Fawlty Towers
TV Show • 1975
ReportFawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television that was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made. The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom also starred in the show.The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay, on the "English Riviera". The plots centre around tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, a comparatively normal chambermaid Polly, and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel and their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.In a list drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted by industry professionals, Fawlty Towers was named the best British television series of all time.
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Male characters get hit in the groin in Season 1 Episode 1 and Season 2 Episode 6. They're both very quick and not graphic.
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It's played for laughs, but Sybil is often verbally abusive to Basil, and is sometimes physically violent with him. In various episodes she slaps him, elbows him, throws hot coffee on him, stomps on his feet, hits him with an umbrella, shoves him, and at one point hits him hard enough offscreen that he hides the bruise with a hat. Basil is consistently terrified of angering her, and is often cowed into obeying her just from a shout.
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chef in the episode 'Gormet night'
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Manuel's pet rat, Basil, is kept in a ridiculously small cage with no enrichment. He believed it to be a hamster when he bought it, but those would be terrible living conditions for a hamster too.
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Dead pigeons are mentioned but not shown.
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Not intentionally, but a running joke in Season 2 Episode 2 is that Basil repeatedly accidentally touches a woman's breasts.
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Manuel is locked in a burning room, and his jacket is smoking when he is later let out.
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No, but Manuel gets poked in the eye on "The Kipper and the Corpse."
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Sybil sometimes flirts with guests. An attractive female guest flirts heavily with Basil, but he consistently rebuffs her advances. Sybil suspects Basil of cheating in some episodes due to comedic misunderstandings, but no actual cheating occurs.
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Though you don’t see it. The episode with the rat catching
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the Germans
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Basil punches himself in the face in "The Builders."
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N word is said twice in The Germans
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strong case of this in the Germans but doesn't last long, unless you are sensitive to racism against the Germans
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