Sadly both the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay which was the inspiration for the show and the Woodburn Grange Country Club which is what you see in the titles have both been demolished. The former was cleared and retirement flats built in its place which were named 'Sachs Lodge' in honour of Andrew Sachs who played Manuel ! The Woodburn partially burnt down in a fire and was therefore demolished and it's a housing estate now. It was closed as a hotel before the fire and converted into a nigh-club called 'Basils' !
dabe1971 I visited Torquay a decade ago on a tour of the UK, partly because I wanted to experience the resort town made INTERNATIONALLY famous by Fawlty Towers. I happened by the sign directing to the Gleneagles, diverted my walk to this iconic albeit visually unimpressive property, and only can lay claim to walking into its lobby, at the time a Best Western. There was some sort of look-alike dinner theatre thing offered as entertainment, but why bother? Its a great loss for the comedy world that it was converted into flats, but of course the long gone Woodburn Grange property was an even greater loss because it WAS Fawlty Towers.
The newspaper delivery boy changes the letters on the sign ... he's only seen briefly in the first episode but never seen actually altering the letters ... great video Dawn
Loved your intro to this one. “I’m already happy. But I could be happier.” Unlike Basil, who despises the people he’s supposed to be hosting, you’re genuinely pleasant. The gift of laughter… priceless.
Fawlty made a miraculously good impression on old Mrs Johnson. She thought he was personally checking that she was enjoying her stay. He only went into the coccoon position when she was back in the room.
My theory about Fawlty Towers is they it's like one of those restaraunts you go too to be insulted. Like people go there BECAUSE they know Basil will be rude, cringey, and hilarious.
The reason Basil is calling the speaking clock is to get the exact time. His clock is probably running fast or slow and he needs to correct it. Back in the day, this was the only way to get the exact time.
Woodburn Grange County Club (exterior building) was lost to fire in 1991. The original Gleneagles Hotel are now retirement complexes. There ARE, however, Fawlty Towers themed comedy nights.
Dawn Marie, such a humanist! "I thought they would get better, become a super team!" Favorite episode & reaction so far. And up almost 5k subscribers since summer, I think! Well done, D.M., well done!
Dawn Marie,dont know if you read here,if you do, you are the best youtube reactor on comedy,and that very much include your reactions on Fawlty Towers...Excellent!
During the 1970s, the movie Psychomania was often shown on television. It wasn't until I tracked down the movie online that I discovered it starred the actor who plays Mr. Johnson in this episode. I can't wait until you get to 'Basil the Rat' and 'Kipper and the Corpse'.
I know if I watch three or four of Dawn's videos a day, I'll run out eventually. And that will be a sad, sad day. B.t.w. the woman who played Mrs Abott also played Rowan Atkinsons mum in the first series of Blackadder.
They'd be in real trouble if they had Yelp back then. I'd have so much fun reading all the lousy reviews! I'd forgotten how funny this one was too, but I swear my own favorite is still coming up. The one with "Kipper" in the title, as far as I'm concerned is one of the greatest farces staged ever.
Basil Fawlty hated Mr.Johnson in the episode but in real life,John Cleese and Nicky Henson were great mates and stayed mates till Henson sadly died a few years ago (he had cancer for years). Henson was a pop singer in his early days. The Psychiatrist was played by Basil Henson(but no relation). The Aussie girl was played by Luan Peters,who also sadly died a few years ago and she also was lead singer in a late 60's band.She also cropped up at the end of the On The Buses episode 'Canteen Trouble' in 1971 as the girl from the snack machine company. Nicky Henson later admitted that Mr.Johnson's clothes in this episode were actually his own😄
"Do you really imagine, even in your wildest dreams, that a girl like this could possibly be interested in an ageing, brilliantined, stick insect like you?" Absolutely the no 1 best insult in the entire two series, and Cleese gave it to Prunella Scales. Writer's generosity.
Thanks for another great reaction! Unfortunately, they don't improve with time - but that's what makes them funny! According to Prunella Scales (Sybil) when planning this series they went through all the things that could possibly go wrong in the hospitality industry and kind of stopped at episode 12 - but I'm sure more could have been done! Having worked in catering previously (in fact, Andrew Sachs aka Manuel was a guest at the restaraunt I worked in on one occasion) and currently in an IT Customer Service role, this series has a special resonance with me. What seems far fetched on screen, is , believe it or not, not too far removed from the truth on occasion! Loving your journey through this series & sporting another great xmas jumper! see you next time!
