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Notice how things take on an entirely different slant when you say them in a foreign language? The following languages hold the following stereotypes: Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese: All sound Hotter and Sexier (See the Latin Lover trope for why) and exotic. Dialects for Spanish (such as Mexican Spanish compared to European Spanish) may carry a completely different vibe than each other depending on who you ask. Italian: Everything sounds delicious in Italian. Pizza, pasta, mozzarella, spaghetti, macaroni, lasagna, rigatoni, pesto, etc. if it's Italian, it will be delizioso. French: French sounds fashionistic, cultured and artsy, or (in the Anglosphere e.g. Britain and America) the accent of insufferable elitist snobbery — the language of douchebags. French words for food also sound délicieuse, but of the snooty fine dining variety. English: Received Pronunciation sounds wealthy, privileged and aristocratic. In the US, the East Coast "preppy" and "transatlantic" accents hold similar connotations. Other accents (Australian, most American and Canadian, Cockney, Northern English, Scottish, Irish, New Zealand, etc.) are hearty and sometimes "cool" too, but also uncouth or at least unsophisticated. (Most Midwestern American and Canadian accents, for example, can come across as down-to-earth, polite and unpretentious.) And if you're going for calm sophistication, definitely do not go with Brooklyn. Southern US accents can go these ways: a Southern Gentleman/Belle, a Texas cowboy or an ultraconservative, stupid, racist bigot. And with a west coast/Californian accent, you either get the connotations of being incredibly laid-back or of being someone who overuses slang and words such as "like" or "Oh my God!" Japanese: Japanese usually sounds respectful and cute. Exceptions include The Idiot from Osaka, a Yakuza member, a Samurai or Imperial Japanese soldier/kamikaze pilot, or an actor in a Kurosawa movie. It is also a common sentiment that a Japanese dub of a western movie always makes everything sound more dramatic, whether intended or not. Russian: Can either be seductive or badass when accompanying a positive stereotype, or quiet and dangerous when accompanying a more antagonistic one. Greek: Greek is the language of Science: Techno Babble, Science Fiction and STEM jargon names. Anything High-Tech will be named by the Greek suffix "-tron." The actual sound of Greek (staccato syllables with lots of obstruents) adds to the flair (this works for both Ancient and Modern Greek, by the way). Semitic (Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc.): Generally considered to be ancient and holy-sounding, usually found for works that take inspiration from Biblical mythology or Gnosticism. German: German is the Black Speech, provided it's not spoken in the gentle tones of native speakers. Sounds badass, hammy, dictatorial, over-the-top angry bombastic ranting or efficiently technical. Alternatively, when spoken softly it can be used to boost the attractiveness of a character. Dutch: Similarly, Dutch has been described—by a Dutchman!—as a "not a language but a disease of the throat." Nordic languages: sound ideally suited for dark, gloomy, crime or political thrillers set in countries which popularly have too little sunlight, such as Wallander or Borgen. Slavic languages: similar to Nordic languages, but Black Speech like Cold War communist spy, The Mafiya, or Balkan Bastard, on the other hand, it even sounds sultry like Sensual Slav. Latin: Latin sounds solemn — whether in the sense of religion or intelligence, or alternately just being pretentious. If something is related to Law or the legal profession, it will be Latin. Unless you're doing a reconstructed pronunciation, in which case it can sound like a particularly badass Italian. Chinese: Depends on the era. If it's Ancient, it sounds like ancient wisdom (e.g. Laozi and Confucius). But Modern? Rude and shouty. The downplayed exception is Modern Cantonese, which gives some degrees of badass gangster or kung-fu fighter from Hong Kongese Martial Arts Movie. Korean: Can go either smart-ass and dramatic like North Korean spy, Squid Game, and Parasite, or loveable and cutesy like Korean Pop Music. This is, of course, subject to Values Dissonance, as the French don't necessarily think their language sounds the sexiest. They usually dub the 'sexy foreign language parts' in Italian or Spanish, and they usually perceive their own accent in English as horrible. May overlap with Gratuitous French if there really is no reason for it to be in French. Compare Gratuitous Foreign Language, As Long as It Sounds Foreign, British Accents. See also Everyone Looks Sexier if French and French Cuisine Is Haughty. |
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Inverted in French film Stolen Kisses. Antoine is quite obviously turned on when Fabienne picks up the phone and chats in English for a bit. (So turned on that he starts trying to learn it.) | |
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Compare "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind" from The Great Mouse Detective in English, French and German. French sounds more romantic, German sounds more evil. The Lyrics between English and French are much closer than in The Lion King (1994). Though the French version has even darker lyrics, with the goons mentioning how Ratigan is bloody and brutal, and how he's God's worst creature. | |
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Duchess from The Aristocats has a sweet French accent. She's also the only character who actually has a French accent in the film while others have American or British accents. | |
