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Just as this character is about to be hired at Plastac, a woman suddenly tells him “we have no need for acrobats” when she notices a white footprint on her desk. This man successfully sneaks into a house’s front yard to clip a plant’s branches, but on his way out, he accidentally tears the door of a gate off of its hinges. While at a party hosted by his sister, this man stabs a drink holder into the ground, which unexpectedly stops water from coming out of a (*) fish-shaped fountain. In another film, a sequence filmed from (10[1])the street looks in at this character being introduced to an old friend’s monochrome apartment (10[1])while also capturing the scenes in adjacent residences. At the end of that film, this man struggles to purchase a gift to be given to the American tourist Barbara as she is about to leave on a large gray bus. For 10 points, (-5[1])what recurring comic character appears in films like Mon (10[1])Oncle and PlayTime and was both invented and played by Jacques Tati? ■END■ (0[1])

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