Fawlty Towers is racist?: No word from the war

next, Monty Python is likely to be due. The “Flying Circus”, with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin were from the late sixties to mid-seventies BBC TV on the go and there are countless repetitions until today on various radio stations and streaming platforms, is much too anarchic for today’s resentment of cultural supervision. Not to mention the movies of the force completely. The series “Fawlty Towers” with John Cleese has at least caught it now. In the seventies, she won the British Academy Award, she was honored by the Royal Television Society, the British Film Institute determined list of the most popular British TV shows you is the number one (Monthy Python in fifth place). It is regarded as a classic British sense of humour. And now? One of the funniest and most recognizable episodes of the series – “The Germans” – which is collected for the BBC belonging to the streaming service, UKTV and reviewed, because it is allegedly racist.

the feast of the allegation is made to the remarks of the “Major” power on the cricket team the West Indian Islands. Major Gowen is a permanent guest in the Hotel “Fawlty Towers”, led by Basil (John Cleese) and Sybil Fawlty (Prunella Scales). Basil Fawlty is a misanthrope of the first order, rude to everyone, he spies on his guests and the device of an embarrassing Situation to the next. In the episode “the Germans” do not have the Fawltys guests from Germany, to which Basil to the intent of the “Don’t mention the war” (Mentioned the war!), he einschärft its employees, not only does not hold; he makes constant allusions to the Second world war and strutting around finally goose-stepping. The incriminated remarks of the major events on the edge, but you are one of the well – to-cartoon-like the image noticed, in which John Cleese and his opponents, the British, so self-reflect.

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