Fawlty Towers (TV Series)

The Kipper and the Corpse (1979)

Prunella Scales: Sybil Fawlty

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Quotes 

• Dr. Price : I don't understand. He's been dead for about ten hours.

  Basil Fawlty : Yes, it's so final, isn't it?

  Sybil Fawlty : Basil!

  Basil Fawlty : Well, wouldn't you say it was final, dear? I'd say it was pretty bloody final.

  Dr. Price : Do you mean to tell me you didn't realize this man was dead?

  Basil Fawlty : You know, people don't talk that much in the morning... Oh, look, I'm just delivering a tray, right? If the guest isn't singing "Oh What A Beautiful Morning," I don't immediately think, "Oh there's another snuffed it in the night, another name in the Fawlty Towers Book of Remembrance." I mean, this is a hotel, not the Burma Railway.

  Sybil Fawlty : Basil.

  Basil Fawlty : Well, I mean, it does actually say "Hotel" outside. You know, perhaps I should be more specific: "Hotel for people who have a better than fifty percent chance of making it through the night."

• Basil Fawlty : Are you listening to me? Hello, can... Hello, can anybody hear me? Have I ceased to exist? Have I suddenly become invisible? Sybil, Sybil, Sybil, can you see me?

  Sybil Fawlty : No.

  Basil Fawlty : Oh, good. Well, I'll go and lie down then. No, I won't; I'll go and hit some guests.

• Sybil Fawlty : [finding Mr. Leeman's corpse seated in the office chair]  Well, what'd you put him THERE for?

  Basil Fawlty : Well, he wouldn't fit in the safe and all the drawers were full.

• Basil Fawlty : [after another tirade]  What? What are you all looking at me for?

  Sybil Fawlty : [gently pulling him to the side]  Basil... there's a kipper sticking out of your jumper.

• Miss Agatha Tibbs : [after being in a cupboard with a dead body]  But anything could have happened.

  Sybil Fawlty : Well, he was dead, dear.

  Miss Agatha Tibbs : A man is a man, Mrs. Fawlty.

• Basil Fawlty : He only had to say goodnight, dear. It's not the Gettysburg Address.

  Sybil Fawlty : Basil, when you're not feeling well...

  Basil Fawlty : Just two little words, dear, that bring a little happiness into the world.