American Reacts to Fawlty Towers I Know Nothing
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- American Reacts to Fawlty Towers I Know Nothing
In this video I react a clip from the show Fawlty Towers that starred John Cleese. Fortunately and then unfortunately a member of his staff knew nothing of the bet he placed on a horse or the money involved.
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Fawlty Towers is the funniest comedy series ever produced in the U.K. in my opinion. Every single episode is a classic in its own right. The cast are simply perfect for the show. You’ll make a lot of people happy if you can react to several of these gems. Best wishes 👍
And you'll be happy as well!
Maybe give the option to see you react to full episodes on Daily Motion.
Absolutely! And the fact the series is based on the real experiences of a hotel proprietor the cast of Monty Python experienced when staying there, makes it even more amazing.
What I love about it is that each of the main characters are so beautifully filled out, they're not just 'feeds' for John Cleese. Sybil is just magnificent!
Gourmet Night! The car scene is one of the best of British comedy!
Even here in Belgium, and many years later after this series was on TV, we still use this sentence "I know nothing, I am from Barcelona" . Most people of our generation still know where it comes from.
Me to I alway play up the agency workers at work when they ask questions.
Yep! same here, although less people are around for this particular statement.
Myself and others in the know use it here in Australia. The other one is 'he's my Siberian hamster, he been here for one year, he do no harm'. Or something like that. I can't remember the context for the life of me, but it has come up randomly with friends etc.
still in use in my area lol
@@arconeagain Manuel is keeping a "Siberian hramsterr" called Basil (😂) as a pet, which is really a rat - and now the health inspector is arriving 😱😂
Classic comedy. Hard to believe only ever 12 episodes recorded. The waiter is Andrew Sachs. Brilliant as Manuel
Was !
Apparently Cleese had 12 things he hated about British Hotels. He made an episode about each. Really good idea to end it at that. It has endured as one of our greatest shows and never fell into tired repetition.
@@bensmith1689 John Cleese said that he based Basil on an actual hotelier the python team encountered whilst filming.
May he RIP
@@myoldmate Yes, it was based on a hotel in Torquay, south west England.
Andrew Sachs that played Manuel the waiter was wonderful. He made that part his own. 👍
And he is very well spoken and educated. Very smart man
Leonard's boy.
A spanish waiter played by a british actor born in germany ...
Genius!!
😉😁
Andrew Sachs, sadly no longer with us was a fantastic and very much loved actor who also did other work and voice overs. He was a fantastic balance to John Cleese. I have watched Fawlty Towers so many times I know all the dialogue but it never ceases to make me laugh. John is also one of my great comedy heroes. Mr Sachs is sorely missed.
@@normanyemm8717 Was - RIP!...
My family all still say the word "eventually" like that, 40 years on.
Haha so do we. I still offer things to my wife and say 'is this a piece of your brain.'
True story: I was cruising the red light district in Amsterdam one night. I got myself a fine blonde prostitute but I was pretty tired and stoned so it took me quiite a while to "finish" if you get my drift; so long in fact that I ended up paying the girl twice for her time. When I finally finished getting my rocks off, what do you suppose I said? 😉
You HAVE to watch the whole show. John Cleese is a comic genius but I believe he is the best at doing frustrated anger. The waiter is played by Andrew Sachs, a very fine stage actor.
Totally Agree bro 💯
He needs to watch don't mention the war episode
At the start of each episode they made up anagrams of "Faulty Towers", Flowery Twats was my favourite.
Mine too!
Watery Fowls (with a kid seen adjusting it), Farty Tower, Flay Otters, Fatty Owls, Warty Towels, and Farty Towels.
Farty towels for me.
Flowery Twats is the only one that is a full anagram if I remember correctly.
@@collsmad flowery twats was my favourite aswell.
Fawlty Towers, Don't mention the war! You gotta watch that. Pure class.
@Chris Travers Blocked for mentioning the war?
@@ruk2023-- it’s probably all due to the tight BBC programme embargoes! If you are not in the UK, you cannot technically watch, copy links of BBC programmes etc. The set up knows that if you are not in the UK, you won’t be a BBC TV licence holder! When I was on holiday the year before, in the Canary Isles, I could not watch ANY programmes on set up on my iPlayer account because ‘it’ knew I wasn’t in the UK - my IP no ? Very annoying! Then found out couldn’t log onto the ITV Hub or More 4 either! 😡😡😡😢
"Don't mention the war" is my all-time favorite. It's probably not funny for German viewers, but the rest of the world wets their pants 😂
@@weedle30 Could've used a VPN to get access.
