[News] Fawlty Towers episode removed from UKTV

TomandJerry · Jun 11, 2020

An episode of Fawlty Towers famous for coining the phrase, “Don’t mention the war!” has become the latest “classic” British television programme to be taken down from a BBC-owned streaming service, as broadcasters continue to conduct a reappraisal of old British television content.

The episode of the 1970s sitcom – in which John Cleese as Basil Fawlty goose-steps around a Torquay hotel while shouting the phrase – was recently removed from the BBC-controlled UKTV catch-up service."

Bloody snowflakes.....

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Is it PotG? · Jun 11, 2020

Wouldn't happen in Germany.

pasty · Jun 11, 2020

Well that probably spells the end of 99% of all British tv comedy from the 1970's then

Giraffe · Jun 11, 2020

Sweet Jesus. What the hell is going on??

TomandJerry · Jun 11, 2020

Giraffe said:
Sweet Jesus. What the hell is going on??

The PC brigade has taken over....

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dazzer6666 · Jun 11, 2020

TomandJerry said:
An episode of Fawlty Towers famous for coining the phrase, “Don’t mention the war!” has become the latest “classic” British television programme to be taken down from a BBC-owned streaming service, as broadcasters continue to conduct a reappraisal of old British television content.

The episode of the 1970s sitcom – in which John Cleese as Basil Fawlty goose-steps around a Torquay hotel while shouting the phrase – was recently removed from the BBC-controlled UKTV catch-up service."

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****ing ridiculous

All they needed to do was have a short warning......’the following programme contains scenes that Nazi sympathisers may find offensive’ ?

pasty · Jun 11, 2020

Although I don't think the phrase "Don't mention the war" is the reason it was pulled.

In the same episode, The Major refers to n*****s and w**s when talking about the cricket

Weststander · Jun 11, 2020

I assume you’re joking?

Luckily enough, we have all episodes on DVD, so can watch it to our hearts content. I love the overall theme mocking a painfully snobbish hotelier, whose Little Englander world is falling apart with rude kids, the nouveau riche, brash Americans, unmarried couples.

Baker lite · Jun 11, 2020

Stop it now... just stop it.

studio150 · Jun 11, 2020

FFS

Couldn't they have taken off Mrs Browns Boys instead given that all their shows are offensive to anyone who enjoys comedy.

Notters · Jun 11, 2020

Is it PotG? said:
Wouldn't happen in Germany.

studio150 · Jun 11, 2020

pasty said:
Although I don't think the phrase "Don't mention the war" is the reason it was pulled.

In the same episode, The Major refers to n*****s and w**s when talking about the cricket

So if there is an issue, why not just cut that scene.

Springal · Jun 11, 2020

pasty said:
Although I don't think the phrase "Don't mention the war" is the reason it was pulled.

In the same episode, The Major refers to n*****s and w**s when talking about the cricket

Don’t talk with facts, you’ll upset the outraged who probably haven’t even watched it for 10 years [emoji23]

Harry Wilson's tackle · Jun 11, 2020

Weststander said:
I assume you’re joking?

Luckily enough, we have all episodes on DVD, so can watch it to our hearts content. I love the overall theme mocking a painfully snobbish hotelier, whose Little Englander world is falling apart with rude kids, the nouveau riche, brash Americans, unmarried couples.

The 'Indians aren't n*ggers, they're w*gs' bit is cringeworthy, now, though. The fact that the audience is laughing at the major's pedantry, rather than his racism, doesn't help.

I have watched FT countless times but some of it is quite cringeworthy, now. For example, the thick Irish builder doesn't sit well. Unlikely I'll bother watching it again :shrug:

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Anyway, something else for the broflakes to get enraged about. Slippery slope....etc. <sigh>

Chicken Run · Jun 11, 2020

pasty said:
Although I don't think the phrase "Don't mention the war" is the reason it was pulled.

In the same episode, The Major refers to n*****s and w**s when talking about the cricket

That’ll be the reason although I seen that episode loads of times and the offensive stuff has been muted.

banjo · Jun 11, 2020

pasty · Jun 11, 2020

Chicken Run said:
That’ll be the reason although I seen that episode loads of times and the offensive stuff has been muted.

Yup. Lots of stuff has been edited out of repeat showings now. Even the nations favourite, OFAH doesn't escape. I was watching one on Gold recently and a line when Damien calls Boycie a "batty boy", has been edited out.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Jun 11, 2020

studio150 said:
So if there is an issue, why not just cut that scene.

That would work for me.

Actually although I pissed myself the first few times I watched the 'silly walk' the last time I watched it, maybe 10 years ago, I found even that unfunny. The basic premise is that when an englishman gets concussion he thinks he can make germans laugh by impersonating Hitler. In the 70s I was too busy laughing at the silly walk to pick up on the fact the 'Germans' were upset. It was only when I went to Germany that I realised how shocking that scene would be to many of them. For the same reason I had to turn that Tarantino war film off when I saw the reaction of the German I was with.

We laugh at Henning Wehn when he gets us all to sing along to a song that 'hasn't been heard in Germany since 1944', but it may be that in 20 years his rather gentle humour is regarded as a bit off colour.

Actually, on second thoughts, leave FT online, unedited. It serves a purpose in some respects - it shows us how times a-change.

LamieRobertson · Jun 11, 2020

Fawlty Towers classic British Comedy

Is it PotG? · Jun 11, 2020

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Actually, on second thoughts, leave FT online, unedited. It serves a purpose in some respects - it shows us how times a-change.

It causes offence, and subsequently needs to be removed ASAP.

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