He is afraid to come out of the closet.

@@SwiftNimblefootMuch like the British airmen!

Me to😅

Oh you mean Gorden Kaye is gay and Guy Siner isn't? Wow, never knew. :D

I didn't know Gordon was gay. I knew Guy wasn't gay.

@@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.

@@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.

Lt Gruber wasn't gay. He married Helga after the war and had 6 children with her. I think he was bi-sexual. 😁

Superb. ❤

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.

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

@@Wrecker3D I noticed, when I watched some reaction channels, almost nobody laught at Rene/Gruber "gay" jokes, probably afraid of cancelation :(

@@podfuk Or, you know, maybe because they don't find them funny.

@@fr4gg1e You know Gorden Kaye(actor playing Rene) was openly gay his whole life? So nobody is allowed to laugh at his jokes, because that's not funny now?

And yet Rene is often the cause of all his own problems...

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!"

Most of it was done on stage with audience, so not too many mistakes

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!

What about Mr. Humphrey/John Inman (a most apt name) from another great Brit series "Are You Being Served?"

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.

Mr Humphrey in Are You Being Served

And he winds up marrying Helga! Brilliant!!

subtlety is the key, and something gay characters forcefully inserted in today's movies lack.

@@marianpazdzioch6632 Representation today is leagues above representationin the past.

@@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.

So true!

That ".. congratulations." of his is just heart-wreckingly sorrowful.

It's still mind-boggling that the show ends with him marrying Helga...

7:40 Second heartbreak 💔 😂

That "congratulations" afterwards, the wobbling voice 😂

Congratulations

Wasn't it six children?

And marrys Helga.

@@ruicorreia7882 No way? Herr Flick doesn't?

@@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"

@@miloseviczarko45 "Flick, the Gestapo" most likely didn't live much longer after the war anyway.

@@user-yc5um2pl5v Most likely. But JUSTICE FOR VON SMALLHAUSEN!

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.

There was so much she could take and only so much she could take, she couldn't take anymore...

I didnt like mimi much now u mention it

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

@@peterburke1709 She came off as a nutter.

3:16 is the best one for me :)

"I was pissing outside and thought I'd take a leek."

Maria

Probably fixed by Uncle Heiny...

Also played the part of Noel Coward in an episode of You Rang M’Lord. He was good in that episode too

General Raven, was it? Parallel lives in parallel universes. Also, was a minbari in Babylon 5.

It'd have been hilarious if he played that role as Gruber. He would have had some remarks about the plungers for sure. :P

That's when Renee says," I didn't know you had it in you.". Guy Sinner was great in the series.

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.

Was he? News to me.

@@misterprecocious2491 Yep he deffo was

"He's Funny That Way" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbN8l7CKvZO7eHk.html

Renes face when Gruber is singing this is priceless

Lt Gruber was a great singer. Wish there were audio versions of his renditions.

Following this for the answer

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/

@@lenkaubauba1221 I think the secondary joke is that Gruber is a "tomcat" which is slang for a promiscuous male.

Could be a red haired (called ginger) guy

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.

I don't think this is very problematic given Gorden Kayes own sexuality. Funny dynamics going on since Guy Siner is straight

It isn’t. I myself am from gen z and I’m a bisexual trans person who loves the show and gruber.

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.