Fawlty Towers: Turn it on! 

Joan Sanderson's portrayal as"Mrs Richards" is absolutely brilliant!

Basil's "what??" after Mrs. Richards says "I'm talking to you Watt" has me in stitches every time, he's genuinely so confused

"That doesn't work either" when she bangs the bell might be the most underrated line in the show

If you've ever worked in retail, you'll have met a Mrs Richards.

Her expressions when Polly is talking to her about the paper In the lounge and wanted plain ones or ones with our address on is hilarious Joan Sanderson was perfect for the role 💋

This has to be the funniest thing ever. YOU try and watch a marathon of this without injuring yourself.

Am I the only one who likes how Mrs Richards says “IN THE LOUNGE?!”

arguably, one of the finest episodes of Fawlty Towers, Mrs Richards and Basil's interaction was sublime 😂😂😂

Fawlty towers was the best show ever made wish more were done

Mrs Richards was the best character in the whole series The dialogue between her and Basil was hilarious 😂 😃

-Manager,Manager! -Yes.Testing,Testing! I just love John Cleese😁😁

I love the bit later also, Fawlty just moves his mouth silently to her until she turns it on, then shouts. Sybil wasn't happy

Joan Sanderson...probably one of the greatest one-off side characters of a sitcom ever.

I love this. I could watch it over and over again and still laugh at it.

"ON. YOUR. HEA...ohhhh!" 🤣🤣

Genius writing and acting.

This the best episode by far !! Joan Sanderson just walks away with it.

I'm talking to you what WHAT? ARE YOU DEAF? I SAID I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!! 😂

Mrs Richards was brilliant.

The look on Mrs Richards’ face when Polly asks “How many sheets?” 😅

Mrs Richards is not a battleaxe. She is THE battleaxe.

She was a great guest star. Marvelous show.

Lol Connie is trying not to laugh

"She said people use it in the lounge!" LOL

Leaves me in Stitches watching this 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Joan Sanderson as the Snobby Mrs Richardson is hilarious along with John Cleese as Basil Fawlty ,Can't Fawlt this series 🤣🤣🤣🤣

My fave episode

I love it when Mrs. Richards rings the bell to call the manager and Basil comes in saying “Testing, testing”. No wonder Basil collapses near the end of the programme when the vase seller mentions The name “Mrs. Richards!”. She was the perfect guest from hell!

I love the delayed laughter of the audience at 1:26

Legendary part Brilliant acting

0:31 Polly: How many sheets? Mrs. Richards: Looks around in disgust Every day I discover more jokes in this show that I never noticed before...

This is the best episode xD

Still pure class acting from mid 1970-ties wow and still so funny! Hahahaha!

Fawlty Towers is the best show even is from the 70s !

Genius episode.

Funniest part is the conclusion of this exchange, Manuel with the 22 rolls of toilet paper. This would be a better clip if it was the full scene

"C K What" it was a tiny moment but it kept coming back and it got more and more funny the more it did lol

Mrs Sanderson was a brilliant actrice. I fully agree! ❤

Mrs Rickards is BEST 🤣😂😂🤣😂

This show still makes me laugh even after seeing every episode multiple times. The comedic timing and writing is legendary.

This is my favorite episode, probably one of the few where one ends up rooting for Basil to win out over this ol' sow. (Ms. Sanderson, the actress playing Mrs. Richards though, as I understand it, was a truly delightful woman in life, no sarcasm.)

I love how she’s fully prepared to fight polly

"That doesn't work either". One of my all time favourite Fawlty Towers jokes and nobody laughs...

Basil: She thought you wanted to write. Mrs Richards: Wanted a fight? I'll give her a fight.

People always say The Germans is the best episode but this has always been #1 for me. The Mrs. Richards and Dragonfly stories are brilliant and hilarious

Classic Joan ,Also brilliant in Please Sir

Connie was trying to keep a straight face

Excellent sketches. I can't stop laughing even though I've seen them many times.

Yet she heard Polly's questions about the paper, well enough to be outraged.

"That doesn't work either. What were you saying just now?"

Mrs Richards your glasses are there!

Damn man Fawlty Towers is too fcking funny im in tears with all these episodes lmao 😂😂😂😂

I can't stop laughing 😂😂

She played the part of an old dragon well.....sour old trout!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The best👏👏👏😁

They could have let her "give her a fight" but judging what happened to the dog in another episode, she'd have fared less well than the spoon man.

“I can’t read that I need my glasses” 💀

As a self employed person i can feel Basil's pain, on the odd occasion i have to deal with customers just like Miss Richards, and they are normally middle-aged snobs.

Joan Sanderson died in 1992, aged 79.

True magic don’t know why I find this funnier now than I did when it was first broadcast ‼️

Easily one of the funniest moments in this show’s history!

This show was gold

Great performance by Joan Sanderson!

It’s like talking to my mother.

I’m talking to you, Watt.

Hilarious 😅

I like the way the bell sounds rickety - like on one of the old buses - ding ding. It would be funny if they had given her a box of that awful tracing paper stuff (like at school), and she had come down later again - even more angry that she got absolutely nowhere with it.

Fabulous

Brilliant acting.

Joan Sanderson was a brilliant actress - can you imagine what she would think of rappers?

Comedy gold.🤣🤣🤣🤣

Christ on a bike, I can relate to this! I currently work as a booking / admin assistant for a municipal transportation service, and I often find myself dealing with customers who are practically deaf. So I sit there and practically shout into my headset, and I still get nothing but "what? what?" in return. Add to the fact that I work from home and during nights, so I've had many a bollocking from my neighbours on the subject of my screaming in the middle of the night........

Mrs. Richard and...um...the guy Bruce Boa plays in "Waldorf Salad" are the only two characters I can think of that are perfect matches for Basil, by which I mean that in all of their scenes together, I find myself saying, "Yep, these people deserve each other."

God bless this lady actress she is amazing……only ever 12 episodes but they pump out 6 seasons of American crap….Connie and John should have been taken in by the British government and had a contact 6 episodes a year for 10 years.

Is Connie Booth 'corpsing' at around 1:36, I wonder?

😂 keep it in the lounge 😂

Easily the best episode within the 12

2:11 she was close to breaking it ..

Poor King Harold 😂😂

Your glasses are in there

2.09 see Connie Booth(Polly) trying not to laugh.

Way ahead of It's time

I’m talking to you what

I have both series on dvd....uncensored! Offers?

Stay positive with Sherpa 🤩😜😒🤬🤭🙏😛😜👻😊🇬🇧🧡🧐😭😛😂

This is like a replay of when I sometimes talk to my disabled parent.

Manager- C. K. What!

I know a younger woman who’s deaf, and needs glasses; fortunately she’s much more pleasant to be around.

0:24 🤣🤣 1:15 🤣🤣🤣🤣 2:04

Testing Testing

You didn't say lavatory paper to Polly for a start. If you smoke clearly enough nicely and Mrs Richard you would have got what you want instantly. The great stupid old bint.

She would have made a great Lady Bracknell.

Endearing battleaxe

Mrs. Richards, the original Karen.

Manager Manager

Wanted to fight? I’ll give her a fight alright

WHAT?

address on it

Would you like some of ours? lol

Lol

0:17 …that’s what you’re being paid for isn’t it?