Fawlty Towers Page #3

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
8,079 Views


How are you? Is nice day.

You again.

I say, he not here.

He not here.

Very, very sorry.

Goodbye.

Wicked.

You men know what to do? I think so.

This is the dining room.

You are certain you know? It looks straightforward.

We've got to block this off.

Yes, yes, yes! Is you again? Now, listen He not here.

How many times? Where are your ears, you great, big half-wit! He no here! Listen! Now you understand? He Oh! Oh, Mr.

Fawlty! I very sorry.

Very sorry.

Is you! Yes, is me, Mr.

Fawlty.

Polly? No, no, she very busy.

Men? Yes, men are here.

Men are work you work, men.

Yes.

What? Ah, yes.

Please, which one is man with beard? Sí, sí.

Hid agh ang Sí, comprendo.

Sí.

One moment, please.

You are a hideous orang-utang.

Yeow! Manuel, thank you very much.

Polly? Polly?! Polly?! Polly!! Manuel! Polly, what have you done with my hotel? Polly, what have you done to my hotel? - What? - Look.

Oh, it's nice.

I like it there Ouch! You're hurting me! What have you done with my dining room door? - Where is it? - I don't know.

Why don't you know? I left you in charge! - I fell asleep.

- You fell asleep? It's not my fault! You fell asleep, and it's not your fault? - He forgot to wake me.

- Who forgot to wake you? - It is my fault.

- Manuel! I knew it! - Manuel!! - Don't blame him! - Why not? - It's not really his fault.

Whose fault is it, you cloth-eared bint, Dennis Compton's? Well, you hired O'Reilly, didn't you? We warned you.

Who else would do this? - I beg your pardon? - You hired O'Reilly.

I see.

It's my fault? Of course.

I was thinking it was your fault because you'd been left in charge, or Manuel's for not waking you, and all the time, it was my fault.

It so obvious, I've seen the light.

I must be punished, mustn't I? You're a naughty boy, Fawlty.

Don't do it ag What am I gonna do?! She's going to be back at lunchtime! Now, wait I'm a dead man! Do you realize? You're dead, too! We're all dead! Don't panic! What else is there to do?! We'll call O'Reilly.

He made this mess, he can clear it up.

Just pull yourself together! Come on! Again! Harder! Right! I'll call O'Reilly.

What is this? What is this doing here? What is going on here?! Your wife ordered it.

Call O'Reilly.

That golfing puff adder? What does she want? - Call O'Reilly! - What? - Shall I call him? - No, I'll do it.

I'll call him.

See if that roof is still on.

- What are you doing? - Stay there.

- You can't do that now.

- Hold it, hold it.

See if they've started breakfast now! Ah, hello, Mr.

O'Reilly.

How are you this morning? Oh, good.

Good.

No rare diseases or anything? I do beg your pardon.

Basil fawlty.

You remember? The poor sod you do jobs for? How are things on your end? Good.

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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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