An episode of Fawlty Towers famous for coining the phrase, “Don’t mention the war!” has become the latest “classic” British television programme to be taken down from a BBC-owned streaming service, as broadcasters continue to conduct a reappraisal of old British television content.
Germans are nor offended, just spotty young English students
Bertrom terrible
Bertrom nonsense
Madness. I suppose 'Allo 'Allo would be next in line. Unless it's already been silenced.
Or will they come to my house for those
Will just have to dust off the DVD
I just rewatched The Godfather - many outdated 'racial slurs' - shall we censor that too? Perhaps best err on the side of caution and remove everything pre 2020, just in case someone might be offended because they can't view artforms with a historical eye Insane fawltytowers
People used to laugh with the British. Now they just laugh at them. Sad
Ridiculous! Time to empty the libraries and bookshops and burn all of the books because there might be something in some of them that offends someone. Then all music, radio and TV shows, magazines and papers have to go, too.
Entire intent of the script ignored. Now another thing to blame on those actually fighting inequality who literally had no say in the decision. Has UKTV asked THEM if they are offended by it?
UKTV have been appointed as the viewers moral compass - God help us!!
If you can't use the 'N' word, why is it ok for a person if colour to use it, if it's so 'offensive'?
The BBC used to be the heart of Britain and indeed around the world. We all expect a higher standard that constantly challenges the morés of society. This is not the time to fall into mediocrity. Lift us out of the abyss.
Leftie Pretentious Bigots trying to erase their own History to control the World and screw over the Majority of the World's Civilised Population.
OMG ask yourselves - all normal people are 100% in support of BlackLivesMatterUK then you tell people what they can’t laugh at and in a jiffy turn into Goebbels.
Yep! I tweeted Mr J Cleese prior to this.. Just knew this episode would have to go the way of Little Britain.. Get your box sets now folks!!
What a joke. Killing classic art.
Censorship is a word that must be eradicated from history!
Why not get rid of all Dad's Army episodes and all war movies ever made that mention the Huns, the Jerry's or the Japs, the Limeys or the Yanks too?!
Absolute woke lunacy
As a vegan I can't support or tolerate people making fun of dead parrots.
That episode was meant to take the mickey out of Brits that think all Germans are Nazis. What a stupid move removing it.
Ridiculous
So..... we will all loose our humour , who or whatever we .... so,so sad for all
Well you started it invading Poland 😂🖕🏻
FFS what's next Eastenders?
So glad this is finally going off our screens for good. Please also assign Dads Army, Only Fools and Horses and George and Mildred to the past. My main gripe is it's outraged humour that repeats a standard of prejudice and sense of clubbiness thst should be binned!
No wonder TV is so poor now. Ridiculously hung up on being everyone's friend. If people do not like the show - then dont watch. That is what ratings are for. If nobody liked it or watched, then it would take itself off air.
To be honest, I'd have taken it down as it's just not funny. I'm also old enough to remember the 70s.
Fascism straight out of 1984 ! Isis tactics.
This is ridiculous now, I’m seriously beginning to feel oppressed, Stop trying to change history, I’m getting angry now, if it carries on, there could be a divide where there wasn’t one before.
I was on a cruise where there were English people living in Scotland moaning about foreigners coming into U.K. I then explained the hospitals would empty if the U.K. left the EU. They quickly departed. We were not their sort. 🤔
This is getting creepy. Stop censoring everything. It’s not progressive it’s regressive and reactionary. It’s a fucking comedy, it’s satire, the point is to make fun of the characters for being so xenophobic, if you’re not mature enough to get that don’t watch it. It’s a classic.
I'm half German, my Nan was german... she loved faulty towers and loved that episode. It's sad that they are removing classics
Why would anyone care if Fawlty Towers gets cancelled for good? This is 2020 we have the Mash Report! TitaniaMcGrath
Pathetic
Haha, have you seen the consequences of your stupidity? Sales of Fawlty Towers has gone through the roof. 😁
And no mention of Bernard Manning 🤔
Snowflakes everywhere
This is stupid, how are we to mock a fascist or a racist without using the terms and short of a sound beating being mocked is what fascism hates the most
And it’s the fault of limp liberals like guardian readers.
This is dropped not for the war references, but due to references to the WI cricket team as N*****rs and wogs. Was edited out for BBC in 2013.
Rediculous
Oh ffs I guess fascism really did win the war, now that censorship is in effect
Goodbye normal life, hello hurmourless void 👍🏻
Shameful!
The N word is used and so has been edited out with John Cleese’ blessing. My understanding is that the episode otherwise will still be broadcast.
I am German. It is really ok for us. It is funny. Now if they remove 'the deadly joke', too, I make a personal intervention from here. This is the most funny Monty Python clip for me..starting so harmless but making you fall off the sofa in the end..
Everyone has the original dvd somewhere indoors, plus YouTube. They won’t beat us ever. PS: I’m Irish decent what about’O’Reilly’ the ‘cowboy builder’ in faulty towers get that off as well please. Ffs grow up.
I will no longer be watching UKTV
No worries. Everything is going to get back to the way was, once the vandals are checked. Free civilized people take their time to lose civility but they will not give up their freedom so easily. This is not the serf crowds of the French revolution
Oh dear that's fu**ed it for carry on films
This is nothing to do with the German jokes, rather the n*****s and w**s comment by the Major which you can watch on YouTube if you search for it. The orginal joke was to highlight the racism of the Major rather than be racist but DAMN it's not nice to watch now.
