What is your favourite

The complaint of the view one

I can't choose they were all so funny.

My absolute favourite comedy. I loved them all. Particularly liked the episode when the kitchen caught fire.

I think what's so brilliant about Fawlty Towers is that even the "bit" characters are so well written - the old major, the two elderly ladies, the useless odd job man, the various customers.

The hotel inspector and the rat [especially when it makes an appearance in the box of crackers [to go with the cheese]. The wedding guest one is good too though, and also the deaf cantankerous old lady episode. Hard to choose between those 3 but the rat one just wins.

I can't understand what anyone sees in John Clease. I don't find him funny at all - rather silly in fact. I also couldn't stand Peter Sellers (Sellars)

Full episodes on Youtube.

I loved them all, I think! 'Basil, the Siberian Hamster' was so funny - Manuel serenading the creature with his guitar....laughing to myself just thinking about it!

I dislike the shouting school of comedy so this wasn't really my thing. Nor did I find Manuel being knocked about very amusing but I know I'm in the minority.

He put Basil in the ratatouille !!!!

So hard to choose but I love beating the car, the deaf old lady, the dead guest and "Is not rat is hamster"

Basil the Siberian Hamster is my favourite too.

I agree with you, when, though when I see a description of any other episode, that one becomes my favourite until I read the next one!

Mine is the rat and the food inspector. Manuel trying to escape from the drunken cook who was infatuated with him. Love Fawlty Towers.

I wish I could watch it right now, gilllybob....

That's my favourite episode too henetha. "I've laid it on the line with you time and time again........." Said whilst beating the poor car with half a tree ! Classic

Love all the episodes. I think the scene which sticks in my mind most is the one where Basil beats the hell out of his car with a tree branch..
And the one where he fetches what he thinks is a cooked duck from another restaurant only to discover that it's mousse! Love it.....

ana that's the one for me - gets quoted a lot in this house.

I found it very irritating.

I love the one with Basil's response to a guest's complaint about the view from the bedroom window -

"Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain..."

The 'Don't Mention the War' episode. Especially where he thinks the Moose head on the wall can speak.

Sorry, not my style of humour