When does imitation stop being flattery and start to become plagarism?

John Cleese is considering suing a production company which puts on a dinner experience called Faulty Towers. The two weathermen considered plagiarism.

Weatherman  1 : John Cleese is upset. A company has changed Fawlty into Faulty and is making money from a show with Basil and Sybil in it. Some reports suggest it’s a million dollar show.

Weatherman  2 : Not just one show, there’s a few of them touring the world.  I counted at least 3 Basils and 4 Sybils.

Was Tyrannosarus a forerunner to Don Juan?

Uzbekistan has uncovered fossils of a forerunner to Tyrannosaurus Rex.  The two weathermen pondered the find.

Weatherman 1 : There’s a new dinosaur called Timurlengia. It would have been like a Tyrannosaurus, but smaller –about the size of a horse. They found fossilised bones in Uzbekistan that surround the brain and that tells them how it thought and how it sensed the world.

WM2 : How can a bone reveal how an animal thinks? It sounds like an exaggerated claim to me.

Maria Sharapova? Fault!

Maria Sharapova has been taking banned drugs. The two weatherman discussed whether her ball was in or out.

Weatherman 1 : I hear that Maria Sharapova is taking Meldonium.

Weatherman 2 : She claims the International Tennis Federation raised the net. She’d been taking it for years and it was allowed. Then they disallowed it and caught her out.