What's next? We have attacked our history rather than learning/applying the lessons to be learnt. We have stripped out allegedly racist humour (Germans are of the same European race as us). So the Tate Gallery and Tate & Lyle?They were built on the sugar beat trade & slavery
The better not check the name of one of the women Eric Idol or Terry Jones (I forget which one it was) used to dress up as in Monty Python then!
This is just socialism gone too far. I have work in Germany during which a number of colleagues said how they loved the show and episode but had to get friends in the UK to send them a copy as could not get it in Germany.
So the snowflakes are winning?how utterly sad they really are.👎
You're shitting me? This is a total distraction from Black Lives Matter. We should be discussing the structural racism in British society Instead it's becoming a debate about 70's TV shows. It's almost as if there's a deliberate attempt to make anti racism look reduculous.
The war the war the war mentioned it and it was a brilliant episode well done never laughed so much in all my life.
Embarrassing
Has the catelan govt lodged a complaint over Manuel’s treatment ? Or trump over the assault on Waldorf salads ?
Censorship gone crazy.
😂 even if true (checks history books if they’re not all burned)
What a load of rubbish, I’m going to try and watch this episode this weekend!
Pathetic left wing crap. The British Nation must rise up against this nonsense.
I watched the film The Dam Busters recently and the dog owned by Richard Todd is called the N word and that wasn’t bleeped out, just waiting for it to be banned now or edited out
That's crazy it's one of the funniest episodes on one of the funniest shows to ever come out of UK. It's a classic.
Laughing at racists is a good thing.
Leave our classics alone all this is doing is creating racists
Freedom of speech is a thing of the past.
Simply insane ! So this is how UKTV thinks it's solving centuries-old racial issues.
My kids will never experience real comedy again R.I.P laughing
I haven't seen a single person (anywhere on the political spectrum) actually ask for this... Though I do find it funny how many people think its to do with Basils treatment of the Germans and not the Majors racist comments...
Complete madness !
One of the funniest ones!😞☹️😡
How predictable
Waiting for the knock on the door as 'they' come to confiscate our 'Fawlty Towers' DVD box-set........🙄🤭🤭🤭
How pathetic!
Cleese's buffoonery was a piss take, not a racial slur (Germans aren't a race btw). I note that Jo Brand's offensive quip about battery acid was shrugged off as comedic licence by the left but 'The Germans' has them choking on their dandelion and burdock.
Oh damn!!
I’m watching Spartacus should I switch it off and report myself to the authorities?
‘Look who’s back’ was a well-received humorous German book and film about Hitler and present day attitudes Germany. Humour is a very effective way of challenging beliefs and attitudes and being po-faced doesn’t solve the World’s problems..
Could have done something like this.
Stupid left wing woke wan***s. The Guardian was built on racism
frolmeganlee Getting ridiculous this
When will be removed?
Probably remove the rest as offensive 2 Spanish due to Manuel. PC gone nuts. Tear down all of ancient Rome as built by slaves. Pull down the World Cup stadiums in Qatar as built by slave labour. History is history some good, some bad but it serves as a reminder to learn from
The major is a dithery old man, living in the past. That is the point of his character. It exposes the lunacy of it. It does not endorse it.
When is the guardian being closed down.
Really ... ?
What else did one expect from an old Imperialist like Major Gowen? I'm just waiting for the blue noses to take down 'Blazing Saddles', which would mean missing THE WHOLE POINT OF THE FILM.
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Let’s all watch episodes tonight fawltytowers
Utterly ridiculous.
It's Cleese you're after, nothing to do with Faulty Towers.
I cringe when I watch the scene but that's the entire point of it; the joke was very much always on Basil for being an ignorant buffoon and the intention was to laugh AT him not WITH him. This skit was 45 years ago. No-one will learn from the past if it's swept under the rug.
Life of Brian will be next, i'am afraid.
Absolute mugs
No no no. This is unacceptable.
Why? Please do not do this. I know Racism is now big news but what you are doing is crazy. We all know Fawlty Towers is full of humor. You know the expressions of JohnCleese It is not his real opinion. The world is going nuts at the moment. Why DESTROY everything!! I hate that.
Pathetic.
what?
This bloody country as gone mad.😡
The world has officially gone mad. You can’t please all of the people all of the time so let those who want to, watch and those who don’t can watch something else? Nobody forces anyone to watch or read or look at anything so why can’t individuals be left to decide on their own?
Plenty of collectible DVD’s (and copies of them) to go round then. 😂😂😂
The world’s gone mad
I never saw it as a slur on Germans (I am German). The joke is clearly on Basil here, a Brit who behaves like a lunatic, while the Germans are displayed as quite pleasant people.
And so it begins..... The narrative is changing, avoiding the deeper conversation. Now the talk is of censorship not on racism. Everyone up in arms about a TV show, deflection.
My only question is, are we not allowed to satirise racism anymore?
People are in for a shock when they come across this.
What the fuck is the world coming to?!
The worlds gone mad
If only they had done it earlier then all this unnecessary violence could have been avoided. Censorship of comedy puts the world to rights. Give me strength.
ScumMedia
Pathetic.
For...... Fucks........ SAKE... This is getting out of hand... Seriously. I’m very happy I have the whole set on CD, I shall now play it on a loop all weekend, BECAUSE I HAVE THE FREEDOM TO DO SO...
toppletheGuardian
Let's just erase all our past. Learn nothing and let history repeats itself!
