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RIP Ballard Berkley. We all loved you, Major.
What a wonderful character the Major was, pure comedy gold.
The major was my favourite character in FT . Manuel no 2
I always loved the major. A lesser character but left a big impact. I heard an interview with his children who said he was the same cheery and slightly eccentric gentleman in real as he was on the show.
Yes so did i and thats nice to know. Ballard has had cameo roles in many other films, but sadly not enough.
Very similar scenario imo to Trigger in Only Fools and Horses originally in it as a sort of support character, but ended up being a main character in his own right.
The "I can speak English" scene gets me every time. Once you know the characters, you can see it coming and it delivers exactly how you imagine it should be.
"...Didnt think the Canadians were that clever..."
What a great character, never to be forgotten.
The Major. Iconic and most always treated with understanding and respect.
It was usually implied that he was a senile racist old drunk.
Didn't Basil knee him in the groin in one episode?
Sidward to keep him quiet
I adored the Major. Sheer brilliance. This is when things were genuinely funny.
As the British say 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'. There is no TV comedy being made today that even comes close to this masterpiece. Decades from now this will still be watched and enjoyed by many unlike the very forgettable TV of today.
Patmofar exactly same with music, music now is terrible
The Major was a great character in a brilliant show.
Missed out my favourite:
American guest : This is the worst hotel in England.
Major: No I won’t have that! There’s a place in Eastbourne.
Yes! That's one of the best.
I believe the American guest said: This hotel is the worst in Western Europe.
No no no, I won’t have that! There’s a place in Eastbourne.......The Major was so funny 😂.
He actually said "It's a place in Eastbourne." Fitted with his character as he had no idea where he was staying.
im in eastbourne XD the grand lol
Won't be able to enjoy even those lines soon as I suppose it's offensive to the poor folks suffering the onset of dementia......which will be almost all of us one day.
Major should’ve been in this more he was a legend
The Major was a standout , amongst a cast of unparalleled brilliance . " What ....? ... Germans...? Here...? " .
Don't mention the war.....
The only excert that failed to include which is great pity ...Germans comming here ?
@@chrisholland7367 Of coarse ! ... " Evening Fawlty ! .. paper in ? "
But they’re vermin Fawlty.
“Ger-Germans coming here, bunch of krauts that’s what they are, bad eggs the lot of them! “ Polly: “What about German women Major”.....Major: “good card players”
The insanity of it helps keep me sane.
The irony of omitting the "cricketers" bit is that even back in the late 70s when Fawlty Towers was made, the joke was on the Major - for being an embarrassing old racist, casually saying things like that out loud and thinking nothing of it - and the audience was TRUSTED to have the intelligence to understand that moment was a comment rather than an endorsement.
Yeah ... so cowardly today ... it's snowflake ville
Lol, no it wasn't. People talked like that back in the 70s. My grandparents were n wording it all over the shop even into the 90s! That's just some revisionist excuse that makes it look like snowflakes are ruining everyone's fun.
@@philbecker4676 The fact that some people did (and still do) talk like that in real life has nothing to do with the show's intention with that scene. The show's attitude is clearly "you can't say that!" - not promotion or endorsement of such language.
Like everything else in Fawlty Towers, the purpose of the scene is to put Fawlty in a compromised position so we can watch him squirm. Fawlty can't have the Major saying stuff like that openly in his B&B, but he's also such a ghastly toady toward anyone he thinks is "upper class" he's desperate not to be forced to "have a word" with the Major about it. Classic farce, basically.
Anyone who thinks the racist language was intended to be the punchline is watching Warty Towels wrong.
@@blatherskite3009 Flowery twats.
And that he was at lost a slightly senile old man.
The Major actually was a great character 😁.
Notice how Basil always treats major with respect.
It's a class thing.....
Rumour has it the Major is still sat at that bar in Torquay reading a paper !
😂
He'd be about 120.
@@anonUK 120 is the new 90,due to a healthy diet of organic food, plenty of exercise and the odd tot of whisky he's still very much alive and kicking....I think 😀
@@justmadeit2
Unfortunately, he died in 1988 and both the High Wycombe Country Club and the Gleneagles are gone as well.
He needs a statue, in a bar, doing just that there.
All the characters on this show were amazing
that's the crack, Kas, ya ca'nt repeat it... it's the only sitcom i watch back (a million times) and get "tears" in my eyes, wi laughing.
