I can't believe they cut probably the most iconic visual moment in the entire Fawlty Towers series, if not British TV comedy. Basil thrashing the car with a branch.

@EmbraceTheSuck21

10 ай бұрын

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@FlashyVic

10 ай бұрын

@@EmbraceTheSuck21 Good try, 😄 but I'm too cheap. So far.

@bid84

10 ай бұрын

Only suckers pay for patreon

@tsrgoinc

10 ай бұрын

@@EmbraceTheSuck21None of that Patreon nonsense for the next episode!

@jakell99

10 ай бұрын

Those of us who are familiar probably mentally edited it in anyway, those who haven't seen it will have missed out but I expect that the majority here have seen FT at least once..

I love it when Basil gives the obnoxious boy a forearm to the head and then says, "Oh, sorry!!!!" as if it was an accident. 😆

This basil's wife, this basil, this smack on head!😂

The next episode - The Germans - is brilliant.

@mlee6050

10 ай бұрын

Don't mention the ...

@DaveB324

10 ай бұрын

The best episode imo

@Myviewoftheworldful

10 ай бұрын

It’s racist

@RobertTaylor-gz2fu

10 ай бұрын

@@Myviewoftheworldful No, it's hilarious.

@Myviewoftheworldful

10 ай бұрын

@@RobertTaylor-gz2fu racism funny for you is it?

'Giving the car a good thrashing' is a very famous comedy scene (especially where he runs off and rips off a branch of a tree off camera as a weapon) - so much so that Corgi Models made a special diecast car model in a diorama box with Basil thrashing the car!

@davidblurton7158

10 ай бұрын

still gets me now,,,and i still threaten things when they dont work in the same manner

"he's very highly strung." "Yes he should be." Basil's suggesting the kid should be hanged.

The car is a 1967 Austin 1100 Countryman Estate. They were a sort of overgrown Mini. I remember that there were still many rusty examples about in the 1970s. As it was Britain's best-selling car from 1963 to 1966 and from 1968 to 1971.

Steve Plytas, who played Kurt the chef, would go on to be the back alley plastic surgeon who botched Jack Nicholson's face in Tim Burton's _Batman._ Maybe he was still pining for Manuel.

@kosefix

10 ай бұрын

What a coincidence. A couple of hours ago I rewatched retrospective of that movie and they made fun of the surgeon for several minutes.

The amazing thing about the series is ….no matter how much time has passed it’s as funny now as it ever was … so unique !

Yes, the "damn-good thrashing" is the best scene in Fawlty Towers. It is available all over KZread for your repeated viewing pleasure... BTW, I've always wanted to hear the rest of Sybil's "Uncle Ted and his big crate of brown ale" story. LOL!

@gaskellr44

10 ай бұрын

Oh I know what happens....Uncle Ted f***S her and then finishes the off crate.

You Tube have butchered this to hell.Missed loads of the best bits.

@EmbraceTheSuck21

10 ай бұрын

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@timrussell9869

10 ай бұрын

@@EmbraceTheSuck21 People are saying no. You are turning viewers off editing out the best bits.

My Aunt and Uncle actually ran a small bed and breakfast Guest House in Torquay about the time of this wonderful series. We stayed there once in 1979. I remember the date because the small cinema at the end of the road was playing the James Bond film Moonraker which was released that Summer. I remember the decor as being totally outdated for the time, like 50s style, and the food they served was never very hot and always really small portions. Nine of our extended family stayed and I think they only slept about 15 in total. Fawlty Towers always takes me back to that time and I remember that one of my cousins introduced me to the bands Genesis and the Stranglers while we staying there as he had brought a portable record player with him. Not the best holiday but it has left some great memories.

The thrashing of the car scene is used in university psychology courses to demonstrate how we blame inanimate objects for our mistakes

@paulinegallagher7821

10 ай бұрын

I know I do.

@MrPercy112

10 ай бұрын

Inanimate objects have been asking for it for years!

@gaskellr44

10 ай бұрын

A bad workman always blames his tools.

@johnthompson3462

10 ай бұрын

Yep I have disciplined a few tool ETC over the years LOL@@MrPercy112

@slayerrocks2

10 ай бұрын

Is a means of transport inanimate? I guess that's covered in the philosophy course.

The car scene was filmed in NW London, near Queensbury. I work there and had to visit when I found out. The trees are very mature now! Definitely not Torquay.

'My little pyrahna fish'

I work in Torquay and can well imagine this existing back in the day😂

Possibly my favourite episode…..watch for the actress playing Sybil, when Basil puts his hands into the trifle at the end, she corpses on screen (the actress visibly laughs out of character)

@JonathanReynolds1

10 ай бұрын

Prunella Scales played Sybil. Sadly she has advanced dementia these days.