Curious to know whether rap tracks will next be removed from Spotify and the ITunes store due to racial slurs?
ScumMedia
Calling it the ' don't mention the war' episode is misleading. The removal of this one episode relates to use of language. ' ni**gars' and 'w*gs'
Oh my fuck
This wasn't a slippery slope at all then.
ScumMedia
Oh this will trigger the far right!
To be honest, we’re lucky the German-run EU didn’t take it down earlier. We should just save everyone a lot of time and ban all comedy. Especially from privileged white male comedians like: rickygervais JohnCleese OwenJones84 mrjamesob ❤️
Have you Brits lost your minds?
As Basil said, “this is exactly how Nazi Germany started”!
Oddly, as a Brit living in Germany, everyone I know here loves it and can recite key phrases. Bizarre thing to do.
The whole point is that the episode was mocking racism. You cannot mock someone for being racist if they are not actually being racist. If they edit out ”nigger” it loses the context and he would be mocking a non-racist for being racist. Contextual use.
What the fuck has this country become where comedy television joking about the war and 'Ze Germans' suddenly stops being comedy and becomes offensive? We are truly fucked if we continue to pander to these snowflakes
How pathetic.
Let's all buy the box sets before they get banned!!!!
We are living an era of collective madness. Would it be thinkable that Covid-19 attacks brain cells ?
The British are gonna be crazy.
When there are more comments than likes you just know the gammons are getting sweaty 😂
Appalling , a complete piss take of bigots of that era
Not a good thing to do
That's the best one.
When they start messing with Faulty Towers 😠
‘Laughable’ most people marching & concerned about current racism have never seen Fawlty Towers
The N word and the W word, used for comedic effect. When you think of it, the character of Spanish waiter Manuel was just one long, racist trope.
Monty Python is doomed
People wake up and quick!!!
Come on - Comedy is an equal opportunity offender !
That's the end of catch-up TV. If you don't watch it today, by tomorrow someone will have complained and it will no longer be available.
always thought the joke was on basil
This is crazy.The whole point of Fawlty Towers was to show how stupidly wrong Basil was.John Cleese did this brilliantly.
This is ridiculous now, are we not allowed to have a sense of humour any more?
It's crazy that faulty towers is still being run. Is there really nothing to play that is newer than the 1970s?
Don’t agree. I’m the daughter of a Jewish refugee from Berlin in 1930’s. This episode allowed what was unvocalised to be aired and was clearly parodying that voice. It’s more dangerous to bury things producing polarisation.
Nazi Germany removed all the stuff that they disagreed with. Didn't turn out too great there...
It’s called humour ya loonies! The sketch is a wind up and anyone that is taking offence really needs to get a life!
Wtf watches TV now?! Streaming is the thing. All the DVD's out there to put them up on a site. Tossers
Get a grip.
The end of British comedy
Literally who was asking for this? Always the same pattern: whenever the left asks for any accommodation, someone comes up with a ridiculous overreaction that becomes the centre of attention, which we then get blamed for.
Appeasing is cowardice
the world is crazy
Im sorry but its getting insane now.
Why?
How about burning down all human history, which lets face it is infested with nastiness beyond evil at times, but that’s the collective human history, lets better minorities lives the now by productive policies like investing in education, health etc
The PC brigade strikes again.
Why? It don’t get it. Germans love this scene. As kids growing up in a Germany we had it on VHS and our neighbours used to come round for dinner / drinks and end up asking to watch it (again, and again).
this is ridiculous 🤦🏻♀️
But why? The whole point of this episode was to mock racism and let the viewer see for themselves how ridiculous it is. It did a great job of it too.
Dontmentionthewoke
Probably the funniest episode.
Don't mention ..., ...., ...., ..... Don't laugh Don't
It has nothing to do with the 'German' part of the episode. Watch and listen to the retired military guy use an 'n' word when talking about cricket. Not that I agree with it being removed, but be informed.
Dig up Watling Street . Built by enslaved Britons .
The most amazing thing is for me to discover that there are so many people out there who have apparently watched this cutting anti-racism comedy masterpiece, without understanding it.
Can't watch any TV for fear of being labelled, so trying to find a song to listen to. Can anyone recommend a song that's not racist, ageist, sexist, fascist, chauvinistic, anti-semitic, xenophobic, homophobic, prejudiced, bigoted, biased or intolerant so I can not offend anyone?
Fuck me, this is getting ridiculous now
The hangover shows Mike tyson punch a guy this needs to be taken off not all black men are violent!
Getting a joke this now! They will be taking Only Fools and Horses off next because Rodney and grandad thought they killed Denzel's budgie and dont wanna offend the fuckin RSPCA
So, you can’t even make a joke about Nazis now? This is getting a little bit pathetic.
Remove the Guardian. You are culpable in the slavery debate. Check your history.
Thank God I've got the full series on CD. It was funny then and it's funny how.
Laughable.
It's iconic. So very funny. Idiots really are playing in to' don't mention the war' ideology. Let's pretend we never had a war, let's pretend we are all rainbows .
Anyone want to borrow the DVD before the stormtoopers turn up...
Funnily enough, I watched all 12 episodes multiple times when I was younger and it never made me racist or prejudice to anyone... how can healing a divide come ‘dressed up’ in censorship of it?
You literally just mentioned the war. You offend me!
Gott im Himmel! As a German I feel a little bit discriminated! What else do the British now have got to make fun about ze Germans? BBC = Schweinehunde!
