How about, "BUT SHE'S YOUR SISTER, YOU BAH-STED!!!" Having Fox's voice crack while saying it adds to the hilarity.
That's my favorite line, too. Actually that whole exchange:
"I want an explanation."
"Might I have a word with you alone, sir?"
"Do you realize ... that what you've done is a CRIMINAL offence?"
"Criminal, sir?"
"SHE'S YOUR SISTER YOU BAHHSTED!"
"She's not my sister. So if I may say, that puts us both rather in the same boat. He knows precisely what I mean."
That scene is so hyper-dramatic, with Pinter's characteristic pregnant pauses and touches like the clock striking and the distorted mirror adding to its over-wroughtness, and yet it's also kind of funny.
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I thought the conversation about the "poncho" when he meant "gaucho" was pretty funny. I suppose this was a poke at the insularity of the upper classes
What's wrong with Wandsworth? (I'm American; not familiar with the area.)
Another funny bit: when Tony is describing the Brazilian project for the third or fourth time, and he can't figure out if it's supposed to be on the plains or in the jungle. He finally says that parts of it are in both.
It's a pretty seedy, unfashionable part of Sarf London, probably equivalent to parts of Brooklyn. "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "The Lavender Hill Mob" were set in the Wandsworth area, and surely some other equally seedy films. I used to live down Wandsworth Rd as a student and it was the grimmest time of my life.
Actually, some of Brooklyn has become pretty fashionable recently, although other parts have not. But "Brooklyn" is no longer a punch line for jokes in the same way it used to be.
Thomas Crapper was an actual 19th-century sanitary engineer, so the sign was for a genuine shop on the King's Road when they filmed it. Long gone now, though.