History Series / AlloAllo

** In one episode, an accordionist is heard wandering the town square outside the cafe, playing a slower version of the theme on his accordion.
** Episode "Leclerc Against the Wall" featured the usual opening shot of Rene in his cafe as the instrumental theme song plays. It fades out as Rene begins playing the exact same song on the cafe piano.

* GrailInTheGarbage: The second painting, ''Cracked Vase with Two Daisies'' was a regular fixture on the cafe wall, which Rene's mother-in-law had received from a penniless artist in return for her 'favours'. Then General von Klinkerhoffen dropped in and confiscated what he recognised as an original Van Gogh.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: There is an instance where a character bursts into the cafe to kill Rene (5.7 "No Hiding Place") and empties Sten submachine gun from a distance of 20 feet into a group of people clustered close to the bar. At least one of them should have been hit by accident, if nothing else.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The show's theme often dissolves into being played on the piano by [=LeClerc=] in the cafe, or is simply played randomly on the piano as filler. Edith sings a song to the tune in at least one episode.

** The Colonel and The Captain both have wives back home, but have possibly had liaisons with Helga, and frequent the prostitutes at the cafe.

A LicensedGame, '''Allo 'Allo Cartoon Fun'', was released for the UsefulNotes/CommodoreAmiga in 1993. It is a PlatformGame where René has to collect various items hidden around the stages while avoiding the Germans.

--> ''Colonel Kurt von Strohm:'' "Don't worry, you get used to it. They try to kill us all the time."

* FakingTheDead: René fakes his own death though he wasn't sure if he was even going to survive. Fortunately he does and returns to be his own twin brother and has to organise his own funeral.

* HypercompetentSidekick: Von Smallhausen has a shade of this as he is definitely more level-headed than Herr Flick who usually focuses on [[RubeGoldbergDevice extremely complex plots]] and is oblivious of the most obvious solutions.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Lt. Gruber. Camp as all get-out, and flirts endlessly with René. The DistantFinale brings it to [[AmbiguouslyBi another trope]], as he's hooked up with [[spoiler:Helga]]. Or [[spoiler: it could have been a lavender marriage. Or two good friends who despite one's normal traits, can't keep each others hands off each other...]]

** Further played with, because the "speak English" course simply consisted of "fwah-fwah-fwah" noises which the British pilots appeared to understand without difficulty
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* "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once". {{Character Catchphrase}} of Resistance leader Michelle.

* CatchPhrase:

* MadLibsCatchPhrase: Herr Flick's inordinate pride in all things of Gestapo manufacture. "Come Helga, stand beneath the brim of my ''wide Gestapo hat.''" "Come, von Smallhausen! To the ''special Gestapo disguise cupboard!''"

* NotWhatItLooksLike: When René cuddles with one of the waitresses and his wife suddenly bursts in and gets suspicious, he promptly utters the catchphrase "You stupid woman!" and offers an improvised explanation. And Edith ''always'' buys it.

* PhraseCatcher: Nearly every character on the show has a Catch Phrase. Sometimes they are directed at a specific person, the one and only.

** A few episodes into the run, Madame Fanny's CatchPhrase of "Ze flashing knobs!" when her bedknobs began flashing to signal an incoming message from London prompts Leclerc to sit up in bed next to her. A few more episodes into the run, variations on this gag appear as other characters are revealed to be hiding in Madame Fanny's bed when messages arive from London.
** Helga's NoIndoorVoice when making announcements

* RunningGagged: The final episode has a lot of this. [[spoiler:Helga does an announcement with an indoor voice, Madame Fanny ignores the flashing knobs, Helga refuses to kiss Herr Flick and René actually confesses to cheating on Edith with Yvette.]]
* SelfDeprecation: Pretty much all the British characters are presented as complete idiots, happy to be confined for years in cupboards, latrines, meal trollies and the like.

[[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.[[/note]]]]

* "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once". {{Catchphrase}} of Resistance leader Michelle.

** Mimi, in one of the earliest episodes atrring her, looks square into the camera with a comical daring face saying “only a bold plan can save him now!” before looking back to Yvette and continuing, “and we don’t have one.”

** Captain Bertorelli is seen by this by most of the principal female cast. He has much better luck with extras.

* René's failed attempts to have illicit romance with three of his waitresses (two of them at the same time, mind you).

* LaResistance: Two different ones, reflecting the RealLife situation in France; all female and all wearing the same grey trenchcoats and berets (Gaullists, which Michelle is part of) or dressed like Dickensian errand boys (Communists, whose leader wants to sleep with René).

** British agent Crabtree who poses as a French policeman speaks horrible "French" and speaks nearly entirely in malapropisms. What he means is usually confusing, but there is always someone who gets it and translates it to others.

* AllStereotypeCast: This show made fun of everyone. René is a cowardly FrenchJerk with a passionate love life; his waitresses are [[EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench sexy French women]]; ThoseWackyNazis include: two bumbling conscripted officers, a CampGay lieutenant, and a stoic bespectacled Gestapo officer; the English pilots speak with an [[IAmVeryBritish exaggerated English accent]] and are both [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman very polite]] and [[StiffUpperLip stuffy]], Captain Bertorelli is a MilesGloriosus who [[ItaliansTalkWithHands talks with his hands]], etc.

* Virtually [[AmazonBrigade all the Resistance are female]], and they almost always all wear black berets and long beige raincoats ("like all other French girls"). The Communist Resistance dress in a different, but equally uniform fashion and only do things for money...

** The pilot (along with the first episode of Series 1) does not begin with Ren&eacute speaking directly to the audience — this only begins in the second episode of Series 1 onwards.

** A total of four actors who regularly appeared in 'Allo 'Allo! also appeared in ''Series/SecretArmy'', the 1970s drama that the show was based on and deliberately spoofed. Creator/HilaryMinster, who played General von Kinkerhoffen, previously was seen as Hauptmann Muller in four episodes in Series 3 of ''Series/SecretArmy''. Creator/GuySiner, who played Lieutenant Gruber, appeared in one Series 3 episode of ''Series/SecretArmy'' as an unnamed "German Monitoring Personnel". Creator/RichardMarner, who played Colonel von Strohm, also had a guest appearance as Marin Marais in a Series 2 episode of ''Series/SecretArmy''. Creator/JohnDCollins, who played Fairfax, appeared in five episodes of ''Series/SecretArmy'' as Inspector Paul Delon.

** The painting of the Fallen Madonna is referred to as "The Reclining Madonna".