FAVORITISM MUCH?! Americans React To "Fawlty Towers - S1E4 - The Hotel Inspectors"
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Bernard Cribbins, kids TV legend and spoon salesman extraordinaire.
I always dreamt of winning the lottery and paying Bernard Cribbins to narrate one day of my life.
Spppppoooon salesman!
I think Bernard cribbins narrated “The Wombles” …. All round kids tv entertainer from the 70s
And let’s be clear looked back upon with great fondness from our childhoods…. ABSOLUTELY NOT….. any association with Jimmie savel
Bernard was one of the few ones in the 70s to be trusted around kids
Plus Singer - "Right Said Fred"
Plus Soldier: The Parachute Regiment (active service).
Bernard Cribbins was a UK acting legend. Pretty much every British adult under the age of about 70 will have seen him in something during their childhood. He was in the The Railway Children and the Doctor Who movie Dalek Invasion of Earth, he returned to Doctor Who a decade or so ago, he was in three of the Carry On films and had a couple of hit singles back in the 50s (Hole In The Ground and Right Said Fred). He was Old Jack in the children's series Old Jack's Boat, and most famously, he was the narrator of legendary children's animated series, The Wombles.
He was apparently one of the nicest guys in the world - nobody had a bad word to say about him.
@@no-oneinparticular7264 Plus countless voice overs!
He was in one of the 1960s Dr Who films and became a key player in the series in the pazt decade+. His last work before he died last year was the Doctor Who episodes that will be shown soon. Genuine legend.
I'm afraid you are commenting and trying to educate a pair of uninterested bores
Was he in Harry potter??
He also did numerous stints on Jackanory.
Pink Floyd's lyrics to Time (Dark Side of the Moon) = "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" .. except Basil's quiet desperation is explosively leaking out.
'It wasn't as if I'd ordered an elephants ear on a bun!" I've watched these episodes probably a hundred times and I missed that one. Bernard Cribbins legend.
I grew up on Fawlty Towers, Black Adder and Red Dwarf and love them equally. Very funny.
The legendary Bernard Cribbens as Mr. Hutchins: he was a big star in the UK all my life! He passed away a year ago, aged 90, I think he was. You will find him in Dr Who, also.
Absolutely right about corkage! When I was in hospitality in NZ the 90s the local wine industry was trying to transition to Stelvin screwtop wine bottle caps. Vineyards had stored their library stocks of wine that way for years. I learned that corks in wine bottles were just the best solution that 18th century tech could come up with for an airtight seal. I further learned that "cork taint" affected almost a bottle in every case of traditionally sealed wine. (When a server pours you a tiny amount to taste when they open a bottle, it's so you can check for cork taint.)
Corked wine occurs when the contents of a bottle become contaminated with cork taint. Because corks are made of a natural substance, they can occasionally come into contact with airborne fungi. Under certain circumstances, these fungi can create a chemical compound known as TCA
Basil is raving mad. You can't help but love him and poor Manuel.
Poor Manuel?
Do you see what he puts poor Basil through?
Have you guys noticed the wording on the sign changes every week? The 'in joke' was that it was the paperboy fooling around to wind Basil up.
Reacting with the cork is when a bacteria in the cork turns the wine into vinegar. There was a large batch of bad corks in wine in europe in the 80s that caused many wine companies to stop using cork and change to screwtops. Due to about two years of wine from france and Spain turning to vinegar and many vineyards went bust.
I've watched this superb comic piece of history numerous times over the years and it never fails to make me laugh, great to see you both enjoying this treasure too......
Living these FT reactions! They’re a CZcams televisual feast!
Thats why all those people recommended this series. I have enjoyed it for decades.
The bird playing polly was John Cleese wife
For the US audience, a "borstal" = male young offendors; institution prevalent between the 1950's and 1970's. Unlike other institutions, the inmates went out in public to do work in the community.
Yup and for a film about THAT... watch "SCUM". Be warned, it's pretty grim.
in Kent my mum went there
Oh had N break down for the rest of ter life died 2 year ago 82
good night
I think 'Borstal Boy' is Irish author Brendan Beehan's most famous work? Today we'd refer to that subclass as Young Offenders; usually young males in trouble with the law and courts over petty crime, but not hardened career criminals.
Frozen peas are one of the foodstuffs that are better frozen.
When peas are harvested they go into the collection machine that freezes them in just a few minutes.
Frozen peas are fresher than fresh peas unless you're growing them yourself.
