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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
PBS missed this series of the show, January 28, 2007
I became hooked on Allo' Allo' when shown on PBS so was delighted when it began to be released on DVD. Now I can watch and howl with laughter anytime I want. I had known there were two "jumps" in the storyline as shown on PBS in the inland section of the Pacific Northwest. Upon receiving series six however I discovered the whole series hadn't been aired.
Brace your ribs to ache and throw a few cushions on the floor in case you roll out of your chair.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
'Allo 'Allo, July 12, 2007
Where has this been all my life?! (Or at least since the '80s.) Twenty years after this British series aired I was introduced to it by my parents. I bought the entire series for their anniversary and we proceeded to watch it from beginning-to-end over the course of about three weeks. The humor is as fresh and hilarious as the best of the best, and we were howling at the zany antics in the story lines.
Set in WWII in a French cafe owned by René Artois (whose stray left eye is funny all by itself), the story line throughout involves trying to smuggle two British airmen back to England. The town is occupied by Germans, who are some of René's best customers. Michelle, the leader of the French Resistance, appears in every episode in the cafe's back room to announce yet another cock-a-mamy plot, saying, "Listen very carefully, for I will say this only once."
A stolen painting called "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" is coveted by the Germans, René, and by Hitler himself, and René hides it in a knockworst sausage which hangs in his storeroom. He plans to sell it after the war to live on, but some of the German officers have the same idea. Copies are made and stuffed into more sausages, and that's only the beginning.
The Resistance installed a radio in the flooring below the bed of René's aging mother-in-law, and a piss-pot serves as the speaker. When they have to send a message to England they tilt up the foot of the bed, much to the protests of the mother-in-law, and René says into the microphone, "'Allo, 'allo, thees ees Blackhawk speaking."
There is a brilliant device used to differentiate French and English: the actors portraying the French speak English with a French accent, and those portraying Brits speak a form of pigeon English. A Brit impersonating a French policeman says such things as, "Good moaning. I have bad nose." René rolls his eyes and says, "Who taught you how to speak French?"
No one is spared. The French are sex-crazy, the Germans are rigid idiots, and the Brits are complete buffoons, all making for a most entertaining series. Highly recommended!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Podgeon on the Pist, September 11, 2008
Has the economy got you down? Have politics got your blood pressure up? Will one more idiotic "reality" show on TV send you round the bend?
Time for another dose of 'Allo 'Allo!--the magnificent nonsense that proves the old adage that laughter is the best medicine. And series six, like series five, four, three, two, and one, will leave you whooping with laughter, no matter how many times you have seen its variations on the same theme. The maids and Lieutenant Grueber will find the podgy Rene irresistible; Edith will sing off-key; her bed-ridden mother will complain "Will nobody come to the aid of an old woman?"; Helga will bellow "COME IN!"; the black-leathered Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen will hatch their fiendish plans to no avail; the chicken-helmeted (and -hearted) Capitano Bertorelli will make-a mistake-a; Michelle of the Resistance will "say this only once;" Sergeant Crabtree will murder the "French" language, and the thick-headed British airmen will still not get away from Nuvion, that small village in occupied France where everyone collaborates with everyone else (I am passing over the "Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" by von Klomp and the "Cracked Vase with the Big Daisies" by van Gogh.).
The running gags are what make 'Allo 'Allo so much fun, and the gags in this delightful series have been running a long way for a long time. And despite the fact that the show hits all the various national and social stereotypes, the humor is good-natured; even the sexual puns and innuendo, completely lacking in subtlety, are hysterically funny and devoid of the patent crudity that infects so many "modern" American sitcoms.
So, in the words of Sergeant Crabtree, witch this twee-dosk sot in the oovening and you will be sure to have a good moaning the nayxt doo.
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