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This is also why I have issue with people saying Fawlty Towers should be kept intact because it's all a joke at how small minded Basil is or how it's a satire, because I've never heard anyone say that's why it's funny, instead they laugh along at him belittling Manuel and mocking Germans.
Of course they say that, because that's the entire premise of the show: loads of normal people turn up at the hotel and highlight the dysfunctional relationship between Basil, Sybil and their staff (Polly being the sole sensible voice) and permanent residents (like the major). It makes fun of Basil's small mindedness, his social climbing and ambition (like sucking up to the man he thinks is the hotel inspector) and the fact that he thinks other people are holding him back, whereas it's his own bumbling incompetence (or just bad luck) that prevent him from really succeeding.
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They did an announcement in support of BLM and the audit of shows they run is part of that, actually doing more than just saying "I support BLM". They have large back catalogue of ageing series and some may includes things are no longer appropriate today, the removal of the episode, rightly or wrongly, was part of a genuine effort to make sure BAME people can watch anything on their platform without being subjected to abusive language.
It wasn't some piece of PR or spin to show how woke they are, which is why they didn't announce it. There may even be episode of other shows that have gone and no one has noticed because our nation has a strange obsession with Fawlty Towers, almost like people don't get that "don't mention the war" is a joke at Basil's expense rather than something to be emulated in their lives.
This is also why I have issue with people saying Fawlty Towers should be kept intact because it's all a joke at how small minded Basil is or how it's a satire, because I've never heard anyone say that's why it's funny, instead they laugh along at him belittling Manuel and mocking Germans.
E.g. "Since when did we stop laughing at the Germans. I'm sure they bombed the UK and undertook the holocaust..."
https://twitter.com/freddie_tash/status/1271353517089927173
(this isn't really aimed at you @hugo7, you just prompted the point for me)