The Hotel Inspectors
- Episode aired Oct 10, 1975
- TV-PG
- 29m
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8.8/10
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Basil Fawlty goes on the alert when he hears there are hotel inspectors in the area.Basil Fawlty goes on the alert when he hears there are hotel inspectors in the area.Basil Fawlty goes on the alert when he hears there are hotel inspectors in the area.
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- John Howard Davies(uncredited)
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- TriviaJohn Cleese has stated that Basil's line about the table tennis table not being "in absolutely mint condition, but it could certainly be used in an emergency", is his favorite line from any episode of Fawlty Towers.
- GoofsPeas are not an ingredient in Spanish Omelette.
- Quotes
Mr. Hutchinson: Now listen, there's a documentary on BBC2 this evening about "Squawking Bird", the leader of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1860s. Now this starts at 8:45 and goes on for approximately three-quarters of an hour.
Basil Fawlty: I'm sorry, are you talking to me?
Mr. Hutchinson: Indeed I am. Yes, now, is it possible for me to reserve the BBC2 channel for the duration of this televisual feast?
Basil Fawlty: Why don't you talk properly?
- Crazy creditsThe previously displaced "L" and "W" of the Fawlty Towers sign are now missing.
- ConnectionsFeatured in This Week: Episode dated 18 January 2007 (2007)
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I'm no stranger to the hospitality industry . Some of the most senseless and mindless cruelty I have seen in my life has involved customers making waiting staff suffer , so much so I've seen teenage waitresses run off in tears and later give their jobs up . Of course the restaurants tolerate this . Instead of asking the kitchen staff to come out and beat the customer unconscious they have the attitude that the waiting staff should grow a pair and get on with . It's interesting that FAWLTY TOWERS was inspired by a hotel Cleese stayed at when he was getting his big break with the Python team and for a rare instance Basil Fawlty is only the second most obnoxious character in the show and by the end of the episode you'll be wanting to give Basil a medal
The episode revolves around a very difficult customer called Mr Hutchinson arrives at the hotel and Basil gets it in to his head that Hutchinson is one of the Hotel inspectors who are visiting Torquay . This means Basil has to kow tow to the irritating and arrogant Hutchinson who seems to make it his ambition in life to alienate everyone he comes across . Everything about Hutchinson from his pedantic use of flowery prose while speaking to his general attitude made my skin crawl and Bernard Cribbins gives a very memorable performance , so memorable in fact you do wonder if perhaps he should have got his own spin off show . As it stands Cribbins makes this episode his own . BTW did anyone else think Basil was played by a stunt double in THAT scene ?
The episode revolves around a very difficult customer called Mr Hutchinson arrives at the hotel and Basil gets it in to his head that Hutchinson is one of the Hotel inspectors who are visiting Torquay . This means Basil has to kow tow to the irritating and arrogant Hutchinson who seems to make it his ambition in life to alienate everyone he comes across . Everything about Hutchinson from his pedantic use of flowery prose while speaking to his general attitude made my skin crawl and Bernard Cribbins gives a very memorable performance , so memorable in fact you do wonder if perhaps he should have got his own spin off show . As it stands Cribbins makes this episode his own . BTW did anyone else think Basil was played by a stunt double in THAT scene ?
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