Fawlty Towers 1x2 REACTION!! "The Builders"
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- Eric and Rick react to and discuss season 1 episode 2 of the 1975 British sitcom Fawlty Towers - The Builders - #fawltytowers #bbc #johncleese
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I fully support that. However Fawlty Towers probably was not made by WGA and SAG-AFTRA members, being American unions, was it?
When you guys finish watching this, watch A Fish Called Wanda.
How come every other reaction channel is still posting normal reactions? Pretty sure Reel Rejects explained that reaction videos are still allowed...
@@Mr_M_ Technically, but it's very limited. SAG-AFTRA did actually post guidance for TH-cam reactors, though I've not seen or read it. The reason why most reaction channels are still chugging along like normal is because they're ignoring it. Most aren't members of the union, don't plan to be, and aren't interested in showing any sort of solidarity. They're doing it for profit.
@@willsofer3679 Well that's just it. We aren't part of the striking union. I am not in solidarity with people who are paid a much higher wage than me and are campaigning for better pay and job security. What exactly do I have in relation to stand in solidarity with them? People are still reacting because they rely on that income as they aren't paid SAG or WGA wages and can't afford to have a lul in income like the striking actors and writers can.
I'm concerned for Eric's health. He may end up permanently red when they get to the truly iconic episodes.
Like violet in willy wonka.
I am permanently red watching the show too, I just never stop laughing the whole time. truely the funniest show ever.
The one with the Germans?
The kipper and the corpse.... can't wait
All of the other replies plus "Basil the rat"
I was lucky enough to be in the audience for this one. LOL Cleese very rarely had to do re-take's which is amazing when you think about it,].
Wow! That's amazing, you were there!
Jealous
My favorite exchange is:
"If the Good Lord..."
"...Is mentioned once more, I will move you closer to Him."
Mine is "my wife enjoys herself. I worry", lol.
I'm looking forward to the reaction to my two favorite Fawlties: Basil the Rat, and Kipper and the Corpse. Every episode of this series is wonderful but somehow, I enjoy these two the best. I think Cleese enjoyed The Hotel Inspectors quite a bit because of the performances of the two featured hotel guests. Again, all these episodes are fantastic.
Polly: "Don't panic!" Fawlty: "What else is there to do?" Cracks me up every time.
Love seeing Rick laugh like this. It's like the best moments of Holt in B99 but all the time! So good! Also, Eric's face is so red from laughing. Amazing 😂
is there any particular ep or something you can remember Rick loving of that show? id love to check it out as an intro to the show
@@30goals Try watching the video _Rick fighting for his life in Brooklyn 99._
"Come On! Give us a Smile!" I crack up every time at Sybil beating Mr. O'Reilly with the umbrella while saying that line.
I remember Cleese being on a chat show...
" The trouble with Prunella Scales is she's too nice!. She was worried about hurting us in that scene with the umbrella. So I had to explain that for comedy you couldn't hold back. It would look fake and unfunny. So yes she really hit us 😂"
Her calm delivery of “she’s in here with me, Basil” kills me every time 😂😂
There are only twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers. Two series of six. It feels like there is much more, because the humour is so incredibly concentrated. It's like a pure shot to the vein.
Yes, in my memory one episode can easily become three
Yup, EVERY episode is so packed with classic memories you feel there must have been a hundred.
Its like mr bean 😂
I am so looking forward to "Don't mention the war"...
I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it
STOP IT!!!!
Mines branch vs car
John and Connie were married during the first season but divorced before the second although they remained close friends. Every body remembers John's genius but this show wouldn't have been half as funny without Connie's input.
Ive grown away from ogling actors like this but when it comes to connie booth in this show i cant stop thinking about how amazing beautiful she is
@@-Markus-blew my mind when I found about the film, "Romance with a Double Bass"
Married '68 - '78 (google.) I know her first from MP Flying Circus '69 - '74. Booth is definitely the "5th Beatle" of Monty Python, she's wonderful.