@@garyrichardson8934 I know … but in the words of Mr Jim Royle, I “could not be arsed…” 😂 was only Eastenders… Yes, I know, the SHAME! 🥱😄😄
When this was first broadcast, people would go round saying “I know nothing!” in that accent whenever anybody asked them a question.
A more recent example was “I have a cunning plan!” from Baldrick in Black Adder - people went round saying that for ages when they had a (not very cunning) plan.
Waiter is Andrew Sachs. Mr Fawlty is John Cleese from Monty Python. You need to watch the episode where he beats up his car.
Oh yes its brilliant
“Gourmet Night”
No, please no, I've got things to do this decade and I won't be able to for the incurable laughing!
"Trifle anyone?"
Basil Fawlty is based on the owner of an hotel the Monty Python cast stayed at.
correct...
Perfect grammar 'an Hotel'
When they showed this in Spain - dubbed into Spanish - Manuel did not come from Barcelona but from Naples, Italy!
I remember that, and people thought it was the Spanish being protective and not wanting a Spanish waiter looking stupid. However, part of the humour is Manuel's strong foreign accent and misunderstanding, so if he spoke Spanish, it wouldn't have worked obviously as there would have been no language barrier if they all spoke Spanish!
Andrew Sachs, the waiter, escaped as a child with his parents from Natzi Germany during WW2 and grew up in England
Oh shoot TIL. Wow.
He also helped dub the show for Germany.
@@garyanning9731 Where they liked it very much. Another show worth a Reaction is 'Allo' 'Allo' based in WW2 France where english is used throughout, but with crazy bad French and German accents. Hilarious. Also much enjoyed in Germany
Faulty towers was sublimely hilarious in the 70s and still holds out today. It’s a fantastic poke at English eccentricity and snobbishness. Andrew Sachs who played Manuel was fabulous and John Cleese was his usual manic perfection.
I used to watch for the sign out front ‘Fawlty Towers’ . Almost every episode it had been messed with. The letters rearranged to say things like Farty owls or Flowery twats🤣🤣🤣
I forgot about that one! Nice!
*fatty owls. In one episode you actually get to see the mischievous child interfering with the sign.
every episode was a classic. shame there never where any more.
This is my favourite episode. The scene were she is complaining about the view and Basil’s response is comedy perfection.
that scene is so briliant xD
“You can see the sea, it’s over there between the land and the sky”
What did you expect to see out of a Torquay bedroom window? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?
Fantastic dialogue..just gets better with age😂
One of my all time faves Faulty towers. When the major talks to the moose kills me every time. You’ll have to watch them all you’ll love them.
I can speak English, I learn it from a book 😂
Totally Agree 👍 🤣🤣
I worked with a French guy addicted to Fawlty Towers, had every episode on tape - 30 years ago. Great humour crosses languages and borders.
You're absolutely spot on. When I was in art college (around the same length of time ago - late 80's & early 90's) I had a Norwegian mate who was absolutely obsessed with FT, also had every episode on VHS, and would put them on at every opportunity. Good times and great memories.
Arguably the best-written sitcom of all time, and outstanding acting performances by all the regular cast.
It was good. But not as close to the best comedy. ..that belongs to. Del. And Rodney. Only fools and horses
@@mickt3390 Only Fools and Horses used a lot of cliches filled with lots of cheap old-school laughs and appealed to the lowest common denominator in order to remain popular. Only Fools and Horses isn't anywhere as cleverly put together as Fawlty Towers. Only Fools and Horses is the McDonalds of sitcoms easy to put together served in a cheerful package.
@@24magiccarrot Only Fools was shite compared to FT.
@@Fontsman You aren't going to get an argument from me. For me its Marks and Spencers Steakburgers v McDonalds, sure the McDonalds are more popular but the quality is with M&S every time.
Yes Minister was arguably equally as good in both departments. That said, because they only made 12 episodes of FT perhaps does make it the standout comedy of them all.
'Communications Problems' - the episode from Fawlty Towers is an absolute gem, my favourite episode overall.
