Holiday Accommodations could learn something from this in their advertising campaigns. "Hotel for people who have more than a 50 percent chance of making it through the night". Beautifully written, brilliantly acted 🧡
Joan Sanderson was so underrated as a comedy actress. She always played harridans, as did Peggy Mount, but I’m guessing that they were both quite the opposite.
@@hazelanderson1479I’ve seen of the blooper scenes and she seemed to have had a great sense of humour in them. However, she has the perfect face and demeanor for the battle axe type of character she portrays.
Not a wasted line in the whole series. 'Stop keep talking about the war" .. "Well, you started it!"..."No we didn`t" "Yes you did, you invaded Poland".....I was rolling on the floor clutching my stomach....
Everyone always says the writing was brilliant, the ensemble cast were brilliant etc, and this is all true, but John Cleese's performance as Basil is an absolute tour de force :)
@@millomweb They wrote it together and they continued writing in the last year of their marriage. So that explains why they stopped writing more of it.
There was a time in my life, about 25 years ago that my life was pretty much as pressurized and intense as Basil's, running my own small business with the public cramming it to me and I got thru it partly by watching Fawlty Towers! True story.
My faviourite Fawty Towers scene: German Guest: "Will you stop talking about the war? Basil: "Me? You started it". German "Guest : We did not"! Basil: "Yes, you did. You invaded Poland" lol That dialogue is up there with Dad's Army's "don't tell him pike", Two Ronnies Fork Handles Sketch and only fools and horses bar scene. The old British comedy is the best. Thanks for the upload.
The Monty Python team really did change the face of British comedy ... and it has been a world leader ever since... no one can come within a mile of it...🤔🙂
"You put Basil in the ratatouille???" - That's my personal number 1. It followed such masterfully scripted setup culminating in the perfect three-way pun. Sheer genius.
Having watched both parts, amazed the bedroom scene in Communication Problems didn't make the list where Basil was asking Mrs Richards what she expected to see out of a hotel window in Torquay. Also, most of the scenes with Bernard Cribbins in the Hotel Inspectors were absolute classics. What a great show, 11 top class episodes and the underwhelming 'Anniversary' episode stopping it from being complete perfection.
Absolutely no hope of that. FT was "Lightning in a bottle." If they tried to do it again, it would pale against the original. If they tried to modernize it, there would be nothing but a comparison to the original. Futile efforts to copy and repeat success time after time has led Television and all of the media, really into the near constant state of mediocrity we see gushing out in rivers every time the TV is switched on. Better to encourage originality, as if the people who run networks these days would ever allow that.
Yeah, even John Cleese couldn't make comedy like this again. He only did 12 episodes and decided it had run its course. I've always been disappointed that he did so few, but at the same time glad he didn't do so many that it "jumped the shark" like so many of our American sitcoms have done because the creators wanted to milk it for every dollar they could. We all just have to be happy with an even dozen.
@@jamesthe-doctor8981 Yes, I agree quality always beats quantity. John Cleese and Connie Booth did actually start writing a third series but they had already exhausted nearly all the comic situations a hotel could offer. I think it was Cleese himself who said that while rehearsing a particular scene for the third series, he, Connie Booth and Prunella Scales just stopped midway through it and looked at each other, realising: "this just isn't funny." So - twelve episodes is all we have, but they are all priceless gems and we have to be happy with that.
It would have to be nothing like FT then. All attempts to copy great humor has failed miserably, like the British version of Impractical Jokers, it was so boring and pathetic that everything british became repulsive.
I’ve watched a lot of sitcoms on both sides of the Atlantic - and even accepting differences in taste and delivery of comedy between Americans and the British - for my money this is the best comedy ever. Truly ever. I’ve watched Communication Problems probably 100 times and I still laugh out loud, it’s that good! Cleese is terrific and the late Andrew Sachs (Manuel) were among the many highlights of this series. My biggest complaint is that they didn’t make more of the damn episodes, sad that a little separation and divorce prematurely ended one of the best sitcoms ever written and produced. Some of the jokes are outdated today but so much is not (“are you Aw-rally men?”)
@@thefonzkiss Yes, there was also a four year gap between the two seasons, no doubt to allow Cleese and Booth to work out some of their differences, creative and otherwise.
