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The Repeat Run Of Fawlty Towers (bbc2) Drew Bigger Audiences Than Ever And Deservedly So. Statistical Surveys Reveal That Only The Television Critic Of The Spectator Is Incapable Of Seeing The Joke, Which Is That Basil Fawlty Has The Wrong Temperament To Be A Hotel Proprietor, Just As Some Other People Have The Wrong Temperament To Be Television Critics.

His Pear-shaped Head, I Could Now See, Was Situated On Top Of A Pear-shaped Body, Which His Black Gown Caused To Resemble A Piece Of Fruit Going To A Funeral.

All Television Ever Did Was Shrink The Demand For Ordinary Movies. The Demand For Extraordinary Movies Increased. If Any One Thing Is Wrong With The Movie Industry Today, It Is The Unrelenting Effort To Astonish.

In Recent Years, Perhaps Encouraged By Competition From Mcdonald's, The British Hamburger Has Become A Credit To The Nation. At The Time Of Which I Speak, It Looked Like A Scorched Beer-coaster Or A Tenderized Disc Brake.

The British Hamburger Thus Symbolised, With Savage Neatness, The Country's Failure To Provide Its Ordinary People With Food Which Did Anything More For Them Than Sustain Life.