Cleese and Booth spent 6 weeks writing each episode of Fawlty Towers. Modern half-hour sitcoms are written in 2-3 days. That’s the difference right there! 👍
2-3 weeks is actually what J C said, i.e. they were lucky to get double the usual time, but also they had a better pedigree of comedy/farce experience too.
Andrew Sachs who plays the Spanish waiter Manuel was born in Germany. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic, with Austrian ancestry. The family moved to Britain in 1938 to escape the Nazis.
My dad was fairly old when I was born so we were more than a generation apart in our attitudes. But we could both sit down and laugh like loons at this fantastic show.
As a few people have already said Basil Fawlty was based on a real life hotellier when the Pythons were filming on location in Devon. At this hotel Terry Giliam (the American member of the Pythons) held his fork in his right hand and this hotellier told him to hold it the British way (fork in the left hand) and actually took it out of his right hand and made him hold it in the left!!!
It’s funny because he (Donald Sinclair) and his wife denied that he and his hotel were anything like the Basil Fawlty character & the towers and derided Cleese. However staff at the hotel and even some guests confirmed it. They said that while Fawlty was somewhat over the top and exaggerated: Sinclair was a genuine nasty curmudgeon who didn’t like people and clearly hated his job and was often found wanting in his decisions & competency, with his wife really running the operation. And they said that he took his frustrations out on the staff and by being frequently outright rude and abrasive with guests, and that semi-frequently there would be disasters which he struggled to cope with.
There was also the story of one of the pythons leaving some luggage unattended in reception. When they realised and went to retrieve it, there was no sign. Asking Donald if he knew anything he pointed to the back garden area of the hotel without making eye contact and said it’s down there. Where they asked ? Down there, behind the wall gesturing to a small wall at the bottom of the hotel garden. But why asked Eric Idle (I think). We thought it might be a bomb replied Donald. Why did you think it might be a bomb asked Eric. ‘Well we’ve had some staffing problems…’ replied Donald. 😂😂😂
Currently watching season 4 of Open all Hours. But any episodes put up here I'll certainly watch again. O'Reilly (David Kelly) was Grandpa Joe in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
Are there any recent sitcoms that are funny? I dont think quality humour gets less funny. Laurel and Hardy are still and always will be funny. Some humour ages badly though.
@@LPCLASSICAL I think there are several to be honest. Yeah they are of today but funny. For me this includes‘people just do nothing, Friday night dinner’’ this country’ the peep show’ him & her’ fleabag’ the detectorists’ 15 stories high’ upstart crow’
@@paulhiscock6790 I think my humour is stuck in the past - when I look at stand up acts of today - they just seem so unfunny. I laugh at Billy Connolly - but he is from the distant past too. I will check out some of those you recommend.
@@LPCLASSICAL I think comedy is like rock music. It changes with the times and we tend to have a genre and act that we will always prefer. Comedy is still very much alive but not everyone appreciates modern comedy. I personally am a huge fan of British sitcom from all the eras. I especially love truly timeless comedy Fawltey towers is one of them
Such a shame the clips were hacked about so much this time. I realise it's not possible to show the entire episode but you do need to retain some of the original pacing of the show to get the full effect. And this time even the punch lines were lost!
Right..... you do realise he watched the full episode and edited down the video so it can go on youtube right? watch how the video cuts and he himself moves in the bottom corner too, it's not just the episode part of the video edited.
I loved this as a teenager, the best episode is "Don't Mention The War", I think you will find that hilarious! It is so funny that even a little kid would find it funny. 'You started it', referring to the argument in the dining room, 'no I didn't', yes you did, you invaded Poland! Classic.
No need to worry about a Series/Season 2 as there were only 12 episodes ever made. The hotel sign originally said Fawlty Towers but that was "changed" by the 'paperboy' each morning to something more funny (misused anagram etc).
Probably one of the funniest things ever to grace a TV screen, Decades on I still watch it, hiding behind my hands, squirming in anticipation of what comes next.
One of the very very best sitcoms ever made! John Cleese was offered huge money to make a 3rd series but he wouldn’t do it because he said it’ll take away from the show
Fawlty Towers was first broadcast by the beeb when i was a teenager. I turned 60 this year and it still cracks me up. There's not been anything better on tv
They tried twice to remake this in the US and failed both times - even with the brilliant talent that was Bea Arthur they still couldn't make something that came near to the original.
