Allo Allo

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Allo Allo is a defunct BBC comedy about Nazi Occupied France during World War II. The progressive story is set in a cafe whose owner, Rene Artois, is stuck serving both the Nazis above and below the table. Meanwhile, the French Resistance keeps coming in his rear windows, planting a shortwave radio in his mother-in-law's bedframe, giving him orders about blowing things up and harboring British airmen, while sending him assistance in the form of a French forger-pianist and an English translator-gendarme. The forger-pianist turns out to be the mother-in-law's former lover and the translator-gendarme purportedly can speak French but in truth has a lousy accent. Every time he opens his mouth, it sends me into belly laughs. Things are further complicated as Rene is married (clesarly), but hasn't touched his wife in some time, preferring instead to make out with servant girls Maria and Yvette behind closed doors at every opportunity. This would not be such a problem until the Nazis actually shoot Rene. He miraculously survives, thanks to rubber bullets planted by Nazi friends, but then his wife takes advantage of the opportunity to take over the cafe, and Rene, resurrected in the form of his twin brother also named Rene, must re-court and re-marry his wife in order to keep his hands on his own money in the form of the cafe. As if all this were not enough, the girls both think he is now free to marry them and run away to Paris. Poor Rene. But all the more reason to watch Allo Allo and see what happens next.