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Film

"I'm French! Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a? (...) You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-King-a! You and your silly English Knnnnnnnn-iggits! Thhhhhppptt! Thhpt! Thppppt!"
The French Knight, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Literature

In bars and cafés across France, voters breathed a sigh of relief in the knowledge that arrogantly comparing themselves to the U.S. population, a longtime favorite pastime of the French people, would remain viable for the foreseeable future.

Pierre Grimange, a Parisian café-goer, sipped on a glass of Bordeaux and toasted his nation "for not being so dumb as the United States after all."

"A lot was at stake today: the future of our liberal traditions and our democracy itself," he said. "But by far the greatest loss of all would have been our right to look down on Americans."

"Grâce à Dieu, that has been secured!" Grimange exclaimed.
'''The Borowitz Report, New Yorker, May 07,2017, after the May Elections that saw the defeat of Marie Le Pen.

Live-Action TV

"In France, you would be in a zoo."

Lister: Holly, all his mates were French!

"I adore France. It's the French who ruin it."

Music

"People in France have lots of attitude
They're snotty and rude; they like disgusting food"
"Weird Al" Yankovic, "Genius in France"

"There is no Hell. There is only France."

Theatre

Miss Benson: My, you'd think a woman could have a baby without France butting in.
Jenkins: Well, fifty million Frenchmen—they've got to do something.

Video Games

"Wellll, if it eesn't the Fereldan tur-neep!"
Baron Arlange, Dragon Age II

Arthur: What do you do?
Châtenay: Mostly I... I pose, I show off, I complain.
Arthur: Well, how very French.
Châtenay: I know... [laughs] I am ridiculous! I have been all over the world, I have seen the sights, and I have discovered the one eternal truth: that I am a — how do you say — whole ass.
Arthur: "Asshole?"
Châtenay: That too!

"Your French iz terrible. Disgusting. How dare you defile my language with your clumsy American tongue?"

Web Original

Seras: "Can you not right now?"
Pip: "I am French, so... no."

Ten: What is wrong with you?
Juice: i find it's useful to remember that i'm french
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Fred: Aahhhh, Paris! The City of Light! The Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, the Arc de Triomphe, the hobos, the prostitutes, the rude locals...
NPC 1: You're not from around here.
Lara: No.
NPC 1: Then piss off! Damn tourists!
NPC 2 [..] and it sure as hell isn't going to be some foreigner chick telling me what to do!
Fred: But hey, can't complain since we finally got a realistic representation of the city.
Joueur du Grenier expressing views common among non-Parisian French people, Tomb Raider (1996) review

Western Animation

Fry: Who should I root for? America? Or one of those countries I learned about at the food court?
Amy: How about those guys?
Leela: No, They're from the Republic of French Stereotypes. Everybody hates them.
Futurama, "Bend Her"

Hank Scorpio: (calibrating a giant laser) By the way, Homer, what's your least favorite country: Italy or France?
Homer: France.
Scorpio: Haha, nobody ever says Italy.
The Simpsons, "You Only Move Twice"

Le Frog: I know, I know. You were flushed away down the loo, right? "Boo-hoo-hoo! It is so dark! So cold! So terrible". Heheheh.
The Toad: You find my pain funny?!
Le Frog: I find everyone's pain funny, but my own. ...I'm French!

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