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Ohhhhh Basil - Prunella RIP on 13:53 - Oct 28 by Boston
Anyone, or anything related to Fawlty Towers occupies a very happy place in the back of my mind.
One of the biggest debates is always the best TV comedy series.
Fawlty Towers always gets my vote. I was at school when it first aired and after an episode my mates and I would talk about, you heard the teachers talking about it, people in shops talking about it, the media discussed it length, it really was the talk of the nation. I have never experienced anything like that with another comedy series. A true televisual feast!
Rest In Peace Prunella Scales.
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Ohhhhh Basil - Prunella RIP on 14:26 - Oct 28 with 3890 views
I still find myself quoting from it on a regular basis e.g. "Right that's it, I'm going to give you a damn good thrashing!", "If you don't like duck, you're rather stuck.", and "I'm a doctor and I want my sausages!" (N.B. I'm not a doctor and I only thrash inanimate objects).
100% of people who drink water will die.
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Ohhhhh Basil - Prunella RIP on 14:39 - Oct 28 with 3837 views
Great comedy, just what I love about british humor, still watch it from time to time...even got a "Don't mention the war " T-shirt. Fawlty Towers was actually dubbed into German,but that was horrible, not funny at all. German humor I suppose... RIP Sybille!
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Ohhhhh Basil - Prunella RIP on 15:46 - Oct 28 with 3684 views
Sybil was also the missing pet rats name, one episode.
Bit like with David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst constantly quizzed about work they did 40 years ago on Only Fools, Fawlty Towers, likewise was always first thing spoken about to Prunella Scales and John Cleese and rightly so.
Like most of these seriously successful programmes, its humour was quite basic and simple, yet comic timing and brilliant script writing brought out the laughs constantly.
Classic one liners galore.
And the fact it seemed so simple and natural, part of programs like this, that worked so brilliantly.
Ohhhhh Basil - Prunella RIP on 15:46 - Oct 28 by numptydumpty
Sybil was also the missing pet rats name, one episode.
Bit like with David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst constantly quizzed about work they did 40 years ago on Only Fools, Fawlty Towers, likewise was always first thing spoken about to Prunella Scales and John Cleese and rightly so.
Like most of these seriously successful programmes, its humour was quite basic and simple, yet comic timing and brilliant script writing brought out the laughs constantly.
Classic one liners galore.
And the fact it seemed so simple and natural, part of programs like this, that worked so brilliantly.
RIP lovely lady....
The rat was called Basil in that episode.RIP Prunella.
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Ohhhhh Basil - Prunella RIP on 18:15 - Oct 28 with 3489 views
Whenever i read of one of these sad passings it always makes me think of that quote from Basil: "Zhoom! What was that? That was your life, mate! Oh, that was quick. Do I get another? Sorry, mate. That's your lot."
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Ohhhhh Basil - Prunella RIP on 20:27 - Oct 28 with 3317 views
Ohhhhh Basil - Prunella RIP on 14:26 - Oct 28 by SimonJames
I still find myself quoting from it on a regular basis e.g. "Right that's it, I'm going to give you a damn good thrashing!", "If you don't like duck, you're rather stuck.", and "I'm a doctor and I want my sausages!" (N.B. I'm not a doctor and I only thrash inanimate objects).
Such a wonderful actress and by all accounts a lovely person too. The weird thing is that although my mum is quite a bit young she really looks like Prunella (not so much Sybil) and used to quite often be mistaken for her if she went to the theatre. Donald Sinden, for those who remember him, often made his way over to her at a show and said 'Prunella darling' at the top of his voice. Many years ago some girls on the next table at a pub kept saying 'I think that is Sybil off Fawlty Towers'. 93 though, with dementia as well, Prunella did very well really. RIP
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