Connie was the voice of reason in these episodes. eg. Basil: "What do you think I'm paying you for?? Connie: My staying power??
Connie wrote for the woman and John for the men 😊
Blindwave should defininetly give Red Dwarf a shot
All over this!
Oh my god, yes!
Holy shit, yes. Couldn't be more up their alley.
Thing is, it’s too long. 74 episodes is a year and a half, so it would have to be a main series selected in a poll. It has no chance to be a “strike series”.
Yes! They'll be a bunch of smeg heads if they don't 😂
This series of reactions should be subtitled 'Fifty Shades of Eric!', never seen him go so red!
Arguably the best British sitcom ever made. My father & I have watched & watch the show so often. "Communication problems", "The builders", "the kipper and the corpse", "the psychiatrist" and "gourmet night" are my favourites. I can't wait for them to watch "waldorf salad" with the Americans haha
If there is a perfect comedy series this has to be it, so good to see you laughing so hard 😂
With the immaculate Bruce Boa. 🙌
Only fools and horses is the best sitcom. Fawlty Towers didn’t have enough episodes to be considered the best.
@@dannjp75 absolutely not. You don’t need lots of episodes to be considered the best. Fawlty Towers clears only fools every day, all day, 365 days a year.
Only fools is best
I’m genuinely so happy you’re reacting to British comedy
if they one day reacted to peep show, I'd lose my mind lol
John Cleese named this as "the least good" episode, owing to a general lack of laughter in the studio on recording day. He recalls that members of the Icelandic Broadcasting Corporation were visiting the studio that day and many of them were in the front row seats, apparently not entirely amused.
How could anyone not laugh at this episode?
@@suncore598because humor and comedy are subjective
This has always been my least favourite episode too, but likely because I'm Irish, and I find O'Reilly's character is a bit grating in his portrayal (though the actor David Kelly is great, a big bame in Irish television and film. Some might recognise him from playing Grandpa Joe in the Depp Wonka film)
So that's where I knew him from! He seemed so familiar but couldn't place him
@@DKSean I remember him most fondly from Robin's Nest. He was in 45 of the 48 episodes of that.
Here in the UK, this series is often voted as one of the best, if not the best of our classic comedies.
And quite rightly so, in my humble opinion.
I haven't seen Eric laugh this hard in a LONG time. Like maybe ever, it's so amazing.
A lot of wives in my family will just shout ‘BASIL!!’ In that amazing tone when shouting for their husband and it still makes me laugh so much.
I’m British and this is absolute classic comedy entrenched in our culture.
Just a heads up there are a few bits that are def not modern day appropriate 😑, but the majority is still absolutely the best and still totally relevant 😍
The pacing is similar to Cary Grant's Arsenic and Old Lace from the 40's. Cleese is a choreographer and this comedy is a finely honed dance. No wonder they could only do six episodes in a series. All worth it.
Arsenic and Old Lace is a banger of a film.
I love seeing you guys love this. So iconic - a small cast & a perfect one. ❤
We are all waiting for Eric to see ‘the War’ episode, aren’t we 😂
Don’t worry to much about the portrayal of the Irish in shows like these, if we didn’t have a sense of humour we’d have died of misery years ago.
You guys should do Black Adder next!
But not season 1 ...
they're only reacting to Fawlty towers to replace community in their schedule when they hear back from SAG to see if they can still react to community
Fawlty Towers is a brilliant series I'm glad you're reacting to it. All the episodes are great.
David Kelly who plays the builder Mr O'Reily also played Grandpa Joe in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
What's great about this is that it's a concept they could have easily run into the ground for eight or ten seasons but instead did 12 perfect episodes and called it a day.
Hope everyone noticed at 6:33 the moment when Basil pushes Manuel's head into the wall, that the whole set started to come apart. John Cleese said that the set constructed in BBC Television Centre studios was so weak, that when he pushed Andrew Sach's head into the wall he was worried that he would have knocked his head through the cardboard and create a hole in the set.
