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* More [[Double Entendre|double entendres]] than you can (ahem) shake a stick at. See immediately above for one of the milder examples.

 

 

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

 

Has a [[Allo Allo (TV)/Recap|recap index.]]

 

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

*** In fact, [[Harry Enfield and Chums|Harry Enfield]] once claimed that the show had so many catchphrases, all of which appeared at least [[Once an Episode]], that there were only about ten minutes' worth of original dialogue per show. It nonetheless stayed fresh because so many situational spins could be put on the catchphrases.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]] -- Subverted with the three suicide pill rings; they all turn out to be duds.

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

{{quote| '''René:''' [[Once an Episode|"I know it is you, you old fool! Just give me the]] <[[MacGuffin]]>!"}}

* [[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.....

** Happens in a different way with Herr Flick and Herr von Smallhausen. Usually their disguises are a lot more convincing than those worn by the French characters, but they undo this by continuing to act like Gestapo officers, regardless of what they're supposed to be disguised as.

** Virtually every single disguise (which are numerous given the nature of the show) is as paper-thin as possible (including moustached nuns) for purely comedic purposes.

** Apart from the catch phrases René is always embraching Yvette when Edith comes in, yet manages to think up a halfbaked excuse to explain the awkward situation.

** Leclerc always enters in an obvious disguise, yet he still feels the need to explain who he is.

* [[Series Fauxnale]] -- The last episode of the ''second'' season was written as the [[Series Finale]], because the show's producer thought there was zero chance of it being renewed for a third season. As it turned out though, he was quite wrong.

* [[Series Hiatus]] -- The show was put on hiatus between 1989 and 1991 [[Real Life Writes the Plot|due to Gordon Kaye suffering a devastating head injury ]] when storm force winds [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice|drove a shaft of wood through the windscreen of his car and into his head]], putting the show's future in doubt. Thankfully he went on to make a full recovery.

* [[Translation Convention]] -- Since the English dialogue is "really" in French, other accents denoted other languages. Michelle would adopt a plummy I-say-chaps accent when speaking English to the British airmen, and Officer Crabtree's [[Malaproper|malapropisms]] - "Good moaning! I was just pissing by..." - are due to his poor command of French.

** Also, an odd syntax is used to help suggest French's different grammar (such as René saying things like "it is the bed of the mother of my wife!" without possessives).

** And his affairs with his two waitresses have, according to Herr Flick in series 7, given him the nickname "Menage Artois".

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Maria or René implies Gruber isn't interested in her but what they brought: and they pull out the sausage...

{{quote| '''Michelle:''' De Gaulle!<br />

''(Blank looks all around)''<br />