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The Addams Family: The French language has an aphrodisiac effect on Gomez Addams, no matter who (or what) said it: Although one time, she had to "C'est la vie" twice for the effect to take. On occasion, Morticia would say something in a different language, and immediately gets Gomez all over her (but again it's Morticia). |
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In K, Kusanagi tends to bring out his polyglot skills when talking to Seri. In s1e6 — "Mais Oui, mademoiselle," — flirty, then again with a cringe, in response to her... unique drink order. (he's a bartender). In the movie — "Seri-chan, Guten morgen" (he just got back from a research trip to Dresden) In s2e9, during their Black-Tie Infiltration — "Yes, My Honey" (he's voiced by Takahiro Sakurai). |
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A fake ad, but one of the pitch ads on The Gruen Transfer used the classiness of the French language to sell urine. | |
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In CSI: NY, Flack finds Angell speaking French very sexy; and Mac tells Stella everything sounds better in Greek. | |
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The Young Diana: When Diana goes skating, a man flirts with her by calling her "Boule de Neige," which sounds more romantic than "Snowball." | |
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Used and parodied in Love Actually where Collin was certain that his British accent would make him attractive to American girls, despite his friend's misgivings. Collin was right and at the first bar he goes to, he meets three lovely American girls all very interested in him and he ended up with a gorgeous girl with a Texan drawl. | |
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In There's More Than One Way Home, Val calls Anna "Anna Banana," to her annoyance. He tries "Petite Anne Banane," which she admits sounds much better. He keeps using "Anne Banane" throughout the book. | |
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The Simpsons: In an episode, the Simpsons are stranded in a jungle, making their way downstream on a raft. They pass natives staring ominously at them. We see the natives discussing something in low, scary voices. According to the subtitles they're discussing helping the travellers, possibly offering them some food. In one episode, Lisa is lost and asks a Russian man for directions. He proceeds to spew angry proclamations and she runs for her life, but the subtitles indicate that he was giving her the directions. "What's her problem?" Taking it an extra step, the man resumes and is beaten in a game of chess by his companion. After flipping over the chessboard, he yells "Good game, how about another?!" |
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When Carter learns that Allison speaks Dutch in the third season of Eureka, he's momentarily stunned and distracted. | |
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In Tanz Der Vampire Herbert calls Alfred "mon chéri" while flirting with him. | |
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In the English version of the Oh My Goddess! manga, Peorth seems to believe in this Trope; her dialogue is liberally sprinkled with French— it's even lampshaded in the opening to every issue featuring her: "Occasionally talks in French 'cause it sounds cool." (It's likely to be Gratuitous English in the original Japanese, though.) | |
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An episode of Heroes required Mohinder to speak French. This decision was very much appreciated by certain segments of the fandom, and prompted countless retreats to countless bunks. | |
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Looney Tunes: Three words: Pepe Le Pew. (And it still sounds sexier even if the French is mangled and mostly consists of puns). An early Le Pew cartoon, before the formula was nailed down, has him revealed as an American married-man fraud. Pepe Le Pew's spiritual successor, Fifi La Fume, to the agreement of furries, who obviously didn't exist back in Pepe's days. Daffy Duck tried this in the short "A Coy Decoy". Bugs Bunny in "Hare Trimmed" when he pretended to court Granny in order to protect her from the avarice of Yosemite Sam. |
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In an episode of Totally Spies!, Clover and Alex find (who knows from where) a Bishōnen pool cleaner who only speaks French. They get wooed by everything he says just because - even though he's only talking about pool water quality all the time, as Jerry tells them by the end of the episode when they see him cleaning Mandy's pool and she reacts similarly. | |
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In the vintage future of Pouvoirpoint, French obviously became the universal language, so all anglicisms are frenchified to the absurd : from the title ("Pouvoirpoint" is literal translation of "Powerpoint") to the lyrics of various songs ("Daddy Cool" becomes "Papa Frais", "Welcome to the machine" becomes "Bienvenue dans la machine")... | |
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Fingernails: Invoked. The Love Institute uses French music in its exercises to enhance the romantic mood. | |
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Tocotronic claim that "Ãœber Sex kann man nur auf Englisch singen". This probably does not mean "only in English you can sing about sex" but rather "not in German". | |
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Mad Men reveals that Megan, who's French-Canadian, managed to get the most tips when she worked as a waitress because she knew how to work the accent. Later, her idea of a birthday present for Don is a performance of "Zou Bisou Bisou" using her native French. | |
