The ending, do you like it?

I think the waldorf salad one would have been a much better final episode. In fact the first time I saw it I just assumed it was. I was disappointed when I found out the health inspector one was the real final episode.

Basile's suicide would make a perfect ending to me - after all he was a nervous wreck.

I don't see it as an "ending" of sorts. Though the episodes were obviously made in order, and broadcast in order, there's really not much happening between the episodes to put them in a special order. There's some differences between the two series, and there's some differences in cast and set, but really not that much. You could see the episodes completely at random, and the series would work perfectly any which way. Above all, the final episode isn't made as a series finale, they didn't plan to go out on a high note, nothing in the execution reveals it was the last of the lot. Before I actually knew which one was the last, I always thought "The Germans" was the finale, with Basils mental breakdown and all. To me, a fitting ending. "However did they won the war?"

I loved the ending and I thought the episodes weren't held by a common storyline, each looked independent situation comedy episode, never really looked at the characters of the show as real life developing ones, except Manuel's ability to speak and understand English and Basil's ability to handle him.

I spent the last half of the final episode weeping on the inside that it's ending, the show really used to lighten me up.

They were going to make more episodes but stopped as JC was becoming his character and i think all the cast were slightly going mad but especially Cleese.

In saying that the Rat episode was fantastic and much funnier than the kipper and corpse and much much better than anniversary.

I love the ending episode and don't care personally that it does'nt tie it all up

Waldorf Salad was the perfect ending.

- Basil finally meets a guest who argues back forcefully and trumps him.

- finally all the other guests speak up and denounce the way the hotel is run.

- Basil decides to finally quit and leave.


I made a separate thread about how this was the perfect final episode but as usual it was ignored.

Finding a rat in a hotel was enough reason to close it in the 70s and later. English were terrified of plague that was brought on by rats few hundred years earlier. I think this was perfect ending implicitly implying that the hotel was closed after the inspector found the rat.

I think the very last line of the show was "I think it's going to rain". That's perfect, at least.



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