What on earth was 'racist' about Manuel, CS? -- a brilliant portrait of an unfortunate man manoeuvred into embarrassing situations not of his own making by a bully displaying the worst sort of British arrogance. If there was a racist performance in that brilliant series [I'm sorry for whoever it was above who didn't get the joke], it was Cleese's, not Sachs's. But the whole thing was a sitcom, which, as the designation implies, is a sort of running joke. You know, Sister? JOKES? You've heard of them?

~M~