Fawlty Towers, Sybil drove him to it! by Haze

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Fawlty Towers, Sybil drove him to it!

POSTED BY: HAZE
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 03:45
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:35 AM

I was watching Fawlty Towers the other night and something clicked in me. An understanding that had been waiting to resolve itself for many years now. Any idea not new but for a long time hidden within the haze (that is not a pun on my name) . “Sybil drove him to it!” Suddenly Basil Fawlty fell into sharp focus, suddenly his character made perfect sense. This sad defeated little man who for years had been bullied and emasculated by this woman beaten down by her again and again until all he had left was his small impatient acts of rebellion, meaningless and manic, violent and desperate and all to easily defeated by one sharp shriek of “Basil!” from his tormentors lips.

She is aloud a social life he is not. She is aloud friends he is not. Sybil drove him mad!

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Who do you suppose is in there?

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:48 AM

MSG

yup- every time I watch faulty towers I want to take an ax to that nasty harridan. She is evil incarnate!

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:28 AM

SIXSHOOTER

DON'T MENTION THE WAR!!!

Sorry, someone had to, and it may as well have been me.

Basil is one thing, but what gets me is poor Manuel, on his birthday trying to thank Basil for giving him a job.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:45 AM

BRITCHICK

You put BASIL in the ratatouille?!?!?!

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