There were far more racist comedies that thankfully do not see the light of day, anyone remember 'Love thy Neighour'?
Jesus
We need a new strap-line for these politically correct idiots. How about 'Guardian Readers'?
What's next Eastenders? Seriously the world is losing the plot FFS
Why don't we just erase every fxxxing programme, comedy, newsclip, documentary that offends political correctness and live in a humourless, po faced fxxuckin non existence. A politically correct shitting netherworld.
Ban with its slavery roots ! BBCNews BBC buys newspapers with slave connections? guidofaekes
What is this world coming too? Has everyone gone bonkers and losing the plot its pathetic Is this what the world is coming too 🤣🤣🤣
Most people think this is total BS.
You got to be kidding!
We are losing the plot. The focus should be on eradicating racism and enabling success for all now and in the future. This and the statue business are all red herrings distracting us from the real issues
I'm half German, that was the funniest episode. 😕
Don’t mention the cotton trade as well ehhhh The guardian
But..but...surely this episode is clearly making fun of the overtly racist but trying not to appear overtly racist Basil?
Thats the last time I watch UKTV then. Hope lots of others follow suit.
Look, racism is utterly wrong in every way, but this is claptrap. If anything it highlights the absurdity and openly invites you to laugh at it. Why does this shit always go too far?
FOR AFRICAN BRITISH ANTIFA THATS WORTH A WHOLE COMEDY SERIES
Will you be apologising for the Guardian’s support of the confederacy? How did your founder make his money?
N nowtv has removed it omg this world if f'd up
Comedy has been cancelled.
The whole point of it is to poke fun AT these racist hang ups.
Will you be removing other shows like Dad’s Army? Or even worse, will you be removing documentaries on The Holocaust? You’re no better then those of May 10th 1933.
Fick dich!🤬
I'm ordering George Orwell's 1984... I need to know what to expect next, from quotes I've read he's been spot on so far. Probably re read Animal Farm just in case.
Best remove the episodes where Basil mocks Manuel for being Spanish then... that’s pretty much the entire series. World’s gone mad. 😡
Hahahah Its famously well watched in Germany!!!.
Jesus Christ, what has this all come to.... 🤦♂️
Why? Is having a sense of humour illegal now? If it’s not your cup of tea, don’t watch it.
Pathetic,BBC, who was it said it was 'full of Guardian readers'. The BBC used to be sensible, now ruled by Politically Correct extremists. Gutless fairies.
This is what happens when we whitewash history. We can't even laugh at Fascists any more.
Do you see who the real Nazi’s are now?
mancunianmedic This is madness.
The woke movement has now 'jumped the shark'. Yes, that's you people at the as well.
Why would you do this?
Really!?
I’ve never heard of anything so bloody ridiculous. This leftie nonsense has to stop!!
Funny most Germans loved it!!!
Happy guardian readers, censorship now, it's a slippery slope to state control, communism
The guardian is on borrowed time...I wonder why...
If this continues people will say enough and start pushing back , removing statues and tv programmes which were of their time is getting out of hand
Happy with this ?
This is embarrassing mind
Absolute crap behaviour going on! I will always laugh at John Cleese doing his nazi leggy walk too 😁
Ridiculous. However I have it on DVD so will watch whenever I wish.
Less than a year ago our former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was accused of being anti-semitic. Did he get sacked? Nope. Did he step down? Nope. Did he apologise? Yet comedy from 1975 which is “of the time” gets banned. Just saying...
What war? There was no war - history has been rewritten!!! There was no holocaust!! Shame on you!!!
Idiots!!!!
It’s comedy not hurtful ffs
Don't mention the Guardians racism gmb bbc BLMUK
The Guardian's dreams coming through right now. Will it be replaced by the Muslim call to prayer?
And another one...
London and the liberal LeftWaffe cultural terrorists have now morphed into Pol Pot's Cambodian regime
'I mentioned it once. I don't think I got away with it'
It will be 'Dad's Army' next. 'Them fuzzy wuzzy's don't like it up'em ya know'....Help!
And somehow That will save black lives ? Yep thats me confused !!
Discrimination against Catalonian nationalists is the real problem of this episode. The way a man from Barcelona is portrayed is like a blackface. The historical mentions are accurate, Germany started it, they invaded Poland.
Hilarious. So I guess we really can't mention the war now.
Fucking ridiculous
FrankyRN51 FFS the snowflakes have truly won !
There is such a thing as satire and if you don’t understand it, then don’t watch it. I have some German heritage, but I still see this as brilliant comedy! We should always rejoice taking the p!ss out of the Nazi’s!
ridiculous and shameful!
Comical...
Seems a bit of an overreaction to me.
God give me strength
But why ? The whole point was to show that racism and xenophobia are stupid.
It’s ok I’ve got them all on dvd
The Mail, who supported the Nazis, will be the next to be banned, hopefully.
witherjay The world is going fucking mad...
This is one bridge too far
This is getting FUCKING RIDICULOUS! Where will it end?
Absolutely bonkers!
Better ban the entire thing while you’re about it then. O’Reilly might offend the Irish, Mrs Richards might offend the deaf, Manuel is abused verbally & physically throughout - giving him ‘victim’ status - and surely portraying Sybil as a harpy is offensive to women? FUCK OFF.
There missing the point, let’s deal with real issues not spending time on removing funny stuff like this! Yes I said it ! Funny. How do we improve teaching, deprivation cycles, how do we get in that board room, how do we stop police and judicial injustices!
