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.

Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 10th September 2014, 8:38 PM BST

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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Then you would have said his accent was crap - go on admit it.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 10th September 2014, 9:25 PM BST

Then you would have said his accent was crap - go on admit it.

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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 BST

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!

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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 BST

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.

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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:

1/

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 BST

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.

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Brilliant - Su Pollard.

1 is probably Basel.

3/3.

Quote: A Horseradish @ 10th September 2014, 10:09 PM BST

1 is Basel.

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Feck! You're right...my hometown! >_<

Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 10th September 2014, 10:11 PM BST

Feck! You're right...my hometown! >_<

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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 BST

Is That Johnny Marr?

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I'd say yes.

Something and Starr, then Marr?

Is the small picture part of 3 or 4?