Sybil: Oh, no, I wouldn’t have thought so. He watches the football. Number 8, isn’t it?
Guest: Thank you.
Sybil: Are you feeling all right?
Guest: Not too good, no.
Sybil: Would you like a little hot something?
Guest: No, fine, thank you.
Sybil: Well, if there’s anything you need …
Guest: Thank you.
Sybil: That wasn’t him, that was a new one.
Basil: Good night. I said, good night.
Guest: Oh, good night.
Basil: Didn’t hurt, did it? Good manners cost nothing.
Sybil: He’s not feeling very well, Basil.
Basil: He only had to say good night. It’s not the Gettysburg Address.
Sybil: Basil, when you’re not feeling well …
Basil: Just two little words, dear, that bring a little happiness into the world.
Guest: Excuse me?
Sybil: Yes, Mr. Leeman, what can I do for you?
Guest: Do you think I might have breakfast in bed in the morning?
Basil: In bed?
Guest: Yes.
Sybil: Of course, Mr. Leeman.
Basil: Yes, we can manage that.
Sybil: Yes, we can. I’ll call you back.
Guest: I’m sorry?
Basil: Most of our guests manage to struggle down in the morning.
Sybil: A full breakfast or the continental?
Guest: Oh, I don’t …
Sybil: Our chef does a very good full breakfast, eggs, bacon, sausages, tomato, fried bread …
Guest: The continental.
Sybil: You wouldn’t care for kippers?
Guest: Fine, kippers, thank you.
Sybil: Toast, butter, marmalade?
Guest: Thank you.
Sybil: Tea or coffee?
Guest: Tea, thank you.
Sybil: Newspaper?
Guest: The Telegraph.
Sybil: Thank you, good night.
Basil:Rosewood, mahogany, teak?
Guest: I beg your pardon?
Basil: What would you like your breakfast tray made out of?
Guest: I don’t really mind.
Basil:Are you sure? Fine, you go along, and have a really good night’s sleep, then. I’m hoping to get a couple of hours myself. I’ll be up in good time to serve you your breakfast in bed. If you can remember to sleep with your mouth open, you won’t even have to wake up. I’ll drop in small pieces of lightly buttered kipper when you’re breathing in the right direction, if that doesn’t put you out! Basil! 

On Sale

Komplett angol nyelvtan rendszerező videókurzus

39,900Ft Original price was: 39,900Ft.29,900FtCurrent price is: 29,900Ft.

Kosárba teszem

On Sale

ANGOL Nyelvtan+Szókincs – átfogó 40 részes videókurzus, középfokra készülőknek is

59,900Ft Original price was: 59,900Ft.49,900FtCurrent price is: 49,900Ft.

Kosárba

On Sale

Kezdő szintről középfokra (Level 1-2-3-4-5)

95,500Ft Original price was: 95,500Ft.45,400FtCurrent price is: 45,400Ft.

Kosárba

Basil: Good morning Madam. Can I help you?

Mrs Richards: Are you the manager?

Basil: I am the owner, Madam.

Mrs Richards: What?

Basil: I am the owner.

Mrs Richards: I want to speak to the manager.

Basil: I am the manager too.

Mrs Richards: What?

Basil: I am the manager as well.

Manuel: Mana(h)er, him mana(h)er!

Basil: Shut up!

Mrs Richards: Oh…! You’re What!

Basil: …. I’m the manager.

Mrs Richards: Watt?

Basil: I’m … the … manager.

Mrs Richards: Yes, I know, you’ve just told me, what’s the matter with you? Now listen to me. I’ve booked a room with a bath. When I book a room with a bath I expect to get a bath.

Basil: You’ve got a bath.

Mrs Richards: I’m not paying seven pounds twenty pence per night plus VAT for a room without a bath.

Basil: There is your bath.

Mrs Richards: You call that a bath? It’s not big enough to drown a mouse. It’s disgaceful.

Basil: (muttering) I wish you were a mouse, I’d show you.

Mrs Richards: And another thing – I asked for a room with a view.

Basil: (to himself) Deaf, mad and blind. This is the view as far as I can remember, madam. Yes, this is it.

Mrs Richards: When I pay for a view I expect something more interesting than that.

Basil: That is Torquay, Madam.

Mrs Richards: Well, it’s not good enough.

Basil: Well … may I ask what you were hoping to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeeste 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

Mrs Richards: I’d need a telescope to see that.

Basil: Well perhaps you should consider moving to a hotel closer to the sea. Or preferably in it.

Mrs Richards: Now listen to me; I’m not satisfied, but I have decided to stay here. However, I shall expect a reduction.

Basil: Why? Because Krakatoa’s not erupting at the moment?