I have never seen Rick and Eric laugh so much 😂
John Cleese's Fawlty freak-outs are some of the highlights of the show.
I’m so happy you’re doing Fawlty Towers 👍⭐️👍⭐️
John Cleese just re-emerging from behind the counter with the gnome "What is this?" is just great, his face was amazing
11:30 *Rick:* _"They have a trade the Irish very well so far."_ 🍀 As an Irishman, I didn't see that at all. His incompetence never was about him being Irish. *Sybil* said he's a big Irish joke, not that his being Irish is why he's a joke. Perhaps I'm splitting hairs and others don't see it as I do. 🤷🏼♂️
I agree. Even if we're not seeing this the way *Rick* or others might, IMO it hardly seems worth mentioning at all in that regard. The way I look at it, there's nothing that was said about or portrayed by *O'Reilly* that couldn't be said today.
Right. *O'Reilly* is incompetent, and _happens to be_ Irish.
Same with Manuel. Yes maybe doing "Spanish-face" is not proper today, but they don't treat him badly because he's Spanish. BASIL treats him bad because he's a dick. Polly treats Manuel properly.
@@midgetwars1I think it’s both tbh and if he was any from any other non English speaking country he’d act the same which I don’t necessarily see as an issue because one it would’ve been typical at the time but also it adds to Basils character as a flaw
I believe I recall hearing that there had been a large influx of construction laborers from Ireland into the UK in the 1970s, which led to an overall impression that Irish builders weren’t as skilled. There is no hint of that prejudice here, however; Sybil doesn’t dislike O’Reilly because he’s Irish. It’s because he’s “no bloody good.” And indeed the man seems more interested in standing around having tea and biscuits than doing the job - he hasn’t even finished the garden wall.
Similarly, Manuel existed as a non-English-speaking server because Cleese observed that this was a hiring trend of the time by businesses looking to save money on cheap labor. As a character, though, Manuel doesn’t seem particularly quick on the uptake. That’s not saying anything about Spanish people generally, but about Manuel specifically. Characters are allowed to be flawed. And Basil is the most flawed of all of them, lest we forget.
The basis for this episode came when John Cleese saw Donald Sinclair, the basis for Basil Fawlty, yell at some builders on their tea break because he thought they were slacking off.
That's interesting. His character in Rat Race is called Donald Sinclair too
I remember an interview with Cleese where he said he and Connie tried to make exposition as funny as possible so the pay-offs wouldn’t feel set up. The garden gnome bit is a great example of this.
I just can't wait for the hotel inspector.
🥄
We Brits did not do pilots. The series gets the green light from the BBC and they shoot six episodes. Monty Python was famously the worst pitch in history as the comedians said "it will be some comedy sketches" - "Will you have special guests ?" - "Dunno... maybe" - "Any music ?" - "Might do..." - "OK well you can have 13 episodes, and that's it !"
Another brilliant episode! British comedy at its finest! John Cleese is a f'n legend! 👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
Part of the reason these are so good and dense with comedy that flows together is because they had about 2 weeks to work on and write each episode, John Cleese spoke about it at one point, and I think it shows how good it can be when you have time to write, revivse and really do your best work.
Sybil Fawlty (Prunella Scales) is who I always pictured in my head as Professor Umbridge when I read Harry Potter. So good.
I love that Eric is seeing this awesome comedy for the first time. Might also be worth reacting to fellow Python Michael Palin’s astonishingly funny 70s masterpiece ‘RIPPING YARNS’.
YESS!!!
The amount of times ppl over a certain age refer to this episode when commenting about my surname is both outstanding and hilarious!
Franco was still alive when they wrote this, he died the same year this was broadcast.
Apparently John Cleese and the Monty Python crew stayed at a hotel and the owner was a former naval officer.
The owner was so crazy the Monty Python crew had to pack up and leave.