I am not a young man and today's humour does not even move me, too sophisticated, too full of smutty inuendo. But yesterday's humour, just plain slap stick fun, Fawlty Towers, Dad' Army, keeping Up Appearances, Dave Allen, Tommy Cooper, and even Tom and Jerry to name but a few makes me split my sides. Moreover, when one examines the scripts and acting, there is so much genius behind it. Thank you all for all the uploads.
God, I loved this show...even my wife laughed at this one. Used to have tiny voice file snippets that I kept on my computer at work that I would work into conversations with other employees...my fav is when Polly is standing behind Basil's wife, pantomiming the name of a horse that Basil allegedly bet on, and between her movements and pointing at Sybill, Basil comes up with, "Flying Tart"...
@@bretdouglas9407 the only anagram that actually fitted fawlty towers, they had ones like flay otters, farty towels, watery fowl but they didn’t have every letter in. 😂
The best line is the outboard motor salesman..." I hate to trespass further upon your valuable time...but might I have the wine list PLEASE..!" Classic stuff..!
It should have played a bit further on number 9, when the German guest says "you started it" (talking about the war) and Basil says No we didn't, you invaded Poland.
Actually it's Basil who says "You started it!" (meaning the war) then the German guy (thinking he means that whole joke/scene) says "No we didn't!" then Basil says "Yes you did, you invaded Poland!"
This is my go-to video when I’m feeling down. Even though I’ve seen it soooo many times and could recite it verbatim, it still cracks me up every time. Ballard Berkeley’s confusion about the talking moose head runs a very close second to John Cleese’s exaggerated goose stepping. Sheer comedy magic that has never been bettered imo.
Fun fact:- flowery twats was the only anagram they used of fawlty towers that had all the letters in and fitted out of all the anagrams you used to see at the start of this great sit -com.
Mrs. Richards was the guest character I hated the most because she was so convincing. There's a blooper clip where Polly gets the line wrong and drops an F bomb. Mrs. Richards begins laughing. I was like wow she was only acting.
Joan Sanderson was such an underrated comedy actress. She could really turn up the shrew to 11. I did enjoy seeing her come out of character briefly when Connie Booth swore, however. JS would have made a great living imitating Mrs Thatcher, I think.
The first joke in the serie was one of the funniest, Manuel, there is too much butter on those trays, qué... There is too much butter ON THOSE TRAYS... No no no... una, dos, tres...
No wonder it still gets named..the best comedy of all time. Actors..characters..writers..everything..all 10/10.
"Give my regards to the earth's core."
Growing up in the 80s I would watch Fawlty, Python, and Who on our PBS station in the Midwest. How fortunate I was
Despite the age of this comedy it's still a British staple.
Mrs. Richards scene, Basil: "Give my regards to the Earth's core".
The best line in the whole series
"Is this a piece of your brain?" Breaks me up every time.
Michael Laprarie jodh%
And then Sybil bashes him 😆🤣
You can watch this thirty years later and still find it absolutely hilarious as I am doing now. Enjoy.
Holiday Accommodations could learn something from this in their advertising campaigns.
"Hotel for people who have more than a 50 percent chance of making it through the night".
Beautifully written, brilliantly acted 🧡
I totally forgot how incredibly hilarious Fawlty Towers is
I never tire of the Mrs. Richards bits: "Is this a piece of your brain?"
Joan Sanderson was so underrated as a comedy actress. She always played harridans, as did Peggy Mount, but I’m guessing that they were both quite the opposite.
@@hazelanderson1479I’ve seen of the blooper scenes and she seemed to have had a great sense of humour in them. However, she has the perfect face and demeanor for the battle axe type of character she portrays.
Not a wasted line in the whole series.
'Stop keep talking about the war" .. "Well, you started it!"..."No we didn`t" "Yes you did, you invaded Poland".....I was rolling on the floor clutching my stomach....
It’s genius. And you’re dead right. I think each episode took 6 weeks to script and revise until it was just right.
Everyone always says the writing was brilliant, the ensemble cast were brilliant etc, and this is all true, but John Cleese's performance as Basil is an absolute tour de force :)
Great. Never bettered. Pure classic undated comedy.
I wonder who /really/ wrote it ? Can't help thinking Connie - and that's why Cleese can't do any more.
There is more to be done - without a doubt.
@SavageArfad I know that's what it says on the tin.
Tour de force .....est l'expression adéquate !
@@millomweb They wrote it together and they continued writing in the last year of their marriage. So that explains why they stopped writing more of it.