What a wonderful character
There was an old Major at the golf club, in the early 80s,I used to caddy for him, he was mad as a box of ferrets. He used to ask me what I did for my summer holidays...”camping in Wales” I replied, “sounds dash boring, when I was your age, I used to sail to India and shoot tigers” was his retort. He always put loads of curry powder on everything he ate. He was always very gentlemanly and polite.
The lovely Polly, I had such a crush on her, happy memories.
That is great! Thanks for sharing this story
Not sure if it was before or after Fawlty (think it was on BBC2) about an old retired ex army officer, returning to England after living in South Africa for fifty odd years, he told stories of joining the Army pre ww2, posted to Africa, and his adventures 'pig sticking' with the other officers, riding horses hunting wild pigs with lances, after a lifetime of being waited on first in the officers mess and then with servants in his own house, the return to England was something of a culture shock, other than boiling a kettle, he had no idea how an oven worked, never seen a supermarket, he came across as someone from another time/world, private school, then the army, no real friends and the last of a disappearing class.
@@brendancasey866 "never seen a supermarket" Reminds me of the bit in "To The Manor Born" where Audrey visits a supermarket for the first time and proclaims "If somebody doesn't serve me soon I shall help myself!"
@@rogerbarton497 I can't remember the name of the documentary, the guy was a real character, for about 3 months he cropped up on a few programs, took part in a roundtable discussion on racism, one of the other guests was a young Billy Bragg, he schooled him on the caste system in India, then immediately warmed to him when he found out Bragg was ex army
"mad as a box of ferrets". 😂👌 That's hilarious! I've never heard that one before.
Barking mad but a great British eccentric!
Thanks for this. The Major was always my favourite character in FT.
my favourite:
"Black? Churchill was'nt black."
😂😂😂
So funny!!!
Major: that’s a lovely little dog you have there
Lady: oh thank you it’s a little Shi’Tszu
Major: oh sorry to hear that, what breed is it?
When he mistakes the fire alarm for the burglar alarm. Basil says there aren’t any burglars Major, Major says shouldn’t we catch them first, they’re getting away. John Cleese said the Major was the funniest character on set. Genius writing. Now we’ve got Keith Lemon, oh dear.
Keith Lemon, now there’s a joke, not!
...bo selecta
I see by his tie that the Major is an Artilleryman ☺️
“You’re off your guard, you see?”
"He lost it, you know."
😆😆😆👍
It's true. My brother died in his sleep. If chest pain, no body there to help or call an ambulance.
The greatest comedies always have the best supporting actors :- the major, manual, trigger,baldrick etc etc.
"Ahhh, shot was he?"
Brilliant!😄
In his sleep ahhh well your off your guard u see
John Cleese once said , he thought the Major was the funniest character in the show .
@James Henderson it is called humour ,you silly little man .
@James Henderson AND ? WHAT IS WRONG ABOUT MAKING REMARKS ABOUT IMMIGRATION ? ARE WE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE AN OPINION IN YOUR BRAVE NEW WORLD . REMEMBER ,LITTLE NODDY , JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE OFFENDED DOES NOT MAKE YOU RIGHT . BUT OF COURSE , YOU WERE NOT OFFENDED , YOU ARE JUST A LITTLE TROLL , YOUR POST MADE THAT OBVIOUS FROM THE START .
@James Henderson THAT IS WHY HE SPOKE OUT , YOU NUMBSKULL . HE WAS SAYING WHAT HE PERCEIVED TO BE THE TRUTH .BETTER TO BE TRUTHFUL THAN HYPOCRITICAL .THE BRITISH PROVERB IS .....WHAT IS ON MY TONGUE IS ON MY LUNG . BRITISH CIVILISATION , IS , IN MY NOT SO HUMBLE OPINION THE BEST IN THE WORLD AND I SPEAK AS SOMEONE WHOSE GREAT GRANDFATHER CAME HERE FROM THE NETHERLANDS IN ABOUT 1878 .
@James Henderson good. We didn't sign up to be obliterated in our own countries.
James Henderson I rather think you’re a very vocal twat.
They missed his speech about cricketers. His finest moment.
Political correctness!!!
The f**king Woke millenials would have been traumatised!!!😂😂😂😂
@@keithdukes5990 The entire nation would grind to a halt!
It would be more catastrophic than any asteroid impact!
You mean the time he lost his wallet, terrible
So where’s the link?
