'Allo, 'Allo Set To Return

[loud 1]

if i remember correctly it indicated that it was sunday,hence it was the day before going back to school,with its tongue in check whoopsy daisy look at your cucumber rubbish comedy.

i fukin hated it.

 

[Aldebaran]

I love 'Allo 'Allo

I find it very witty. It is witty on its own, but even much more so if you know it is a parody on "Secret Army" which was based on real stories of (Belgian) resistance.

salaam.

 

[Aldebaran]

It's funny how they never aired it in France.

To my knowledge they did. I think I saw episodes dubbed in French.

salaam.

 

[Cadmus]

I can't be sure but i was told they didn't. Anyway, even if they did it's not widely known like in the rest of Europe so most French people just stare at you when you mention it.

 

[Aldebaran]

I can't be sure eitehr, I don't remember when or where I saw that dubbed version, but still... I would think the dubbing done in France.

I see your call to Dyslexics of the wrld ... Can I become a member of the movement?

salaam?

 

[Cadmus]

srue you can.

 

[DJ Squelch]

bump, coz the new bit is on BBC2 now.

 

[AWPlayer]

I can't believe this is back!

 

[Gingerman]

Terrible oul shite

 

[Chairman Meow]

The very idea that even one person found something to laugh at in 'allo 'allo is completely baffling to me. Still, takes all sorts I suppose. I bet you all loved Hi de Hi as well, didn't you?

I'm with you - it was dire beyond belief.

 

[wishface]

Those three picked out from the audience were actors!

 

[wishface]

I'm with you - it was dire beyond belief.

I just have a soft spot for it, I don't really know why. I can't give an intellectual treatise as to why; certainly it's not edgy, groundbreaking or close to the knuckle. It is what it is, and what it is has a certain harmless, friendly, charm. I'm sure it would make Keith Allen vomit blood (that can't be a bad thing then), but so what?

the stuff they showed last night was fairly inane, but just good old nostalgia. If you expected it to be anything more than gentle reminiscing then i had to wonder what you were watching.

Hi de Hi on the other hand, well that's just depressing!

 

[Chairman Meow]

I just have a soft spot for it, I don't really know why. I can't give an intellectual treatise as to why; certainly it's not edgy, groundbreaking or close to the knuckle. It is what it is, and what it is has a certain harmless, friendly, charm. I'm sure it would make Keith Allen vomit blood (that can't be a bad thing then), but so what?

the stuff they showed last night was fairly inane, but just good old nostalgia. If you expected it to be anything more than gentle reminiscing then i had to wonder what you were watching.

Hi de Hi on the other hand, well that's just depressing!

Oh, I wasn't referring to last night's episode when I said its dire beyond belief. I didn't watch it, as I would rather gouge out my own eyes with a rusty spoon. I'm talking about the interminable episodes that I was forced to watch when I was a kid (my grandad loved it). Even as a smallie I thought it was clicheed repetitive turgid and stupid. Where you see gentle reminiscing, I see unfunny stereotyping. But hey, if you enjoy it, don't mind me.

 

[The Groke]

about the worst tv 'comedy' ever

Better or worse than "Hi-Di-Hi"

*shudder*

 

[wishface]

Oh, I wasn't referring to last night's episode when I said its dire beyond belief. I didn't watch it, as I would rather gouge out my own eyes with a rusty spoon. I'm talking about the interminable episodes that I was forced to watch when I was a kid (my grandad loved it). Even as a smallie I thought it was clicheed repetitive turgid and stupid. Where you see gentle reminiscing, I see unfunny stereotyping. But hey, if you enjoy it, don't mind me.

I hated it when it was first shown and i certainly don't make a habit of watching it now.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I loved hi-de-hi

 

[The Groke]

I loved hi-de-hi

bad Paw.

 

[Calva dosser]

I can't see what's not to laugh at the scene where the Gendarme (Carruthers?) meets Carstairs (the hidden RAF pilot) and they both start talking about high jinks in Oxford.

I think people who don't like 'Allo allo are very welcome to their opinion. Those who don't 'get' it however, are a bit dense. There is comedy working on several levels there. Obviously, if you don't like it, you don't like it.

Hogans Heroes was fun, but a one trick pony. Stupid Germans-clever Yanks. In 'Allo allo, all the protagonists were stupid national stereotypes of themselves. The daft bumbling English, the mendacious randy French, The S&M obsessed with order Germans, and the peacock Italians. It took the piss of all alike.

As someone else mentioned, it was also a piss take of 'Secret Army'. Which has to be done.

It is, of course unknown in France, and even if it was, the French appetite for dubbing things would ruin it.

Personally I'd love to do the subtitles in French. I don't think it would work though, French is not a language that can be messed with like English. 'Good Moaning' would take some translating.

It took quite a few attempts to explain why the local wine 'Chiroulet' was similar to 'chie en lit', or 'shit the bed'.

Although I have got people to say 'Cinq clous- Paris Match'.

What's a language for, if not to have the piss taken?. Post modernists do it all the time.

 

[WouldBe]

It is, of course unknown in France, and even if it was, the French appetite for dubbing things would ruin it.

Personally I'd love to do the subtitles in French. I don't think it would work though, French is not a language that can be messed with like English. 'Good Moaning' would take some translating.

According to the program last night it was shown in France and dubbed into French. Instead of mangling the French language as in "the RAF are sending their bummers..." it got translated as "The RAF are sending their submarines..."

 

[Vintage Paw]

I can't see what's not to laugh at the scene where the Gendarme (Carruthers?) meets Carstairs (the hidden RAF pilot) and they both start talking about high jinks in Oxford.

Crabtree.

 

[Calva dosser]

According to the program last night it was shown in France and dubbed into French. Instead of mangling the French language as in "the RAF are sending their bummers..." it got translated as "The RAF are sending their submarines..."

Quite. all the more reason for subtitles.

You'd have to be pretty po-faced not to chortle at that.

Probably wrong, but I heard the writers were ex-army, and enjoyed having a dig at the RAF, hence the way the RAF were consistently portrayed as buffoons.

 

[zoooo]

The policeman's still quite sexy.
And surprisingly posh.

 

[AWPlayer]

groan more bbc unoriginality. why do they do this? let these things die already. its like that total crap harry enfield thing they just brought back - why why why!?!?!?!!?

 

[zoooo]

It only came back for a one off!

 

[wishface]

It only came back for a one off!

lol, the thought was obviously too much.

perhaps some dalek face genitalia will ease the pain.

 

[PacificOcean]

Am I the only person who enjoyed this last night then?

 

[zoooo]

I did enjoy seeing what they look like now - Finding that the policeman is super-camp and a Neil Tennant lookalike.

And now I know why I've always found leather clad nazis a bit sexy. That bloody Herr Flick.

 

[free spirit]

Am I the only person who enjoyed this last night then?

nope - I laughed a lot, was just right for my poor hungover brain

 

[Roadkill]

bugger, missed it!

 

[T & P]

I thought it was alright. Good to see some of the characters returning.

I also enjoy the documentary bits. Quite a few things I didn't know- for instance that Gorden Kaye had a piece of wood impaled on his head during a hurricane and very nearly died- which explains the funny depression and marks on his forehead.