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Dawn of War: Check the difference between English-voiced Chaos Space Marines (For the unfamiliar with WH40k, they're the bad guys) and German-voiced Chaos Space Marines here. Notice something? | |
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Doonesbury: In this strip Phred is settling in as Vietnam's ambassador to the United Nations. One of the other ambassadors suggests listening to the French translation channel: | |
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Penny's new friend from her college class is British, and it freaks Leonard (her boyfriend) out to no ends. They discuss the trope and Penny tries to argue that British accent is not necessarily the sexiest, trying to calm him down, but ultimately she concludes that British accent is indeed the best for guys to have. | |
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Mentioned in Scrubs where Elliot demonstrated the many ways she can speak German from cute to scary. | |
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An episode of Animaniacs is set in a Drive-In Theater showing a French movie. The implication given by most of the audience is that the movie is supposed to be romantic (or maybe just artsy), but whenever the movie is visible, the only dialogue is a dramatic-sounding recitation of children's songs (such as "Allouette, je te plumerai." and "Frère Jacques, dormez-vous?"). | |
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In a Garfield strip: | |
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Queen of Thieves: On Remy's route, the heroine quickly discovers how much she enjoys hearing Remy speak to her in French. A heart scene in Vivienne's second season has her teasing the heroine with various Italian pet names, plus hinting at the possibilities for French. The flustered heroine responds by joking about the Romance languages not being called that for nothing. |
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On an episode of Sesame Street, Gordon says something similar abut Spanish, and Luis and Maria break into a song making fun of it. | |
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Discworld: In Hogfather, a posh restaurant is left with no ingredients, so they make do with mud and old boots and name all the dishes in extravagant French (or rather, Quirmish). None of the diners notice. Given the extravagance of culinary French, this is not even Lost in Translation. note A Genius Bonus is that towards the end of the Siege of Paris in 1870-71 with hardly anything left to cook, upscale restaurants did exactly this. In Making Money, Moist von Lipwig finds that the golem language (usually hell on the human tongue), "... sounded unbearably sexy when Adora Belle uttered it. It was like silver in the air." In Maskerade, the operas are in "Brindisian" and, translated, are incredibly banal. One of the most romantic arias of all time is about a stuck door. More precisely, it is the heroine telling the hero why she cannot leave him. In Monstrous Regiment Polly mentions that while the rest of the squad looks disheveled, the vampire Maledict had only become déshabillé. Same translation, different implication. |
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Y: The Last Man. Yorick's fidelity to his fiancée Beth is tested when riding in the back of a pickup with Russian agent Natalya, who starts unbuttoning her shirt in the heat... "And would you mind not muttering to yourself in Russian, your accent is disturbingly sexy." (Ironically she's actually talking about finding the dead body of her husband). | |
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Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps There's an episode where Janet reads a love letter from her ex, the decidedly English Andy. When she reads it, the voiceover is Andy's accent. When Janet's suspicious boyfriend Jonny reads it, the voiceover is a French accent. Another episode has Janet attempt to make a romantic meal out of common food and drink by giving the names in faux-French (for example, "can of lager" becomes "beer a la can"). |
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In Maskerade, the operas are in "Brindisian" and, translated, are incredibly banal. One of the most romantic arias of all time is about a stuck door. More precisely, it is the heroine telling the hero why she cannot leave him. | |
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Daffy Duck tried this in the short "A Coy Decoy". | |
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As Told by Ginger had an episode that featured a foreign exchange student with a French accent named John Pierre. He was popular with girls. | |
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An episode of The Muppet Show featured a guest, French singer Charles Aznavour, who demonstrated to Kermit how easy it is to seduce women by saying anything, anything in French to them. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Penny's new friend from her college class is British, and it freaks Leonard (her boyfriend) out to no ends. They discuss the trope and Penny tries to argue that British accent is not necessarily the sexiest, trying to calm him down, but ultimately she concludes that British accent is indeed the best for guys to have. When Rajesh's sister first showed up, the guys talked about how her Indian accent is sexy. Raj was uncomfortable with any one of them trying to hit on her and said that she spoke exactly like he did. |
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In Making Money, Moist von Lipwig finds that the golem language (usually hell on the human tongue), "... sounded unbearably sexy when Adora Belle uttered it. It was like silver in the air." | |
