If You Can't Take a Joke: Certainly, Fawlty Towers was the most purely funny shows ever. It existed for exactly thirteen gut-busting episodes, and John Cleese has wisely never attempted to resurrect or modify it. It stands as is for all eternity, like a perfect thirteen stanza poem. The series was based on a hotel Cleese (and the rest of the Pythons) stayed at that had a "wonderfully rude" manager. Now, after all these years, the wife of the wonderfully rude manager has decided to take issue with the portrayal of her husband and herself in the series. Here's a clue: Taking offense at being lampooned is not the best way to show that you were not ill-natured to begin with. Especially when it turns out the lampoon is correct.