Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

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HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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I don't find Fawlty Towers remotely funny.

Vaud

50,289 posts

154 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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I think it varies. Blackadder doesn't really date given the historic nature of the comedy, but Fawlty Towers is a bit dependent on views in 1970s Britain, so in my view it dates quite badly. I still like like it, but it doesn't make me laugh as much as it did when first watched in the 1980s.

Edited by Vaud on Monday 27th March 11:49

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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Blackadder is hilarious.

Alex_225

6,234 posts

200 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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Vaud said:
I think it varies. Blackadder doesn't really date given the historic nature of the comedy, but Fawlty Towers is a bit dependent on views in 1970s Britain, so in my view it dates quite badly. I still like like it, but it doesn't make me laugh as much as it did when first watched in the 1980s.

Edited by Vaud on Monday 27th March 11:49
Oh I agree it's massively dated and very much of it's era. I think what I find very funny about it is the sheer anger of Fawlty himself and what an utter snob he is. Thinking he's on the point of a breakdown the entire time.

SilverSixer

8,202 posts

150 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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Alex_225 said:
Vaud said:
I think it varies. Blackadder doesn't really date given the historic nature of the comedy, but Fawlty Towers is a bit dependent on views in 1970s Britain, so in my view it dates quite badly. I still like like it, but it doesn't make me laugh as much as it did when first watched in the 1980s.

Edited by Vaud on Monday 27th March 11:49
Oh I agree it's massively dated and very much of it's era. I think what I find very funny about it is the sheer anger of Fawlty himself and what an utter snob he is. Thinking he's on the point of a breakdown the entire time.
It's the put downs and one-liners between Basil and Sybil which are the purest gold. Was watching the "Mrs Richards" episode (deaf old bat) the other day, and laughed out loud a couple times, even though I've seen it before. You forget how sharp the script was and it's still hilarious in places. The Major and how Fawlty deals with him across the series is also pure genius.

Alex_225

6,234 posts

200 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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SilverSixer said:
It's the put downs and one-liners between Basil and Sybil which are the purest gold. Was watching the "Mrs Richards" episode (deaf old bat) the other day, and laughed out loud a couple times, even though I've seen it before. You forget how sharp the script was and it's still hilarious in places. The Major and how Fawlty deals with him across the series is also pure genius.
That's exactly it, the absolute disdain they have for each other and the quips Fawlty makes about happier times.

The Mrs Richards episode is probably my favourite, just as Fawlty thinks he's winning, it all goes t*ts up. Plus it's the snide comments he makes which she can't hear which really made me laugh.

DannyScene

6,596 posts

154 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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Fawlty towers was first aired about 15 years before I was born and it's still one of only 2 or 3 shows I end up crying with laughter while watching

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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Shakermaker said:
"so called "King of the Blues" whoever he is..."
Used to be Peter Osgood when I was growing up.

kowalski655

14,599 posts

142 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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Alex_225 said:
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
Watching Faulty Towers the other night. She pipes up 'what's this crap?!'
My other half doesn't appreciate Fawlty Towers either, or Blackadder!! To comedies I grew up watching and even now are funny. Yet she finds Peter Kay's stand up hilarious!
My wife is the same with Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, and Monty Python. I dont think she has a sense of humour frown

Agree the Mrs Richards episode is awesome:

Basil: Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...
Mrs Richards: Don't be silly. I expect to be able to see the sea.
Basil: You can see the sea! It's over there between the land and the sky!

morgs_

1,663 posts

186 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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kowalski655 said:
Alex_225 said:
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
Watching Faulty Towers the other night. She pipes up 'what's this crap?!'
My other half doesn't appreciate Fawlty Towers either, or Blackadder!! To comedies I grew up watching and even now are funny. Yet she finds Peter Kay's stand up hilarious!
My wife is the same with Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, and Monty Python. I dont think she has a sense of humour frown

Agree the Mrs Richards episode is awesome:

Basil: Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...
Mrs Richards: Don't be silly. I expect to be able to see the sea.
Basil: You can see the sea! It's over there between the land and the sky!
hehe Fawlty Towers is one of my all time favourites and will still have me in stitches. I blame the parents, Basil's line above is one of my dad's most quoted.

Evangelion

7,639 posts

177 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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kowalski655 said:
... I dont think she has a sense of humour ...
Well you know what Oscar Wilde used to say:
"There's only one thing worse than a woman without a sense of humour - and that's a woman with a sense of humour."

Bowen86

239 posts

110 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Not long in to our relationship and Mrs Bowen asks me "How come you don't have a middle name" and I replied "My parents couldn't afford any for me". We then visited her parents and she asked how much her middle names cost.

Mrs Bowen and I were in her car, she was driving and it was pouring down with rain. I noticed she was holding the wiper stalk down. I asked why. "To make the wipers work, obviously". I told her to push the stalk up and as if by magic they work automatically.


jamesatk

25 posts

103 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Watching the first episode of this year's Masterchef and I noted to the other half that last year's runners up had gone into business together and are doing quite well. Her response "what are they doing?" I replied "brick laying"....

driverrob

4,687 posts

202 months

Sunday 2nd April 2017
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Watching the boat-race earlier, I observed that rowing must be one of very few sports where the leading team can see the team in second place.
"But how can they? They're not looking backwards!"
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SilverSixer

8,202 posts

150 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Trying to sort out Easter child care - "I can work from home next Tuesday and Friday - Friday is a Bank Holiday". She doesn't ever work Bank Holidays, standard office job with standard hours. Why even mention it? Why say you can work form home on a day you know you don't have to work?

I mean where does one even start? Maybe this should be in the annoys me beyond reason thread.....

RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Text message exchange with the wife:

Her: "You to you 're Norway. Call later?"
Me: "In English? biggrin"
Her: "This new software is a nightmare"


Now I understand the last one, her phone had a software update the other day and she's complained about it a fair bit, but I'm still none the wiser as to what she was asking about Norway biggrin

Vaud

50,289 posts

154 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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RizzoTheRat said:
Text message exchange with the wife:

Her: "You to you 're Norway. Call later?"
Me: "In English? biggrin"
Her: "This new software is a nightmare"


Now I understand the last one, her phone had a software update the other day and she's complained about it a fair bit, but I'm still none the wiser as to what she was asking about Norway biggrin
"Your on your way?"

stuttgartmetal

8,108 posts

215 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Norwich

kitz

328 posts

176 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Me discussing Tesla ,the battery range won't take us to our holiday house .
Her , can't we carry a few spares ..........

rovermorris999

5,195 posts

188 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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kitz said:
Me discussing Tesla ,the battery range won't take us to our holiday house .
Her , can't we carry a few spares ..........
Now there's an idea. Tesla could make a carbon-fibre trailer, stuff it with laptop batteries, stick on an ipad so you can talk to it using your phone and give it a fancy name like Ambulatory Power Bank. A snip at £20k. The early adopters would lap it up.