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"Fawlty Towers"
Basil the Rat (1979)

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[Basil finds someone going through the food in the kitchen]
Basil Fawlty: Sybil, may I introduce the gentleman who's just opened the self-service department here. Mr...?
Mr. Carnegie: Carnegie.
Basil Fawlty: Mr. Carnegie, the scavenger gourmet from...?
Mr. Carnegie: The Public Health department.

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[Manuel wants to keep his pet rat]
Manuel: Mr. Fawlty, please understand. If he go, I go.
Basil Fawlty: Well, goodbye.

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Mr. Carnegie: Lack of proper cleaning routines, dirty and greasy filters, greasy and encrusted deep fat fryer, dirty, cracked and stained food preparation surfaces, dirty, cracked and missing wall and floor tiles, dirty, marked and stained utensils, dirty and greasy interior surfaces of the ventilator hood...
Basil Fawlty: About the fat fryer...
Mr. Carnegie: ...inadequate temperature control and storage of dangerous foodstuffs, storage of cooked and raw meat in same trays, storage of raw meat above confectionery with consequent dripping of meat juices onto cream products, refrigerator seals loose and cracked, ice box undefrosted, and refrigerator overstocked...
Basil Fawlty: Say no more.
Mr. Carnegie: ...food handling routines suspect, evidence of smoking in food preparation area, dirty and grubby food handling overalls, lack of wash hand basin which you gave us a verbal assurance you'll have installed at our last visit six months ago and two dead pigeons in the water tank.
Basil Fawlty: Otherwise O.K.?

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Basil Fawlty: This is *not* a hamster! Hamsters are cute and cuddly! Cuddle this, you'd never play the guitar again!

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