Mrs Richards: Because the room is cold, the bath is too small, the view is invisible and the radio doesn’t work.

Basil: No, the radio works. You don’t.

Mrs Richards: What?

Basil: I’ll see if I can fix it, you scabby old bat.

[He turns the radio on to the limit.]

Basil: I think we got something then!

Mrs Richards: What!

Basil: I think we got something then!

Mrs Richards: What are you doing?

Manuel: Qué?

Basil: Madam, ….. don’t think me rude, but may I ask …. do you by chance have a hearing aid?

Mrs Richards: A what?

Basil: A hearing aid!!!

Mrs Richards: Yes, I do have a hearing aid.

Basil: Would you like me to get it mended?

Mrs Richards: Mended? It’s working perfectly all right.

Basil: No, it isn’t.

Mrs Richards: I haven’t got it turned on at the moment.

Basil: Why not?

Mrs Richards: The battery runs down. Now what sort of reduction are you going to give me on this room?

Basil: (whispering) sixty per cent if you turn that on.

Mrs Richards: What?

Basil: My wife handles all such matters, I’m sure she will be delighted to discuss it with you.

Mrs Richards: I shall speak to her after lunch.

Basil: You heard that all right, didn’t you.

Mrs Richards: What?

Basil: Thank you so much. Lunch will be served at half past twelve. … Manuel Manuel!

Basil: Manuel! There is too much butter on those trays.
Manuel: Que?
Basil: There is too much butter on those trays.
Manuel: No, no, no, Senor!
Basil: What?
Manuel: Not ‘on- those- trays’. No sir – ‘uno dos tres.’ Uno… dos… tres…
Basil: No, no. Hay mucho burro alli!
Manuel: Que?
Basil: Hay… mucho… burro… alli!
Manuel: Ah, mantequilla!
Basil: What? Que?
Manuel: Mantequilla. Burro is… is…
Basil: What?
Manuel: Burro…
Basil: Manuel, por favor…
Manuel: Si, si…

Sybil: What’s the matter, Basil?
Basil: Nothing, dear, I’m just dealing with it.
Manuel: He speak good… how do you say…?
Sybil: English!
Basil: Mantequilla… solamente… dos…
Manuel: Dos?
Sybil: Don’t look at me. You’re the one who’s supposed to be able to speak it.
Basil: Two pieces! Two each! Arriba, arriba!!
Sybil: I don’t know why you wanted to hire him, Basil.
Basil: Because he’s cheap and keen to learn, dear. And in this day and age such…
Sybil: But why did you say you could speak the language?
Basil: I learnt classical Spanish, not the strange dialect he seems to have picked up.
Sybil: It’d be quicker to train a monkey.

‘Fawlty Towers’ hotel in Torquay to be demolished

The hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers is to be knocked down and replaced with retirement flats.

John Cleese based the TV sitcom on the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay after staying there with the Monty Python team in 1973.

Churchill Retirement Living will convert the site after its plans were approved by Torbay Council.

Former owner Donald Sinclair unwittingly became the inspiration for Cleese’s character Basil Fawlty.

The 41-bedroom hotel ceased trading early this year and Churchill Retirement Living applied to use the site for 36 retirement apartments.

Torbay Council’s development management committee originally denied the application as they felt it was “too large and unsympathetic to the area”.

A smaller, revised scheme was accepted by the council.

It will involve knocking down the three-star hotel and building 21 one-bed and 11 two-bedroom apartments, with a guest suite and two communal lounges.

Planning officers allowed the change of use of the site from tourist accommodation to residential as the former hotel was found to be “commercially unviable“.

Fawlty Towers, voted number one in the British Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Television Programmes in 2000, ran for just 12 episodes.

source: BBC

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Manuel Practices His English – Fawlty Towers – BBC

MANUEL: You see, I speak English well. I learn it from a book. Hello. I am English. Hullooo.

How are you, sir? I can speak English. Oh, hello, Major. How are you today?

MAJOR: I’m… I’m… I’m… …fine, thank you.

MANUEL: Is a beautiful day today.

MAJOR: Is it? Yes, yes, I suppose it is.

MANUEL: Yes, I can speak English. I learn it from a book.

MAJOR: Did you? Did you really? There you are, Fawlty.

BASIL: Yes, I’m just going to open up, Major.

MAJOR: Oh, fine. I say, that’s a remarkable animal you have there, Fawlty. Where did you get it?

BASIL: Samson’s, in the town.

MAJOR: Really? Was it expensive?

BASIL: Twelve pounds, I think.

MAJOR: Good Lord. Japanese, was it?

BASIL: Canadian, I think, major.

MAJOR: I didn’t know the Canadians were as clever as that. My God.

BASIL: He started early.