YMMV / Les Inconnus

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In "The Revolution", Didier Bourdon plays a child cast in the role of Louis XVI for a schoolplay, and is several times called out by the teacher for his goofy and anachronistic improvised lines and acting. A decade later, Bourdon plays Louis XVI's predecessor Louis XV in 2003's Fanfan la Tulipe as a comic relief whose behavior is a bit reminescent of that skit.
  • Les Inconnus mercilessly spoofed the Club Dorothée phenomenon (In "Bioumen", notably). Come 2019, and Didier Bourdon is part of City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume, a movie that heavily (and affectionately) homages the Club Dorothée and the animes it featured.
• Memetic Mutation: The good hunter/bad hunter from "The Hunters" skit is now used in French to imply that two concepts are not so different while one is presented as better than the other.
• Parody Displacement: For most of younger fans, the sketches are often better known than the shows they made fun of since these shows stopped airing long ago. Notably:
  • "Biouman", since chances are high they won't be familiar with Choudenshi Bioman.
  • "Perdu de Recherche", a parody of the call-to-witnesses Reality TV show Perdu de vue, which ended in 1997.
  • "Thierry la France", a parody of Thierry la Fronde, which ended in 1966. The French channel on which it aired, the ORTF, ended in 1974 and several well known and still existing channels arose in its place.
  • "Tournez Ménage" is based on the dating show Tournez Manège that ended in 1983 and was briefly revived in 2009.
• Squick: The skit about the restaurants features disgusting moments played for laugh:
  • A restaurant owner picks his nose and rubs his hair then wipes his hands on the kitchen towel he's carrying on his arm.
  • A Chinese restaurant waiter trips while bringing a "five flavors duck" dish to a patron, then picks up the food from the ground and resumes his search for the patron, renaming the dish "six flavors duck".
  • A hippie restaurant owner warning the patron that they haven't much goat milk available, because the goat fled earlier and they had to milk the billy goat.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Their sketches are considered among the media that are the most representative of French 1990s pop culture since their brand of humor parodied music genres, soap operas, game shows and a bit of politics of the era. And boy does it show.
  • Many skits refer "Antenne 2", the former name of national television channel France 2. The channel changed its name in 1992.
  • The skit "Savoie Régional" is based on a running gag^note the in-universe audience constantly and loudly disturbing the news bulletin to celebrate that Albertville (a medium town in the French department of Savoy) as been chosen as the place for the next Winter Olympics which only makes sense between the late Eighties and 1992^note the date when said Olympics where held.
  • Their Jewish characters are depicted with a very Mediterranean accent and demeanor associated with Sephardi Jewish merchants that came from North Africa after Algeria's independence, a stereotype that has faded since the end of The '90s (outside of things like La Vérité si je mens!).
• Values Dissonance: Some of their sketches probably wouldn't fly today. In particular, those involving Blackface and Yellowface (even though Pascal Légitimus is himself black) or those making fun of gay people.

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