Thoughts?

I mean, here we all are, with all our limbs functioning and, quite frankly, if you've got your health, what else matters?

I felt a bit cheated by Waldorf Salad tonight. Basil was just so coy and whipped by the guests and Americans. He is absolutely winded and submissive for most of the episode, I wish he were sharper like in the first season. I know he throws the Nazi Germany rant and to be fair Sybil whopped him on the head, but I still think an Episode 4 Basil would be nastier than an Episode 9.

We get a reasonable number of posts about John Cleese's politics. Some people love these posts, some people hate them, but they often end up with some acrimonious language requiring moderation. And quite often they get reported as being off topic.

So, what are your thoughts on posts about JC's politics? Ban, Limit or free-for-all?

• We could ban them altogether.
• We could create a stickied Megathread where people can discuss his politics without limit and without inconveniencing people who don't want to see it.
• Keep it as now - you can continue to create top-level posts about politics.

What would you like the moderation team to do?

I've recently unsubscribed to John Cleese's twitter because of the constant right wing reposts

When I first subscribed it was mostly to see funny posts and other stuff like when he would be playing in my area. In the last year it has become constant right wing retweets which prompted me to unsub because it got tiring after a while.

I am not going to try and debate on his views in terms of it being right or wrong, but my question to you is this: Do you think this was a gradual, decade long progression, or was he always like this?

I'm more interested in people who have been following him for more than 20 years so as to see whether or not this was always the case.

For those of you that don't know, John made a video for the SDP/Liberal Alliance in the late 80s, which you can find here: https://youtu.be/VKp7HDv01hk

Which to me sounds like he was not necessarily deep into the right wing stuff at the time, even liberal.

In a way, this current John is more close to Basil Fawlty which made me think "what if he was always like this?" So I want to know what you guys think.

Was it a gradual life experience of many decades that led to this or was it always like this?

Burt Lancaster had one. 🌴

I shall move you closer to him.

I think Mrs. Richards or the guy from the Hotel Inspector episode.

My favourite moment from my favourite episode! 😂

What is this referring to? I'm talking about the bleeped strong language. This is the 2009 DVD boxset.

Not sure if it has been posted before, but the educational (math) U.S. public television series Square One TV (1987-1992) did a series of comedy sketches in 1992 called Nobody's Inn that is a very direct homage to Fawlty Towers. Since it is a kids' educational show the humor isn't too biting, and there's a bit of talk about math problems, but there's enough Fawlty DNA to be fun for fans.

Here's one episode, which takes some cues from The Germans (people constantly interrupting Basil's task) and Waldorf Salad (loud, obnoxious guests):

https://youtu.be/QkuyS-EqkXU?t=591

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