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"An ageing, brilliantined stick insect." Never fails to make me laugh out loud. Best putdown ever!
@Zephaniah3verse17 Жыл бұрын
Cleeses was only in his 30s tho. I always felt that basil was meant to be about 10 years older then Cleese
@carlodonn898311 ай бұрын
I think she said "brilliantine" in reference to a gel used make hair look glossy... I'm not fluent in British lingo so I'm not completely sure
@BarekHalfhand10 ай бұрын
@@BarekHalfhandrilliantine is a thing, she said brilliantined - meaning "covered in brilliantine". Exactly as OP wrote.
@fffUUUUUU10 ай бұрын
@@fffUUUUUU Got it thanks... At first I thought she was saying "brillianting" as perhaps a British expression for balding.
@BarekHalfhand10 ай бұрын
haha ha
@silverkitty250328 күн бұрын
Prunella Scales is so gorgeous! And magnificent timing.
@robkeeleycomposer Жыл бұрын
As a kid, she was the Dragon Lady.... As a middle aged man, wow, cute figure!
@sid211214 күн бұрын
Happy 90th birthday to Prunella Scales! Thanks so so much for all the laughter! 💖💖
@sorchamcgowan98 Жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha ha 🦭🔫
@bendalymckenna62713 ай бұрын
Sybil acted her role so well , never looses her cool so believable . Made Basil look like an incompetent fool. One of the greatest comedies of all time.
@lindamckenzie6500 Жыл бұрын
The character of Basil WAS that of an incompetent fool. It's just that Basil didn't think so! Brilliant!
@royfearn4345 Жыл бұрын
'Do you really imagine, even in your wildest dreams, that a girl like this could possibly be interested in an aging, brilliantined stick insect like you!?'
@jasonhurd43795 жыл бұрын
A girl like who dear?
@mejustme6833 жыл бұрын
and he called Polly a cloth eared bint,
@magicmike69612 жыл бұрын
Ave Christus Rex
@c.saigir34562 жыл бұрын
"It's alright dear, just checking the door!" "What's going on?!" The rapport between Basil and Sybil is something to behold!!!
“Ooh I know” -you wouldn’t believe such a simple line could be so well delivered and so iconic
@db7541Ай бұрын
Sybil had a great figure!
@Toby_the_Glen Жыл бұрын
The brilliant Prunella Scales. I find it so interesting that Cleese says that when Scales auditioned for the part for him and Connie she did it in a different way than they wanted, but went with her interpretation, that's class.
@davidcole99715 жыл бұрын
It makes me wonder how Cleese and Booth imagined Sybil as a character... less acidic and more sarcastic, perhaps?
@mattjames73862 жыл бұрын
@@mattjames7386 she was sarcastic.
@startracker58952 жыл бұрын
@@mattjames7386 they imagined her posher and classier than him.
@nztv8589 Жыл бұрын
@@nztv8589 I thought they had said that they imagined Basil and Sybil had got together because she was attracted to how posh he sounded, almost like she was a social class below his. That seemed to be the explanation for why on earth she would have been interested in him. I had the impression they meant that he had less choice in women than Sybil had in men, and that she was conventionally attractive enough for him to overlook her slightly lower class.
@dronesclubhighjinks Жыл бұрын
@@dronesclubhighjinks yes originally Cleese envisaged Sybil as posher than him, as it gave the social climbing Basil motivation to marry above him. However, Scales said this wouldn't have worked dramatically as she wouldn't have married someone lower than herself , so she played it slightly more "common ". This made more sense as Basil would need someone who knew how to run hotel well , and she would think she was social climbing .
@nztv8589 Жыл бұрын
Bazil:Hello dear * kisses * Sybil:What are you doing? Bazil:kissing you dear. Sybil:well dont 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@mejustme6833 жыл бұрын
@@MND139 Sybil: * talking about friends * They have all said at one point or another how on earth did the 2 of us ever get together? Black magic my mother says. Basil: * moment of silence * Well she would know wouldn't she?
@mejustme6833 жыл бұрын
Seeing Sybil put Basil in his place was endlessly entertaining.
@Euroviking865 жыл бұрын
Such absolute brilliance. I feel that Prunella, just like every other character staring in this magnificent comedy, was the perfect choice for the role. It doesn't matter how many times i have seen each episode, the laughs never diminish, even though i know what is coming next. To all the actors, living or dead, thanks for the laughter, time and time again.
