Favorite Line:
"Next guest, Sybil Fawlty. Speciality Topic: 'Statin' the Bleedin' Obvious.'"
Great lines:
"No, no, no, 'pigeon'! 'Pigeon'! Like your English!"
"You do have rats in Spain, don't you? Or did Franco have them all shot?"
One of my favorite scenes was the way we learn Manuel's rat has a name (and what that name is). I can think of a few people I know personally who deserve a similar honor.
My favorite line: Manuel: No, too much chostelerol. LOL
The irritated young man at the end of the show has one really good line when he loses his temper; I just can't remember it. It's something like "You're starting to get my druthers up, you grotty little man!"
All of the "He's from Barcelona" lines are usually funny, but this is probably my favorite.
"He put Basil in the ratatoni?"
"Yes!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
(long pause)
Sybil (as if it's extremely natural): "He's from Barcelona."
I LOVE the checklist:
Inspector: Lack of proper cleaning routines, dirty and greasy filters, greasy and encrusted deep fat fryer, dirty, cracked and stained food preparation surfaces, dirty, cracked and missing wall and floor tiles, dirty, marked and stained utensils, dirty and greasy interior surfaces of the ventilator hood...
Basil: About the fat fryer...
Inspector: ...inadequate temperature control and storage of dangerous foodstuffs, storage of cooked and raw meat in same trays, storage of raw meat above confectionery with consequent dripping of meat juices onto cream products, refrigerator seals loose and cracked, ice box undefrosted, and refrigerator overstocked...
Basil: Say no more.
Inspector: ...food handling routines suspect, evidence of smoking in food preparation area, dirty and grubby food handling overalls, lack of wash hand basin which you gave us a verbal assurance you'll have installed at our last visit six months ago and two dead pigeons in the water tank.
Basil: Otherwise O.K.?
This episode aired six or seven months after the other five of Series Two, I'm not sure why. Something having to do with the BBC and what was happening there in 1979.
I kinda felt sorry for the poor health inspector, he probably had never had to deal with people like Basil or the Major ever before. He was only doing his job, so I was trying hard to sympathize with him.
This one also had some pretty good dialogue, I thought. And Basil seems convinced that Britain won "The War" single-handedly. Well, they didnt, we Yanks helped out a great deal with that one, after all. Anyway, I also wonder why we never saw that cat before this one. He/she was kinda sickly and scrawny looking too.
And one more thing, concerning the bubonic plague: it wasnt strictly the rats' fault that it happened. It was the fleas that carried the bacteria that bit the rats, and because at the time, Europe thought that cats were harbingers of the Devil, had them almost all killed, and therefore nothing stopped the mass infestation of rats biting and infecting millions of people who died in truly terrible ways, because they had been bitten by bacteria-infected fleas.
There, that's cleared up, then!
The Yanks didn't show up in the war until two years in. Always late to the party...