"large family in Spain, mentioning in ""The Wedding Party"" that he has five brothers and four sisters. During the episode ""Basil the Rat"", Manuel acquires a common rat while under the impression that it is a Siberian hamster, and names it Basil, after his boss. He becomes very emotionally attached to the rat, and even threatens to leave Fawlty Towers altogether if Basil and Sybil dispose of it, to which Basil immediately responds, ""Well, goodbye."" The episode also highlights the fact that Manuel is rather dim even without the language barrier, as he lets the rat out of its cage"
"Manuel (Fawlty Towers) Manuel is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"", played by Andrew Sachs. He reappeared for a small sketch with John Cleese in ""We Are Most Amused"" in November 2008. Manuel himself appeared on the audio adaptations of ""Fawlty Towers"" as a linking narrator, explaining things from his point of view, when the series was released in audio format. The first two episodes released did not feature him at all, as the dialogue was edited and a short burst of piano music would indicate a change of scene. However, when the whole series was re-released,"
"character to allow the girl the chance to make this wish come true. Manuel (Fawlty Towers) Manuel is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"", played by Andrew Sachs. He reappeared for a small sketch with John Cleese in ""We Are Most Amused"" in November 2008. Manuel himself appeared on the audio adaptations of ""Fawlty Towers"" as a linking narrator, explaining things from his point of view, when the series was released in audio format. The first two episodes released did not feature him at all, as the dialogue was edited and a short burst of piano music"
"a rat (the latter being Gottfredson's own interpretation), but his ears suggest that he is rather an anthropomorphic canine. He first appeared in the comic strip adventure ""Mickey Mouse in Death Valley"", the first real Mickey Mouse continuity, which was partially written by Walt Disney and drawn by Win Smith and other artists, before being taken over by Floyd Gottfredson (plot and art). In this story, Sylvester Shyster was a crooked lawyer who attempted, with the help of his henchman Pete, to deprive Minnie Mouse of her inheritance. Shyster and Pete have been causing trouble for Mickey and his friends"
"version also gives his nationality as Mexican. In scenes in which Manuel appears there are several references to Spain, and to General Franco, who was still alive when the show was broadcast. In ""The Builders"" when Bennion the delivery man says ""No no, where's the real boss?... The... the ""generalissimo""."" Manuel looks at him daftly: ""In Madrid!"" Since the Catalan version was broadcast in 1986, eleven years after Francisco Franco's death, the dubbing of Manuel says ""Dead!"" In ""Basil the Rat"" Basil says to Manuel, ""You have rats in Spain, don't you — or did Franco have them all shot?"""
"as ""my little nest of vipers"". Basil takes many of his frustrations out on the hapless waiter Manuel, physically abusing and bullying him in a variety of ways. The relationship between Basil Fawlty and Manuel has been the subject of academic discourse. On occasions he also assaults others, such as strangling a guest in ""The Hotel Inspectors"", kneeing Major Gowen in ""Basil the Rat"", ""accidentally"" elbowing a young boy in the head in ""Gourmet Night"" and, in the same episode, famously beating his ""vicious bastard"" of a car with a tree branch when it breaks down. Another eccentricity affecting Basil"
"a box. Polly takes their order, and of course, they ask for veal. When Basil explains that the veal is off, only for them to see Sybil serve Carnegie his veal (which Basil claims is ""veal substitute""), the couple decide to dine elsewhere, but Polly informs Basil that the rat is in Quentina's handbag. She catches him trying to fish it out, and he is only saved from a ""bunch of fives"" from an indignant Ronald after Polly says that there has been a bomb scare. Unfortunately, the rat bites Basil and escapes into the dining room. Manuel catches and"
"they were creating. Later, when Sachs's clothes were treated to give off smoke after he escapes the burning kitchen in ""The Germans"", the corrosive chemicals ate through them and gave Sachs severe burns. Manuel's exaggerated Spanish accent is part of the humour of the show. In fact, Sachs's original language was German; he emigrated to Britain as a child. The character's nationality was switched to Italian (and the name to Paolo) for the Spanish dub of the show, while in Catalonia and France, Manuel is a Mexican. The first episode of ""Fawlty Towers"" was recorded as a pilot on 24"