Imagine !! Tis was written after two of the Monty Python team spent a night at a Guest House in Torquay where they saw in action the couple who Basil and Sybil are based on
You have to find the one with the deaf, grumpy old lady! The funniest of the lot, along with the Rat Sorry 'Siberian Hamster' The scene in the bedroom when the old woman is complaining about her room, still makes me ROFL now. Not forgetting 'Care for a rat?' 2 different episodes .I think the rat one is 'The Hotel Inspector' but can't remember the old lady one. Needless to say Basil has been gambling again and has actually won for once! Sybil must not know! Sybil must never know! Anything! Then the old lady shows up and as usual it goes tits up! But that bedroom scene has to be one of the funniest dialogues ever.
I recently bought myself a second hand car. TBH I didn't really want one after my old one was destroyed. But I needed one. I saw a great little BMW Mini convertible. Half the price of the value with a full custom body kit on it. I took it to a local garage for a full service and check up. Then I had warning lights coming on. Took it the local garage again. After a 3 week wait got it back. Then more warning lights, then more waiting. In total they had had my car 2 months out of the 10 I've owned it. In the end I took it to the official BMW garage. It cost me more to fix it than what it cost to buy it. My own stupid fault for throwing money at cheap garages that charged me just to gloss over the problem rather than find out what was causing the problem. I paid £1200 for the car that in stock would be £2900. I then paid £1600 to get it fixed by BMW. Not to mention the £500 total I'd spent at the local garage... Luckily the guy who had it before me paid £2000 for the custom body kit and also had it's CPU boosted which was £600. So all in all I about paid what it was worth in the end... Never buy cheep.... Buy cheap, buy twice... Like I said I needed a car. It was cheep, it looked very nice... After losing my GTR I was heart broken. Seriously grieving. Some idiot in a JCB digging up the street to put in new water pipes swung the bucket arm the wrong way hitting my GTR right in the back side. It bent the chassis and the insurance company wrote it off, meaning it would cost more to fix than it would to buy a new one. That car was a one off. Electric pearl blue, white leather interior with blue piping and stitching. Fully custom sound system. Sent off to Nissan to boost the engine. cost me a lot of cash. A heck of a lot. But as I wasn't claiming on my insurance and was claiming off the workers I got my lawyers involved and they put it forward that the car was a one off custom build that is no longer available (Nissan wont do any customization on the new GTRs). So I got almost double the amount that I had paid. But the lawyers fee's weren't cheap. But I still got close to double what was paid. :)
Ive stayed at the hotel where they got the Idea for this some of the Monty python team stayed there and were so rowdy the manerger of the hotel threw there suit cases out the front door 😎
John Cleese based the iconic TV sitcom on the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay after staying there with the Monty Python team in 1973 when former owner Donald Sinclair unwittingly became the inspiration for Cleese's character Basil Fawlty< The hotel AK "Fawlty Towers" = Sadly the Wooburn Grange Country Club burnt down in 1991 and was later demolished. Residential homes have since been built on the
Another series that was funny was Brass from back in the 80's. A comedy drama series set in the north about two feuding families the rich Bradley Hardacre and the poor working class Fairchild family. A total classic.
Fawlty Towers was set in my home town of Torquay, Devon, England. Also the famous scene, where Basil is hitting his car with the branch, that was filmed in Paignton, the town next door to Torquay One interesting fact, is that John Cleese, based Fawlty Towers on his experience, when the Monty Python team stayed in an actual Torquay hotel, called the Gleneagles Hotel.
@@marklehuray1091 You might be right actually. Shows how much I remember lol Maybe that particular scene was meant to be with Basil in Paignton, rather than it actually being filmed there lol There were some outside scenes from other episodes that were filmed in Paignton. Not many though, as a lot was studio based. I really need to re-watch Fawlty Towers. Hilarious!
@@UltimatePlayTheGame Certainly a lot of Paignton in Monty Python and Babbacombe too so you might be right but something somewhere in my head thinks I read Hampshire somewhere and I'd be wrong apparently Kenton in Harrow
The top 4 British comedy classics for me are Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, Dads Army, and Only Fools and Horses. Fawlty Towers was successful the world over, while Dads Army was made into an American series which failed to takeoff.
