Fawlty Towers | Gourmet Night | Season 1 Episode 5 | First Time Watching | Reaction
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
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Video Contents
0:00 Intro
0:50 Reaction
10:18 Review/Outro
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That "damn good thrashing" moment is iconic! Corgi Toys released a 1:43 scale toy car, that funny looking little Austin 1300, with a diorama and a figurine of Basil wielding the tree branch.
Seems they discontinued it, cant find it on their site, they do have a Mr.Bean Mini with him on top from the show!
It was filmed near Wembley.
The horrible child with the salad cream became a renowned cordon bleu chef!
When asked why he only did twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers John replied, "Shakespeare only got four hours out of Hamlet, I got six hours out of Basil."
Thanks for these reactions. Always such fun.
Hamlet wasn't much of a comedy. How much did Shakespeare get out of Falstaff?
@@BaccarWozat I thought Hamlet was hilarious.
"Beot or botneot, tath si teh noistque."
The "car thrashing" is my absolute FAVORITE scene of ALL the shows!!!
RIGHT!!! I'm gonna give you a damn good thrashing🤣🤣🤣...absolutely fantastic
As already stated. 12 episodes, 2 seasons.
This episode is one of the classics. I remember watching it for the first time as a kid and the absurdity of it being a trifle , his astonishment and with the hopeless action of actually looking in the trifle for the duck had me in painful stitches of laughter rolling on the floor. No other sitcom comes close.
Some of THE Best comedy writing in all Television history.
Mrs. Hall was played by the delightful and diminutive Ann Way. I remember her best as the very put-upon maid in "Haunted Honeymoon" (1986) with Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner.
10:35 I mentioned in comments before, John and Connie felt that they wanted to maintain a consistently high quality to each episode and didn't feel they could sustain it for a Series 3 so decided to quit whilst they were ahead. Once married, they also divorced in the period between writing the two series which couldn't have helped I suspect. John quit Python before the final series as she felt the quality had dropped and he didn't want that of his own masterpiece. Ricky Gervais cites that decision as to why his series are usually kept short. The US Office is an exception because that has a team of writers, not just one or two.
The original broadcast was on Friday 19th September 1975 at 9pm and they were weekly. Series 3 aired from Monday 19th February 1979 but the final two episodes were delayed by strikes. This was the famous 'Winter of Discontent' and you'l hear Basil refer to strikes in character during the show.
There are 2 seasons. The second season came out almost 4 years later and, in my opinion, was even funnier...
Super reaction as always, thanks for the good content!
I feel like Fawlty Towers was made for Dawn. I knew you'd love it from the first episode 🙂
My God! The CUTENESS of your laugh and your voice is off the charts!
Basil certainly gave that car a damn good thrashing
Him hitting the car with the switch is the best comedic bit ever.
Please watch "Clockwise": it's a less well-known film with John Cleese as a headmaster who is obsessed with punctuality, and when he has to give an important speech, one thing after another goes wrong on his journey.
Thank you so very much for giving us a chance to enjoy this gem of a comedy once again.
Allan Cuthbertson (Colonel Hall). Steve Plytas (Kurt) and Ann Way (Mrs 'Small' Hall), all with extensive filmographies and all no longer with us. Sigh. Time marches on. I love the scene with the brat, perhaps the only time we're rooting for Basil. As for the car, well, he warned it. At least it took the heat off Manuel, till next time. Thank you once again, Your Radiance. You never fail to deliver.
For more Cleese and Way, Dawn should definitely try Clockwise. "It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope!"
Great reaction. One of the lines I like is where the boy tells 'Basil' that 'the eggs taste like you laid them'. I think 'Basil' was fair in clipping him accidentally. No doubt the Mini was made by British Leyland. And the actor with the involuntary nervous twitch...
The first pilot of faulty towers was shown Christmas eve 74 the series ended October 79 Dawn !
Thank you for watching this with us. It has been a delight. Your laugh is the highlight.
All of Fawlty Towers is good, but each of has things which "hit home" that we can actually relate to (in addition to being funny). For me, it is the first episode of season 2 (Communication Problems). Anyone (like me) who enjoys betting on the horses & has friends/family who disapprove, can relate to Basil. Ahahahahah.
Wow, long time since I watched the series (despite having it on DVD). I don't remember Gourmet Night. But I know it's a super episode, as they all were.
Aha! It's the Car Whipping episode!
(Should've gone to Specsavers)
And the next one is The Germans!!!
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Keeps me laughing almost 50 years later
Love this series. Love you laughing. Absolutely looking forward to each installment.
No Dawn Marie, i absolutely love Salad Cream, it is delicious and I also use it as part of the base for my home made Marie Rose Sauce too as I also use Single Cream, thus negating the need for Mayonnaise in the Marie Rose Sauce, which, when I make it to go on my Prawn Cocktail Salad, it always goes down well and anyone that has tried it always wants more!
