"One who has not suffered the horrors of an occupying power has no right to judge a nation that has."
"I think I'd rather have my bottom impaled on a giant cactus than exchange pleasantries with that jumped-up Frenchman. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing the French should be allowed to host is an invasion!"
—Johnny, Johnny English
Alucard: So what's up with the Pride meeting?
Integra: They're a mercenary group, contracted to replace all the soldiers we lost in the Valentine brothers—
Alucard: Wait. Are these guys French?
Integra: We were forced to post mortality rates. They're the only ones who applied.
Alucard: We are really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
Integra: They're a mercenary group, contracted to replace all the soldiers we lost in the Valentine brothers—
Alucard: Wait. Are these guys French?
Integra: We were forced to post mortality rates. They're the only ones who applied.
Alucard: We are really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
U.N. Leader: Is the crew okay?
American captain: Yes sir. They're French, so they surrendered immediately. (to the French crew) Once the pirates boarded your ship, how did they force you off?
French captain: Il a vert lightsabeur!
Crew member: Oui! Un lightsabeur!
Crew member #2: Le lightsabeur terrible!
"In any case, we arrive to see the city surrendered. "We have no choice but to surrender to you," a cop notes (apparently he’s authorized to make that statement). I guess the city is in French Africa."
—This review
of the Superfriends episode "Revenge On Gorilla City".
of the Superfriends episode "Revenge On Gorilla City".French Ambassador: We give in to your demands!
UK Ambassador: Oh look, France is surrendering. There's a shocker!
UK Ambassador: Oh look, France is surrendering. There's a shocker!
—The Simpsons Comics
The Englishman is a rabid nationalist. They are perhaps the most nationalist people in the world [...] When you hear the English talk of this war you sometimes almost want them to lose it to show them how things are. They have the greatest contempt for the continent in general and for the French in particular. They didn't like the French before the defeat [...] Since the defeat, they have the greatest contempt for the French Army [...] England first. This slogan is taken for granted by the English people as a whole. To lose their empire would be the worst possible humiliation.
— Ralph Miliband, diary entry penned 1941.
Le Frog: Okay, men. To action!
[Henchfrogs immediately throw their hands up]
Henchfrogs: We surrender!
Le Frog: No! Not that one, you idiots! The kung-fu thing!
Henchfrogs: Ohhh...
"Surrender? SURRENDER? You think this [A] on my head stands for FRANCE?"
Britain: Pipe down! Your country once surrendered to a Boy Scout troop on holiday!
France: That was years ago!
Etienne Degas: Oh, I wish I'd been killed in the war!
Madame Degas: Oh, it's hard to get killed when you run the other way!
— Frasier, "Adventures in Paradise, Part 1"
Mom, I hope when you say "We" you actually mean "Oui," which is French for: "Yes, please take over our country while we wait in hiding."
— Kelly Bundy, Married... with Children
As the motto of Napoleon's French Army went... please don't laugh at the words "French Army"... "The Army dies, but it does not surrender."
Red: When an army turns and goes in the opposite direction, they call that...
Dalton: The French.
Oh, what, are you talking to him in French? Why don't you try using a language that doesn't have 50 words for "I give up?"
— Sergeant Frank Coscarella, Cold Squad ("Slave to the Job")
