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Fawlty Towers

Basil Fawlty left the tower for the reason of going to a holiday. He ordered some workmen to do some work on his hotel. He left Polly in charge to have at the look at the incompetent workmen. Polly became tired and went to bed, she instructed Manuel to wake her up when the workmen came. A bit later the workmen came, but as Manuel saw the sleeping Polly he wasn’t able to do so. When the phone rang and Manuel called the person on the other end an idiot, he didn’t realize that it was Mr Basil Fawlty who called him. He told him to ask one of the workers to talk with him.

At the next morning, Basil came to check if everything went well the day before but what he found was a wrong blocked up door, the door to the dining room. First he panicked, but then it seemed he just needed someone to dumb his wrath. He shouted at Polly and Manuel but then he accepted that this wouldn’t solve his problem. So he called O’Reilly the builder to fix everything till his wife would arrive.

No sooner said, than done, everything was fixed again.

When his wife arrived she was firstly astonished that O’Reilly was able to do such a good job, but when a competent builder had a look at the wall he said that it was completely wrong made and everything could collapse in any second.

His wife was right after all. Always call competent not cheap workers.

My own opinion:

I really enjoy any film/series in English, because it improves my English a lot. You can learn so much by just watching English films. The series “Fawtly Towers” is funny, inventive and simply a combination of cool jokes and slogans. Though I need to say that I think it’s kind of a back number since I read it’s from 1975. I also think that not all got the jokes.

I am done at this point.