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When will Father Ted quotes die?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    Billy86 wrote: »
    For someone who likes father Ted to say that honestly makes less than zero sense to me. :p

    Why? They're very different shows. And The IT Crowd is missing half of the Father Ted team so it's going to have a different feel because of that. I love Father Ted but simply don't really care for the IT Crowd.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    Hate to disappoint you. But I work for a large US multinational (I'm Irish) Our team have a 'rule' that when you join the team you have to watch all the Fr Teds (In your own time in the evening of course!). So we now have Chinese, Polish, Spanish, Dutch, Italian etc all firm fans.
    Jesus! Seriously?

    Sounds like hell for all those Chinese, Polish, Spanish, Dutch, Italian etc people! Why?

    I know, right? I mean, I love my Father Ted but giving your work team TV homework? (or even just jokingly putting pressure on them to watch it) Yuck! I would haaaattte that if I rocked up to a different country to work. Plus, I don't really care if people from other countries like it or not, or if they never see it. Who cares?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    Eventually every line said in Fr Ted will have been said on this thread, if not already..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭mewe


    GerB40 wrote:
    Eventually every line said in Fr Ted will have been said on this thread, if not already..


    Yes!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,930 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    No, I'm Elvis!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,505 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Jesus! Seriously?

    Sounds like hell for all those Chinese, Polish, Spanish, Dutch, Italian etc people! Why?

    Ah the Chinese, a great bunch of lads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    For me that would be one of my least favourite episodes. I love Father Ted and I think all the episodes are funny, but that would be one of the last I'd choose to watch (reluctant to say definitively the worst episode though!). In particular, I never found the
    "f-king hell" thing funny at all
    but that seems to be the most quoted bit of the episode. Choosing my favourite episode or even top 3 is a lot tougher - possibly Henry sellers, lent and pat mustard episodes.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Father Ted: Ah, Sister Assumpta.
    Sister Assumpta: Hello Father.
    Father Ted: Dougal, Dougal, do you remember Sister Assumpta?
    Father Dougal: Er, no.
    Father Ted: She was here last year. And then we stayed with her in the convent, back in Kildare. Do you remember it? Ah, you do. And then you were hit by the car when you went down to the shops for the paper. You must remember all that? And then you won a hundred pounds with your lottery card? Ah, you must remember it, Dougal.
    [Dougal shakes his head.]
    Sister Assumpta: And weren't you accidentally arrested for shoplifting? I remember we had to go down to the police station to get you. And the police station went on fire? And you had to be rescued by helicopter?
    Father Ted: Do you remember? You can't remember any of that? The helicopter. When you fell out of the helicopter. Over the zoo. Do you remember the tigers?
    [Dougal shakes his head some more.]
    Father Ted: You don't remember? You were wearing your blue jumper.
    Father Dougal: Ah, Sister Assumpta!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Moo Moo Land


    How come all the rocks are different sizes?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,732 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    Elliott S wrote: »
    Why? They're very different shows. And The IT Crowd is missing half of the Father Ted team so it's going to have a different feel because of that. I love Father Ted but simply don't really care for the IT Crowd.

    I think the 'Less than zero sense' aspect is referring to the IT Crowd being a funnier, better written and delivered show that stands up better to a re-watch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    Sand wrote: »
    I think the 'Less than zero sense' aspect is referring to the IT Crowd being a funnier, better written and delivered show that stands up better to a re-watch.

    I never really found the IT Crowd funny - that's what it comes down to; funny or not funny. To me, it's not. And it most definitely isn't better written or smarter. As for delivery, I don't see the appeal of Chris O'Dowd or Katherine Jensen or whatever her name is at all. I find them to be poor comic actors, or at the very least mediocre. And I find Father Ted stands up very well to rewatch. It's all down to preference.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,863 ✭✭✭buried


    Never found either 'Father Ted' or 'The IT Crowd' to be any way funny at all, and I grew up in the 90's with 'Father Ted' at its peak. Don't find TV comedies with the background laughing tracks funny at all. Too forced. Lame IMO.
    Some of the early 'Hardy Bucks' stuff that was uploaded to youtube, that was real Irish rural comedy, episodes like "the mitzi turbo cup" To me, those ten minutes of genius outshine the whatever amount of years 'father ted' was going strong on TV. But its probably preference as other have said, I HATE background audience laughing tracks. They ruin it for me. All my favourite comedies don't have them.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Dick said it's an extra special forfeit this year because you are such a big cheating bastard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,286 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I clicked on this thread because I wanted to see aptly used Father Ted quotes, i was not dissappointed


  • Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭unjedilike


    I've no willy


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Better get going. Milk goes sour you know. Unless it's UHT milk, but there's no demand for that - because it's ****e.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    On the few occasions I watched Farther Ted I remember thinking I can see why some would find this funny. I mean a drunk priest. Ha bloody ha. Proud so say I wouldn't know a Farther Ted quote if it hit me in the face.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,732 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    Elliott S wrote: »
    I never really found the IT Crowd funny - that's what it comes down to; funny or not funny. To me, it's not. And it most definitely isn't better written or smarter. As for delivery, I don't see the appeal of Chris O'Dowd or Katherine Jensen or whatever her name is at all. I find them to be poor comic actors, or at the very least mediocre. And I find Father Ted stands up very well to rewatch. It's all down to preference.

