Fawlty Towers - S2E4 'The Kipper and the Corpse'
Added 2025-06-30 15:58:40 +0000 UTCComments
First time I really enjoyed this episode. Seen it just a handful of times over the years and I'm 66.. Those two at the bottom corners of the screen had something to do with it, I'm sure of it 😊 If anyone cares there are more visual titbits I picked up, and a query. As it was meant for a curved low res CRT TV, I see the golf club name across the entrance as the van is leaving with JC at the end. Why did the Lounge go all disco like with the red drapes or whatever : is it the same room?
Pomerau
2025-07-02 21:31:55 +0000 UTCA kipper is just a herring that has been spit down the middle butterfly style and smoked usually over oak wood chips
Simon Robbins
2025-07-01 13:59:01 +0000 UTCPure madhouse! basils like lurch from Addams family but on crack!
Theloyalmuppet
2025-07-01 00:40:04 +0000 UTCPretty sure I heard Jess say she wasnt gonna eat any sausages or dead bodies for a long time, lol 🤣
James Welsh
2025-06-30 22:31:28 +0000 UTCI love that the guy with the, um, inflatable companion had changed into his pyjamas!
Andy Oliver
2025-06-30 22:27:03 +0000 UTCI found myself looking at Booking.com the other day for hotels in this part of Devon, but in sleepy Brixham just down the Torbay coast rather than the urbane metropolis of Torquay. Apart from the eyewatering cost I was disappointed not to find anywhere with a comedically rude owner. Beautiful harbour though. Anyway, this might be my favourite episode, or certainly in the top three. Fabulous chaos.
Charlie
2025-06-30 21:22:05 +0000 UTCManuel is actually a bit of a renaissance man, it was also revealed in Gourmet Night that he could cook paella and play guitar, and he speaks better English than Basil does Spanish. It took me rewatching these a while back to wonder if this is perhaps a joke on Basil, who treats Manuel like he's an absolute moron, but Manuel is actually far more talented, cultured, and sophisticated than him.
Charlie
2025-06-30 21:15:22 +0000 UTCIt was, a place in Torquay called Gleneages, which is also the name of the place where the ladies have to go for dinner when the hotel is closed in The Builders. John Cleese reckoned the proprietor was the rudest man he had ever met.
Charlie
2025-06-30 21:12:54 +0000 UTCTechnically, there's no such thing as a fish :p
Don Roshi
2025-06-30 20:57:01 +0000 UTCI’m sure someone has said before this is based on a hotel Monty Python stayed in during the filming of the Holy Grail
Kieran B
2025-06-30 20:38:54 +0000 UTCAlthough not classics like Fawlty Towers I have a feeling you’ll like the Goes Wrong Show (which has a play of the week format) - pure farce but brilliantly crafted and performed, where everything connects; and before that was commissioned you have the recorded version of their Christmas (not) pantomime Peter Pan Goes Wrong - we always watch that around Christmas.
Kieran B
2025-06-30 20:23:25 +0000 UTCMiss Tibbs fainted the 2nd time she saw the dead body. Polly is innocent. 'He's a little Shitzu .. 'Oh dear, what breed is it?' I've stolen that line a few times when that breed has come up in conversation.
Fordy7169
2025-06-30 19:47:33 +0000 UTCThis was a great episode for Manuel. Loved his spanish dancing!
Rachie
2025-06-30 19:26:59 +0000 UTC“I am a doctor and I want my sausages!!” 🤣
Emma Edwards
2025-06-30 18:41:28 +0000 UTCTechnicaly, there isn't a fish called a kipper. A "kipper" is a smoked herring. The process name is called "kippering". They gut and butterfly the herring then smoke them. They usually come with a knob of butter in the pack. You can technically eat them cold, but warm with the butter is the way to go. The isle of man is famous for its kippers - known as manx kippers
Danny
2025-06-30 18:35:48 +0000 UTCDid not know that haha that is awesome. Wonder if Diamond Andy has played it
Daz Parker
2025-06-30 18:21:15 +0000 UTCGreat video guys. This episode was even better than I had remembered. I had no recollection of the doll at all!