@stephengarth8575 Жыл бұрын
3:14 The way she snaps "Basil!" makes me laugh out loud each time
@veronicacampbell90955 жыл бұрын
The O'Riley bit still makes me laugh
@phavok5 жыл бұрын
Veronica Campbell I knooooow !
@moneybus89754 жыл бұрын
Me too! She’s serous!
@AAngerJ3 ай бұрын
Best bit is when Basil looks around, sees she’s nowhere to be found, and slaps himself while saying “Basil” like she normally does
@db7541Ай бұрын
Sybil had so many fantastic lines but I always loved the confidence trickster episode when she didn’t actually have lines as such but when Basil said “Sybil I forbid you...” ; such brilliant comic timing! I also loved the “Mother has more of a death force dialogue - “open spaces....... confined spaces” and “...its a little difficult, chef’s just opened the tin” 😀
@AlexEssex85 жыл бұрын
I want a Waldorf salad 🥗🥗!!
@Simon0 Жыл бұрын
Basil describing Sybil laughing as sounding like "somebody machine-gunning a seal"
@bryanpalmer96603 жыл бұрын
Great, but missing one. The Gourmet Night dinner, while she's stalling the guests waiting for the meal to arrive, she's telling stories and laughing. Great character, so well played.
@HiVizCamo4 жыл бұрын
"he put basil in the ratatouille?" "I do apologize, he's from Barcelona" Great.
@keepgoing19732 жыл бұрын
He’s still looking for it
@ZoKitchen2 жыл бұрын
@@ZoKitchen I just can't imagine ever wanting to put basil (herb) in a ratatouille. The French would prefer the rat.
@keepgoing19732 жыл бұрын
Brilliant character acting by Prunella Scales (also a Shakespearean theatre actress) And of course, genius scriptwriting from Cleese and Booth.
@flat5sharp115 жыл бұрын
Imagine the joy of proceeding... and realizing more and more just how good it was going to be.
@joejones94972 жыл бұрын
Sybil’s walk in the ladder scene…LMAO!
@galebailey55832 жыл бұрын
It is perfect. It’s a mutton dressed as lamb waddle in an outfit one or two sizes too small that she conveys. Prunella Scales was amazing. Saw her at the National in Alan Bennett’s spy plays. She was convincing as the graceful and elegant Coral Brown but when she entered as the Queen she was small and dumpy and just as convincing. Both parts a million miles away from Sybil but both thoroughly as convincing. Terriifc characterisations every time. Anybody older than me who remembers Marriage Lines?
@Gwailo542 жыл бұрын
"What are you doing? I'm kissing you dear. Well - don't." So well delivered.
@robintyson59110 ай бұрын
Classic comedy , never to be repeated 🎭
@redlabel3977Ай бұрын
there’s a really quick one liner when basil wanting a some toast holds up a piece of bread as sybil walks by and says “breathe on this please dear” or words to that effect
@marklythall87124 жыл бұрын
So hard to play the "straight woman" among such hilarity. Prunella Scales is amazing.
@StephenGrayce5 жыл бұрын
Her and Polly. Forever holding the fort/keeping that sinking ship afloat. Wonderful women.
@papercup25175 жыл бұрын
Her and Polly, Connie Booth who co wrote it, can.
@SpookyElectric3193 жыл бұрын
Sybil’s morbid fears lines are so masterfully delivered.
@LeofromFreo4 жыл бұрын
You weren’t listening were you? Lol
@Mike89812 жыл бұрын
Am I the only man of a certain age who quietly fancies Sybil?
@1830mof Жыл бұрын
Oh , you old dog , you !
@hughmacfarlane9662 Жыл бұрын
no, there's two of us
@speakertreatz Жыл бұрын
Feisty one she is!
@johnmc3862 Жыл бұрын
You like a girl with spirit, don't you?
@edlawn548111 күн бұрын
The most accurate comedy sitcom of all the time.
@Robert_Fordin5 жыл бұрын
I like when Sybil scurries in high heels outside the hotel so she can slap Basil! LOL!!
@am743435 жыл бұрын
I'd love to be a fly on the wall at a Sybil/ Basil marriage counselling session.
@manxpuss5 жыл бұрын
A time when the BBC made brilliant comedy. Puts the crap they make now to shame
@nigelw5125 жыл бұрын
I agree with you. Far too much crap on TV today.
@brendanmcbrearty5544 жыл бұрын
Same as with American TV!
