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	Basil Fawlty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Basil Fawlty is the major character in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese.
		Basil is a snobbish, miserly, xenophobic and sexually repressed paranoiac misanthrope who is desperate to belong to a higher social class.
		Basil is known for his tight-fisted mannerisms, employing Irish cowboy builder O'Reilly in The Builders because he was a cheaper alternative, and more importantly Manuel, who was in a similar boat, and is now the butt of violence from his employer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basil_Fawlty (797 words)

	Fawlty Towers: the Complete Collection
		She reminds Fawlty that he needs to hang the moose head that he bought, that there is a fire drill in the morning, and that Germans are coming to stay at the hotel.
		Basil pays her the difference and he is still ahead...until he breaks her vase and is forced to give her all the money.
		Fawlty is sure that the guest died because of the kippers he had been served for breakfast that had been past their sell-by date.
	home.comcast.net /~davidakers71/brittv/fawlty_towers.htm (2567 words)

	fawlty
		Basil was a cheap, rude and snobby owner, who wasted no time in being cruel to his unconcerned and easy-going wife, Sybil, the maid Polly (played by Booth), his guests, and most especially the immigrant Manuel, who did both bellboy and waiter duties at the hotel.
		Basil is more a nuisance than a monster to her, and Basil ends up making himself look stupid even as he says the most appalling things behind her back.
		Basil is left attempting to explain where Sybil is, but of course, he has to save face, so he tries to convince everyone that she is sick in her room, and can’t be bothered.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/davidsmovies/fawlty.html (781 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Fawlty Towers
		Basil Fawlty, a frustrated, angry, short-tempered, super-snobbish misanthrope, is the very antithesis of the sort of person who should run a hotel, where a calm demeanour, winning smile, patience and a desire to make guests feel at home are the required attributes.
		But run a hotel Basil does, the quaint Fawlty Towers, or, rather, he runs it jointly with his formidable wife Sybil, a woman who has the ability to exude the required superficialities but is monstrously vitriolic towards her husband.
		To help run the hotel the Fawltys employ Polly, a sensible, down-to-earth maid/waitress who is often embroiled in Basil's schemes and their inevitably disastrous consequences, being forced to lie on his behalf or extricate him from trouble (for which he rarely thanks her since she is merely an underling, the hired help).
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/f/fawltytowers_7772600.shtml (1205 words)

	Fawlty Towers
		Basil Fawlty (Cleese) and his wife Sybil (Prunella Scales) ran the down-at-heel seaside hotel of the title hampered by a lovingly-drawn cast of believable characters embellished in varying degrees from comic stereotype.
		Yet Fawlty Towers stood out from the commonplace through its intensity of pace and exceptional characterisation and performance, with the result that otherwise simple narratives were propelled, through the pandemonium generated by Basil and Sybil's prickly relationship, to absurd conclusions.
		Basil thrashing his stalled car with a tree-branch, concealing the corpse of a dead guest or breaking into Hitlerian goose-stepping before a party of Germans were incidents outside the traditional capacity of the form which could have been disastrous in lesser hands.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/F/htmlF/fawltytowers/fawltytowers.htm (988 words)

	FAWLTY TOWERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fawlty Towers is still one of the most famous and talked about British comedy shows of all time, and the ratings are still very high on repeat showings even though the last episode was made in 1979.
		Therefore Basil must pick up a duck from a local restaurant instead of the lobster the guests were hoping for, this is the one where his car breaks down and he decides to give it a dam good thrashing...see the movie by clicking on the picture.
		Basil is jealous of a handsome guest, and turns his attention to a couple who are doctors.
	www.cultv.co.uk /fawlty.htm (1620 words)

	Basil Fawlty vs. Mr. Bean @ WWWF Grudge Match
		Basil is no genius but he is not a wuss, this guy doesn't let trivial things like concussion slow him down.
		Basil will finally try to hide Bean's corpse in one of the royal limosines, but will, of course, be caught--along with pamphlets incriminating Basil as an IRA terrorist.
		Basil, meanwhile, will be too busy beating up the spanish porter and setting rat traps to realize that Bean is erecting a wall in his room to separate it into TWO rooms.
	www.grudge-match.com /History/basil-bean.shtml (8032 words)

	Daily Llama - NEWS 2002_05_20 - Waitress Says Fawlty Towers Was Funny... And True
		Basil Fawlty is different from Mr Sinclair in that Basil is funny, and the interaction between him and his staff made for comedy.
		A former waitress at the seaside hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers has challenged claims by the woman who was the model for Sybil Fawlty that her late husband was nothing like Basil.
		Like Basil Fawlty he was not polite to the guests and he shouted at staff.
	www.dailyllama.com /news/2002/llama135.html (2235 words)