Hes taking the liss out of the british, like the remoaners always say about brexiteers, loving dads army and always going on about the war. The germans in it are lovely and polite, hes the tit in this sketch fml
Stuff like this has just set 'the streaming wars' back decades. Who is gonna pay for streaming services now when they are showing ANY content can be removed or modified? People are just gonna stick with DVD.
Goodbye dad's army.
Fuckin wet wipes. If it offends you don’t watch it.
This really does not help the cause of fighting racism. It just diverts attention away from the real issues and gives more ammunition to those who seek to divide by saying ‘if you’re against this, what about this?’
The humour in the scene derived from how ridiculous Basil Fawlty is. The Germans come over as sober & sensible whilst Basil comes across as a neurotic mess who can barely disguise his own small mindedness and predjuices. You’re laughing at him. Not the Germans.
save Chinese Alan 😳🙄
What next, book burnings?
First they burn books, then they burn people...
BenHowe_1999 Censorship, free speech, dismantling history, re- education, disrespect of our veterans, the marxists are winning, year zero here we come. And our politicians are doing nothing 🥺🇬🇧
Embarrassing
So when do we get to cancel Prince Phillip?
With all Doctor Who’s blatant and wanton examples of green face, I’m surprised that one hasn’t been touched yet!
Tina13uk It's comedy FFS !!
Taking down tv programmes, what a stupid act... if people find a program offensive simply don't watch it... are they going to take down Fresh Prince, Different Strokes, the Cosby's non of which have been removed for racial reasons holdthemediatoaccount
Its like everyone's pretending they don't know what satire is, because they're afraid of some outrage that clearly isn't going to happen. Worse thing about it is its giving the right, especially the closet racist a platform to work off of now. 'Ohhh everythings racist these days'
The Silly Walks Action Front is not amused by this scene....🤔
To be honest, UKTV tend to butcher or ban episodes to a ridiculous extent already. All UK television does. They regularly cut any lines that mention people of colour, blur any nudity on pin ups, and edit other stuff for unknown reasons. Hence why I got the DVDs.
'I did (mention it) but I think I got away with it!' (to quote Mr Fawlty, the maestro JohnCleese himself!)
if u want to know wt's next, u may refer to cultural revolution in China from 1960s - 1970s
“But they’re vermin, Fawlty!”
You are joking
This is all building the prequel to 'Birdbox' 🤐
So what race are the Germans if not Caucasian? Asking for a friend.
The stupid thing is the joke is about the main white make character and how ridiculous he is 🤷🏻♂️
Ive still got it, and keeping it. It was making fun of racists, not supporting them.....
Why exactly?
Books banned by white authors next.
Hahaha. Oh wait, you’re serious?
FFS
Ridiculous, even the Germans found it funny. Setting a dangerous precedent, all programmes could be censored in that case as different things offend different people (particularly these days)
And how did your founder make his money ? What did he say about Lincoln's emancipation of the slaves ? It's time you disappeared then.
My family were one of the targets of the nazi's and needed to go in hiding to escape the concentration camps...but they all found this episode hilarious (especially grandma). Almost therapeutic, bc laughing is the best medicine. And this she would have found creepy...
F*cking ridiculous 🙄
I don’t recall any black people in that😳
Fucking becoming proper nanny state. Censorship in this day and age is a joke. Boyz in the hood next👌
Context is everything. Where will this end, and who will decide? 🤔
Omg 😆
Why? The insanity needs to stop now. Why are the morons grovelling to violent rioters?
Ban UKTV
Jesus Christ!
No wonder your struggling
this is bollocks... why doesn't bbc erase their entire archive at once, maybe then it's ok and nobody is 'offended'?
Me in ten years.. My son 'dad, what happened to faulty towers'. Me 'don't mention the episode'.
Who asked for this? I haven't seen anything on Twitter or anywhere else. UKTV didn't mention public pressure. It's just a policy decision that the media are using to fan the flames. When did you last see an episode of 'Love Thy Neighbour' or It 'Ain't Half Hot Mum'?
Largely down to the far left shit your rag pumps out. You have ensured the death of comedy. Well done!
People need to take some deep breaths and think in a calm, rational manner before any more uneducated decisions are made.
🤦♀️ Nooooo
Shocking, it’s a shame that people don’t understand the comedy. Life of Brian will be next. Sad day
We're taking micro aggressions to a new level.
SteveAustinABC Don't want to upset the Nazis?
Wat ducking waldorfs are we dealing with here.
FFS Stop it please. Removing programmes is not positive action, it's erasing history. White guilt gone mad
Bloody ridiculous. Things gone too far now.
Ridiculous. 🙄
Worlds gone mad the best episode in the series and as others have said it was taking the p out of us Brits... TV's still have an off button
What next Life of Brian....or knights of the realm get upset by Excalibur
Fawlty Towers does not glorify the ideas of it's main character. It makes fun of them. THEY ARE ON YOUR SIDE BLM . Satire and comedy have always been a way to make people question their beliefs. Banning it will not help anyone. This is getting too close to censureship.
Funny that. Always thought the most racist part was the depiction of Manuel. The episode in question was satirizing Nazis rather than Germans. How could this be seen as racist?
Omfg. This madness need to stop. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
It funny how in two weeks I haven’t come across a single black persons asking to take films and tv series down. I am sure that this is NOT what they are asking. I am sure they are asking equality, justice and chance to have their routine without being bashed by the police!