Mine is The Germans, but necessarily because of Germans part, it's the fire drill! When Basil shouts "FIRE!!" in the old dears faces! 🤣🤣🤣
I agree, it's hilarious ' you can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky'😂😂👍👍
First episode I ever saw when I was about 9 years old (unfortunately I’m old enough to remember it from first showing). Still recall sitting on my chair crying with laughter at the scene with Basil in Mrs Richards room doing the “What were you expecting to see out of a Torquay bedroom window …..” line. More laughs in two minutes of that than in an entire series of the drivel that passes for comedy nowadays.
Used to watch this with my Dad who was very old school but this was funny to both of us. Fell off my chair once laughing so hard...think it was when Basil thrashed his car.
Thanks EB
You have made my day ❤
You will Love the Eposides
Mrs Richards , & Hotel Inspectors
& The Rat 🐀🤪
John Cleese Genius
Andrew Sachs was brilliant as Manuel (the waiter) in this. Sadly he passed away in 2016.
Along with that, Prunella Scales (Sybil) now has Alzheimer's disease.
@@Deegee_1969 i thought she passed away too.
RIP Andrew Sachs 😢 Comedy Genius 😢🙏
@@frozengamer3030 No, thankfully, she's still with us...
faulty towers best line "you started it you invaded Poland"
The waiter is the late great Andrew Sachs. He played the confused Spanish waiter in faulty towers brilliantly!
Britbox UK has faulty towers available. They only did 2 series with 6 episodes in each series unfortunately before John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth fell out and got divorced ( in real life!).
They did series 1 in 1975, then got divorced. The divorce was finalised in 1978. They remained friends, and duly completed writing the second series, which was made in 1979. They left it at two series as they didn't think any more episodes could be of the same quality.
'The Psychiatrists' episode is hilarious...so many little subplots going on that all fit together
Yes, set up like time bombs 😂
The waiter is Andrew Sachs, a German born English actor playing a Spanish waiter,
Priceless, he really suffered injuries while playing the part, Inc getting burnt,
Sadly he is no longer with us.
There was only 12 episodes made, you really need to watch them, you will laugh so much, you will ache for days🤘👍❤️🇬🇧
Fawlty Towers is a close to perfection in TV comedy as you can get.
Definitely one of the best comedy series ever to be shown on British TV,sadly Andrew Sachs (the spanish waiter) is no longer with us,his part in this show is unforgettable,God Rest His Soul
people still quote his iconic lines on the series
You def need to watch entire episodes of Fawlty Towers these shows were beautifully crafted in a manner that gave it layers delicately placed on top of each other making each scene more farcical than the previous. Most other sitcoms built to one big gag at the end but this always felt like it had more substance.
You probably won't be able to showcase them on youtube because of copyright but for your own personal enjoyment, I highly recommend there are only 12 episodes so you can easily binge-watch the lot of them on a weekend.
Andrew Sachs was born in Germany, but as his father was Jewish his family moved to England in the 1930's. I don't remember him having many acting roles on TV but he had a very good speaking voice and I watched many a documentary where he did the commentary. He sadly died in 2016.
The Rat is THE Classic Episode in my opinion.
Me too. The second series 1979 in my opinion is better than the first.
It's not a rt. It's a hamster. ha ha ha
Basil "Manuel,there is too much ON THOSE TRAYS!" Manuel "no no,not on those trays...une,dos,tres" 😁🤘
He knows nothing because?? ……”he’s from Barcelona….” Oh lmao!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hogwash McTurnip
3 minutes ago
Our first holiday abroad was to a little place in Cataluña. Being good tourists the first meal we ordered in a restaurant was Paella. Which the chef promptly burned. The Fawlty guy brought us a free plate of mussels, apologised profusely and said ' please excuse the chef, he is from Barcelona' then couldn't understand why we fell about laughing
Basil is based on a real hotel manager that owned a hotel that the Python team stayed at.
In Torquay Devon
Oh please!.
More!👍
This show is LEGENDARY!.
Just in case no one else has mentioned the hamster sketch is also hilarious xxx
My favourite! ' Would you care for a rat?' Just thinking about it is making me laugh!
The entire last episode: "Basil the Rat." "You have rats in Spain, don't you? Or did Franco have them all shot?"
"I know nothing" "I am from Barcelona". brilliant
Fawlty Towers and "only fools and horses" the two greatest British comedies ever. FACT!
Hard to argue with that (so I won't) but there have been other classics, like Some Mothers Do Have 'Em and Porridge for example. They will be someone's favourites! :)
My wife went on the Orient Express with the BBC and Andrew Sachs was the guest speaker. She said he was awesome. I'm sure she enjoyed it as they a had a bottle of wine each and the person next to here didn't drink LOL.
