The french connection I see is not 'la maison de toutou'
I see a connection with "la guerre des boutons". "Neds" is almost a mirror image of it...
emm
"to tax and to please, no more to love and to be wise, is not given to men"
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There's a clip from Hector's House in it. Which is the English name of Maison de Toutou.
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It's not "sci-fi", it's SF!