3:07 Prunella Scales' delivery of that line was utterly priceless! 🤣🤣🤣
”Is this aa piece of your brain”?😀😀
I’ll have to remember to sing “oh, what a beautiful morning”when I wake up, so the wife knows I haven’t snuffed it during the night lol.
There was a time in my life, about 25 years ago that my life was pretty much as pressurized and intense as Basil's, running my own small business with the public cramming it to me and I got thru it partly by watching Fawlty Towers! True story.
Is this a piece of your brain?
@@alexojideagu Never fails to make me cry with laughter 🤣
@@tylerama forreal, I'm in bed last night in a bad mood and can't help but laugh..
That goose step is one of the most iconic scenes of all time. His height, that swing of the leg …works so wonderfully because of Cleese’s
height.
"Can't we get you on Masterminds? Next contestant, Sybil Fawlty from Torquay, special subject: The Bleeding Obvious!"
My faviourite Fawty Towers scene:
German Guest: "Will you stop talking about the war?
Basil: "Me? You started it".
German "Guest : We did not"!
Basil: "Yes, you did. You invaded Poland" lol
That dialogue is up there with Dad's Army's "don't tell him pike", Two Ronnies Fork Handles Sketch and only fools and horses bar scene. The old British comedy is the best. Thanks for the upload.
Bloody Brilliant THE BEST SERIES OF ALL TIME. . .
Shame only 12 episodes .
The Monty Python team really did change the face of British comedy ... and it has been a world leader ever since... no one can come within a mile of it...🤔🙂
Denne tv serien er det morsomste av comedie jeg har sett. Stor kunst-efter min smak.
Brynjar Hoff
Artist
"You put Basil in the ratatouille???" - That's my personal number 1. It followed such masterfully scripted setup culminating in the perfect three-way pun. Sheer genius.
"Is this a piece of your brain?" 😂
I'd forgotten just how beautiful Connie Booth was. She was my first schoolboy crush :-)
¿Que?
You sound like a girl..
Crush? Ha
@@michaelfenn7742 You sound like a complete wanker, but I am not complaining.
Got to have a pop havent you scumbag?
Fuck off and get a life.
Wow...time of the month?
@@michaelfenn7742 01:32 damn
4:29 - is this a piece of your brain 🧠?? 🤪😂🤣😂🤣
6:14 "Mrs Fawlty if he go I go!" "Goodbye"😂
Only John Cleese could do this completely perfectly.
John Cleese is a bloody genius!
Having watched both parts, amazed the bedroom scene in Communication Problems didn't make the list where Basil was asking Mrs Richards what she expected to see out of a hotel window in Torquay. Also, most of the scenes with Bernard Cribbins in the Hotel Inspectors were absolute classics. What a great show, 11 top class episodes and the underwhelming 'Anniversary' episode stopping it from being complete perfection.
'Hotel for people with a better than 50% chance of making it through the night.' I missed that one.
blakeyonthebuses “this is a hotel, not the burma railway” another great one liner
@@marklythall8712 [Polly knocks Miss Tibbs unconscious]
Oh, spiffing. Absolutely spiffing. Well done. Two dead, twenty-five to go.
wish they would make comedy like this again - this was hilarious, Im falling off the chair laughing!
Absolutely no hope of that. FT was "Lightning in a bottle." If they tried to do it again, it would pale against the original. If they tried to modernize it, there would be nothing but a comparison to the original. Futile efforts to copy and repeat success time after time has led Television and all of the media, really into the near constant state of mediocrity we see gushing out in rivers every time the TV is switched on. Better to encourage originality, as if the people who run networks these days would ever allow that.
Yeah, even John Cleese couldn't make comedy like this again. He only did 12 episodes and decided it had run its course. I've always been disappointed that he did so few, but at the same time glad he didn't do so many that it "jumped the shark" like so many of our American sitcoms have done because the creators wanted to milk it for every dollar they could. We all just have to be happy with an even dozen.
@@jamesthe-doctor8981 Yes, I agree quality always beats quantity. John Cleese and Connie Booth did actually start writing a third series but they had already exhausted nearly all the comic situations a hotel could offer. I think it was Cleese himself who said that while rehearsing a particular scene for the third series, he, Connie Booth and Prunella Scales just stopped midway through it and looked at each other, realising: "this just isn't funny." So - twelve episodes is all we have, but they are all priceless gems and we have to be happy with that.
