Best Line
What is your vote for the best line? For me it is "Is this a piece of your brain?" And, of course, "Yes you did, you invaded Poland"
shareMother - Intelligent boy, rather highly strung.
Fawlty - Yes, he should be.
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"Read a lot of Oscar Wilde, do you, Roger?"
Killer line, that one! I use it myself whenever some pea-brain is trying - & failing - to be oh, so devilishly witty.
God you're ugly
There's nothing one can do short of putting straw in the room for people like you - or something to that effect.
I forget, even-cho-allee
There are so many, it's hard to pick but a few. The major's anecdote, totally non-pc, about wogs and n/ggers was hilarious too.
A bird sings and the mountain's silence deepens.share
For me its:
1. "i think we are fresh out of Waldorfs"
2. "Well may i ask what you were expecting to see from the bedroom window of a Toquay hotel? Sidney Opera House? Hanging gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeast.."
3. "Mr Fawlty, I no longer want to work here"
Ssspppoooooons...
(from "The Hotel Inspectors")
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You got your mind right, Luke?
"Oh, brilliant...brilliant! Is that what made Britain great?!" (Goes cross-eyed) "I'm tho thowwy, I made a mithtake?! What have you got for brains? Sponge cake?!"
shareThe kid to Basil - "These eggs look like you laid them"
Colonel Hall introduces his rather short wife to Basil - "Don't get up"
When I asked you to build me a wall, I was hoping that instead of just dumping the bricks in a pile, you might have found time to cement them together, you know, one on top of the other, in the traditional fashion.
I MEAN WHAT IS THE BLOODY POINT? I AM DOING IT, AREN'T I?
I'll put an ad in the papers: "Wanted, kind home for enormous savage rodent. Answers to the name of Sybil."
Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more. Edmund Blackadder.
"Hello Fawlty Towers how are you ees nice day. Oh, ees you again. I tell you, he no here!" [waves the phone around the room so it can 'see' the absence of Basil]
"Yes, yes, men are here...yes, men are working..." [to builders] "You WORK, men!" [back to the phone] "Que? Que? Si...si... [to builders] "Please, which one ees Man With Beard?" [to phone] "Si, si, I tell heem, si." [to bearded man] "You are crepious u-ran-gu-tan."
"Well it's not my fault! He was supposed to wake me!"
"WHO was supposed to to wake you?!"
[brief pause]"It is my fault."
"MANWELL!!! I KNEW IT!!!"
"You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything."