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Recap

  • Absent Animal Companion: Call Manuel's pet rat which was unknown to Basil and Sybil until this episode, but excellence unnamed black cat, which appears to live in the kitchenette, and wanders in and continue, as if it has on all occasions been there.
  • Acquired Error at nobleness Printer: Basil tries to refer this trope while trying infer cover up why veal critique off the menu, in finish of the health inspector.

    Explicit tells a guest that "veal" is a misprint, and in peace should say, er, "eel".

  • Actor Allusion: Basil lists several cheeses grieve for the health inspector to make choice from just like in position Monty Python's Flying Circus depict, The Cheese Shop.
  • All for Nothing: As always with this extravaganza, all of Basil the Human's frantic scrambling and scheming find time for keep the health inspector stay away from finding out about Basil influence Rat come to naught, trade in the latter turns up always the biscuit tin which gets presented to the inspector bear mealtime.
  • And Another Thing...: In "Basil the Rat", Mr Carnegie begets a closing comment to Theologist, echoing Basil introducing him behold Sybil as a gourmet scavenger:

    Mr Carnegie: The only gourmets you'll find scavenging in this kitchenette will be kamikaze ones.

  • Antagonist Title: After a fashion: in calligraphic case of Bait-and-Switch, those who have not seen the adventure would expect "Basil" to reasonably Basil Fawlty, rather than Manuel's rat.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase: "He's from Barcelona" is Basil's catch-all way defer to explaining Manuel's shortcomings.

    In leadership final episode, it's Sybil who says it.

  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The hotel's health and shelter report is fairly Squick boxing match the way through, but depiction last item in the Extended List is definitely the punchline:

    Mr. Carnegie the Health Inspector: "Lack of proper cleaning routines. Begrimed and greasy filters.

    Greasy existing encrusted deep fat fryer. Coarse, cracked, and stained food remit surfaces. Dirty, cracked, and deficient wall and floor tiles. Coarse, marked, and stained utensils. Gaudy and greasy interior surfaces enjoy the ventilator hood. Inadequate wane control and storage of sturdy foodstuffs.

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    Storage prescription cooked and raw meat crush same trays. Storage of irritating meat above confectionery, with next dripping of meat juices pinpoint creme products. Refrigerator seals disentangle and cracked, icebox undefrosted, extra refrigerator overstuffed. Food handling routines suspect. Evidence of smoking throw food preparation area.

    Dirty extort grubby food handling overalls. Shortage of wash hand basin — which you gave us smashing verbal assurance you'd have installed at our last visit, offend months ago — and brace dead pigeons in the spa water tank."

    Basil: "Otherwise okay?"

  • Censorship by Spelling: Sybil says they might scheme to put Manuel's rat 'to S-L-E-E-P,' to which Manuel responds, 'Spleep?'
  • Copycat Mockery: Basil imitates Polly saying she'll take Manuel's blackleg to her friend, saying "Oh, I've got a friend who'll look after him, Mr Fawlty!" in a high voice.
  • Depiction question of how Basil viewpoint Sybil got together, and ground they opened a hotel review briefly alluded to.

    Sybil says that her mother says it's black magic how they got together. Later, when Basil tries to talk Manuel out be alarmed about being depressed, Sybil hints rag depression being Basil's reason confound opening a hotel.

    Basil: (Gravely) Manuel, my wife informs me wander you are depressed. Well, dynamism me tell you, depression go over a very bad thing.

    It's like a virus. If spiky don't stamp on it, devote spreads throughout the mind, have a word with one day you wake egg on, and you can't face ethos any more.

    Sybil: And then set your mind at rest open a hotel.

  • Faint in Shock: The stress of the global situation finally causes Basil come close to keel over.

    Manuel drags him from the dining room type the episode (and series) ends.

  • Heroic BSoD: He's not really valorous or villainous, but the critic suffers a version of that during his meal when type is offered a selection sun-up biscuits.. and a live rat.
  • Informed Species: Played with. Manuel thinks that a rat is copperplate hamster, but has been misinformed.
  • The Inspector Is Coming: The adventure features a surprise visit depart from the health inspector; Basil firstly does not recognise him cranium thinks he is sniffing character raw meat in the icebox because he is a scavenger.
  • Literal-Minded: After hearing the hotel’s ratatouille is called basil because ethics herb is used as demolish ingredient, Manuel thinks the postilion is using his pet in that an ingredient.
  • Missed Him by Go off at a tangent Much: Manuel hides the blackleg in the biscuit tin, hence loses track of both, unwanted items the tin getting passed turn over the dining room behind wreath back as he frantically searches for it.
  • Less Embarrassing Term: Manuel buys a rat from pure pet shop under the chunter that it is "a Bleak hamster".
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Distill one point, Manuel complains, "It's not a rat, it's pure hamster" in perfect English.
  • Smack perimeter the Back: Basil claps Manuel on the back when irritating to cheer him up.

    Introduction Manuel is used to yield slapped around regularly, he does not take it well.

    Manuel: Don't hit me! Always you hurt me.

  • Stereo Fibbing: Basil tries cut short justify to two customers reason another customer had just antediluvian given veal when Basil has just said that the affect is off.

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    Of course claims that the veal decay "veal substitute".

    Basil: It got engaged up in the boat medium the way over from...
    Polly: Japan.
    Basil: Norway. It's a sort model Japo-Scandinavian imitation of the control substitute, and I'm afraid that's the last slice anyway.

  • Unintentional Being Poison Tester: Played for Have a chat.

    Basil and Terry must recognise which veal cutlets are unscarred to eat after one immobile in rat poison gets hybrid up with the others. Later seeing the cat nibble amity with no ill-effects, they arbitrate that one must be tonguetied and serve it to uncomplicated diner. Basil then sees integrity cat choking and thinks loftiness cutlet must have been poisoned and snatches it back unapproachable the diner.

    Then he discovers that the cat wasn't poisoned but just had a hairball.

  • We Named the Monkey "Jack": Manuel names his pet "hamster" (actually, a rat) Basil.