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In the House: Tiffany meets a cute boy with a Caribbean accent. She fakes one of her own, but eventually confesses. Then he drops his fake accent and sounds like a normal Californian. He's quite glad to stop frontin'. | |
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Aunt Jocelyn from Eye of a Fly uses lots of Gratuitous French, because "I think français is so much more élégant than a guttural tongue like English." | |
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The King Is Dead: Karla is Kane's Francophone wife. She reminisces about how Kane, when he first met her, said "You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen" in "schoolboy French." She then notes how in English it sounds "corny" but in French it worked. | |
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In one episode of The Wonder Years, 8th grader Kevin Arnold has a daydream in French class. In his dream, his crush speaks sexy French to him, and Kevin responds each time with the only French phrase he knows: "Would you like some butter?" Both sides of the conversation would sound equally romantic if they weren't subtitled, though! | |
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The Twi'lek in Star Wars: The Clone Wars are given French accents. The entire female half of their species has basically been Ms. Fanservice ever since their first appearance four decades ago. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days Larxene's weapons all have French names. | |
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Guess what language the most academically, mentally, and physically developed female character in Persona 3 (and Expansion Pack FES), Mitsuru Kirijo, knows (and occasionally drops a line in)? (This is an example of Keep It Foreign: in the Japanese, she's using Gratuitous English.) | |
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In My Name Is Earl, Catalina sometimes speaks bursts of Spanish, sounding as if she's insulting people — but what she's actually saying are things like "Thank you to the Spanish-speaking audience for watching this show" (obviously breaking the Fourth Wall.) | |
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In Turning Red, one of the reasons why Mei is into Robaire is because he can speak French. Invoked by his name, which ought to be spelled "Robert" like its English equivalent; clearly the creative forces behind the band sought to capitalize on this trope by spelling their leading man's name in a way that made its French pronunciation immediately apparent. | |
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Stephen Colbert invoked this trope when interviewing Marion Cotillard. The two of them managed to make phrases like "I'm pretty sure this mayonnaise has gone bad", "Don't pet my weasel, he's rabid" and "I have an historic case of swamp ass" sound intriguing and sophisticated, by saying them in French. | |
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In one episode of Red Dwarf, Lister enters a King Arthur VR simulation, equipped with a book of cheats, and attempts to seduce queen Guinevere. When he hears she speaks with a French accent, he comments: | |
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Leliana in Dragon Age: Origins is from Orlais, where everyone speaks with French accents. She's also the resident bard and sports red hair, probably a necessary combination for her to compete with Morrigan. On the opposite end of the spectrum is Qunlat, the language of the Qunari. Of the words we've heard, many seem to contain Rs and long As for the simple fact that it makes it extremely easy to growl the words or turn them into a guttural roar. |
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Deployed for comedy in the Canadian film Bon Cop, Bad Cop. A man in bed with a woman uses schoolroom French drills to great effect: "Jean-Paul et Nicole aller à l'école!"Translation Jean-Paul and Nicole to go to school? "Again!" As the woman orgasm, she screams "Vive le Québec libre", which is a famous phrase meaning "Long live freenote As in, independent from Canada Quebec!" pronounced by former French President's Charles de Gaulle. | |
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An episode of Walker, Texas Ranger has the guys picking up their tuxedos for Walker's wedding. After one of the guys complements the tailor on his skills and asks if he learned them in Italy (where he claims to be from), an amused Walker reveals that the man's name is something wholly dull and American and that he learned his skills in prison. Upon being released and determined to turn his life around, the man opened a store and used the Italian translation of his name, correctly surmising that this would make people flock to his store. | |
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British statesman Lord Chesterfield wrote in Letters to His Son about another example with German: "'das, der donner [sic] dich erschlage'note That the thunder shall strike you down, must no doubt, make a tremendously fine piece of 'recitativo', when uttered by an angry hero, to the rumble of a whole orchestra, including drums, trumpets, and French horns." (letter 207) This was long before Richard Wagner started to write operas. | |
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Forbidden Zone: Frenchy Hercules. On the surface, a chick who walks around in a bathrobe, with too much makeup. But now make her French. | |
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In A Brother's Price, Jerin is knowledgeable about the ancient art of K'lamour, or "The Paths of Pleasure". He blushes when someone asks about it, as his knowledge is rather theoretical, and, anyway, not fit to be discussed in public. But in a world with male Gender Rarity Value, a husband has to be able to provide pleasure to his ten to thirty wives. While France is never mentioned, the word does sound rather much like French for "love". | |
