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We are Indonesian-Dutch couple, married in 2002, resident of Utrecht - The Netherlands, have one spoiled dog named Milo and one "gonna be spoiled" baby Isabelle.
This webpage mainly is use to share our story and pictures to our family and friends. But of course we always welcome for new friends.
The idea of this webpage is to share our story and pictures to our family and friends.
Since Ira's Dutch language is far from perfect and Dimitri's Indonesian language is even worse, we decided to use English as the main language in this blog,
eventhough lately due to the laziness of Ira, Indonesian language seems to take over.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
'Allo 'Allo!
 I love sit-com.... I can sit for hours watch Friends, Will & Grace, Just Shoot Me, Suddenly Susan etc.... Most of sit-coms that I watched are American's like most of the shows aired in Indonesia. Here in Netherlands we have more variety in shows, from countries in Europe. One of my favourite show here in Netherlands is British comedy 'Allo 'Allo! I know it's an oldies but I just discovered them few months ago  in local channel rerun. I started to watch on season 3. I hope they re-rerun it again next year 
Basically the plot is very simple and its being repeated in almost every single episode. It is either about the plans to smuggle two British pilots back to England or about the painting of The Fallen Madonna With The Big Boobies by Van Clomp of about stealing invasion plan from the Germany.
The main character is Rene Artois, a cafe owner in a small who unwillingly involved with the French resistance. His personal life become complicated when Rene who is married to Edith, entertains in the cafe by singing (badly) also has a passionate affair with Yvette, a waitress at the cafe. Lots of scene developed from their constant attempts to steal a few precious moments alone, which they rarely achieve without being caught by Edith. Rene himself is the target of the attentions of the gay Lieutenant Gruber, Maria the other waitress, Mimi the waitress that replace Maria, Denise Laroque head of the communist resistance.
 Other characters in the show include the fat German's colonel Von Strohm and his captain Hans Geering; Herr Flick the Gestapo; ice queen Helga, Herr Flick's right-hand-woman; Edith's mother Fanny Lafanne; Leclerc the pianoman in the cafe; Michele from the resistance; the British pilots and of course Officer Crabtree the Englishman that pretends to be French police officer.
The strength of this show is their method of dealing with language problems with all the nationality that involved, English/France/Germans/Italians. They all basically speak in English, of course. The French characters spoke their native tongue with pantomime-style exaggerated English with French accents, but when they spoke English they adopted exaggerated posh English accents. The English characters spoke English normally, but when they spoke French it was with a poor, almost incomprehensible cod French accent. This was for Crabtree, who strangulated English-French gave the show its most memorable catchphrase with his customary greeting 'Good Moaning'. The German characters spoke English with German accent when they supposedly speak their native language. To add more confusion, Italian character speak English with of course, Italian accent. My personal favourite is Crabtree
Lots of the lines are being repeated in every episode. These are some that I can remember:
From Michelle:
- 'Leesen verrry carefully, I weel zay zis only once...' (Listen very carefully, I will say this only once)
From Leclerc:
From Rene:
- Youuuuuu, stuuuuupid woman
- Allo allo London. This is Nighthawk calling
From Crabtree: Good moaning (morning) Good lick (luck) I have a good nose (news) and a bad nose I was ticking with a Roman Catholic farter ( Talking to a Roman Catholic father) I was just pissing by... (passing) In my bog I have a kack (In my bag I have a cake)
Those lines never failed to make laugh
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