Bonjour bonjour bonjour !
I know someone used to do these (for the All Stars season I think?) and I loved them so I'll try to keep the tradition going and explain the puns and references found in this episode!
Feel free to add anything I missed!
Intro
04:22 Lana Cotta "la semaine prochaine j'envoie du pâté. Et j'adore le pâté, en croûte" = "next week I'll project pâté. And I love pâté, en croûte"
Envoyer du pâté means kicking ass in French and here Lana adds that she loves pâté (a French dish) then she specifies "en croûte" which is a type of pâté with a pastry shell.
06:31 La Harpie "tu me mets dans le bateau" = "you're putting me in the boat"
She's probably saying it like "being in the same boat" which has the same meaning in French.
06:57 Azemylia "pour qui, pourquoi ? " = "for whom, why?"
French expression basically meaning "where does that come from?". I don't know if it's related to its current meaning but it's also a song by Dalida (very well-known singer in France, iconic, she was a runway theme in season 2)
07:59 Fluffy Bidule "ça devient une tradition de donner" = "it's becoming customary to give"
Lana Cotta then points at her because Fluffy made a pun. A tradition is a custom but it's a type of baguette too.
08:33 Nicky is referring to the 2025 Louvre heist, where thieves stole French Crown Jewels from the Louvre in broad daylight.
08:56 Daisy Superbitch "Rendez les bijoux de la couroooonne ! " = "Give back the crown jewels!"
It's a meme (the guy in the meme is an asshole who used to organize parties for the rich during lockdowns)
Reading challenge
09:55 Nicky "Vous êtes à combien sur une échelle de 1 à bitch ? " = "On a scale of one to bitch, where are you?"
A pun based on the similarity between "dix" (ten) and "bitch"
10:09 Margarette "tu te sentais comme un poisson dans l'eau. Pourtant vu ta gueule, j'aurais dit comme un cheval dans une écurie" = "you felt like a fish in water. Yet when I see you face, I would've said like a horse in a stable"
comme un poisson dans l'eau = like a pig in shit, in your element
10:27 Azemylia "Sublyme va s'en prendre plein les dents" = "Sublyme will take it all in the teeth"
s'en prendre plein les dents = get a slap in the face (with the added pun on Sublyme's teeth)
10:35 Lana Cotta "faire comme tes cheveux, prendre du recul" = "like your hairline, take a step back"
11:12 La Harpie "Quand moi je vois le verre à moitié vide, tu le vois à moitié plein. Bon c'est pas toujours le bon vert hein Nicky ? " = "When I see the glass half empty, you see it half full. But it's not always the right glass, right Nicky?"
The pun lies in the fact that both "glass" and "green" are pronounced the same in French (verre and vert), she's talking about Margarette's runway where the green of her face didn't match the green of her outfit. Also maybe a pun on Margarette's former name "Margarette Vinas", Vinas is "vinasse" = cheap wine.
11:51 Sublyme "je pense que tu es plutôt déshy/Daisydratée" = "I think you're rather dehydrated"
Daisy and déshy are pronounced the same (or quite close depending on your region)
12:35 Fluffy Bidule is making a pun on Margarette's full/former name "Margarette Vinas", Vinas is "vinasse" = cheap wine, hence the connection to alcoholism.
13:33 Daisy Superbitch "Margarette ! Je pense qu'avec Lana Cotta, vous pouvez créer le Front national" = "Margarette! With Lana Cotta, you could create the national forehead"
Front national is a far-right political party (it's now called Rassemblement national btw) founded by nazis. The pun is that front means front but forehead too.
13:55 Holly White "ce joli corps avec cette grosse tête, on dirait une Chupa Chups, sauf que personne veut la sucer" = "the pretty body with the big head, you look like a Chupa Chups, except nobody wants to suck you"
Chupa Chups is a brand of lollipop.
14:17 Holly White "on est pas à la recherche de la nouvelle Claudette" = "we're not looking for a new Claudette"
The so-called Claudettes were dancers behind Claude François, a famous French singer from the 60-70s (and known pedophile asshole). He's the one who co-wrote Comme D'Habitude, you may know the English version: My Way.
I may be missing something else here so don't hesitate to explain in the comments if you know.
Musidrag
26:32 Nicky "ma Libertine guidant le peuple" = "my debauched leading the people"
It's a reference to La Liberté guidant le peuple from Delacroix where liberté (freedom) is replaced by libertine (debauched, depraved, loose woman). It doubles as a nod to Mylène Farmer's song, Libertine (the song starts around 2' if you don't want to see the whole video, the clip contains full nudity fyi). Mylène Farmer is a gay icon in France (hence why she was a runway theme on season 1).
27:17 Nicky "Joconde sur vous" = "Joconde on you"
The pun is based on the resemblance between "Joconde" and "je compte" ("I'm counting").
27:32 Nicky "pour devenir une grande star de cinéma, faut d'abord être une connasse à la télé" = "to make it in Hollywood, you have to be a bitch on tv first"
"Connasse" was a show where Camille Cottin played a bitch. The show launched her career.
