Gourmet Night

After seeing the multi-layered character that is Basil Fawlty this episodes reminds us what he's best remembered for - a brazen snob . It's Goumet Night and so no riff-raff . Having a gourmet night reminds me of something Groucho Marx said about never wanting to join a club that would have me as a member . After all who wants to spend a very expensive evening in the company of punters who are just there to splash money around on food that isn't worth it . I hope they choke on it . Oh hold on this is Fawlty Towers so my wish might just come true

This is one of the more farcical episodes and it says something about the well defined writing and acting that it never comes close to being silly as everything that could go wrong does as all sort of high jinx befall Basil's much vaunted gourmet night with a homosexual chef with a drink problem . Everyone will have their favourite scene and mine's is the the " damn good thrashing " scene . It's interesting in that a scene seems to be badly edited when someone vomits and the audience react in a genuinely disgusted manner which led me to believe the original seen might have been too graphic for broadcast