"Joel was always with his mule (Becky), and Rufus carried his cat (Kitty) under his arm. A Doberman Pinscher (Kleine) and a Great Dane (Sieg) comically shared Slim and Clovia's already too-small apartment. One memorable story introduced a baby donkey with a forked tail, which the neighbors accuse of being a demon. While the ""Los Angeles Times"" speculated that the use of animal characters may be due to his Disney experience, Moores did not market as Disney did, though Frank King licensed a Clovia doll and held a contest to name Clovia. Moores said that Walt Wallet was his alter"
"Chloe with Sam (Manolo Cardona) and Papi (George Lopez), landscaper and dog before Aunt Viv gets home. When Delgado was talking to his friend from when he was in the Mexican Police, Chloe encounters a pack rat named Manuel (Cheech Marin) trying to steal her diamond collar. She is tricked into giving it to him, which was going to be used to get her home. When Delgado and Chloe was smuggled by a Coyote in a train, Delgado created a diversion to so that Chloe would not get caught by the train crew. After jumping off the train, they walked"
"Manuel does wrong is ""he's from Barcelona"", an excuse that Sybil and even Manuel himself once resorted to. Manuel is good friends with Polly, who can communicate best with him (Basil claims to have learnt ""classical Spanish"", whereas Polly speaks the actual language) and often uses him as a model for her sketches. Basil also suggests she take him to the local ice rink in ""Basil the Rat"". He is known for his passionate patriotism, amplified in ""The Anniversary"" when he tries to make Terry the chef let him cook a seafood paella to his mother's recipe. Manuel has a"
"has seen, and not altogether certain that he did see it. Sybil ends the series with the line ""I'm afraid it's started to rain again,"" in an attempt to distract Carnegie as Manuel drags Basil, who has fainted off-screen, out of the dining room. With: In 1994, ""Basil The Rat"" was one of two ""Fawlty Towers"" episodes that were adapted for the stage and performed at the Theatre Geo in Hollywood. The other was ""The Kipper and the Corpse"". Basil the Rat ""Basil the Rat"" is the sixth and final episode of the second series of the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty"
"from the Major, who had tried to shoot it, and decides to join in the hunt after a confrontation (""We can deal with the sackings later""). During the search, Basil applies rat poison to a veal fillet and puts it on the floor in the kitchen. Just as Carnegie arrives, the Major sees the rat and shoots at it. Basil silences him (by jabbing him in the groin with the butt of the gun) and persuades him to say his target was a starling. Manuel, while asking about his rat, whose name is ""Basil"", is informed that the chef puts"
"are taunted by Speedy Gonzales. After Manuel fails to catch Speedy, Jose informs Manuel that Speedy is ""the fastest mouse in all Mexico"" and that they will have to use their brains, not their feet, to catch him. The pair set off for Speedy's home in Guadalajara where they again fail to capture him. During their struggles, Manuel gets hit on the head by Jose with a guitar, Jose hooks Speedy with a fishing line and gets towed to Los Angeles, Manuel gets blown up by dynamite, and both cats get blown up in a minefield they constructed. Jose and"
"I was here!"" On Thursday 16 October 2008, Sachs, who famously portrayed Manuel in television comedy ""Fawlty Towers"", was scheduled to be a phone-in guest on Brand's evening radio show. The show was to be pre-recorded due to Brand's work commitments. After being unable to reach Sachs on his home telephone, Brand and his co-host of the week, fellow Radio 2 DJ Jonathan Ross, left Sachs four voice messages. In the first message, Brand joked about ""Fawlty Towers"" and the fact that both he and Sachs had appeared in ""The Bill"", but was interrupted by Ross shouting out ""he fucked"
"""while learning two Oriental languages."" Like Manuel, she has a room of her own at the hotel. Manuel, a waiter played by Andrew Sachs, is a well-meaning but disorganised and confused Spaniard from Barcelona with a poor grasp of the English language and customs. He is verbally and physically abused by his boss. When told what to do, he often responds, ""¿Qué?"" (""What?""). Manuel's character is used to demonstrate Basil's instinctive lack of sensitivity and tolerance. Every episode involves Basil becoming enraged at Manuel's confusion at his boss's bizarre demands and even basic requests. Manuel is afraid of Fawlty's quick"
"for some exercise (which leads to the rat ending up loose in the hotel), manages to spell ""Spleep"" from S-L-E-E-P, and pronounces cholesterol as ""costellorol"", even though the two words are identical in English and Spanish (colesterol). Sachs claimed that he only had a few weeks to learn the difficult and complex accent that Manuel is so famous for (in fact, having lived in Germany until he was eight, Sachs initially suggested playing a German waiter), but loved his experiences on the show and still had Manuel's attire. Sachs suffered two serious injuries during ""Fawlty Towers"". In ""The Wedding Party"","
