Not sure how I feel about this

[Hertsblue]

If the performance is too like the original it becomes a pastiche. If it's too divergent it usually loses the charm of the original. Need I say more than quote the awful example of Steve Martin's Inspector Clouseau?

[Ithoriel]

Was chatting to a work colleague over lunch some years ago and had a conversation that went something like this:

Colleague: I really like 'Allo! 'Allo!
Me: Me too
C: Wouldn't it be great if they did a remake!
M: Think it would work for a modern audience?
C: They'd have to update it a bit, naturally.
M: And remove the sexist bits ....
C: Well, I suppose ...
M: And the casual racism?
C: Err ....
M: Not much left then

[Last Hussar]

Allo allo isn't that old, so it should still work.  It's hardly "on the buses"- the isms aren't that sort of offensive.

Its been shown, dubbed, around the world.  When they showed it to German TV execs in the 90s, they spent the entire time laughing.  They said "Its very funny.  We'd never be allowed to show it though"

[Techno]

How could they replace Officer Crabtree ?
Good moaning - Phil.

[Last Hussar]

My mum thinks that how she must sound on holiday.  She can speak a bit of French and gets understood, but they always give her a funny look.

Other countries just dub Allo Allo with their national stereotype of how someone talks.  I wonder how other countries do accents of other countries.

Adam Hills does a routine about the Muppets Swedish Chef- apparently in Sweden they call him the Norwegian chef.  He said "Imagine a couple of Swedes seeing some Norwegians and going "Hurdy Gurdy" at them, and the Norwegians thinking 'Oh My God. They really do speak like that!"

What a American rock song sounds like to Italians in the 70's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZXcRqFmFa8
You may recognise it from a Driving game advert on TV at the mo

What English sounds like to foriegners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY

[Fenton]

The same is true in Fawlty Towers...I think Manuel becomes Italian  when shown in Spain, and I think some other coutnries changed his nationality as well

[FierceKitty]

My wife got most of the humour in 'Allo 'Allo.