Les Tontons Flingueurs is a 1963 French crime comedy directed by Georges Lautner, with celebrated dialogue by Michel Audiard and a cast led by Lino Ventura. The film follows an ex-gangster drawn back into Paris underworld rivalries, and its quotable, deadpan gangster slang made it a lasting cult favourite in France. Decades later, short clips from the film began circulating on soundboards and in online edits, where the vintage gangster tone works as instant shorthand for mock authority, family power struggles, and old-school toughness.