Gotcha! Bet no one here was a fan of "Faulty Towers!"

[KoKo]

Watched some old VHS last night because we couldn't find anything, TV, Music or movies we wanted to watch (still sick over this election) and back in the dusty corners of the cabinet were some old VHS we'd taped of that show way years ago...

It's the first time we've laughed in months. And, we thought we'd watch and turn them off as "dated."

It's the "simple" humor sometimes when life is so complicated... But, it worked for us...and we wouldn't have thought of it but too tired to rent something and there was nothing else that we could think of in our glum mood.

[eleny]

1. "Farty Towels"? Sure!

[supernova]

2. It's on tonight at 10PM

on Channel 4. :D

It's the very special "The Germans" episode!

I love Farty Owls.

[KoKo]

5. You're kidding....Somebody is re-running them? That's incredible...

must be a "meme" going around. :D

[NC_Nurse]

9. WUNC is running them again...

right here in ole Chapel Hill!

[NC_Nurse]

6. I love that episode...

Basil is so ridiculous! :D

[CO Liberal]

10. "Basil in the Rattatooi"

:-)

[KoKo]

19. Is that the one with the rat that died in the Water Tower? I think that's

on one of the tapes. I remember it being really hysterical...but we only watched two episodes last night.

[FuzzySlippers]

23. No, it's the one where Manuel's rat

shows up in the box of cookies at the end and looks the health inspector right in the face. Hilarious!

[KoKo]

29. OMG! You're right! I had forgotten all about that...can't wait to watch

the rest of them now...maybe I'll save them one at a time...there are so few! Thanks for reminding me! :D

[CO Liberal]

7. "Don't Bring Up the War!!!!"

:-)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. "I speak eenglish verrry well"

"I learn it frrrom a BOOK!"

[KoKo]

8. I'm from Bar-ce-lona! I know NUTHEEEENG.......

[qnr]

4. Actually, I was never able to catch it, though I tried.

Fawlty? I've never seen it, but think it was that

[Obviousman]

11. I love this show

It seems like if Basil were a real man he would have died of a heart attack a looong time ago

[KoKo]

15. He was ranting and raving about the woman with the hearing aid who

couldn't find toilet paper and thought folks stole her money when she had left her money in a shop.

Any of us who have elderly relatives with hearing aids who won't turn them on would roll on the floor about that. I've had a couple in my family. :D

[stavka]

12. Great show! - saw it on VHS in 87-88

Not any more dated than Python IMHO

[redsoxliberal]

13. Faulty Titties rules! Honestly, I fuckin love it. I've memorized all of em

[Gothic Sponge]

14. I love Faulty Towers!

[PunkinPi]

16. Fawlty Towers is great!!! nt

[KoKo]

17. Wow...I figured this would go off into archives. Didn't know about PBS

re-running them and I'm in NC! DUH........I haven't had my TV on to know...living like a mole ..

[redsoxliberal]

18. sppppppppoons, eh?

[KoKo]

21. Yes...the spoons...that was the Hotel Inspectors one we watched last night

you really do know these!

[redsoxliberal]

22. as promised. P-off... POST OFFICE!

[warrens]

20. They were all great, but two stick in my mind

One in which some hot chick checks in and through a series of convoluted events, Basil ends up in her room over and over and his wife catches him every time. Stupid concept, but hilarious.

And the one about manuel's pet rat and the health inspector....

[buddhamama]

24. I love Fawlty Towers

use to watch it on PBS every week night. It came on fairly late but, it was worth staying up for. I have a some episodes on tape. It is great show if you need a pick-me-up.

[DemBones DemBones]

25. Silly girl, we all love Fawlty Towers!

:7 :7 :7

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

26. I loved that show!!!

It was so funny. It used to be on PBS when I was a kid. I haven't seen it in many years.

[sendero]

27. Probably the best sitcom...

... ever made. And they only made what, like 7 episodes?

I consider FT every bit as classic as Monty Python...

[nine23]

28. Are you freakin' kidding?

In Canada, in the 1970's, Faulty Towers was on TV DURING THE DINNER HOUR, via basic cable or the 'ol "rabbit ears"...

We had our choice sitting behind those old folding TV dinner tables: Walter Cronkite/local news, or "Farty Towels"...guess which was more popular?

Now you know why we supply the US with comedians.

TRIVIA: In Spain, in the dubbed versions on VHS, Manuel is from TIJUANA, not Barcelona, so's not to offend anybody!



edit: spleeling.

[lumberingbear]

30. Occasionally "Faulty Towers" is on

BBC America Cable.

(I love the old Britcoms. "Bless me Father", "Are you being served",

[peekaloo]

31. I prefer 'Flowery Twats' .

:D

[yvr girl]

32. I love Fawlty Towers

I actually bought a couple of tapes that have 3 episodes each. One of our PBS stations (Seattle) usually does a Fawlty marathon every time they do a pledge drive.

PBS is way more popular in Canada than in the US. In Vancouver, we actually get two - the Seattle one and one from Detroit.

[Nimzo Indian]

33. I Love Flay Otters

Own the whole series on VHS.

Absolutely brilliant comedy writing.

[soothsayer]

34. None better than the psychiatrist episode...! except maybe

the one with the moose head (don't mention the war!)

[VOX]

35. "Watery Fowls" is the best!!!

The scripts are actually highly complex -- Situation comedy elevated into ART. :thumbsup:

[Socialist Dem]

36. "Where is door?

door is gone?"

Is it HERE? (Basil grabs Manuel's head and rams it into the wall several times while repeating Is it HERE?)

my favorite

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

37. ARe you KIDDING ME?

I farging LOVE that series!!! Shit. "Don't mention the war!"