Father Ted

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Isn't it just brilliant?

Love the camping episode

FT "Did you bring the scrabble Dougal?"
FD "Not only that Ted, i bought the travel scrabble for when we're travelling and the normal scrabble for when we're here"
FT "Brilliant Dougal"
FD "Oh....wait a minute Ted, no, no i didn't bring either"

"That would be an ecumenical matter" - we use this at work all the time for teams who apparently can't make a decision about anything.

Namey, it's "these cows are small, those cows are far away" as they try to get Dougal to understand perspective. Still hysterical though.

Some absolute corkers here.

I love Dougal's "Come on, Ted. Sure it's no more peculiar than all that stuff we learned in the seminary, you know, Heaven and Hell and everlasting life and all that type of thing. You're not meant to take it seriously, Ted!"

I love Father Ted.
The second night I was in hospital after having DD we were curled up in the bed watching the Father Ted Christmas Special! It was the first TV programme she saw.

Ah yes - i'm so pleased that "kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse" is doing well here - its the BEST thing I have ever seen on the TV.

I also like the episode with Father Damo Lennon, and the way Dougal sidles around not showing the ear he has gotten pierced. Ahhh. Brilliant stuff.

and what about the fight Mrs Doyle gets into with her friend about paying for tea and scones. That rings so true!

My Lovely Horse.

And the one with the nun they hired to help them give up cigarettes, alcohol and rollerblading for lent.

"Those women were in the nip!" Bloody love it. :o

Loved Father Ted Which was the episode where Dougal hallucinates rollerboots?

THat would be cigarettes and alcohol and rollerblading Mrs Columbo.

am watching the box set now with ds (14)

'that would be an ecumenical affair'

brill

We watch the boxset when there's nothing on TV. It's hard to pick the funniest episode. Mrs Doyle falling out of the window is one of my favourite bits. But everything everyone else has mentioned is hilarious.

just got to the bit where Dougal undermines the bishop's faith

Oh! Just remembered - Speed 3 with the homicidal milkman (Pat Mustard DH informs me).
(Still got My Lovely Horse stuck in my head)

I love it. It's genius.

I have the box set and I watch an episode or two every few weeks.

My favourite episodes are the one in which they go to the mainland,the caravan episode,the Christmas episode and the one with the charades and Father Jack dying.

Feck!
I can't listen to Ghost Town without thinking of Father Ted and his corrupt bingo scam.

Father Dougal: Ted do you believe in the afterlife?
Father Ted: Well generally priests have a very strong belief in the afterlife.
Father Dougal: Ooh I wish I had your faith Ted!
Father Ted: Dougal, how did you get into the church? Was it like, "Collect twelve crisp packets and become a priest"?

Bishop O'Neill: So Father, do you ever have any doubts? Is your faith ever tested? Any trouble you've been having with beliefs or anything like that?
Father Dougal: Well you know the way God made us, and he's looking down at us from heaven?
Bishop O'Neill: Yeah...
Father Dougal: And then his son came down and saved everyone and all that?
Bishop O'Neill: Uh huh...
Father Dougal: And when we die, we're all going to go to heaven?
Bishop O'Neill: Yes. What about it?
Father Dougal: Well that's the part I have trouble with!

Father Dougal: God Ted, I've heard about those cults. Everyone dressing in black and saying our Lord's going to come back and judge us all.
Father Ted: No...no Dougal, that's us. That's Catholicism you're talking about there.

We have the DVD box set too and regularly dig it out to cheer ourselves up from time to time! My favourite episode is the Eoin McLove one, the baby-faced piss-take of Daniel O'Donnell being followed by hordes of elderly ladies baking him cake-jumpers. I love the way at the end Fr Ted gets rid of all the old lady groupies by telling them to go home and look after their husbands 'remember when Mr Dunne tried to make himself a cup of tea - and lost an eye?' etc. Hilarious...

Father Dougal: It's like a big tide of jam coming towards us, but jam made out of old women

Love Father Ted.

Used to have an app on the iPhone that would play varioius recorded phrases. Kept DP happy for hours. Sadly when I had to get a new iPhone as it broke and reinstall the app was no more. Can't find it on the app store. Gone.

Sunday afternoon, a few episodes of Father Ted, lovely.

What is the one with all the old priests in wheelchairs playing basketball (or similar)?
I laugh at most of them, but was in hysterics at that.

I love the one with the whistle and father Damo.

They were playing football. I think the episode was called Escape From Victory.

Bloody love Father Ted. Superbly written and acted by all concerned. A total classic.

I love the scene where Mrs Doyle tries to guess the priest's name.

'Father Hairy Cakeliner', 'Father Rabula Conondrum,Father Peewee Stairmaster,Father Chewie Louie,Father Hiroshima Twinkie and so on.

was priceless.

'Ride me sideways was another one.'