"Frozen peas are one of the foodstuffs that are better frozen." I entirely concur with that and would add that is absolutely essential that they are frozen, otherwise they would not be "frozen peas"
Was that the case back in the mid-seventies when this was made?
@@dougiemilnephotography756 That was the case back then. I worked for Birdseye in the early 1970s and frozen peas were one of their most iconic products. The peas came direct from the fields and were 'depodded' and frozen as fast as they could be processed.
@@rocketrabble6737thanks. Good to know, in case the subject ever comes up again
Cribbins, what a fecking ledge!
Spencer, you were in the wrong part of retail.
I was a security officer at Tesco many years ago and arresting people and throwing them on the floor is my kind of customer service 😂✌️♥️🇬🇧
This episode has my favourite ending of all. The timing of Basil's scream and his facial expression crack me up every time! Great to see you blokes had the same reaction! This episode also stars the late, great Bernard Cribbins - a great British entertainer in various comedic and dramatic roles for more than 70 years - as the verbose spoon salesman, Mr. Hutchinson!
Being verbose and aggressive helps a salesman be successful. Someone shy and nice wouldn't do so well at it.
In case you're wondering, Borstal is a young offender's institution, I don't think we use the term any more.
Polly uses an amusing epithet (9:29) 'Are you the Duke of Kent?'
It alludes to how a very posh British person, like the Duke of Kent for example, might call someone a 'See you next Tuesday'*
Posh British types mangle their vowels horribly, and so _might just_ tell someone:
_Look here, my man - you're being a total_ Kent!!
* spell it out - four letters - one for each word - abbreviating Tuesday to 'T'
You need to notice the Hotel signs at the start of credits - always a naughty anagram
The late great Bernard Cribbins is a absolute legend this side of the pond, a very clever funny man that will be very sadly missed by the people of the UK
I'm convinced these two have absolutely no clue what was going on in this episode.
They look bewildered and fall back on analysis
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John Cleese was inspired to write this after staying at a hotel in Torquay called Gleneagles. Apparently the owner was actually worse than Basil.
Donald Sinclair. The hotel has now been demolished and retirement apartment block built there called "Sachs Lodge" after Andrew Sachs who died just before they were built.
I'm still wondering if you guys have checked into the hotel name plate in the opening credits. Have a look and you will realise it tends to 'evolve'.
The scream at the end kills me🤣
🇬🇧 Norfolk : every episode though not enough were made are brilliantly written 😊
The cork dries out which in turn allows air in turning the wine to sour. Hence the reason for laying bottles on their side. They have used corks for years as plastic corks and screw tops weren't available.
Was that Bernard Cribbins getting an omelette?
Wine can get 'corked' if the cork has a particular fungus
The whole reason people take a sip of wine before an entire glass is poured is to test it to make sure it isn't corked. It has nothing to do with 'tasting the wine'.
Sometimes the wine reacts with the cork and turns vinegary.
Frozen stuff absorbs too much water, that is how you can easily taste if something was frozen.
They did some outakes that were hilarious. They had to do the scene again .Look it up. 🇬🇧🏴
Have you noticed there is some kid playing around with the hotel signpost at the beginning?!
yes it's an adult dressed up as one, one of the crew I think.
Nice to see a great reaction esp. to this episode. So many quotable lines imo.
'Papers arrived yet Fawltyyy?....'
One of the funny bits, if you haven't already noticed or been told already, is the "Fawlty Towers" sign at the start of each episode. The loose letters are rearranged each week, possibly by naughty schoolboys....
The brilliant Bernard Cribbins. Passed not long ago aged 93. Brilliantly funny actor. You didn't seem very impressed with this episode?
Because Mr. Hutchinson is the most annoying character from the entire series (yes, more than Mrs. Richards). This episode is infuriating, and rarely funny.
@@longtallshorty5791 I agree it's not the best.
@@longtallshorty5791 It's incredibly funny. Bernard Cribbins is great and they must have had a fantastic time making this one.
@@rocketrabble6737it’s just annoying.
@@longtallshorty5791 To you...
14:30 corked wine : sometimes a cark stays damp, allowing air and rot into the bottle. Tin screw caps are better.
Basil Fawlty is my spirit animal.
Water in frozen food makes it expand and then turns back to water making it lose the freshness
Many years ago I worked for a company that was much involved in frozen foods and one thing I learned was that peas were one of of the best things to freeze in terms of flavour, reducing wastage and making them available all year round. It's not surprising that it is the no.1 frozen vegetable in the UK.
