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• Ass Pull: Shortly after Charles' relationship with Valence is exposed by Brad, losing his rank and having told his recollection of how he met Valence, Flavien (who is the second officer by this time) becomes the new captain. That is, until he abolishes the rule that forbids captains to have romantic relationships. There was no prior indication that a captain could abolish a rule, and Charles apparently couldn't bring himself to do it.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: After Brad informs the Captain that they might be getting closer to finding the ideal planet, the crew suddenly breaks into a song and dance number. It's the only time they do this in the entire series.
• Creator's Pet: Flavien since one of the writers is playing as him, he is the one that gets to be the most heroic and with ample character development.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Among other things Brad does; him tormenting Bob, while he suffers from Earth sickness (without knowing the consequences)? Cruel and heartless. Topping it off with a stand-up comedy routine? Hilarious.
• Cult Classic: Incredibly obscure outside of Québec. The fact that is has a page here on TV Tropes is surprising, to say the least.
• Fridge Horror: The first movie's intro as the narrator mentions there is only four billions of morons left on Earth, meaning in the span of the series two billions of human died under climate change.
• Growing the Beard: Season 2 is often seen as the season that gave the show its cult status. Valence was Darrin'd and given a Personality change, it introduced Pétrolia and Serge who will be permanent additions to the crew and the writing became more balanced between comedy and drama with Character Development for the cast (Charles' fear of failure to the point of having a depression, Flavian's daddy issues, Brad is given a Freudian Excuse for his actions), which will continue in later seasons.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The movie Interstellar, which came out in 2014, is a serious take on a spaceship crew needing to find a new planet to evacuate humanity to after Earth is rendered uninhabitable. Of the characters in the movie, there's a captain, a female officer who believes love can solve all the world's problems, a robot, a young female scientific genius, a scrawny-ish tech guy, a black guy, and a coward who backstabs his teammates because he's too scared to keep going with the mission. Does any of this sound familiar?
  • That's not the only Christopher Nolan movie that the show predates. One episode in Season 2 had the Captain and Flavien using an experimental lucid dream machine to go inside Bob's dreams to find clues pertaining to a future tragedy, 11 years before Inception was released in theaters.
  • The gag involving Star Wars never having stopped getting sequels is humorous enough ^note due to the prequel trilogy being underway after this show ended, but it became even funnier in light of Disney acquiring the license and doing just that.
  • Flavien plays a game where if you get hurt/died in the game, you get hurt/die in real life? Take note that this predates both .hack and Sword Art Online by about two years. ^note While SAO was published in 2009 in Dengeki Bunko, Reki Kawahara wrote SAO Back in 2002 as a contest and published it as a Web Novel.
• Love to Hate: Brad is the most despicable person and also a fan favorite for it.
• Moral Event Horizon: Prince Richard Lion-Leg crossed the line when he abandoned Flavien's mother when she learned that she was pregnant, since it would have made his ascension to his kingdom's throne null and void (his children had to be born within the realm of his kingdom). She died of depression afterwards, so it's no wonder why Flavien's first instinct was to murder him when they finally met.
  • Captain Presswood crosses it in the first movie, when he decides that the Romano Fafard's crew has become too much of an obstacle to the success of the Mission, so he orders to have their ship destroyed, which would allow him to freely exterminate the Creamys and repopulate their planet with earthlings. Brad, who literally jumped ship to side with Presswood prior to this revelation, didn't like the prospect of losing his only friends and tries to turn on him.
• Periphery Demographic: The show originally aired on Canal Famille, a French Canadian channel that was aimed towards the whole family, and thus had content suitable for kids. However, it managed to gain a lot of fans from teenagers and even adults thanks to its humor (including jokes that kids wouldn't necessarily get), memorable characters, and dramatic moments.
• Spiritual Successor: Of Red Dwarf, with similar styles of stories, characters and a distinctively low budget visual style reminiscent of the early seasons. Interesting is that among French speaking Quebecois, Red Dwarf is very obscure, yet the shows share too many parallels to be ignored.
• The Woobie: Despite all the problems that he has directly caused to the crew by being a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk, the final two episodes show Brad genuinely regretting his actions and making him lovable in his own deeply flawed way.
• Woolseyism: Applies to the English subtitles for the movies, where many of the jokes are Woolseyisms rather than literal translations, and slang is used quite often.

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