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Does anyone think Father Ted is overrated?

  • 18-11-2011 10:45am
    #1
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭


    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

    Yes
    0%
    No!
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  • #2
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Nah.


  • #3
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    Careful now.


  • #4
    phil1nj
    Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭phil1nj


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


  • #5
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    No!
    stevenmu wrote: »
    Careful now.

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


  • #6
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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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  • #7
    RichT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭RichT


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    Does anyone think Father Ted is overrated?

    Down with this sort of thing!!


  • #8
    red dave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭red dave


    Blasphemous thread


  • #9
    squonk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,706 ✭✭✭squonk


    red dave wrote: »
    Blasphemous thread
    NO!!!


  • #10
    Malice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #11
    Scram
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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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  • #12
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    Overrated?!?!?!

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  • #13
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Why would you even ask such a thing?

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  • #14
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭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)


  • #15
    Please Kill Me
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭Please Kill Me


    Nope. An absolute classic. Not a bad episode!


  • #16
    AnonoBoy
    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.


  • #17
    hidinginthebush
    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.


  • #18
    KerranJast
    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.


  • #19
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #20
    mrsoundie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    SprostonGreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


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


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  • #22
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,109 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    I expect a weeks ban......... :(

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


  • #23
    alexr1
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭alexr1


    FU*KIN HELL


  • #24
    jaykhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,013 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #25
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Féck off, cup.

    To answer the OP, no.


  • #26
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


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


  • #27
    timewilltell
    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!'


  • #28
    Corkfeen
    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! "


  • #29
    professore
    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.


  • #30
    duiggers
    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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  • #31
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,204 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Add a poll, OP.


  • #32
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,344 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    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.


  • #33
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,109 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Its cult status will outlive Fawlty Towers.


  • #34
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,485 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Hell No
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  • #35
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    I love my brick!


  • #36
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    NO


    And yeah add a poll ... will be 99.999% saying No.


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  • #37
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    phasers wrote: »
    The least good episode is the one with that writer and the nuns, and even that's better than 90% of other shows.
    "Good luck with the book!"


    OP, you're mad


  • #38
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    I love the way they created its own bizarre inworld universe that you almost could imagine happening,but not quite, it felt weirdly tangible!

    The little details such as backstories for certain priests, Fr.Bigley selling arms to Iraq

    Larry Duff being caught with a booth of machine guns

    Holy stone of clonricter

    "Class one relics, oh very rare dougal, things that allow timetravel, resurrecting dinousaurs"


  • #39
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I can't believe I'm defending Richard..... but people should note that he did say he thinks it's great.


  • #40
    paddyismaddy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭paddyismaddy


    no

    let me rephrase that


    no!


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The fact that I can't listen to The Specials 'Ghost Town' without standing up to salute the national anthem says it all :pac:


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  • #42
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,630 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


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    No, it's fine.


  • #43
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,109 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I can't believe I'm defending Richard..... but people should note that he did say he thinks it's great.

    He did get off to a good start, then the "but" appeared, and it went downhill from there on in.:(


  • #44
    tommyboy2222
    Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭tommyboy2222


    No. Classic comedy !

    Careful now.


  • #45
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,983 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    thread fail


  • #46
    Utopia Parkway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,372 ✭✭✭✭Utopia Parkway


    No chance. A genuine classic.


  • #47
    yizorselves
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭yizorselves


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

    Ah c'mon, when he drives into the back of yer mans car and says "Sorry about that" and the guy smacks him, thats hilarious.


  • #48
    parc
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭parc


    I honestly don't think it's overrated and just realised it recently.

    I hadn't watched it in a while and put it on one saturday I was hanging and it just reminded me that it's fantastic stuff altogether. We'll be watching it in years to come


  • #49
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    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.

    I genuinely think there's not a scenario in life where you can't fit in a Father Ted quote.

    "And instead of a head, he's got four arses".

    No, it is most definitely not overrated!!


  • #50
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Poll added purely for the lulz!


  • #51
    Mindkiller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭Mindkiller


    No. Father Ted is timeless. The only episode that I find bad is that one with the sheep. Only good gag was 'the beast sounds like Liam Neeson chasing a load of hens around a barrel'.


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