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Will Father Ted ever die?

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    #62
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Can I put me tool in your box

    I love my brick

    Feck off brick


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    #63
    MillField
    Registered Users Posts: 635 ✭✭✭MillField


    Never. It's a fantastic show.


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    #64
    Drexel
    Registered Users Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭Drexel


    jonnypacket wrote: »
    The show is almost 20 years old and still we have self-proclaimed comedians quoting the same 5 predictable lines on a daily basis in futile attempts to be funny. It is heralded as the pinnacle of Irish comedy, never to be unseated from it pedestal, and has assumed a bizarre status as a national pop-culture asset. Every single protest in this country is guaranteed to have several chromosomally-disadvantaged yobs holding "careful now" signs. How do fully mentally developed, mature adults still find this amusing?

    Look, the show was great in its hey-day, but maybe it's time to move on? Frankly I find it embarrassing that we haven't produced anything greater or equal to it since. The continuous adoration rained upon it is cringe worthy.

    I'm sure someone will gleefully rush in here to respond "if you ever say that again, I'll put your head through the wall". Just know that your not funny in advance. Thanks.

    Says you


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    #65
    Chocolate
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭Chocolate


    I can't stand Fr. Ted. Never could and never will.
    There, I've said it.


    Aaah! That feels better!


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    #66
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,550 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Chocolate wrote: »
    I can't stand Fr. Ted. Never could and never will.
    There, I've said it.


    Aaah! That feels better!

    Ted is not a miracle worker. Your condition sounds incurable.


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    #67
    delw
    Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    Comedy is a matter of opinion,i personally like Fr Ted watched it when it first was out & still now but others think it's crap where as i think all Irish attempt at comedy is tripe Damo & Ivor etc....


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    #68
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Chocolate wrote: »
    I can't stand Fr. Ted. Never could and never will.
    There, I've said it.


    Aaah! That feels better!

    Yet you bothered to post . Red card !!


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    #69
    tupenny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭tupenny


    Blasphemy!!


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    #70
    endacl
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    tupenny wrote: »
    Blasphemy!!

    Victimless crime. Be grand.


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    #71
    Aidric
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    Free Hat wrote: »
    The Savage Eye was pretty funny I thought.

    Absolutely. The best comedy output from RTE bar none but it will never get the recognition it deserves because of Ireland's subservience to harmless uninventive material. Good on O Carroll for exploiting the fertile subservience but he is nowhere near a groundbreaking artist.


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    #72
    Riddle101
    Registered Users Posts: 8,380 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    It's a testament to how great a comedy is, if it's still being quoted 20 years later. Just look at The Simpsons. The fact that it's an Irish comedy, just gives more reason for us to celebrate it. It had a great impact. I only wish that the Dermot Morgan was still alive to see what an impact it was.


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    #73
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    You've a face like a pair of tits!
    Well, at least that's a pair of tits between us!
    .
    ..
    Get the fecking crunchies from the car!


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    #74
    gmarty
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭gmarty


    Every new idea starts out as blasphemy!


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    #75
    evolving_doors
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    gmarty wrote: »
    Every new idea starts out as blasphemy!

    Careful now!!! Blasphemy_law_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland


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    #76
    Conor Bourke
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    The jokes are not funny. It's the cringeworthy situations that are hilarious.

    Having said that, most foreigners seem to glare at it, dead-pan. The Spanish have a similar sitcom, called Ay, Señor! which is deeply unfunny but my Spanish friends love it. They think Fr Ted is dumb.

    Good comedy often doesn't cross borders.

    I've an Irish friend that never found Fr. Ted to be anything more than mildly amusing. Her French husband discovered it and absolutely loves it, as does his brother. It drives her daft when the pair of them settle down for the evening with the box set, she can't understand why they're so amused by it!


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    #77
    RoyalMarine
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    Showed a few episodes to my gf who's Croatian and she loves it.