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Used in Benzaie's "Working at Channel Awesome" sitcom, where what he's saying both is and sounds violent... but it's in French, so at least one of the girls still swoons over it. His entire character seems to be based on this. | |
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In Right What Is Wrong's Harry Potter fanfic "Love Potioning Gone Wrong," Dumbledore is accidentally given a love potion meant for Harry. Now in love with Ginny, he charms her hair blonde (like Gellert's hair) and asks her to speak German (like Gellert did). | |
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The National Lampoon radio show/lp records had a mock ad for the Indianapolis Academy of the French Accent, promising a better life from speaking in a sexy cool accent. | |
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A Fish Called Wanda: Wanda is turned on when Otto says anything in exotic-sounding Italian. Otto just knows scattered words and phrases in Italian Later Wanda discovers that she's far more turned on by Archie's Russian, though Russian is seldom seen as a sexy language. Archie is actually fluent in Russian. |
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In the episode "Ro-becca", Antoine of Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) gets a very aggressive femmebot to fall in love with him with his French accent. After a few minutes of trying to elude her in vain, he finally repels her with a surprisingly convincing Ahnold impression. Then he accidentally attracts her again by relapsing back to his French accent. Sonic later unintentionally attracts Robecca's attention with a little French of his own... | |
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Subverted in Time Gentlemen Please: | |
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In Monstrous Regiment Polly mentions that while the rest of the squad looks disheveled, the vampire Maledict had only become déshabillé. Same translation, different implication. | |
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Trainspotting has resident Pornomancer Sick Boy bragging to Renton about his new French girlfriend, particularly noting the appeal of her speaking her native tongue in bed. Renton (somewhat lamely) jokes she's asking if it's in yet. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Run Away Runway", French fashion designer Gaston la Mode gets Candace to model a new outfit with a ridiculously high collar, and he flatters her by calling her his "cou de crayon". It's not until the end of the episode that Ferb tells her it translates to "pencil neck". | |
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In an episode of Designing Women, Julia has been taking a cooking class. When Charlene asks her what she made, she rattles of something very fancy-sounding. When Charlene says it sounds good, she says "Thanks, it's macaroni and cheese, it just tastes better in French." | |
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In The Host (2008) when a Soul gets a new host, they automatically gain all of that host's communicative abilities, which leads Wanderer to often mention translated idioms from previous alien cultures that she's lived in... which leads to a running gag with her noting that "it sounds better in Bear". | |
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In a very early Bloom County strip, Mr. Limekiller charms an elderly woman by saying "vos lobes d'oreilles sont comme des têtes de poisson." In the last frame, he explains (correctly) to Milo that it means "something like 'your earlobes resemble fish heads'." | |
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The SPECTRE guards at Piz Gloria (presumably recruited from the German-speaking part of Switzerland) speak untranslated German, for that extra air of menace when barking orders or alerts. | |
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In an episode of A Different World, Whitley offers to make Dwayne's mother something to eat. She used the French term, but after describing it, Dwayne's mother said, "that's just a good old-fashioned ham and cheese sandwich". | |
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This even applies to names as well. In Sonic Adventure 2, Rouge the Bat has been considered to have a sexy name to compliment her attractive appearance. Given that Rouge is the French word for red, this trope definitely applies. | |
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According to Kirche from The Familiar of Zero, this trope is inverted. From what she says, Germania (which could be that world's Germany) is the land of sexiness and passion. | |
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Bugs Bunny in "Hare Trimmed" when he pretended to court Granny in order to protect her from the avarice of Yosemite Sam. | |
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In Commander Kitty, CK gets the wrong idea when he's led into a room marked "abbatoir"note slaughterhouse. | |
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There's nothing in this world that's sexier then listening to NCIS when Ziva's showing off her incredible amount of languages, especially Hebrew. Ohhhh... | |
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A variation from an episode of M*A*S*H: | |
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The Popeye short portraying Bluto as an etiquette teacher had him introducing himself as "Prof. Bluteau". | |
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Summertime Saga has the schoolteacher Miss Bissett, who teaches French and has a unique way of offering incentives for fast and advanced learners. | |
