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* Basil pretending to forget their anniversary goes too far when Sybil simply drives off. He then starts hammering the ground with his fists just as his friends turn up, and then pretends to them to be smoothing out a bump in the tarmac.

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* It seems as though Basil has successfully strongarmed O'Reilly into actually doing a good job and made Sybil look foolish when Stubbs turns up to fix the door that's already been done. And then:
-->'''Stubbs:''' What did you use? RSJ?\\
'''Basil:''' No, no, no, four by two. Not bad, eh, dear, and ''not'' expensive.\\
'''Stubbs:''' I mean for the lintel. Did you use an RSJ? You know, an iron girder. Or did you use a concrete lintel?\\
'''Basil:''' Uh no, a wooden one.\\
'''Stubbs:''' ''(looks up at it, aghast)'' But that's a supporting wall!\\
'''Sybil:''' ''(looks up sharply)'' What.\\
'''Basil:''' [[OhCrap Quite, well thanks very much for coming over this morning...]]
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* Basil's bawling when he believes that he's blown it with a hotel inspector.

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* Basil's bawling [[AintTooProudToBeg bawling]] when he believes that he's blown it with a hotel inspector.
inspector. InelegantBlubbering doesn't even ''begin'' to describe it.

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* The beginning of the episode with Sybil in the hospital. Basil is trying to find Sybil's bed jacket.
-->'''Basil''': What have you got all this stuff for?
-->'''Sybil''': What?
-->'''Basil''': I mean, you're only here three days. Are you going to play charades every night?


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* The beginning of the episode with Sybil in the hospital. Basil is trying to find Sybil's bed jacket.
-->'''Basil''': What have you got all this stuff for?
-->'''Sybil''': What?
-->'''Basil''': I mean, you're only here three days. Are you going to play charades every night?
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** WordOfGod is that it took forever to find just the right kind of tree branch for the scene, too.

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** WordOfGod is that it took forever to find just the right kind of tree branch for the scene, too. One that was too strong would scratch and dent up the car, but Cleese decided that if the branch was, as he put it, 'floppy,' it would be so much funnier as he flailed away without causing any real damage.
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* The ending.
-->"Good afternoon, gentlemen. And what can I do today for you three gentlemen? ({{Beat}}) [[OhCrap AAAAH-!!!!]]"
** Also, [[ItMakesSenseInContext pies]].

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* The ending.
-->"Good
ending. Three suit-clad men walk in while discussing the hotel's features and their plans while staying there, just in time to see the fake hotel inspector [[HumiliationConga getting two pies smashed into his face and groin, his briefcase filled with cream, and then being shoved out the front door]]. A beaming Basil walks back to the front desk and begins cheerfully welcoming the newcomers, only to realise they ''are'' actual hotel inspectors:
--> '''Basil''': Good
afternoon, gentlemen. And what can I do today for you three gentlemen? ({{Beat}}) [[OhCrap AAAAH-!!!!]]"
** Also, [[ItMakesSenseInContext pies]].
AAAAH-!!!!]]\\
''[[[InterruptedByTheEnd Smash to the credits]].]''



** The scene was [[https://youtu.be/n9tSN0178Us remade]] in 2016, in an advert made for the British opticians Specsavers. [[spoiler:The advert ends with the elderly Basil Fawlty, whose eyesight is failing, mistakenly giving the car of two policemen a thrashing instead of his own car, which leads to him having to run away from the police, with the slogan "Should've gone to Specsavers".]]

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** The scene was [[https://youtu.be/n9tSN0178Us remade]] in 2016, in an advert made for the British opticians Specsavers. [[spoiler:The The advert ends with the elderly Basil Fawlty, whose eyesight is failing, mistakenly giving the car of two policemen a thrashing instead of his own car, which leads to him having to run away from the police, with the slogan "Should've gone to Specsavers".]]



** Polly tries to stop Basil from imitating Hitler, to everybody's horror, Basil holds a finger underneath his nose and starts to shout in mock German anyway. She promptly makes herself scarce

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** Polly tries to stop Basil from imitating Hitler, to everybody's horror, Basil holds a finger underneath his nose and starts to shout in mock German anyway. She promptly makes herself scarcescarce.
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--> '''Basil''': Oh, well, [[ADateWithRosiePalms one can always pretend.]]

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--> '''Basil''': Oh, well, [[ADateWithRosiePalms one can always pretend.]]

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