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Mrs Richards. That episode is comedy gold.
I remember her in the Rising Damp, a right battle-axe!
Mrs Richards: When I pay for a view, I expect something more interesting than that.
Basil: But that is Torquay, madam.
Mrs Richards: Well it's not good enough.
Basil: Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...
Mrs Richards: Don't be silly. I expect to be able to see the sea.
Basil: You can see the sea! It's over there between the land and the sky!
Guest: I'd need a telescope to see that.
Basil: Well might I suggest you move to a hotel closer to the sea. Or preferably in it.
I genuinely got sent out of a woodwork class in school for saying ‘what’.
I later found out my teacher had asked ‘are you deaf’?
He’s dead now.
Yes "Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically..."
"I've decided to stay, but I expect a reduction!"
"Why? Because Krakatoa isn't erupting at the moment?"
One of the best episodes of any sitcom/comedy ever made, but I just wish that she didn't get the last laugh.
I'm sure she was in the series 'Please Sir'. There was a welsh teacher, I'm sure he mentioned he was a Cardiff fan. Perhaps it was rugby. ;)
[QUOTE=bobh;4851600]She was indeed.
The Welsh teacher was played by Richard Davies, born in Dowlais, and incidentally was in another episode of Fawlty Towers (the kipper and the corpse).
He often played the stereotype Welshman in comedies.
He was married to whats her face - who was in the film and got off with a Greek bloke on holiday
Last edited by MacAdder; 08-03-18 at 10:32. Reason: caveat
...is this a piece if your brain?
I did a sitcom writing course a number of years ago and we looked at this episode and came to similar conclusions. It's the very essence of British comedy for the main protagonist to be a failure, and the episode was quite rightly (and expertly) written to follow this trend.
But I still wish that Mrs. Richards could've had more of a comeuppance...
She looks like Warnock in there