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'''Basil:''' ''(Rather annoyed, having just seen £75 slip through his fingers)'' '''It's not! TEN POUNDS SHORT! Oh, My God! Don't panic! We'll have a whip 'round!'''

''Starts shaking out the charity collection tin'' }}

** ''[[Newhart]]'' was also noted as having some similarities, but it's different enough to just be a coincidence.

* [[Truth in Television]]: John Cleese said that he based the idea of the character of Manuel on his own experience in restaurants where the owners are too cheap to hire anyone but desperate immigrants who don't speak one single ''word'' of English, "so that the chances of you getting what you've ordered are literally about one in six".

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