@jimb: The episode of Fawlty Towers that contains this scene was one of the most popular of the series in Germany when it was first shown there in 1993:
To quote John Cleese: "Everybody thinks that was a joke about the Germans but they missed it. It was a joke about British attitudes to the war and the fact that some people were still hanging on to that rubbish".
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You people should know better.
To quote John Cleese: "Everybody thinks that was a joke about the Germans but they missed it. It was a joke about British attitudes to the war and the fact that some people were still hanging on to that rubbish".
I wanted to add this to my post (above), but couldn't because of later activity:
"It was a joke about British attitudes to the war and the fact that some people were still hanging on to that rubbish".
That was over forty years ago. It seems that nothing has changed.
Try this one then, which is apt for the title of this thread -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHiJkLmclkA
https://youtu.be/SrcOcKYQX3c
In 1798, Beethoven was composing; but by 1893, he was decomposing.
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