Fawlty Towers - S1 E2 The Builders
Added 2025-01-16 15:00:09 +0000 UTCComments
Its sad because today everyones a victim and a hashtag but Im Irish and I find this hilarious as has my family for 50 years, today it wouldnt be allowed because it implies that irish people are drunks who cant do decent work. We love beer and back then, im sure it was the same. Everyones so fragile these days. Its ridiculous! Great reaction !!
Gerard McCartan
2025-03-13 02:40:16 +0000 UTCMr O Reilly is David Kelly. You may have seen him in the Johnny Deep Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Grandpa Joe, who visits the factory with Charlie
Danny
2025-03-03 01:54:16 +0000 UTCI started out as a 17-year-old commis chef, living in all-found, 5 and a 1/2 days split shift, for £27 a week at a hotel. So many shenanigans with the female staff and permanent residents. It was indeed a lot of fun for a young man!
Eddy
2025-01-25 17:55:23 +0000 UTCJohn Cleese and Connie Booth (Polly) wrote Fawlty Towers together while they were still married to eachother
Karl Williams8
2025-01-22 16:55:52 +0000 UTCYou missed the point, Mike and Jess, with the Irish builder punching poor Manuel! Fawlty knew that the man with the beard had a short temper, so told Manuel to insult him by calling him a 'hideous orangutan'.
Eddy
2025-01-17 02:02:50 +0000 UTC‘Hideous orangutan’ wasn’t a mistranslation, Basil wanted Manuel to be punched because he mistakenly kept telling Basil to go away and then insulting him
Kieran B
2025-01-16 20:53:41 +0000 UTCLittle thing to look out for in the opening credits on all the episodes, the hotel sign changes to different names 😂
AngieG
2025-01-16 18:57:24 +0000 UTCStill Game 🏴, Fawlty Towers, inbetweeners and Karl Pilkington? You two might be my favourite people in the world! We should be besties!
John M Whalen
2025-01-16 18:11:44 +0000 UTCJohn Cleese was a member of the Monty Python team, who were described as The Beatles of Comedy, so huge was the influence of their Flying Circus TV sketch show on both sides of the Atlantic. George Harrison of The Beatles funded at least one of their movies. The comedy was somewhat surreal, and is not the easiest watch for modern audiences, but was groundbreaking in the sixties and certain sketches (the dead parrot sketch, for one) still get quoted today. Their movie, The Life of Brian, is hilarious. It’s set in biblical times and tells how a simpleton called Brian gets mistaken for The Messiah. Cleese is particularly brilliant in it.
Thomas
2025-01-16 16:13:21 +0000 UTCWhat is it with Jess and these bum slapping videos lol
Nathan Daly
2025-01-16 16:01:47 +0000 UTC19:52: She might be thinking of developing the sketch into an action painting - or a Surrealist depiction of telephonic madness? Oh, incidentally, playing the waitress, Polly, is John's real life wife - at that time - and series co-creator-writer with John, Connie Booth. Connie was also the Lumberjack's 'Best Girl' with Michael Palin in 'The Lumberjack Song' segment of the Monty Python film, 'And Now For Something Completely Different'.
Josef Schiltz
2025-01-16 15:33:20 +0000 UTC
