Fawlty Towers Page #5

Season #1 Episode #2
Synopsis: Inept and manic English hotel owner and manager, Basil Fawlty, isn't cut out for his job. He's intolerant, rude and paranoid. All hell frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel, constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil, and hindered by the incompetent, but easy target, Manuel; their Spanish waiter.
Genre: Comedy
  5 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.8
TV-PG
Year:
1975
30 min
8,106 Views


How am I supposed not to worry? Just remember, there's always someone worse off than yourself.

I'd like to meet him.

I could do with a laugh.

You'll just have to worry for the both of us.

I'm telling you, if the good Lord Is mentioned once more, I shall move you closer to him.

Now, please! Mr.

Fawlty, she's here.

- What? - She's here.

Oh, God.

Quick! Hide! Hide! I'll try to get rid of her.

Hide! - Where? - In there.

I'll try and stall her.

God help me.

- Hello, Sybil.

- Hello, Basil.

You finished your golf early.

We haven't started yet.

- Where are you going? - Up these steps.

Oh, don't.

It's such a lovely day.

Let's go for a walk.

We haven't done that for years.

I nearly forgot.

You're not going to believe this.

Let me show you.

There.

Look at that.

That's Stubbs for you.

Mind you, I warned you, but still, a reputable builder like that.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Stubbs? Wicked.

Pfft.

- Where's O'Reilly? - Criminal.

Tsk.

Pfff.

Hmm? Where's O'Reilly? - O'Reilly? - Yes, O'Reilly.

Sybil, you never cease to amaze me.

Just because of this, you automatically assume it has to be O'Reilly.

Right You just assume that I have been lying all along.

Right? I mean, why O'Reilly? Because his van's outside.

Well, he's here now.

Of course he's here now.

He's here to clear up this mess your Stubbs has made! That's why his van's outside! On a Sunday.

That's what I call service.

- I agree.

- You do? Yes, but if Stubbs has made this mess then I think they should come and clear it up.

But there's no point now that O'Reilly's here.

We want it done straightaway.

There's no point in paying O'Reilly when Stubbs would have to do it for free.

- I'll call him now.

- He won't be there on Sunday.

Then I'll call him at home.

Ooh! Ah-hh! Getting a bit of gyp from the ol' leg this morning.

Not to worry.

I've called him at home, and he's not there.

When did you call him? First thing.

Before I called O'Reilly.

Wasn't that early for a Sunday? I called him just before you arrived.

There's nobody there.

Yes, hello.

Fawlty Towers.

Yes? Who? I think you'd better have a word with my wife.

It's somebody from Mr.

Stubbs, dear.

Hello, Sybil Fawlty.

Well, it is a complete mess.

Could you come straight round and put it right? Would you like to deal with this, Basil? you see, we couldn't possibly manage it for at least three weeks.

But if you want it done straightaway, I suggest you try someone like Oh, what's his name? It's uh O'Reilly? Bravo, Polly.

Well done.

Listen, where are you speaking from? She's in here with me, Basil.

- It's partly my fault.

- No, it isn't.

Is somebody there trying to pretend they're from Mr.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and comedian. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. more…

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