The mixing of B and V, that Manuel does in the beginning of the episode, is actually a very precise jab at Spaniards, who talk like that - people from Valencia, will sometimes pronounce it "Balencia"
Can you believe there's a whole generation now, who think this shit is not only not funny, but should be banned, like they can't even tell comedic satire from reality
Clean the windows …. Having broken my ankle badly, the hospital wouldn’t let me go home without a carer popping in daily. I found myself drawing a banana on a set of revision cards for a nice Polish lady who was well versed in the time her shift started and stopped, but didn’t know a banana from a tomato in English. It was only when admiring my fruit and veg drawings, having bought a set of felt tipped pens and the study cards, that it dawned in me I could’ve shown her a picture of a banana, etc., on my iPad.
You missed the punchline. He went outside, picked up a huge garden gnome with a big pointy hat - like to picked up Manuel to clean the window. As he marched off with this gnome pointing forward & looking menacing, Cybil shouted: “Where are you going, Basil?” He replied: “I’m just going to see Mr O’Reilly dear!” (To obviously shove it up his ass)
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Cleese and Booth spent 6 weeks writing each episode of Fawlty Towers. Modern half-hour sitcoms are written in 2-3 days.
That’s the difference right there! 👍
yh gavin and stacy seems like each episode took a lunch break to write
"Everybody's dead dave"
Bit different to like Gavin and Stacey.It's like they wrote them in their lunchbreak !
2-3 weeks is actually what J C said, i.e. they were lucky to get double the usual time, but also they had a better pedigree of comedy/farce experience too.
Andrew Sachs who plays the Spanish waiter Manuel was born in Germany. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic, with Austrian ancestry. The family moved to Britain in 1938 to escape the Nazis.
The funniest British comedy of all time. Every episode is a masterpiece! 👏👏👏
Never get tired of watching Fawlty Towers. It is a shame that comedy is not made like this anymore.
Basils car breaks down...he punishes it...hilarious
On one episode the hotel sign is misspelled and reads Flowery Twats. I don't know how they got away with some stuff. 😂
My dad was fairly old when I was born so we were more than a generation apart in our attitudes. But we could both sit down and laugh like loons at this fantastic show.
Watch the intros as the hotel sign changes
This is lovely seeing it again after so many years.
Best bit is the gnome and the builder insulted by Manuel
Another absolute classic. Love Fawlty Towers, the interactions between Basil and Manuel is as good as it gets.
The exchanges between Basil and Manuel have always been my favourite bits
As a few people have already said Basil Fawlty was based on a real life hotellier when the Pythons were filming on location in Devon. At this hotel Terry Giliam (the American member of the Pythons) held his fork in his right hand and this hotellier told him to hold it the British way (fork in the left hand) and actually took it out of his right hand and made him hold it in the left!!!
It’s funny because he (Donald Sinclair) and his wife denied that he and his hotel were anything like the Basil Fawlty character & the towers and derided Cleese.
However staff at the hotel and even some guests confirmed it. They said that while Fawlty was somewhat over the top and exaggerated: Sinclair was a genuine nasty curmudgeon who didn’t like people and clearly hated his job and was often found wanting in his decisions & competency, with his wife really running the operation. And they said that he took his frustrations out on the staff and by being frequently outright rude and abrasive with guests, and that semi-frequently there would be disasters which he struggled to cope with.
There was also the story of one of the pythons leaving some luggage unattended in reception. When they realised and went to retrieve it, there was no sign. Asking Donald if he knew anything he pointed to the back garden area of the hotel without making eye contact and said it’s down there. Where they asked ? Down there, behind the wall gesturing to a small wall at the bottom of the hotel garden. But why asked Eric Idle (I think). We thought it might be a bomb replied Donald. Why did you think it might be a bomb asked Eric. ‘Well we’ve had some staffing problems…’ replied Donald. 😂😂😂
Lol. Not the "British way", per se. The correct way ... in every country bar seemingly the u.s.
I totally recommend you watch the Fawlty towers “Waldorf salad” episode
Fun fact polly is actually American and her and Basil were married in real live
They actually divorced as they were writing the second series!
Incorrect, Polly is Australian.
@@AlpineTerrier she was born in Indiana usa
@@AlpineTerrier I’ve never heard that. I’ve only known her to be American and never any connections with Australia. Evidence?
