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* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: In the last episode, [[spoiler:René has a son, who is also named René who looks and sounds just like him. via a DoorstopBaby.]]
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* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: In the last episode, [[spoiler:René [[spoiler: René has a son, who is also named René who looks and sounds just like him. via Via a DoorstopBaby.DoorstopBaby. It certainly has nothing at all to do with Yvette's pregnancy in the last series...]]
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Very much a parody of ''Series/SecretArmy'', an earlier drama set in a similar milieu, it starred Creator/GordenKaye as René Artois, owner of a restaurant in a small occupied French town -- and a whole host of other characters (for a longer list see [[Characters/AlloAllo here]]). For the most part, René, who would introduce each episode with a FourthWall-breaking monologue to the camera in which he'd helpfully recap the plot for us and gripe about it, just wants to keep his head down, stay out of trouble and fool around [[KavorkaMan with the improbable number of beautiful women who are passionately attracted to him]]. Unfortunately for him, he keeps getting dragged into numerous intrigues and shenanigans involving the [[LaResistance French Resistance]] and the [[ThoseWackyNazis occupying Germans]], who both view him as essential to their various schemes.
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Very much a parody of ''Series/SecretArmy'', an earlier drama set in a similar milieu, it starred Creator/GordenKaye as René Artois, owner of a restaurant café in a small occupied French town -- he runs with his wife Edith (Creator/CarmenSilvera), and a whole host waitresses Yvette Carte-Blanche (Creator/VickiMichelle) and Maria Recamier (Creator/FrancescaGonshaw), later replaced by Mimi Labonq (Sue Hodge). René does favours on the side for the leaders of other characters (for a longer list see [[Characters/AlloAllo here]]). the local occupying forces, Colonel Kurt von Strohm (Creator/RichardMarner) and Captain Hans Geering (Creator/SamKelly), in exchange for rationed goods, but his life is turned upside down by the arrival of LaResistance leader Michelle Dubois (Creator/KirstenCooke), who has him hide RAF Officers Fairfax (Creator/JohnDCollins) and Carstairs (Creator/NicholasFrankau) in his café. To make matters worse, the Colonel has René hide the valuable painting of "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies", leading to the arrival of Gestapo agents Herr Otto Flick (Richard Gibson, then Creator/DavidJanson) and Von Smallhausen (Creator/JohnLouisMansi), the former of whom becomes enamoured with the Colonel's SexySecretary Private Helga Geerhart (Creator/KimHartman). While all this quickly became complicated, it's not even mentioning Edith's bedridden mother Madame Fanny La Fan (Creator/RoseHill), her MasterForger lover Monsieur Roger [=LeClerc=] (Creator/JackHaig), his twin brother Ernest (Creator/DerekRoyle, then Creator/RobinParkinson), René's admirer Lieutenant Hubert Gruber (Creator/GuySiner), commander of the Garrison General Erich von Klinkerhoffen (Creator/HilaryMinster), the hated by all Captain Alberto Bertorelli (Creator/GavinRichards, then Creator/RogerKitter), local undertaker Monsieur Alfonse (Creator/KennethConnor), and bumbling British agent Officer Crabtree (Creator/ArthurBostrom). {{Hilarity|Ensues}} quickly ensues.
For the most part, René, who would introduce each episode with a FourthWall-breaking monologue to the camera in which he'd helpfully recap the plot for us and gripe about it, just wants to keep his head down, stay out of trouble and fool around [[KavorkaMan with the improbable number of beautiful women who are passionately attracted to him]]. Unfortunately for him, he keeps getting dragged into numerous intrigues and shenanigans involving the [[LaResistance French Resistance]] and the [[ThoseWackyNazis occupying Germans]], who both view him as essential to their various schemes.
For the most part, René, who would introduce each episode with a FourthWall-breaking monologue to the camera in which he'd helpfully recap the plot for us and gripe about it, just wants to keep his head down, stay out of trouble and fool around [[KavorkaMan with the improbable number of beautiful women who are passionately attracted to him]]. Unfortunately for him, he keeps getting dragged into numerous intrigues and shenanigans involving the [[LaResistance French Resistance]] and the [[ThoseWackyNazis occupying Germans]], who both view him as essential to their various schemes.
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* KavorkaMan: Rene has virtually every woman in the cast at some point (and even gets a few guys chasing him) and is a fat, middle aged, balding, greedy, cowardly fool.
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* KavorkaMan: Rene René is in the picture at the top of the page. He has his way with virtually every woman in the cast at some point (and point, and even gets a few of the guys chasing him) and is him -- despite him being a fat, middle aged, middle-aged, balding, greedy, cowardly fool.
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* {{Novelization}}: Creator/TheBBC published two volumes of ''The War Diaries of René Artois'' in 1988 and 1989, ostensibly edited and translated into English by one René Fairfax, the son of Michelle and Fairfax the British Airman (who, according to this, stayed in Nouvion even after the war ended, and eventually married Michelle). It's basically the events of some of the episode told purely from René's (at times totally exasperated) perspective, with the editor trying to downplay the notion that René fooled around with his waitresses (quite possibly because his mother was one of them, which leads the reader to suspect that René may actually be the editor's biological father). There's also a bit of detail about what happened to various characters after the war, some of which is contradicted by the show's finale which came after the diaries were published.
