Nothing Fawlty about this sitcom! (Fawlty Towers)

Member Name: jazz_mavericks

Product:	Fawlty Towers
Date:	05/10/09 (20 review reads)
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Advantages: The pinnacle of comedy writing

Disadvantages: Only two series were ever made

I recently wrote a review on Father Ted, calling it the greatest British sitcom ever made... HOW did I forget about the wonderful Fawlty Towers?!?!?

As I sit here writing this, The Germans episode is currently playing on G.O.L.D. - could I have happened to stumble upon a more appropriate episode to remind me of the show's greatness?

Written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, the story is about a hotellier named Basil Fawlty, and his long suffering wife Sybil, accompanied by the dithering waiter-come-manservant Manuel, who hails from Barcelona and speaks very poor english, and the intelligent Polly, who generally covers up for all of Basil's mistakes.

The genius behind the comedy, is Basil Fawlty's innate Englishness, and his self appointed upperclass standing, when he is anything but. The funniest jokes tend to arise out of Fawlty's immense frustration when things don't go his way, portrayed amazingly funnily by the legend that is John Cleese.

The writing is top notch - an example being from this German episode I am watching, where Fawlty has had a knock on the head and is suffering from concussion. Some germans are staying in the hotel, and he is determined 'not to mention the war!', except he can't do anything but. The germans get very annoyed at this, and an argument breaks out.

One of the germans asks Fawlty to stop mentioning the war - "You started it!" Basil exclaims. "No we didn't!!!" the german argues back.

"Yes you did!! You invaded Poland!!!"

Summary: You will not laugh as much anywhere else as you will watching this sitcom