La valse des hommelettes

"La valse des hommelettes is an elven dance performed by a band of elves living in a giant Swiss cuckoo clock. The elves are born from the eggs laid by the baby cuckoo.
And you can't make manlets without breaking a few eggs (Jacques Lacan)." Patrick Sims

Fairy tales generally follow a well-oiled machine. The Manlette Waltz is no exception. It runs like clockwork, and even - literally - around a clock. Except that the clock doesn't go round, which is the last straw. The elves have tampered with it.
The cuckoo clock, designed in the image of the real models from the Black Forest in Germany, near the birthplace of the Grimm brothers who inspired the show (Les lutins), does have one notorious peculiarity: it has an extra hour on its dial... and it is during this time that the elves choose to meddle in the affairs of men, in their own... mischievous way.
Here, a mother bird spins wool to make her nest, a horned rabbit chases the cuckoo, a cobbler and his wife sleep... the clock strikes thirteen. The masked Antliaclasts lead the waltz.