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‘ALLO ‘ALLO!
Set during World War II, 'Allo 'Allo! tells the story of Rene Artois, a French café owner in the town of Nouvion. ("allô" is the normal French way of greeting someone over a remote communication system).
The Axis military have occupied the town and stolen all of its valuable artefacts. These include a painting of “The Fallen Madonna”, by Van Klomp (known to those who have seen it as The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies). The local commandants Colonel Eric Von Strohm, and Captain Hans Geering, have decided to keep the paintings for themselves after the war and coerce René into hiding them in his café. Hitler also wants the paintings, and sends Herr Otto Flick, of the Gestapo, to the town to find them. Flick, in turn, conspires to keep them. The paintings are duplicated by a forger, get mixed up, lost, found and are put in knackwurst sausages, and hidden in the cellar of Café René. Other valuable artefacts include a painting of the "Cracked Vase with the Big Daisies by Van Gogh"; the first cuckoo clock ever made; and some silver.
At the same time, the café is being used as a safe house for two brave but clueless British airmen, Fairfax and Carstairs. René is forced to work with the resistance, led by Michelle Dubois, who threatens to shoot him for serving Germans in his café. The far-fetched plans of the Resistance to get the airmen back to England repeatedly fail. These are some of the main running gags of the series. As part of these plans, the Resistance have placed a radio in the bedroom of René's mother-in-law, Madame Fanny La Fan, as this is the only room nobody enters unless they have to. This secret communication device between London and the resistance (codename "Nighthawk") is hidden in the potty under the bed, and incoming messages are signalled by light bulbs concealed in the bed-knobs - leading the elderly mother-in-law to cry "Ze flashing knobs!". René answers with "'Allo, 'allo, zis is Night'awk, are you receiving me?", hence the title of the show. The Resistance is also helped by Officer Crabtree, a British spy posing as a policeman sent to France because he can speak French. However, he does not speak it very well, resulting in frequent malapropism’s. For example, whenever he says "Good morning", it comes out as "Good moaning".
René is also trying to keep his affairs with his waitresses secret from his wife, Edith, (who regularly sings in the café, despite being an appallingly bad singer, which she does not realise). In addition, the Communist Resistance is plotting against René for serving Germans and for working with the Gaullist Resistance. Ironically, the Communist Resistance only blow things up for money. The only reason they do not shoot René is that their leader is in love with him, a fact he has to hide from both his wife and the waitresses, Yvette Carte-Blanche, Maria Recamier, and Mimi Labonq. Furthermore, the seemingly gay German Lieutenant Gruber is also continually flirting with René and finding him in embarrassing situations. These situations are made even more humorous by the fact that René is not exactly the best-looking man in France, is definitely not a hero, and is often forced by his wife to do missions and secret operations.
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