Favourite Basil Fawlty Quote Page 2

Quote: zooo @ March 31, 2008, 9:08 PM

Oh my god, it really is the best sitcom ever written.

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Yes it is

Quote: zooo @ March 31, 2008, 9:08 PM

(Although I'm sure someone could start a similar Blackadder thread and I would declare the same.)

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No you wouldn't.

Quote: Richard Wells @ March 31, 2008, 7:08 PM

Basil: Well, may I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically

Mrs Richards: Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea.

Basil: You can see the sea. It's over there between the land and the sky.

Mrs Richards: I'd need a telescope to see that.

Basil: Well, may I suggest that you consider moving to a hotel closer to the sea?! Or preferably in it.

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Quote: Griff @ March 31, 2008, 7:28 PM

BASIL: "Zoom! What was that ? That was your life, mate. That was quick, do I get another ? Sorry mate, that's your lot."

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Quote: Jack Massey @ March 31, 2008, 7:43 PM

The conversation on Basil's gambling
BASIL: That's another part of my life closed down
SYBIL: And we don't want it opening up again do we?
BASIL: No you don't dear.

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All the same episode, I think. Isn't that incredible?

Not my favourite all time sitcom- but is in my top 10 (no.7). I think if you asked all sitcom fans to give there top 10 sitcoms- I think you'll find Fawlty Towers would appear in 99% of them.

I love Fawlty Towers, it will always be my favourite sitcom. Thanks to this thread, I feel the need to get the DVDs out and watch them again tonight.

"Oh, James Robbins....I thought you meant that awfull James Robinson."

... Duck Surprise...

Quote: Bad dog @ April 1 2008, 2:54 PM BST

I love Fawlty Towers, it will always be my favourite sitcom. Thanks to this thread, I feel the need to get the DVDs out and watch them again tonight.

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Just done the same myself.

SOMEONE AT THE DOOR SYBIL

Read my signiture. It is my favourite ever Basil rant.

'Got enough bananas in this week Sybil?

'I'm fed up with you, you rancorous coiffeured old sow. Why don't you syringe the doughnuts out of your ears and get some sense into that dormant organ you keep hidden in that rats maze of yours'

When comparing Doctor Abbot and Johnson in The Psychiatrist he says 'We've got both ends of the evolutionary scale this week'

'Everything's bottoms with you isn't it'

Though it isn't a Basil quote, it's worth a mention 'No, I won't have that. There's this place in Eastbourne'

Basil: Start! Start, you vicious bastard! Oh my god! I'm warning you! If you don't start, I'll count to three. 1, 2, 3. Right! That's it, you disgrace to the roads! I've laid it on the line to you time and time again! I'm going to give you a damn good thrashing!

Miss Tibbs: We don't think you're well, Mr. Fawlty.

Basil: Well perhaps not, but I'll live longer than you.

Miss Gatsby: You must have hurt yourself.

Basil: My dear woman, a blow on the head...like that [pause] is worth two in the bush.

without a doubt it's got to be;
[Basil's car won't start]
Basil Fawlty: START. Start, you vicious bastard. Oh my God. I'm warning you, if you don't start... I'll count to three. 1, 2, 3, right, that does it.
[Gets out]
Basil Fawlty: I'm going to give you a damn good thrashing.
<----- laughs so hard that a little pee comes out,
...er I'm new.
Hi.

Quote: Griff @ April 1 2008, 3:28 PM BST

yes, another classic line

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Note to self...make more effort to remember names.

I have all twelve episodes on DVD too, and Waldorf salad is my favourite episode.

'Couldn't find the freeway. Had to use some back road called the M5...'

There's one scene where he's really frustrated, and he accidentally backs into a big plant pot on the hotel steps, he doesn't say anything, he just turns around and shakes his fist at it.

Best bit ever.