2023-08-09 17:07:00
What made us laugh these two! In 1999, Alex and Jean, alias Chouchou and Loulou, an endearing young couple, landed in homes through the “shortcom” A guy, a girl, adapted from the eponymous Quebec series. Evenings with friends, intimate moments, family meals or even scenes of argument, every moment of the daily life of the two lovebirds echoing everyone’s life as a couple, could be the subject of hilarious sketches with its share of bickering.
In third position among the favorite series of the French behind Game of Thrones and La Casa de Papel, Un gar, une fille owes its success above all to the talent of Alexandra Lamy and Jean Dujardin, the two main actors whom she revealed to the general public and who now enjoy national and international fame on TV and in the cinema. The series has also given rise between them a real love story that will have lasted 11 years and which notably led to a marriage in 2009.
Stopped in 2003 following the desire of the two actors to tame other roles, the series nevertheless continued to make viewers cry with laughter thanks to numerous reruns but also thanks to the videos of its official Youtube channel counting to date more than 700,000 subscribers.
Several personalities play it Chouchou and Loulou
One year from the 25th anniversary of the series, TF1, which is however not its original broadcaster unlike France 2, has planned two event evenings entitled A guy, a girl (in the plural). The first is set for August 28. For the occasion, 18 couples of actors, singers or animators (even coming from competing channels) of different generations will come to replay the cult scenes of Chouchou and Loulou. Among them, real couples such as Inès Reg and Kévin Debonne, Faustine Bollaert and Maxime Chattam, but also Stéphane Bern and Yori Bailleres.
Some like Alessandra Sublet and Olivier Marchal, Julie de Bona and Elie Semoun, Virginie Ledoyen and Arié Elmaleh, Adriana Karembeu and Denis Brogniart or even Shy’m and Florent Peyre, will improvise themselves “in love” during evenings paying homage to the cult series.
Gags still relevant?
How would A Guy, A Girl, however, be accepted if it arrived on the small screen in 2023? Jean’s hyper macho behavior and his sexist jokes and reactions reducing Alex to the housewife who is only good for cleaning, cooking and washing up, would they be accepted? Perhaps not, even if the fictitious couple precisely plays with clichés by pushing the caricature to the extreme. Still, on social networks, it is often the scenes where Loulou caricatures the macho par excellence that continue to circulate en masse. The public is therefore always in demand of this humor to be taken literally.
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