Andrew Sachs, almost a national treasure. His sad demise accelerated by the behaviour of two idiots, Johnathan Ross and the self appointed Jesus Russell Brand masquerading as comedians and making graphic statements about Andrew’s granddaughter. They were not worthy to clean his shoes.
Sadly this is so. I boycotted ever watching them afterwards. Not that I missed much!
@Mickey Finn In an episode of The Russell Brand Show broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Saturday 18 October 2008, comedian Russell Brand and presenter Jonathan Ross made prank calls to actor Andrew Sachs. Brand and Ross they left a series of lewd messages on his answering machine, including comments about Brand's relationship with Sachs' granddaughter, Georgina Baillie. I suggest that you retract your libellous comment about Noel Gallagher.
Pair of prats.
Have you seen Red Dwarf? The Dwayne Dibley scene from Back to Reality episode is an absolute classic
Gotta love Cat! I loved the early scene where he was dancing about with an aeorol can spraying things 'That's Mine! That's Mine! That's Mine! ooh I doon;t want THAT! Any cat lover has to have ROFL at that!
Red Dwarf....Classic
Yes that one is amazing, gotta be one of my favourite shows, though didn't enjoy season 8 anywhere near as much
"Backwards" - when the Cat has a number two in the bushes . . . .
He needs to watch a normal episode before he watches that one though, otherwise he'll miss the joke.
I love the way at the end he just walks away and says I'm from Barcelona. 😂
Fawlty towers was brilliant. Basil Fawlty character was completely stressed in every episode. Hilarious to watch. 😂
The actor, Andrew Sachs, who plays the waiter was actually German. When he was asked to play a Spanish waiter he asked if the waiter instead could be German, but John Cleese said no. Sadly he (Andrew) died a couple of years ago.
Definitely watch the whole episode and the rest of the show! Every episode is a masterpiece
Fawlty Towers my all time favorite amazing series ! Never ever get tired of every episode!!
One thing about the show, John Cleese was married to Connie Booth, who played Polly, she is an American.
She also co wrote the show ;)
On a family holiday in Spain when I was very young we went to the waiter's actual restaurant in Spain and it was really called Fawlty Towers! We took a family photo outside of it as proof, I was around 4-5 yrs old at the time.
John cleese and connie booth both wrote this great comedy fawlty towers , she played the maid. The best episode is the germans, then the sausages . Very funny . And Manuel was english 0laying spanish
Sachs was German, fled Berlin with his family in 1938 aged 8.
One of the all time greats 👍👍
Your laugh is contagious 💐 love Faulty Towers! More please
You need to do more on this, it’s an iconic series. It’s a masterpiece that still stands today.
You definitely have to watch the whole show. All 12 episodes are pure gold
Precision timing, tension, frustration and comedy all come together in this episode. An absolute classic. I still get all the emotions and have seen it a hundred times just wanting Basil to get a break! 😆
Definitely a classic. I also love the Brittas Empire and Red Dwarf
Nearly 50 years old and still hilarious
Sybil: “You know what I’ll do to you Basil if I find out you’ve been betting?”
Basil: “You’ll have to sew them back on first”.
Hi Alan, there,s a similar piece to this in the Blackadder series where Blackadder is being Courts Martialed for killing General Mellchetts favourite pidgeon. He tells Baldric to deny everything!
Ah yes fantastic episode!
Captain Blackadder absolutely did not kill and eat this delicious pigeon 🤣
Your laugh is so infectious, I love it. I have said "i know nooothing!" many times over the years since this was first shown. It is a popular saying for people of a certain age. When asked a question at work i have deployed this on many occaisons 😁
The waiter is played by the late great Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs was a beloved, highly talented British actor. In real life he spoke with a warm gentlemanly English accent. When he played Manuel in Falty Towers, he I believe didn't speak any Spanish but he played the character so well, as a young kid, I thought he was Spanish at first. Everything about Faulty Towers was just perfect, in my opinion but Manuel would make me laugh until I cried!
Andrew Sachs was a very cultivated, polite and charming gentleman. Raised in Germany, and escaped from Hitler in his childhood. I remember that in the old days he used to teach Brits German on BBC radio. I used to listen to his classes. A proper gentleman, loved hugely by the Brits.
One of the best comedy's ever I've watched this over and over again and it's always funny it's timeless TV TV gold
Yes: it satirizes Americans wanting what they call “service”, which you do not get in Britain.
