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05-28-2006, 06:34 PM
|  | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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| |  Fawlty Towers quotes/appreciation thread
This has got to be my favourite show of all time. There are so many quotes it'd take me hours to type them all, but a few of my favourites are -
Basil: (to Mrs Richards) Well, might I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The hanging gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...
Basil: This is typical. Absolutely typical... of the kind of...ARSE I have to put up with from you people. You ponce in here expecting to be waited on hand and foot, while I'm trying to run a hotel here. Have you any idea of how much there is to do? Do you ever think of that? Of course not, you're all too busy sticking your noses into every corner, poking around for things to complain about, aren't you? Well let me tell you something - this is exactly how Nazi Germany started. A lot of layabouts with nothing better to do than to cause trouble. Well I've had fifteen years of pandering to the likes of you, and I've had enough. I've had it. Come on, pack your bags and get out.
Basil: (about Sybil's laugh) Sounds like somebody machine-gunning a seal.
Mrs. Richards: Are you blind? They were on my head all the time! Didn't you see?
Polly: Yes.
Mrs. Richards: Didn't God give you eyes?
Polly: Yes, but I don't use them, because it wears the batteries out.
Basil: Oh, you speak English.
German Guest: Of course.
Basil: Ah, wonderful! Wunderbar! Ahh! Please allow me to introduce myself, I am the owner of Fawlty Towers. And may I welcome your war... your war... you all... and hope that your stay will be a happy one. Now, would you like to eat first, or would you like a drink before the war... AHH! Er... trespassers will be tied up with piano wire... SORRY, SORRY!
Basil: Manuel, my wife informs me that you're, depressed. Let me tell you something. Depression is a very bad thing. It's like a virus. If you don't stamp on it, it spreads throughout the mind, and then one day you wake up in the morning and you... you can't face life any more!
Sybil Fawlty: And then you open a hotel.
hehe. love it.
Now appreciate in your droves, dammit.  |
05-28-2006, 06:36 PM
|  | Slotherism Jr | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: 'Port, Wales
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| | Don't mention the war  |
05-28-2006, 06:38 PM
|  | subs gone, pls sign reps! | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | i'm from barcelona i know nothing
god, i love that show! |
05-28-2006, 06:38 PM
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| | | You Put Basil In The Ratatouille?!?!?! |
05-28-2006, 06:47 PM
|  | WhatWouldSteveCarellDo? | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD
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| | | Basil: We need to appeal to a higher class of clientele.
Customer: GOT A ROOM?
and
After Polly shows him a nude picture of a female for her art class.
Basil (answering telephone): Fawlty titties.. |
05-28-2006, 06:49 PM
| | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by cactusrob Don't mention the war | I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it! |
05-28-2006, 06:50 PM
| | Slotherism Jr | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: 'Port, Wales
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| | | I love the rant about the fire alarm / burgular alarm. |
05-28-2006, 06:51 PM
| | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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| | Youngish guy who Sybil likes: Do you know anywhere that does good French food?
Basil: Yes, France, I believe, they seem to like it over there. You'll have to hurry though, the tide's going out soon.
I swear this show warped my sense of humour into what it is today.  |
05-28-2006, 06:51 PM
| | WhatWouldSteveCarellDo? | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD
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| | | Oh I know...Oh I know.. |
05-28-2006, 06:51 PM
| | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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Originally Posted by cactusrob I love the rant about the fire alarm / burgular alarm. | yeah and how one alarm is a semitone higher than the other! |
05-28-2006, 06:55 PM
| | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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Originally Posted by Grace&Constanza Oh I know...Oh I know.. | Oh I know, he doesn't deserve you Audrey, he really doesn't...oh I know! |
05-29-2006, 06:44 PM
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| | | well, obviously 'dont mention the war' that can still make me laugh and i've seen it / heard it a thousand times. |
05-29-2006, 06:46 PM
|  | self-made bedroom ninja | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: oh-hi-ih-ih-oo
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| | | great show
i love the episode where they are trying to hide the guys body throughout
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05-29-2006, 08:29 PM
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| | | I always loved how they would change letters on the sign outside to read different things. My favorite is when they changed it to "Farty Towels" |
05-29-2006, 10:36 PM
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| | | ehehehe i loove fawlty towers
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05-31-2006, 02:00 PM
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| | | I knew this guy that used to work for Paramount, and he borrowed some of these tapes from their 'library' and this was like 9 years ago, and I remember dying laughing. It's so funny.....but I haven't seen the show since. I wonder if I could get my hands on some DVD's........... |
05-31-2006, 03:10 PM
|  | The Queen Of All Ive Seen | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Warsaw, Poland
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| | I Love Fawlty Towers!!!!!!!!!! 3 Cheers For British Humor! |
05-31-2006, 03:23 PM
| | be still, cody | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: port-au-patois
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| | | eventually
i also like the stairs that go pointlessly up than down |
05-31-2006, 03:31 PM
|  | THRILLHO | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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This show is definately something worth appreciating.
"Are you the oral-y men?"
The scene makes me bust a gut is when Admiral thinks the moose head is talking to him, but it's really Manuel. And the one where Basil is trying to get Polly to tell Sybil "Dragonfly" was the horse she bet on... It's the "I know noooothing" episode.
The Kipper and the Corpse episode is one of the funniest 1/2 hours ever.
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06-02-2006, 06:01 PM
| | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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Originally Posted by kesh eventually | At the end!
No, forget it now!
Now?
Well, pretend you forget!
Pretend?
Well don't say anything to anyone about the horse!
I know that, you tell me that this morning! [rolls eyes] Quote: |
Originally Posted by kesh i also like the stairs that go pointlessly up than down | I know, what's that about?
I love the bit where he beats the shit out of the car as well. "START. Start, you vicious bastard. Oh my God. I'm warning you, if you don't start... I'll count to three. 1, 2, 3, right, that does it. I'm going to give you a damn good thrashing!" | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | | | |
