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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 439993" data-attributes="member: 23">Even with the sentence preceding this one, I thought as I read that you might be building to say that this episode was an example an idiot plot. This is probably because I called it wrong on my guess for how you&#039;d view the episode. With Sybil largely absent from the central parts of the episode it&#039;s in some ways not a perfectly balanced ensemble episode. For me it generally feels middling. It&#039;s Fawlty Towers so it&#039;s going to be good, but I&#039;ve never felt this one to be peak Fawlty. Your thoughts on the episode are making me rethink this. Tying it in with some of the more malicious attitudes seen earlier in the series, Basil seemed to be enjoying watching Sybil suffer before he broke the news, but you&#039;re right that behind it all was a genuinely nice gesture with the efforts he&#039;d made to surprise her. Yes. It&#039;s played for complete truth by Prunella Scales, and that really sells it. Back when you watched The Hotel Inspectors you questioned this, and I alluded to a much later scene that may answer your question. This was the one I meant. Despite her angry rant about all the things she&#039;d done for him, I still read it that some of those things may well have been done out of good will towards Basil or Sybil. It feels to me that she&#039;s more annoyed that he&#039;s crossed the line this time and so is using the ammunition she has available.Would this be Roger? I think it&#039;s Ken Campbell&#039;s natural hair, but greatly exaggerated. I&#039;ve seen him in some other things and he usually bears the Friar Tuck with sideburns look that balding men typically wore during the era, but I&#039;d say the combover was definitely for comic effect. Incidentally, you may have recognised the actor from his small role in A Fish Called Wanda. If I remember correctly he was the solicitor in the prison visiting room.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 439993, member: 23"] Even with the sentence preceding this one, I thought as I read that you might be building to say that this episode was an example an idiot plot. This is probably because I called it wrong on my guess for how you'd view the episode. With Sybil largely absent from the central parts of the episode it's in some ways not a perfectly balanced ensemble episode. For me it generally feels middling. It's [I]Fawlty Towers[/I] so it's going to be good, but I've never felt this one to be peak [I]Fawlty[/I]. Your thoughts on the episode are making me rethink this. Tying it in with some of the more malicious attitudes seen earlier in the series, Basil seemed to be enjoying watching Sybil suffer before he broke the news, but you're right that behind it all was a genuinely nice gesture with the efforts he'd made to surprise her. Yes. It's played for complete truth by Prunella Scales, and that really sells it. Back when you watched The Hotel Inspectors you questioned this, and I alluded to a much later scene that may answer your question. This was the one I meant. Despite her angry rant about all the things she'd done for him, I still read it that some of those things may well have been done out of good will towards Basil or Sybil. It feels to me that she's more annoyed that he's crossed the line this time and so is using the ammunition she has available. Would this be Roger? I think it's Ken Campbell's natural hair, but greatly exaggerated. I've seen him in some other things and he usually bears the Friar Tuck with sideburns look that balding men typically wore during the era, but I'd say the combover was definitely for comic effect. Incidentally, you may have recognised the actor from his small role in [I]A Fish Called Wanda[/I]. If I remember correctly he was the solicitor in the prison visiting room. [/QUOTE]

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