Mimi Le Bonque is a fictional character

Fictional character

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 on the BBC

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 situation comedy

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 'Allo 'Allo!

'Allo 'Allo!

'Allo 'Allo! is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the wartime drama Secret Army, and was created by David Croft, who also wrote the theme music, and Jeremy Lloyd. Lloyd and Croft wrote the first 6...

. She first appeared in the fourth season, and stayed with the show until the end.

Mimi (played by Sue Hodge

Sue Hodge

Sue Hodge is a British actress, best known for her role as the waitress Mimi Labonq in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo!...

) is small, blonde and athletic, and passionately hates Germans

Germans

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. She used to be a Resistance gang leader in Paris before she became a waitress. Rene Artois, her employer, has to remonstrate with her about her enthusiasm for German-killing: "If you poison them here, people will think that it was our food that did it!" Besides homicide, her talents include singing, which provokes some friction with Rene's wife Edith Melba Artois

Edith Melba Artois

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. When she started appearing on the show, she was mostly portrayed as stiff and rarely even smiled. She eventually became more easygoing as the story went on.

Like the other waitresses, Mimi is soon having an affair with Rene, and is not above being taken upstairs by patrons of Rene's cafe

Café

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. At one point, she comes across a large amount of money that does not belong to her, and observes: "A good girl would not even think of taking this money - good thing I'm a tart!" as she helps herself to a good share of the cash.

After the war, she seems to have stayed on at the cafe.