Funniest Moment On Faulty Towers
Jonathan1990
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Out of the 12 episodes I'd say I found The Gourmet Night episode very funny where it all goes wrong for Basil. First of all the chef gets drunk and can't cook so the only option on the menu is duck. The first one gets trodden on so he has to get another. While he's getting it the guests don't like Manuel's music or Polly's singing and coming back from Audrey's his car breaks down and he beats it up with a stick. He has to make the rest of the journey back on foot only to find that it's trifle instead when he gets back to the hotel.
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"What did you expect to see??? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain??"
Funniest? The Major explaining to Basil the difference between the two cricket teams, and how the woman in the tale still has his wallet 40 years on. Superbly observed and played with just the right tone. My kids are a mix of shocked and ROFL at it.
A few quotes from recent episodes I've seen....
From The Builders Basil to Polly 'well who's fault is it then you cloth eared bint, Denis Compton's.'
Can't remember the name if the episode but Sybil moaning at Basil for listening to classical music. Sybil calls it a racket. 'Racket? That's Brahms....Brahms 3rd racket!!
Both of those lines along with the delivery of course always crack me up.
It has this great joke:
German guest: "Will you stop talking about the war?"
Basil: "Me! you started it"
German guest: "We did not start it"
Basil: "Yes you did, you invaded Poland"
...and nobody could have done the goose step as well as John Cleese, not even Adolf Hitler.
Love the show, and I get the humour of the situation (showing the Major to be a fool), but even John Cleese said he's not proud of that joke now.
The best scenes for me are Basil refusing to give a double room to the unmarried couple and the whole Waldorf Salad episode.
"Always reminds me of someone machine-gunning a seal... Don't alarm yourself, it's only my wife laughing!"
As for the most un-PC gag in the entire series, it has to be the nipple switch!:p
"I haven't made any bleeding ratatouille"
Always cracks me up.
Or Basil beating his clapped out car with a tree branch or the scene with the Aussie woman in her bra in the bedroom and Basil in the bathroom, reaching round for the light switch and groping her boob instead just as Sybil walks in.
I could go on and on, every single episode is just perfection.
Where we have the couple the man is American and the woman is English.
Where the guy gives Basil £20 for. The chef to work overtime.
And it ends up with Basil not knowing what a Waldorf salad consits of and suggests a Ritz Salad basil ends up arguing with himself.
It ends up with him walking out of the hotel, after the residents tell him the hotel is awful.
Dragon Fly!!
And a few favourite quotes:
Right, well I'll go and have a lie down then. No I won't; I'll go and hit some guests.
Manuel will show you to your rooms - if you're lucky.
Next contestant, Mrs. Sybil Fawlty from Torquay. Specialist subject - the bleeding obvious.
Hello, Fawlty Titties.
Well, people don't talk that much in the morning. 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!
Some good other lines though, well spotted, esp Abriel for recalling "is this a piece of your brain", from the same episode as "well what do you expect from a Torquay hotel window? The hanging gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the prairies?", followed by "You can see the sea. It's over there look, between the land and the sky."
Edit to add the same episode, Basil speaking silently and in doing so encourages Mrs Richards to turn up her hearing aid to full, then shouting into it, in an act of pettiness.
and
I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your nightdress
"It's there, where it says 'Post Office'. I'm sorry if it's confusing."
He thinks 'Boff' is a locale.