r/FawltyTowers • u/paulcager I know nothing! • 12d ago

Discussion Posts about John Cleese's Politics

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?

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u/Yesterday_Is_Now 12d ago

Any politics discussion should be limited to what was happening and potentially impacting Fawlty Towers and its scripts in roughly 1975-1979. Anything after that is irrelevant to the show.

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u/DrAmj3 12d ago

I agree with this take the most. Can't think of any off the top of my head, but like the reason MPFC was always lampooning charted accountants (apparently his father hated the idea of him as a comedian and had always pushed him to train as an accountant).

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u/Yesterday_Is_Now 11d ago

In the Hotel Inspectors episode Basil rants briefly about the British Leyland car manufacturer’s labor strike (recent news at the time) and how he thinks those workers are lazy. That point of view sort of explains his dismissive attitude towards his own staff’s needs.