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J'accuse!

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J'accuse!	comment	Simply, when one is outraged beyond all other words, when there is nothing left to do but put on your Frenchiest of accents, point your pointiest finger, and cry, J'accuse!. It means "I accuse [you]" in the French. This is half a storied work of public journalism, half Memetic Mutation. It goes like this: Once upon a time in France, a renowned writer named Émile Zola penned a scathing open letter to the President (published in liberal publisher Georges Clemenceau's newspaper L'Aurore on January 13, 1898) that accused the government of France's Third Republic of anti-Semitism and corruption in its handling of the Dreyfus Affair of 1894 — in which an innocent French Army officer, Alfred Dreyfus, who just happened to be Jewish, was used as a scapegoat in a German espionage case (France had recently lost a war to Germany and despised them), when it was quite clear to everyone that the only thing that Dreyfus was guilty of was being Jewish and from the region of Alsace (which the Germans had taken from France as part of the peace settlement). The letter pointed out the weakness of the evidence and several clear occurrences of judicial error and prejudice during Dreyfus's trial, and formally named and accused scores of people of everything from incompetence to crimes against justice and humanity; for someone so prominent and respected as Zola to write something so harsh was a big deal, and for that Clemenceau (who loved picking political fights) set the sensationalist headline, in giant, bold letters: "J'Accuse...!". Naturally, the conservative French establishment was scandalized, and in retaliation Zola was rapidly charged with and convicted for libel (which he had predicted he would be in the article, even citing the specific laws he would be charged with breaking) and had to flee to England for a year, until the bureaucrats then in power were removed. Dreyfus had been sentenced to life in prison on Devil's Island; he appealed his case multiple times, but it was not until 1906, twelve years after his trial, that his conviction was actually annulled. Even though Zola's letter itself is famous, the Stock Phrase it has inspired is even more popular as a way to spice up an accusation with a little French.
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J'accuse! / int_14f9297e	comment	The Far Side had a panel where a live lobster bursts into a kitchen, points his claw at a chef cooking lobster, and shouts, "J'accuse!"
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J'accuse! / int_1ac67f96	comment	The historical novel An Officer and a Spy, about the Dreyfus Affair, includes a scene where the protagonist (Marie-Georges Picquart) learns about the publishing of Zola's famous letter. The text includes long extracts of the letter.
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J'accuse! / int_20948a39	comment	Guybrush lets out the line at one point in the fourth chapter of Tales of Monkey Island.
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J'accuse! / int_222c2051	comment	Lester lets one fly in Chuck's final season after discovering he and Jeff have been Locked Out of the Loop regarding Chuck's double life.
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J'accuse! / int_251e67c5	comment	The phrase was homaged, albeit in English, as the title of a Pre-Crisis Justice League of America story◊ about the investigation of the original Mister Terrific's murder.
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J'accuse! / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "The President Wore Pearls", Lisa complains about her French teacher not actually speaking French. "J'accuse!" "...What the hell is this broad talkin' about?"
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J'accuse! / int_2ee5c41a	comment	The Life of Émile Zola: Award-winning 1937 film about the Trope Namer and Zola's crusade on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus (the Translation Convention is in full effect here, so Zola's letter is printed as "I Accuse!").
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J'accuse! / int_33860f9f	comment	Scott Pilgrim: "It's French. - ed."
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J'accuse! / int_37ee9dd3	comment	Doonesbury once had a drug-sniffing dog named Claude point at Zonker and say "J'accuse!".
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J'accuse! / int_3e53d9f0	comment	Shadow Raiders: An episode title. The episode deals with the trial of a military officer that threatens society itself, no less.
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J'accuse! / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: Gilbert, Bill's over-the-top, dandy Cajun cousin, screams at the top of his lungs when accusing Bill of selling out their family name to market a line of homemade barbeque sauces.
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J'accuse! / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Going Postal the hero Moist von Lipwig uses a technically complicated plot to replace a message used in a bet with his enemy Reacher Gilt to do a wonderful reveal of Reacher's entire plot and bring him and his minions down using this trope.
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J'accuse! / int_5a1506e6	comment	In Eternal Sonata, this is the name of one of the attacks of Fugue, one of the Big Bad Count Waltz's minions. Since Calling Your Attacks is fully in effect, you get to hear it its full glory.
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J'accuse! / int_5dc630cf	comment	The Simpsons Hit & Run
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J'accuse! / int_60850b03	comment	J'accuse is also the French title of the movie adaptation of An Officer and a Spy, which is also about the Dreyfus affair. It's from the point of view of the officer who defended Dreyfus this time around, Zola merely has one or two scenes.
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J'accuse! / int_627b3897	comment	Robert says this to Raymond in an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. Marie, who's taking French classes, says "Ooh! Ray! He's accusing you!"
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J'accuse! / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House: Spoken by Jerbo when he and the other Detention Kids find out Luz had told her friends she thought she was “better than” detention.
