From the episode "Communication Problems" - Basil gets somewhat frustrated about a picky, and deaf, guest. If you have any favourite clips from the show, let us know and we'll upload them! All copyrights belong to the BBC.
Basil shouldn't have run a Hotel 🏨 he was inpatient treated the guests badly 🙄 he kept hitting the waiter Manuel who was from Barcelona 🤣the one guest he didn't argue with was the Waldorf salad 🥗 American man Harry who said he 🏨 hotel 🛏️ was the worst in western Europe. 🌍
The script, the timing of the deliveries of the lines and exchange of facial expressions plus the quality of the actors makes this a classic scene up there with the best.
@@0532MOET well it could have had twice as many. John Clease was married to the one playing Polly at the time and got divorced after the second season, but the series could have easily gone on without her, John Cleese more or less carried it on his own
Me and my siblings absolutely died at that line when we were little. It's such a classic series, it's sad to think that the modern generations won't watch it.
"What did you _expect_ to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across..." I used to wish some sour-faced customer would complain about their hostel bedroom view, so that I could use that golden line in retaliation!! 😂😂
@@Simon0 In one sense,I think it was a poor episode.The American walks all over Basil and he doesn't really get any measure of revenge- not even a cream pie in the kisser,nothing.
A bit of trivia: The music heard at 1:58 when Basil switches on the radio is called "Leisure Complex", from the 1973 album by British composer Alan Hawkshaw titled 'Happy Rainbows'.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter Sorry for the late reply. I'm a fan of lots of 1970s tv incidental music that was first released as 'library music' on labels such as KPM & De Wolfe. By chance, I was listening to the Happy Rainbows album and there it was. 😊
She was the PERFECT guest to lock horns with Basil Fawlty! You could say it was a match (so to speak) made in Hades...or Bedlam. His line about the Sydney Opera House, etc was magnificent! 😂
I love Mrs Richards! Joan Sanderson owned that episode and Communication Problems is my all time favourite Fawlty Towers episode. "Is this a piece of your brain?" nuff said! 🤣
@@cheesecheese6459"What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Kangaroos kickboxing in the parking lot? Men wearing outback hats fighting crocodiles in a river? Visions of the dream time, sweeping majestically across the..." 😂
I was going to say Sybil's mother in law, but then thought No, it would play better to have it be Basil's mother, which would explain why he allows Sybil to emasculate him so. but Either way would still be funny on the whole.
Its so funny this came up randomly today on YT .I was telling friends only last night I dealt with a Mrs Richards she wanted my picnic table in a public park and expected me to vacate it .I brought with my friends this seen esp the view comments .Basil completely nailed these old bags sense of entitlement,just brilliant .
@@gatsbygoodwood2575 also, the magic of the series didn’t just come from Basil. It came from Polly, Manuel, Sybil, Terry, the Major, Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs, and the various hotel guests.
"May I ask you what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebees sweeping majetically?" Forever in my sytem to know what grandiosity is.
Got the box set of this on DVD. Everytime I watch it it always makes me laugh. Like the psychiatrists episode, whats that saying, they dont make em like that anymore.
Joan Sanderson was a great actress. She's brilliant in this clip. John Cleese is great aswell. I can't see the sea. It's between the land and the sky. Brilliant writing.
I love how Basil once only moved his lips, but did not say a words to her. Her responce was exactly the same as always . Did not hear anything, did not understand anything, but was convinced she had right to demand Ritz luxury and service for 7 pounds 20 pence per night. Good lord, how prices jumped up in last 44 years. It was pretty normal hotel room, bath was for average human size and seaside view was lot better than view to back yard, where Manuel hide his rat. Now you cant get a place in dumpster for 7 pounds. Pretty much *** similar room in Tallinn costs 50 euros per night and breakfast is not included. I never took a room in UK seaside town hotel, but pretty sure in UK it is even more expensive. Could be 100 pounds or more per night
