Plot: Edina Monsoon, a career-minded woman with chronic alcoholism, drives her daughter Saffron crazy after Patsy, her best friend and drug addict, enters their lives.
Plot: Basil Fawlty, an intolerant and rude manager tries to run the hotel, constantly under verbal attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil and hindered by the incompetent Manuel; their Spanish waiter.