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Does anyone think Father Ted is overrated?

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  • #62
    saa
    Registered Users Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    No matter how great something is there will always be those who don't get it,
    Why are we giving them a platform to complain, go home and ring Joe.


  • #63
    fatherbuzcagney
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭fatherbuzcagney


    Dougal:'' didn't father jack have a trial with liverpool''
    Ted ''no dougal, he was on trial in liverpool.''

    probably make the current liverpool squad.:P


  • #64
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    I'd safely say it's the most watched box set I own, probably watched more than the office, extras, black books and blackadder put together (and I love each and every one of them, well all but season 1 of blackadder). Everyone's tastes are different but for me it's one of the all time greats up there with Fawlty and Steptoe.


  • #65
    OKeeffer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭OKeeffer


    No!
    ShooterSF wrote: »
    I'd safely say it's the most watched box set I own, probably watched more than the office, extras, black books and blackadder put together (and I love each and every one of them, well all but season 1 of blackadder). Everyone's tastes are different but for me it's one of the all time greats up there with Fawlty and Steptoe.

    It's not even the best comedy Linehan and Matthews have done.

    That was Big Train:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KvX5jR_1w


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIIAQME1Uhg


  • #66
    Blondini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Blondini


    gerard-mcsorley.jpg

    That's completely unfair !


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  • #67
    monkey9
    Registered Users Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    OKeeffer wrote: »
    It's not even the best comedy Linehan and Matthews have done.

    That was Big Train:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KvX5jR_1w


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIIAQME1Uhg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIA_NVFnXZ8


  • #68
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Father Ted was years ahead of it's time. RTE sure missed out on that but it goes to show how reluctant they were to support something satirical where the Catholic church was concerned as late as the mid-nineties.

    I have the box set, and it never gets old.

    Bye girls!!! Pair of ****..


  • #69
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    monkey9 wrote: »
    I'm glad this thread was created just because it gives me a chance to read the quotes again. I'm laughing my head off at some of the posts on here.

    The Fr. Stone post above has me in stitches. Strangely I didn't like that episode as much until several repeats and the box set. It's by far my favourite now.

    Not the biggest fan of the Eurovision or the hairy hands episodes in comparison to the others.


  • #70
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    RTE is what's overrated for turning down the opportunity to produce such a fantastic show.


  • #71
    tvnutz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,787 ✭✭✭tvnutz


    psychward wrote: »
    RTE is what's overrated for turning down the opportunity to produce such a fantastic show.

    urban legend


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  • #72
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Take your Big Train discussions to a different thread.


  • #73
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    psychward wrote: »
    RTE is what's overrated for turning down the opportunity to produce such a fantastic show.

    they were never offered it, thank god...remember leave it to mrs o'brien:rolleyes:


  • #74
    OKeeffer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭OKeeffer


    No!
    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    Take your Big Train discussions to a different thread.

    It's obviously relevant to this thread considering it was written by the same team as Father Ted, and this is a discussion about the merits of their show. It's also of interest to any fan of Father Ted, also obvious.

    I'm hardly gonna start a new thread for every bloody TV programme.

    The soccer forum should get rid of it's Liverpool thread and have one for each player instead.

    :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:


  • #75
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    No!
    I hear the names of those who vote NO will be revealed when the polls close and automatic 1 month bans handed out! :eek:


  • #76
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭Yahew


    OKeeffer wrote: »

    I'm hardly gonna start a new thread for every bloody TV programme.

    you should.
    The soccer forum should get rid of it's Liverpool thread and have one for each player instead.

    :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:


    actually the analogy would be if there were a thread about Chelsea, and someone kept mentioning liverpool.


  • #77
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    OKeeffer wrote: »
    It's obviously relevant to this thread considering it was written by the same team as Father Ted, and this is a discussion about the merits of their show. It's also of interest to any fan of Father Ted, also obvious.

    I'm hardly gonna start a new thread for every bloody TV programme.

    The soccer forum should get rid of it's Liverpool thread and have one for each player instead.

    :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:
    I am the mod and you will obey me!


  • #78
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    No it's the one programme i can watch over and over again, great comedy.


  • #79
    RichT
    Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭RichT


    If this thread has put you in the mood for a bit of Ted, Think Fast, Father Ted(the raffle one) is about to start on More4 at 10.40.


  • #80
    IsaacWunder
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭IsaacWunder


    I think sociologists and historians will be critically examining Father Ted and its role in the changing of attitudes towards the authority of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland in much the same fashion as that other great satire, Yes Minister, is viewed in the UK in the context of the rise of Thatcherism or the Cosby Show in the US in post-racially segregated America. It's anything but overrated.


  • #81
    texidub
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭texidub


    probably going to get slated for this, but despite it being a very funny show I think it is overrated. The problem is that it's one of very few good Irish comedies and in the absence of any real competition it seems even better than it is.

    Imagine if you were English or from the US.. there'd be many more competing shows and people would be more comfortable saying 'yeah, I think it's overrated.' But to slag Father Ted is to slag pretty much the only decent Irish comedy going, which is like an insult to the comedic abilities of an entire nation :D


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  • #82
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    No!
    doovdela wrote: »
    No not really. You can laugh at it all the time. Its like friends you laugh at the rerun episodes regardless the jokes don't dry out. They are still funny to this day.

    :pac:


  • #83
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    texidub wrote: »
    probably going to get slated for this, but despite it being a very funny show I think it is overrated. The problem is that it's one of very few good Irish comedies and in the absence of any real competition it seems even better than it is.

    Imagine if you were English or from the US.. there'd be many more competing shows and people would be more comfortable saying 'yeah, I think it's overrated.' But to slag Father Ted is to slag pretty much the only decent Irish comedy going, which is like an insult to the comedic abilities of an entire nation :D

    The Brits love it nearly as much as we do in fairness.


  • #84
    timberland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭timberland


    its on now. its gas


  • #85
    OKeeffer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭OKeeffer


    No!
    Sir Gallagher wrote: »
    The Brits love it nearly as much as we do in fairness.

    They don't.

    I live here. A lot of people have barely heard of it.

    It's on the same level as Rab C Nesbitt....the "Scottish fella". Father Ted, the "Irish priest".

    It is overrated, and you've proved why by thinking everyone, who is not Irish, loves it.

    They don't.


  • #86
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    what the, god, jesus christ, oh my god, ****ING HELL, jesus, ohhh, what the.


  • #87
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Seriously Richard, all the crap kiddie TV that you watch and you think Father Ted is overrated ... How about saying that <insert any TV series that Richard watches> is overrated?


  • #88
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Cill Dara Abu wrote: »
    what the, god, jesus christ, oh my god, ****ING HELL, jesus, ohhh, what the.

    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again?


  • #89
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again?

    I have ya big bollox


  • #90
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    OKeeffer wrote: »
    They don't.

    I live here. A lot of people have barely heard of it.

    It's on the same level as Rab C Nesbitt....the "Scottish fella". Father Ted, the "Irish priest".

    It is overrated, and you've proved why by thinking everyone, who is not Irish, loves it.

    They don't.

    That's just not true. I know plenty of English people that love Father Ted. It also got 11th in Britain's Best Sitcom which would have been voted for by the public. So clearly they do they rank it rather highly.


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  • #91
    Bodhisopha
    Registered Users Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Bodhisopha


    No!
    Yes.

    It was very good, don't get me wrong, but not so good that after 10 or 12 years i should still hear at least one unfunny cúnt a day referencing it

    Good old Irish humour, eh.


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