The irony of this censorship being highlighted in a newspaper that opposed the emancipation proclamation and supported the confederate slave states in the American civil war is not lost on many of us.
You’d think we would have learned what appeasement brings you, ironic given the subject of the episode in question.
George Orwell 1984 '“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped.' Wake up people!!
Thought Fascists. Hypocrites. Cowards.
Ludicrous
Omg what a farce. The Left just gets more and more bizarre and extreme each day.
Oh just fuckoff.. Du bist eben doof.. I have a half German wife so and She just shook her head in dismay..
What has this got to do with BLM?
Do goodnessgraciousme next! fawltytowers
This has to be taking the piss. Somebody, probably a committee, has had a serious case of brain freeze
autistic_muse what’s next, blazing sattles? every mel brooks movie?
Silly
The National Socialists are covertly on the march and the media are helping them. Dictators and caliphates destroy and deny history. The rest of us understand the world moves on.
This Countryjust spent a whole weekend at the start of the month celebrating the fact that we “won the war” ... wasn’t any clamour to stop that or tone it down in case it offended anyone.
Why on earth this madness trend can't be reversed ? Are we letting these leftist psychos take over without any resistance ?
The best way to shine a light on the absurdity of racism (as well as sexism, extremism etc) is to take the piss out of it.
Must find out how to only subscribe to films and escape the commie BBC bloated corpse.
Absolutely ridiculous!!!
FFS!
This is getting beyond a joke
Anyone else feel like this being done to stoke up division?
Unbelievable
Don't mention the 'Don't mention the war' episode.
What the hell has this got to do with the black lives matter movement
Lefty twats
Hang on: NAZI=BAD Therefore... ?
Is there a “Don’t mention ANTIFA, we might get away with it comrades” Guardian edition and can we ban that as well?
Mobo racist we need this banned ! Racist against white artists ?!🤷🏼♂️
What's the point in that isn't the episode taking the piss out the captain for his views on judging everyone in one spectrum
That's got to be one of the best episodes and that's got to be one of the most famous quotes. Just thought, are they going to pull the 'don't tell-em Pike' episode of Dad's Army too?
Right then can you please remove the episode of The Catherine Tate Show were she takes the piss out of gingers? I had red hair when it was still there lol and I take great offence. Did I fuck. I thought it was piss funny.
The world has gone mad.
Beyond parody
I blame The Major! “I knew a woman once , took her to see India 🇮🇳.... at The Oval” ....
Wait until they find out about Till Death Us Do Part, Love Thy Neighbour and Rising Damp 😂😂😂 ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
What about the episode where the Major discusses cricket? Have they overlooked that one or has the scene been removed?
What about alo alo ?!
This is what happens. Well done snowflakes...
There must be a way to legally stop paying my licence!
And Manual the Aussi was so good at playing A portuguêse waiter.
Don't mention the war we and our allies, many BAME, fought to ensure the freedom of Europe and the rest of the world. Let's pretend it didn't happen, remove it from history, then those pesky right wingers will have to shut up about Churchill.
Stupidity beyond the level of the series itself JohnCleese don't mention the episode that doesn't mention the war, or any other war... doesn't mention anything in particular.... the war... ha!
The BBC is no longer worthy of our support. They now exist as a channel for every loonie left and pc nutter to spout their anti-British poison.
This is insane...
The BBC is so sh!t scared of offending, and since their total mishandling of Savile their first reaction is a knee jerk one. While they want to show how 'woke' they are they still don't like paying women as much as men. Their new Director General? Cambridge educated white male!
I'm offended by the PM and all his speeches does that c*nt get removed?
Too far, anyone can see that it's poking fun at the brits and not the Germans
Censorship, wiping out culture, history and culture. Guardian you should be ashamed for you filthy Left Woke BS views.
That’s simply ridiculous.
YaBoyMerl
I don't get all the offence being taken about the Germans scene, which is clear self-defeating parody. Isn't the bigger issue the Major' s reference to 'n*ggers' and 'w*gs'? fawltytowers
Is dit nou goed volgens jou blekkswekk, of niet?
It’s funny that the episode has been taken down to review the numerous racial epithets made about Indian and black people, and all the commenters here are like “German here, I’m not bothered about this.”
It isn’t the “don’t mention the war” bit, there are some overtly offensive racist comments by The Major to Fawlty in that episode!
What a sad sad woke world 🤬😡
Just...wow
This is getting ridiculous - pathetic
Thereby missing the entire point of the episode which has the Germans as victims.
Pathetically juvenile. No wonder you’re losing money. When we DefundTheBBC you won’t have any sales. Grow upFFS.
Dear God, let us save and protect 'Monty Python' heritage against the new cultural inquisition imposed on us (from outside)!
One of the best episode ever why should the majority not be able to watch this the whole series is classic All because of a few people that seem to enjoy being offended
CraigSmith0691
That is a shame. I remember at the time thinking it was a mistake for Manuel to black-face...
I have it on dvd. Watch it all the time.
Apparently Twitter will be stopping people commenting on articles they've not read. Which, judging by some of the comments on this tweet, would be useful. Anyone familiar with this episode will know it's bugger all to do with offending the Germans.
Charlot2409 Ridiculous
And please, don't mention it ain't half hot ... Or the fuzzywuzzies for that matter. Just repeats of fingermouse and bagpuss.
Those who did this should be sent to the galleys
Oh honestly. The whole point of Fawlty Towers is that Basil's crass outbursts make him the butt of the joke.
