Basil {Fawlty Towers} Plebs

[Caribeing]

Basil wants a wall built to separate the Plebs from his posh cliental Will he have to resign from Fawlty Towers

[bazwillrun]

No, not unless theres a politically motivated witchhunt to make a mountain out of a molehill

[Caribeing]

Agree, Basil great advocate of free speech!

[Hymie]

When the series was made, the word pleb was in much more common use than it is today (excluding the last month or so) – so I doubt the use of the word caused any concern.

At the time, I regularly used the phrase ‘I’m just a pleb.’ – meaning one of the masses; and in the 70’s my peers would also use the term in everyday speech. Rarely was it ever used (as by Mr Mitchell) as part of an insulting rant against those of lower class.

[boxtops]

No, that was then, life has become a lot more PC since then.

[Bazile]

Dont mention the war !

[andy-hughes]

Heavens no!

There is a list a mile long of non-PC phrases and actions in FT - strip those out and there will be nothing left!!!