French Waiters Frog Impression

FRENCH WAITERS BE LIKE: ONE MOMENT MONSIEUR

A camera pans across what looks like piles of leaves and debris while a camouflaged frog gradually comes into view. The caption jokes that French waiters keep saying “one moment, monsieur,” turning the frog’s slow reveal and the jaunty accordion musette music—Maurice Larcange’s “Traditionnel musette”—into an absurdly extended restaurant-service delay. It works as a reaction to someone taking an unnecessarily long time. EN: A camera pans across what looks like piles of leaves and debris while a camouflaged frog gradually comes into view. The caption jokes that French waiters keep saying “one moment, monsieur,” turning the frog’s slow reveal and the jaunty accordion musette music—Maurice Larcange’s “Traditionnel musette”—into an absurdly extended restaurant-service delay. It works as a reaction to someone taking an unnecessarily long time.

♪ Maurice Larcange — Traditionnel musette

• @eternalclassic / 11319 2022-04-03