One wonders if this wasn't spurred on by the 2020 death of Terry Jones, maybe Cleese really wants to get this off his chest before he kicks the bucket.
I'm guessing Manuel will not be a character on the show, though Cleese is one of the more vocally anti-PC types who has complained right back at people complaining about Manuel (I listened to the special features on the DVD set when I watched the show for the first time last year and it gets brought up quite a few times.)
I'm rewatching the original series right now as I said I would do last year, and my complaint remains the same: this show is very two-note. Cleese being smarmy, and Cleese flipping out. I can live with the character being completely unlikable, as that's probably the point, but I wish there were more moments that had me bursting with laughter like the end of the German episode.
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