Can't believe it's almost a year since you viewed fawlty towers just been rewatching them. Just the thing I needed to put a smile on my face so thank you.
rally enjoying watching fawlty towers with Dawn's laughter included. Dawn remember it's a fiction manuel isn't being abused. lol I think it's supposed to be near Torquay . Although the series is set in Torquay, no part of it was shot in South West England. For the exterior filming, the Wooburn Grange Country Club in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire was used instead of a hotel.
I absolutely love your Christmas sweaters. Makes my absolute day of preparing food and cleaning which is a months work for a Swede. We're not religious and don't celebrate Christmans, we celebrate Jul and it's no different except we decided that goats and gnomes are part of it. Also, I want to rest my head on your lap as you tell me about Scotland. I miss it at times but -40C and 16 feet of snow is nice too. You know, I married a Scottish girl once upon a time, a long time ago now, pretty as can be. Young and crazed in love we ignored everyone and everything but as a Swede, and we were living in Sweden, I had to do my military service and that all went well, I stayed on because she got pregnant and it was a good source of income. Went to Bosnia and Kosovo, came home to my now dying wife and ... in the end I raised my kids alone and did a fine job. Every time I see your videos I say your name as a Glaswegian would, Dawn Marie... Then I go enjoy your video.
I graduated high school right after Fawlty Towers came out. Tight leather pants, Monk boots with stacked heels, a garish polyester shirt unbuttoned to mid-chest (you had to provide the hairy chest), at least one gold chain and carefully blown dry hair. We were all it - at least in our minds. I wish we had digital photography back then, taking film pics was a bother and pricey. I could have had tons to embarrass my daughter with now.
The speaking Clock was where a place, (normally a Bank) would have a phone number you could call to get the accurate time and temperature from a automated recording. This was before the Internet.
Another great show about a guy like this who seemingly hates everyone is called Buffalo Bill. I'm not sure if it's available anywhere but it's from the early 80s.
The idea of the show came from Cleese after he stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel (now demolished) in Torquay, Devon (along with the rest of the Monty Python troupe) He encountered the eccentric hotel owner Donald Sinclair. Stuffy & snobbish, Sinclair treated guests as though they were a hindrance to his running of the hotel (a waitress who worked for him stated "it was as if he didn't want the guests to be there"). Sinclair was the inspiration for Cleese's character Basil Fawlty.
I grew up watching these. My dad accidentally tuned in one day, and that was all it took to have a laugh each week. I’m from the US so many people didn’t know about Fawlty Towers. Have fun and Merry Christmas 🎄 PS-Mr.Bean and Black Adder are hilarious too.
Haven't seen Fawlty Towers in quite a while, I really enjoy rewatching it with you! I rememeber seeing this as a young lad and at the time thought what an old old hag Sybil was, couldn't understand why Basil would be married to her. Now that I've grown up I can see she was pretty cute!
I'm sure somebody has told you this already but John Cleese got the idea for this show when the monty python crew was traveling around and they stayed at a hotel where the manager owner acted just like this. I'm sure he probably wasn't this bad but at least it sparked a brilliant comedy.
I know this has nothing to do with this video but if you liked the mortal kombat fatalities, check out the xrays much of the same thing. They also have friendship ones and some other I believe 😊
Another great reaction, Funny fact if you can believe this, John said in an interview once that he based his character on a real hotelier that was always rude to his guests. 🎅
Did you know that there was a two year interval between the filming of series 1 and series 2? Did you also know that Connie Booth is either American or Canadian (I can’t remember which)?
It’s the service industry….the host makes you nuts, and the guests are nuts, both have bad and good apples. Either way you just want to get through the night.
Watch 'em all, jack lad. Try to get 'em in chronological order. I'm knocking on now, but this is the only comedy show i've gone back to at least 10 times. Blackadder runs it close.
Cusomers go because, as mr Faulty says himself, they're too cheap. Imagine what it's like now, in 2022, with these "dingy divers". He'd have his hands full now.
If Mr. Johnson is 20-something, then his Mum would be 40-something. Women in their 40's still can look youthful. But they get a 70+ woman to portray his Mum. This is impossible.
