February 18, 2005

For all John Cleese fans The real Fawlty Towers! You can vacation there!
posted by Crackpot 19 years ago
  • Although it was the Hotel Gleneagles that inspired the TV series, it's not the building shown in the program... Langton said the hotel employed a Manuel look-alike, referring to the show's incompetent Spanish waiter. It's just not the same. *sigh*
  • I pronounce this link: Misspelled.
  • For all preview button fans The real preview button! You can vaction there!
  • Also, did it strike anybody else that a newly-rich couple of entrepeneurs from the Indian sub-continent taking over a hotel in a rural seaside resort sounds exactly like a the plot for a seventies British sitcom in itself? Sort of what the BBC would have done as a spin off if they'd wanted more episodes of Fawlty Towers, but Cleese had refused. There's probably a terribly politically incorrect title, but I can't think of any right now.
  • I don't know. Basil specifically stated in his print advertisement "No riff-raff allowed." Perhaps I should stay somewhere else where I will be welcome.
  • Apparently hotels in Torquay are really cheap, because although the tourist trade isn't what it was, the council won't allow changes of use so that former hotels can be made into flats. At one point I understand you could buy an hotel for less than a large house, clearly contrary to common sense as well as the rules of Monopoly. Just thought I'd mention it.
  • And get a couple of redundant tags into the bargain.
  • Just don't mention the war.
  • I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.
  • YOU INVADED POLAND!
  • There, I fixed the spelling. If there's no lovable authoritarian gangly British host stumbling around yelling at everyone in sight, I don't want to go there.
  • If there's no unlovable authoritarian gangly British host stumbling around yelling at everyone in sight, its not an English seaside hotel.
  • Interesting.
  • I miss so much running after my own Dulcinea of Toboso as well....
  • an English Boniface must stamp and yell and tell his guests and staff to go to hell then be duplicitous and sly -ly blame all problems on another guy
  • Is difficult.