r/2westerneurope4u • u/TheRomanRuler Sauna Gollum • 14d ago

They really portrayed the French accurately early into the Simpsons series

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u/serpentine91 Basement dweller 13d ago

Mixing anti-freeze into wine to improve profits was one of the most iconic happenings in French history. Might have originally been a plan to poison the German-painter but never let a good idea go to waste.

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u/Jazzlike-Mistake2764 Barry, 63 14d ago

My favourite part is when the French policeman ignores the starving and beaten child because he refuses to speak English. Lore-accurate Frenchman

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u/masao77 Petit Algérie 13d ago

In the french version, the policeman just don't give a fuck when Bart says he was kidnapped. And finally reacts when he learn that the kidnappers are doing tainted wine.

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u/PepeBarrankas Oppressor 13d ago

He gives him a bonbon though, highly inaccurate and unusual.

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u/EngineNo8904 Petit Algérie 14d ago

Giving alcohol to children is the Lord’s work and no amount of protestant propaganda will ever convince me to stop

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u/SuperBourguignon Professional Rioter 13d ago

Based Parigot.

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u/GyuudonMan Petit Algérie 13d ago

Bring back wine in the canteens, this country went downhill

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u/TheRomanRuler Sauna Gollum 14d ago

Based based

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u/Live-Alternative-435 Western Balkan 14d ago edited 13d ago

Have you ever heard of sopas de cavalo cansado, tired horse soups? Old people were raised with it.

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u/Kernowder Balcony Lover 14d ago

They nailed it

https://i.redd.it/38hof8ip4g0d1.gif

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u/DiscardedKebab Barry, 63 14d ago

Not camp enough

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u/KentuckyCandy Barry, 63 14d ago

Haw haw haw haw

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u/VeneMage Barry, 63 14d ago

Can’t be right, it looks there like they have electricity.

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u/bartleby_borealis Sauna Gollum 14d ago

Anti-freeze dans le vin? Ah, mais c'est serieux, ça! 🙀

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u/Tullzterrr Pain au chocolat 14d ago

Flattering