@@robertj2085 It's just that most older movies and TV make a point of showing a "mother figure" to be more of a Grandmother figure. Sure, a woman can still have a baby at 50, but most don't.
After seeing a couple of the first season with you I went to watch the entire episode on my own. (they are boring really) It's only funny to watch them with you laughing cracks me up. Thank you much for that. 😁
Can I ask how old you are? I've watched every vid and I'm thinking why haven't you seen the stuff before and you say things like it's that how big the tenners were etc. I'm 48.
Basil should be thankful there was no ''Me Too'' movement back then and stuff like this was just ''men being men''... I mean it wasn't celebrated, these were still appalling actions, but way less possibility to get in deep trouble
Great reaction. To be fair to 'Basil' (someone has to be) he was correct with the young man sneaking in a 'special guest' and hotel regulations. I like the 'one whole bottle of Champagne just for yourself' and the 'just one glass'. It was a bit unfair when 'Basil' should of had his moment of triumph but it was the guy's mother. Of course 'Basil' even by the standards of the time would have been considered very conservative having been in the Korean War (1950-53) and been wounded in the leg, which plays up occasionally. The lady in green that he keeps accidentally touching was meant to be an Australian Tourist hence 'Basil's' supposed interest. Mind you I wonder when he touches her (now in yellow) on the chest a 2nd time at 10:18 if it was planned/scripted (the actress knew it was going to happen) or if John improvised 'I'm sorry I'm confused'. I don't think you could do that these days.
"Crazy, she go crazy. I say to her, you try and see in girl's room, and she go crazy." 🤣
Sadly both the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay which was the inspiration for the show and the Woodburn Grange Country Club which is what you see in the titles have both been demolished. The former was cleared and retirement flats built in its place which were named 'Sachs Lodge' in honour of Andrew Sachs who played Manuel ! The Woodburn partially burnt down in a fire and was therefore demolished and it's a housing estate now. It was closed as a hotel before the fire and converted into a nigh-club called 'Basils' !
dabe1971 I visited Torquay a decade ago on a tour of the UK, partly because I wanted to experience the resort town made INTERNATIONALLY famous by Fawlty Towers. I happened by the sign directing to the Gleneagles, diverted my walk to this iconic albeit visually unimpressive property, and only can lay claim to walking into its lobby, at the time a Best Western. There was some sort of look-alike dinner theatre thing offered as entertainment, but why bother? Its a great loss for the comedy world that it was converted into flats, but of course the long gone Woodburn Grange property was an even greater loss because it WAS Fawlty Towers.
“This bit o’ crumpet’s your old mummy, is she?” That line cracks me up every time, the way Basil is sooo certain he’s got the guy.
The newspaper delivery boy changes the letters on the sign ... he's only seen briefly in the first episode but never seen actually altering the letters ... great video Dawn
You've just "shivered mi timbers", steved, i did'nt know that !! I suspect you've watched every bleeding episode; i'm trying too.
Given he was never seen altering the letters, how do you know he's the one doing it?
@@Cosmo-Kramer It's mentioned in the second series, not sure which episode
@@steved6092 Okay, perhaps Dawn will leave it in her edit.
It's great watching you chuckle your way through the episode. Even after 45 years these scripts are still some of the funniest ever written.
Loved your intro to this one. “I’m already happy. But I could be happier.” Unlike Basil, who despises the people he’s supposed to be hosting, you’re genuinely pleasant. The gift of laughter… priceless.
"There is enough material there for an entire conference"
His face when he looks through the window on the ladder keeps me laughing every time i see it.
Fawlty made a miraculously good impression on old Mrs Johnson. She thought he was personally checking that she was enjoying her stay. He only went into the coccoon position when she was back in the room.
The hotel for the exterior shots burned down some years ago.
The place used to film the exteriors (Wooburn Grange Country Club) burned down in March of 1991, so you can't stay there unfortunately...
Someone used the wrong baritone.
My theory about Fawlty Towers is they it's like one of those restaraunts you go too to be insulted. Like people go there BECAUSE they know Basil will be rude, cringey, and hilarious.
"Just when you think it can't get any worse" could be the title of every episode in Fawlty Towers.
The reason Basil is calling the speaking clock is to get the exact time. His clock is probably running fast or slow and he needs to correct it. Back in the day, this was the only way to get the exact time.
