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[[File:alloallo1.jpg|frame|Frankly, [[Kavorka Man|I don't understand]] why he is so popular with the ladies]]

 

 

A 1980s BBC sitcom, set in Occupied France during [[World War II]]. Lasted from December, 1982 to December, 1992. A total of 85 episodes in nine seasons.

 

 

* Bad French accents. In fact, all of the accents were bad, [[Beyond the Impossible|including the British ones]]. Whilst all the dialogue was actually in English, comical 'national' accents were used to imply the language being spoken -- several times, a 'French' character overhears a conversation in e.g. a British accent, then tells another 'Frenchman' (in the show's default French-accented English) they have no idea what was said, as they don't speak English.

* Multiple character and actor replacements of various types - [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Suspiciously Similar Substitutes]] for Leclerc, and various waitresses. [[The Other Darrin]], for the Italian Captain. [[The Nth Doctor]], for Herr Flick in later seasons, whose actor is replaced, and the change explained by [[Magic Plastic Surgery]]. Subverted, inverted, or simply trashed completely by Rene himself, who spent most of the series' run posing as his non-existent twin brother - ie, the same actor playing the same character, posing as a non-existent different character, well-known or undetected in-universe as the plot required....

A one-off [[Reunion Show]] was aired in 2007.

 

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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: It's the cruelty what arouses Helga in Herr Flick.

* [[Ambiguously Gay]] -- Lt. Gruber. Camp as all get-out, and flirts endlessly with René. The [[Distant Finale]] makes it decidedly ''un''ambiguous, as he's hooked up with {{spoiler|Helga}}.

* [[Clark Kenting]] -- The running gag of LeClerc, whose disguises are inevitably [[Paper-Thin Disguise|pathetic]], is that he always goes through the formality of taking René aside and revealing himself to be LeClerc by lifting up his glasses. Since he always wears glasses anyway, it's not much of a reveal at all.

** Or removing his false moustache to reveal the almost identical real moustache underneath.

** As René put it:

* [[The Comically Serious]] -- A poker-faced Herr Flick ("That was very amusing."), Helga and Michelle.

* [[Continuity Lock Out]]: The increasingly complicated plots can lead to this. However, René does [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|recap the events of the previous episode]] to the audience at the start of each new one - though this is done at least partly to [[Lampshade]] how ridiculous the situation he's in is.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]] -- When René cuddles with one of the waitresses and his wife suddenly bursts in and gets suspicious, he promptly utters the catchphrase "You stupid woman!" and offers an improvised explanation. And Edith ''always'' buys it.

* [[Oblivious to His Own Description]]: Gruber, reading out the resistance's leaflet mocking the members of the German military staff:

* [[The Other Darrin]] -- Several times: Capitan Bertorelli, twice for LeClerc (though one of the replacements was specifically declared to be his brother), and also Herr Flick in the final season.

** subverted, or perhaps inverted, by the fact that for reasons not worth explaining, Rene spent most of the programme's run being passed off as his non-existent twin brother - ie the same actor playing the same character generally believed in-universe to be a non-existent different character.....

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] -- Le Clerc's brother. In a parody, René also has his death faked in the first season and spends the rest of the show posing as his identical twin brother with the same name, although this is forgotten by most of the characters (even the Colonel, despite him being the one who ''orchestrated the deception'') after about a season and only brought up in order to make a joke.

* [[That Came Out Wrong]] -- When Rene is posing as his own twin brother and said he comes from the city of Nancy, Gruber asks if that was also true of his 'late brother':

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]

* [[Time Skip]] -- The first seven seasons took place over only a few months, then two years pass between the seventh and eighth.

* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: Even he doesn't understand what the girls find so irresistible in him.

* [[Who Is This Guy Again?]] -- No-one can ever remember who it is that Michelle's version of the Resistance works for.

'''Rene:''' 'E is the one with the big 'ooter. }}

** This is most likely nodding at how the Brits see De Gaulle compared to the French. While he's a hero and great political leader to the French, he is definitively not the English. Any respect he gained during [[WW 2]] (as a general and organizing the French resistance) immediately began to wane as he continually demanded that France be treated on equal terms with the Great Powers (despite it being full of Germans and lacking any military assets). Furthermore, in the years to follow he vetoed British membership to the European Community twice, withdrew France from NATO command and followed independent foreign policy, which as you might imagine went down quite badly what with the constant worry of soviet invasion and all. While the French, and certainly French nationalist, look upon him fondly, to us across the channel, he will always be "the one with the big 'ooter"

 

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