It would have to be nothing like FT then. All attempts to copy great humor has failed miserably, like the British version of Impractical Jokers, it was so boring and pathetic that everything british became repulsive.
Yes it’s tragic you can’t do comedy now which makes a bit of fun at people it’s pathetic these days.
Den bästa serie som jag har sett på svensk TV
Timeless, Top entertain ment, really stood the test of time. Never tired of watching it,...
I’ve watched a lot of sitcoms on both sides of the Atlantic - and even accepting differences in taste and delivery of comedy between Americans and the British - for my money this is the best comedy ever. Truly ever. I’ve watched Communication Problems probably 100 times and I still laugh out loud, it’s that good!
Cleese is terrific and the late Andrew Sachs (Manuel) were among the many highlights of this series. My biggest complaint is that they didn’t make more of the damn episodes, sad that a little separation and divorce prematurely ended one of the best sitcoms ever written and produced. Some of the jokes are outdated today but so much is not (“are you Aw-rally men?”)
As Connie Booth and John Cleese remained friends after their divorce, I don't believe that was the reason for the shows demise.
@@jeffsullivan2044 Yes but the four year gap between the two series is often attributed to their personal matters.
They got divorced after S1 but before S2.
@@thefonzkiss Yes, there was also a four year gap between the two seasons, no doubt to allow Cleese and Booth to work out some of their differences, creative and otherwise.
The Nazi walk number 9? That is the landmark scene of the entire show! Should've been number 1, in my opinion.
The U-Turn is my favorite part too, You try it, it's so bloody hard to do and look natural.
MatthewPettyST1300 yes I agree,still don’t know how he kept his balance.😳😳😳
You started it!
We did not
Yes you did You invaded Poland.
I absolutely love it,glad I clicked on it. Gonna watch full episodes from now on
Limber Cleese... and he hated doing the Silly Walk.
The Mrs Richards is my fave.
I am not a young man and today's humour does not even move me, too sophisticated, too full of smutty inuendo. But yesterday's humour, just plain slap stick fun, Fawlty Towers, Dad' Army, keeping Up Appearances, Dave Allen, Tommy Cooper, and even Tom and Jerry to name but a few makes me split my sides. Moreover, when one examines the scripts and acting, there is so much genius behind it. Thank you all for all the uploads.
I think you could substitute the word sophisticated with pretentious.
Yesterday's humour was way more full of "smutty innuendo", just look at Are You Being Served.
Seeing Basil get the better of a disagreeable guest was always very satisfying.
To be fair, every scene was top drawer 😂
Manuel: "Spleep?!" :'D
God, I loved this show...even my wife laughed at this one. Used to have tiny voice file snippets that I kept on my computer at work that I would work into conversations with other employees...my fav is when Polly is standing behind Basil's wife, pantomiming the name of a horse that Basil allegedly bet on, and between her movements and pointing at Sybill, Basil comes up with, "Flying Tart"...
You have Basil and Polly switched around.
I miss those days of Fawlty Towers.
Aka flowery twats
@@bretdouglas9407 the only anagram that actually fitted fawlty towers, they had ones like flay otters, farty towels, watery fowl but they didn’t have every letter in. 😂
@@Eleventhearlofmars 😂😂
"You better go and lie down before something else happens".
Absolute quality line 😂😂
The best line is the outboard motor salesman..." I hate to trespass further upon your valuable time...but might I have the wine list PLEASE..!" Classic stuff..!
The last 5 minutes of that episode was perfect comedy.
My God I've aged since I first watched these - I've started fancying Cybil.
Sybil has a nice tush.
sai da2 again
*da aging
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@morbeus Morbeus nice chick
IS THIS A PEACE OF YOUR BRAIN. HA HA HA BASIL
Years ago I was given a book with the text of the complete script. Reading it gave so much pleasure. My favorite is Manuel naming his rat Basil.
I also expected the scene where guests leaving a hotel room are greeted by basil wilding a broom "right the game is up"
Best medicine when you're feeling down is a dose of Basil.
strafrag1 “WHOSE FAULT IS IT THEN YOU CLOTH EARED BINT, DENIS COMPTON’S?!” 🤣
The Angry American..Bruce Boa's finest moment on small or big screen!
He was Canadian.
It should have played a bit further on number 9, when the German guest says "you started it" (talking about the war) and Basil says No we didn't, you invaded Poland.
