{"id":6958,"date":"2011-06-10T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T11:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2021-08-05T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:31:29","slug":"who-seriously-cant-remember-the-hilarious-french-robot-from-eurotrip-error-error-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/who-seriously-cant-remember-the-hilarious-french-robot-from-eurotrip-error-error-error\/","title":{"rendered":"The French Robot from EuroTrip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">As the<em><strong> fin de semaine <\/strong><\/em>(end of the week) is already upon us, what could be better than something to remind you\u00a0of a fun &#8220;French <em><strong>souvenir<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, so to speak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">If you watched (over and over, for some) the movie &#8220;<strong>EuroTrip<\/strong>&#8220;, the now &#8220;classic&#8221; American comedy that hit the theaters a few years ago, you cannot seriously not remember &#8220;<strong><em>le robot fran\u00e7ais<\/em>&#8221; <\/strong>who was &#8220;performing&#8221;right outside of <em><strong>le Louvres <\/strong>!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spikednation.com\/sites\/default\/files\/emvideo-youtube-4aMD4uy-QGc_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Mesdames et messieurs<\/em> (ladies and gents), the honorific title of &#8220;<em>num\u00e9ro un<\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;Number One&#8221;) Most Memorable French character of EUROTRIP goes\u00a0<em>incontestablement <\/em>(unquestionably) to\u00a0&#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Le robot du Louvres<\/span><\/em>&#8220;!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eurotrip - Waiter Deleted scene\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_vUI0A5ebzg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">But before checking out <em>le dr\u00f4le de robot<\/em> (the funny robot), here&#8217;s a scene that was &#8220;<em>coup\u00e9e<\/em>&#8221; (meaning &#8220;cut&#8221;, or &#8220;deleted&#8221;) from the original movie, which you definitely ought to see, as it may finally deliver the secret of the alleged &#8220;rudeness&#8221; that makes <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/garcon-how-to-politely-complain-in-french-restaurants-or-congratulate-the-chef\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">French waiters<\/span><\/a> o-so-famous (or infamous) worldwide, especially towards Americans: A super cliche-esque middle-aged &#8220;gar\u00e7on&#8221; named &#8220;Jean-Luc (nicknamed\u00a0<em>le grossier<\/em>!)&#8221; is confronted to the &#8220;<em>griv\u00e8lerie<\/em>&#8221; (an old French term for &#8220;Dine-and-Ditch&#8221;) of American clients: From General Patton in WWII, &#8220;Monsieur Jim Morrisson&#8221; in 1969, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/344\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">American Soccer team<\/span><\/a> (most likely meant to be in 1998, during the World Cup held in France), to the present day!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eurotrip - Robot Fight\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4aMD4uy-QGc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Right outside of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louvre.fr\/llv\/commun\/home.jsp\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">le mus\u00e9e du Louvre<\/span><\/a>, &#8220;<em>la bagarre des robots<\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;Fight of the robots&#8221;)&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/la-matrice-vous-souhaite-bonne-nuit-les-petits-the-matrix-wishes-you-good-night-kids-or-how-the-mass-strikes-reflect-the-french-malaise-1ere-partie\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Matrix<\/span><\/a>-style!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Who&#039;s George Clooney (with Noah Wyle &amp; J.P. Manoux)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qhYI-v8oYvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The role of the EuroTrip &#8220;<em>robot fran\u00e7ais<\/em>&#8221; is played by American actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpmanoux.com\/flashpage.html\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">J.P. Manoux<\/span><\/a> who, at one time in the 1990&#8217;s, seemed to have been more <em>c\u00e9l\u00e8bre <\/em>(famous) than George Clooney!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">As J.P. was on a &#8220;Euro trip&#8221; of his own, interviewing people with Noah Wyle of &#8220;<em>ER<\/em>&#8221; fame, he met some French tourists who thought he was asking them about &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/syntaxe-francaise-now-be-careful-but-please-not-terrified-of-those-homophones-ca-ca-and-sa\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">George le clown<\/span><\/a><\/em>&#8220;&#8230; \ud83d\ude42 (Later on, George and J.P. would both play in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/casse-a-la-casse-grand-theft-a-la-menth\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Ocean&#8217;s Eleven<\/span><\/a>&#8220;)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Euro trip- vinnie jones\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qx49T5WJ3vI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Another memorable EuroTrip &#8220;French scene&#8221;: <em>Les hooligans<\/em> of Manchester United terrorizing &#8220;Ze French&#8221; in Paris&#8212;Run, Fran\u00e7ois, ruuun!