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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 (15[1])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 the street looks in at this character being introduced to an old friend’s monochrome apartment 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, what recurring comic character appears in films like Mon Oncle and PlayTime and was both invented and played by Jacques Tati? ■END■

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