@1mbpdf33

10 ай бұрын

You don't get to see it here because they edit out the best bits to make the reactions as shit as possible. Better reactions to this if you look elsewhere on YT.

@KevPage-Witkicker

10 ай бұрын

Shit-talking does not endear you to people dude, be nice or begone. @@1mbpdf33

@williamrennie9331

10 ай бұрын

​@juanitamariazorra1293 She's in good shape considering she's over 90. Still able to get out and about.

The scene with the car ...Basil... and Bush is Comedy gold

Still holds up 40+yrs later, brilliant show, shame there was only the 12 eps. Not convinced by the purported revival, not in this day and age. Should try Nightingales from 1990, Robert Lindsay and David Threlfall, a real UK hidden gem. Like Fawlty, only ran for two short seasons, 13 eps, but it's hilarious. It's a very surreal and absurd show about a few security guards doing the nightshift in an office block, it's well worth watching, even without reacting to it. 'There's nobody here but us chickens!'

@KeplersDream

10 ай бұрын

Yes!

he did a film called clockwise,,, thats pretty good too,,

Faulty Towers was based on a real life hotel owner on a beach somewhere in England. This person and his wife existed.

Thanks to ETS21 I've just realised that Henry Kissinger gets a mention in almost every episode of the first series. 🤣 Never noticed that before.

This is Basil's wife, this is Basil, this is smack on head !

I have actually attended a Fawlty Towers based dinner evening with a performing troupe of actors at the Lowry in Manchester. I think they were Aussies if memory serves. Regardless it was hilarious (real chefs did the cooking)

I don't believe it's fair to expect Basil's character to be understood by the lads here and they clearly don't.

Reminds me of our Annual Christmas Dinners when all the local restaurants were packed for a couple of weeks. One year we were served frozen vegetables, because the chef had gone sick. After being overworked for a week. So somebody had tried to microwave frozen veg.

that's why we have garden sheds, a serene home from home where you can hide away from the world.

Nice one fellas😂😂how good👌🏽🫶🏽🙌🏽

This is probably one of the best choreographed episodes of Fawlty Towers, so much movement and co-ordination squeezed into 30 mins. The only bit that falls a bit flat is Manuel stepping on the duck, but the rest is perfect..

@gaskellr44

10 ай бұрын

If you look carefully there is a man crouched behind the door to keep it closed to create the effect when manual forces it open to then step in it.

If a gun was held to my head and I had to say what my favourite sitcom of all time is. It's Fawlty Towers. Seeing it for the first time as young lad, it blew me away. I can't guess how many times I've watched every episode. Wonderful and is written and performed so well. Timeless. All live too. Superb reactions as always.

Haha! The "Well that's even worse, they invented it" joke about the Greeks went straight over your heads! Oh God this show is so firkin' good.

Something of an oddity in that most of the misfortune wasn’t of Basil’s own making (apart from his not getting the car fixed).

You gotta feel sorry for Manuel though 😂

This is one of the very best episodes of Fawlty Towers.

The Next Episode The Germans, probably the best episode of the series. 👍

Everything is so close because 62 million of us live in the same area as Colorado

It’s a shame the part where he was smashing the car with a branch got cut off 😂

Your 'Americans know how to do movies' line cracked me up. 😆 No disrespect intended. But do Americans watch movies outside the US?.

You guys get ready, because - yes - you hit the pinnacle next with "The Germans". This has got to be the best written, most hilarious 30 mins of sitcom ever written! I'll just leave it at that. Enjoy!!!

That obnoxious kid was like Prince Joffrey from Game of Thrones.

The actor who played the boy Ronald joined the navy and became a chef

Classic 😂

Back in summer 1975 my neighbour went to the recording of this episode, after seeing it broadcast that Autumn he said in the studio the diners threw the trifle over Basil at the end, presumably it was decided that wasn't funny so that explains the abrupt end as it was edited out

@scottandrewbrass1931

10 ай бұрын

Yet again. That didn't happen. The scripts are available.

@ianclark7331

10 ай бұрын

@@scottandrewbrass1931 Just relaying what I was told. Happy to be proven wrong.

Just for YI, Basil Fawlty is still alive and is about to be recomishioned in your country staring with his daughter.

Polly was John cleeses wife in real life 🩷

John and Connie were Married at this time

heads up guys John Cleese is making a new one....

@gemini802

10 ай бұрын

Wont be the same its set abroad and will be woke

Next episode is the best

I just realised that the relationship between Basil and his wife if sometimes like mine with my ADHD son he over reacts to everything just like Basil does!

Polly (Connie Booth b. Indianapolis) is such a babe and was married to John Cleese for 10 years

I looked UP the actor who played kurt the chef was the late Steve Plytas, amongst numerous roles he was Jokers plastic surgeon in BATMAN 1989 and one of the card players sitting next to George Lazenby's Bond in OHMSS 1969. But this is one of my best memories of him.