Indianapolis Connie was born
Currently watching season 4 of Open all Hours. But any episodes put up here I'll certainly watch again. O'Reilly (David Kelly) was Grandpa Joe in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
Personally my fav episode -- Communication problems , with that deaf old lady.
Another classic show from the golden age of British sitcom. So glad l grew up with this kind of comedy. You know, the funny kind 😂😂
Hard to believe that this is a 50 year old Comedy and still funny. Shows how well written it is
Are there any recent sitcoms that are funny? I dont think quality humour gets less funny. Laurel and Hardy are still and always will be funny. Some humour ages badly though.
@@LPCLASSICAL I think there are several to be honest. Yeah they are of today but funny. For me this includes‘people just do nothing, Friday night dinner’’ this country’ the peep show’ him & her’ fleabag’ the detectorists’ 15 stories high’ upstart crow’
@@paulhiscock6790 I think my humour is stuck in the past - when I look at stand up acts of today - they just seem so unfunny. I laugh at Billy Connolly - but he is from the distant past too. I will check out some of those you recommend.
@@LPCLASSICAL I think comedy is like rock music. It changes with the times and we tend to have a genre and act that we will always prefer. Comedy is still very much alive but not everyone appreciates modern comedy. I personally am a huge fan of British sitcom from all the eras. I especially love truly timeless comedy Fawltey towers is one of them
Such a shame the clips were hacked about so much this time. I realise it's not possible to show the entire episode but you do need to retain some of the original pacing of the show to get the full effect. And this time even the punch lines were lost!
Right..... you do realise he watched the full episode and edited down the video so it can go on youtube right? watch how the video cuts and he himself moves in the bottom corner too, it's not just the episode part of the video edited.
Awesome!!! Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸
You missed the best bit, where Basil runs behind the front desk !
No, didn't miss it. Had to edit the full episode reaction to meet fair use standards
Yeah, I was waiting for my favourite line lol. "If the good lord... is mentioned once more I will move you closer to him" 😂
I loved this as a teenager, the best episode is "Don't Mention The War", I think you will find that hilarious!
It is so funny that even a little kid would find it funny.
'You started it', referring to the argument in the dining room, 'no I didn't', yes you did, you invaded Poland!
Classic.
The Major was hilarious in that episode.
Toooooo many times
The episode's "the germans"
To be honest no one can watch faulty towers, and not laugh their heads off. You really need to watch basil the rat episode, you’d love that!?!
No need to worry about a Series/Season 2 as there were only 12 episodes ever made. The hotel sign originally said Fawlty Towers but that was "changed" by the 'paperboy' each morning to something more funny (misused anagram etc).
Warty Towels, Flay Otters, Watery Fowls, Fatty Owls, Flowery Twats and Farty Towels all made an appearance thanks to the paperboy.
Love Fawlty Towers! Classic comedy 🇬🇧
Love Fawlty Towers. 12 episodes watching a tormented man literally destroy himself :)
Probably one of the funniest things ever to grace a TV screen, Decades on I still watch it, hiding behind my hands, squirming in anticipation of what comes next.
When my sister studied at university, they used Paul Simon and John Cleese many times when it came to how to write a text. 😀
Dude, if you haven't seen Faulty before, you're in for a real treat.
Fawlty.
@@explorer806 fall tea
The greatest ever series
@@explorer806 Faulty? What's wrong with him?
If you like John Cleese I'd recommend 'A fish called Wanda.'
Loved Fawlty Towers especially ’room with a view‘ clip 😂
One of the very very best sitcoms ever made! John Cleese was offered huge money to make a 3rd series but he wouldn’t do it because he said it’ll take away from the show
Basil Faulty(John Cleese)did a clip from Monty Pythons Circus,The Ministry of Silly Walks...hilarious.
Fawlty Towers was first broadcast by the beeb when i was a teenager. I turned 60 this year and it still cracks me up. There's not been anything better on tv
John and Poly used to be married when this was filmed.
the Ministry of Funny Walks for me is one of the funniest sketches ever
I never tire of watching people react to Fawlty Towers for the first time.
Glad you enjoyed the best comedy ever written.
Seem every episode 100 times each and still find it hilarious
In the UK we call it staff training 🤫
American TV companies have tried to adapt this 3 times, the Germans once - none succeeded.
We Brits built a huge empire with these people. The mind boggles !
Love You EB
Hilarious from UK 🇬🇧
They tried twice to remake this in the US and failed both times - even with the brilliant talent that was Bea Arthur they still couldn't make something that came near to the original.
