He's pickled the onions and smashed the eggs, under the table!

[Basil]

 

[JHaydon]

Not two hours ago, I had this scene from that same episode going through my head!

 

[NutmegCT]

You lost the bloody war!

 

[Basil]

You lost the bloody war!

German guest: “Will you please stop talking about the war?”
Basil: “You started it!”
Guest: “ No we did not start it!”
Basil: “Yes you did, you invaded Poland!”

 

[Basil]

“There is too much butter on..those..trays”

“No no, not ‘on those trays’…Uno, Dos, Tres!”

 

[DrEntropy]

"Is HAMPSTER!!"

 

[Basil]

"Did you know the female Gibbon gestates for seven months?"

"Sybil I forbid you to open that safe"
"Sybil I forbid you to take that case out"
"Sybil do not open that case, I forbid it."

 

[JHaydon]

"Basil, you'd have been done by now if you hadn't spend the day listening to that racket... "
"That's not RACKET! That's Brahms! BRAHMS'S THIRD RACKET!!!"

 

[Hamish Racing]

You can’t see the sea

yes you can it’s over there between the land and the sky.

 

[Basil]

You can’t see the sea

yes you can it’s over there between the land and the sky.

"Well, may I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically -?"

 

[Basil]

"If you're not over here in 20 minutes with my door, I shall come over there and insert a large garden gnome in you!"

 

[Basil]

O'Reily: "...I'm telling you, if the good Lord..."
Fawlty: "is mentioned once more I shall move you closer to him!"

 

[Basil]

"Crazy, she go crazy. Crazy. I say to her, you try to see in girl's room, and she go crazy! I tell her you go to see girl in room, you crazy about this girl, ok. Ok, so...you go and try to look at her and Mrs Fawlty she go crazy!"

 

[Hamish Racing]

I’m from Barcelona



So much from just 12 episodes!!

 

[Basil]

So much from just 12 episodes!!

Isn't that the truth!

Psychiatrist to his wife (speaking about Basil): "there's enough material there for an entire conference."

 

[Basil]

“Oh yes, how is the old toenail? Still growing in, hmm? Still burrowing its way down to the bone? Still macheteing its way through the nerve, eh? “

 

[Basil]

"Fire!" "ffffffire!"
(In an interview with Andrew Sachs (Manuel), he said that during filming this scene he received pretty serious burns on one of his arms from the chemicals they used to produce the smoke coming off his jacket).

 

[JHaydon]

My mother's absolute favorite scene from anything ever was Basil giving his car a darn good thrashing.

Oh and how could I possibly have forgotten my favorite...
"Have a nice day, dear... [sotto voce] don't drive over any mines or anything!"

 

[Basil]

My mother's absolute favorite scene from anything ever was Basil giving his car a darn good thrashing.

Oh and how could I possibly have forgotten my favorite...
"Have a nice day, dear... [sotto voce] don't drive over any mines or anything!"

To Manuel: "Oh please, please, try to understand before one of us dies!

 

[Basil]

"Please, please, try to understand before somebody dies!"