@soulshine82814 жыл бұрын
oh I know
@masterfarr82653 жыл бұрын
I'm American and the crap that Hollyweird puts out today is beyond shameful. Ironically, I didn't care for this, or really get it, when I was a kid. But I love it now. The only problem with British TV is that when it is at its best, they starve you to death for it, lol. I mean..."Here's your 12 extraordinary episodes, strung out over several years...that's all you're going to get. Learn how to starve happily! And be glad we didn't only make ten or eleven." It makes me wonder seriously if there's a universe in the multiverse somewhere, where John Cleese made hundreds of these, and at the same quality level. And the same goes for Downton Abbey and Are You Being Served, and a few other brilliant British TV shows I'm starving for more of. And I'm sure there's more I don't know about yet.
@duckduckgoismuchbetter2 жыл бұрын
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter Unfortunately the Woke BBC is now censoring a lot of these old classics like Dads Army, Steptoe and Son, Till death us do part and ruining them. Make sure you watch the old ones.
@nigelw5122 жыл бұрын
My two favourites are "Ageing brilliantine stick insect like you?" and when Mr O Reily smiles at her. Basil: "Oh for god sake, don't smile." Sybil: "Why are you smiling Mr O Reily?" Mr O Reily: "Well to be perfectly honest Mrs Fawlty I like a woman with spirit." S: "Oh do you, is that what you like?" Mr O: "I do, I do!" Where she proceeds to whack them both with the umbrella.
@alking76555 жыл бұрын
...and I love Basil's description of Sybil as a "golfing puff adder"......
@garyhickman68975 жыл бұрын
+
@lachlanholidayaccessibletr67584 жыл бұрын
Yes, but she used 'brilliantine', a noun, as an adjective.
@7x34hj4 жыл бұрын
@@7x34hj Call the spelling police and they can go back 45 years or so in a time machine.
@robertmoore25272 жыл бұрын
Basil KNEW what was coming for O'Reilly. And even though he hated him, and was also a very unsympathetic character, he was obviously feeling sorry for what O'Reilly was putting himself in for. 😂
@duckduckgoismuchbetter2 жыл бұрын
"Sybil I Forbid You To Open That Safe"!😆👩⚖️🗄️
@jessesands40994 жыл бұрын
The greatest episodic comedy show of all time. But the bits in these clips work much better in context of course.
@photo1615 жыл бұрын
Timeless comedy is timeless. Thank you for sharing.
@johnmitchelljr5 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I think that slap in the last clip and Cleese's fall is one of the great comedy moments of all time.
@stewux4 жыл бұрын
I feel that Sybil was in her own world completely.
@keepgoing19732 жыл бұрын
She is perfect background for Basil. Marvelous acting.
Hello dear. What are you doing? I'm kissing you dear. Well don't. 😂😂😂😂😂
@SuperMisterInvisible5 жыл бұрын
definitely one of my favorite Fawlty Towers bits :P
@omikronweapon4 жыл бұрын
Prunella Scales was a wonderful comic actress. In Sybil, she created a character for all time.
@levenscott6453 ай бұрын
“Benzedrine puff adder” 🤣
@DrRock2009 Жыл бұрын
I was 22 when they filmed this and I loved how she dressed Prunella Scales was a very sexy woman. You think at 22 #I would like Polly but Sybil to me was feminity PLUS
@Steven_Rowe2 жыл бұрын
Always had a crush on "Sybil" since i was a kid.
@jackbenimble1373 Жыл бұрын
"How long have you been married, mrs. Fawlty?" "Oh, since 1485" 😄😄
@olesrensen7819 Жыл бұрын
Prunella Scales is still acting (as of 2021) in audio drama for The Wireless Theatre Company, and still great.
@adamschwartz34492 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry to tell you, but she's suffering from late stage Alzheimer's now.
@davidnelson714911 ай бұрын
outfits are fire everytime
@MultiRwarren3 жыл бұрын
John wrote this along with Connie and some of the best lines were given to Prunella.
@keepgoing19732 жыл бұрын
I watched this show on tv way back when and loved it.
@vincentbugalia38585 жыл бұрын
my favorite character on this show!
@jamesbannon64435 жыл бұрын
She was definitely a good looker in her prime.
@roberttaylor1485 жыл бұрын
@Charlie Miller Me too! We see her in the Uk, on the Canal boats, with her husband. Still got the timing.
@eddyfinkful5 жыл бұрын
Check her out in the film Hobson's Choice. She was twenty-one and just as sexy as she wanted to be.
