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Lascars (1998)

Lascars poster
Genre
comedy television series
Country
France
Length
2 seasons, 60 episodes
Rated
12
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This French animated series follows a group of young men from diverse backgrounds as they get into various mishaps living in a inner-city district. The show is filled with urban culture and features voice actors who are French hip-hop rappers.

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What happens

Lascars (English: Homiez) is a French animated television series created by Boris "El Diablo" Dolivet. It was aired on the French pay-TV channel Canal + for the first time in 1998, but ran for nearly 10 years. This series spawned two seasons, the first one in 1998 and the second in 2007, a pilot for a project of a 20-minute series, a comic and a 2009 film adaptation. The episodes follow the mishaps of young diverse men living in an inner-city district. The series is rife with urban culture, and most of the voice cast are French hip-hop rappers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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