I'm loving re-visiting these classics with you
Woodburn Grange County Club (exterior building) was lost to fire in 1991.
The original Gleneagles Hotel are now retirement complexes.
There ARE, however, Fawlty Towers themed comedy nights.
Dawn, it's the paperboy from the first episode of Season 1 that's been changing the letters :)
You say how Fawlty treated him.
Do you mean the kid with the bell-bottoms who said: "Newshpapuzh!" (newspapers)?
Dawn Marie, such a humanist! "I thought they would get better, become a super team!" Favorite episode & reaction so far. And up almost 5k subscribers since summer, I think! Well done, D.M., well done!
"Mother Johnson. Mother Johnson. Come out, come out wherever you are... How do you do, I'm Basil Fawlty..." One of my favorite Cleese lines ever
"Watery Fowls" - a tribute to _Duck Soup,_ maybe?
In answer to your question, sadly, the hotel is no longer there. It burned down many years ago. If I remember correctly, it's now a block of condos.
This is the BEST episode!!!
Also the longest, by far. There was simply too much fantastic material. It’s my favorite.
Dawn Marie,dont know if you read here,if you do, you are the best youtube reactor on comedy,and that very much include your reactions on Fawlty Towers...Excellent!
Great job, Dawn Marie! "Mother Johnson? Mother Johnson? Come out, come out from whereever you are!" LOL!!!
During the 1970s, the movie Psychomania was often shown on television. It wasn't until I tracked down the movie online that I discovered it starred the actor who plays Mr. Johnson in this episode. I can't wait until you get to 'Basil the Rat' and 'Kipper and the Corpse'.
This episode was so crazy, love John's craziness.🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know if I watch three or four of Dawn's videos a day, I'll run out eventually. And that will be a sad, sad day.
B.t.w. the woman who played Mrs Abott also played Rowan Atkinsons mum in the first series of Blackadder.
Another favourite. The way Sybil decks Basil outside without a word is gold. Love that sweater too. See you next time.
They'd be in real trouble if they had Yelp back then. I'd have so much fun reading all the lousy reviews!
I'd forgotten how funny this one was too, but I swear my own favorite is still coming up. The one with "Kipper" in the title, as far as I'm concerned is one of the greatest farces staged ever.
Basil Fawlty hated Mr.Johnson in the episode but in real life,John Cleese and Nicky Henson were great mates and stayed mates till Henson sadly died a few years ago (he had cancer for years).
Henson was a pop singer in his early days.
The Psychiatrist was played by Basil Henson(but no relation).
The Aussie girl was played by Luan Peters,who also sadly died a few years ago and she also was lead singer in a late 60's band.She also cropped up at the end of the On The Buses episode 'Canteen Trouble' in 1971 as the girl from the snack machine company.
Nicky Henson later admitted that Mr.Johnson's clothes in this episode were actually his own😄
"Do you really imagine, even in your wildest dreams, that a girl like this could possibly be interested in an ageing, brilliantined, stick insect like you?"
Absolutely the no 1 best insult in the entire two series, and Cleese gave it to Prunella Scales. Writer's generosity.
I'm loving these daily film-mas reactions, it's so exciting knowing you're getting a new reaction every day!
Thanks for another great reaction! Unfortunately, they don't improve with time - but that's what makes them funny! According to Prunella Scales (Sybil) when planning this series they went through all the things that could possibly go wrong in the hospitality industry and kind of stopped at episode 12 - but I'm sure more could have been done! Having worked in catering previously (in fact, Andrew Sachs aka Manuel was a guest at the restaraunt I worked in on one occasion) and currently in an IT Customer Service role, this series has a special resonance with me. What seems far fetched on screen, is , believe it or not, not too far removed from the truth on occasion! Loving your journey through this series & sporting another great xmas jumper! see you next time!
Oompa, ooompa!
John Cleese once described Basil as 'someone who can't stand that other people are having pleasure in ways he doesn't or can't.' (paraphrase)
Can't believe it's almost a year since you viewed fawlty towers just been rewatching them. Just the thing I needed to put a smile on my face so thank you.
Some comedy is timeless
Watch this again in 50 years and you'll still have a laugh
rally enjoying watching fawlty towers with Dawn's laughter included. Dawn remember it's a fiction manuel isn't being abused. lol I think it's supposed to be near Torquay
. Although the series is set in Torquay, no part of it was shot in South West England. For the exterior filming, the Wooburn Grange Country Club in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire was used instead of a hotel.