@jasonhurd43795 жыл бұрын
Sorry I believe she was 19...
@davidhoward24875 жыл бұрын
@Charlie Miller with all respect to her, she's 87... She hasn't aged badly and I'm sure she's a nice person, but she's hardly sexy anymore.
@omikronweapon4 жыл бұрын
@@davidhoward2487 p
@malcolmtinker42592 жыл бұрын
Sybil:Awww! Your only single once! Basil:Twice can be arranged How the hell did they not divorse half way through?!🤣
@mejustme6833 жыл бұрын
The scene when Sybil's listing her mother's worries.. That's Cleese's mother.
@killerrabbit26932 жыл бұрын
So practical ,organised and composed.Exactly the opposite of Basil. Loved the way she immediately grasped the situation when Polly told them Lord Melbury was a conman....while Basil was still in denial😅Without a doubt she was easily the funniest female character to ever take part in a sitcom.
@johnkehoe6463 ай бұрын
I bloody love Sybil and Basil - brutally funny
@studiobencivengamarcusbenc52724 жыл бұрын
Sybil’s mother’s phobia are almost identical to Jon Cleese’s mother’s phobias as described in his autobiography
@Mck09485 жыл бұрын
Haha. That's pretty great.
@user-ep9fu2be4z5 жыл бұрын
"all of them" you mean? Maybe Basil should have called his little man in Fulham ;P
@omikronweapon4 жыл бұрын
My favourite Sybil moment is when she throws coffee at Basil but most of it lands on the Major 😭
@annhatchet37993 жыл бұрын
Great cast. Thanks for the memories
@rogerpritchard Жыл бұрын
She really made the show!
@zacktong81052 жыл бұрын
Brilliant Scripts, Fantsastic acting, and very wobbly sets. I have all the episodes recorded and watch them all the time. We ALL know a Basil Fawlty don't we?
@Fendermanpaul4 жыл бұрын
Probably. But if one doesn't know a Basil Fawlty, then that means that one is the Basil Fawlty. Come to think of it...I myself don't actually know a Basil Fawlty, lol.
@duckduckgoismuchbetter Жыл бұрын
The wonderful Prunella Scales
@assafnaor575210 ай бұрын
It’s missing the parts where Sybil does her signature laugh. MWUAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! *wheeeeeeez*
@Jakegothicsnake5 жыл бұрын
Also the bedtime phone conversation with Audrey: 'I know...I know...Oh, I know...'
@jasonhurd43795 жыл бұрын
"He's from Barcelona..."
@vitothepizzaguy74755 жыл бұрын
That golfing puff adder! [proceeds to strangle gnome]
@bythebreach5 жыл бұрын
She is awesome!
@christianf7740 Жыл бұрын
“Charming people.” “Hmm ....?” “The Abbot’s ... charming couple.” “Yes, all three of them.” 😂😂 “You’re only single once.” “Twice can be arranged.” 😂😂 “Oh hi dear ... i was just .. ehm ...” Wack. 😂😂 And that one sentence; yes, a knoow ..
@Robard655 жыл бұрын
Real talented actors...brilliant.
@barry76088 ай бұрын
07:50 Hello Dear.. I was just going to ehr SMACK!! HAAAAh
@Hipppy10015 жыл бұрын
8:00 love the walk of Sybil. So focused, so full of purpose with only one aim in mind: To clobber Basil.
@malcolmabram29574 жыл бұрын
Yes!! To see that is to understand the meaning of "singularity of purpose". Hilarious.
@Zephaniah3verse172 жыл бұрын
The very first one is my favorite, the "aging, Brilliantined stick insect" line. It's almost like they were ad-libbing the insults on the fly.
@JohnMichaelson3 жыл бұрын
Prunella Scales as Sybil was a wonderful actress, sadly not too well these days. Connie Booth was the woman of my dreams. Utterly desirable. Fory four years after release, the series has never been eclipsed.
@arthurscrote46404 жыл бұрын
She is perfect. 😂 And she was so good as the tragic Miss Bates in the TV series "Emma" 1996.
@dubbelhenke85411 күн бұрын
I loved Sybil - always in control
@lorenzomagazzeni54255 жыл бұрын
absolutely brilliant comedy
@kitcarson90475 ай бұрын
Polly was exquisite
@GordonWishart Жыл бұрын
Such great acting from everyone.