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In Hogfather, a posh restaurant is left with no ingredients, so they make do with mud and old boots and name all the dishes in extravagant French (or rather, Quirmish). None of the diners notice. Given the extravagance of culinary French, this is not even Lost in Translation. note A Genius Bonus is that towards the end of the Siege of Paris in 1870-71 with hardly anything left to cook, upscale restaurants did exactly this. | |
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Everything Julie Delpy says as the titular character of Killing Zoe. It's all either sexy French or sexy French-accented English. | |
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This trope is parodied in both Ouran High School Host Club and Princess Tutu, by Tamaki (who's half French) and Femio respectively. Given that they're voiced by the same guy in the English dubs... | |
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Hikari No Densetsu: A variant, except it's Italian instead of French - Mao sings an Italian song to show his love for Hikari in the manga's finale, breaking the rules of the Olympics to do so. | |
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In Police Academy, third-generation American George Martin pretends to be Hispanic to get girls. It works. | |
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One episode of W.I.T.C.H. has a Swiss Foreign Exchange Student with a French accent. All the boys were gaga for her. It turned out her accent was fake and she was really American though. | |
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German version in Demo Reel. Carl Copenhagan has a foursome with some sexy cosplayers, and his advice to the other guy who wants in is to grow an accent. | |
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In the finale of the 10th-anniversary concert for Les Misérables, of the seventeen international Jean Valjean actors, France-representative Robert Marien is easily the sexiest. Compare the performances of all seventeen singers, all singing lines from the same song. | |
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Spoofed in "That French Song" by Tripod. The song sounds romantic to the girl listening to it, but the subtitles reveal that the song is really the most unromantic things you could think of, such as "I have a cluster of pimples on my back shaped like the Man on the Moon." | |
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Toy Story 3 has Buzz Lightyear's Spanish Mode, where he becomes a Large Ham, more physically affectionate, and actively tries to woo his Love Interest Jessie. | |
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In the Mickey Mouse Works short "Mickey Tries To Cook", the limit of Mickey's cooking skills is a ham-cheese-cheese-tomato-ham-cheese-ham-tomato-and-cheese sandwich... with cheese. Minnie, wanting something fancier, asks José Carioca to make them a romantic gourmet dinner, but the "gourmet dinner" turns out to be a ''presunto-queijo-queijo-tomate-presunto-queijo-presunto-tomate-e-queijo sanduÃche... e queijo." | |
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The Killing Joke song "$.0.3.6" from their debut album makes use of a sample playing in the background of some guy speaking rather conversationally in German. I have no idea what is being said (in all likelihood, the band didn't either) but the fact that it's being spoken in German, coupled with Gaz's repeated references to "experiments" of some kind, makes it difficult not to think of Josef Mengele. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità : Japan thinks Italy sounds especially sexy when he speaks Japanese. Germany thinks Italy sounds especially sexy when he speaks German. Italy also immensely enjoys Japan and Germany speaking Italian. | |
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A partial subversion occurs in Niels regarding Agent 300's thick Glaswegian brogue (that he only slips into when drunk}. His boyfriend Agent 250 is extremely turned on by it every time it happens. | |
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While My Kitchen Rules's French judge Manu Fieldel rarely, if ever, speaks in his native language, more than one contestant consider his accent "divine". | |
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Yuuya of Hatoful Boyfriend likes to start every conversation with "Salut!" (Salutations, in the official English translation), ends it with "Adieu!", and calls the protagonist "Mon amie". He lived in France for a while, but it seems to be an affectation since in a bad moment he swears in Japanese (or translated English). | |
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Backyard Sports: "Soy Pablo. ¿Quieres jugar?" But he really speaks English. | |
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The Heroes of Olympus: Aphrodite apparently thinks so. Children of Aphrodite can speak and understand French. Why? Because it's the language of love, of course. | |
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French death metal band Eths subverts this trope pretty damn hard. | |
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Played for laughs in The IT Crowd when Roy drops a date off at her house. He describes it as 'La maison de la femme', 'el casa de la senorita' and finally as 'das Haus der Frau' in a loud, harsh voice, illustrating that German is not generally considered a sexy-sounding language, unlike French and Spanish. | |
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In one of the only full translations of Dream of the Red Chamber into English, all the sex is in Latin. | |
