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Five of Andrew Sachs’s funniest Fawlty Towers one-liners

Take a look at some of Manuel’s funniest quotes across the hit show’s two series.
Take a look at some of Manuel’s funniest quotes across the hit show’s two series.

Most famous for his role as the bungling Spanish waiter Manuel in the hugely popular TV series Fawlty Towers, Andrew Sachs produced some of the show’s best one-liners.

The actor was buried on Thursday after battling vascular dementia for four years. The German-born performer died aged 86 at a care home on November 23.

Widely remembered as simply uttering the Spanish word for what – que – Andrew’s character also had some of the show’s funniest quotes.

Here we look at five of Manuel’s greatest lines across the programme’s two series.

1. “Uno, dos, tres” – A Touch Of Class, series one, episode one

Andrew Sachs as Manuel
(Barry Batchelor/PA)

Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) orders Manuel around the restaurant but the waiter mistakes his instructions as an attempt to speak Spanish.

Basil: “There’s too much butter on those trays.”

Manuel: “No, no, not ‘on those trays’ – uno, dos, tres.”

2. “Si, que, what” – Communication Problems, series two, episode one

Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers (BBC)

Hotel guest Mrs Richards talking to Manuel about her room booking.

Mrs Richards: “I’ve booked a room with a bath and a sea view.”

Manuel: “Que?”

Mrs Richards: “K?”

Manuel: “Si.”

Mrs Richards: “C?”

Manuel: “No. Que, ‘what’.”

Mrs Richards: “K. Watt?”

Manuel: “Si – Que, ‘what’.”

Mrs Richards: “CK Watt? Is he the manager?”

Manuel: “Ah! Manaher! Mr Fawlty.”

Mrs Richards: “This man is telling me the manager is a CK Watt, aged forty.”

Manuel: “No, Fawlty.”

Mrs Richards: “Faulty? Why? What’s wrong with him?”

3. “I know nothing” – Communication Problems, series two, episode one

Cleese and Sachs in Fawlty towers
(PA)

Manuel (after he loses Basil’s money by “knowing nothing”): “See, I know nothing.”

Basil: “I’m gonna sell you to a vivisectionist!”

The “I know nothing” line went on to title Sachs’s 2014 autobiography.

4. “Always you hit me!” – Basil The Rat, series two, episode six

Fawlty Towers
(Taylor Herring/PA)

Manuel keeps a pet rat – which he mistakes for a Siberian hamster – and is caught by Basil.

Manuel: “I say to man in shop, ‘Is rat.’ He say, ‘No, no, no. Is a special kind of hamster. Is filigree Siberian hamster.’ Only one in shop. He make special price, only five pound.”

Basil: “Have you ever heard of the bubonic plague, Manuel? It was very popular here at one time. A lot of pedigreed hamsters came over on ships from Siberia.”

Sybil Fawlty: “Basil, he’s Manuel’s pet. We have a duty to it. Perhaps we could find a home for him.”

Basil: “All right, I’ll put an ad in the papers. ‘Wanted: Kind home for enormous, savage rodent. Answers to the name of Sybil’.”

Manuel: “Don’t hit me! Always you hit me!”

5. “I no want to work here any more” — The Kipper And The Corpse, series two, episode four

Basil Fawlty
(PA)

After Manuel and Basil discover a man has died in his sleep, they fear it is because he was served out-of-date kippers. They attempt to remove the body without any of the guests knowing, leading to Manuel uttering this one-liner.

Manuel: “Mr Fawlty, I no want to work here any more.”

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