Manuel: Ees no rat, ees chhh-amster.
Basil Fawlty : Well, of course it's a rat. You have rats in Spain, don't you? Or did Franco have 'em all shot?
Remember in The Wire when all the learned drug runners were so happy to get their own area to sell their wares free of police patrols in Hampsterdam? One of the best scenes in the series.
“HE PUT BASIL IN THE RATATOUILLE????”