Why does the goodwife like Dutch Elm Disease for tea?
• Used quite a bit in Allo Allo. Ren repeatedly gets told codewords, which are generally misused, forgotten, given to the wrong person, and such. Commonly he’ll skip straight past them with a line like “I know it’s you, you old fool, now just give me the batteries”. One early one had the other person unable to deliver the line (asking for matches), as his cigarette is lit before he can say anything. • Not only that, but Ren couldn’t give the correct response (“I don’t have any matches”) as he had been given a box of them only a minute earlier by Lieutenant Gruber. • The code-talk over the radio is actually analyzed by the Gestapo at one point and found to make a twisted sort of sense. • Hogans Heroes varies between speaking plainly and using code, apparently completely at random. • Polish spy drama Cult Classic Stawka Większa Niż Życie had this famous exchange: “The best chestnuts are [to be found] on Pigalle Square” “Susan likes them only in the autumn”. • Every Mission Impossible epi