Why even try, it's near perfection as it is.
«You’re a naughty boy»😂
Nobody loses his shit better than Basil Fawlty. LOL
Although I’ve seen this episode many times, your reaction makes me laugh all the more 😂😂😂
How to give yourself a heart attack in one manic lesson.
I highly recommend Gourmet night if you haven't seen it, one of the best comedy scenes in history is featured! Great clip sir!
Brilliant from beginning to end. Loved every single one.
Flowery twats has to be one of the best names for any episode of any comedy, you will see it in due course :)
Imagine !! Tis was written after two of the Monty Python team spent a night at a Guest House in Torquay where they saw in action the couple who Basil and Sybil are based on
Thank you for this.....I cry every time I watch this stuff.....especially between these two........
You have to find the one with the deaf, grumpy old lady! The funniest of the lot, along with the Rat Sorry 'Siberian Hamster' The scene in the bedroom when the old woman is complaining about her room, still makes me ROFL now. Not forgetting 'Care for a rat?' 2 different episodes .I think the rat one is 'The Hotel Inspector' but can't remember the old lady one. Needless to say Basil has been gambling again and has actually won for once! Sybil must not know! Sybil must never know! Anything! Then the old lady shows up and as usual it goes tits up! But that bedroom scene has to be one of the funniest dialogues ever.
Communication Problems S02E01. "Is this a piece of your brain?" 🤣
I recently bought myself a second hand car. TBH I didn't really want one after my old one was destroyed. But I needed one. I saw a great little BMW Mini convertible. Half the price of the value with a full custom body kit on it. I took it to a local garage for a full service and check up. Then I had warning lights coming on. Took it the local garage again. After a 3 week wait got it back. Then more warning lights, then more waiting. In total they had had my car 2 months out of the 10 I've owned it. In the end I took it to the official BMW garage. It cost me more to fix it than what it cost to buy it. My own stupid fault for throwing money at cheap garages that charged me just to gloss over the problem rather than find out what was causing the problem. I paid £1200 for the car that in stock would be £2900. I then paid £1600 to get it fixed by BMW. Not to mention the £500 total I'd spent at the local garage... Luckily the guy who had it before me paid £2000 for the custom body kit and also had it's CPU boosted which was £600. So all in all I about paid what it was worth in the end...
Never buy cheep.... Buy cheap, buy twice...
Like I said I needed a car. It was cheep, it looked very nice...
After losing my GTR I was heart broken. Seriously grieving. Some idiot in a JCB digging up the street to put in new water pipes swung the bucket arm the wrong way hitting my GTR right in the back side. It bent the chassis and the insurance company wrote it off, meaning it would cost more to fix than it would to buy a new one. That car was a one off. Electric pearl blue, white leather interior with blue piping and stitching. Fully custom sound system. Sent off to Nissan to boost the engine. cost me a lot of cash. A heck of a lot. But as I wasn't claiming on my insurance and was claiming off the workers I got my lawyers involved and they put it forward that the car was a one off custom build that is no longer available (Nissan wont do any customization on the new GTRs). So I got almost double the amount that I had paid. But the lawyers fee's weren't cheap. But I still got close to double what was paid. :)
Ive stayed at the hotel where they got the Idea for this some of the Monty python team stayed there and were so rowdy the manerger of the hotel threw there suit cases out the front door 😎
John Cleese based the iconic TV sitcom on the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay after staying there with the Monty Python team in 1973 when former owner Donald Sinclair unwittingly became the inspiration for Cleese's character Basil Fawlty< The hotel AK "Fawlty Towers" = Sadly the Wooburn Grange Country Club burnt down in 1991 and was later demolished. Residential homes have since been built on the
The hotel that was used in Torquay was demolished and is now retirement homes. It was badly damaged by a fire and was unsafe after it.
@freebeerfordworkers i know its so sad i have been to both cornwall and Torquay many times growing up as a kid on family holidays
I was wondering when you'd get around to these. British comedy at its best. Thanks for all your work.
Look at that jacket lol.
I beg to differ; you often do not get what you pay for, and you certainly do not get what you don't pay for.
In the opening scene the hotel sign always reads differently.
The ultimate in British comedy.
At the start of every episode someone has rearranged the letters to read farty towels or something.
