No faults here.

I told a friend about epinions, and that friend came and read through what I had written. She now asks me why I don't write epinions on some of the really great stuff. Well, first of all, I didn't know what she meant, but not to be caught off guard, I said "I'll get around to everything eventually."

She didn't like that answer. She said, "Come on do Fawlty Towers, and Monty Python, and Red Dwarf, and The Hobbit, and..." and on and on. What can I say, she knows me pretty well. Still, I wasn't going to take that sort of thing so I said, "Oh those all have tons of reviews." Without missing a beat, she throws right back at me, Fawlty Towers has none. None. Not one epinion. That was approximately two minutes ago. Here I am.

How does Fawlty Towers not have a single epinion? Well, perhaps everyone else is just like me and assumed there must be plenty. We'll pretend that's it.

How do you begin to review it though? Maybe that's the problem.

Well, the story is that John Cleese is Basil Fawlty, owner of Fawlty Towers. Fawlty Towers is a small hotel in England, a very small hotel. I think there are about seven rooms. They serve meals, and have a little bar, and they have a few permanent residents. It's all quite cozy.

Along with Basil Fawlty, there is his really annoying and pushy wife, the maid (who is played by John Cleese's wife), and Manuel, the bellhopish character who is recently from Barcelona and doesn't speak much English, but is fascinatingly adept at saying 'Que?'

Basil Fawlty is your basic everyman character who gets himself into the worst predicaments. Unfortunately, most of the time he need only have listened to his wife. But, he'll have none of that. He has his own way of doing things.

Throughout the series, Basil runs into such problems as -- a less than perfect contractor who mixes up which doors he is supposed to close off and which ones he is supposed to put through, a nasty bump on the head which throws him into a bit of a fit, a visit by the health inspector while Manuel's pet rat is running loose in the hotel.

Basil is always about four steps behind everything, and very near the end of each episode he turns to a dead sprint to try and catch up. His wife is only around for him to hate and to nag him. Polly (that's the maid) is really the only person who knows what's what, and she is constantly trying to help Basil, but she doesn't get far.

The comedy is very British, and if you aren't familiar with British comedy this is probably your best introduction because if you don't like this there are a lot of things you can cross right off your list. If you like anything that is British comedy you are going to love Fawlty Towers.

It's almost reminiscent of the Honeymooners, with Basil Fawlty being Ralph Kramden, the stooge who falls for everything and does everything wrong. That's the basic way the hotel runs here.