The English, And Their Peculiar Humor

Since the beginning of Fawlty Towers, everything is a joke, normally it starts with the hotel sign with letters moved so as to say something completely different (e.g: Watery Fowls). Instead this one starts with Basil's wife in the hospital with an ingrown nail. Just the fact that it's an ingrown nail is funny, but it gets funnier as we get further in, watching Basil obey his wife, muttering insults under his breath. It all looks very spontaneous, coming out randomly, as any normal English couple would do. When Fawlty returns, and starts talking to the major, things start getting funnier and more interesting. For some reason, the major's lack of memory is altogether very funny, it also brings some kind of crude humor into the scene. And in the end, the moose apparently talking to the major is also funny. The part that Fawlty Towers incorporates what looks like anthropomorphism, and the fact that the major falls for it hook, line, and sinker is also quite funny. Hearing the moose with an accent adds to the spontaneousness and crudeness of the subject.