Small Life

the Small Life is a humorous Televised series Québécois in 59 23 minutes episodes (4 were put in episode but they are in fact two except series, small a Making off as well as small a best ), created by Claude Meunier, put in scene by Josée Fortier, carried out by Pierre Séguin and diffused between 1993 and 1999.

Synopsis

The series is a satire of the Québécois company. It puts in scene the life of a couple in around fifty like their children. Aime Paré known as also Ti-Me ( Pôpa ) and Jacqueline Paré ( Môman ) form a typical couple: he, adores the refuse bags, and she, adores to make the kitchen.

Their Therese daughter is terribly naive and it has much difficulty of making a success of the Québécois typical dish: the Chinese Pie. Her husband Réjean Plonk, the womanizer, is an inveterate liar. Rénald Paré is manager of popular Caisse, consequently miserly. His Avoided Lison wife, tries to be middle-class without the being. Caro Paré is activist, and has much character. Then, Rodrigue “Rod” Avoided one is discouraged chronic.

Distribution

Family Avoided

Friends

  • Rémy Girard : Paul “Pogo” Gauthier
  • Sylvie Potvin: Linda Gaudette (wife of “Pogo”)
  • Michel Side: Jean-Lou
  • Gilles Renaud: Bobby (husband of Jean-Lou, incarnates Mr. Bricole)
  • Benoît Brière: Momo (a French, friend by correspondence of Môman)
  • Veronique Leflaguais: Agathe “Bobonne” (wife of Momo)

Secondary roles

Several Québécois personalities held of the roles in this series, among which:

Rewards

  • Price Gemini 2000: Better male interpretation in a role of support for Marc Labrèche
  • Price Gemini 2000: Better female role in a role of support for Josée Deschênes in the episode the Bug of the year 2000

Characters

  • Aime “Ti-Me” Avoided (commonly called “Pôpa” or “Ti-Me”): the patriarch of the family Avoided. He is the husband of Jacqueline. This character has a particular attraction for “drainings” (waste), which it méticuleusement sorts by order of dates or textures. When he wants to have peace, Aimé takes refuge in his workshop located at the basement of the family home, where he stores and uses his many tools, which he protects besides savagely. Physically, Aimé is easily recognizable: he permanently carries a species of brown hat, large black glasses and a long beard. Its patois is “baptism” and his/her only known friend is Paul Gauthier, better known under the name of Pogo. To note, it called forever by its true name (Aime) during the course of the series.

  • Jacqueline “Môman” Avoided : she is the woman of “Ti-Me” and the mother of Caro, “Rod”, Rénald and Therese. She cooks almost all the time. She is maniac of the Dindon, cooked, alive or packed. She always wears an evening gown and a bonnet, it does not matter the moment of the day. It does not miss words when comes time to sermonize “Ti-Me”, her children or her beautiful-children. This female character is interpreted by a man, which amplifies the daftness of the series.

  • Rodrigue “Rod” Avoided : The pet of Môman and the groin of the family are large a 37 year old teenager. Completely absorbed by clothing (especially bottoms (socks)), the hair, women and Rod Stewart. It is unable to live without his mother who makes her washing and prepares her meals.

  • Therese Avoided : She is the girl of Pôpa and Môman. She is married in Réjean Pinard, a liar womanizer. She is the second of the four Paré children. Its sentence fetish is “Steak, Indian corn, potatos”, since it never succeeds in making Chinese Pâté. During the first season, it had obvious problems of Stress, and excited for one anything. Later, she learned how to take the life with a astonishing blasé Fatalisme. She is Infirmière in sick leave for obvious reasons…! During first seasons, its hair was very eccentric.

  • Caro Avoided : The rebel of the family always to be joined various ecological or sociological causes. She multiplies the relations, but quickly completes them all for often surface reasons. She wants some much with her father with whom she baffles himself almost all the time. It is probably the character who is more in search of his identity: it was obese, nun, mégastar thanks to only one song and already was in a Secte where one becomes eternal .

  • Rénald “Finch” Avoided : The small lame duck of the family. The other members of the Paré clan find it rather tedious and “cheap”. He is married with Lison, very pretty woman, but very vacuum of spirit. His wife and have eaten to him every Sunday at Pôpa and Môman for 10 years to the great displeasure of the latter which dream to get rid some (going until their serving as the sandwiches with the “tomato courses”, that Rénald and Lison in spite of very liked). He is manager of case, always carrying the same beige complete-tie, and has a fascination for the bamba.

  • Lison “Creton” Avoided : It is the wife of Rénald as well as the daughter-in-law of “Pôpa” and “Môman”. Always getting dressed with uniform and very yelling colors, it is probably the character having less spirit and less judgment. Its sentences fetishes are “Hello group! ” or “could you repeat the question PLEASE? ”. For 10 years, she has eaten at every Sunday with her husband in her parents-in-law with an only aim of having the lamp of the living room at the time of the death of those.