@mdaniels6311 Жыл бұрын
Sybil was a one off ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@HLk-jb9nt Жыл бұрын
Totally brilliant acting, love it.
@dianderson7022 Жыл бұрын
All those shows were great!!
@jonkline7095 жыл бұрын
I loved all of your outfits. Very classy.
@FJB_USA_1ST2 жыл бұрын
2:20 I DEW I DEW!!
@Cladcreeper5 жыл бұрын
Marriage is made In heaven But so is thunder and lightning 😆
@alanobrien4020 Жыл бұрын
Sybil was pretty fit to my 18 yo senses
@tamar5261 Жыл бұрын
I thought there might have been a few "ooh, I knoooooooow" -s in there but still a great compilation.
@grannym2880 Жыл бұрын
The last scene is the best. I love her
@jockstrapp213 жыл бұрын
A classic TV show from the UK.
@TheSteveRobinson Жыл бұрын
My favorite has to be when Sybil opens the safe.
@jaldav5 жыл бұрын
"how long have you been married?" "oh since 1485..."
@vitothepizzaguy74755 жыл бұрын
Mr. Sir One of my favourite shots.
@Robert_Fordin5 жыл бұрын
@Yasika Sambora she means they've been married for ever.
@vitothepizzaguy74755 жыл бұрын
Darn, I missed it. I thought she said '1945', lol. This is even better.
@bgd-canman99765 жыл бұрын
@Yasika Sambora I think she means that's what it feels like... far, far too long...
@papercup25175 жыл бұрын
In 1485 there was the Battle of Agincourt...which we won...against the French...poor Basil would never win against Sybil!
@davidhoward24875 жыл бұрын
Shes a National Treasure👍
@paullacey2999 Жыл бұрын
"Villains whose motives are hard to find fault in and arguably better than the hero's." Elder God Tier Villain
@JuggernautVault10 ай бұрын
I bought the complete series for my own enjoyment back a few years ago .
@BobbySMiles2 жыл бұрын
Yes. The some will remove these from public view.
@laurieparker-stuart868 Жыл бұрын
So entertaining 😂thank you 🙏
@urszulab8397 Жыл бұрын
"Memories? Huh...Agincourt?" Pmsl
@nrjelley5 жыл бұрын
im 44 now in 2024, and she was obvious much older than i but i alwas thought she was very sexy.. but in reality a brilliant actress
@arlichar11Ай бұрын
Brilliant
@irishking14145 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@debbieramsey-hanks3757 Жыл бұрын
One SEXY lady! Especially in season 2!!
@theymusthatetesla31865 жыл бұрын
Aging brilliantine stick insect🤣🤣🤣kills me every time! 😂😂😂
@TheFetter043 жыл бұрын
Well, when Ben comes, you can give them to him!😂
@AAngerJ3 ай бұрын
The freakin best!
@JoshHumble4 жыл бұрын
Sybil was fine with an attitude. My type of woman
@beezy3645 жыл бұрын
Really???
@sunnsight5 жыл бұрын
You like a woman with spirit?
@andyhaochizhang5 жыл бұрын
@@sunnsight yes
@speakertreatz Жыл бұрын
I seem to remember her playing the Queen, long before Helen mirren, in that Alan bennett TV play
@stevencassidy69825 жыл бұрын
She did both soy plays at the National. She stole the show. Such a pity they didn’t have the streaming and recording of present times. She had presence and then some.
"An ageing, brilliantined stick insect." Never fails to make me laugh out loud. Best putdown ever!
Cleeses was only in his 30s tho. I always felt that basil was meant to be about 10 years older then Cleese
I think she said "brilliantine" in reference to a gel used make hair look glossy... I'm not fluent in British lingo so I'm not completely sure
@@BarekHalfhandrilliantine is a thing, she said brilliantined - meaning "covered in brilliantine". Exactly as OP wrote.
@@fffUUUUUU Got it thanks... At first I thought she was saying "brillianting" as perhaps a British expression for balding.
haha ha
Prunella Scales is so gorgeous! And magnificent timing.
As a kid, she was the Dragon Lady.... As a middle aged man, wow, cute figure!
Happy 90th birthday to Prunella Scales! Thanks so so much for all the laughter! 💖💖
Ha ha ha ha 🦭🔫
Sybil acted her role so well , never looses her cool so believable . Made Basil look like an incompetent fool. One of the greatest comedies of all time.
The character of Basil WAS that of an incompetent fool. It's just that Basil didn't think so! Brilliant!