Pc gone mad
They probably removed it because they didn't actually watch the show and analyse what the episode actually said and how it said it. That's why they (briefly) removed Gone with the Wind, because they knew it had problematic content and wanted to make sure people knew the context.
I first watched this when I was 12. I knew immediately that what the major was saying was wrong and to be ridiculed not agreed with.
I’m German. This is one of my favourite comedy sketches of all time. Don’t be outraged on my behalf. Ze germans have a sense of humour 😉
Oh deary deary me what's wrong with this bastard country , it was part of British tv yes it's not 'acceptable' nowadays , but doesn't mean it has to be erased for some butt hurt LGBTQ or ethnic group to feel appeased , stop pandering to them ,
Oh ffs!!!🤬🤬🤬
It was making fun of people with those views.
That scene was edited out years ago. I think the pandemic has affected peoples' minds, it is becoming hysterical.
Fawlty Towers is the funniest comedy series ever. It was produced in the pre PC 70’s and has dated badly as a result. The whole premise of the show was we were all laughing AT Basil & the Major for their racism NOT with them.
Absolutely unbelievably stupid
Allo Allo will be next
Weak and pathetic just like the liberal lefty guardian
Who won the bloody war anyway?!
Noooo
Oh FFS!! 🤦🏻♂️
I didn't vote for these decisions. Come on Boris grow a pair and stop this madness.
Remove the ‘Guardian’
Look who's complaining: The Guardian that rewrites Israeli history at will!
F ing nonsense
The uk has finally gone utterly mad
What's all the fuss? It's only being removed from UKTV. It's a commercial station and that's their prerogative.
No doubt the complaint was from moronic Guardian reader.
Art last
The family of George Floyd will be pleased🙄 How fucked up are we becoming, what a mess
deepakmohoni Are you going recall the DVDs with the episode? Ridiculous, I am a Asian and never found Fawlty towers racist, the stereotyping was what made it funny.
The country is now vanilla flavoured - no deviation is tolerated. Stopped watching contemporary TV comedy a while back - I don't like vanilla.
Get fucked
Absolutely f*****g ridiculous.
AduduTrish the UK is getting just as crazy as the Netherlands.
It's truly disappointing to see historical moments and monuments being defaced or removed, because they don't conform to current 'societal-extremism'. Right or wrong, these factual events and moments took place in history and simply reflect the thinking of the time.
That’s it we’ve officially lost our marbles be pulling all the early only fools and horses episodes next
Given its history, shouldn't the Guardian be closed down?
Well... then you have to remove all of them. If I were Spanish, I would be extremely offended by Manuel funny accent and being treated the way he was... where do we stop?
fawltytowers has provided fun and laughter to millions. At no time was that brilliant series ever mean spirited. Movies and television can portray murder and mayhem, blood and guts on a limitless scale. But laughter? Hell no. Can’t do that. Civilization has gone off the rails.
The Guardian is next hopefully ScumMedia
JohnCleese Don't mention the war John 😞
English humour is under attack by the Marxists!! So where and when will it all stop?!
Are you all still paying your tv licences?
It’s about time people started growing the f up and stopped being so precious ffs !!
What a madness!
I disagree with this decision. The Major's character was a stereotypical relic of the 'old' British Empire and the show made fun of his closed-mindess. Basil Fawlty was being a xenophobe due to a head injury, indicating he wasn't thinking straight (mind you-he never did!).
WhosFibbing
WhosFibbing
It’s getting pathetic now, the message about black lives matter is getting lost in some people’s stupidity
WhosFibbing
I like this episode & when I used to watch it, I'd explain to my kids that the funny thing is it is satisfying his racism. That was fine, but then I remember one of them showing it to his British Asian friend & I immediately saw it through new eyes & turned it off.
Why 🤷🏽♂️, sincerely why 🤷🏽♂️ UKTV I bet that even some Germans can see that this episode of FawltyTowers is a great example of British Humor.
?!! An insult to art and all not so new generations! Do! mention UKTV's don't mention 'Don't mention the war' episode
Ridiculous nonsense. What kind of eejits are making decisions like this one?
Well I see that Amazon DVD's are going to make an absolute killing this weekend.
You've gone too far left wing fascists!!!!!
WHY?
Idiots
I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it
Okay this crosses a line....
1st, the came for Gone with the wind, and I laughed because that movie is really boring Then they came for Jonah from Tonga, and I laughed, because I can't stand ChrisLilley Then they came for Basil Fawlty, and there was nothing left to laugh at.
Oh come on. Doesn’t anyone understand parody?
Total BS
Theatre of the Absurd
Benny Hill, Scooby Doo and The Magic Roundabout next. And coffee only allowed with milk from now on.
Piss weak pandering to Fascists.
Do you think this is a good thing?
This is getting silly now, and if anything is taking attention away from the real issue
...even though it features a very competent black Doctor? BBCBreaking have completely lost the plot.
Statues, film, TV and next it will be books banned and burnt. There is a whiff of pre-war Nazi Germany in some of the sentiment around the world lately, especially in the UK.
You shit heads 🙄
It appears that in the New Order, comedy is no laughing matter. The Socialist Paradise, clearly, has no room for humour, or free speech.
I thought it was the Germans who had no sense of humour.
One of the best episodes ever
The world has gone bonkers
JohnCleese , apparently you’re a racist. Is it true you are actually 5’2” tall?
Why ffs ?
HaraldDoornbos Racist? Germans are not a race. They thought so ... but they lost.