"rat smell, find a hole. Willy slithers in, retrieving Simon the rat, Freddy's longstanding foe. Shortly after they hold Simon captive, Garble announces that one of his Martians is missing. Garble reveals that he purchased the Grimsby property next to the Bean farm, and is demanding Uncle Ben Bean remove his space ship (built in ""Freddy and the Space Ship""). Freddy deduces that Garble's false Martians are actually rats and threatens to reveal Garble's hoax unless the space ship is allowed to remain. Besides, they cannot expose the fake Martians without embarrassing the circus. However Freddy's philosophy is ""When everything"
"resort to using a piece the cat chewed, as it is not demonstrating signs of poisoning. Moments later, Basil retrieves it after he walks out the back and sees the cat choking, only to discover that the cat was, by extremely remarkable coincidence, throwing up a fur ball when Basil had seen it. Meanwhile, Manuel spots the rat at the table of an engaged young couple named Quentina and Ronald, and struggles to take their order. Basil is called over to explain Manuel's shock, and informs him that there is a bread roll under the table, ordering Manuel to get"
"holds at least ""some"" loyalty to Manuel. Sybil also appears to hold Manuel in low esteem, dryly remarking, ""It'd be quicker to train a monkey."" When told by either Basil, Sybil or Polly what to do, he frequently answers """"Sí"""" (""Yes""), or """"¿Qué?"""" (""What?"") or """"¿Cómo?"""" (a more polite way of ""What?""), which once led to a particularly harebrained guest (Mrs. Richards) believing Basil's name to be ""C. K. Watt"". By the time of the second series, Manuel's English is shown to have improved, while still limited. Basil hired Manuel because he was very cheap labour. Basil's excuse for everything"
"referred to as a monkey. There have been many famous pet monkeys with Tarzan's Cheetah arguably the first famous pet ""monkey"" although they continued to live in the jungle. Nkima was the original Cheetah-like character in Edgar Rice Burroughs' ""Tarzan"" novels, and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly comics. Tarzan and Cheetah have been repeated across all major popular culture mediums including books, films, television, games and comics. Katie, a white-headed capuchin, played Marcel in the popular U.S. series ""Friends"" and also Los Angeles Angels' mascot ""Rally Monkey."" Finster played Harvey Keitel's pet thief, Dodger in the"
"The Swedish pop group ""I'm from Barcelona"" chose its name in reference to this character. The movie-mocking television program ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"" has referred to Manuel on several occasions. When a character on screen speaks with a Spanish accent, the riffers would often respond with ""I'm so sorry, he's from Barcelona"". Sachs also appeared in a few adverts on British TV in the Manuel persona. Sachs made a cameo appearance in ""We Are Most Amused"", as an aged Manuel. A young girl once wrote into ""Jim'll Fix It"", wanting to teach Manuel how to speak English. Sachs appeared in"
"roommate and fellow circle member, Alex, who has been helping Faulkner impress a girl, Tess, with some love letters, assures his fellow circle members that Faulkner is not the rat. However, one of the circle members is convinced that Faulker is the rat, and when Faulkner is found in the river and dies soon afterwards, Alex is convinced that he was murdered by someone in the circle. His suspicions are rejected by the administration, until the police get involved, and one circle member, Jetson Harlow, is arrested, but later released. When the circle learns that Smitty was the rat, they"
"a ""sweet, sweet man"". Andrew Sachs Andreas Siegfried ""Andrew"" Sachs (7 April 1930 – 23 November 2016) was a British actor. Born in Berlin, Germany, he and his family emigrated to London in 1938, to escape persecution under the Nazis. He made his name on British television and rose to fame in the 1970s for his portrayals of the comical Spanish waiter Manuel in ""Fawlty Towers"". He went on to have a long career in acting and voice-over work for television, film and radio. In his later years, he continued to have success with roles in films such as ""Quartet"","
"in getting the ""Martians"" to agree that Mars is nearer the sun than the Earth, he realizes they must be fakes. However, as the reputation of Boom's circus would be at risk, Freddy does not tell the owner what they discovered. Willy, the circus boa constrictor, is sleeping over at Freddy's. They are awoken by the chickens Charles and Henrietta, who accuse the snake of abducting their chicks. This sends Freddy into detective mode. In confirming that the revolving chicken house door cannot be entered by the large snake, he is stuck, squeals loudly, and rouses the barnyard. Dogs, tracking"
