What happened to Fawlty? - now Adults Only thanks to Sir Strumalot of Royal Worcester

12 episodes altogether over 2 series. Extremely funny. They don't write comedy like that any more.

I'm so bad at maths I just say they made two little of them.

SteveStrummerUK


I don't know so much.

Maybe with the exclusion of A Fish Called Wanda and Clockwise, he hasn't really done, or been in, anything funny since Fawlty Towers.

but that wasn't the discussion sir steve of strummerton.
May I suggest that you start a thread entitled 'I don't like John Cleese' and stop with the Basil hating :)

SteveStrummerUK


Yeah I know what you mean mate, I just think it's best left where it was as the classic it is.

And I do lurve me a bit of John Cleese - I have every episode of both FT and Monty Python (box-set of TV episodes and all the films) on DVD.
 
I'm just not a fanboi

 
 
I was only kidding - I also know what you mean - A Fish Called Wanda was and still is excellent and for once he was pretty subdued in that.
He lost his edge for me when he came to the US - bit parts in crappy movies (the voice of the ape in George of the Jungle, Q in Bond).
There are funnier ex-pythons

bapu

daryl1968
There are funnier ex-pythons 

And unfunnier ex-parrots by me.

Pythonized

daryl1968


John Cleese should bring back Fawlty Towers - only 2 series and 12 episodes ever made - classic

TBH I don't think you could. It was brilliant , but I don't think it would work now, especially by the time the pc brigade had run the rule over it. Can you imagine what it would be like now that hitting a Spanish waiter with a spoon would be classed as racial stereotype bullying, not to mention employee harrassment and cruelty to spoons ? And as for shouting at deaf people ..........;)

The good news for you when you come back is that it's almost as hard to avoid on TV as Only Fools and Horses these days.

Clearing out a house, I once found an old audio book of two episodes (the deaf woman one was one of them) and it was amazing how funny it was even without the benefit of seeing it, though I guess that could possibly be because the images are all kind of ingrained in the memory now.

daryl1968


"May I ask you what you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The hanging gardens of babylon? Herds of wilderbeast sweeping majestically......."

classic

:)    He's from Barcelona

Old55

paulo

daryl1968


John Cleese should bring back Fawlty Towers - only 2 series and 12 episodes ever made - classic

TBH I don't think you could. It was brilliant , but I don't think it would work now, especially by the time the pc brigade had run the rule over it. Can you imagine what it would be like now that hitting a Spanish waiter with a spoon would be classed as racial stereotype bullying, not to mention employee harrassment and cruelty to spoons ? And as for shouting at deaf people ..........;)

The good news for you when you come back is that it's almost as hard to avoid on TV as Only Fools and Horses these days.

Clearing out a house, I once found an old audio book of two episodes (the deaf woman one was one of them) and it was amazing how funny it was even without the benefit of seeing it, though I guess that could possibly be because the images are all kind of ingrained in the memory now.

Don't mention the war.  Can you imagine the stir that episode would have caused these days!

Bristol_Jonesey


In a similar vein - can you see Life of Brian making it past the censors these days?

He's not the messiah - he's a very naughty boy.
 
My family and I watch Life of Brian every Easter just to show willing

daryl1968


John Cleese should bring back Fawlty Towers - only 2 series and 12 episodes ever made - classic

I'm not sure why, but I think they ran out of ideas and possibilities. But you gotta remember that John, his wife Connie Booth, and Prunella Scales, probably had other commitments or this threesome simply ran its course!
 
I would rather have The Black Adder ... and maybe a movie or two instead of that Mr. Bean BS! And for "extras" to be cast, I want Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Robert DeNiro, Madonna, and a few other notorious names ... so he can really have fun nailing them to the wall.
 
And this time Baldric gets a girl-friend ... hahaha ... much to his consternation!

Moshkiae

 
I would rather have The Black Adder ... and maybe a movie or two instead of that Mr. Bean BS!

Now you're talking Pedro.
 
One of my favourite passages:
 
Melchett: Aah, are you looking forward to the big push?

Baldrick: No sir, I'm absolutely terrified.
 
Melchett: The healthy humour of the honest Tommy. Hahaaa, don't worry my boy, if you should falter, remember that Captain Darling and I are behind you.

Blackadder: About thirty-five miles behind you.

daryl1968

Bristol_Jonesey


In a similar vein - can you see Life of Brian making it past the censors these days?

He's not the messiah - he's a very naughty boy.
 
My family and I watch Life of Brian every Easter just to show willing

''People called Romanii, they go the 'ouse??''

Strummy - is it wrong that your new avatar is turning me on?

SteveStrummerUK

daryl1968


Strummy - is it wrong that your new avatar is turning me on?

You want to touch my boobies?

can I honk 'em?
 
 
 
can I make the noise and everything? honk honk