Father Ted

[purrswhileheeats]

My favourite episode was on More4 earlier - The Mainland. I've seen it so many times but it still makes me cry laughing.

My dad and my ex boyfriend are Irish and they nearly came to blows in a restaurant fighting over who was paying the bill

When we apologise - DH and I go
'I am very very sorry ' a la father jack

And we say 'what would you at toa nice cup of tea?'
'Feck off cup'

Small....far away.... standing test of reason in our house

This one is small. That one is far away.

As you may guess from my username, love this show

My favourites are the Pat Mustard episode - the priests saying mass whilst being pulled along on the trailer cracks me up every time! I also love the song for Europe and the lovely girls competition (which I was told is based on an actual competition in Ireland?)

@Floods123

Father Jack should have been Pope! He would have been perfect in the job!

Well, he should have been. But the feckin Jesuits have got it all sewn up

Hullo Len
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Mrs Doyle is a goddess amongst women in our house!

‘Maybe I like the misery’ and ‘ahhh gwan now’ are now established sayings in the family lexicon!

@NannyR

My favourites are the Pat Mustard episode - the priests saying mass whilst being pulled along on the trailer cracks me up every time! I also love the song for Europe and the lovely girls competition (which I was told is based on an actual competition in Ireland?)

That would be the Rose of Tralee. We're always teasing our teenage daughter that if she doesn't behave herself, we'll enter her in the Rose of Tralee and she'll have to smile and walk round cones.

The Christmas special is amazing. It's the lingerie store/golden cleric one. I love Mrs Doyle trying to guess the name of the priest. Fr Hiroshima Twinkie, Fr Spodo Commodo.

I also like the one when all the priests are on a plane.

Nudey Father Jack!

I can't go in a lingerie department without laughing to myself about the priests lost in there

and

"Is it small? Or is it far away ?" is so often quoted here.

What about John and Mary?

Don't talk to me like that you big auld pile of shite!

I love, love, love Father Ted!

My favourites are 'The Song for Europe', 'The Priest Look- Alike Competition' and 'The Hairy Hands' episodes.

I still laugh myself silly watching them!

my husband and daughter have been on a ted tour and part of it is afternoon tea in the parochial house.

Loved Father Ted when it first cane out & still love it now. Especially love the episode when Mrs Doyle is giddy over Pat Mustard.

I'm old enough to remember Father Trendy on the Late Late Show. The first time I heard him I thought for about 30 seconds he was a real priest, then looked at my Dad to see was he going to turn off in protest, and then the entire family just cracked up laughing.

Favourite bits in our house were always the small-far away gag, and down with this sort of thing.

When she guesses Father Tod Unctuous' name 🤣

My BIL (40yo - should know better) announced recently that he's never seen Father Ted. Queue horrified looks on faces of all other family members and my 90yo Nan piping up:

"Father Ted? He's hilarious! What's wrong with you boy?"

I used "near, far away" legitimately over the weekend and all my friends got it, even my 'victim' laughed.

"It's the largest lingerie dept in Ireland" MUST be said whenever wandering through a department store.

"Will you have another cup of tea Father? Ah, gwan" is standard method of announcing the kettle is going on.

Recent Glinner defence of women just makes me live it even more. And I didn't think that was possible.

The Mainland is my favourite too OP. We quote it when the kids are starving. "Oh God Ted, I won't die will I?". I like the plane one too with Dougal and the red button.

Best episode is the one where he judges the lovely girls contest , I love the bit at the end where they are at dinner and the winner says ‘have I still got to pay for this ‘ . Jim Norton , who plays Bishop Brennan is a fantastic actor .

'of course, they've all got lovely bottoms'

Graham Norton in the caravan is brilliant.

“Pat was wondering could he stick his big tool in my box”

Never gets old.

“I hear you’re a racist now, Father?”

Best. Ever.