The relation between Rene and Gruber....Legendary!
@telemachus533 жыл бұрын
The irony of having a gay guy playing a straight one and a straight guy playing the gay is a stroke of genius and it never fails to have me in stitches. And the 2 actors playing off each other is sublime.
@SwiftNimblefoot2 жыл бұрын
Oh you mean Gorden Kaye is gay and Guy Siner isn't? Wow, never knew. :D
@dalemcilwain2 жыл бұрын
I didn't know Gordon was gay. I knew Guy wasn't gay.
@NemesisRTCW2 жыл бұрын
@@dalemcilwain Gorden was gay indeed, the BBC was afraid that if the public found out it would cause trouble, but when Gorden had his accident in the storm it came out he wax gay and the public did not mind at all, sending him lots of get well letters and cards.
@SwiftNimblefoot2 жыл бұрын
@@NemesisRTCW I only learned of his accident far, far later than watching the show, and man, it must have taken him a lot of strength to recover, but so glad he did.
@ronaldjager7292 жыл бұрын
Lt Gruber wasn't gay. He married Helga after the war and had 6 children with her. I think he was bi-sexual. 😁
@samuellourenco95262 жыл бұрын
Leclerc: Is he one of us? (referring to René about Gruber) René: No, he is one of them. Gruber: Please don't tell anyone! That scene is priceless.
@SwiftNimblefoot3 ай бұрын
He is afraid to come out of the closet.
@danyoutube74912 ай бұрын
@@SwiftNimblefootMuch like the British airmen!
@helenkimber64382 жыл бұрын
Gruber definitely one of my favourite characters...although the whole cast made the show so enjoyable to watch...still laugh so much watching reruns...
@annettefowler47046 ай бұрын
Me to😅
@dwaynedegale2362 ай бұрын
1982 🇹🇹🤣🤣 grew up on this classic real masterpiece
@gumdeo Жыл бұрын
"My little tank" - Lt. Gruber.
@JJfromPhilly67 Жыл бұрын
Missing is the scene where Gruber meetings Rene's "twin brother" and Rene remarks that they were born and raised in Nancy, hence "...we were both...Nancy...boys."
@Tsiri093 жыл бұрын
I watched this series when I was stationed in England in the 80's. LOVED it!
@jaspervaessen47032 жыл бұрын
The walls are thick The doors are stout Why are you waving your potato about
@Plons0Nard2 жыл бұрын
The lines are wonderfully written, but the bodylanguage is the cherry on the pudding 😂😎🤝🇳🇱
@lengerrard3810 Жыл бұрын
Superb. ❤
@Saxondog3 жыл бұрын
Timing was perfect. Brilliant show, so sad we will probably never see comedy like this again. Musn't
@SwiftNimblefoot2 жыл бұрын
Well, there are some fun british shows, but they are getting more and more rare. I mostly check whatever Matt Berry is starring in, as he has a similar style of humor.
@johnjericho2 жыл бұрын
British comedies are the funniest and best ones to watch.
@Wrecker3D2 жыл бұрын
If they decide on a reboot (as that's the current hype) it won't be the original cast (although they might want to do a small cameo/easter egg appearance if possible) and the question rises if it will have the same chemistry, oomph and humor moments as humor has changed over the years and politically correctness has gotten/is getting worse And the jokes might trigger outrage where there was no reason for before
@podfuk Жыл бұрын
@@Wrecker3D I noticed, when I watched some reaction channels, almost nobody laught at Rene/Gruber "gay" jokes, probably afraid of cancelation :(
@fr4gg1e Жыл бұрын
@@podfuk Or, you know, maybe because they don't find them funny.
@bingoreddraaz73633 жыл бұрын
When a gay character could carry an entire series without gay getting in the way. This was a brilliant character. 🤣
@curtisthomas26702 жыл бұрын
Mr Humphrey in Are You Being Served
@elleryeggen96782 жыл бұрын
And he winds up marrying Helga! Brilliant!!
@marianpazdzioch66322 жыл бұрын
subtlety is the key, and something gay characters forcefully inserted in today's movies lack.
@jameelagill54082 жыл бұрын
@@marianpazdzioch6632 Representation today is leagues above representationin the past.
