Fawlty Towers (TV Series)
Gourmet Night (1975)
Prunella Scales: Sybil Fawlty
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Quotes
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Sybil Fawlty : Are you still here, Basil?
Basil Fawlty : No, I went a couple minutes ago, dear, but I expect I'll be back shortly.
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Sybil Fawlty : [with only four people attending the grand opening of Gourmet Night] I should never have let you write that advert. Fancy putting "no riff-raff."
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Sybil Fawlty : [talking about the best time to hold Gourmet Night] Andre thinks Thursday nights would be best.
Basil Fawlty : Thursdays?
André : I think so.
Basil Fawlty : Right. And on the other nights we'll just have a big trough of baked beans and garnish it with a couple dead dogs.
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Sybil Fawlty : Can I help?
Basil Fawlty : Yes. Go and kill yourself!
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Sybil Fawlty : Are you going to do the car?
Basil Fawlty : In a moment, my little piranha fish.
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Basil Fawlty : [Frantically typing at a typewriter] He's out! He's flat out! So André's, uh...
Sybil Fawlty : Who is?
Basil Fawlty : What!
Sybil Fawlty : Who ls out?
Basil Fawlty : Kurt! Who do you think, Henry Kissinger?
Sybil Fawlty : What do you mean "out"?
Basil Fawlty : He's *drunk*!
Sybil Fawlty : Drunk?
Basil Fawlty : Drunk! Soused! Potted! Inebriated! Got it?
Sybil Fawlty : I don't believe it.
Basil Fawlty : [Still typing frantically] Neither do I. Perhaps it's a dream.
[Smacks his head three times on desk]
Basil Fawlty : No, it's not a dream; we're stuck with it. Right!
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Sybil Fawlty : [a party of four cancels its dinner reservation] One of them's ill
Basil Fawlty : Well, let's hope it's nothing trivial.
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Sybil Fawlty : The only place I've ever really seen him eat is your restaurant, André. Now he's stuffing it away like a hamster.
Basil Fawlty : Really, Sybil.
Sybil Fawlty : We're going to have to buy him a great big wheel to run around in when he's got a moment, or he'll get like a big, bad-tempered tomato.
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Sybil Fawlty : You can write the advertisement in the Echo. Only, don't make it too toffee nosed, Basil. We don't want to put people off.
Basil Fawlty : I just want to keep the riffraff away, dear.
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Colonel Hall : Who are you? I mean, I don't know your name!
Basil Fawlty : [to Sybil] What is it?
Sybil Fawlty : What?
Basil Fawlty : My name.