Fawlty Towers (TV Series)

The Germans (1975)

Prunella Scales: Sybil Fawlty

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• [Basil in hospital, having suffered a concussion, regain consciousness] 

  Basil Fawlty : [to nurse, a little groggily]  My God, you're ugly, aren't you?

  Sybil Fawlty : Basil?

  Sister : I'll... I'll get the doctor.

  Basil Fawlty : You need a plastic surgeon, dear, not a doctor.

• [Sybil asks Basil to get her blue bed-jacket from the drawers. He picks up a pink top] 

  Basil Fawlty : This one?

  Sybil Fawlty : That's not blue.

  Basil Fawlty : Well, it's got blue things on it.

  Sybil Fawlty : They're flowers, and I didn't ask for the one with the flowers, did I?

  Basil Fawlty : No, you didn't, quite right. No, I only picked that one up to annoy you, actually.

• Sybil Fawlty : And DO try and find time to get the moose's head up.

  Basil Fawlty : Ohh...

  Sybil Fawlty : It's been sitting there for two weeks, Basil.

  Basil Fawlty : Yes, yes, yes.

  Sybil Fawlty : I don't know why you bought it.

  Basil Fawlty : It will lend the lobby a certain ambiance, Sybil. It has a touch of style about it.

  Sybil Fawlty : It's got a touch of mange about it.

  Basil Fawlty : That is not so.

  Sybil Fawlty : It's got things living in it, Basil. It's nasty.

  Basil Fawlty : It is not nasty. It is superb.

  Sybil Fawlty : I'm not going to argue with you, Basil, just get it up out of the way. I don't want to snag any more cardis on it.

• Sybil Fawlty : I am actually about to undergo an operation, Basil.

  Basil Fawlty : Oh, yes. How is the old toenail? Still growing in, hmm? Still burrowing its way down to the bone? Still macheteing its way through the nerve, aye? Nasty old nail!

  Sybil Fawlty : It's still hurting, if that's what you mean.

  Basil Fawlty : Well, it'll be out in the morning. Poor little devil. I wonder if they'd mount it for me, just for old time's sake.

  Sybil Fawlty : I'm sure it's worth asking. You could hang it on the wall next to the moose. They'd go rather well together.