Lascars
Lascars is a French animated series created by Boris Dolivet (aka El Diablo). It depicts with humor the misadventures of the youth subculture influenced by Hip-Hop. The series mostly uses verlan slang and adult humour, and the episodes are usually short (1 minute). Two seasons (60 episodes) were made in 1998 and 2007; an unaired pilot was also made for a 20-minute series.
The series also hit the cinema with an animated movie in 2009 which features the voice of Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger.
Tropes used in Lascars include:
The series provides examples of:
- Art Evolution:
- The character design of the first season looks rather simple, in the second season, the character design became more caricatural. finally, the movie have a better animation.
- To see the art evolution, the different design of Tony Merguez.
- Badass Bookworm: N'Cool, the graffiti guy in the episode Pouilldé
- Celebrity Star:
- In the first season, there is an episode about the famous fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier.
- Also, in season two, the episode Retour Vers Le Vintage portrays the french rapper Joey Starr as an old man in the future.
- The Future: Retour Vers Le Vintage in the second season.
- Gross-Out Show: Gross moments appears sometimes in the series.
- Hip Hop: The whole series is influenced by this culture.
- Musical Episode: Schlague Attack in the second season.
The movie provides examples of:
- Artistic Title: The opening sequence which introduce the characters in a different art style.
- Ax Crazy: Zoran.
- Berserk Button: Zoran and Manuela.
- Butt Monkey: Tony Merguez.
- Cameo: Look this scene and tell me, where's Waldo? You can find SpongeBob and Shin-Chan, too.
- Chainsaw Good: Zoran.
- Gainaxing: Manuela's boobs.
- Ink Suit Actor: Samy and Narbé are dubbed by the comic duo Omar & Fred, these characters seem to be made for them. Also, one of John Boolman's "actresses" is dubbed by Katsumi.
- Hey, It's That Voice!: The movie actor Vincent Cassel is the voice of Tony Merguez in the movie; he also did some voices in the second season. For french people, it borders on All-Star Cast - Diane Kruger, Gilles Lellouche, Omar & Fred, Diam's, Vincent Desagnat, and some famous porn actresses.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Manuela is wildly attracted by Tony Merguez.
- Punny Name: Judge Santiépi which means sans pitié (No pity) in verlan slang.
- Unlucky Everydude: Tony Merguez doesn't have chance with girls, even when he have a girlfriend.
- Yandere: Manuela, oh so much.