Actually it's Basil who says "You started it!" (meaning the war) then the German guy (thinking he means that whole joke/scene) says "No we didn't!" then Basil says "Yes you did, you invaded Poland!"
@@JettMoonwing actually, you got the jist of what i was saying even if it wasn't quite correct.
They wouldn't get away with that now, too many loony left Guardian readers who would get offended.
It wasn't further in the show. It was before this cut.
@@richallenxbox1976 that comment makes no sense.
BF: "I'M TRYING TO CHEER HER UP YOU STUPID CROUT!" LOL!
That's KRAUT.
It's a German word, you kraut..
The spelling is "Kraut"!!!!!
No. 9 should be No. 1 IMO
"is this a piece of your brain" go me so good. Just quality 😂😂
Favorite line of all time: "Is this a piece of your brain?"
The Germans, probably the funniest sitcom episode in history
This is my go-to video when I’m feeling down. Even though I’ve seen it soooo many times and could recite it verbatim, it still cracks me up every time. Ballard Berkeley’s confusion about the talking moose head runs a very close second to John Cleese’s exaggerated goose stepping. Sheer comedy magic that has never been bettered imo.
“Special subject: the bleeding obvious” 😂😂
"Is this a piece of your brain?"
Mrs Richards: My head! My head!
Basil: Has it come away??
@@jamesthe-doctor8981 better lie down before something else happens ..
“When you get to the basement, just keep going, Give my regards to the wrath’s core...”
“This a Hotel not the Burma railway” 😂
One of my favourite sitcoms.
Fawlty Towers is actually a horror movie, when you look at it this way czcams.com/video/ww7v6NrvjYw/video.html
"Give my regards to the Earth's core"
Timeless comedy, the best of Britain...
The old dear that gets knocked out takes some beating 🥴
Mugged by a gang of field mice. 😂
The best comedy in history ....
The best best komedy !!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The best
Realy should of done lots and lots more of thus...its brilliant I Nere died laughing watching thus so many times..
The kipper hanging out of the top of his tank top!!! *Oh stop it!*
@Pink Alien
58... Crying!
This humour would be banned outright today. So very funny.😂😅
no it wouldn't. you just dont get that level of writing now. Shame
You’d never be able to get away with this now😂😂😂
He is not going to get mugged by a gang of field mice 🤣 ha ha,get me a waldorf salad xx
By a mile,the best sitcom
My favourite.
I love all if them!!!
The whole series is a “top ten”, hands down!
Best comedy of all time.
20/20 needs this!
Mrs Fawlty if chi go i go..... Well goodbye!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Génial ! Merci de tout mon coeur 😂❤️😂
i love that ms Richerds
Best show ever in the history of tv
funny funny funny,love faulty towers,Bye for now love Alan
Fun fact:- flowery twats was the only anagram they used of fawlty towers that had all the letters in and fitted out of all the anagrams you used to see at the start of this great sit -com.
Thank u for this wonderful comedy, laughter, is the remedy for my sore mood
So many great moments
A work of true genius
Mrs. Richards was the guest character I hated the most because she was so convincing. There's a blooper clip where Polly gets the line wrong and drops an F bomb. Mrs. Richards begins laughing. I was like wow she was only acting.
i loved the character. she was so good wasnt she?
She was in a few things was the lady who plays Mrs Richards, I’m sure she was in one of the rising damp episodes as a mother in law.
Apparently the actress was the opposite of her character in real kife
Joan Sanderson was such an underrated comedy actress. She could really turn up the shrew to 11. I did enjoy seeing her come out of character briefly when Connie Booth swore, however. JS would have made a great living imitating Mrs Thatcher, I think.
love that theme song
Er! Tune.
Mannaghur, he mannaghur!
Mrs. Richards should have been in all 12 episodes
Thanks... Great memories indeed.
one of the funniest shows of all time...also ripping yarns with michael palin
The best moments are everytime Basil encounters Manuel
The first joke in the serie was one of the funniest, Manuel, there is too much butter on those trays, qué... There is too much butter ON THOSE TRAYS... No no no... una,
dos, tres...
The Mrs Richards episode was the best.
OLD HUMOR and love it, this is what i watched as a kid.
You started it!
We did not start it!
Yes you did, you invaded Poland.
Ziss iss unax-SEP-table!
Sybil: Basil.....there's a kipper sticking out of your jumper ;-)
'Is this a piece of your brain?'