Garage Club is a French animated TV series

Cartoon series

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 aired on Nickelodeon (France) since September 2009 and on France 4

France 4

France 4 is a french public channel owned by France Télévisions, dedicated to the entertainment. At first named Festival, the channel took its current name in 2005, to mark better its membership to the group France Télévisions...

 since September 2011.

Concept

An abandoned locale serves as the center stage for the adventures and soul-searching of a teen

Adolescence

Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development generally occurring between puberty and legal adulthood , but largely characterized as beginning and ending with the teenage stage...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

. However, the neighbours

Neighbourhood

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, who have been driven around the bend by their music, devise all sorts of incredible schemes to keep them from rehearsing.

The series develops two aspects at the same time:

• a “sitcom” aspect, featuring the band members’ trials and tribulations as teenagers, as well as their arguments over music in general and their rehearsals in particular;

• a “cartoon
  Cartoon
  A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...
  
  ” aspect, featuring the various ploys the neighbors concoct to prevent the band from playing.

Each episode systematically ends with the failure of the neighbours’ plan and the launch of a new rehearsal

Rehearsal

For other uses, see Rehearsal or Dress rehearsal A rehearsal is a preparatory event in music and theatre that is performed before the official public performance, as a form of practice, and to ensure that all details of the performance are adequately prepared and coordinated for professional...

, with the band members totally unaware of what they managed to avoid.

Season 1

1. Love story
2. Never Spike without Nick
3. "We're splitting !"
4. Shock wave
5. Big in Japan
6. A very trendy concert
7. Rage against the fur
8. Zoomusicology
9. Killer face
10. Valentine's troubles
11. No logo
12. Edward Scissorvoice
13. Anatomical Mushrooms
14. Zombie rock
15. Mighty Edward
16. Dumb and drummer
17. Megalo rock
18. Bioband
19. Love at first sight
20. Game over
21. LOL
22. Drum sticks
23. Momo's tomtom
24. Fan fun fool
25. Apocalypsound
26. Punk food

External links

• Garage Club on France 4
  France 4
  France 4 is a french public channel owned by France Télévisions, dedicated to the entertainment. At first named Festival, the channel took its current name in 2005, to mark better its membership to the group France Télévisions...
  
  
• Garage Club on Nickelodeon (France)