Fawlty Towers: Volunteering to get some meat

From the episode "The Germans" - With a concussions, Basil gets a little confused when some German guests arrive.

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[newuk]

Love how Clease manages to do a cow mooing in a German accent 😂

[herrmajor]

In an interview Cleese said he was in Germany years ago, after this had aired and a German shouted out to him. "Hey Fawlty, don't mention ze war!" And they both had a great laugh about it and the prevailing thought was; finally, we can get on with it.

[PAlNRAISER]

"I thought there was something wrong with you!"

LMAO

[wakt]

"Ve haff meat here in ze beelding!" 😂

[KappaCrona]

0:47 "WIR HABEN HIER FLEISCH IM GEBÄUDE!"

[JJMCB]

"They're German, don't mention the war!" Hehe! XD

[paullawrence]

Don’t mention the war, I’ve mentioned it once but I think I got away with it😂😭😅 classic funny comedy much better than the so called comedy of today.

[joeyjennings]

0:09 oh german.. im sorry i thought there was something wrong with you

[joeyjennings]

0:34 volunteering to go out to get some 🐮

[Crabcityrocker]

I'll be honest, this is me at work when I help foreign customers who can't speak English. Play along and be humorous xD

[HonchHeado]

faulty with head injury can't figure out the automobile part from automobillen 🤣🤣

[masterfarr]

0:21 We volunteer to go out to get some meat.

[delesgames]

“i’ll stand there and ask them if they want something to deink before the war. before the lunch!”

[tfe]

Could you imagine a comedy sketch with John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson their will be more laughed than breaths

[Natashahoneypot]

CC: "placing the doge a big one ensuring the basic energy dutch question" ....

[ashleyhallows]

When it comes to comedy John Cleese is the cheese fact !

[peterdavies]

I’m half-Austrian and Hitler was fully Austrian 🇦🇹

[pelimies]

Could this be the second best scene in FT?

[clintoruss]

" A little i get by " actually means i dont speeak a word of German 😂

[TnseWlms]

If they said "Wir melden uns freiwillig um Ihnen Fleisch zu besorgen, " would he think they want to hire a car?