Readers of a certain age will remember the halcyon days when society was allowed to have a sense of humour and comedy movies were actually funny. Among the best and oddest of cinema from those times was Will Ferrell’s Anchorman. It is that movie which gave us the classic line, now of worldwide meme fame, “Boy, that escalated quickly.”

Ferrell didn’t know it in 2004, but anchorman Ron Burgundy nailed the current atmosphere in the French National Assembly. We all knew it would go sideways fast, but boy, it’s escalating quickly.