'Do you really imagine, even in your wildest dreams, that a girl like this could possibly be interested in an aging, brilliantined stick insect like you!?'
A girl like who dear?
and he called Polly a cloth eared bint,
Ave Christus Rex
"It's alright dear, just checking the door!" "What's going on?!" The rapport between Basil and Sybil is something to behold!!!
i do ha ha
Fawlty Towers...perfectly written...perfectly acted.
“Ooh I know” -you wouldn’t believe such a simple line could be so well delivered and so iconic
Sybil had a great figure!
The brilliant Prunella Scales. I find it so interesting that Cleese says that when Scales auditioned for the part for him and Connie she did it in a different way than they wanted, but went with her interpretation, that's class.
It makes me wonder how Cleese and Booth imagined Sybil as a character... less acidic and more sarcastic, perhaps?
@@mattjames7386 she was sarcastic.
@@mattjames7386 they imagined her posher and classier than him.
@@nztv8589 I thought they had said that they imagined Basil and Sybil had got together because she was attracted to how posh he sounded, almost like she was a social class below his. That seemed to be the explanation for why on earth she would have been interested in him. I had the impression they meant that he had less choice in women than Sybil had in men, and that she was conventionally attractive enough for him to overlook her slightly lower class.
@@dronesclubhighjinks yes originally Cleese envisaged Sybil as posher than him, as it gave the social climbing Basil motivation to marry above him. However, Scales said this wouldn't have worked dramatically as she wouldn't have married someone lower than herself , so she played it slightly more "common ". This made more sense as Basil would need someone who knew how to run hotel well , and she would think she was social climbing .
Bazil:Hello dear * kisses * Sybil:What are you doing? Bazil:kissing you dear. Sybil:well dont 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@MND139 Sybil: * talking about friends * They have all said at one point or another how on earth did the 2 of us ever get together? Black magic my mother says. Basil: * moment of silence * Well she would know wouldn't she?
Seeing Sybil put Basil in his place was endlessly entertaining.
Such absolute brilliance. I feel that Prunella, just like every other character staring in this magnificent comedy, was the perfect choice for the role. It doesn't matter how many times i have seen each episode, the laughs never diminish, even though i know what is coming next. To all the actors, living or dead, thanks for the laughter, time and time again.
3:14 The way she snaps "Basil!" makes me laugh out loud each time
The O'Riley bit still makes me laugh
Veronica Campbell I knooooow !
Me too! She’s serous!
Best bit is when Basil looks around, sees she’s nowhere to be found, and slaps himself while saying “Basil” like she normally does
Sybil had so many fantastic lines but I always loved the confidence trickster episode when she didn’t actually have lines as such but when Basil said “Sybil I forbid you...” ; such brilliant comic timing! I also loved the “Mother has more of a death force dialogue - “open spaces....... confined spaces” and “...its a little difficult, chef’s just opened the tin” 😀
I want a Waldorf salad 🥗🥗!!
Basil describing Sybil laughing as sounding like "somebody machine-gunning a seal"
Great, but missing one. The Gourmet Night dinner, while she's stalling the guests waiting for the meal to arrive, she's telling stories and laughing. Great character, so well played.
"he put basil in the ratatouille?" "I do apologize, he's from Barcelona" Great.
He’s still looking for it
@@ZoKitchen I just can't imagine ever wanting to put basil (herb) in a ratatouille. The French would prefer the rat.
Brilliant character acting by Prunella Scales (also a Shakespearean theatre actress) And of course, genius scriptwriting from Cleese and Booth.
Imagine the joy of proceeding... and realizing more and more just how good it was going to be.
Sybil’s walk in the ladder scene…LMAO!
It is perfect. It’s a mutton dressed as lamb waddle in an outfit one or two sizes too small that she conveys. Prunella Scales was amazing. Saw her at the National in Alan Bennett’s spy plays. She was convincing as the graceful and elegant Coral Brown but when she entered as the Queen she was small and dumpy and just as convincing. Both parts a million miles away from Sybil but both thoroughly as convincing. Terriifc characterisations every time. Anybody older than me who remembers Marriage Lines?
"What are you doing? I'm kissing you dear. Well - don't." So well delivered.
Classic comedy , never to be repeated 🎭
there’s a really quick one liner when basil wanting a some toast holds up a piece of bread as sybil walks by and says “breathe on this please dear” or words to that effect
So hard to play the "straight woman" among such hilarity. Prunella Scales is amazing.