They tried to do FT in the States a pilot with Betty White and one with Bea Arthur. They didn't work!

So no showing of Fawlty birching the car, no chef barfing on the dish? You guys really makes us embrace the suck, don't ya?

@EmbraceTheSuck21

10 ай бұрын

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If I ran the hotel I would've gotten that kid some salad cream in a dip and spat in it whilst getting the cream from the kitchen

yumm! .. Baked beans and dead dog.

"Will the new chef work?" - you really haven't picked up on what is going on.

Good call with the millet not being cooked.

@am74343

10 ай бұрын

Mullet

I heard that George Bush Snr used to watch this show during the Iraqi War................kept him calm I think

Why did you miss out the bit when Fawlty thrashes the car?

😅John clease was married to the actress that played poly bit of info

Excellent reaction as always, guys 👍 Thinking about jumping on your Patreon for a bit....

the excitement you feel when you know The Germans is next 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Why are you editing out the best bits? Puts people off the channel.

@dyread

10 ай бұрын

I agree. I haven't seen this before and I don't know what is there when he takes off the lid at the end which must have been really funny.

@EmbraceTheSuck21

10 ай бұрын

Copyright Reasons, just like every other reaction channel does. Full version on Patreon, link in description

@gemini802

10 ай бұрын

​@@dyreadits a Rat .

@1mbpdf33

10 ай бұрын

​@EmbraceTheSuck21 Bull. Other channels don't edit it like that. You're kidding yourselves if you think this will make people pay. It will just stop people engaging at all.

@MrPercy112

10 ай бұрын

Exactly so! 👍

Thankfully only 12 episodes.

@RobertTaylor-gz2fu

10 ай бұрын

A new series is being made.

@andrewrodigan7102

10 ай бұрын

All those divorces must have been costly.

@mlee6050

10 ай бұрын

I just looked poor Basil's wife, also surprised his wife irl for first season was the assistant, apparently divorced before second season was completed and aired

@mlee6050

10 ай бұрын

​@@andrewrodigan7102depends how done, my view if I ever marry someone is when divorce we leave what went in with so should be cheaper than arguing

Basil is meant to be grumpy his funny its comedy your missing the point

Come on guys,,,,, shocking editing. You supposed to be reacting?

I spent most of my working life in hotels and I've always related to him, even though I was smart enough not to act like him.

Sybil was hot in this and only 43

If the Americans know how to do films, why do they insist on copying British originals?

The french know how to cook? You ever tried french cooking, as in when they cook slugs the ones that have their house on their backs, then there's the rats, so that's how they have blagged the world into thinking they can cook like who is going to know if they did a good job cooking them,? Not me for starters, again not hating on anyone, except the french as don't have a choice it's the law over here

With yourselves being yanks when you say take a shot, can you give a bit more detail, because I don't know what you mean by taking a shot? Here in the good old UK it would mean to take a drink, but as we might not be on the same page is that what you meant or do you want us to go shoot someone or something? Because we all know how you love your guns and high medical costs, Ps, only taking the piss mate, it means we like you, OK lads

Cybil's laugh is her impersonating pollys real life laugh. Oh and you call it dominate, I prefer educate lol

🇬🇧 Norfolk : signage to laughter 🤭

Americans know how to do movies ? Are you kidding ? Formulaic tedious unoriginal rubbish is the general standard of US film these days..

Considering she’s an American- Connie Boothe has a horrible American accent!

2 thumbs down to you both. You edited out the funniest scene in the whole of Fawlty Towers. Obviously KZread viewers don’t matter very much.

@am74343

10 ай бұрын

It's not really edited out. It's shortened, because their full reaction is on their Patreon page.

English these days only know how to complain lol

@gemini802

10 ай бұрын

Completely wring they do not, Americans complain worse

@DarknessIsThePath

10 ай бұрын

@@gemini802 they are more selfish than anything 🤷🏽‍♂️

@gemini802

10 ай бұрын

@@DarknessIsThePath no thats the americans

Fawlty is utterly unsuited to being in any kind of catering profession.

The only weak episode in my opinion.

@gamleskalle1

10 ай бұрын

Waldorf and anniversary too. First 2 average, rest great.

@CommissionerSleer

10 ай бұрын

Other people's favourite but I'd be inclined to agree except... I wouldn't say weak just weaker. Compared to the previous episode (the hard cut on Basil screaming) the punchline in this one is a bit predictable. But this one definitely has some brilliant moments. Most sitcoms would give their right everything to be as funny and memorable as this episode. If that's weak...

@pauljohnson8016

10 ай бұрын

Agree

@gemini802

10 ай бұрын

​@@gamleskalle1no, your wrong in my opinion, Waldorf Salad is my favorite of all of them

@gemini802

10 ай бұрын

Not weak at all a good episode.

British comedy. Just when you think it can't get any worse...