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J'accuse! / int_6a2d31a6	comment	The first Odd Thomas book contains a gag about how, while Odd is towing a dead body out of an apartment, he's trying to be quiet, except that he has to dump it over the railing. As he comes down the stairs, he guesses that no one heard him because no one runs at him yelling J'accuse!
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J'accuse! / int_6be52549	comment	The player can do this five times to oust a gang of bandits during a side quest in West of Loathing.
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J'accuse! / int_72686522	comment	In Lupin (2021): former Intrepid Reporter Fabienne Beriot owns a dog named J'accuse, which she's trained to start barking at the mentioning of the name Pellegrini.
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J'accuse! / int_746814ae	comment	The Arthur music album Arthur's Really Rockin' Music Mix has the song "Fern's Detective Tango", which is based on the events of the episode "Binky Rules". In the song, Fern sings about the various reasons why certain characters couldn't have been responsible for the graffiti reading "BINKY RULES," before finally declaring, "Binky, j'accuse!"
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J'accuse! / int_7fc53da4	comment	The Magic School Bus: When the class takes a trip to the rainforest after the cocoa tree they gifted to Ms. Frizzle had its first crop of beans generously sum to a total of one, they meet Inspector 47, a rather haughty man with a French accent and nicely-tailored suit who is in charge of overseeing the section of rainforest Ms. Frizzle's tree is in. When they ask him what happened to the missing cocoa beans, Inspector 47 accuses Inspector 46 of being jealous of how neat and tidy his section of the forest and placing a curse on the trees, driving off in a jeep shouting, "J'accuse, Inspector 46! J'accuse!"
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J'accuse! / int_89bf8ce	comment	On 30 Rock, Liz Lemon utters this phrase when some of Frank's cigarettes go missing, implying that he hasn't quit smoking. Turns out she ate them in her sleep.
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J'accuse! / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Glee: Stoner Brett yells this during a Britney Spears performance by the New Directions.
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J'accuse! / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Zoidberg says this once, the joke being that he's not French but Ambiguously Jewish.
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J'accuse! / int_a2174d23	comment	'Allo 'Allo!: In an unusual subversion of the show's trope of using Just a Stupid Accent as a Translation Convention for whatever language is actually being spoken. Lt. Gruber relates a dream he had of Rene saying "J'accuse! J'accuse!" and responds "Who is this "Jack Hughes"?" (Gruber believes he killed Rene with a firing squad and the Rene currently in the show is Rene posing as his own twin brother also called Rene). At the end of the episode Rene gets stuck on a giant aerial rising out of a grave (they'd hidden a transmitter in Rene's crypt since it was empty) and Gruber sees this figure of Rene rising out of the grave (looking sheepish) and faints. Helga then says "Well at least he didn't mention this "Jack Hughes". Roll credits.
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J'accuse! / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing: In "The Indians in the Lobby", President Bartlet attempted to use this on his wife Abbey when he finds out it's her fault they were going to celebrate Thanksgiving in Camp David rather than their family farm in New Hampshire. It didn't work out so well, though:
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J'accuse! / int_b3f687d1	comment	One FoxTrot story had Jason lose his recorder after spending the previous week annoying everyone in his family with it. When he tells Andy that it's missing, Andy suggests that a "certain reptile" (referring to Jason's iguana, Quincy) might have taken it. Instead, Jason, being the Annoying Younger Sibling that he is, goes to Paige and tells her "J'accuse," which confuses her since she's never heard the term before. note For the record, Paige didn't take the recorder; Andy found it under a pile of Jason's clothes.
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J'accuse! / int_b61bbe0a	comment	Modern Family: Cam says this after he discovers his husband was keeping his larger clothes in case his diet fails, specifically because it was more dramatic than other ways.
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J'accuse! / int_b6ce41c6	comment	Skylanders Academy: In "Elementary, My Dear Eruptor", Hugo screams this and points at Jet-Vac when Eruptor deduces that Jet-Vac was the one eating Hugo's cookies.
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J'accuse! / int_b8b10e08	comment	And Pogo got in on it.
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J'accuse! / int_bc8000b	comment	Jack Hues, the singer of Wang Chung, took his stage name from this phrase (his real name is Jeremy Ryder).
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J'accuse! / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The End of the World", Lady Cassandra does this when the Ninth Doctor seemingly discovers the culprit that was attempting to kill them all — because she's hoping he won't realize that she's the real culprit. He does.
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J'accuse! / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: The April Fools' Day episode "Terrance and Phillip in 'Not Without My Anus'", only to be sent up with a Chewbacca Defense.
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J'accuse! / int_dfb57220	comment	Bad Machinery: A pointing-fingered "J'Accuse!" is something of a signature move for Charlotte "Lottie" Grote, sometimes accompanied by an Unsound Effect. Lottie even uses it as an called-out attack, like in a manga.
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J'accuse! / int_e920073e	comment	Planet of Hats: Said by Spock in Space Seed. Used as an Unsound Effect when Kirk accuses Lazarus in "The Alternative Factor".
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J'accuse! / int_f0a86c12	comment	One of the lesser (but still recurring) running gags on How I Met Your Mother, usually invoked by Ted.
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