Corked wine has had oxygen seep through the cork and oxidises the wine, storing them on their sides keeps the cork wet and this should stop that happening. Corked wine has often been stored upright
Frozen is not just suspended animation 😂 old gordon Ramsey would get even more wrinkles if he heard Spencer talking like that
Absolutely, corked wine is ruined. The same way you can, say, be served a beer that's 'off' (because it's the last of a barrel, Or the pipes need to be cleaned, etc), any regular wine drinker will know instantly that their wine is 'corked', and Not to drink it.
When Fawlty Towers was bought & broadcast in Spain, Manuel was changed to a Mexican rather than "he's from Barcelona".
Fawlty Towers is based on a hotel that John Cleese stayed in
It was called The Gleneagles - the Pythons stayed there when they were making Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The owner threw Eric Idle's cases out because he thought there was a bomb in them, and criticised Terry Gilliam because he ate the "American" way, rather than the "British" way. John Cleese said he was the rudest man he ever met - and he became the model for Basil Fawlty.
By way of a tribute, the Gleneagles is mentioned in the episode "The Builders" as the place where the guests have to go for food while the building work is going on.
Bernard Cribbins was a legend.
Corking happens when air gets past the cork, when the cork gets too dry etc. Then the wine ferments and spoils. Artificial corks are commonplace now.
The character of Basil was based on an actual hotel owner that John Cleese encountered while he was filming the Monty Python series of movies He was staying in a hotel (I forget the location) with his fellow Python cast mates and they were all appalled by the hotel owner's rudeness to the guests. In tact all his cast mates decided to leave and check into another hotel because the owner was so incredibly rude and obnoxious towards the guests. John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth (who portrayed Polly in Fawlty Towers) did decide to stay. A few years later when John and Connie were brainstorming for an idea for a new tv series to write and produce they thought back to the surly hotel owner and that became their inspiration for the character for Basil and the show. They co wrote the pilot script and the rest, as they say, is history.
Ye, but have you seen the episode of an early 70s show which J C wrote for and hence includes an early equivalent to Basil in it, which was his dry run before they wrote F T?
@@gaskellr44 no, I haven't, but I must search it up. Sounds fascinating.
Sok, I'll save you the effort Doctor at Large S1E14 - No Ill Feeling!@@jenniferrichardson8474
Gleneagles Hotel, Torquay. The owner was called Donald Sinclair. He sold it sometime in the seventies, and it has now closed. I think it might have been demolished.
@@jimmyjohnson7027 thank you so much for this info. I couldn't, for the life me, remember the name of the hotel or the name of the original hotel owner.
There was a live show here a few years back, not on stage, but in a restaurant setting with actors in the role of Basil, Manuel etc.
Yes and done without Cleese and Booths permission.
Fresh peas and frozen are not the same. If a restaurant advertises their vegetables are fresh then they had better not have been frozen.
Gordon Ramsay has had this arguement before.
Everything frozen will lose it's quality in time.
Peas are ok frozen I guess, a lot of things don't taste the same frozen though.
My favourite is The Germans totally fantastic
‘Spoons eh?’
‘I’m sorry?’
‘Spoo**blows raspberry**oons’
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Private Eye would have taken a greater interest in that topic.
Fresh means from the field to the plate, freezing affects the texture and nutrition of most food and the difference is noticeable. Also, asking for fresh avoids eating stuff that's been in the freezer for half the year.
It's better than it going to to waste!
Yes, but if you're paying restaurant prices and the menu says fresh, that's what you should get. @@rocketrabble6737
Just seen your first reaction to this series. Glad your watching it. The first 3 episodes of the next series are the best!
The brilliant thing about the ending of this episode is that you know there should be an entire episode after it which should exist but maybe never will.
Well John Cleese is bringing back Fawlty Towers.
"Corked" means the wine is contaminated by trichloroanisole, a chemical compound, caused by mould in corks or wood.
absolute classic
The most common kind of wine flaw is called 'cork taint' (ie, when you hear people say a bottle is 'corked'). This means that the cork of the bottle has been infected with a bacteria called Trichloroanisole ('TCA' for short). A 'corked' wine will smell and taste like musty cardboard, wet dog, or a moldy basement.
This is why I always buy the screwtop wine. Also it's cheap!
