词条 | The Germans |
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| title = The Germans | series = Fawlty Towers | image = Fawlty Towers The Germans.jpg | caption =Basil Fawlty does the silly walk, offending the German visitors | series_no = 1 | episode = 6 | airdate = {{start date|1975|10|24|df=y}} | production = | writer = John Cleese & Connie Booth | director = John Howard Davies | guests = | episode_list = List of Fawlty Towers episodes | prev = Gourmet Night | next = Communication Problems }} "The Germans" is the sixth episode of the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. It is remembered for its line "Don't mention the war" and John Cleese's goose-stepping silly walk when he is impersonating Adolf Hitler. PlotSybil is in hospital for three days for minor surgery to remove an ingrown toenail. When Basil visits her, she reminds him of all his tasks over the next few days: Running a fire drill, hanging a moose head, etc. Basil fights with the Sister caring for Sybil. When Doctor Finn tells him Sybil will be in a lot of pain after the operation, Basil is thrilled. With Sybil gone, she won't be around to annoy Basil, and he believes things will finally run smoothly for once. Back at Fawlty Towers, Basil has a confusing conversation with Major Gowen about women, a cricket game and the "proper" racial slurs for Indians and West Indians (much of this dialogue has been cut in recent airings by the BBC).[1] When the Major learns a group of German guests are coming to the hotel, he launches into an angry tirade against Germans. After the Major wanders off, Basil tries to hang the moose head, but he is interrupted by a phone call from Sybil reminding him to do just that. Basil tries to ask Manuel for a hammer, but he gives up after Manuel thinks that Basil wants a ham sandwich or wants to see his hamster, and leaves to get it himself. While he is gone, Manuel steps behind the front desk to tidy up and practise his English. The Major returns to hear a voice coming from behind the counter and thinks it is coming from the moose head. Basil returns and hangs the moose head, but it immediately falls on his head, and he trips over Manuel trying to get to the phone to talk to Sybil again. The next morning, Basil hangs the moose head again, but one of the antlers keeps drooping. There are just a few minutes remaining until the fire drill, and Sybil calls to remind Basil of the drill and say the key for the fire alarm is in the safe. Basil retrieves the key, but he trips the burglar alarm, which the guests mistake for the fire alarm (and which The Major mistakes as an indication that there are burglars in the hotel). As Basil tries to explain, the guests ask to hear both bells so they can tell the difference. Hearing the fire bell from the demonstration, Manuel and Polly think the fire bell means the drill has started, so Basil has to explain the situation to them, too. After the demonstration, Basil says the real drill will start in 30 seconds, so the guests stand about in the lobby, to Basil's annoyance. In the kitchen, moments before the drill is to start, Manuel accidentally starts a real fire. As the drill commences, the panicked Manuel tries to explain the situation to Basil, but he does not understand and locks him in the burning kitchen to keep him from scaring the guests. Basil lets the guests back in, but Manuel's frantic banging makes him open the kitchen door. Basil sees the fire and tells the guests to exit the building again. He tries to start the alarm again, but he cannot find the key. He hurts his hand trying to smash the glass and hurls the typewriter at it with no success, so he uses the phone instead. He tries to use the fire extinguisher, but he blasts himself in the face, which temporarily blinds him. Trying to help, Manuel accidentally smacks Basil in the head with a frying pan he had been using to try to smother the flames and knocks Basil out. Basil comes to in the hospital, where he is being treated for a concussion. Due to his concussion, he begins acting strangely. The confused, disoriented Basil insults the Sister and insists on going home, saying the hotel needs him as "Polly cannot cope". Sybil sarcastically refers to Basil falling over waiters, getting jammed under desks, etc., as evidence of his ability to cope. Dr. Finn arrives and puts him to bed, but after he is gone, Basil sneaks out and returns to Fawlty Towers in time to meet (and be rude to) the German guests who have arrived (and whom he promptly rakes over the proverbial coals). When two German guests want to rent a car, he mistranslates their request, Wir wollen ein Auto mieten, as their volunteering to go out to get some meat. Noticing something is wrong, Manuel fetches Polly, who encourages Basil to lie down, but Basil insists on serving the other German guests their lunch while Polly discreetly calls Dr. Finn. Despite his warning of "don't mention the war", Basil (due to his hatred for Germans being revealed by his concussion) makes constant references to Nazi Germany and the war at almost every opportunity and makes namechecks to Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Eva Braun (whom he refers to as "Eva Prawn"), Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Joachim von Ribbentrop.[2] One of the German guests starts crying, and despite the other Germans telling him to leave them alone, Basil starts telling war jokes and even does an impersonation of Hitler goose-stepping across the room, to the guests' fury. Just then, Dr. Finn arrives to sedate Basil and take him back to the hospital, but Basil makes a run for it through the hotel until he spitefully hits Manuel over the head. The moose head, however, falls from the wall again, hitting Basil on the head and knocking him out while landing on Manuel's head, leading the Major once again to think that Manuel complaining is the moose talking. The German guests watch the whole ordeal in disbelief, and one wonders aloud how the British won the war. Production
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