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Basil and Manuel have a conversation about how to dress the breakfast trays. Basil is in hospital with concussion, which leads to some unfortunate truth telling. Famous short from John Cleese’s comedy masterpiece Fawlty Towers. Watch more high quality videos on the new Comedy Greats YouTube channel from BBC Worldwide here: www.youtube.com
Funny! Basil gives Manuel a language lesson – Fawlty Towers – BBC
November 26th, 2009 
Gaileen Sutton 
Posted in Funny Videos 
Tags: Basil, BBC, Classic, Cleese, Comedy, Fawlty, Free, Funny, John, Short, sketch, Towers, Video
On those trays .. uno dos tres … brilliant!!
Burro is..I-ah ;P
Brilliant! Every moment of this show is comedic gold.
wtf???
Norway and Denmark are both scandinavian
Spain and portugal are located on the same peninsula and are neighbours
But England and Poland are in completely places.
One thing I like about Mexico, is that if you try to speak Spanish (however poorly) they appreciate it!
If you try that in France (or Quebec) they heap scorn on you.
No you idiot, speaking French.
ej lyssna din dumma kille
don’t forget sweden
sweden is also scandinavian
I watched this episode in my Psychology class! HILARIOUS!
We were studying humor at the time so one way of doing so was by watching a few “Fawlty Towers” episodes.
BBC are gonna stop showing things like Fawlty Towers and Black Adder because TV police like offcom think its become too offensive.
Instead we are gonna have more “comedy” like My Family.
I died a little inside when I heard the news, BBC really stinks now, they should stop listening to complaints from the single viewer. After watershed swearing is gonna be censored or hidden.
Comdey cant even be comedy anymore. Who likes clean comedy anyway? Well I do but I also like some edgy comedy too.
Offencive pfft its British comedy for god sake.
I tried to speak french in france and the people I met appreciate it too. Very friendly reactions. As always idiots who cannot appreciate anything are not located in some special places, they are spreaded all around the world.
i love fawlty towers!
Thats such a dissapointment about Fawlty Towers… I have grown up watching this show! At least we can still watch it on youtude though. Thanks for letting me know! x
Too true! French men give me evils when I try and speak their language, and one mexican man gave me a lollypop! How kind is that?! x
Manuel is the best!!!
“Burro” is actually the Italian for “butter”, so Basil is mixing the two languages up.
my parents have both black adder and faulty towers on dvd. we love watching them so much
Funny, and remembering this is ironic how the british accuses the racism in Spain for the behaviour of some of their soccer hooligans. They probably should look at some mirror before make such statements. ;]
What a bunch of hypocrite people…
0:18
this has nothing to do with racism… an by the way, the spanish can be quite racist, the same way as the british, the french, the portuguese, etc, etc.
It’s sadly apparent that satire is something completely alien to you and your 2nd grade education.Your ’so-called’ sentence construction is abysmal and embarrassing.Try remedial English when you repeat 3rd grade for the 8th time. Here’s something you may grasp:
“Here is Dick. Here is Jane. The dog’s name is Spot.”
Too much too soon?
I understand. Try pop-up coloring books, maybe suited to your 2 figure I.Q.
Don’t eat the crayons
Actually, go ahead. I heard they’re delicious.
Dieu et mon droit
Um, your grammar isn’t exactly wonderful either. Just thought I’d point that out.
UNA SERVESAAAAA POR FAVOORRRRR
Yeah I like both clean comedy and a bit of edgy comedy too except for the kind of stuff that goes for a shock reaction like family guy does sometimes.
It’s this kind of policy of the bbc’s that is one of the reasons television just isn’t as good as it used to be and I honestly hardly watch it anymore. If I want to be entertained by something new now I just go on the internet which is much more entertaining.
Basil claims to be good at French, too. And The French for butter is “beurre.” It’s kind of espancais, if that makes sense. I’m not certain that that was their intention, but it’s another explanation.