uploaded by an unknown benefactor on Internet.]]
24	* TheBusCameBack: When Mathieu tries to get himself in the [[TookALevelInKindness spirit of the earlier seasons.]]
25	--> '''The Girl:''' Yay, I'm back!
26	** 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 Mathieu doesn't want him back on the show, and the Man with the Tie doesn't care to say anything to the audience.
27	--> '''The Man with the Tie:''' Welp, see you in five years.
28	* ButtMonkey: [[SelfDeprecation The Geek persona]]. Mathieu himself is a geek and his show is intended for a geeky audience, but his Geek side is portrayed as a whiny virgin, although he doesn't really do or say anything stupid or mean, he's just naive and a bit dimwitted, but everyone seems to hate him, especially Mathieu's default persona.
29	* TheCastShowOff: Mathieu jumps at the occasion to sing quite often. Unless he's [[StylisticSuck intentionally singling badly]], his singing and lyrics tend to be a lot better than most music clips he reviews.
30	* CatchPhrase: Said at the start of every episode.
31	--> '''Mathieu:''' What's new on the web? Let's go check it out right now!
32	** The Professor has "It's a very good question !" and "You see, it's simple...", the Hippie has : "You took too much [drugs], dude !" and the Boss has only a catch word : calling everybody "Kiddo".
33	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When they initially appeared, the Boss and the Geek were respectively a cynical businessman and a trollish DeadpanSnarker.
34	* 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.
35	* CoolShades: The Boss wears these. Can overlap with SinisterShades, given his personality.
36	* 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 Professor finding the Girl's skull and the Boss being revealed to be Satan himself.
37	* 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]].
38	* 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]].
39	--> '''The Boss''': Kill me if you can, Doc.
40	* DemotedToExtra: In the fourth season, the Scientist from ''La Science Infuse'' lost his own sequence in the end of each episode, replaced by Master Panda musical segment. He still appears from time to time to make goofy pseudo-scientifical comments.
41	* DistractedByTheSexy: In "[[https://youtu.be/sXlJf0LnK5M?t=136 Alex du 76 brille enfin]]", ''all'' the personalities save for the Professor are agape while watching ''Japanese Word of the Week'', a canceled Youtube series about learning Japanese whose host was Miss Hannah Minx, a [=YouTuber=] who was known for her ''peculiar'' style (high-angle shots, tight clothes and very ample cleavage):
42	--> '''Mathieu:''' "And her shirt is ''what the fuuuuuuuuuck ?!'''"
43	--> '''Geek:''' "Boobies !"
44	--> '''Hippie:''' "Duuuuuuuuuuuuh !"
45	--> '''Boss:''' looks at his crotch while a "Ding" sound is heard "Turkey's done, kiddo."
46	* DoubleTake:
47	--> '''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.
48	--> '''Mathieu:''' reading a newspaper Yeah, yeah, that's ni- Wait what.
49	--> opening starts but stops after a few seconds
50	--> '''Mathieu:''' ''What the fuck did you just say?!''
51	--> opening starts again but gets cut a second time
52	--> '''Mathieu:''' ''I'm gonna kill you!''
53	* DumbBlonde: One of the personality was labeled "the Girl", but she 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.
54	* 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.
55	* EyeScream: The Boss apparently hides occular piercings under his sunglasses.
56	* HypocriticalHumor: In one episode, the video reviewed is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_YneSM0ItA this ad]], in which a baker has hallucinations featuring Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme. Among his comments of the ad, he says this:
57	--> '''Mathieu:''' ''Nobody is thinking about the starting madness of our baker? Because I am pretty sure that when you see people who don't exist you are starting to become mad, and at this point of the sentence I feel it applies to me.''
58	* ImportantHaircut:
59	** The Girl is delighted about getting a new blonde wig. No one else cares.
60	** Mathieu's head is shaven while he's in the [[spoiler: mental hospital]]. The personalities are furious.
61	* IronicName: Jeanne, the AI that accompanies Mathieu through season 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]].
62	--> '''Jeanne:''' I am Jeanne. Help me, that name is so lame.
63	* LighterAndSofter: BlackComedy aside, it is generally this compared to ''WebVideo/WhatTheCut''.
64	* MotorMouth: The host keeps speaking faster as the show goes.
65	* 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 Bern, and called Stéphane Burne after him ("burne" being colloquial for "testicle").
66	* 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]].
67	* 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.
68	* OlderThanTheyLook: The Geek
69	--> '''Geek:''' I did the splits when I was thirteen, and since then I'm sterile and have a high voice.
70	--> '''Mathieu:''' ... How old are you right now?
71	--> '''Geek:''' Forty-three, why do you ask?
72	* 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.
73	* 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]].
74	* PutOnABus: The Boss was once arrested by the cops after Mathieu got fed up by his antics... Only to escape prison in the following episode and killing the Professor and Mathieu just after that.
75	--> "Honey, I'm home !" cocks his gun "Hope you missed me, bitch !"
76	* 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.
77	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: To a guy who believes all women secretly want to be raped and gives tips.
78	--> '''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 mentally challenged, but in all cases, you're justifying 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.
79	%%* 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.
80	%% Slashing tropes is not allowed. Please split them up
81	* RememberTheNewGuy : In the final episode of season 4, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Doctor Frederick, whose job was to cure Mathieu of his [[SplitPersonality Split Personality Disorder]],]] was actually present in every episode, but that [[JustifiedTrope Mathieu wasn't able to see him ]][[spoiler: [[JustifiedTrope due to being mentally sick]]]]. Cue a montage of clips from old episodes where [[spoiler: Doctor Frederick, taking notes,]] is added via a green screen.
82	* TheReveal:
83	** 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.]]
84	** In the season 5 finale, we finally learn who the mysterious masked man is. [[spoiler:He's Maxime Lassault, a young 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.]]
85	* SelfDeprecation : Regarding its "competition" with 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 WebVideo/WhatTheCut anyway" T-shirt.
86	* SharpDressedMan: The Boss, it would help to hide the hide the fact that he's an utter pervert if it wasn't for his behavior.
87	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The Girl, Mathieu's only female personality. She was eventually cut out due to the UnfortunateImplications of this trope.
88	* 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), 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).
89	* SplitPersonality: Mathieu has half a dozen of different personnalities.
90	* TheStoner: The ''Hippie'' persona.
91	* TheTalk: After reviewing a 70s PSA about masturbation, Mathieu decides that a PSA on such a topic must be adapted to the 21th century... Done by ''[[ExtremeOmnisexual The Boss]]''.
92	--> shot of the Geek masturbating in his bed, then cut to the Boss entering the room
93	--> '''Boss''': Well that's it, you're a man ! Now get up, go buy yourself a bottle of Malibu and find yourself a frisky girl ! Grab some weed on the way and use a condom; sluts are fun for beginners, but you don't want to get the clap ! Alright, see ya, dude !
94	* TalkingToThemself: ''Any time'' (except in the first few episodes), as the other characters aren't just other characters all played by the same person, but split personalities of Mathieu.
95	* TenMinuteRetirement: In one episode, the boss refrains from making sexual remarks because he heard someone say that white men have tiny dicks. Mathieu even feels concerned by this and tries to encourage him as much as he can.
96	--> '''Mathieu:''' How many little girls have they thrown in this pool to make them wet?! turns towards the Boss with a ''ding'' sound
97	--> '''The Boss:''' ''No''.
98	--> '''Mathieu:''' Too bad...
99	* 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]].
100	* 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.]]
101	* 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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