The Germans

Cybil is nagging Basil from her hospital bed as he presides over a series of disasters..

This episode is crammed with humour from start to finish. So much so it takes repeat viewings to catch it all. There are no weak moments or let ups as the punchlines fly at you from every angle.

Cybil in hospital with Basil hoping she suffers. The debacle of the moose head. The shambolic fire drill. Basil in hospital with an oversized head bandage. The classic scene with the Germans. It all works fantastically well.

The episode has been accused of racism, but it's not. The Major is being ridiculed as a bigoted old relic of the upper classes and Basil is not far off certifiably mad in his treatment of the Germans.

A brilliant half an hour of BBC comedy and an incredible performance from John Cleese.

I'm quite partial to reviewing a show after I've watched it, when it comes to Fawlty Towers I feel I know them almost too well, where do I even begin?

The Germans is one of the most iconic pieces of British television, Fawlty Towers is totally iconic, it's ageless. It is utterly hilarious from start to finish, John Cleese puts in one of his best shifts as Basil Fawlty, it is amazingly madcap, it's so politically non correct, it could never be made now.

My German friends that have seen this and contrary to preconceived ideas they all love it as much as I do.

Thirty of the funniest moments of comedy ever made, I think my personal number 1 is The Kipper and The Corpse, but the Germans is still a perfect 10/10

Don't mention the War.

Although it isn't my personal favorite, "The Germans" is arguably the most 'classic' of the 12 episodes. It's the one everyone seems to know or remember. Sybil is laid up with an ingrown toenail (Basil: "I wish it was an ingrown tongue"), but meanwhile she has to make sure the hotel doesn't fall apart, demanding even more things from Basil and calling him every few minutes to make sure things are getting done. There are many hysterical moments to be had, including the whole moose-hanging sequence, replete with The Major thinking that the stuffed concoction can talk. The German guests obviously don't know what to make of it all, but we see Basil at the upper bound of his own insanity. The best part comes at the end when the African doctor shows up at the hotel - I won't give it away for anyone who hasn't seen it.

This is what I call the funniest episode of Fawlty Towers by far. I mean it truly is classic and an unexpectable masterpiece!!! I've never heard nobody say that this episode is such a flop! To me they say it a lot of times but to me this is the very best of Fawlty Towers ever. When I watched this episode i began to totally love Fawlty Towers as my completely favorite show on earth!! Doctor Who gets Dethroned as once my favorite show on earth but now Fawlty Towers leads it!! I totally love Ocarina Of Time game the Zelda Game for Gamecube and 64 they are so cool!!! But this is a series that i'll never forget!!! GO FAWTY TOWERS (TITTIES)HAHA:>

Basil suffers from concussion when an ornamental moose head falls on him. When he gets home from hospital, still suffering from the effects of his accident, he cannot help but insult his latest guests, a group of Germans.

Even though The Germans features some of the most frequently quoted Fawlty Towers dialogue ("Don't mention the war!"), I do feel that it is a rather uneven episode: the first act features some great gags involving the stuffed moose head (love the Major's conversation with the moose!), but it also suffers from a drawn out and not very funny scene about a fire drill.

Thankfully, the second act—the part with the Germans—is all-out hilarious, with John Cleese giving us some of his greatest comedy ever, making numerous references to the war ("So that's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Herman Goering and four Colditz salads"), and performing a brilliantly funny walk as he does his Hitler impersonation.