FAWLTY TOWERS S1E1 (pilot) "A Touch of Class" - Full Watch Along
Added 2025-05-28 21:44:55 +0000 UTCStarting off TV reactions with the pilot episode of Fawlty Towers! Reaction highlights will be released on YouTube next Wednesday June 4th! 🖤
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This is a fav of mine and my family, so glad you're enjoying it! Some of Cleese's best work and unique in that it's created with his wife (she plays Polly the maid). Another of his great works (and it's also relatively modern) is A Fish Called Wanda. (Cleese starred in and did the Screenplay) which was nominated for many top awards and helped the average American learn about his comedy genius as it was a big hit in its day.
Yoshio
2025-06-05 03:43:53 +0000 UTCFawlty Towers was inspired by the Monty Python group's stay at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay. Cleese and Booth stayed on at the hotel after filming for the Python show had finished. The owner, former Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Donald Sinclair,[6] was very rude to the guests and had an explosive temper, once throwing a bus timetable at a guest who asked when the next bus to town would arrive and placing Eric Idle's suitcase, which contained a ticking alarm clock, behind a wall in the garden in the fear it contained a bomb. He also denounced Minneapolis-born Monty Python group member Terry Gilliam's table manners as too American (Gilliam had his fork in what Sinclair considered to be the wrong hand while eating). Cleese used the name "Donald Sinclair" for his character in the 2001 film Rat Race. In the episode "The Builders", Fawlty refers to a local hotel or restaurant called "Gleneagles" while talking to Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs. Cleese once lived in London's Basil Street.
Kevin Rodlund
2025-06-05 01:30:49 +0000 UTC
