REACTING TO FAWLTY TOWERS | Series 1 Ep. 2 - The Builders

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  • @mizofan
    @mizofan Місяць тому +9

    You may be interested in a fine series Great Canal Journeys (from 2014-19), with Prunella Scales who's 91 and her actor husband Timothy West, 89. In it, they travelled on canal boats in different areas and also some other countries. Prunella was already suffering with dementia in it but there's touching warmth and kindness between them.

  • @haydenstock21
    @haydenstock21 Місяць тому +10

    John Cleese named this as "the least good" of the episodes, because of the lack of laughter in the studio on the day of recording, also David Kelly (who played O’Reilly) once said that members of the Icelandic Broadcasting Corporation were visiting the studio that day and many of them were in the front row seats, apparently not enjoying the show.

  • @Daisy-yq1gi
    @Daisy-yq1gi 14 днів тому +1

    One of the best things on TV ever. Simple as...

  • @ritahamblin1043
    @ritahamblin1043 Місяць тому +5

    Doesn't matter there all very funny. Fawlty towers is classic. DADS ARMY Is the same

  • @dunringill1747
    @dunringill1747 Місяць тому +2

    "Come on, give us a smile" - as she is beating Mr. O’Reilly with an umbrella might be my favorite Sybil scene.

  • @geoffhobbs5287
    @geoffhobbs5287 Місяць тому +1

    Communication problems is another good one.

  • @stephenbrough8132
    @stephenbrough8132 Місяць тому +3

    Nothing beats Fawlty Towers. Strange to think some "head of entertainment" completely wrote it off as "dire" and destined to fail.

    • @MeganRuth
      @MeganRuth  Місяць тому

      Wow really? I can’t imagine that! I bet they regretted ever thinking it would fail!

  • @lifelover515
    @lifelover515 Місяць тому +3

    Go Megan. RIP David Kelly d.2012, one of the first of an impressive parade of fine character actors who appear only in one episode and have since passed. The editing is quite savage but I appreciate the reasons - a pity in a way as the scripts are so absolutely gag-packed, but many of us know it backwards anyhow. Some people dodge copyright by using an original watermark or bars across the screen. Whatever works for you. Rock on babe.

  • @Poliss95
    @Poliss95 Місяць тому +2

    Orelly men. 😁😁Sybil is just as incompetent as Basil but it's not so obvious.

  • @coldwhite4240
    @coldwhite4240 Місяць тому +2

    Great to see you enjoying this one. This is one of my favourite Fawlty Towers episodes even though - as someone said before - there is little studio audience laughter. In some ways, that actually makes it better, as I've never enjoyed sitcoms where the audience sounds like hyenas on nitrous oxide! (One of the reasons I usually prefer sitcoms from Britain to the ones from the USA.) Besides which the individual performances, setups and payoffs are so great in this one that it's a classic even without background laughter.
    The late Irish actor David Kelly was also in a little-remembered TV series about shoddy builders called "Cowboys" where he played a very similar role to this, and he starred in the film Waking Ned (known across the Atlantic as Waking Ned Devine I think, for some reason). I loved him in all those roles!

    • @MeganRuth
      @MeganRuth  Місяць тому +1

      I agree! Sometimes the studio audience can take away from the show. It was kind of refreshing to not have as much of it this episode :)

  • @FalcomScott312
    @FalcomScott312 Місяць тому +2

    Hello Megan, how are you? Love watching your content content, which makes me smile! Nice seeing another reaction starting John Cleese & and keep up the great work! ❤

  • @finncullen
    @finncullen Місяць тому +1

    I'm with you. Saying "You shouldn't be upset, some people have it far worse" is as fatuous as saying "you shouldn't be happier, some people have it far better than you"

  • @Keiron-pw6sl
    @Keiron-pw6sl Місяць тому +1

    Igwas such a classic series they don't make them like this anymore manwell is hilarious

  • @philipcochran1972
    @philipcochran1972 Місяць тому +1

    See a very young Prunella Scales (Sybil) in the 1954 film Hobson's Choice.
    RSJ mean reinforced steel joist.
    All the remakes refused Cleese's help and they all flopped. I wonder why.

  • @greigclement9081
    @greigclement9081 Місяць тому +1

    The age-old conundrum of husband /wife opinions on contractors where husband wants it done as cheap as possible and wife wants it done right first timer.

  • @vincentsaia6545
    @vincentsaia6545 25 днів тому

    My favorite episode.

  • @vincentsaia6545
    @vincentsaia6545 25 днів тому

    WARNING: David ("O'Reilly") Kelly did a nude sequence in WAKING NED DEVINE.

  • @jonowhitney5515
    @jonowhitney5515 Місяць тому

    Well done in working out the plot..

  • @jameslong3509
    @jameslong3509 Місяць тому +1

    Although this show is regarded as “12 episodes of perfection” (6 in ‘75 and 6 in ‘79), this is genuinely regarded as the weakest episode. Usually because the lack of guests for Basil to schmooze and/or hate. John Cleese even said it wasn’t the best. When you get to Ep6, it was of the time…
    On your mentionof female characters, John Howard-Davies (S1 producer and director) described Sybil Fawlty as “The sort of woman who could make love and paint her nails at the same time”. Cleese and Booth had a different idea of Sybil but Prunella Scales audition convinced them to change the style of the character.