  • Réjean Plonk : He is the husband of Therese and the son-in-law of “Pôpa” and “Môman”. He lives in the apartment above the house of the latter. It is a womanizer and a very bad liar whose lies do not mislead anybody (except its Therese wife). He lives of the Social security since always (and works often with the black), forever known his father and speaks about itself with the third anybody when he is under discussion with his father-in-law.

  • Paul “Pogo” Gauthier : Best (and undoubtedly only the) friendly one of Pôpa. During first seasons, Pogo was an alcoholic in cure having a fear blue of the intimacy. This fear was caused by the repeated inaccuracy of its ex-wife, Shirley. Later, he will marry with a friend of childhood of Moman, Linda Gaudette.

  • Linda Gaudette : A friend of childhood of Moman. For a character of the Small Life, it is relatively normal, in spite of the fact that it finds extremely Pogo “sexy”.

  • Jean-Lou Freinette : The homosexual friend of the family. Initially presented like the new in love one with Caro, all quickly realized that Jean-Lou was far from being heterosexual. Even after its relation with Caro finished, it continues to return visit frequently in Pôpa and Moman, with the great joy of the latter who regards it as a “friend of girl”. The preferred sentence of Jean-Lou is “that will make allusions”. He is married with the idol of Pôpa, Mr Bricole.

  • Bobby or Mr Bricole : The god of Pôpa and the husband of Jean-Lou. Homosexual very virile which animates an emission of do-it-yourself. There exists a certain sexual tension between him and Popa, with the great discomfort of this last.

Episodes

First season (1993)

      1 (1-  1) : The voyage in Plattsburgh
      2 (1-  2) : New You
      3 (1-  3) : Therapy of Caro
      4 (1-  4) : The supper with a vedette
      5 (1-  5) : The roast of Rénald
      6 (1-  6) : The blind date
      7 (1-  7) : The return of Rod
      8 (1-  8) : The supper of the dimanche
      9 (1-  9) : Stone with liver I
    10 (1-10) : Stone with liver II
    11 (1-11) : Therese in WacDo
    12 (1-12) : The cadran
    13 (1-13) : The catch of otage
    14 (1-14) : The friend of Caro
    15 (1-15) : The corresponding one of Moman
    16 (1-16) : Change of caractère
    17 (1-17) : Belle-Moman
    18 (1-18) : The prisonnier
    19 (1-19) : Ragoût
castle     20 (1-20) : Info-Caro

Second season (1994)

    21 (2-  1) : The bébé-pilote
    22 (2-  2) : The camping
    23 (2-  3) : The vidéo
    24 (2-  4) : Pogo coils story
    25 (2-  5) : Miss Morin
    26 (2-  6) : Lower parts of Small Vie
    27 (2-  7) : The kick of Moman
    28 (2-  8) : The suicide of Rod
    29 (2-  9) : The return in the passé
    30 (2-10) : The adventure of Réjean
    31 (2-11) : All for un
    32 (2-12) : Réjean reçoit
    33 (2-13) : The marriage of the merry I
    34 (2-14) : The marriage of the merry II

Third season (1996)

    35 (3-  1) : The million
    36 (3-  2) : Liars anonyms
    37 (3-  3) : Jealousy of Pogo
    38 (3-  4) : Old people's home I
    39 (3-  5) : Old people's home II
    40 (3-  6) : Réjean vice-président
    41 (3-  7) : Madame
miss     42 (3-  8) : Rénald gai
    43 (3-  9) : The brother jumeau
    44 (3-10) : Best errors to laugh!
    45 (3-11) : The combat of the clans
    46 (3-12) : Caro religieuse
    47 (3-13) : The dream of Moman
    48 (3-14) : The 40e anniversaire

Fourth season (1998)

    49 (4-  1) : The héritier
    50 (4-  2) : Jean-Lou straight
    51 (4-  3) : The zèbre
    52 (4-  4) : Caro grosse
    53 (4-  5) : Divorce I
    54 (4-  6) : Divorce II
    55 (4-  7) : Fish shower
    56 (4-  8) : Depresses of Popa
    57 (4-  9) : Plus
music     58 (4-10) : The voyage
    59 (4-11) : The chalet
    60 (4-12) : The élection
    61 (4-13) : The accouchement

Except season (1999-2002)

    62 (Except season-  1) : The Bug of the year 2000
    63 (Except season-  2) : Christmas at Paré

Comments

It is the only television program Québécois and Canadian to have crossed the bar of the four million televiewers, on March 20th, 1995, for the episode Miss Morin and to have beaten its own record for the episode Réjean receives with an always unequalled record of 4.098.000 televiewers.

The majority of the other episodes attracted regularly more than two million televiewers. It is one of most outstanding the emission-worship Québécois.

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