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[TV] Fawlty Towers







Weststander

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Aug 25, 2011
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Withdean area
agree with those…other favs that spring to mind (havnt watched for a long while but will now)..the woman complaining about the view out of a hotel in Torquay (may be wrong here) “what did you expect Sidney Opera House” ……then we have the food inspector ….and Manuels pet ‘mouse’ (rat?) …suddenly appearing in the biscuit tin …..In the background you see Basil being dragged out by the feet

 


Nottseagull

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Nov 28, 2006
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Mansfield Woodhouse, actually.
Some of it is cringeworthy now.
Especially the Germans episode.
Like so many things on NSC, you just don't get it. Cleese was parodying Britons with certain attitudes, not demonising foreigners. You know, the sort of person who walks around in a '2 world wars and one World Cup' T-shirt. The whole series was inspired by a real Briton, a Torquay based hotelier in fact.
 










Nottseagull

Well-known member
Nov 28, 2006
8,534
Mansfield Woodhouse, actually.
I saw the show in the West end in December; we were in stitches from start to end. The actors are near-carbon copies of the original characters, so you feel as though you're practically at the original studio audience taping of an episode c. 1975

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A1X

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Sep 1, 2017
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Deepest, darkest Sussex
I maintain this show is the only reason why so many people in Britain know the ingredients of a Waldorf salad
 














jcdenton08

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Oct 17, 2008
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I thought the west end stage play was utter shite.
Would you mind giving a more in-depth review as to why? Not a trick question, just wondering what you didn’t like - the content; the staging, the actors?
 


essbee1

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Jun 25, 2014
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Would you mind giving a more in-depth review as to why? Not a trick question, just wondering what you didn’t like - the content; the staging, the actors?
Sorry jc. I just found I couldn't get the real characters/actors out of my head - and that here were people pretending to be 'them'. I agree that they tried, but I just
couldn't see further than that. My problem I know. I think I laughed once in the whole play,
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
58,872
Faversham
I love it…and don’t find it cringeworthy at all….sorry Harry….i treat it for what it is ..comedy
That's how Nazi Germany started.

:wink:

(Some time ago I had a German GF, who found any references to the Nazis that was comedic or frivolous difficult to take. The sense of shame was quite palpable. We stopped watching the Tarantino WWII 'romp' after about 5 minutes, with her quite distressed. She enjoyed Hennig Wehn, but with some trepidation. You have to be there to feel it. Unfortunately it has tainted my enjoyment of Fawlty Towers. That and Cleese's latterday cuntishness. (y) )

Perhaps @Herr Tubthumper may be able to shed further light on this...
 






LamieRobertson

Not awoke
Feb 3, 2008
49,491
SHOREHAM BY SEA
That's how Nazi Germany started.

:wink:

(Some time ago I had a German GF, who found any references to the Nazis that was comedic or frivolous difficult to take. The sense of shame was quite palpable. We stopped watching the Tarantino WWII 'romp' after about 5 minutes, with her quite distressed. She enjoyed Hennig Wehn, but with some trepidation. You have to be there to feel it. Unfortunately it has tainted my enjoyment of Fawlty Towers. That and Cleese's latterday cuntishness. (y) )

Perhaps @Herr Tubthumper may be able to shed further light on this...
…..well I can see how you’ve formed your opinion…..but we can see from other posts that their German friends havnt taken it quite that way…..not sure we need HWT to direct us ….and take us any further away from what I think is supposed to be a light hearted thread
 




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