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Fawlty Towers: The Germans episode to be reinstated by UKTV  - Archived Link:

Now here's a prime example of how dumb we've become by listening to all this soft clap-trap about being offended.
Many have said the race-uproar is merely an opportunity to display what an undeveloped mind would think is a mature
style of conduct, a manner that serious adults would appreciate.

But such displays are always done outside where they can witnessed, you never hear about the people who applauded
the medical services around the world -but stayed in there home to do it, did you? No... unless a selfie or a Tik-Tok video
is involved.

It's a scam, a well-hidden larp along with the store destruction to honour Mr. Floyd. The Gate-Keepers in the media get
to interpret whatever they want and we all sing along like a field of braying sheep. In this particular case, such interpretation
was needed as it could lead to staining the very establishment-medium that shepherds us everyday.

It'd be easy to call the BBC two-faced when it comes to the recent debate about a comedy series that was broadcast back in
the seventies. The dated sitcom showed comedic episode that involved Basil Faulty -played by John Cleese, warning his
employees not to speak of the Second World War in front of some German guests at his hotel in the English south-coastal
town of Torquay.

The whispered quote from Basil Faulty is "Don't mention the war" and in a climate of po-faced liberalism, the funny is lost
in their eternal ocean of self-flagellation of not yet being able to see the world as an adult does.

In the false environment of social media, 'some people' complained that it was offensive and the BBC-owned network UKTV
made the decision to pull that particular episode, effectively bending the knee once more to those who subconsciously hate
themselves and pretend to dislike everything around them.



Then -as if a grown-up walked into the room, the BBC reversed their decision and said that they would accompany the
episode with a warning of "offensive content and language". The saddest point of all this is that the actual humour in this
isn't insulting German people regarding a war, it's the self-guilt that English people place on themselves to avoid the
embarrassment of confrontation.

Old-style English upper-class people don't like interaction via a sensitive subject because they might offend by not explaining
themselves thoroughly and give an impression they are ignorant. Hence, this lanky hotel-owner was attempting to purvey
an air of class, of refinement to his guests in the hope that they would return and give him their money.

It was never the Germans that were being laughed at, it was the fawning twit Basil Faulty and his over-the-top behaviour to
keep -what he believed, was a happy hotel! Don't you get it...?! The joke that many in social media missed is actually about
being frightened to offend in any way, the same manner these outrage-artists on social media conduct themselves!

It's the same with his long-suffering Spanish waiter -Manuel. Manuel goes around doing his tasks and it's only when he
interacts with his boss, does the humour appear. Manuel doesn't speak English very well and the skits between him and
Basil are not based on the waiter's inability to explain himself, it's the notion that Mr. Faulty's pompous default-setting of
not being able to speak Spanish is where the funny lies.
Nobody is mocking Manuel, it's the overtly-anal behaviour of his boss that is laughed at.
Don't you get it?

John Cleese's Tweet:

@JohnCleese
I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of
human behaviour

One is to attack it directly. 
The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour

Thank of Alf Garnett...

I believe the misspelling of 'thank' was supposed to be 'think of Alf Garnett', another character from the BBC's corridors
of the past.

Another great example -but set in a working-class environment.'Til Death Do Us Part' was a comedy series that ran from
1965 until 1975 and involved Alf Garnett, a cantankerous old man who lived in the East-End of London with a disgruntled
and seemingly burdened wife, a wannabe hippy-like daughter and her lazy socialist husband from Liverpool.

By the way, the actor who played -what Alf Garnett referred to a 'lazy Scouse Git' son-in-law is actually the father-in-law of
former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Stereo-typing was the regular topic in the Garnett household with Alf constantly blaming the diverse aspects of British culture
has the reason for his place in life. He was a keen royalist and Conservative follower. Garnett believed that Jewish people,
people of colour, those from other areas of the country (his son-in-law!), people of nations that don't appreciate West Ham
United football team and basically anyone who didn't agree with this stunted out-dated opinions were the cause of the British
Empire's degradation.



The world was changing and Alf was resisting... and losing of course. But in such a melting pot of ideas and views, comedy
script writers knew the promise of golden thought-provoking humour is guaranteed.

Yep, Alf was a racist, but only behind closed doors. Yes, this socially-ignorant bigoted man behind the National Health spectacles
despised the lax attitude towards work -played out during multiple Union strikes may I add, and the comedy arose from the
archetypal working-class Englishman Mr. Garnett believing his place in the world was a right due to where he was born.
It was everyone else's fault that his position wasn't as lofty as he wanted it to be.

Alf Garnett was expertly played by actor Warren Mitchell, a fine thespian from a Russian Jewish background, who sadly, died in 2015.

Do you understand now...?
In the example of 'Til Death Do Us Part', the joke isn't on the one who is deemed 'the outsider', it's on the established and
well-grounded perception of a character who struggles to adjust his way of life to the changing world around him.

In the 'Faulty Towers' case, the humour is gleaned from Basil Faulty's inability to let go of -what he believes is his always-serious,
always-unflappable responsibility of a global-accepting hotel-owner. The failure to understand other cultures isn't from a self-righteous
belief that his way is the correct one, it's from not self-educating himself on ways that are different from his own and his fear of this
ignorance being exposed.

Oh, and they're actors playing make-believe for money. So don't fret it.