Connie Booth

Funny thing is, hotels have deaths in their rooms all the time. When John Cleese was coming up with ideas for Fawlty Towers, he asked a friend who worked at The Savoy in London what he thought was the hardest part of the job. He said "Getting the stiffs out."

Wonderful stuff, if you don't mind sexism, nationalism, and general poking fun at both hotel owners and guests. Fawlty Towers is John Cleese at his best, and was made in the 1970s when political correctness was unheard of.

We've seen this before, and enjoyed it all over again seeing around one episode per week over several months. Maybe you have to be British and over 40 to appreciate it... but, seen as a classic of the era, it's hard to beat.

Yes! I LOVE Fawlty Towers! I was so happy to have the scripts to Fawlty Towers. Actually, I think at one point I probably had all of the shows memorized.

Now a nice DVD collection to go with my script would be much appreciated. . . hint, hint.

All you need to know about this book is that it has the script for "The Germans." Anything else in the book is pure gravy.