I absolutely love your Christmas sweaters. Makes my absolute day of preparing food and cleaning which is a months work for a Swede. We're not religious and don't celebrate Christmans, we celebrate Jul and it's no different except we decided that goats and gnomes are part of it.
Also, I want to rest my head on your lap as you tell me about Scotland. I miss it at times but -40C and 16 feet of snow is nice too. You know, I married a Scottish girl once upon a time, a long time ago now, pretty as can be. Young and crazed in love we ignored everyone and everything but as a Swede, and we were living in Sweden, I had to do my military service and that all went well, I stayed on because she got pregnant and it was a good source of income. Went to Bosnia and Kosovo, came home to my now dying wife and ... in the end I raised my kids alone and did a fine job.
Every time I see your videos I say your name as a Glaswegian would, Dawn Marie... Then I go enjoy your video.
I graduated high school right after Fawlty Towers came out. Tight leather pants, Monk boots with stacked heels, a garish polyester shirt unbuttoned to mid-chest (you had to provide the hairy chest), at least one gold chain and carefully blown dry hair. We were all it - at least in our minds. I wish we had digital photography back then, taking film pics was a bother and pricey. I could have had tons to embarrass my daughter with now.
We were all at it ? Oh no we wer'nt, gitchface !
@@blackbob3358 Do you have a translation for that?
The speaking Clock was where a place, (normally a Bank) would have a phone number you could call to get the accurate time and temperature from a automated recording. This was before the Internet.
And Dawn hasn't done "Fierce Creatures?" For shame.
Another great show about a guy like this who seemingly hates everyone is called Buffalo Bill. I'm not sure if it's available anywhere but it's from the early 80s.
Thank you again, Dawn.
Happy Friday Dawn Marie 🥰🥰🥰 hugs lysm Queen! Stay positive, charming and unique!!! Lots of love and keep having fun!!!
The idea of the show came from Cleese after he stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel (now demolished) in Torquay, Devon (along with the rest of the Monty Python troupe) He encountered the eccentric hotel owner Donald Sinclair. Stuffy & snobbish, Sinclair treated guests as though they were a hindrance to his running of the hotel (a waitress who worked for him stated "it was as if he didn't want the guests to be there"). Sinclair was the inspiration for Cleese's character Basil Fawlty.
11:40 Now this silly walk should definitely get some government funding. 😊
Power team? Are you drunk? Of course, they won't improve. It's chaos. It's Fawlty Towers. :-)
I've not seen these in like 20 years. The bit where he gets caught in the wardrobe and pretends hes checking the doors....I was literally crying 😂
I love the way he referenced a doctor testing your lungs, tapping 2 fingers on the back of his hand when 'examining' things
@@diogenesagogo when he does it on the glass....that got me 😂
@@michaelhandy4968 Then, trying to look in control, literally overreaching himself ....
Love this ladys reactions..and of course..just love looking at her staggering beauty
Your happiness watching Watery Fowls is very endearing and very entertaining too!👋👋👋
I grew up watching these. My dad accidentally tuned in one day, and that was all it took to have a laugh each week. I’m from the US so many people didn’t know about Fawlty Towers. Have fun and Merry Christmas 🎄 PS-Mr.Bean and Black Adder are hilarious too.
MMmm, 9040, i'd agree with the latter, but i thought the "Bean" buisness was embarassing, akin to Father ted.
I’m not sure how many people know about Faulty Towers in the states. I know I saw it in the 1990s on PBS.
😳 "a week early" 🤔
"a week early?!" 🙉
&
🤣 🤣 🤣
these episodes are SO funny!
Haven't seen Fawlty Towers in quite a while, I really enjoy rewatching it with you! I rememeber seeing this as a young lad and at the time thought what an old old hag Sybil was, couldn't understand why Basil would be married to her. Now that I've grown up I can see she was pretty cute!
I'm sure somebody has told you this already but John Cleese got the idea for this show when the monty python crew was traveling around and they stayed at a hotel where the manager owner acted just like this. I'm sure he probably wasn't this bad but at least it sparked a brilliant comedy.
Everytime I watch these I forgot how funny they are, I'm not sure if the outside of the Hotel is a Torquay one or somewhere else.
