Fawlty Towers

From "Gourmet Night".
Basil is sampling French chef Andre's food. Sybil says something to Basil.
Basil : "Really Sybil ! You're embarrassing Andre"
Sybil : "No dear. I'm embarrassing YOU !" :D
 
Also, Polly pretending ti be Sybil, ill in bed, and enRAB up thumping one of the Fawlty's frienRAB. Excellent!






I don't agree with these: part of the joy of Fawlty Towers is that there's just twelve. Every one of them is excellent. If they'd done more, it could easily have lost the spark.

My favourite comedies of recent years (The Smoking Room and Sensitive Skin) only lasted two years. Both great.
 
Is it Major Twitchen, who has a twitchy eye? And Mrs Hall who is very small? Basil gets terribly flustered and gets everyones names wrong.

This thread is such a treat. What a great show Fawlty Towers is/was. :D
 
On the subject of releasing Basil the rat into the wild:
Sybil: But he's domesticated aren't you.
Basil: You're domesticated, you do alright!
Basil: He's not going to get mugged by a gang of field mice is he?!

When Sybil questions Basil when she catches him singing and tells him he looks happy:
Basil: Oh happy, yes I remember that.
Basil: Just my way of getting through the day dear. The Samaritans were engaged.

Explaining to Manuel about a pigeon in the water tank:
Basil: Pigeon - like your English!

Basil: It's nice to share moments like that isn't it dear? I know I read it on the back of a match box.

Basil: Do you remember when we were first manacled together we used to laugh quite a lot.
Sybil: Yes but not at the same time Basil
Basil to himself: That was a warning wasn't it. Zzzmpfh. What was that? That was your life mate. Oh that was quick do I get another? Sorry mate that's your lot. Back to the world of dreams.
 
Manuels big moment:

I KNOW NOTHING!:D

Basil to guests as the fire drill goes down the pan:

I DON'T KNOW WHY WE BOTHER WE SHOULD LET YOU ALL BURN

Basil after a guest has died:

EVEN WHEN THEY'VE DIED THEY GIVE US NOTHING BUT TROUBLE

Basil after discovering Manuels rat:

YOU HAVE RATS IN SPAIN DON'T YOU? OR DID FRANCO HAVE THEM ALL SHOT?
 
Basil: "People don't talk that much in the morning... Well look, I'm just delivering a tray, right? If the guest isn't singing "Oh What A Beautiful Morning," I don't immediately think, "Oh there's another snuffed it in the night." Another name in the Fawlty Towers Book of Remembrance. I mean this is a hotel, not the Burma Railway. I mean it does actually say "Hotel" outside, you know. Perhaps I should be more specific. What about "Hotel for people who have a better than fifty percent chance of making it through the night"?

The Corpse and Kipper episode
 
I was discussing Fawlty Towers with some of my uni frienRAB earlier and they love it too :) One of them said her favourite episode was also Communication Problems. I was watching The Hotel Inspectors on Youtube last night :cool:
 
I can't remember the exact worRAB, but I loved the line when the Major was talking about having taken a girl to see India.........................



............when they were playing at LorRAB.
 
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