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John Cleese, Connie Booth, Richard Caldicot, Allan Cuthbertson, Betty Huntley-Wright, Andrew Sachs, Prunella Scales, and Ann Way in Fawlty Towers (1975)

Connie Booth: Polly Sherman

Gourmet Night

Fawlty Towers

Connie Booth credited as playing...

Polly Sherman

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Quotes3

  • Colonel Hall: Waitress.
  • Polly: Yes?
  • Colonel Hall: There's a hair in my mousse.
  • Polly: Well, don't talk too loud. Everybody will want one.
  • Colonel Hall: WHAT?
  • Polly: [trying to clue Basil unto a problem while in front of his guests] It's Kurt.
  • Basil Fawlty: Yes?
  • Polly: He's POTTED... the shimps.
  • Basil Fawlty: What?
  • Polly: He's POTTED... the shimps.
  • Basil Fawlty: Shrimps? We're not having shrimps tonight, Polly. Now, if you would...
  • Polly: He's SOUSED... the herrings.
  • Basil Fawlty: What're you on about?
  • Polly: He's PICKED the onions and he's SMASHED the eggs IN HIS CUPS, UNDER THE TABLE.
  • [Basil learns of Kurt's crush on Manuel]
  • Basil Fawlty: I should never have hired a Frenchman.
  • Polly: He's Greek, Mr. Fawlty.
  • Basil Fawlty: Greek?
  • Polly: Of course.
  • Basil Fawlty: Well, that's even worse. I mean, they invented it.

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