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Does anyone think Father Ted is overrated?

  • 18-11-2011 9:45am
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Listen, i get all the love for it here and i personally think it's great....but, one must at least allow for an opposing view to be aired. So if you're of the persuasion that Fr. Ted is not the bees knees chime in a state your case.

    :)




    :o

    Do you think Father Ted is overrated? 21 votes

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Nah.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    Careful now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭phil1nj


    Not at all. It stands up to repeated viewings, is well written and has some genuine laughs.


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


    No!
    stevenmu wrote: »
    Careful now.

    I expect a weeks ban......... :(


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


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    "If you talk about the show like that again, I'll put your head through the wall."*

    *quote slightly edited to suit situation :pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭RichT


    Does anyone think Father Ted is overrated?

    Down with this sort of thing!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭red dave


    Blasphemous thread


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭squonk


    red dave wrote: »
    Blasphemous thread
    NO!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Fr Ted is an absolute classic of a television show. I can't imagine anyone thinking it's overrated. Sure if you're not a born and bred Paddy you mightn't get some of the humour but even the visual gags stand up by themselves.


  • Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Scram


    phil1nj wrote: »
    Not at all. It stands up to repeated viewings, is well written and has some genuine laughs.

    Very True


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    Overrated?!?!?!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Why would you even ask such a thing?

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


    i thought the last series was a wee bit forced/tired esp that episode with the over 65 football team > was stupid

    and its repeated way too often now, nearly know all the lines off by heart

    (but it sure beats mass)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭Please Kill Me


    Nope. An absolute classic. Not a bad episode!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    It waned a bit in series three. But only a bit.

    I still watch it whenever it comes on the telly box.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    I must admit, I didn't watch it when it was on back in the day. I have since started watching it very recently, about half way through season 1 in the boxset and it is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭KerranJast


    Not a chance. It's the only show I've ever watched (and I've seen a loooooad :D) that actually made me physically ache with pain from laughing when I saw it first.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    The least good episode is the one with that writer and the nuns, and even that's better than 90% of other shows.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭mrsoundie


    No absolutely loved it and now its even funnier since the writers have started giving a hand to the present government, because you could not make it up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    Yes. Enjoyed it the first time round but can't do the repeats.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 23,953 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I expect a weeks ban......... :(

    If it were an ecumenical matter, it would be a permaban for heresy.:P


  • Registered Users Posts: 38 alexr1


    FU*KIN HELL


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,013 Mod ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    Sorry bro. I can understand how non-Irish wouldn't find it funny, because it's just so very, very Irish; which is just amazing; it captures our sense of humour so well. But humour's subjective.

    There'll be no tea for you.
    -- Good, I didn't want any bleedin' tea! (shoulder butts you) :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,760 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Féck off, cup.

    To answer the OP, no.


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


    No!
    It's overated as fock, it was slightly funny when i was 13 or 14


  • Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭timewilltell


    What? No!
    Father Ted is witty, intelligent, and satiricial. It does not age, even nowadays.


    'Ah it was me own money father, just didnt want to fill out the forms!'


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


    Richard, this is worse than that time you asked if penis size mattered... Some fecker got to say "That would be an ecumenical matter already." So a random quote it is, to show the sheer brilliance of Ted.

    " Fascists dress in black and go around telling people what to do, whereas priests... more drink! "


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭professore


    jaykhunter wrote: »
    Sorry bro. I can understand how non-Irish wouldn't find it funny, because it's just so very, very Irish; which is just amazing; it captures our sense of humour so well. But humour's subjective.

    There'll be no tea for you.
    -- Good, I didn't want any bleedin' tea! (shoulder butts you) :pac:

    A Spanish friend of mine loves it ... has the full boxed set. He lived here a few years in the Nineties though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭duiggers


    Hahaha, Father Ted overrated give me a break. Even watching the repeats you'd still laugh at the jokes.

    Go grow a funny bone! :p


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  • Registered Users Posts: 71,261 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Add a poll, OP.


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