    She said its amazing how at the time it was made, in their country, if they tried to do something like that against the church, people would have been arrested.


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    #78
    Very Bored
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    I'm so so sorryyyyyyy...


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    #79
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    I think the quote "the money was just resting in my account" will echo through time. :)


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    #80
    Very Bored
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    And what would you say to a nice cup of tea?

    Feck off cup!

    He loves his cup of tea!

    Feck off!

    Cup goes flying across the room.


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    #81
    Very Bored
    Registered Users Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭Very Bored


    Ride me sideways was another one.


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    #82
    padd b1975
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    jonnypacket wrote: »
    We as a nation haven't produced another half-decent comedy show in 20 years. That's the real laughable thing here. (Unless you consider Mrs Brown's Boys funny, then you're beyond saving)

    Paths to Freedom and CU Burn were both excellent.


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    #83
    lickme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭lickme


    More Water!


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    #84
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Very Bored wrote: »
    Ride me sideways was another one.

    Standing there, with his lad in his hand...


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    #85
    FAILSAFE 00
    Registered Users Posts: 5,416 ✭✭✭FAILSAFE 00


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    You've a face like a pair of tits!
    Well, at least that's a pair of tits between us!
    .
    ..
    Get the fecking crunchies from the car!

    Ahhhh hello father

    OLeary.jpg


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    #86
    Rezident
    Registered Users Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭Rezident


    Not only is it consistently hilarious with wonderful characters, it is one of the only shows that both myself and the missus both like, and she's impossible to please. If it's not a cooking programme, she won't watch it, except for Father Ted. It is outstanding.


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    #87
    Very Bored
    Registered Users Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭Very Bored


    Father Ted is funny, no doubt. But at the time it was even funnier because it was risque. Ireland was just emerging from the gloom of church control and Father Ted was a symbol of that revolution. Ireland is probably around the world the country that moved most quickly from effectively being a church state to a secular one. To not acknowledge the importance of Father Ted in this change is to be blinkered about the past. Its lost of some of that effect because times have changed so massively but its still funny even now.


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    #88
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    You only have to see OHanlon as Thermoman in the BBC series My Hero to see a bad comedy show, just everything about it is wrong, and cringe inducing, not because of the situations the characters get in but the fact you are watching tripe like that at all.
    Fr Ted on the other hand was consistently original and funny.
    No two episodes were the same, even the ones that were two parters.
    The great use of Irelands actors, both comic and dramatic was wonderful and the whole thing was just a perfect storm of talent and craft.
    Of course there will be those who didn't like it, and they are as entitled to their opinion as anyone else but must acknowledge that the weight of opinion is against them.
    By the same token I know folk who loved it the first time around but don't understand the need to watch it again and again.
    I would be a variation, I watched it all the first time and, if I happen to flick to it on the TV I'll settle down and watch it, and still laugh as much.
    From Mrs Doyle learning the offside rule to Dougal remembering his jumper colour, from Fr Furlong to Bishop Brennan, the show was so much more than the occasional catch phrase or someone tripping over someone else's pet brick, though that was funny...


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    #89
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    You only have to see OHanlon as Thermoman in the BBC series My Hero to see a bad comedy show, just everything about it is wrong, and cringe inducing, not because of the situations the characters get in but the fact you are watching tripe like that at all.

    Good God! I had forgotten that abyssmal series ever existed. I think we all should! :pac:

    God, that show was shockingly bad.


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    #90
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Father Ted initially aired in England where it was a massive hit. It was originally rejected in Ireland and took a lot longer to catch on. The British obviously got a good kick out of Irish priests being so ridiculous.


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    #91
    Very Bored
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    I loved the way the British thought feck off was f¥ck off said in an amusing Irish accent. As I remember, they were shocked that anyone would say it on tv because at that time broadcast language was much tamer, nowadays you'd hear worse on Coronation Street. Used to be difficult to try to explain to them the difference between feck and f¥ck.


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