A guy, a girl, united until 80?

Even before 12 new episodes of the sketch series are available in the ICI Tou.TV Extra on January 3, we already know that a fourth season of the new version is in writing.

“As long as we are healthy and have the taste, we will continue. Sylvie [Léonard] told me it would be funny if we did it again when we were 80 years old. In my opinion, at this point, it would be in a more dramatic tone,” confided Guy A. Lepage, who directs the episodes in addition to being the main author and script-editor.

But for now, there is nothing dramatic in the new episodes, on the contrary as funny as the previous seasons. One guy, one girl always has the same effectiveness, the same timing comic.

In this era of “we can no longer say anything”, Guy and Sylvie, who are celebrating their 30 years of life together, are an exception. The authors make them say any nonsense about hyper-sensitive issues like gender identity and it passes.

And why then? Because for every stupid thing they say, there is someone who replies that they are in trouble.

“Guy says something, Sylvie says to him: “well let’s see, what are you saying there?” Or, we say something and our children tell us: “that’s not what we do anymore”.”

“There is always a respondent who takes the place of someone who might be offended. My concern as an author is that those who respond are sensible. I don’t want these people to be used as punching bag.»

— Guy A. Lepage

Despite their sixties, Guy and Sylvie still try to keep up to date, most of the time clumsily. Suddenly feeling green and generous, they decide to take part in a big chore on the banks, help a homeless person and contribute as volunteers to a food bank. Their laudable efforts do not have all the expected effects.

You have to see the bourgeois Sylvie proudly handing over a box filled with duck liver mousse, port jelly, saffron quince jam and anise chutney to the food bank, in front of a stunned employee.

While the cognitive abilities of his father (hilarious Pierre Lebeau) regress, Guy meets with his brother and sister to form a guardianship council and empty his apartment. Anakin (Mattin Savard-Verhoeven), who now lives in Florida and whom his sister (Élise Guilbault) calls “mini-Trump,” is the only one to defend his father’s educational methods. Irreconcilable visions.

Even if we still don’t see her face, Geneviève (Geneviève Brouillette) is still very present and Sylvie still hates her just as much. She’s even going to face him in the race for leadership… of the condo committee.

Without telling Guy, Sylvie signed him up for “Color your life with Mélissa”, a TV concept for set makeovers hosted by a smug host, the complete opposite of her interpreter Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin. But it’s a certain Manon (Debbie Lynch-White) who runs the construction site, which is, to say the least, intrusive.

As has always been the case in the series, fiction sometimes intersects with reality. In her own role, Pénélope McQuade now welcomes none other than Sylvie to her team of columnists. Of course, this says too much about her private life without Guy’s agreement.

The four ex-members of RBO are reunited when Sylvie decides to invite some of Guy’s old friends, but that doesn’t go as planned either.

The authors also tackle everyday absurdities or frustrations, like the self-service checkouts in grocery stores that make us angry.

The couple’s children are back, as are the elf (Éléonore Loiselle), Charles’ blonde (Jean-Christophe Leblanc), still so high. Oh yes, and Loulou (Louise Richer) now gives essentrics classes, a muscle stretching workout, to which Guy and Sylvie will be subjected.

With the team, Guy A. Lepage and Sylvie Léonard refine each episode as much as possible so that it is the best possible. It’s not uncommon for them to reshoot a scene they’re not completely happy with several times, a rarity in today’s rushed shoots.

While a few dozen scenes were eliminated in the final cut at the time, only five were sacrificed this year. It must be said that in the first seasons, we wrote the texts as we filmed them, whereas all the texts for the new version are finalized before the start of filming.

It’s rare that a team stays together for so long. Some members were there at the time of Need love in 1995 at TQS, where the idea ofOne guy, one girl.

While the previous season had 10 episodes, this one has 12, including the last, rather exotic one, which Guy A. describes as “non-series”. After all, 30 years of living together is worth celebrating. I won’t say any more.

Among the guest stars this season: Eddy King, Éric Bruneau, Marie-Lyne Joncas, Neev and Karine Gonthier-Hyndman.

If you don’t want to pay a subscription, the 12 episodes will be broadcast next fall on ICI Télé.

THE SOAP POLICY

We were entitled to a whole soap politics since Monday, with the spectacular resignation of Chrystia Freeland. Our channels, both ICI RDI and LCN, devoted almost all their air time to what was happening on the hill.

Everything came together to create the best suspense: breakup, betrayal, backstabbing, revenge, alliances, behind-the-scenes rumors…

Some figures from Numeris for Monday alone. While The joust retained 292,000 viewers at LCN, Live with Patrice Roy was seen by 261,000 on ICI RDI. THE TVA News 5 p.m. was watched by 185,000 on LCN and by 492,000 on TVA.

Finally, 176,000 chose Economy zone on ICI RDI while 624,000 watched 6 p.m. on TVA and 179,000 on LCN.

ICI RDI specifies that its listening share has almost doubled in the morning, compared to the last month, and even tripled, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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