Omg I remember this from i was a kid watching with me dad. Good times good times. So funny
Only 12 episodes. Comedy Great!
Freddie Starr - Vincent (stay with it)
These two were married in real life(Polly)
Another series that was funny was Brass from back in the 80's. A comedy drama series set in the north about two feuding families the rich Bradley Hardacre and the poor working class Fairchild family. A total classic.
This was based on a real hotel owner.
Yep, John Cleese tells a story about the original hotel owner which is funny in itself !
always found the faulty towers anagrams funny. 🙂
My favourite was Flowry Twat*
Fatty owls
Andrew Sachs the Spanish guy is brilliant
One of the best comedies EVER made
Yes my sun just got a lot better 🍻
Great old slap stick ....Its funny .
The one with the Psychiatrist
Polly the receptionist was fawltys wife in real life...cheers beard
Fawlty Towers was set in my home town of Torquay, Devon, England.
Also the famous scene, where Basil is hitting his car with the branch, that was filmed in Paignton, the town next door to Torquay
One interesting fact, is that John Cleese, based Fawlty Towers on his experience, when the Monty Python team stayed in an actual Torquay hotel, called the Gleneagles Hotel.
Was that Paignton thought it was in Hampshire
@@marklehuray1091 You might be right actually. Shows how much I remember lol
Maybe that particular scene was meant to be with Basil in Paignton, rather than it actually being filmed there lol
There were some outside scenes from other episodes that were filmed in Paignton.
Not many though, as a lot was studio based.
I really need to re-watch Fawlty Towers. Hilarious!
@@UltimatePlayTheGame Certainly a lot of Paignton in Monty Python and Babbacombe too so you might be right but something somewhere in my head thinks I read Hampshire somewhere and I'd be wrong apparently Kenton in Harrow
Right, that's it, I've warned you!!!.... Very relatable to anyone who owned a British 70's car on a cold morning 😂
I love it when you laugh. Makes me laugh.
My wife's just like Sybil anest of vipers
The top 4 British comedy classics for me are Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, Dads Army, and Only Fools and Horses. Fawlty Towers was successful the world over, while Dads Army was made into an American series which failed to takeoff.
I love fawlty towers
The mixing of B and V, that Manuel does in the beginning of the episode, is actually a very precise jab at Spaniards, who talk like that - people from Valencia, will sometimes pronounce it "Balencia"
Can you believe there's a whole generation now, who think this shit is not only not funny, but should be banned, like they can't even tell comedic satire from reality
Yes, it’s tragic what’s happening.
Hi, did you know that "Polly" and "Basil" were married in real life? John Cleese and Connie Booth.
Just to be clear; that used to be a supporting wall, I suspect it may not be now! ;o) Be well Alan.
Priceless. I would have been at Cambridge with John if I had gone to university. As it happened, we moved to the Antipodes and I went off the rails.
John Cleese played Cricket to a fair ability whist at his school.
Some episodes were remade as Amanda's with Bea Arthur
Have you seen Allo Allo?
I'd love to see your reaction to the Fawlty Towers episode Basil The Rat. It's one of the funniest episodes of anything I've ever seen!
Connie Booth who plays Polly was Cleese's wife at the time.
Have you seen the American attempt at a remake called Payne? No? Not surprising because nobody has or at least would admit to it!
Clean the windows …. Having broken my ankle badly, the hospital wouldn’t let me go home without a carer popping in daily. I found myself drawing a banana on a set of revision cards for a nice Polish lady who was well versed in the time her shift started and stopped, but didn’t know a banana from a tomato in English. It was only when admiring my fruit and veg drawings, having bought a set of felt tipped pens and the study cards, that it dawned in me I could’ve shown her a picture of a banana, etc., on my iPad.
The girl in charge ended up his wife I believe 1 of many
You missed the punchline. He went outside, picked up a huge garden gnome with a big pointy hat - like to picked up Manuel to clean the window. As he marched off with this gnome pointing forward & looking menacing, Cybil shouted: “Where are you going, Basil?” He replied: “I’m just going to see Mr O’Reilly dear!”
(To obviously shove it up his ass)
Brilliant
Connie booth was born in Indianapolis
Boycott scored a century!
The best Fawlty Towers is ..The Germans Basil vs the German's is so funny
John Cleese is a genius writer , he and the lady who played Polly were Husband and Wife when this show was written,they are great writers