@minicle426 Жыл бұрын
@@marianpazdzioch6632 Probably more to do with the fact a lot of modern media is simply trying to score easy Brownie points from Social Justice Groups.
@TheMadYetti3 жыл бұрын
Holywood take notes - this is how you write a gay character, who is openly gay and it doesnt destroy whole story
@juliamackiewicz17612 жыл бұрын
I would add - how to include a gay character into the story without impression, that it was made for political or ideological reason. Today such creation of character like Gruber would be "offensive": OH NO, THEY ARE LAUGHING ABOUT HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATION, IT'S HOMOPHOBIC! SCANDAL!
@curtisthomas26702 жыл бұрын
What about Mr. Humphrey/John Inman (a most apt name) from another great Brit series "Are You Being Served?"
@SwiftNimblefoot2 жыл бұрын
I just had to send this clip to someone while we were discussing Q(ueer)-Force, and how back then, people could write good comedy with gay people instead of the "woe is me, I am being persecuted" crap we got these days.
@DonegalTDI3 жыл бұрын
What an actor, splendid!
@suzanamitrovic56012 жыл бұрын
Lieutenant Gruber is my favorite character, and Rene too
@SwiftNimblefoot2 жыл бұрын
I simple adore this show, and Gruber is one of the funniest gay people in TV history.
@67lionsoflisbon373 жыл бұрын
Funny funny funny sitcom. Takes the piss of all concerned. Brilliant.
@usaisamess88802 жыл бұрын
I love the everyday frustration Rene has. So stressful trying to survive and help everyone. He has so many small and big problems. His face is always serious:)
@schubertuk Жыл бұрын
And yet Rene is often the cause of all his own problems...
@danyoutube74912 ай бұрын
I liked the rundowns of what had been happening that Rene often gave to camera at the start of an episode, listing all his troubles and ending with something like "...and it is only Tuesday!"
@slots14072 жыл бұрын
The pause at 6:10 is immaculate. But you can't tell me they kept a straight face afterwards - that must have had more than one take.
@brynjolfureinarsson6038 Жыл бұрын
Most of it was done on stage with audience, so not too many mistakes
@davidbolha3 жыл бұрын
@ 01:02 Gruber already "visualizing those bottoms up". 🤔😉😎😂
@Prokudak3 жыл бұрын
1:31 'Marry Rene?' Gruber is heartbroken.
@MFFNL2 жыл бұрын
That ".. congratulations." of his is just heart-wreckingly sorrowful.
@SwiftNimblefoot2 жыл бұрын
It's still mind-boggling that the show ends with him marrying Helga...
@MajorSrb952 жыл бұрын
7:40 Second heartbreak 💔 😂
@ym10up2 жыл бұрын
That "congratulations" afterwards, the wobbling voice 😂
@7MatthewJames Жыл бұрын
Congratulations
@darylecosgrove3270 Жыл бұрын
Man, what a great series! The writing and the acting was so superior to the crap that is foisted upon us today via the regular networks.
@annettefowler47046 ай бұрын
So true!
@maestroveale2 жыл бұрын
The look in his eyes when he stands at 10:37 just SENDS me 😂
@RIPOldSTK2 жыл бұрын
Gruber was my favourite character.
@aries6able3 жыл бұрын
i only watched it for Gruber xxxxx
@wynwilliams69772 жыл бұрын
Turns out he is BI and ended up married to Helga and they had three kids together in the reunion special :)
@LannaDru11 ай бұрын
Wasn't it six children?
@RememberEddieYork2 жыл бұрын
My my, you do have a big bundle there.
@michaelhamilton71113 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload greetings from Costa Rica 😎 stay safe.
@wanderingsmith3 жыл бұрын
Love both of these tributes to Gruber :D many thanks
@TheMightsparrow3 жыл бұрын
So glad he survived the war
@ruicorreia78823 жыл бұрын
And marrys Helga.
@miloseviczarko452 жыл бұрын
@@ruicorreia7882 No way? Herr Flick doesn't?
@NemesisRTCW2 жыл бұрын
@@miloseviczarko45 No, Gruber marries Helga, and has multiple kids with her. Thats one of the jokes in the final episode, when the colonel (who became his driver after the war) mentions it Rene and the Colonel both say "I didnt think he had it in him"
@user-yc5um2pl5v Жыл бұрын
@@miloseviczarko45 "Flick, the Gestapo" most likely didn't live much longer after the war anyway.