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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Gruber led the firing squad that shot [[spoiler:René]], but he was just following orders. He is constantly reminded of this well into the later seasons.
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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Gruber led the firing squad that shot [[spoiler:René]], but he was just following orders. He is constantly reminded of this well into the later seasons.seasons -- and, given his fondness for René, he feels very guilty about it.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The main cast from the middle years. Standing, L-R: Lt. Gruber, Yvette, Edith, Crabtree, Helga, Herr Flick, Capt. Bertorelli; seated, L-R: Mimi, René, Michelle.[[note]] Not pictured: Michelle, Mme. Fanny, M. Leclerc, Gen. von Klinkerhoffen, Col. von Strohm, Herr von Smallhausen, the British Airmen. [[/note]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The main cast from the middle years. Standing, L-R: Lt. Gruber, Yvette, Edith, Crabtree, Helga, Herr Flick, Capt. Bertorelli; seated, L-R: Mimi, René, Michelle.[[note]] Not pictured: Michelle, Mme. Fanny, M. Leclerc, Gen. von Klinkerhoffen, Col. von Strohm, Herr von Smallhausen, the British Airmen. [[/note]]]]
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* FinalSeasonCasting: Richard Gibson wasn't available for Series 9, so Herr Flick was played by Creator/DavidJanson in his final six appearances.
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* LanguageFluencyDenial: The British airmen Carstairs and Fairfax know that Michelle speaks English, but everyone else in the Resistance pretends they don't speak English when talking to them.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Rene finds himself distressed because the communist resistance wishes to kill him The Colonel brushes it off.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Rene finds himself distressed because the communist resistance wishes to kill him The the Colonel brushes it off.
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* CardboardPrison: The prison at the chateau. Just about everyone who was locked in that thing escaped, or was broken out.
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* CardboardPrison: The prison at the chateau. Just about everyone who was locked in that thing escaped, escaped or was broken out.
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** Creator/MichaelSheard appears briefly in Season 8 as a double for Field Marshall Göring, who is accidentally blown up by an explosive knockwurst sausage. Not only has Sheard played UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler five times,[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack you have probably seen him play a high-ranking officer in an evil army and get killed onscreen before.]]
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** Creator/MichaelSheard appears briefly in Season Series 8 as a double for Field Marshall Göring, who is accidentally blown up by an explosive knockwurst sausage. Not only has Sheard played UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler five times,[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack times, [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack you have probably seen him play a high-ranking officer in an evil army and get killed onscreen before.]]
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** To a lesser extent, the two Leclercs; they certainly aren't ''good'' at playing the piano by any means, but their efforts are at least somewhat tolerable, especially when compared to Edith.
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** To a lesser extent, the two Leclercs; [=LeClercs=]; they certainly aren't ''good'' at playing the piano by any means, but their efforts are at least somewhat tolerable, especially when compared to Edith.
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** The infamous apron camera René is forced to use in one episode alludes to a scene from Series/AreYouBeingServed in which Creator/GordenKaye appeared. In it, he was a Scotsman who wished to buy a raincoat. While trying it on, it looks like he's practicing flashing people. When Mr. Humphries and Mr. Lucas enquire what he's doing, he reveals that he's actually an ambush photographer. He then demonstrates by using the camera concealed in his kilt's sporran.
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** The infamous apron camera René is forced to use in one episode alludes to a scene from Series/AreYouBeingServed ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' in which Creator/GordenKaye appeared. In it, he was a Scotsman who wished to buy a raincoat. While trying it on, it looks like he's practicing flashing people. When Mr. Humphries and Mr. Lucas enquire what he's doing, he reveals that he's actually an ambush photographer. He then demonstrates by using the camera concealed in his kilt's sporran.
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* PoseOfSilence: It's a running gag how, upon donning a new PaperThinDisguise, Monsieur Roger [=LeClerc=] would approach one of his acquaintances and whisper his CatchPhrase--"It is I, Le Clerc!"
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[[caption-width-right:350:The main cast from the middle years. Standing, L-R: Lt. Gruber, Yvette, Edith, Crabtree, Helga, Herr Flick, Capt. Bertorelli; seated, L-R: Mimi, René, Michelle.[[note]] Not pictured: Mme. Fanny, M. Leclerc, Gen. von Klinkerhoffen, Col. von Strohm, Herr von Smallhausen, the British Airmen. [[/note]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The main cast from the middle years. Standing, L-R: Lt. Gruber, Yvette, Edith, Crabtree, Helga, Herr Flick, Capt. Bertorelli; seated, L-R: Mimi, René, Michelle.[[note]] Not pictured: Michelle, Mme. Fanny, M. Leclerc, Gen. von Klinkerhoffen, Col. von Strohm, Herr von Smallhausen, the British Airmen. [[/note]]]]
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* ComicSutra: Often and with gusto. Especially Yvette and Mimi are known practitioners of HeadTiltinglyKinky acts that involve [[NoodleImplements bunches of wet celery, flying helmets]] and occasionally even ''kitchen equipment'' (gasp!). All of this is left entirely to the viewers' sordid imagination.
