Fawlty Towers: Collecting a corpse
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- From the episode "The Kipper And The Corpse" - After hiding the body in the laundry basket, Basil mistakes Mr Leeman's friends as the undertakers here to collect him.
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"What's he doing in the basket?"
"Well, not much..."
GOLD!
1:05 🤣🤣
Manuel jumping in front of the truck. Selflessly helping to stop a stopped truck
Selflessness is immoral
Talk about overacting, so 70's 😄
The doll deflating at the end, haha. Yeah, a corpse barging in definitely spoils a hot date with a blow-up doll.
@Mr nobody Returns The guest was a 'Mr Curtis', a dig at a TV critic of that name who had panned a previous episode of the series. Sweet revenge!
When I was a kid, I didn't know what was going on 😂
Very 70s
Hahahahaha 😂😂😂😂
Oh it was deflating?? I thought she was going down on him!
Another one Fawlty?
No, no it is the same one.
Ah,okay.then.
Best line in the entire series 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Mr Fawlty, I no want to work here anymore!"
🤣🤣🤣
"We thought you said... 'the linen!'"
"BRILLIANT!!! Sorry sorry! That's it, that's it!"
Polly saves the moment!
"Oh, we thought you said the linen!"
Craigevansagain brilliant!
John Cleese's timing on "Oh my God he's gone - WHERE IS HE?" with the basket lid is just perfect!!
I bet the blow up doll bit was pushing it for the 1970s
Hardly.
Well he had his Pajamas on (topical 70’s)
I know this is a comedy sketch but this can actually happen in real life. My father ran a hotel in Greece and one of our visitors was a charming guy in his late 70's travelling with his nurse. We were sitting together having dinner on a crowded terrace overlooking the sea. He was telling me of his earlier life when he used to own the imperial hotel by lake Bled but was chased out the country during a revolution and had to leave with nothing. Then in his 70's the country repaid him millions for what had been taken off him but what do you spend money on at that age? Needless to say his nurse looked like a playboy centrefold. We had a pleasant time sipping wine and trading stories while looking out at the view but during another story he just slumped. His nurse checked him and confirmed he'd died. This obviously left us with an issue of how to deal with a dead body in a crowded restaurant. We ended up calling in a Greek bouzouki band who concentrated the people perfectly while we carried the poor chap back to his room. I must admit, if I had to chose a way to go, then that would be it
I remember seeing this as a teenage back in the 1970s...the blow-up doll...OMG that is drop dead funny
Was this considered a family friendly sitcom at the time?
@@fenhenof course. It’s only a plastic doll! What’s wrong with that? Unless you have a dirty mind of course!
What's he doing in the basket?
Well not much! ROFL
I dont remember why they were moving the body around in this episode. Once they realized he hadn't eaten the kippers, its no longer their fault but they're acting like they're trying not to get caught with a suspicious body.
English farce....the harder they try to dissolve a situation, the worse the situation becomes....which makes them try harder and so it goes on. English farce is a theatrical genre....done well is is hysterically funny....done badly it looks contrived and cringe making.
Sybil told Basil to get the body into the office till the undertakers came. Which was terrible advice, cause you never move a body, you leave it where it is.
😅😅😅😅 pmsl 😂 what a brilliant comedy it's such a Pitty that they didn't do more episodes after 2 year's it was brilliant greetings from Ireland 😊
John Cleese talked quite a bit about this scene in the 1990s VHS releases of Fawlty Towers, which included a number of candid interviews with Cleese on the production of this series. John mentioned that he thought that this scene could have been "tightened" up a bit as he thought it wasn't immediately obvious to the viewer that Fawlty mistook Leeman's three business colleagues as undertakers/funeral directors here to collect a cadaver. Cleese also talked about the necessity of having a smaller man (in this case actor Derek Royle) so that he could be easily carried around since he's a corpse for most of the episode. Cleese also mentioned that the original plan was for a different ending, where the identical twin brother of the deceased would show up and Basil would hurl abuse at him. Cleese said that he and Booth couldn't go with this plan, as there was no way for Fawlty to break the news to a loved one that Leeman had died (note that it was Sybil who broke this news to Leeman's three colleagues - great call here it would be impossibly awkward for Basil Fawlty to act compassionately in delivering this heavy news). Note that it was also Polly who called the undertaker earlier in the episode ("I'm afraid somebody's died during the night") - again, it would appear very out of character for Basil to even place this phone call.
Nonetheless, "Kipper and the Corpse" is an outstanding episode, and probably my third favourite of the entire series (behind only "The Germans" and "Basil the Rat").
These excellent comedy shows remind me so much of the Brian Rix farces of the 60s.
The chap blowing up the doll ,was supposed to be a tv critic who give him a bad review he had the same name 😅
The gent in the room cusauly blowing his "doll"..🤣🤣🤫
'BRILLIANT!'.
Fantastic.
I have seen this SO many times and I still laugh my ass off EVERY TIME; I just noticed the "confused, "this guy is out of his mind!!" expressions" on the faces of Mr. Lehman's colleagues this time. All Done SO well; I simple things but they add SO much to this scene, excellent acting, all in all...
Loving the business faction
I love Manuel!!
At the very beginning, Basil and Manuel are struggling to lift and carry the basket ...
The Kipper and the Corspe
1:28. What really makes me laugh is the fact that the laundrymen were unknowingly carrying a dead body and the hotel staff could've faced prosecution if the body was found.
This whole situation could have been avoided if he had just TOLD them that Leeman died in his sleep. Like, they're gonna find out one way or another, and he's creating a much more awkward situation by doing all this than he would by just telling them...
"Creating a much more awkward situation" was Basil Fawlty's middle name.
... which is pretty much the whole point of Farty Towels
@@jimbrownza Yes, I'm aware.
Not much of a comedy show then though!
@@johnmanning5568 God damn, how dense do you think I am? I'm aware that the show was written this way to be entertaining. I'm not fucking stupid, I know what fiction is. I'm just saying what a logical person would have done in this situation...
Es GENIAL !!!!!!😅
So hilarious ❤️❤️❤️
Oh Lord!!!
Click 'Brilliant!'
This is so damn funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Your dress is very modern
Unfortunatley we cannot make this exceptional work any more. May offend those who recently arrived here by boat.
Imagine being this utterly delusional
Just tell them the truth and tell them to sit down...
Yes but you are forgetting that everyone in this hotel is an idiot, it would not be so funny then.
Sex dolls have come a long way since then
Why do all the men have combovers in this show
So hilariously absurd, it makes no sense 🙃
Things just kinda happen. Why is he trying to hide the fact that Lehmann is dead? I mean, what's would be the best possible outcome here? It's just delaying the inevitable discovery for the sake of comedy. And it works because we allow it, because we want it to 😀
The Kipper and the Corspe
Yes, we can read
*corpse
No show make me laugh so hard ,bloody brilliant!