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- From: rambis@iastate.edu (Paul L Pearson)
- Subject: Re: FAWLTY
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:42:17 GMT
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- >> cnc@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Christopher Christensen) writes:
- >I wonder where I got the idea there were 24.. guess I need a smack
- >in the head.. :-)
- >Sorry if I got your hopes up like that, but it appears that there
- >are in fact only 12 episodes in all.
-
- I'll take a >h<ammer and >h<it you on the >h<ead with it!
-
- >OK, what's your favorite scene from FT? How about the snotty-kid-
- >whose-chips-were-the-wrong-shape scene? Or how about the
- >Mrs. Richards-complaining-about-the-view scene? Then there's the
- >Mr.-Fawlty-trashing-Mr.-Anal Retentive's-briefcase-and-booting-him
- >out-of-the-hotel-in-front-of-the-3-hotel-inspectors scene..
-
- Or how about Bas walking out of the hotel with a large garden gnome to insert
- into O'Reilly. Maybe "You are >h<ideous orangutan!." The silly walk in the
- Germans. "You'll have to sew 'em back on first." The Psychiatrist-"I'm on
- holiday." etc., etc. Maybe the best exchange is between Mrs. Richards and
- Manuel "Que? K? Si. C? KC? No, Que what? CK What? Si. (or whatever-haven't
- watched it for a couple of months)"
-
- It's just too tough to pick a favorite, so I won't.
- On second thought, how about in the psychiatrists
- when Basil's trying desperately to tell Sybil about the girl in
- Johnson's room and she won't believe him.
- "I've had it up to here with you, you rankerous quaffid old sow..."
-
- "How is the old nail, hmm? Still growing in, hm? Still burrowing its way
- to the bone? Still machete-ing it's way through the nerve. Nasty old nail!"
- JC as BF
-
- "You never get it right, do you? You're either crawling all over them licking
- their boots, or spitting poison at them like some benzedrine (?) puff adder."
- PS as SF
-
- "Can't you see? Didn't God give you eyes?" -Mrs. Richards
-
- "Yes, but I don't use them because it runs the batteries down." -CB as Polly
-
- Paul L. "I'm an unstable intermediate with a long half-life at 37oC"
- "Pro" Pearson
- President, Kurt Rambis Fan Club, Ames, IA Chapter (unofficial)
-
- "If the good Lord..." -O'Reilly
- "Is mentioned one more time, I shall move you closer to him!" JC as BF
-