Her and Polly. Forever holding the fort/keeping that sinking ship afloat. Wonderful women.
Her and Polly, Connie Booth who co wrote it, can.
Sybil’s morbid fears lines are so masterfully delivered.
You weren’t listening were you? Lol
Am I the only man of a certain age who quietly fancies Sybil?
Oh , you old dog , you !
no, there's two of us
Feisty one she is!
You like a girl with spirit, don't you?
The most accurate comedy sitcom of all the time.
I like when Sybil scurries in high heels outside the hotel so she can slap Basil! LOL!!
I'd love to be a fly on the wall at a Sybil/ Basil marriage counselling session.
A time when the BBC made brilliant comedy. Puts the crap they make now to shame
I agree with you. Far too much crap on TV today.
Same as with American TV!
oh I know
I'm American and the crap that Hollyweird puts out today is beyond shameful. Ironically, I didn't care for this, or really get it, when I was a kid. But I love it now. The only problem with British TV is that when it is at its best, they starve you to death for it, lol. I mean..."Here's your 12 extraordinary episodes, strung out over several years...that's all you're going to get. Learn how to starve happily! And be glad we didn't only make ten or eleven." It makes me wonder seriously if there's a universe in the multiverse somewhere, where John Cleese made hundreds of these, and at the same quality level. And the same goes for Downton Abbey and Are You Being Served, and a few other brilliant British TV shows I'm starving for more of. And I'm sure there's more I don't know about yet.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter Unfortunately the Woke BBC is now censoring a lot of these old classics like Dads Army, Steptoe and Son, Till death us do part and ruining them. Make sure you watch the old ones.
My two favourites are "Ageing brilliantine stick insect like you?" and when Mr O Reily smiles at her. Basil: "Oh for god sake, don't smile." Sybil: "Why are you smiling Mr O Reily?" Mr O Reily: "Well to be perfectly honest Mrs Fawlty I like a woman with spirit." S: "Oh do you, is that what you like?" Mr O: "I do, I do!" Where she proceeds to whack them both with the umbrella.
...and I love Basil's description of Sybil as a "golfing puff adder"......
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Yes, but she used 'brilliantine', a noun, as an adjective.
@@7x34hj Call the spelling police and they can go back 45 years or so in a time machine.
Basil KNEW what was coming for O'Reilly. And even though he hated him, and was also a very unsympathetic character, he was obviously feeling sorry for what O'Reilly was putting himself in for. 😂
"Sybil I Forbid You To Open That Safe"!😆👩⚖️🗄️
The greatest episodic comedy show of all time. But the bits in these clips work much better in context of course.
Timeless comedy is timeless. Thank you for sharing.
Honestly, I think that slap in the last clip and Cleese's fall is one of the great comedy moments of all time.
I feel that Sybil was in her own world completely.
She is perfect background for Basil. Marvelous acting.
BRILLIANT ACTRESS !!!!!!!!!!!!! ,,,,,, absolutely outstanding. !!!!!!!!!!
I agree brilliant actress
Hello dear. What are you doing? I'm kissing you dear. Well don't. 😂😂😂😂😂
definitely one of my favorite Fawlty Towers bits :P
Prunella Scales was a wonderful comic actress. In Sybil, she created a character for all time.
“Benzedrine puff adder” 🤣
I was 22 when they filmed this and I loved how she dressed Prunella Scales was a very sexy woman. You think at 22 #I would like Polly but Sybil to me was feminity PLUS
Always had a crush on "Sybil" since i was a kid.
"How long have you been married, mrs. Fawlty?" "Oh, since 1485" 😄😄
Prunella Scales is still acting (as of 2021) in audio drama for The Wireless Theatre Company, and still great.
I'm sorry to tell you, but she's suffering from late stage Alzheimer's now.
outfits are fire everytime
John wrote this along with Connie and some of the best lines were given to Prunella.
I watched this show on tv way back when and loved it.
my favorite character on this show!
She was definitely a good looker in her prime.
@Charlie Miller Me too! We see her in the Uk, on the Canal boats, with her husband. Still got the timing.
Check her out in the film Hobson's Choice. She was twenty-one and just as sexy as she wanted to be.
Sorry I believe she was 19...
@Charlie Miller with all respect to her, she's 87... She hasn't aged badly and I'm sure she's a nice person, but she's hardly sexy anymore.