@@allenwilliams1306 I totally agree with you
"I know NAAthing!" became a public catchphrase for some time after this episode.
This show is absolutely brilliant. Only 12 episodes but each one is a masterpiece. Possibly the best British comedy ever made.
You accurately described the comedy there. Basil is a pillock. He came a cropper. Wonderful acting by everyone.
"Backfire from hell". Yep, Fawlty Towers described perfectly 😂😂😂
proud owner of this DVD, one of my treasures.
I love the bit in this episode where he shows mrs richards her room. *no spoilers*
"Waldorf Salad...." funny scene from Fawlty Towers!!!
In opening scene look at the hotel sign - it’s different every time.
Originally Andrew Sachs wanted to play the waiter as a German, but John insisted that it would be funnier if he was Spanish. RIP Andrew - he knew nothing!
Andrew Sachs was German, born in Berlin, came to the UK with his parents as a young lad after Hitler came to power.
The guy who played Manuel (the Spanish waiter) was born in Berlin, Germany, but spent a lot of time in England. I actually thought he was British as his accent was impeccable. He died in 2016 aged 86.
That episode is one of the funniest bits of classic british humour ever put to screen. You'll love it.
Still-used catchphrases amongst some of us, “I know nothing”, “I am from Barcelona” and “I speak English, I learn it from a book”!
When I was about 7 years old many years ago I was Obsessed with this show. I was too young to get all the jokes but loved the atmosphere of the show and the slapstick moments
Andrew Sachs waiters costume was displayed in a London museum after he had passed away. He was probably the most popular character in Fawlty Towers for a lot of people
Andrew Sachs (the waiter) was a comedy genius and no one will ever replace him. RIP Mr Sachs. ♥
I use the I know nothing line whenever someone says do I know what happened but only ever on funny things never serious things
Watch the oreilly fixes the door clip. It's hilarious!
That's British TV gold you've got there. That line I know nothing is the one I've impersonated many times in that Spanish accent of his.
One of the best comedies ever along with Only fools and Horses, One foot in the Grave and Steptoe and Son.
They have a sign outside the hotel that they keep changing the letters for.... Fawlty Towers sometimes they as as Farty Towels!
I love at the beginning of each program, they rearranged the letters of Fawlty tours.
I urge you to watch all 12 episodes that were made. Simply the best comedy, you'll love it.
Basil fawlty was based on a real hotel owner that John saw and the staff told him that the owner was rude to customers
One of the best running jokes is how the Hotel name changes for every episode, from Fawlty Towers to Farty Towels and Flowery Twats. They sometimes use the entire episode to set up the punchline so it's best not to just watch a short segment.
I am so envious of your laughter, who needs alcohol or drugs when you seem so free to laugh.
I think to die laughing would be the way to go.
Its like a dream come true discovering British comedy the best ever produced
Every episode of Fawlty Towers is comedy gold the best ever, Father Ted is another brilliant comedy 🇬🇧🏴
Heheheeaee….. glad you’ve found these……enjoy😁 and thanks for sharing 🤗
It must be great watching that for the first time . I saw it when it aired first time and never get tired of it .
Check out both series, 6 episodes each of some of the greatest comedy situations EVER!
Another good scene in that episode is where Fawlty mouths the words , causing the woman to turn up the volume on her hearing aid , he then shouts into the receiver .
You really need to watch the whole episode to see the whole story unfold. Fawlty Toweres is an iconic BBC comedy.
The whole episode is masterpiece.
Basil (to Sybil) : pity you didn’t let me put something on, really.
You realise how much we would’ve won? £75 for a £5 stake.
Still, you know best.
😂😂😂
Despite lying and actually backing the horse, Basil STILL couldn’t resist the opportunity to score a point against Sybil. Beautifully petty.
One of the best comedy’s ever made, the poor guy never wins 😂😂. Also love your channel been watching for the last month or so.
3:32 " I tell, Polly." Basil: That's all right. Don't tell anyone else. Dear Polly. The voice of reason. The only one they can trust.
The late, great Andrew Sachs. We still use this phrase with the attempt at the accent at work if someone asked us a question that we don't know the answer. The older people laugh, the younger people look confused and we then have to explain and tell them to go watch the show.
There’s many a time my friends and colleagues and I will fire off a “I know nothing “ when puzzled about something or pretending to be in the dark. Classic.