Fawlty Towers (TV Series)
The Psychiatrist (1979)
Elspet Gray: Mrs. Abbott
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Quotes
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Sybil Fawlty : It's a relatively new profession, psychiatry, isn't it?
Mrs. Abbott : Well, Freud started about 1880.
Sybil Fawlty : Yes, but it's only now we're seeing them on the television.
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[the doctors ask how often the Fawltys can get away for a holiday, but Basil, paranoid over one of them being a psychiatrist, thinks their inquiry is about his sex life]
Dr. Abbott : How often can you and your wife manage it? You don't mind my asking?
Basil Fawlty : [like a deer in headlights] Not at all. Not at all. About average, since you asked.
Mrs. Abbott : Average?
Basil Fawlty : Mm-hm.
Dr. Abbott : What would be average?
Basil Fawlty : Well, you tell me. Ha-ha.
Mrs. Abbott : Well, um... couple of times a year?
Basil Fawlty : What?
Dr. Abbott : Once a year? Well, we knew it must be difficult. My wife couldn't see how you could manage it at all.
Basil Fawlty : [affronted] Well, as you've asked, two or three times a week, actually.
Dr. Abbott : A week?
Basil Fawlty : Yes. Pretty normal, isn't it? We're quite normal down here in Torquay, you know.
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Sybil Fawlty : Thank you, Mr. Abbott. Oh, Dr. Abbott, sorry.
Basil Fawlty : Doctor?
Dr. Abbott : Yes?
Basil Fawlty : I'm terribly sorry, we hadn't been told. We hadn't been told you were a doctor.
Dr. Abbott : Oh.
Basil Fawlty : How do you do, Doctor? Very nice to have you with us, Doctor.
Dr. Abbott : Thank you.
Sybil Fawlty : You're in room five, Doctor.
Basil Fawlty : And Mrs. Abbott, how do you do?
Dr. Abbott : Dr. Abbott, actually.
Basil Fawlty : I'm sorry?
Dr. Abbott : Dr. Abbott.
Mrs. Abbott : Two doctors.
Basil Fawlty : You're two doctors?
Mrs. Abbott : Yes.
Basil Fawlty : Well, how did you become two doctors? It's most unusual. I mean, did you take the exam twice, or...
Dr. Abbott : No. My wife's a doctor.
Mrs. Abbott : I'm a doctor.
Basil Fawlty : You're a doctor, too. So you're three doctors!
Dr. Abbott : No, I'm just... I'm just one doctor. My wife is another doctor.
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Mrs. Abbott : Do you have a... a guide to Torquay?
Basil Fawlty : A guide... Um, oh dear. I think we're out of them again.
Mr. Johnson : Do you want to look at this one? I got it in town.
Mrs. Abbott : Oh, thanks. Yes. "What's on in Torquay."
Mr. Johnson : Yes. One of the world's shortest books.
Basil Fawlty : What?
Mr. Johnson : One of the world's shortest books. Like "The Wit of Margaret Thatcher", or "Great English Lovers".
Sybil Fawlty : [laughing] He's very funny, isn't he, Basil?