@miloseviczarko45 Жыл бұрын
@@user-yc5um2pl5v Most likely. But JUSTICE FOR VON SMALLHAUSEN!
@davidrobinson630 Жыл бұрын
Gorden....never to be forgotten.....RIP my friend......
@pinochetshelicoptertours16773 жыл бұрын
Keep it up! more of officer crabtree please
@SwiftNimblefoot2 жыл бұрын
"I was pissing outside and thought I'd take a leek."
@andrzejzborowski49203 жыл бұрын
The waitress Maria was the most beautiful girl in the whole series. Pity that she left the production so early.
@michaeljames49043 жыл бұрын
The whole show was full of babes but she definitely had those knockout good looks that short women sometime seem gifted with - like Veronica Lake - you couldn’t help but look at her. It was once how television shows would be cleverly cast so the whole family would watch together, and this one certainly secured the attention of the most easily distracted demographic of young males.
@zainquadri12063 жыл бұрын
There was so much she could take and only so much she could take, she couldn't take anymore...
@peterburke17092 жыл бұрын
I didnt like mimi much now u mention it
@SwiftNimblefoot2 жыл бұрын
I preferred Yvette, but yeah she was also a looker. Though my favourite remains Helga, especially when she is wearing the "little suspenders with the swastikas on" :P
@dalemcilwain2 жыл бұрын
@@peterburke1709 She came off as a nutter.
@RememberEddieYork Жыл бұрын
I want that man's name! I bet-a you do!
@senortrenanabolico3 жыл бұрын
6:25 is the best joke XXD
@akapple35382 жыл бұрын
3:16 is the best one for me :)
@marcy31273 жыл бұрын
My my you do have a big bundle there LOL.!!
@bjrngulli6282 жыл бұрын
Love this show🤗
@curtisthomas2670 Жыл бұрын
Lt Grueber and Mr Humphreys were the most comical gay Brits on 80's tv
@markflores402 жыл бұрын
My favorite character on the show him and Renee.
@petergerritgroen3157 Жыл бұрын
Maria
@annettefowler47046 ай бұрын
Thank you so much 😂
@fawziekefli22733 жыл бұрын
Sometime later in the show, Gruber's wound badge - which is appropriate and goes with his Iron Cross, 2nd Class, and explains how he left the Russian Front - disappears and is instead replaced with the Iron Cross, first class, with no explanation.
@paulcaswell28132 жыл бұрын
Probably fixed by Uncle Heiny...
@xx38683 жыл бұрын
He was great as the young general in the "Genesis of the Daleks"
@ScottyBugler20053 жыл бұрын
Also played the part of Noel Coward in an episode of You Rang M’Lord. He was good in that episode too
@StefanTravis2 жыл бұрын
General Raven, was it? Parallel lives in parallel universes. Also, was a minbari in Babylon 5.
@SwiftNimblefoot2 жыл бұрын
It'd have been hilarious if he played that role as Gruber. He would have had some remarks about the plungers for sure. :P
@RatagainTheDetox8 ай бұрын
Hans is my spirit animal.
@MiLLwallpaul2312582 жыл бұрын
Bottoms up…..lol
@lenkaubauba12212 жыл бұрын
Do you also have part 1? I remember seeing it once, but now I can't find it...
@tomose956 Жыл бұрын
9:05 that scene always gets me LOL
@beveragebrit2 ай бұрын
1:34 I never thought I would feel sad for a literal Nazi Army officer
@lesliefrank38052 жыл бұрын
Those were diffrent times a different world i miss those times
@ruicorreia78823 жыл бұрын
But, on the last episode, he marrys Helga.
@dalemcilwain2 жыл бұрын
That's when Renee says," I didn't know you had it in you.". Guy Sinner was great in the series.
@maglorian2 жыл бұрын
My head canon is that Helga is Gruber’s ‘beard’, in order to live in peace. After all, society was… not very friendly to gay people back then if you’ll allow me this understatement.
@brianduggan1432 Жыл бұрын
funny thing is gordon kaye was gay
@misterprecocious2491 Жыл бұрын
Was he? News to me.