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On The Proud Family, Sugarmama lusts after Lacienega's grandfather, and it became a Running Gag where he would berate her en español. She doesn't know Spanish and would swoon at his every word while his bilingual family watches uncomfortably. However, it's implied that they do start dating at some point. | |
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Pepe Le Pew's spiritual successor, Fifi La Fume, to the agreement of furries, who obviously didn't exist back in Pepe's days. | |
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Inverted in Ilivais X. Mille Chanteau has a blatantly French name and happens to speak French, but she doesn't have an accent and hardly ever says anything in French. She gets around regardless. | |
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In Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen has a quartet of characters representing national stereotypes of the English, German, French and Swedish. When the Frenchman makes a comment in his native tongue, the German comments (Ibsen being sarcastic), "Oh! French is such a stiff language." | |
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Team Fortress 2. The Spy's vaguely French accent, plus the RED Spy's canonical relationship with the BLU Scout's mother. Of course, the fandom ran with it, making the Spy The Pornomancer. | |
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In the Bump in the Night episode "Gum Crazy", to play with the idea that the heart represents love and that French is regarded as a romantic language, the personification of Mr. Bumpy's heart appears as Mr. Bumpy with a mustache and a French accent. | |
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In Lost in Translation, Alphonse calls French an "attractively lyrical language". It's also decidedly foreign as literally no one but Ed and Noa can speak it. | |
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Julien-K's song "Systeme De Sexe": a blatantly sexual song, with one of the verses being a woman speaking/moaning in French. See also: the title. | |
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An episode of Jimmy Two-Shoes has Heloise having a Dream Sequence where Jimmy sings for her with a (slight) Spanish accent, complete with maracas. | |
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Horatio Hornblower: In "The Frogs and the Lobsters", there is Mariette the peasant-girl-turned-school-teacher whose English is tinged with French, which is supposed to be appealing. She and Horatio have almost a thing together, though not quite because he's too innocent and she's too vapid. It's not explained in-universe how she mastered the English language. Senora Ortega speaks English, but when she tries to seduce an unfortunate soldier who guards the imprisoned Spanish ladies, she chooses to speak Spanish, a language the soldier doesn't understand. It works on him. |
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A Hägar the Horrible strip plays this with food names — the Viking hero orders something like "Saucisse brûlée sur un bâton", and of course, gets a burnt sausage on a stick. | |
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Flight of the Conchords Foux de Fa Fa fa fa-ah | |
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During one exchange in Criminal Minds between Derek Morgan and Penelope Garcia, Garcia signs off in French, to which Morgan tells her that it "drives (him) crazy with (her) French talk." | |
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In the dub of Baccano!, Chane Laforet has a french accent...as an inner monologue. Then again, the voice sure helped. YMMV on her father Huey Laforet. | |
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French Progressive Rock/Zeuhl band Magma's frontman Christian Vader felt that French wasn't expressive enough "either for the story or the sound of the music" and so he created an entire new language called Kobaïan, mostly based in Germanic and Slavic phonemes. Some critics have felt Kobaïan enabled Magma's singers to express emotions more deeply than traditional lyrics would have allowed, so he may have been correct. Today using a conlang is a staple of the Zeuhl genre. | |
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In Addicted, Rose and Connor talk to each other in French all the time in public, and often in bed as well. | |
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In The Curse of Monkey Island, we have a few instances where something is referred to in Spanish to make it seem cool and dangerous, such as El Pollo Diablo ("The Devil Chicken"). To further drive home the fact, you have four conversation choices in a dialogue on the subject: "What?", pretending to be El Pollo Diablo and the translations in Spanish of the first two options. There's also an option to have Guybrush say "ouch!" in a (fictional) foreign language — "Papapichu!" — every time he gets hurt. |
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Parodied in 10cc's epic rocker "Une Nuit en Paris", which makes it sound like the official language of Paris is "sexy broken English." | |
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For a clip on World's Dumbest... that takes place in Germany, Kevin McCaffrey comments that you could say "I love you; here are these flowers" in German and he would soil himself. | |
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The French version of the song "Prince Ali" from Aladdin has a hilarious moment: the Genie spouts the line "Il y a du monde au balcon!" (roughly "there's quite some people at the balcony") just as we see three well-endowed girls swooning over Al on a balcony. And that expression is also an "elegant" way of saying that a woman has, erm, large... tracts of land. | |