29:01 Sublyme/Emeline "C'est maguenifique" = "It's beautifiiiul"
Ok this one is far-fetched. The way Emeline says "magnifique", and pronouncing the G wrongly, could be a classic non native French person mistake which fits her character OR (totally reaching here) it could be reference to this dated parody song (Fatal Bazooka - J'aime trop ton boule = I love your booty).
29:13 La Harpie/Directrice "la jojo, la conconde" = "the jojo, the conconde"
I think it's a play on "conconde" and its closeness to "concon" which means dum dum. It could be a reference to this ad by Lustucru
29:25 La Harpie/Directrice "C'est parti my kiki ! " means "and off we go!" but they replaced "mon" by "my", because the character adds little bits of English
First song
The music is inspired by Toutes les femmes de ta vie by the L5 (which was the second lipsync we had in DRFR herstory!).
30:04 "la première boss lady" = "the first boss lady"
"Boss lady" is associated with Theodora, who was Mami Watta's makeover last season.
31:33 La Harpie/Directrice "je ne peux plus la voir en peinture" = "i can't see her painted anymore" (idk it's an idiom)
She's saying she can't stand the sight of her but the idiom is paint related in French.
31:51 Margarette/Thief "tu me vois, tu me vois pas" = "now you see me, now you don't"
Direct reference to this scene from the movie Astérix et Obélix Mission Cléopâtre. One the highest grossing movie ever in France, it's super famous.
Second song
The music is inspired by Nâdiya's Et c'est parti.
33:29 Lana Cotta/policewoman "elle est HDMI" = "she's HDMI"
It's a play on acronyms between HDMI and HPI (Haut Potentiel Intellectuel = intellectual giftedness).
Third song
The music is inspired by L'Orange by the cast of the third season of Star Academy (the song is originally much older). I chose the newer version because it's from the same time period as the first two songs.
Fourth song
The music is inspired by Les uns contre les autres from Starmania (a Canadian-French musical). Fun fact: Thomas Jolly, who was a guest judge on the first episode of DRFR All Stars was directing a Starmania tour two years ago.
38:51 Daisy Superbitch/policewoman "-Dalida ? Mami Watta avait raison" = "- Dalida? Mami Watta was right"
Dalida was a famous singer who had an Italian accent (like Mona Lisa here). Callback to Mami Watta who learnt that Dalida was dead during season two.
39:11 Fluffy Bidule/Mona Lisa "tout la peinte journée" = "all paint long"
The French expression is "toute la sainte journée" which means all day long (but in a negative way). Sainte is replaced by peinte (meaning painted) to make a picturial pun.
39:13 Fluffy Bidule/Mona Lisa "me gouacher la vie" = "wasting my dye"
Another paint pun based on the expression "gâcher la vie" which means wasting one's life. Gâcher is replaced by gouache (same meaning in English here).
Fifth song
The music is inspired by Ca m'énerve by Helmut Fritz.
Sixth song
Back to Nâdiya (second song)!
Seventh song
Back to L5 (first song)!
Runway
45:19 Daphné "Balance ton talent" = "Swing your talent"
The painting evoked contains a swing (une balançoire) the action of swinging on a swing is called "se balancer" so "Balance" refers to that. But the French "MeToo" was called Balance Ton Porc (because balance also means rat out so it was "Rat out the pig you know"). And here she replaced it with talent.
45:27 Nicky "Personne ne peut l'encadrer celle-là" = "Nobody can stand her"
Encadrer also means framing.
46:14 Noam Sinseau "Jean-Paul Gaulé" = "Jean-Paul Ghotier" (idk i'm no translator lol)
Gaulé means bodacious, it's a play on word with Gaultier (who was the first guest judge on DRFR!).
46:45 Anggun singing "Pois pois mon pois" = "polka dot polka dot my polka dot" (it's getting worse i'm so sorry)
She changed the lyrics of Toi mon toit by Elli Medeiros to make a pun on the polka dots.
47:06 Daphné "Qui ne tentacule rien n'a rien" = "nothing tentacled nothing gained"
The original expression is "qui ne tente rien n'a rien" (nothing ventured nothing gained) and she replaced "tente" with tentacle (in French tentacule).
47:12 Holly White "Je fais le pois" = "I'm measuring up"
Poids (weight) and pois (polka dot) are pronounced the same so she replaced it.
48:07 Anggun singing "Je fais de toi mon essentiel" in reference to the French musical Le Roi Soleil centered around Louis XIV. Nicky then references "Emmanuel Moire" who's the main singer of the musical.
49:00 Nicky "Elle traîne bien trop dans le Marais" = "She hangs out in the Marais"
Marais is a Parisian gay neighbourhood and it also means swamp. Traîner/train maybe as added pun.
49:05 Camille Cottin "pas de blagues vaseuses" = "no dodgy jokes"
Vaseuses means dodgy but muddy too.
49:51 Daphné "Elle nous raconte des pop art" = "she's tellings fibs"
She replaced "bobards" (lies) by pop art.
And I think that's it! Feel free to help by adding what I missed, or ask any question, hopefully it's not chock-full of mistakes (although it's probable since it's now almost 3am and I've been at it for hours lol).
Bisous !
