Let’s put that number in perspective. Friends made 236 episodes. The Simpsons has over 750. Fawlty Towers made a measly dozen. That’s like a chef who cooks only one perfect steak and then retires to a mountain top. It’s almost criminal.
But here’s the kicker: those twelve episodes are so densely packed with comedy gold that they feel like a hundred. John Cleese and Connie Booth, the geniuses behind the show, wrote every single line. They didn’t phone it in; they chiseled that dialogue out of pure, sweaty brilliance.