Daz Parker
2025-06-30 18:20:36 +0000 UTCI think this is probably my favourite episode. Lots of great episodes, but I like the chaos in this
Danny
2025-06-30 18:02:58 +0000 UTC“So many moving parts…” It’s written to be a lot like a farce that would be shown in the theatre. Especially the parts that are across the limited downstairs locations, hall, dining room, kitchen.
Silk
2025-06-30 17:36:47 +0000 UTCAs far as I remember reading, the Mr Ingrams with the blow up doll was named after a critic who gave a bad review. So they put him in an embarrassing situation
Ryan Lynch
2025-06-30 17:33:35 +0000 UTCWell this is a pleasant surprise, thanks very much! I’m just reminded that there was Counterstrike map that recreated the Fawlty Towers hotel…
Kieran B
2025-06-30 17:19:06 +0000 UTCDefinitely one of their more chaotic episodes. Glad you both enjoyed it. I hope your family are doing well.
Michael K
2025-06-30 17:10:29 +0000 UTCMr Price from Please Sir! (For any viewers over 90).
Thomas
2025-06-30 17:06:55 +0000 UTCGreat episode. I've seen an interview with John Cleese before, in which he said that the idea for this episode came from a conversation he had with a colleague who worked in a hotel. They were discussing the problems of how you discreetly remove the bodies of people who unfortunately pass away whilst staying in hotels. John Cleese said that so many ideas came rushing into his head for material for this episode.
Steve B
2025-06-30 17:03:46 +0000 UTCReally pleased to read that you and your family are OK and your sister got home OK. Takes courage to get back in a car and drive so far so quickly after what happened but it really is the best thing to do. Its not easy though and she should be proud of herself.
Neil
2025-06-30 16:58:15 +0000 UTCThe best episode and character is yet to come, in my opinion
BrizeeB
2025-06-30 16:45:26 +0000 UTCKipper=smoked herring.
Stefan Tymoshyshyn
2025-06-30 16:41:00 +0000 UTCJust to reiterate what others are saying, thank you for putting up more content after what has happened. It's much appreciated!
Jay
2025-06-30 16:39:30 +0000 UTCThank you Mike and Jess for sharing this. Considering what you've all been through lately, it's very good of you and I am very grateful to see your lovely faces again! xxx
Carol
2025-06-30 16:16:26 +0000 UTCI’m so glad everyone is doing okay! Your sister should be very proud of yourself for getting straight back in a car to drive all that way home. I can’t wait to watch this when I get home from work 🧡
Lauren Massey
2025-06-30 16:11:47 +0000 UTCOh my favourite episode, shared with my two favourite online fweinds 😁 Glad you're feeling ok to start getting back to it but please don't burn out.
Simon Crockford
2025-06-30 16:11:13 +0000 UTCWelcome back you two. Sorry you had such a stressful few days, hope Jackson and your sister's family is all well now.
Athan Immortal
2025-06-30 16:08:24 +0000 UTCWe are sitting down now to record it. Should be up in the next few hours 🤞
RegenerationNationTV
2025-06-30 16:04:18 +0000 UTCWe are Mark. Thanks for caring. We need a good live stream to get all of our thoughts out I think.
RegenerationNationTV
2025-06-30 16:03:46 +0000 UTCShe did. She drove the entire way yesterday. I got a text at 3am that they made it home safely. Thank you caring friend 💜
RegenerationNationTV
2025-06-30 16:03:05 +0000 UTCInbetweeners today lads?
M B
2025-06-30 16:01:09 +0000 UTCI hope you guys are OK. Did your sister get home OK Jess?
Josh Read
2025-06-30 15:59:54 +0000 UTCHope you guys are doing okay
Mark McKeown
2025-06-30 15:59:34 +0000 UTC