@brianduggan1432 Жыл бұрын
@@misterprecocious2491 Yep he deffo was
@frodehjelmerviken25262 жыл бұрын
1:02 miles away
@crazyburkey3677 Жыл бұрын
As Van Halen sang, B,B,B,B, Baby bottoms up
@riverholme2 жыл бұрын
Gruber reminds me of Matt Hancock!
@thewolker34833 жыл бұрын
What is the name of the song at 5:00 minute...???
@pighead67303 жыл бұрын
"He's Funny That Way" kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX6vlYCPjZKKfqc
@colinjennings36613 жыл бұрын
Renes face when Gruber is singing this is priceless
@user-yc5um2pl5v Жыл бұрын
Lt Gruber was a great singer. Wish there were audio versions of his renditions.
@Crookqt3 ай бұрын
Magnolia and Potato
@inesborstel5592Ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@Ettibridget3 ай бұрын
Is Guy a common name in the UK?
@IanHorsford2 жыл бұрын
This show was a classic, Lt Gruber was too obvious
@lenkaubauba12213 жыл бұрын
Can I ask about the joke behind "ginger tom", please? I've read that there is this myth about all ginger cats being boys, but I don't think it is really the joke
@crazy0310893 жыл бұрын
Following this for the answer
@lenkaubauba12213 жыл бұрын
One person wrote something about slang eords, so I looked it up. It seems, that is comes from Cockney (I should have known): Ginger this expression comes from a London slang called Cockney rhyming slang. Very basically consist in replacing a word you do not want to pronounce to avoid be understood by others, with words that sound alike and rhyme, and may even have some relation of meaning. In this case the word “Queer” was replaced by “Brighton Pier”, and after by “Ginger beer”, then shorting to “Ginger”. Similarly “Queer” resulted in “King Lear” which in turn resulted in “Jere” and “Gear” two slang for homosexual man. Source: www.moscasdecolores.com/en/gay-dictionary/english/ginger/
@Pagliacci_Rex2 жыл бұрын
@@lenkaubauba1221 I think the secondary joke is that Gruber is a "tomcat" which is slang for a promiscuous male.
@curtisthomas26702 жыл бұрын
Could be a red haired (called ginger) guy
@lenkaubauba12212 жыл бұрын
Interesting, thank you all for the explanaitons. 'Allo 'Allo is such a great show and although the dabbing in my mothertongue is also amazingly well done, the original still hides so many subtle jokes I always love to discover.
@miloseviczarko452 жыл бұрын
1:28 Marry René? 🤣🤣🤣
@kdhavle Жыл бұрын
It was very lonely at the Russian Front...
@koningbolo470011 ай бұрын
8:24 I always knew prince Bernard (of the Netherlands) was a pimp...
@mcristinafarinaarevalo1956 Жыл бұрын
Pig head...great show...😂😂😂😂😂
@asifkhan1363 Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@steveprescott4639 Жыл бұрын
Guy Sinner. Brilliant!!
@rf521010 ай бұрын
There will never be another 'Allo 'Allo. The 'offended by default' mob would not allow it. Such a funny show. Thanks for sharing this, Gruber was one of my favourite characters.
@cato7778 Жыл бұрын
Surely this would be branded as non-pc, possibly phobic and cancelled if were made today..? What a tragic loss that would've been to us all had it been so
@sergiy29303 ай бұрын
+
@martinbritz56343 жыл бұрын
Now we watch Biden
@macca11462 жыл бұрын
Imagine the reaction from the gay brigade today if the bbc ever dared show it again, we are not allowed to laugh at anything any more.
@YBM2007 Жыл бұрын
I don't think this is very problematic given Gorden Kayes own sexuality. Funny dynamics going on since Guy Siner is straight
@horrorhistory7342 Жыл бұрын
It isn’t. I myself am from gen z and I’m a bisexual trans person who loves the show and gruber.
@user-zp4ge3yp2o6 ай бұрын
You're really overestimating the power a vocal minority on twitter have over things. I think you'd find most people are perfectly fine with the character, there's nothing hateful about his portrayal, in fact I'd say he's one of the most likable and sympathetic ones.
@dirk6001 Жыл бұрын
No time for woke back then
@nightlystalkers Жыл бұрын
Pity they ruined the series by marrying Gruber off to Helga :(
@mariaefelices6543 Жыл бұрын
This changed my life to happy , but the woke will not make such brilliance