I absolutely love your videos! So happy whenever you upload a new one !! Thank you !!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Your looking quite Welsh in your jumper. It suits you ❤🇬🇧🇬🇧😊😊😊
This episode is my favourite. He’s so wild
I know this has nothing to do with this video but if you liked the mortal kombat fatalities, check out the xrays much of the same thing.
They also have friendship ones and some other I believe 😊
Another great reaction,
Funny fact if you can believe this, John said in an interview once that he based his character on a real hotelier that was always rude to his guests. 🎅
Great reaction series. Something to look forward to each one of these cold evenings!
Unfortunately the actual house you see at the beginning was demolished. How short sighted was that!
Crazy OLD man? Well, he's older than you...but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...
Merry Christmas!
Did you know that there was a two year interval between the filming of series 1 and series 2? Did you also know that Connie Booth is either American or Canadian (I can’t remember which)?
It’s the service industry….the host makes you nuts, and the guests are nuts, both have bad and good apples. Either way you just want to get through the night.
Perfection
What a lovely cheerful lass ❤
This was the only episode of the series where I felt sorry for Basil
Isnt that Mrs doctor actually mrs Hacker the wife of Prime Minister? :)
Uyay
More fishy tacoes!
I love how much you enjoy your comedies !,(But I'm so glad you don't laugh like sybil
Nice.
My favorite of the series.
Yes but where's your Christmas hat🤔🎄🥳🥰
Subbed cant wait to see more!!😂😂😂😂
Watch 'em all, jack lad. Try to get 'em in chronological order. I'm knocking on now, but this is the only comedy show i've gone back to at least 10 times. Blackadder runs it close.
Cusomers go because, as mr Faulty says himself, they're too cheap. Imagine what it's like now, in 2022, with these "dingy divers". He'd have his hands full now.
To be fair, I'm sure they never get customers BACK.
loved that the worse they are the better they get 😂
Extreme prudishnes combined with paranoia is my diagnosis :)
You watch Casablanca so you must watch the Maltese Falcon
"He's such a tit." 😂
Try Father Ted sometime, it's a really great series .
If Mr. Johnson is 20-something, then his Mum would be 40-something. Women in their 40's still can look youthful. But they get a 70+ woman to portray his Mum. This is impossible.
@@robertj2085 It's just that most older movies and TV make a point of showing a "mother figure" to be more of a Grandmother figure. Sure, a woman can still have a baby at 50, but most don't.
Nicky Henson, the actor, was 30 in 1975. It's quite possible to be a mother at 40 so not inconceivable at all.
wait you from Scottland ??
You look a lot like the Australian girl in the episode.
After seeing a couple of the first season with you I went to watch the entire episode on my own. (they are boring really) It's only funny to watch them with you laughing cracks me up. Thank you much for that. 😁
Can I ask how old you are? I've watched every vid and I'm thinking why haven't you seen the stuff before and you say things like it's that how big the tenners were etc. I'm 48.
😅👍
Basil should be thankful there was no ''Me Too'' movement back then and stuff like this was just ''men being men''... I mean it wasn't celebrated, these were still appalling actions, but way less possibility to get in deep trouble
You are adorable!😊
I wish I could find faulty towers to watch from no with my mum
The hotel only lasted two years. Brilliant comedy. Horrible management.
Love your reactions honey. 🖕
What a total mess ,
I'm frankly surprised and incredulous that Basil and Cybil have sex at all. I really don't think they do.
Great reaction. To be fair to 'Basil' (someone has to be) he was correct with the young man sneaking in a 'special guest' and hotel regulations. I like the 'one whole bottle of Champagne just for yourself' and the 'just one glass'. It was a bit unfair when 'Basil' should of had his moment of triumph but it was the guy's mother. Of course 'Basil' even by the standards of the time would have been considered very conservative having been in the Korean War (1950-53) and been wounded in the leg, which plays up occasionally. The lady in green that he keeps accidentally touching was meant to be an Australian Tourist hence 'Basil's' supposed interest. Mind you I wonder when he touches her (now in yellow) on the chest a 2nd time at 10:18 if it was planned/scripted (the actress knew it was going to happen) or if John improvised 'I'm sorry I'm confused'. I don't think you could do that these days.
To many Psychiatrist with amazing and gifted John Cleese and remember the late Sigmund Freud and it's here >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud