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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
You can watch this as many times as you like and still laugh! Mr/ Fawlty is back with his usual banter and chaos! In this episode, some Germans are staying at the hotel. Major isn't too impressed either. Basil's wife is in hospital with an ingrowing townail and he has the whole hotel to himself! (Uh oh!) Then he ends up in hospital after a fire at the Hotel, but manages to sneak out, and back just intime for some foreign guests arriving. I won't spoil the ending, but if you are planning on buying this, you should!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
It's hard to tell with so many great epsiodes, but amongst the one with Mrs Richards, Basil the Rat and the Hotel Inspectors this has to be my favourite of the series. In any case it's undoubtly the most famed episode in the series, probably due to what John Cleese called "having struck a nerve". Being German myself and having lived in England when first watching this episode I couldn't agree more. All the same I found the episode hilarious and the way I understood it John Cleese mocks both our peoples, the Germans for their cliched obedience and militarism during the early 20th century and the English for their stereotypical view on Germans and an obsession with the war in itself. Although the episode was made almost 30 years ago this grotesque picture still remains live and well, which might be a shame politically but makes the episode just as funny today as it was back then.
Anyway, I've got the impression that one of the reviewers down below didn't quite get the joke; After several insults Basil tries to "cheer up" the sobbing German woman with "Berlin bomber stories", naturally the Germans don't find this amusing at all and tell him to stop, on which Basil replies "you have absolutely no sense of humour do you?!". Ironic really that it's me explaining this, although I must admit enjoying it.
With all this talk about "Germans" though I somewhat neglected the other two episodes. Hotel Inspectors like I said is one of my favourites and along with Touch of Class are both great fun with Basil showing an appalling attitude towards his guests by either unlimited rudeness or even worse shameless bootlicking.
In any case I do own the VHS packs and they're enough really but unless you don't have a DVD player there really isn't any reason not to buy the DVD package instead. Hope amazon don't mind me saying so.
The infamous Torquay hotel, presided over by the eminently certifiable Basil Fawlty, opens for business here with three classics from the hysterical BBC-TV series. John Cleese leads the brilliant cast as the plots unfold and the laugh-a-second scripts crackle along.
1. THE HOTEL INSPECTORS
Basil is terrified by the news that hotel inspectors are in the area -- and well he might be. The awful probability occurs to him that the eccentric guest to whom he has been so appallingly offensive may be one of the officials. His ranting turns to a pathetic fawning -- but has he got the right man?
2. THE GERMANS
Sybil is in hospital for her in-growing toenail. "Perhaps they'll have it mounted for me," mutters Basil as he tries to cope during her absence. The fire drill ends in chaos with Basil knocked out by the moose's head in the lobby. The deranged host then encounters the Germans and tells them the 'truth' about their Fatherland...
3. A TOUCH OF CLASS
His pretentious snobbery leads Basil to encourage a somewhat classier clientèle to Fawlty Towers (rather than the riff-raff we normally get in here). Lord Melbury's arrival is right up his street; there's nothing Basil won't do for the nobility. With hand-rubbing obsequiousness, the proprietor is only too pleased to cash his Lordship's cheque.
1. THE HOTEL INSPECTORS
Basil is terrified by the news that hotel inspectors are in the area -- and well he might be. The awful probability occurs to him that the eccentric guest to whom he has been so appallingly offensive may be one of the officials. His ranting turns to a pathetic fawning -- but has he got the right man?
2. THE GERMANS
Sybil is in hospital for her in-growing toenail. "Perhaps they'll have it mounted for me," mutters Basil as he tries to cope during her absence. The fire drill ends in chaos with Basil knocked out by the moose's head in the lobby. The deranged host then encounters the Germans and tells them the 'truth' about their Fatherland...
3. A TOUCH OF CLASS
His pretentious snobbery leads Basil to encourage a somewhat classier clientèle to Fawlty Towers (rather than the riff-raff we normally get in here). Lord Melbury's arrival is right up his street; there's nothing Basil won't do for the nobility. With hand-rubbing obsequiousness, the proprietor is only too pleased to cash his Lordship's cheque.
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The Best of the Best of Fawlty Towers
Includes the best episode of the series: "The Germans" (24.10.75)! May be oofensive to German people, but what on earth you expect from Basil Fawlty?! Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2001
Let There Be Laughter!
This one of the funniest videos that I have ever seen, The Germans is an all time classic! The Germans dont like it because as Basil Fawlty says, they have no sense of humour,... Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2000
A Lot Of Good Laughs!
»The Germans« contains the episodes »The Hotel Inspectors«, »The Germans«, and the very first episode of the show, »A Touch Of Class«.
»The Hotel Inspectors« is a classic. Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2000
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