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">(&#8220;Fran\u00e7ois&#8221;, of course, is still wearing the good old French jersey of the 80&#8217;s&#8230;)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nonchalant Chapeaumelon  EuroTrip\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SPRy_g0RPtg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;<em>Nonchalant<\/em>&#8220;, a French interpretation of The Who song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=594WLzzb3JI\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">My Generation<\/span><\/a>&#8220;, by French-Canadian (<em>qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/em>)\u00a0rock\u00a0group <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapeaumelon.ca\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Chapeaumelon <\/span><\/a><\/em>(Part of the EuroTrip soundtrack)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;<em>Le mot de s\u00e9curit\u00e9<\/em>&#8221; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">(&#8220;the safety word&#8221;)<\/span><em>:<\/em>In comparison at least, <em>les mots fran\u00e7ais<\/em> (French words) are way easier to pronounce!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/t1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSd_vEBfo707laE-5W5Il7rZhUxq7itP_dYcaKsm54MwP5g1J3l\" alt=\"\" width=\"71\" height=\"61\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lKEXMQVrA1I\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lKEXMQVrA1I<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The famous queue interminable (unending line) to get into <em>le Louvre<\/em>&#8212;Bonne chance (good luck)! By the way, the song you heard during the brief\u00a0&#8220;peek&#8221; is called &#8220;Propser&#8221;, by Maurice Chevalier <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xdw8v_prosper_music\">http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xdw8v_prosper_music<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;Prosper&#8221;, performed &#8220;old-style&#8221; by a younger fan of\u00a0Maurice Chevalier<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3C5H-AGauAU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3C5H-AGauAU<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Finally, you may remember this French song played during the movie: &#8220;<em>\u00c7a plane pour moi<\/em>&#8221; (something like the expression &#8220;It&#8217;s smooth sailing&#8221;) by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/la-brabanconne-the-national-anthem-of-belgium-in-french\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Belgian<\/span><\/a>-Ukranian singer &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbertrand.com\/pbya.html\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Plastic Bertrand<\/span><\/a>&#8221; (in 1977!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">* * *<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Plastic Bertrand - Asterix est la\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Nat0rOEMCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;Plastic Bertrand&#8221; is also known for his &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/la-chanson-dasterix-the-song-of-asterix\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Ast\u00e9rix<\/span><\/a> est l\u00e0!<\/em>&#8220;, the original soundtrack of the French animated movie &#8220;<em>Ast\u00e9rix et la Surprise de C\u00e9sar<\/em>&#8221; (In English &#8220;Asterix Versus Caesar&#8221;)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/06\/emvideo-youtube-4aMD4uy-QGc_1-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/06\/emvideo-youtube-4aMD4uy-QGc_1-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/06\/emvideo-youtube-4aMD4uy-QGc_1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>As the fin de semaine (end of the week) is already upon us, what could be better than something to remind you\u00a0of a fun &#8220;French souvenir&#8220;, so to speak. If you watched (over and over, for some) the movie &#8220;EuroTrip&#8220;, the now &#8220;classic&#8221; American comedy that hit the theaters a few years ago, you cannot&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/who-seriously-cant-remember-the-hilarious-french-robot-from-eurotrip-error-error-error\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":23790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[108,13],"tags":[55224,55239,4229,55245,55246,55243,55241,49677,55223,55231,55220,55222,24681,11676,55236,55238,55226,55221,55240,55225,55232,55228,55229,55234,55242,55237,55244,55227,55230],"class_list":["post-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-vocabulary","tag-55224","tag-american-soccer-team","tag-asterix","tag-asterix-et-la-surprise-de-cesar","tag-asterix-versus-caesar","tag-ca-plane-pour-moi","tag-chapeaumelon","tag-er","tag-eurotrip","tag-francois","tag-french-robot","tag-french-waiter","tag-garcon","tag-george-clooney","tag-george-le-clown","tag-grivelerie","tag-j-p-manoux","tag-jean-luc-le-grossier","tag-jim-morrison","tag-le-louvre","tag-manchester-united-hooligans","tag-maurice-chevalier","tag-mot-de-securite","tag-noah-wyle","tag-nonchalant","tag-oceans-eleven","tag-plastic-bertrand","tag-prosper","tag-the-who"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34024,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions\/34024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}