Probably the most well-known episode of a 1970s sitcom, making enjoyable of a British resort coping with German vacationers, has been yanked from a BBC-run streaming service amid a censorship spree towards something that could possibly be deemed “racist.”
“The Germans” was one of many simply twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers, a comedy starring John Cleese (of ‘Monty Python’ fame) as Basil Fawlty, the hapless proprietor of a struggling resort in Devon, that featured the memorable punchline, “Don’t point out the struggle!”
British media reported on Thursday that it has been pulled from the BBC’s streaming service UKTV.
No official cause was given. The episode, which first aired in 1975, contains scenes by which Cleese’s character shows bigotry towards a black physician, and a daily visitor on the resort utilizing “very sturdy racist language” about cricketers, in accordance with the Guardian. The latter scene has been censored by many broadcasters, though not by Netflix. The remaining eleven episodes stay obtainable.
And now they've come for Fawlty Towers. Is everybody nonetheless positive that they know the place the brakes are on this factor? https://t.co/8qcxS5w4lN
— Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) June 11, 2020
‘Fawlty Towers’ thus joins the checklist of different British exhibits pulled in current weeks over “racism” issues – which unfold to the UK after violent protests throughout the US over the demise of George Floyd, an African-American Minnesotan killed by Minneapolis police.
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