[Fawlty Towers] Manuel is practicing his English, much to the Major's confusion.

Fawlty Towers was perhaps one of the funniest TV show ever made. It took place in the eponymous fictional hotel. One of the funniest scenes occurred when Manuel, the Spanish bellhop/waiter practiced his English in a way that confused Major Gowen, an elderly resident who occasionally drinks too much.

The man who comes in towards the end is the hotel's pompous owner Basil Fawlty - portrayed by John Cleese the comedic genius who wrote the scripts. (written by Len Colby)

Fawlty Towers is a BBC television sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made (two series, each of six episodes). The show was written by John Cleese and his then-wife Connie Booth, both of whom also starred in the show.

The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay, on the "English Riviera". The plots centre on tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), comparatively normal chambermaid Polly (Booth), and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs), showing their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.

In a list drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted by industry professionals, Fawlty Towers was named the best British television series of all time.

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Highlights of Basil Fawlty's fruitless battle to get some cooperation from the bumbling Spanish waiter Manuel.

O que significa a gíria “take a Squirt” em inglês?

Essa expressão, eu vi enquanto assistia o episódio 02 da segunda temporada de two and a half men – “que peitão”. Confesso que não conhecia essa gíria, mas peguei pelo contexto.

Charlie estava conversando com seu irmão, Alan Harper e, de repente, ele solta um:

“Why don’t you make some coffee while a go take a squirt?” (é só ler o print da cena).

Logo, Charlie disse, na verdade, que iria “mijar”, “urinar” ... então, ‘take a squirt” significa “pee”, ou seja, mijar. Se você procurar no dicionário, deverá achar algo do tipo: “jorrar”, “ato de jorrar”, “seringar...”

Para o contexto, temos mesmo é significado de urinar...

See you next time.

[SÉRIE] Grey's Anatomy

[É uma serie boa para quem é estudante de enfermagem e/ou medicina e quer aprender ou melhorar o conhecimento linguístico em inglês, pois devido ao ambiente e o enredo, o vocabulário utilizado pelas personagens é sempre voltado para questões do dia-a-dia da área da saúde.] 

Grey's Anatomy é um drama médico norte-americano exibido no horário nobre da rede ABC. Seu episódio-piloto foi transmitido pela primeira vez em 27 de março de 2005 nos Estados Unidos. O folhetim é protagonizado por Ellen Pompeo, interpretando a Dra. Meredith Grey, residente do fictício hospital cirúrgico Seattle Grace, em Seattle, Washington, o mais rígido programa cirúrgico de Harvard. A série é focada nela e seus colegas, também internos: Cristina, Izzie, George e Alex, mostrando suas vidas amorosas e as dificuldades pelas quais passam no trabalho.

O título do seriado é uma brincadeira com Gray's Anatomy (Anatomia de Gray), o famoso livro de anatomia de Henry Gray. A série, exibida nos Estados Unidos após o hit Desperate Housewives, logo se tornou um sucesso.

Tal sucesso se repete no Brasil, onde a série é exibida pelo canal Sony Entertainment Television em horário nobre e também no SBT. Em Portugal, a série foi para o ar pelo canal Fox Life e pela RTP2.

Mais séries:

Dexter 

Jericho

American Series:Jericho.

Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States. Produced by CBS Paramount Network Television, with executive producers Jon Turteltaub, Stephen Chbosky, and Carol Barbee, the show was broadcast in more than 30 countries.

The show ran on CBS from September 20, 2006, through March 25, 2008. It was initially canceled after its first full season because of poor ratings. While a fan campaign was able to convince the network to bring the show back for a seven-episode second season, it was canceled for a second time after that run. On November 20, 2008, TV Guide reported that the CW television network would air repeats of Jericho to replace the canceled series Valentine.

In 2007, Jericho was ranked #11 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.

In 2009, plans were announced for both a feature film version of the series and a continuation of the Jericho storylines in a comic book series.

First season

The storyline centers on the residents of Jericho, a small, rural Kansas town, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the United States. The series begins with a visible nuclear detonation of unknown origin in nearby Denver, Colorado, Problems are compounded by a loss of power and modern communications, effectively isolating Jericho. Later, power is restored to Jericho by what is alluded to as the efforts of the U.S. government. However, an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from an unknown source disables all electronics.

Momento nostalgia. Quem não lembra desse desenho animado? Corrida maluca?

Wacky Races is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The series features 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies throughout North America, with each driver hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer." Wacky Races ran on CBS from September 14, 1968, to January 4, 1969. Seventeen episodes were produced, with each episode featuring two different races.

The cartoon was unusual in the large number of regular characters, twenty-four in total: the twenty-three people and animals spread among the 11 race cars, plus the unseen (and never identified) race announcer. Reruns of the series currently air several times a day on Cartoon Network's classic animation network Boomerang.

Background

One of the unused plans for the series was that the races would be part of a live-action quiz show made by Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley Productions in which contestants would bet on which Wacky Racer would cross the finish line first. Although the game show concept was eventually scrapped, the series still retained a Hanna-Barbera/Heatter-Quigley dual production credit. It is one of the few Heatter-Quigley series not currently owned by successor company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio where the Hanna-Barbera team got its start. In 1988, a made-for-TV movie, Around The World With The Wacky Racers, was planned as part of Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10 series of TV movies, but it never got past the concept stage.

Momento nostalgia. Quem não lembra desse desenho animado? Back to the Future: "The Animated Series"

Back to the Future: The Animated Series is an animated series for television based on the Back to the Future trilogy of feature films. The series lasted two seasons, each featuring 13 episodes, and ran on CBS from September 7, 1991 to November 28, 1992. It reran until August 14, 1993. The series repeated on ABC from September 1993 to January 1995 and later on FOX from March to September 2003.

Although the series takes place after the films, co-creator of the Back to the Future series Bob Gale has stated that it and the comics take place in their own 'what if' and alternate timelines and not part of the main continuity.

Comic books

A comic book series was published by Harvey Comics detailing further adventures of the animated series. Two mini-series were published, the first being a four-issue run; the second, a three-issue run subtitled "Forward To The Future". A "Special" issue was also released, reprinting parts of the first mini-series' first issue. The comics were written by Dwayne McDuffie with art by Nelson Dewey.

Back to the Future: The Animated Series