	Fawlty Towers
		The adventures of the world's worst hotel manager, Basil Fawlty, his harridan of a wife Sybil, his incompetent waiter Manuel and long suffering waitress Polly continue to grab huge audiences whenever they're replayed on TV stations around the world.
		Basil Fawlty, played by Cleese, is the hotel manager from hell; a combination of middle class snobbery, incompetence and complete and utter madness.
		Legend has it that the scripts for Fawlty Towers were half as thick again as the scripts for any other half hour TV comedy series, because of the density of the writing and the complex directions.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/broadcasting/41117 (422 words)

	fawlty towers characters
		The hotel manager from hell, Basil is convinced that Fawlty Towers would be a top-rate establishment, if only he didn't have to bother with the guests.
		Hired by Basil because he is cheap, his command of English is so slight that he finds it hard to tell the difference between the words 'Sybil' and 'the bill'.
		Most of Basil's exasperated commands are met with the plaintive cry: "Que?" Despite being used from time to time as a human battering ram and punch bag, Manuel remains devoted to Basil.
	www.mgnet.karoo.net /fawltycharacters.htm (383 words)

	ValWorld — Fawlty Towers Quotes
		Basil's suffered a blow to the head and is in the hospital.
		Basil Fawlty: You can see the sea, it is over there between the land and the sky.
		Basil Fawlty: Well perhaps you should consider moving to a hotel closer to the sea, preferably in it.
	www.users.fast.net /~blassey/humor/fawlty.html (718 words)

	Fawlty Towers - The TV IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fawlty Towers (1975–79) is arguably one of the greatest, most influential and funniest sitcoms in the history of television.
		Although Basil heaps abuse upon the beleaguered Spanish waiter Manuel, the artsy waitress Polly and his guests, he lives in abject fear of his wife Sybil.
		Many episodes involve Basil concocting some scheme to improve the hotel's clientele, or eject a guest whom he considers "riff raff," or save a buck by cutting corners, then working furiously to appease or hide his scheme from his wife.
	tviv.org /Fawlty_Towers (260 words)

	Daily Llama - NEWS 2002_05_26 - Guests, Hoteliers, and Manuel Fuel Fawlty Gate
		As I am known by staff and customers alike as Mr Grumpy, I feel compelled to reply in defence of Basil Fawlty (letter, May 18), and the many hotel owners who suffer from the appalling behaviour of a minority of their guests.
		Indignant at suggestions that he was as stupid as Manuel, Mr Novak did display in real life the temperament of a Basil Fawlty rather than that of a brow-beaten waiter.
		Basil Fawlty was based on somebody Cleese met.
	www.dailyllama.com /news/2002/llama138.html (2511 words)

	Basil.com, Herbs, Recipes, eMail Addresses
		Basil Fawlty - Bizarre character from the BBC series Fawlty Towers, developed by John Cleese of Monty Python fame.
		Basil - One of the Four Fathers of the Greek Church.
		Toni Basil - One huge hit with song "Mickey", now has extensive film credits and is rumored to be planning a new album and a come-back.
	www.basil.com /famous.html (69 words)

	Fawlty Towers News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In that episode Basil Fawlty goes at great lenght to avoid the topic of the second world war while he has german guests in his hotel : Basil Fawlty...
		Actor JOHN CLEESE's frantic character BASIL FAWLTY is to be honoured with a life-size statue, which will be erected in Torquay, south west England.
		Sybil returns to 'Fawlty Towers' Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales is to star at the re-opening of the Torquay hotel which inspired the legendary series.
	www.topix.net /tv/fawlty-towers?scoring=r (567 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Fawlty Towers Collection at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Basil advertises to have a better class of people stay in their hotel and to keep the "riff-raff" away.
		When Basil and Sybil decide to have some work done to their hotel and agree on the builder to do the work while they're away, Basil goes behind Sybil to have a cheaper, shoddier contractor take care of the changes.
		Fawlty Towers is again filled with chaos when one of the guests dies in his sleep.
	www.epinions.com /content_107069607556 (1292 words)