1:33 - “I didn’t know Canadians were as clever as that...” 😂🇨🇦
Sometimes in the morning I imitate him and say 'Morning Fawlty' to anyone actually.
😂😂😂
Fun fact: Not long after I watched this episode I found myself in a Torquay B&B on my first family holiday with my mum & dad, in the morning at our first breakfast of the week I was offered a Kipper and I politely refused as I couldn't shake what had happened to poor Mr Leeman.... 40 years later... I still haven't tried a Kipper! 🤔🇬🇧
Can you say that again? I'm a little hard of herring
You've omitted him firing his gun at a rat in the bar as well as him talking about cricketers & women.
I heard (or read), that "Major" Ballard Berkeley disrupted the whole production, by making everyone collapse into giggles. Far and away my favourite character.
RIP Talent and Genius...
He was brilliant, just brilliant.
The Major and the moose ... my all time favourite
left out his funniest bit to my mind, probably for PC reasons.
major - "i took her to see india"
basil - "really?"
major - "at the oval, and you know she kept referring to the indians as........."
those that know and love the show can fill in the rest, if i put it in it will probably get deleted in this take offense society.
The fact the snowflakes can't see the the irony in those few funny lines is why we are in the state we're in today.
Oh yes, that’s the part where he said the words niggers and wogs. I’m fairly sure that the context in which those words are used is extremely important in determining whether or not anyone should take offence at them. Yes, yes, I think that’s the point of satire, overall. Not to endorse such behaviour literally but to reveal it as an object of ridicule itself. Of course, any attempt to censor an attempt to ridicule racist behaviour could only be construed as the actions of people who didn’t want that racist behaviour to be the object of ridicule. I.e. I can only presume that the BBC don’t want racists to be ridiculed. Guess they’re racists then!
Seek and ye will find. czcams.com/video/frgUqikTcRU/video.html
"No No NO I SAID ..."
The casting was awesome in this series.
Lovely Ballard Berkeley was perfectly cast as Major Gowen. A truly great actor who did not get the recognition he deserved earlier in his career.
Actually, he took leading roles in early British 1950s crime films, usually an Inspector at Scotland Yard...Great chap, sadly missed..🤔🤔😳🇬🇧
Thank goodnes for Fawlty Towers, Fascinatin!!!!!!
‘I must have liked her I took her to see India’ priceless
...at the Oval...
I love the Major. We need more of his generation around these days.
What racist and senile? We already have plenty of geezers like that in their 60s and 70s these days
Yeah we do, people who fought for their nation and understood how hard earned the freedoms we take for granted today were.
... So what, we should bring them back from the dead? What a weird thing to say.
@@philbecker4676 who said that?
@@calum1741 How can you bring a generation back? 🤣 They're all dead, gurl. Maybe you meant "People who are like the people in his generation".
I am laughing again even though I have seen the series dozens of times.
It just occurred to me that the major is not a real person, he’s a character played by an amazing actor
What about the West Indian v Indian cricket players bit?!
Too racist for modern audiences. I hate this new world we live in.
@@monkeyballz168 Indeed, too many leftie Guardian readers who get all uppity about everything.
@@richallenxbox1976 fuck the commie scumbags
@@hgfhghghgfhfghgfhghg538 You have issues.
@@richallenxbox1976 shut it commie
You won it on that horse was magic as well
Pure Wonderment Back in the day when people were not taking themselves so very seriously. Unlike today where you have the right not to get your feelings hurt ever by anyone.
Rest in peace Ballard Berkley. Both his Major from Fawlty Towers and Pete Butterworths Admiral from the film Carry On Girls are brilliant characters that are very similar.
You seem to have missed many of his funniest moments involving the Germans & Cricket
Indeed. Censored, don't you know....?
Watch out Major, they might come for you soon..
Ah knew you'd find it , lost it you know? We all know what Basil lost in Fawlty Towers, and it wasn't a door 😂😂
Brilliant fawlty towers
You've missed out him talking about Indian cricketers & hunting for the rat with a rifle.
Political correctness!!!
The Woke millenials would have been traumatised!!!😂😂😂😂
Where's the "I took her to see India..."
Hizzy Voltaire I suspect they left it out for fear of being accused of endorsing racism which the Major unwittingly lets out in that skit.
