The Hancock's Half Hour episode 'Alpine Holiday' was set in Switzerland. Why the hotel manager was speaking perfect Oxford English is beyond me. He didn't even try to fake a German accent.
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Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 10th September 2014, 8:38 PM BSTThe Hancock's Half Hour episode 'Alpine Holiday' was set in Switzerland. Why the hotel manager was speaking perfect Oxford English is beyond me. He didn't even try to fake a German accent.
Then you would have said his accent was crap - go on admit it.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 10th September 2014, 9:25 PM BSTThen you would have said his accent was crap - go on admit it.
Hey, two of my all time favourite sitcom scenes contain fake German accents:
- Blackadder Goes Forth, Ade Edmondson playing Baron Von Richthofen
- Dad's Army, Pike joking around as Nazi officer ..."Schweinehund!"
Hilarious!
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 10th September 2014, 9:33 PM BSTHey, two of my all time favourite sitcom scenes contain fake German accents:
- Blackadder Goes Forth, Ade Edmondson playing Baron Von Richthofen
- Dad's Army, Pike joking around as Nazi officer ..."Schweinehund!"
Hilarious!
Whatdabout 'Allo 'Allo - there were some good ones in there.
AND Peter Sellers when he recorded The Beatles "She Loves You" :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICPmZkK3PaY
F**king brilliant.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 10th September 2014, 9:37 PM BSTWhatdabout 'Allo 'Allo - there were some good ones in there.
AND Peter Sellers when he recorded The Beatles "She Loves You" :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICPmZkK3PaY
F**king brilliant.
Yeah, completely forgot about 'Allo 'Allo...and Sellers was a genius, period.
Peter Sellers/The Beatles "She Loves You"
NEVER fails to make me laugh, and he did all the voices of course, and as you say a genius. 100%
'night..........time for bed.
The totally unofficial BCG Switzerland Quiz
Name these 4 famous cities from these picture clues:
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2/

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3/

4/


or a bit more like:

I bet the woman's name in 2 is 'Sue' or something like that...=Sue-Rick= Zurich
3 must be Bern...
Maybe I'm completely wrong.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 10th September 2014, 10:06 PM BSTI bet the woman's name in 2 is 'Sue' or something like that...=Sue-Rick= Zurich
3 must be Bern...
Maybe I'm completely wrong.
Brilliant - Su Pollard.
1 is probably Basel.
3/3.
Quote: A Horseradish @ 10th September 2014, 10:09 PM BST1 is Basel.
Feck! You're right...my hometown! >_<
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 10th September 2014, 10:11 PM BSTFeck! You're right...my hometown! >_<
So what's 4?
I think I know two of the people.
Is That Johnny Marr?
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 10th September 2014, 10:15 PM BSTIs That Johnny Marr?
I'd say yes.
Something and Starr, then Marr?
Is the small picture part of 3 or 4?