	Fawlty Towers - Home Page
		The antics of Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, hapless Spanish waiter Manuel and the ever-sensible Polly grabbed the imagination when it first went out on BBC Two on 19 September 1975.
		Unlike most British farce, however, Fawlty Towers deals with the big themes--death, psychology, xenophobia and even sex-o-phobia (Basil's marriage to Sybil is the most sterile ever depicted in a sitcom).
		Basil's contempt for his guests is, of course, legendary.
	www.40towers.co.uk (492 words)

	Fawlty Towers Page
		Fawlty Towers, Set in Torquay(England) this is a hotel run by the very nutty Basil Fawlty and his wife Sybil.
		Basil Fawlty is an absolute nutcase he struts around losing his temper and screwing up everything he goes near.
		Sybil Fawlty is his wife who spends all of her time shopping or on the phone to her friend.
	www.comedysite.eshire.net /fawlty.htm (161 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fawlty Towers: Volume 2: DVD: Fawlty Towers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Compounding Basil's strange behavior is the discovery that another guest is a psychiatrist, sending Basil into a tizzy as he is sure the man is analyzing his every utterance.
		John Cleese stars as Basil Fawlty, the sharp-tongued, short-tempered owner of Fawlty Towers, a hotel plagued by crisis, chaos and bizarre characters.The Kipper and the Corpse: When a guest dies, Basil?s only concern is hiding the corpse-and the old kippers-from the other guests - but the body winds up everywhere.
		Basil the Rat: Manuel insists his pet rat is a Siberian hamster.
	www.amazon.ca /Fawlty-Towers-2/dp/B00005LC1F (1079 words)

	Fawlty Towers - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With riotous interplay between Cleese and a cast headed by Basil’s wife Sybil (with a laugh like "someone machine-gunning a seal"), waitress Polly, inept stereotypical Spanish waiter Manuel, and a number of resident guests, the series was a huge success.
		Andrew Sachs portrayed Manuel as a frightened rabbit, often flinching in Basil's presence, expecting and usually receiving punishment for errors he was usually unaware he had committed.
		Basil Fawlty was a near psychopathically hyper-active, middle-aged, stick insect caricature of a human being with pretensions beyond both his social and moral status.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/comedy/fawlty.htm (566 words)

	Fawlty Towers: The Germans - TV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As Basil Fawlty flees the doctor who wants to sedate him, a floor monitor can be seen in the background, complete with the same image that is on the screen.
		Basil is referring to the EC (precursor to the EU).
		Basil references this by saying he was against it, but it's all done now.
	www.tv.com /fawlty-towers/the-germans/episode/53816/summary.html (561 words)

	Complete Fawlty Towers scripts - John Cleese, Connie Booth
		In "The Psychiatrist", Basil Fawlty is justifiably self-conscious — if not paranoid — about having a psychiatrist staying in his hotel.
		At the moment, Basil is lurking in a broom closet upstairs, trying to catch a girl that a guest, Johnson, has smuggled into his room.
		Basil mistakes overheard conversation among Johnson, the psychiatrist Dr. Abbott, and the latter's wife, for the compromising emergence he's hoping to expose:
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Cleese-Booth/Complete-Fawlty-Towers.html (513 words)

	Fawlty Towers the classic British comedy
		Fawlty Towers is one of the best-known, and most-loved, series from the halcyon days of British comedy—the 1970s.
		I don't really remember the first runs of Fawlty Towers but I'm sure they were the perfect counter to what was often a pretty dismal period in Britain with frequent strikes etc. Strikes are frequently mentioned in the episodes.
		John Cleese was inspired to write what became Fawlty Towers after he and the rest of the Monty Python team were staying at a hotel in Torquay called the Gleneagles (not to be confused with the world-famous Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire) whilst filming Monty Python's Flying Circus TV series in the early 1970s.
	www.fawltysite.net (828 words)

	PBS Stations Offer Perfect Holiday Gifts to Celebrate Fawlty Towers' 30th Anniversary
		In addition to celebrating the 30th anniversary of Fawlty Towers with the premiere this month of an exclusive retrospective TV special, Fawlty Towers Revisited, PBS stations will be offering a selection of pledge thank-you gifts that are a collector’s dream.
		The Director’s Cut Edition of Fawlty Towers Revisited DVD features the 80-minute, 30th anniversary retrospective TV special on one of the world’s funniest and best-loved comedies, as well as an additional 10 minutes of behind-the-scenes stories and recollections from recent interviews with Fawlty Towers’ cast and crew.
		This is a photo of the Director's Cut Edition of Fawlty Towers Revisited, the exclusive PBS retrospective to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Fawlty Towers.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/12/emw317715.htm (770 words)

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