John Cleese stayed to watch his antics they were so crazy and that's how Fawlty Towers came to be
@geraldh3932 I read he threw a one of their suitcases our the window because the wonder convinced himself to was a bomb 😂
it's probably been suggested before, but may I add "Black Adder" as something to react to. Rowan Atkinson at his best
I've never seen Eric so red, and Rick has the best laugh. It makes watching something I have practically memorized so great 😂❤😂
I'm loving you guys reactions to Faulty Towers an absolute classic British comedy. If you haven't already, you should definitely watch Red Dwarf some time the uk one, not the us remake a brilliant sci-fi comedy show.
The very last few seconds of The Hotel Inspectors episode.....trust me. Gets me every time 😂😂😂😂😂
Blind Wave reacting to Being Human (UK) would be a dream because it has no chance of winning a poll outside of these strikes
Always great watching Rick die of laughter.
And I didnt notice these reactions are getting really good views, Im really glad and they can consider reaction to older stuff now
loving these reactions... best part is that you can hardly hear the show because you two are laughing so much 😂 good job I know the whole scripts pretty much
“Come, come, Mrs Fawlty!”
“. . . I’m coming!”
Still the greatest sitcom ever made for me. Pure genius across 12 episodes! By the way I'm Irish ;) Love you guys. New subscriber here..
John and Connie, who was an American by the way, seperated before the second, and final, series finished.
If you're loving Faulty Towers you should really give Ripping Yarns a shot, another offspring from Monty Python. It was co-written and stars Michael Palin. John Cleese gets a cameo in one episode, see if you can spot him!
The greatest sit-com of all time.. So glad you guys are watching this series. Cant wait for 'Communication Problems' and 'The Hotel Inspector'!!
I beg you lot try a short series called Spaced (1999) with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost it seems right up your guys alley, it always brings up so much nostalgia from growing up through the 90's.
You guys have to watch UK sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf! Please everybody also ask and make this happen. 😊
This is by far my favourite episode of the series. The comedic timing, the chaos, the writing... it's peak Fawlty Towers.
That's really interesting. This is my least favourite. Not because there's anything wrong with it but I just enjoy other episodes more. There's about 5 up top but I have a soft spot for Basil's interactions with Mrs Richards in Communication Problems.
Oh god, this was so fucking funny and both of your laughs made it even more funny. I almost choked on the gyōza I was eating. 🤣
Another amazing short British comedy that could fill this slot when Fawlty Towers finishes is Black Books.
Perfect! The Orrilly Men as it's (episode) known in our house
When you get to the Anniversary episode, make sure you switch in Cleese’s commentary track - he laughs so hard at the conclusion of the episode, it’s hilarious to hear.
The sign changes every episode (kids mucking about with the letters) 😂
Thanks again, guys! Am loving that youre doing this show and am glad Rick's enjoying it again and Eric for the first time.
I love the how the name changes every episode sooo 😂😂
I wrote a show called DIe Kasteel (Afrikaans for The Castle) here in South Africa a few years ago. It was our rip off of Fawlty Towers. We made no secret of that. A farce set in a hotel. My writing partner got a chance to make it, and managed to convince me.
It was SO HARD! Like, until you've done it, you can't understand how difficult it is. We each have 20 years of scriptwriting experience under our belts. We've run dramas, sitcoms and soaps. But this was the most difficult job we ever had. Writing farce is like scripting Math. Everything is so intricate, and has to be so well-timed, or it all falls apart. That's why I admire this show so much. It was the pinnacle of it's art form.
Every episode is a masterpiece but the icing on the cake is episode 7 and I can't wait!
You guys would absolutely piss yourselves at "Blackadder" with Rowan Atkinson AKA Mr Bean. It's very similar to Fawlty Towers with really clever writing.
This was a genuinely fantastic reaction, I could not stop laughing along
I love Manuel holding the phone out
That "listen..." actually got me LOL
Absolute Classics, You guys will Love Red Dwarf.
If they're laughing this hard from episode 2, i can't wait for "Don't Mention the War!".
