Talk:Têtes à claques

Anything wanted?

Hello.

I was wondering if any editator wanted me to send some pictures of some clips, so famous phrases, etc? I think it should be noted that in french-Canada, alot of new expressionsa re use, for example, 'les ti papoutes' , 'c'est bon les pop tarts' , 'hey, mon ami! t'aimes tu ça manger des pétates?' etc... If wanted, i can send^pictures or translations.

Also, i tinhk it should be written that they sell some of the stuff, for Example, the Willi Waller, the LCD shovel, and the body toner were all sold on Ebay, and the profit goes to Saint justine hospital in Hospital. The last bet was 18k US (about 22k Canadian)I tihnk this sohuld be included.

Tetes a claques should be also listed in : -québec culture -Canadian humor / québec humor -Montreal just for laughs -québec movie industrie (this is part of it i believe)

If anyone wants any changes, then they are good to go! for any info, you can PM me, or talk here. (PM would be better)

thx

Here is a new part of the article.

In every Day talk.

Because of it's overwelming popularity in québec, Tetes a claques has become part of every talk. Certain expression are use bas eon tetes a claques. for example, certain people call their children 'les ti-papoutes'. Some people, as a joke, would says 'C'est pas beautiful ça??? (isn't it beautiful?). On RDI, Colette (the forecast women) has made a face of the tetes à claques to and said that 'it reminded her of them'. They also Made a small tetes a claque for the show 'le banquier' (Québecs version of deal or no deal. Since a model in the show is named cecil, It has happen that a player said 'comment ça va ma belle cicile???' (how is my gorogus cicile doing?) from the video 'on sort' (not sure what part it is though :P). Many people uses different phrases everyday base on tetes a claques.

ChrisDVD

I would recommend a list of recurring characters.

--Mr Alex (talk) 02:35, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

On the necessity of the complete list of clips

I put up a tag which was removed. But really, is the complete list of videos necessary for the article? It's long and provides little value to the article. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. While the capsules as a whole are notable, every single one of them is not. A list of the most famous one with a short summary would be much more useful than the current list, which gives titles with no context.--Boffob 04:04, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

To me this is no different and less desirable than the list of songs on an album, a musician's discography or an author's bibliography. May I remove the tag? -Oreo Priest 21:54, 3 July 2007 (UTC)Ò

Well, a list of a dozen song on one album isn't overly long. A list of a dozen album, each with a sublist of all its songs, in one article, becomes a laundry list (and yes, those are unfortunately common on Wiki). If Têtes-à-Claques was a big enough phenomenon to warrant a separate article for the capsules, I wouldn't say. Until then, I don't think every single video should be listed on the article. You don't see every "2 minutes du peuple" capsule listed in their own article or in François Pérusse's article. ETA:Read here: "as a rule of thumb, if more than 30% of a non -list article consists of a list, it may be a problem". The list right now is about half the article. Hence I repeat again, is listing every single Têtes-à-Claques video really necessary? Wouldn't mentioning the number of them, and, say, identifying half a dozen of the most famous ones, be more appropriate?--Boffob 22:46, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. I don't really want to cleanup the list myself, so I invite you to go for it. It is generally fairly irresponsible to just leave a tag without fixing it. Thus, I advocate either fixing the list or removing the tag. Oreo Priest 21:49, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, I don't mind cleaning up, but I am no expert on the matter. How about we try to agree on which ones to keep? I can think of three easily (Le pilote, Le Willi Waller and Halloween), but, to have a complete half dozen (to represent about about 10% of the total) I'm not sure what else to pick. The controversial ones (the removed So sexy and the Cannibal one)? Others? Any suggestions? Also, just in case they do eventually warrant their own article, we can archive the complete list on the talk page.--Boffob 21:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Je m'en fous complètement. C'est à toi. -Oreo Priest 00:49, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I got a better idea. In the article in french, I guess they had the same problem, but they found a solution to keep all clips without them to take much place and we can do the same thing. Just take a look[1]. Do you agree ? --Mr Alex (talk) 17:25, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I was trying to find the voice credits for the clips. Especially the hostage, who sounds like Luba Goy to me. Rossisen (talk) 11:24, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Look at this change

Assessment

I have assessed this as Start Class, as it contains more detail and organization than would be expected of a Stub, and of low importance, as it is a highly specific topic within Canada. Cheers, CP 02:19, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Article rename

I've renamed the article, from Têtes à Claques to Têtes à claques, with a lower case 'C'. As per the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization), we should follow the French capitalization standards because the word « claques » does not appear in the English language on its own. • Supāsaru 01:49, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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Anon vandalism

In order to stop the persistant anon from vandalizing this article? I've requested semi-protection for it. GoodDay (talk) 19:00, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Type of French

Pointing out it is Quebec French is just rediculous. We don't specificy a show is Canadian English, American English or British English when mentioning it is a English language program. To point out it is specifically Quebec French is just trying to push a point. -Djsasso (talk) 19:25, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I am not entirely sure here. The show is done in quite a regional version of French. They are clearly not speaking parrisian French, heck they are not even speaking Acadian French. (No matter what the heck they are speaking it is damned funny, but that is beside the point....) Of course, i am willing to go along with any consensus. Dbrodbeck (talk) 19:48, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I am not debating that its using a regional version, but nowhere else for any language would you point out that it is a regional variation of a language when mentioning what language a show is in. I mean Canadian English is just as different from British English as Quebec French is from Parisian French and you never see the distinction being laid out. I just don't see the point of specifically mentioning its Quebec French. -Djsasso (talk) 19:51, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, point taken. That said, I think a lot of the comedy in T a C is because of the use of language and the use of Quebec French (one could make an argument as my wife does who is from Quebec City that it is Montreal French, but that I would agree would be a bit too far....) Perhaps change the lead back to the original, and then maybe someone could write a little bit about how the use of Quebecker idioms etc is important for the show? I really don't know... I think I am starting to ramble...Dbrodbeck (talk) 19:55, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I am good with whatever, it's not that big a deal to me. I just get frustrated when it seems that people are trying to use wikipedia as a soap box. No matter what side of the arguement they are on. -Djsasso (talk) 19:57, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

On that we agree 100 percent. Dbrodbeck (talk) 20:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

So does everyone agree with specifying that it is Quebec french? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wassup54 (talk • contribs) 22:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I think something after saying it is French, another sentence saying that the show's comedy often depends upon Quebec French, something like that. I think that is a factual statement. It may be close to original research, but to me it is ok. Dbrodbeck (talk) 02:21, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

There IS such a statement, which is in the second paragraph down or so, and explains the situation quite clearly, in a addition to why it's worth pointing out. It absolutely does not belong in the first sentence. -Oreo Priest ^talk 09:43, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I must have missed that.Dbrodbeck (talk) 11:17, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Small update in the number of videos

"As of October 2007, there are 60 videos." could be changed to "As of October 2009, there are more than 140 videos." I don't really like a weekly updated article just for a number, but I think there's a significant difference between 60 and 140 (and 2007 and 2009). Yet, anyone can look at the episode list at the end, so I don't know if it really matters... So I'm not editing it and I'll let you guys do it! ;) Have a nice day! --BahaFura (talk) 15:03, 7 October 2009 (UTC)