"Ees not a rat. Ees a hamster, Mr.Fawlty".

"He can't help it - he comes from Bar-ce-lona...!"

I'm with you too duncster - Farty Towels is the reduction of comic script writing to close to perfection, for me! Where would family life be without the convenient shorthand of "I'm fixing the sodding MOOSE HEAD darling...!"?