Fawlty Towers - S1 E3 The Wedding
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Classic farce, Frasier also falls into this category, the writers of which were fans of Only Fools and Horses but they must've been influenced by Fawlty Towers too no doubt. Another great reaction, Jess up to speed from the off.
emu cat
2025-02-16 22:40:05 +0000 UTCEveryone's perspectives on single vs double beds are valid here, but in this case it's because they gave away the only room with a double bed to the guests!
Rach
2025-02-16 21:02:22 +0000 UTCFawlty Towers is classic. Up there with Only Fools and horses and Red Dwarf as best of British comedy 🙂
Stevo
2025-02-02 19:17:25 +0000 UTCJohn Cleese was married to Polly (Connie Booth) before and during the first series
Erica
2025-02-01 20:39:14 +0000 UTCA little fact about this particular episode: in the scene at the end when Basil hits Manuel with the pan, there were 2 pans in the kitchen. One was a normal frying pan and the other a stunt pan. John Cleese picked the wrong pan and actually hits Manuel with a real pan. John Sachts who plays Manuel said after he suffered with concussion as a result.
James Hyde
2025-02-01 15:48:36 +0000 UTCNew Patreon member from the UK here. The inspiration behind Fawlty Towers came about when the Monty Python team (of which John Cleese was a member) were making their first movie, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” (1974), and while filming it stayed at the ramshackle Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, Devon, owned by Donald Sinclair and his wife Beatrice. Sinclair was “wonderfully rude” to all the guests staying there, and fellow Python Graham Chapman described him as being “completely round the twist, off his chump, out of his tree.” Sinclair, a former Merchant Navy officer, hadn’t really wanted to work in the hotelier business and so took all his anger and frustration about having to do that, out onto his guests. He scolded the only American Python in the group, Terry Gilliam, for using his knife and fork in what Sinclair believed to be the wrong way. Sinclair also put Python Eric Idle's bag containing his squash kit out by the swimming pool because he thought it might be a bomb. Most of the Pythons soon became infuriated by the frosty reception they received and so moved to a different hotel. Cleese thought Sinclair “the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met,” and thinking that his exploits had all the elements to fashion a hotel sitcom from it, stayed on at the hotel with his then wife, Connie Booth, to gather more material on the Sinclair’s as well as material about the other staff at the hotel. Two of the other staff went on to become supporting characters in the show. Spanish waiter Pepe became Manuel and German-Swiss housekeeper Jetty became the basis for Polly, the waitress, who Connie Booth played in the series.
Andrew Roberts
2025-02-01 14:12:06 +0000 UTCThe link below is for Kevin bridges on WITLY it's worth 7 mins of your time , loveing the still game watchalong by the way fantastic you 2 would fit in well here in Scotland you seem to get 👍🇬🇧
david haggart
2025-02-01 03:50:54 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/Yl0cnAGThM0?si=HGklbk2C7iDJZvWZ
david haggart
2025-02-01 03:45:52 +0000 UTCNext week's is one of my favs!
Mark McKeown
2025-01-31 22:20:57 +0000 UTCI went to a Fawlty Towers evening just before Christmas. It’s basically a meal and there are actors playing Basil, Sybil and Manuel, with all sorts of antics and arguments going on. It’s pretty funny.
Julian T
2025-01-31 21:34:30 +0000 UTCBasil is based on a real person too lol.
Darren Geoghegan
2025-01-31 20:23:55 +0000 UTCGood point!
Eddy
2025-01-31 20:06:17 +0000 UTCMorecambe and Wise shared a bed without a problem after decades together.
Thomas
2025-01-31 19:38:37 +0000 UTCLove your reactions ❤️
Louise Miller
2025-01-31 19:37:24 +0000 UTCIf they like John Cleese antics here can you imagine if we could convince them to watch Monty Python and The Holy Grail?
Athan Immortal
2025-01-31 17:29:26 +0000 UTCIn answer to your question about married couples sleeping in separate beds, absolutely that is something that happens in long term relationships! In fact, it is recommended from a health perspective. My parents probably spent the last 25 years of their 60 year marriage sleeping in separate rooms. I wouldn't sleep properly if I shared my bed and there is good scientific evidence that couples do better physically and psychologically sleeping separately.
Eddy
2025-01-31 16:42:29 +0000 UTCHooray Fawlty Towers is back! 🙂
Rob G
2025-01-31 16:07:14 +0000 UTCJess's impression of Sybil's laugh was spot on! 🤣
Simon Crockford
2025-01-31 15:33:12 +0000 UTCCurrently waiting for a delivery but the first free hour I get I am watching this for the reaction as when I was a kid this was one of my least favourite episodes but as an adult I have come to appreciate its humour and the commentary on the changing attitudes of the time.
John Gault
2025-01-31 15:17:53 +0000 UTC
