The Fawlty Towers Basil Fawlty Supercut (video)

[Video link]. So many of John Cleese's greatest Basil-isms from the BBC series "Fawlty Towers" were completely non-verbal, or consisted of a single word or grunt.

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http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

How appropriate that this should appear here on Thursday. On all the other nights we’ll just have a big trough of baked beans and garnish it with a couple of dead dogs.
- altaylor
  
  Plus a side order of amphibious-landing-craft-shaped chips.
jwgl23

This exactly why I could never get through more than the first episode of Fawlty Towers, because Basil is such a dick and it is inscrutiating to watch.
- http://www.youtube.com/user/ziccup akbar56
  
  Basil was indeed a dick and his persona was excruciating to watch, but wasn’t that the point?
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  That’s the premise. Like the Office.
  - jwgl23
    
    I know. And I can’t watch the Office either.
- mexican cheese
  
  It is inscrutiating to read the t**t that people write about something they do not like. If you do not like something, do not participate in it. If you do like something than be effusive. The fact that you have a keyboard does not give you the right to rain on other’s parades.
  - https://launchpad.net/~googoleyes koanhead
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_g3kkGH8Mo
altaylor

Aw, you missed ending it with Basil thrashing the car with a branch!
Donald Simmons

Don’t mention the war!
- http://twitter.com/lucyrickyalex Chris Schumacher
  
  *klaxons*
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3YyZr6El3M
http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

Sybil: Perhaps it would be simplest to have [Manuel's rat] put to S-L-E-E-P

Manuel: SPLEEP?!
xiagang

I think I could place just every single one of those Basil-isms. Perfect.
cajjnk

“Cloth-eared bint” is one of my favorite phrases of all time. I never knew what it meant until the Internet came along. It sounds really bad, but it’s actually just a vaguely pejorative phrase meaning “inattentive girl.” I suppose the male form would be “cloth-eared yob.”

Never got to use either one of them in real life so far, but some day. . . .
toobigtofail

That’s right, just smiley faces here. No criticisms, please. What do you think this is, the internet?