L'hôtel en folie

Titre original : Fawlty Towers

Série télévisée
1975–1979
TV-PG
30min

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104 k

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L'incompétence, la mèche courte et l'arrogance du propriétaire de l'hôtel de Basil Fawlty forment un mélange improbable qui est souvent le garant d'accidents et de situations comiques.L'incompétence, la mèche courte et l'arrogance du propriétaire de l'hôtel de Basil Fawlty forment un mélange improbable qui est souvent le garant d'accidents et de situations comiques.L'incompétence, la mèche courte et l'arrogance du propriétaire de l'hôtel de Basil Fawlty forment un mélange improbable qui est souvent le garant d'accidents et de situations comiques.

Création
- Connie Booth
- John Cleese
Casting principal

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8,8/10

104 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

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Création
- Connie Booth
- John Cleese
Casting principal

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Émission notée 65 parmi les meilleures

Victoire aux 3 BAFTA Awards
- 6 victoires et 2 nominations au total

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Anecdotes
The character Manuel is often criticized as an overtly racist stereotype that would not be allowed in a modern television series. However Andrew Sachs defended the character, saying, "If it's insulting to the Spanish what is Basil to the British?" According to John Cleese, the character of Manuel was not meant to be a joke about stupid foreigners, since Manuel is a very lovely man who really does his best to get everything right. Manuel's problem is his poor English, which is a parody on mingy hotel and restaurant owners, simply hiring cheap people who are desperate for work, without giving them proper training.

Gaffes
The layout of the hotel from interior shots would place the windowless kitchen hard against the front left of the building, as seem from the outside (if there were space for it at all). In exterior shots there is a large bow window here.

Citations
Basil Fawlty: Where's Sybil?
Manuel: ¿Que?
Basil Fawlty: Where's Sybil?
Manuel: Where's... the bill?
Basil Fawlty: No, not a bill! I own the place!

Crédits fous
The Fawlty Towers hotel sign has its letters missing, or scrambled up to make new words. The sign presents a different error with each episode.

Versions alternatives
For German TV-runs the main-theme was changed to "funnier" music.

Connexions
Featured in The Pythons (1979)

Bandes originales
Fawlty Towers
Written by Dennis Wilson
Performed by Dennis Wilson Quartet
[series theme tune]

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All Downhill From Here

Of all you'll ever see on the telly or the silver screen this has got to be the best. If you don't own this series you'll regret it - for if you rent it you'll be hard pressed to return it and everything you rent will be downhill afterwards.

Donald Sinclair goes into history as the most brilliantly rude hotelier ever and John Cleese and then spouse Connie Booth go into history as the best sitcom writer duo ever. The teleplays were meticulously written and rewritten and the acting is better than superb.

This series has been voted best television series of all time so many times now it's not funny. Odds are you will never laugh as hard as you do when you see this. And you won't tire of it quickly either.