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Moi renart agence renart vhs.JPG|Billy Clap Video VHS release that announces episode 2; it may also contain episode 1. | Moi renart agence renart vhs.JPG|Billy Clap Video VHS release that announces episode 2; it may also contain episode 1. | ||
File:Moi renart votez renart vhs.JPG|Fil à Film VHS release with episode 13 and 14 renamed as ''Votez Renart!'' ("Vote Reynard!") and ''Radio Bigoudi'' ("Haircurler Radio") | File:Moi renart votez renart vhs.JPG|Fil à Film VHS release with episode 13 and 14 renamed as ''Votez Renart!'' ("Vote Reynard!") and ''Radio Bigoudi'' ("Haircurler Radio") | ||
File:Renart.jpg|Fil à Film VHS release with episode 18 and 20 renamed as ''Drôle de nurse'' ("Odd Nanny") and ''Le Film'' ("The Movie") | File:Renart.jpg|Fil à Film VHS release with episode 18 and 20 renamed as ''Drôle de nurse'' ("Odd Nanny") and ''Le Film'' ("The Movie") | ||
File:Moi renart vampires vhs.JPG|Kid's Club Video VHS release with episode 21 and 22 renamed as ''Vampires'' and ''Renart Cinéaste'' ("Reynard Film Director") | File:Moi renart vampires vhs.JPG|Kid's Club Video VHS release with episode 21 and 22 renamed as ''Vampires'' and ''Renart Cinéaste'' ("Reynard Film Director") | ||
File:Moi renart vampires vhs a.jpg|Fil à Film VHS release of the ''Vampires'' episode. | File:Moi renart vampires vhs a.jpg|Fil à Film VHS release of the ''Vampires'' episode. | ||
Moi renart club des cavernes vhs.JPG|Fil à Film VHS release of episode 23 and 24, with | Moi renart club des cavernes vhs.JPG|Fil à Film VHS release of episode 23 and 24, with titles mostly unchanged. | ||
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Revision as of 01:59, 7 March 2023
Cover of a rare VHS release by Billy Clap Video.
Status: Found
Date found: 2000s-2013
Found by: Miscellaneous, The Reynard, Chris Rodriguez
Moi Renart ("I Reynard") is a French animated series that originally aired in September 1986 on channel Canal+, which produced it alongside animation company IDDH (that also coproduced the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Denver The Last Dinosaur and the Back to the Future animated series).
Moi Renart is loosely based on the medieval written stories Le Roman de Renart, known in English as The Tale of the Fox starring Reynard the Fox, with the animal characters in this adaptation being heavily anthropomorphized and set in then-modern 1980s Paris.
Premise
A young male fox, Renart, arrives in Paris so that he can make himself a name in the city. Opportunistic, wide-eyed and ambitious, he creates an agency where he claims to be able to do any job, using his wits to trick himself out of any unpleasant situation. He is accompanied by his pet monkey Marmouset, he often clashes with his uncle Ysengrin who is a car salesman, he woos beautiful vixen journalist Hermeline, he gets into trouble with police chief Chanteclerc and his detective Tibert, while also thwarting criminal vulture Moufflard with his henchmen rat Pelé and dog Budvilin.
The series infamously contained some risqué content, such as depiction of sexualized "furry" anthropomorphic animals, and yet was still aired in children's morning programming.
Many characters were also based on famous French 80s public figures, such as the President Ducoi based on then real-life President François Mitterrand and news anchorman Jules Frénési being based on real-life anchorman Yves Mourousi.
List of episodes
# | Title | Status |
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1 | L'aventure de Renart ("Reynard's Adventure") | Found |
2 | L'agence Renart ("Reynard's Agency") | Found |
3 | Les grandes manoeuvres ("Military Exercises") | Found |
4 | Renart fait sa pub ("Reynard Advertises Himself") | Found |
5 | Le concert Moulio ("The Moulio Concert") | Found |
6 | La Renarde ("The Vixen") | Found |
7 | Jess Bomb | Found |
8 | Renart Big Mac | Found |
9 | Traquenard ("Trap") | Found |
10 | Koko de St-Zéphyr | Found |
11 | Jolibois contre Porkyland ("Jolibois VS Porkyland") | Found |
12 | L'art de Renart ("Reynard's Art") | Found |
13 | L'affaire du kiosque ("The Newsstand Affair") | Found |
14 | Gold Star | Found |
15 | Le petit chaperon rouge ("Little Red Riding Hood") | Found |
16 | Ô nuages, ô désespoir ("Oh Clouds, Oh Despair") | Found |
17 | À la poursuite du radis double ("The Hunt For the Double Radish") | Found |
18 | Il était une fois Renart ("Once Upon A Time Reynard") | Found |
19 | Tartala Bloune | Found |
20 | Le Renart dans les étoiles ("Reynard in the Stars") | Found |
21 | Coup de sang ("Blood Rush") | Found |
22 | Ciné fric frac ("Breakyn-Enter Movies") | Found |
23 | Le club des cavernes ("Cave Club") | Found |
24 | Paris-Kokar ("Kokar Rally") | Found |
25 | Petits petits petits ("Hey Little Ones") | Found |
26 | Big Boom sur les ovnis ("Bangers on the UFOs") | Found |
Availability
The series was aired on French TV several times. Originally a Canal+ product, it reaired regularly on public channel France 3 (aka FR3) in the 1990s, and sometimes on M6.
In the late 1980s and 1990s, Moi Renart had some of its episodes released on VHS. However, those tapes have become rare and difficult to find, and some episodes have no known VHS tape releases, mostly from the first half of the seasons. The latter half of the season was released on Fil à Film video editions, that strangely renamed the episode titles. Some of those releases only have tiny images as evidence of their existences.
The series never had a DVD release, reairing in the new millenium or any official streaming distribution. While the opening theme song is fondly remembered by many, the cartoon was never that popular and is at best a cult classic.
Some episode rips were shared on the Internet for years, but were only accessible through peer-to-peer programs, and for a while, only two episodes were on YouTube (episode 1 and 24).
In the early 2010s, User The Reynard ordered online rare VHS tapes of episodes 18, 20, 21 and 22. He got them digitalized and uploaded the VHS rips on YouTube, alongside the peer-to-peer-exclusive episodes. Later, he got contacted by a fan, Chris Rodriguez, who had taped the whole series on VHS and ripped them on DVD, and shared it with The Reynard. Since then, the series can be considered found.