@@SanderSovrlic-alesov I find it ironic that comedies like "Til Death us do part", "Aint Half Hot Mum" and "Love Thy Neighbour" were a parody of bigoted characters, poking fun at their extreme views. Now in these snowflake times, the snowflakes in their lust for being "offended" bizarrely turn the aim on its head and say they were endorsing extreme views.
I'm Indian and I don't object to that scene
@@SanderSovrlic-alesov people will fail to understand this character served in the British army possibly in India and picked up some extreme views on the indigenous peoples this was the norm weather we liked or not and it should still be omitted because it's part of the character that is the major.
yes thats a classic
Nutty as a fruit cake, and that's why we loved him!
I've always wanted to live the 'Major in Fawlty Towers' lifestyle, get up when I like, G&T for 11 sies quick scan through the paper and back on the G&T...what more could you want in a retirement
The best was when he talked about a girl he took to watch cricket, no chance that being shown of course.
No chance, because of political correctness!!! The Woke millenials would have been traumatised!!!😂😂😂😂
get the dvd
One of my favourite characters.
Just brilliant 😊
How could you not put in the Major hunting Basil the Rat?
It's simply because the snowflakes cannot handle the Germans as 'vermin' joke.
Love the Major !
She ready now! Not you!! 😂
GOT TO LAUGH AT THE CRAZY OLD MAJOR 😊
Evening Major XD
Major is my favourite character
Charmingly, harmlessly nuts!
The Major, mad as a hatter BUT such a great character.
Bloody Marvelous!🇬🇧
I once stayed in the Glenagles hotel in Torquay before it was demolished and didnt realise it was the hotel Fawlty Towers was based on. The owner Basil was based on (Sinclair) had long departed so it wasnt a bad experience in fact the the nearby Kent Cavern and the little bay at the back of the hotel were a real treat. The outside shots of the hotel are actual the Woodburn Grange country clubs bucks now also coincidentally demolished.
Definitely my favourite
One of my favourite Fawlty Towers characters
Great character actor
To this day when I come home I always say to my Partner, “papers in Fawlty”? 😂
Haha he doesn't look quite the Ticket, classic
A great series and I think Major was my favorite character 1:45 . So original and enjoyable.
Imagine making this today; A white, privileged man with a military oppressor background from the days of imperialistic colonialism, making jokes at the expense of Canadians, and treating a worker from the downtrodden Spanish minority as a person of low intellect based upon their ethnicity. It would never get off the ground.
Comedy... gotta love it. But egotistical bellends hate that people find funny things offensive. Who would actually watch a tv show and say ‘oh I got offended by that… let’s ruin the show for everyone else...’
Totally agree. Comedy is comedy. If it doesn’t work, then it’s unsuccessful. Fawlty Towers was because it was!
Crude attempts to wrest control of humour away. If you can’t laugh, you can’t subvert power. It’s a post modernist communist power grab. Take away a prime weapon that a free society possesses against tyranny.
@DriftZ TwoSeven True, it's called the BBC.
They literally removed a few seconds of dialogue because it had the n word and this is no longer 1975. Does it really anger you that much? Does it absolutely ruin the episode for you? Does it make you unable to enjoy any other episodes? Sounds like a pretty snowflake response to me 😅
Doliveria has scored a century again🤣😂😭
He starred in lots of British "B" movies in the 50's and 60's. Been watching then on Talking pictures (ch81)
"He's started early!"
"We called her Winnie because she looked like Winnie"
Best Character on Fawlty Towers by far ,!
My favourite Major line is, when a woman talks to him about her dog. She says: ‘He is a little Shih Tzu. ‘Oh dear’, says the Major. ‘What’s the breed?’
The gent was really great🌹
Classic!
Berkeley was an extremely dapper and handsome actor in his youth.
"Did you know that the female gibbon gestates....for seven months?!?!?"
Underated was he. A good character. I don't know how expanding it would have worked. There's always reports that his character was to be developed in series 3 but that was never to be. Two's our lot.
Timeless X
HOW ARE YOOOOUUUU SSSSIIIIRRRR
I CAN SPEEEK EEENGLEEESHHH
I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I'm fine, thank you!
Brilliant
My absolute favourite has got to be:
“Fawlty, did you know that the female gibbon gestates for 7 months? “
Mine too!!!
bad eggs all of them!
You missed the one where he’s firing a shotgun in the hotel
What about the episode where he refers to a certain cricket team as wogs?
Where’s the cricketers ? His best speech
Should have been the Daily Telegraph industrial relations correspondent with his interest in strikes.