"pill bottle. His dog Max then approaches Ryan with a rat in his mouth, which Max got from the house's basement. Ryan finds that the basement is covered in rat carcasses, which appears to have come from a glowing crawlspace in the wall that suddenly spews blood and skeletons, which try to grab Ryan. Terrified, Ryan calls out that none of this is real and that this is just another hallucination. His wife Jess opens the door and finds him, as she'd decided to come home because she didn't like the idea of Ryan being alone. Ryan replies that Max"
"traps by which he usually ends up getting foiled. The stork, meanwhile, returns (still drunk) under orders to deliver the mouse to its real parents by fishing it out with a piece of cheese. Sylvester, believing it to be another cat, stops the mouse and is pulled up instead (""Boy [hic!], did that mouse grow!""). A later scene reveals a married mice couple walking a disgruntled Sylvester (dressed as a baby) with the wife telling her husband, ""Well, nothing like that ever happened on ""my"" side of the family."", before he looks at the audience in bewilderment as the cartoon"
"who attacked animals. After he left, the Woods' reputation worsened. Not for the first or last time, Freddy and Theodore find it is easier to be brave when not in the Woods. When startled, they flee outside, only to meet their enemy Simon the Rat, who has seen their flight. He warns about a mysterious, killer ""Ignormus"". Simon’s return prompts a general meeting of the F.A.R. (First Animal Republic), a group once organized to tend the farm while the Beans vacationed. Many do not believe that Freddy was in the Big Woods, including Charles the rooster. Freddy dares Charles to"
"chimpanzee that can read emotions, with Donatello defeating him in a fight by utilizing Splinter's earlier lessons about how to avoid thinking in a fight. In ""I, Monster,"" Falco went into hiding to continue his research in a rat-infested lab before he is subjected to an explosion caused when one of the rats gnawed through an electrical wire that fell into the neurochemical. While explosion left Falco blind and horribly disfigured, it gave him the means to telepathically control rats and see through their eyes. Now gaunt and corpse-like, Falco dubbed himself The Rat King and tried to use his"
"is chasing a rat that is referred to as a mouse. He catches it and walks straight into the alligator habitat. Later in a dream Ace sees a panda, Ting Tang, being captured. Soon his mother is blamed for the theft. She asks if she can make one phone call. She calls Rex Ventura, Ace's paternal grandfather, but not before a hilarious scene in which Ace Sr. exits from a Rhino. Rex tells Ace (Jr.) the history of the Ventura Family and their relationship with animals. Rex Ventura is an elderly man with several animals such as a cat, a"
"years older, she tried (but failed) to convince Ritchie to join her in a sham marriage so she could get a work permit. John Lydon nicknamed Ritchie ""Sid Vicious"" after Lydon's pet hamster Sid (which was named after Syd Barrett), who had bitten Ritchie, eliciting Ritchie's response: ""Sid is really vicious!"" The animal was described by Lydon as ""the softest, furriest, weediest thing on earth."" At the time, Ritchie was squatting with Lydon, John Joseph Wardle (Jah Wobble), and John Grey, and the four were familiarly known as ""the Four Johns"". According to Lydon, he and Vicious would often busk"
"anthology of humorous science fiction, ""Amityville House of Pancakes Vol 3"" (). Wolf owns an extensive collection of carousel horses. Because of this, Wolf was featured on the cover of the September 4, 1976 issue of Peninsula Living Magazine; the magazine issue itself also showcased his collection. Wolf currently resides with his wife of nearly 50 years, Bonnie, and their cats, in Boston, Massachusetts. Wolf is best known for a series of comedic mystery novels featuring the now famous Roger Rabbit, a cartoon character who inhabits an alternate universe where so-called ""toons"" (an abbreviation for the word ""cartoons"") and humans"
"the frustrated doorman to finally head back to the lobby and make an announcement over the intercom evicting all pets. Unfortunately for him, a veritable zoo calls the hotel home, and comes stampeding over him. Getting up, the doorman dizzily says Tweety's catch phrase: ""I tawt I taw a putty tat!"" Tweety, popping out of hiding, delivers the final punchline by replying, ""You did! You did! You taw a putty tat, a moo-moo tow, a big dowiwwa, a diddy-up hortey, and a wittle monkey!"" (A busker's monkey was the last animal to run over the doorman) Room and Bird Room"