I’m guessing people have already said this but you guys need to check out the carry on movies. They are British comedy at the highest standard. And there’s plenty of them so the content will keep coming. Love the channel too, you guys are my go to when I need a laugh.
Definitely.
They are very much of their time. The men are mostly middle-aged leches and the women are either nubile bimbos or controlling dragons. But they are incredibly funny with it.
On the word 'fresh', UK standards these days are still all over the place regarding the foodstuff or even context for that matter.
In terms of fruit and veg, fresh means being picked and as close to harvest as possible, as well as having no extra processing undertaken, including freezing. Hence frozen peas are not 'fresh', though there's nothing wrong with using them!
Yeah, they seem to be confusing "fresh" with "unspoiled". As in, freezing vegetables doesn't make them go bad. It does however change their texture and in some cases, the flavour as well. I remember thinking I didn't like vegetables as a child, until I tasted vegetables that had been cooked from FRESH (my mother only used mixed frozen vegetables from a bag). It makes a huge difference to me. I agree with others though, that peas are fine frozen, as long as they're cooked and used in food (as opposed to being eaten raw as a snack).
@@VelkanAngels Aw man, those frozen mixed veg bags sucked.
I had fresh veg regularly, but they were always boiled to death, mushy and tasteless.
When I moved out and cooked for myself, I went to making them ANY other way than boiling (with some tips from Chef Ramsay)!
John Cleese was married to the lady that played Polly at the time.
Can’t wait for the “I know nothing” episode.
11:00 never open a restaurant, once you freeze food all the water molecules in the food expand and rupture the structure of the food, no matter how you defrost it, it will never taste like fresh food
In the UK the pea harvest is geared up to them being frozen within an hour of being picked. Once picked peas tend to dry out very fast and a frozen pea is usually far superior to any un-frozen ones you can find on sale.
@@alanmacleod9464 even so I presume you are saying frozen peas taste different to fresh ones
the dead body, psychiatrist and hearing problems are the best ones still to come
FYI - once you freeze food it is NO LONGER FRESH!!!!
If I could name the two best English SitComes ever thus far : { Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses }.
Have you noticed the name of the hotel in the opening credits. They change all the letters around
Flowery Twats.
it's very amusing watching you two trying to appreciate this SOH, you're barely getting the jokes, just the obvious slap-stick, whereas some of the nuances between the principal players goes completely over your heads - very entertaining guys!
Have you noticed the sign outside the hotel at the start says something different every time. "farty towels".
Unfortunately Spencer, frozen vegetables are not fresh vegetables, the difference is vary big, frozen vegetables are watered down and lose flavor and density.
Is the idea that frozen food can be considered fresh an American thing or a Spencer and Daniel thing?
Kitchen Nightmares would suggest it's a global thing 😅
A little tip lads, fresh is no longer fresh once frozen ❄⛄👸
Awesome faulty…12 of them…great review
After this I think you'd enjoy another britcom called The Brittas Empire.
Great channel guys love. The Spencer Lad is a bit annoying tho lol. Good luck
please have a look at Muse Roma Supremacy - in fact all of it!
Wine should be stored lying down - it it's stood up, the cork dries out....
You normally smell the cork before pouring the wine.
Per Gordon Ramsey there's no such thing as fresh frozen!
cork and wine...are you guys also an educational channel?
R.I.P. Bernard cribbins . TV legend
Unfortunately your For Copyright Reason overlay obscures the hotel sign from the opening credits.
The signpost at the start of every episode has different writing on it every time.
except the early episodes.
The writing is a different anagram each episode from the letters of “Fawlty Towers”.
I believe the only one that was a true anagram was Flowery Twats. Which also happened to be the best one!
or vagasel, to give it its modern name.@@dopiaza2006
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Editing was a bit jerky but the show is great
60s to 90s British tv show i enjoy like bottom, it aint half hot mum, dads army, red dwaft etc.
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We don't do music reactions on here anymore, Daniel (guy on the right) does music reactions on his own channel "Arias And The Nation" it's linked in the description. Your best bet is to park this comment under a video on that channel & not this one
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What arw you on about frozen is not fresh.
...then again you're focussing on the fresh vegetable vs frozen argument rather than the humour :)
lol why tell people yourcamericans? Why does that matter?
It's been scientifically proven that frozen veg is just as good as fresh (in some cases like with peas: even better). Sadly this does not factor in to people's crazy beliefs that anything not dug up that morning is inherently evil. A lot of people believe frozen and tinned food must be contaminated in someway.