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Sybil:Awww! Your only single once! Basil:Twice can be arranged How the hell did they not divorse half way through?!🤣
The scene when Sybil's listing her mother's worries.. That's Cleese's mother.
So practical ,organised and composed.Exactly the opposite of Basil. Loved the way she immediately grasped the situation when Polly told them Lord Melbury was a conman....while Basil was still in denial😅Without a doubt she was easily the funniest female character to ever take part in a sitcom.
I bloody love Sybil and Basil - brutally funny
Sybil’s mother’s phobia are almost identical to Jon Cleese’s mother’s phobias as described in his autobiography
Haha. That's pretty great.
"all of them" you mean? Maybe Basil should have called his little man in Fulham ;P
My favourite Sybil moment is when she throws coffee at Basil but most of it lands on the Major 😭
Great cast. Thanks for the memories
She really made the show!
Brilliant Scripts, Fantsastic acting, and very wobbly sets. I have all the episodes recorded and watch them all the time. We ALL know a Basil Fawlty don't we?
Probably. But if one doesn't know a Basil Fawlty, then that means that one is the Basil Fawlty. Come to think of it...I myself don't actually know a Basil Fawlty, lol.
The wonderful Prunella Scales
It’s missing the parts where Sybil does her signature laugh. MWUAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! *wheeeeeeez*
Also the bedtime phone conversation with Audrey: 'I know...I know...Oh, I know...'
"He's from Barcelona..."
That golfing puff adder! [proceeds to strangle gnome]
She is awesome!
“Charming people.” “Hmm ....?” “The Abbot’s ... charming couple.” “Yes, all three of them.” 😂😂 “You’re only single once.” “Twice can be arranged.” 😂😂 “Oh hi dear ... i was just .. ehm ...” Wack. 😂😂 And that one sentence; yes, a knoow ..
Real talented actors...brilliant.
07:50 Hello Dear.. I was just going to ehr SMACK!! HAAAAh
8:00 love the walk of Sybil. So focused, so full of purpose with only one aim in mind: To clobber Basil.
Yes!! To see that is to understand the meaning of "singularity of purpose". Hilarious.
The very first one is my favorite, the "aging, Brilliantined stick insect" line. It's almost like they were ad-libbing the insults on the fly.
Prunella Scales as Sybil was a wonderful actress, sadly not too well these days. Connie Booth was the woman of my dreams. Utterly desirable. Fory four years after release, the series has never been eclipsed.
She is perfect. 😂 And she was so good as the tragic Miss Bates in the TV series "Emma" 1996.
I loved Sybil - always in control
absolutely brilliant comedy
Polly was exquisite
Such great acting from everyone.
Sybil was a one off ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Totally brilliant acting, love it.
All those shows were great!!
I loved all of your outfits. Very classy.
2:20 I DEW I DEW!!
Marriage is made In heaven But so is thunder and lightning 😆
Sybil was pretty fit to my 18 yo senses
I thought there might have been a few "ooh, I knoooooooow" -s in there but still a great compilation.
The last scene is the best. I love her
A classic TV show from the UK.
My favorite has to be when Sybil opens the safe.
"how long have you been married?" "oh since 1485..."
Mr. Sir One of my favourite shots.
@Yasika Sambora she means they've been married for ever.
Darn, I missed it. I thought she said '1945', lol. This is even better.
@Yasika Sambora I think she means that's what it feels like... far, far too long...
In 1485 there was the Battle of Agincourt...which we won...against the French...poor Basil would never win against Sybil!
Shes a National Treasure👍
"Villains whose motives are hard to find fault in and arguably better than the hero's." Elder God Tier Villain
I bought the complete series for my own enjoyment back a few years ago .
Yes. The some will remove these from public view.
So entertaining 😂thank you 🙏
"Memories? Huh...Agincourt?" Pmsl
im 44 now in 2024, and she was obvious much older than i but i alwas thought she was very sexy.. but in reality a brilliant actress
Brilliant
Amazing
One SEXY lady! Especially in season 2!!
Aging brilliantine stick insect🤣🤣🤣kills me every time! 😂😂😂
Well, when Ben comes, you can give them to him!😂
The freakin best!
Sybil was fine with an attitude. My type of woman
Really???
You like a woman with spirit?
@@sunnsight yes
I seem to remember her playing the Queen, long before Helen mirren, in that Alan bennett TV play
She did both soy plays at the National. She stole the show. Such a pity they didn’t have the streaming and recording of present times. She had presence and then some.