The scene were Basil asks the chief what do we do with this do we cook it.? The chief vomits on the plate. The audience in the studio sees it but when the bbc saw it they said that the vomit had to edited out. John Cleese fought to keep it in , But the head of comedy at the BBC said No it has to go.
Is anyone else shocked he even fit in that tiny little car?
Nice to see Andre Gaston Maillol from The Pink Panther movies in this episode. You'd love the Pink Panther movies Dawn, Peter Sellers is every bit the bumbler John Cleese is, if not more so!!😄
I've been a huge fan of the Pink Panther movies since I was a little kid, too.
They said they decided to cut the series short because they thought the show was perfect and they were afraid of running out of jokes and ideas for more Episodes and start losing quality.........they chose quality over quantity......unfortunately
They made the correct decision, go out on a high, 12 perfect episodes, so many comedies milk it for too long and are judged
by later weaker episodes
It would take Cleese and Booth a lot of time to write each script, too. If they had written more, they couldn't have spent the same amount of time refining each one.
What they did was perfect.
Might I suggest that, when you have finished Fawlty Towers, you watch "Ripping Yarns" (Michael Palin's post Python series)
Dug out the DVD set and pre-rewatched Gourmet Night just for this. Getting the place decked out for Christmas (the Germans are coming).
*ducked out
Don't mention the war.
ive watched a few reaction vids of F.T. all american and they do not understand the sarcasm at all. so was not expecting a wee scottish lassie genuinely watching for the first time. start night shift soon, at a hotel!!!! youre laugh is infectious, brightened my day. just subsribed so will be laffin along wi u tonight ha. oh aye, salad cream is minging ha
The car seen is so funny it's always being shown, its so funny now as it was when it was first shown.
Happy Sunday Dawn Marie 🤍 great reaction!!!keep smiling and having fun Queen, hugs lysm 🥰🥰!!!!
You have by far the cutest and most infectious laugh on the internet! 😂🤭😘xxxx
Dawn as always 🥰
I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
British shows, especially of this era, tended to have few episodes per series (what we Americans call seasons) because they tended to have the same writers and directors every episode. John Cleese and Connie Booth wrote every episode of Fawlty Towers. The exceptions to this rule tended to be shows aimed at the American market (such as those produced by ITC). If they succeeded in airing on an American TV network, especially in Prime Time, they could make big money due to the size of the American market. ITC, owned by Lord Lew Grade, tried hard so financed a lot of British shows produced the American way (large writing staff and a large pool of directors). He did manage to get a lot of shows on American TV. Fawlty Towers itself was sold to PBS stations (as was Monty Python) across the land of the rising apple pie, but PBS is publicly funded.
Originally Monty Python was sold to ABC (The US one, not the Australian one). They were careless with their censorship and commercial breaks and Monty Python themselves had to lobby the BBC to withdraw the sale until they found a way to get it on the air in full. It had to be done! ABC censored the phrase "naughty bits", which was absolutely stupid.
One thing people maybe overlook is that Basil hired Manuel because he’s cheap to employ. But you get what you pay for.
They are all amazing but this is one of my absolute favourites.
This is one of my favorite episodes from the series. Although they are all hilarious.
This episode was so crazy, I couldn't believe in my eyes.
Mrs. Fawlty is kinda cute and quite charming.
Pretty good episode :D
I think the next one has one of my fav scenes in the entire series.
I'm sure I will watch these reactions again.
And as an encore after you wach the last episode, I hope you will consider watching Basil (Cleese) and Polly (Connie Booth) in the Sherlock Holmes spoof THE STRANGE CASE OF THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT. it is a little dated and stupid in parts but there is one scene in it that will have you in stitches.
Oh, I can put first
Abosolute top episode!
I think some early brit sitcoms were only about 6 episodes a season.
They still are.
Hello Dawn
Good 👍
"What a tit." Lol!
😂❤
💙 🤣
Seems to be many folks' favourite episode. But I find the situation Basil is in unwatchable for the mortifying trauma it must be, and this time it's not of his own making
@4:00 that little woman has such an odd shaped head, i had never seen her in anything else until i immediately recognized her 1 appearance in game of thrones. She's the woman from the vale who questions then hugs sansa after the littlefinger/lyssa "incident".
Forty totals?
You sound like strawberries. Yum
If you could bottle that lovely accent of yours and sell it you would make a fortune.
I have come to realize that you are actually funnier than the show. Well done and great reactions Dawn! 😀
I love this show but it stresses me out so much I have to take it in in snippets. Like the American show “Curb Your Enthusiasm “ the situations the main character gets into makes me stressed.
This is the second most cringiest episode.
so are you
Boring
Sod Of!
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