Fawlty Towers (TV Series)

Waldorf Salad (1979)

Prunella Scales: Sybil Fawlty

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• Mrs. Hamilton : How long have you been married, Mrs. Fawlty?

  Sybil Fawlty : Oh, since 1485.

• Basil Fawlty : Walnuts! That's a laugh! Easier to find a packet of sliced hippopotamus in suitcase sauce than a walnut in this bloody kitchen!

  Sybil Fawlty : Now, we've got apples...

  Basil Fawlty : [hysterical]  Oh! Terrific! We'll celebrate! We'll have an apple party! Everyone cores his own apple and stuffs them down somebody's throat!

• Basil Fawlty : Well, goodbye, dear. It's been an interesting fifteen years, but all good things must come to an end. I hope you enjoy your new work here: helping to run a hotel. Goodbye, Major. Goodbye, ladies. Give my regards to Polly and Manuel. Bye, dear.

  Sybil Fawlty : You've forgotten your keys, Basil.

  Basil Fawlty : Sorry. Force of habit, I guess. Well, goodbye to the rest of you. I hope you enjoy your stay here. Don't forget: any complaints, just call my wife. Any hour of the day or night, just shout. Bye!

• Basil Fawlty : Hello dear, I'm back.

  Sybil Fawlty : What do you want, Basil?

  Basil Fawlty : A room, please, um, number 12 is free, I think. Now, I'd like breakfast in bed at half-past ten in the morning, please. That's eggs, bacon, sausage, and tomato with a Waldorf salad, all washed down with lashings of hot screwdriver.

• Mr. Hamilton : What the hell is that?

  Basil Fawlty : Uh, vodka and orange juice.

  Mr. Hamilton : Orange juice?

  Mrs. Hamilton : I'm afraid it's not fresh.

  Basil Fawlty : Isn't it?

  Mrs. Hamilton : No.

  Basil Fawlty : We've just opened the bottle.

  Mr. Hamilton : Look. Fresh means it comes out of an orange, not out of a bottle.

  Basil Fawlty : Ah, you'd like freshly squeezed orange juice.

  Mr. Hamilton : As opposed to freshly unscrewed orange juice, yes.

  Basil Fawlty : Leave it to me. I mean, I'll get chef onto it straightaway.

  Sybil Fawlty : Sorry about that. A lot of English people are used to the flavor of the bottle.

• Sybil Fawlty : Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton were telling me about California. You can swim in the morning, and then in the afternoon, you can drive up into the mountains and ski.

  Basil Fawlty : Must be rather tiring.

• Basil Fawlty : What is a Waldorf, anyway? A walnut that's gone off?

  Sybil Fawlty : It's the hotel, Basil. The Waldorf Hotel in New York.

• Sybil Fawlty : Who needs Harold Robbins when you got the real thing?

• Mr. Hamilton : I like England and the English people, but I sure couldn't take this climate.

  Mrs. Hamilton : Harry finds it too gloomy.

  Basil Fawlty : Oh, I don't find it too gloomy. Do you, Sybil?

  Sybil Fawlty : Yes, I do, Basil.

  Basil Fawlty : My wife finds it too gloomy. I find it rather bracing.

  Sybil Fawlty : What do you find bracing, Basil? The damp, the drizzle, the fog?

  Basil Fawlty : Well, it's not always like this, dear. It changes.

  Sybil Fawlty : My husband's like the climate. He changes. This morning he went on for two hours about the bloody weather.