Talk:Manuel (Fawlty Towers)

message: There is no such thing as "Catalan Spanish". Catalan is an independent language.
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replies: text:  I think it's important to note that the Swedish band is unknown *everywhere*, except possibly Sweden and Wikipedia. 95.149.126.95 (talk) 15:18, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Catalan

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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The simple fact is that even educated British people would have been unaware of Catalonia in 1975. Modern Catalan nationalism had yet to emerge and if the word was known at all it was from George Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia. Barcelona was just known as a big Spanish city. Manuel is a stereotypical Spanish waiter based on British experiences in British and Spanish hotels. The British are much more aware of Spanish regional identities today, and if the scripts were being written now Manuel would come from a southern Spanish city such as Seville or Cordoba. --87.113.69.141 (talk) 15:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Manuelfawltytowers.gif

message: The article states: '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?"'
- If it's the Catalan version, why is he saying "Dead!" (rather than the Catalan word for "Dead!"?  And if he's saying the Catalan word for "Dead", how is this any different from what he says in the English version?  Furthermore, the quote about Franco having them all shot is the same as the English version - so again, what's the connection to the Catalan version?  Finally, the previous paragraph stated that in the Catalan version Manuel was Mexican, so how does it make sense that there were these references to Spain and Franco?  Is this paragraph trying to make the point that these references were kept in, even though they made no sense in relation to Mexico, or were their multiple Catalan versions, only one of which relocated the character's origin to Mexico?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.157.195 (talk) 19:32, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Utterly confusing