“Y’en a qu’ont essayé” meme: meaning, origin and common card

What does the “Y’en a qu’ont essayé” meme mean?

The phrase works as a half-spoken warning: others already attempted the thing, and they regretted it. People use it to dampen, with humor, a bold plan, a bureaucratic errand doomed to fail, or a plainly risky idea. The comedy lives in the mystery, since nobody ever learns what happened to those who tried, which makes the threat funnier. It also works as an in-joke between people who know the sketch. It amuses through mock gravity and menacing implication far more than through the words themselves.

Where does the “Y’en a qu’ont essayé” meme come from?

The line comes from the famous train-to-Pau sketch performed by Chevallier et Laspalès. The French comedy duo was formed in 1981 by Philippe Chevallier and Régis Laspalès, and split in 2016. The sketch went by several names: “L’Agence de voyage”, “C’est vous qui voyez”, and finally, in the public’s mouth, “Le Train pour Pau”. It was already part of the 1988 show “Bien dégagé autour des oreilles… SVP !”, then of “C’est vous qui voyez !”, recorded in 1992 at the Palais des Glaces in Paris. Its fame makes it one of the duo’s most quoted routines, and the follow-up “Ils ont eu des problèmes..” (“they had problems”) became a quotation in its own right.

1. 1981Philippe Chevallier and Régis Laspalès form their comedy duo.
2. 1988The sketch appears, as “L’Agence de voyage”, in the show “Bien dégagé autour des oreilles… SVP !”.
3. 1992The show “C’est vous qui voyez !” is recorded at the Palais des Glaces in Paris.
4. 2016The duo splits.

How to use the “Y’en a qu’ont essayé” meme

• Answer a coworker who wants a full refund in a single visit.
• React to a friend’s audacious plan with a long, meaningful pause.
• Caption an endless queue that nobody dared to leave.
• Quote it among fans of the duo as a knowing wink.

The “Y’en a qu’ont essayé” card in MyMemeCards

Number	No. 2597
Rarity	Common
Collection	Memes FR pack
Fame	50/100 · #753 of 3493
Recycle value	5 MemeCoins (15 in Shiny)
Suggested by	@avengedseb

How to get the “Y’en a qu’ont essayé” card

Every pack holds 5 meme cards, the first 3 of them Common; Y’en a qu’ont essayé comes out of the Memes FR pack as a common card. The pack odds say what each rarity weighs.

Your first pack is free and needs no account. After that a new free pack lands every 10 minutes, up to 3 waiting for you. You can also buy the card with MemeCoins on the market, bid for it at auction, or trade it — and a double recycles into 5 MemeCoins.

The reprint of the “Y’en a qu’ont essayé” card

The “Y’en a qu’ont essayé” card was reprinted as Rare (No. 3,613). A reprint is the same meme printed again, with a number of its own and a higher rarity than its first printing, which was common. Its face reads “Reprinted card · Higher rarity”.

Every printing is dealt in the packs of the Memes FR pack, each at its own rarity: the higher it is, the rarer the card is to pull. Copies of the first printing already pulled stay as they are, and any printing counts toward completing a set.

MyMemeCards reprints a meme when it deserves more than the rarity of its first printing, such as a classic that became iconic after it came out: the reprint gives it a place among the most sought-after cards without taking anything from the players who already had it.

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