Utterly crazy
Same reason NOBODY will ever publicly admit that word association is a real thing. If you are listening to the news and you hear the word terrorist attack what is the first religion that comes to mind? Islam, you think it, you know it, but then jump on the PC TRAIN. Racist?
Jesus I am sick to death of this PC bulshit train. Fuk the PC crowd. Fuk 2020. Racism, been around since beginning of time & won’t change even past this blip in worlds history. All that will be remembered is the world went insane and completely over the top. Be offended 🖕
That's should not be the focus now... Save black lives, not erasing the history
We’ll never be seeing “till death us do part again” which can only be a good thing!
FFS!
Wot ?
Yeah, it does stereotype. But it stereotypes everyone. Basil, Cybil, Manuel, the Germans. It's an equal opportunity stereotyper. It is, perhaps, most racist in its attitudes to the English, via Basil in particular, who have the most mickey taken. A poor decision UKTV.
putoutyourbasil
How long more, Britain?
If laughter is said to be the best medicine. Then how will we cure society’s ills?
The Guardian, founded by a slave owner who supported the south in the civil war, cancel the guardian
From the leftie wokefest , founder of the guardian was John Edward Taylor, who made his money through cotton Slaves in the US. You can’t make this up. BlackLivesMatterUK
🙈🙈🙈😢😢😢
This is nothing to do with what people want and everything to do with inciting more division and hate! I hope people understand that. Who asked for this to be removed? When was public consensus taken?
......no he doesn't.
Are they going to remove every episode with Manuel in it too? Fkg idiots
........why?
i think the OBEs - Outraged By Everything mob just jumped the shark! ridiculous. when does all this stop? we gonna ban all westerns as white actors played non-white characters? rap music for calling females derogatory terms? art for showing 17th century muses nude? fawltytowers
Stretching tragic killing of Floyd to removal of 80’s TV comedy, diminishes the entire BLM debate. It’s a very fine line between racism, taste & censorship. To ban a Fawlty Towers episode shows a lack of comprehension of farce or the satire underlining much of British humour
They seem to have taken it literally
C*nts.
Cleese’s parody of the awful conservative bigot stands the test of time. These people still exist. Many are in politics. The darkest aspect of humanity revealed in comedic genius. It makes us laugh but also squirm. Shame the censors weren’t sensitive enough to that nuance.
More of the current load of old bollix.
WTF, seriously.... the censorship is going too far.... and the nazis are winning
Shh, don’t mention the disabled, our lives matter too.
JohnCleese Sir, here you go.
Burn down Britain because it was inhumane to send convicts to literally the other side of the world
Who are making these decisions surely these decisions are the British public to decide ? I dont know anyone who would want these shows taken off air or who find then offensive
The BBC comedy slate will end up as nothing more than Hannah Gadsby and the rest of the non-funny preachy “comedians”.
Nooooooooo!
The Guardian has boosted, aided and abetted in the cancel culture. Their social Marxist hands are all over the cancellation of this classic comedy gem.
Weak as piss
Anyone else thinking we might, just possibly, have gone to far?
Best burn the book, Ulysses by James Joyce as well then. It has the N word in it.
wtf
i want it back now
Now for a good dose of irony. Monty Python is next?
Let's scrub all the controversial stuff from history shall we? All the stuff that offends anyone should go. I can't wait for them to outlaw those jeans that hang off the waste and show underwear. I demand they be banned. Now!
We certainly are victims of the snowflake generation. 🤒
Also forget the 6 million Jews murdered by the NAZi’s.
The champions of censorship - you lot are stark raving mad! This is socialism 👇
this is ridiculous
Better that way... the leftists might start figuring out that the NAZI's were.... leftist socialists.
GAGF heathro37
I guess Hogans Heroes is rooted
😂 pathetic
Still on Netflix
Ridiculous
?
Who is supposed to be offended by this? The Germans? I'm German and me and my mates laughed our heads off at this great episode. What's next? Burning books publicly. Think we had that one before 🤢
This is just ludicrous now
This is a serious question, why? I always thought the idea of that sketch was to point out incorrect behaviors that people took for granted..so what was the aim here in taking it off? Did i miss the point? Or is someone trying to make a different one? Honestly confused..
So making fun of nazis is a bad thing now 🤨
Good . Times have changed . It was cringeworthy and I don’t think many German people would find it amusing . If you wouldn’t make a show like that now , why not dump the old stuff . Work together to make a kinder world
Yeah, gotta remove that episode where the Nazi's get mocked. Ppl might remember how they burned books and destroyed culture to suit their fascist ideology, then realise they are being subjected to same tactics now. Can't have that now, can we?
Absolute bs
Calling JohnCleese ...comments?
faultytowers statues BlackLivesMattters MayorofLondon pritipatel BorisJohnson adamboultonSKY Sir Francis Drake was a hero.Let’s pull down Nelson Mandela!! He advocated violence & he is no part of British history. Let’s see how that would go down?! Mob rule indeed!!
TOR BROWSER for fawlty Towers? i didnt see that comming in 2020 . FawltyTowers torbrowser humor
Genuinely stupid
That will sort it out. I want to see those racists watching Homes Under The Hammer now
You are barking mad!
Also don’t mention the 6 million Jews murdered by the NAZI’s.
This is bollocks
Clearly no sense of irony /self parody at UKTV . THIS EPISODE ACTUALLY TOOK THE PISS OUT OF XENOPHOBES
Luckily I have them all a DVD. And that’s my favourite episode.
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