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Terence Conoley appears in two episodes as entirely different characters. In "A Touch of Class" he plays Mr. Wareing, and in "Waldorf Salad" he portrays Mr. Johnston. [42] With no regard to Basil's blood pressure, a guest dies at the hotel and Basil and the staff are left with the unpleasant task of removing the body discreetly while the doctor staying at the hotel, Dr. Price, waits for his sausages. Also, Polly and Manuel feed an elderly woman's pampered pet dog some extra spicy sausages after it bites them both.

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The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon. The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil ( Prunella Scales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth) who often is the peacemaker and voice of reason, and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel ( Andrew Sachs). They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests and tradespeople. Basil: Could we get you on Mastermind, Sybil? Next contestant Sybil Fawlty from Torquay, special subject; the bleedin' obvious! In 2000, the British Film Institute declared it the best British television programme ever made. A few years ago, it was voted best UK sitcom ever in a poll, and J. Michael Straczynski said in a book on screenwriting that if an aspiring writer watches Fawlty Towers and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, they will have had the best possible grounding in how to write comedy. Constantly Changing Name: Played With. Each episode began with an establishing shot of the titular hotel, with the letters on the sign either partially missing or rearranged into something nonsensical like "Farty Towels" or "Flowery Twats".At a 2009 reunion event filmed for the Gold channel as Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened, Cleese said that the cast would never make another episode of the series because they are "too old and tired" and expectations would be too high. [72] Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby, played by Gilly Flower and Renee Roberts, are the other two permanent residents. Seemingly inseparable, these sweet-natured, dotty spinsters appear to have taken a fancy to Basil, feeling that they need to take care of him. In response, Basil vacillates between superficial charm and blunt rudeness during his conversations with them. [34] [35] [37] [38] [39] [40] Also in the same episode, when Sybil left Basil thinking he forgot their anniversary, he was quite upset.

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Awful Wedded Life: Basil and Sybil. The two never seem to agree, constantly insult one another, and appear to only be together as victims of circumstance than a husband and wife. Basil thinks of Sybil as a shrill harpy who is capable of destroying a man at ten paces with a Death Glare, whereas Sybil thinks Basil is a hopeless idiot who couldn't tie his own shoes without help. Basil typically blames problems with the hotel on Sybil whenever he thinks he can get away with it, and Sybil takes the default stance that Basil is going to screw up whatever she asks him to do. In "The Germans", Sybil repeatedly calls Basil to get him to test the fire alarm, even though he's in the middle of it. And when Basil tells Sybil this, he either calls her a "stupid woman" or screams at the top of his lungs at her to get her to leave him alone. In "The Anniversary", Sybil is shown crying when she thinks Basil has forgotten their wedding anniversary again (and actually he hasn't). Moreover, Basil was actually planning something nice for her, arranging for all their friends to come round for a surprise party. If only she'd waited just another few minutes... James, Clive (1981) [12 October 1975]. "Very Peter Hall". Visions Before Midnight (11 September 1981ed.). Picador (published 1977). ISBN 978-0-330-26464-8. Greedy, bad-tempered, class-conscious manager Basil Fawlty is a rare protagonist version of Pantalone (albeit an unsympathetic one) with elements of Brighella that come out around high-status guests.The Inspector Is Coming: Basil hears that three Hotel Inspectors are in town, and immediately begins fawning over a guest with an officious manner and a vast professional experience of hotels. He then finds out that his target sells spoons. When another guest mentions he has two colleagues, Basil switches to fawning over him and even resorts to attempting bribery for a favourable report after he witnesses Basil's fight with the first guest. This one is in town for the regatta, though, at which Basil brightens up considerably, and disappears. He appears minutes later to thoroughly humiliate the first guest (who's leaving in disgust), in full view of the real inspectors who have just arrived.

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The Kipper and the Corpse" was based on a story told to Cleese by hotelier Andrew Leeman . The dead guest was named in his honour. Mrs Chase: If dogs are allowed in the dining room, at least the staff should know how to handle them. Lost Voice Plot: In "The Anniversary", Sybil flounces just before all her and Basil's friends arrive for an anniversary celebration. To explain her absence, Basil tells them one lie after another, including that she has completely lost her voice, possibly wishful thinking on Basil's part. The plots occasionally are intricate and always farcical, involving coincidences, misunderstandings, cross-purposes and meetings both missed and accidental. The innuendo of the bedroom farce is sometimes present (often to the disgust of the socially conservative Basil) but it is his eccentricity, not his lust, that drives the plots. The events test to the breaking point what little patience Basil has, sometimes causing him to have a near breakdown by the end of the episode. The first album, simply titled Fawlty Towers, was released in 1979 and contained the audio from "Communication Problems" (as "Mrs Richards") and "Hotel Inspectors". The second album, titled Second Sitting, was released in 1981 and contained audio from "Basil the Rat" (as "The Rat") and "The Builders". Both of these first two albums reached the Top 30 of the UK Albums Chart.

Basil is not altogether keen on a loud and demanding American guest who demands a higher class of service—and food—than Fawlty Towers is accustomed to providing. Basil soon learns that the American guest will not tolerate any shenanigans. British Brevity: Two series of just six episodes each (made four years apart, no less). Which, of course, makes its continued popularity since 1975 all the more impressive. Hysterical Woman: In "The Kipper and the Corpse", the elderly Miss Tibbs screams hysterically when she sees the dead Mr Leeman, and eventually faints. Mr. Hamilton is also shown to be well aware of how much he is asking for, and, to his credit, is willing to tip generously for the added trouble. This makes Basil's big show of making giving Mr. Hamilton what he wants - a Waldorf salad - while cutting every corner possible all the more craven and despicable.

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Basil: Well, you should've thought of that before, shouldn't you? Too late now! Come on, out! Raus! Raus! RAUS! Less Embarrassing Term: In "Basil the Rat", where Manuel buys a rat from a pet shop under the premise that it is "a Siberian hamster."

Instrumental Theme Tune: A sedate string piece which ironically counteracts the farcical hilarity of the show. Connie and I wrote that first episode and we sent it in to Jimmy Gilbert, [the executive], whose job it was to assess the quality of the writing, said, (and I can quote [his note to me] fairly accurately,) "This is full of clichéd situations and stereotypical characters and I cannot see it as being anything other than a disaster." And Jimmy himself said, "You're going to have to get them out of the hotel, John. You can't do the whole thing in the hotel." Whereas, of course, it's in the hotel that the whole pressure cooker builds up. [16]