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of the Day > 09/01/06
Mange Moi
by jason davis
'Allo 'Allo: The Complete Series Five, Parts 1 and 2
Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft
 
 
Satirizing the BBC's own World War II resistance series Secret Army, 'Allo, 'Allo derives its humor from the clichés of the genre combined with a healthy dose of French farce. As the epic-length 26-episode (six episodes is de rigueur) fifth season gets under way, French café owner Rene Artois (Gordon Kaye) finds himself once more caught between the occupying forces of Nazi Germany, increasingly factionalized French resistance, and two amorous waitresses trying to steal him from his wife. The show's conceit of exaggerated foreign accents standing in for the language is employed to great effect with English spy Crabtree (Arthur Bostrom) mangling the French accent in his assumed alias of a French constable. Writers Jeremy Lloyd (Laugh-In and Are You Being Served?) and David Croft (Are You Being Served?) never pass up a double entendre as the storyline snowballs from one episode to another, amassing an increasingly complicated and hilarious continuity by season's end.
'Allo 'Allo: The Complete Series Five, Parts 1 and 2
BBC Home Video
Not rated; 660 min.
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Jason Davis is the DVD Manager for CS Weekly, a contributing editor for Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and writes "TV Wasteland" for Cinescape.com. He lives and writes in Burbank.
'Allo 'Allo: The Complete Series Five, Parts 1 and 2 courtesy BBC Home Video
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