Though it's a cliche to say it at this point, Fawlty Towers may indeed be the best British sitcom (and one of the top English language sitcoms) ever. Though only basically a handful of episodes by US standards, it really left a lasting impression across the decades. (Similar, if obviously different in context, to how Chappelle's Show left a mark on the half-hour sketch comedy programs despite also only being a relatively short number of episodes.)
There's not too many old sitcoms that still hold up today well as this one does. John Cleese has exceptional comedic timing.
I'm glad you have so much fun watching my favourite show. Great how you turn red with laughter.
The sign being messed with becomes a running gag at the beginning of every episode
My favourite line that should be in more movies when everything goes wrong
“don’t panic”
“what else is there to do?!”
David Kelly, the Irish actor who played Mr O'Reilly, loved appearing in the episode and thought it was hilarious. He didn't sound like that in real life but put on that accent for the episode. When people accused him of perpetuating stereotypes of Irishmen he would reply that no one criticised John Cleese for playing ludicrous Englishmen.
8:35 - David Kelly who played O'Reilly said in an interview that the umbrella Pru Scales who played Sybil holds was filled with thick padding so when she hit them with it, it was supposed to not hurt. However the production didn't fit the padding properly and so when she hit them, it really hurt.
I don’t even know if any British people are as tickled by this series as you two are. 😳😁
Basil was wearing a hunting jacket. The green suede/leather/heavier wool is where the long gun would be shouldered.
One foot in the Grave, is fantastic.
We need to see Blind Wave take on more British/Irish shows! Let’s see the Young Offenders, Derry Girls, Man Down and Father Ted in the Wave Cave!
Derry Girls might kill them honestly.
Yes although I'm not always sure Father Ted does well in the US, these guys would get it though!
Black Books, Red Dwarf, and Peep Show should be added to that list.
I've watched this reaction video about 10 times and I don't get tired of it!
Oh, my favourite episode of the whole show!
other good British comedies are, Father Ted, Red Dwarf, Green Wing, Black Books, The Mighty Boosh. I would love to see a reaction to any of those.
Manuel - "You are oily men?" kills me every time.
This is my favorite episode out of the series. Its jsut so iconic and great.
No way dude. I never thought I’d see someone who likes fawlty towers.
One of the most popular British sitcoms of all time?
Airing the 'PIlot' episode is a very American thing. Usually IF UK shows even make a 'pilot' episode, it isn't what we see (Sherlock is a good example, they released the pilot as a DVD extra). They usually film it, show it to the execs, then re-films a better, finished version.
IF they do that at all. Most UK shows film everything (shorter series) before anything airs, like filming a movie.
It's also why no UK shows call their first episode "pilot" as an episode title, unless they are making a joke.
I cant believe they are reacting to this im so happy 😂🙏red dwarf next please!!!
These episodes are just getting better and better guys ; ) I grew up watching Fawlty Towers, all just brilliant and hilarious! - Back in the mid 80s i met Mr Cleese, he visted the place where i worked....it was an honour to meet him.
You should do Allo Allo and Father Ted, both are freaking hilarious.
I love this show! I grew up watching this, Are You Being Served, and Keeping Up Appearances. I highly recommend checking out those other British classics ;)
"Oh, they changed the sign!" Yes Eric. Yes they did.
“Manuel Towers! How are you? Is nice day.”
David Kelly, who played Mr O'Reilly the builder, appeared in a number of British sitcoms. Amusingly he later played "Wobbly Ron" in "Cowboys", a comedy series about a firm of inept builders. My strongest memories are of "Albert Riddle", the one-armed dishwasher (truly!) in "Robin's Nest" - an excellent actor.
This series is amazing!! Please do more of these!
so happy you doing a British classic , I'm surprised no one has mentioned only fools and horses yet another British great and one of my favorite shows OAT even though i was only 7 when the final episode aired
yes, but this is 12 episodes. only fools and horses ran for 22 years. indecently I was 7 when the first episode aired.