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The 7th Sea RPG has various knacks and Advantages that influence a character's social ability, one of which is "Dangerous Beauty". One of the accents found in Montaigne (an Expy of Louis-XIV-era France) grants Dangerous Beauty for free because that accent is just so alluring. | |
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Waka in Ōkami speaks with a French Funetik Aksent, even though the game doesn't have any recorded voices. | |
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In The Matrix Reloaded, the Merovingian provides the page quote: | |
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Played straight in French Cancan: showman Danglard has a brainstorm to revive the then-passé couple's dance known as the cancan and turn it into a highly-choreographed extravaganza. He also decides to name the revised dance the French cancan to appeal to non-French audiences. | |
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Sonny & Cher demonstrated this on their Variety Show by having Cher sing "Hit the Road, Jack" in French. It came out sounding like a romantic serenade. | |
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Homestar Runner: One of the endings to the Halloween toon "Halloween Potion-Ma-Jig" has Marzipan's potion turn Homestar into a suave French version of himself, whereupon he instantaneously seduces a delighted Marzipan. | |
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Night Trap has Mr. Martin, who tries to come off as a charming gentleman. | |
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In the TV show My Family Roger finds out his girlfriend finds foreign languages sexy, he proceeds to woo her in Welsh! Sadly he only knows a few phrases from when he worked in a tourist information centre. He's soon caught when Alfie repeats what Roger is actually saying in englishnote Caution, roadworks ahead. Alfie then tells her the romantic phrases claimed he was saying in the proper welsh. They don't have any effect on her though and asks Roger to keep telling her about the roadworks in Welsh. | |
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In one episode of How I Met Your Mother, Robin has a dinner date with a British doctor. She decides not to shave her legs as it would force her to behave and not have sex right away on their first date. However, he's really hot, and a doctor, and with British accent. This combination proves lethally charming and Robin spends her date trying to shave her legs. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): From "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...": | |
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Used in the Daughters of the Moon book, Into the Cold Fire to justify Serena's crush on foreign exhange student, Zahi. Usually Serena avoids romantic relationships because she sometimes starts mentally responding to their thoughts whenever she gets too happy or excited, so she's quite pleased when she reads Zahi's mind and finds that his thoughts are all in French and Arabic and can't understand them. | |
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Spoofed in Frasier, in which Roz is dating a Frenchman despite not actually speaking French, and so enlists Frasier, who does, to help her dump him. It soon transpires that the Frenchman — who doesn't speak English himself — was actually planning on dumping her himself, and he and Frasier ultimately end up discussing where a good place in Seattle to get a steak is. Roz, of course, thinks that he's saying something immensely touching and romantic. | |
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Friends: In the episode "The One Where Joey Speaks French", when Phoebe uses French, Rachel finds it sexy and even tells her: "Seriously stop it, or I'm gonna jump on ya." This was a large portion of the attraction of Paolo in the first season. That and he was a tall, beautiful Italiano. |
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Would-be yuppie Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses is in the habit of throwing French words into his sentences even though he doesn't know what they mean. A full list can be found here. | |
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In Dexter's Laboratory, the title genius attempts to study for a French test by listening to tapes while he sleeps. The tape skips, and he wakes up unable to say anything except "omelette du fromage" (literaly, "cheese omelette").note (Which, in proper French, would be "omelette au fromage". Here is an explanation of this error.) Turns out this, among other things, drives the girls wild. However, his inability to say anything else leads to his lab self-destructing. A reference to Steve Martin's stand-up routine about speaking French in France, perhaps? | |
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German metal band Rammstein practically exploit the "angry sounding language" stereotype almost to the point of parody. Their use of German intentionally makes all their songs sound militaristic and hard. Notable exceptions include "Ohne dich" and "Sonne". In truth, most Germans think that Rammstein is overdoing it - Till's rolling R's and hard T sounds are much more the result of his dramatic deep baritone range. The weirdest thing is that most of the time, they sing about very dirty, brutal, or downright evil taboo subjects such as cannibalism ("Mein Teil"), incest ("Weiner Blut", "Tier", "Spiel mit mir"), rape ("Du riescht so gut"), necrophilia ("Heirate mich"), sadism ("Ich tu dir Weh"), anal sex, sodomy, murder, and others, yet they never use dirty words (few exceptions exist). This leads to a very poetic language, that still sounds evil or fascistic to non-German speakers. | |
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