    Well, everyone finds different things funny. Some people find Mrs. Brown hilarious. Fr.Ted was funny. The IT Crowd was funny. But the IT Crowd was clearly a show where the writer had learnt from experience and was delivering consistently better material. Some Fr. Ted episodes can be dreadful swings and misses at jokes until eventually one hits and sparks a constantly repeated quote.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    Sand wrote: »
    Well, everyone finds different things funny. Some people find Mrs. Brown hilarious. Fr.Ted was funny. The IT Crowd was funny. But the IT Crowd was clearly a show where the writer had learnt from experience and was delivering consistently better material. Some Fr. Ted episodes can be dreadful swings and misses at jokes until eventually one hits and sparks a constantly repeated quote.

    I don't think that's clear at all, I find Father Ted a far better, more cohesive show. The third season of FT is the weakest. The first two seasons of FT, there are no bad episodes. Each one is packed to the brim with great jokes. The third season is weaker but even the weakest third season episode is funnier than any IT Crowd episode. I love FT but am not a big quoter of the show. A lot of my favourite FT jokes are much more subtle moments. And, for me, the cast chemistry just wasn't quite right in the IT Crowd and in a sitcom, cast chemistry is crucial.

    The IT Crowd is Graham Linehan's first sitcom flying solo. I think duos (or greater) produce much better sitcoms. You need another creator to bounce off and ideas build due to a competitiveness between the writers and them inspiring each other. It's also good to have a second person there to decide whether a joke will work or not. With Graham just flapping around by himself, the writing comes across a bit confused with many jokes missing the mark. Every episode of the IT Crowd that I saw was a swing and a miss. Far from being consistently better, it was consistently worse. Not for me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭mickrock


    Do we have to wait for every single Irish person born in the 1970-80s to die before we can be freed from the shackles of hearing the same quotes over and over and over again?

    Where did you get the idea for the thread, OP?

    Shoddy workmanship, that's what it is. Shoddy, shoddy, shoddy.

    Everyone who is replying with Father Ted quotes are just a bunch of cowboys.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    I hear you’re a rasist now father. Should we all be racist now? What’s the official line the church is taking on this.
    Only the farm takes up most of the day and at night I just like a cup o’ tea. I mightn’t be able to devote myself to the ol’ racism.

    You’ll address me by my proper title, you little bollix!!!

    Im not good at judging the size of crowds, but I’d say there’s about 17 million of them out there

    Go away you. I don’t want to catch the menopause

    Dougal: What’s going on?
    Priest: I think Ted has a plan.
    Dougal: No. I mean in general.

    You remember Mrs Kirnan, well she was on her way to the shops and a man came over to her and killed her and stole her pen!
    Killed her?
    Well they think so, they’re keeping her in for tests!
    Well you know what happened to Mr Sweeney, Some young fella’s broke into his house and started messing with him, and they put a bra on him!
    Oh god, poor Mr Sweeney, sure he wouldn’t like that at all. I heard there were over 200 cases of forced transvestism involving Mr Sweeney last year.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    Hopefully. It was a very overrated show.

    Black Books was way funnier imo.

    "How did that gob****e get on the television "


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    "Ted, I'm no good at making decisions.... or am I?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Noo wrote: »
    People still quote the simpsons, which to most fans also ended in the 90s.

    You won't hear any post 1990s Simpsons quotes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Stojkovic


    learn_more wrote: »
    Proud so say I wouldn't know a Farther Ted quote if it hit me in the face.
    You'd like my brick !!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭Austria!


    Sure didn't the lord himself pause for a nice fr ted quote before giving himself up for the world


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Don't tell me I'm still on that feckin island!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    ... but we can discuss all that with the solicitor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,125 ✭✭✭trashcan


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    ... but we can discuss all that with the solicitor.

    New one just on now
    Ted - How long has Fr Jack been living in that shed..... Maybe he's agrophobic
    Dougal - Jack scared of fighting ? I don't think so Ted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    buried wrote: »
    Never found either 'Father Ted' or 'The IT Crowd' to be any way funny at all, and I grew up in the 90's with 'Father Ted' at its peak. Don't find TV comedies with the background laughing tracks funny at all. Too forced. Lame IMO.
    Some of the early 'Hardy Bucks' stuff that was uploaded to youtube, that was real Irish rural comedy, episodes like "the mitzi turbo cup" To me, those ten minutes of genius outshine the whatever amount of years 'father ted' was going strong on TV. But its probably preference as other have said, I HATE background audience laughing tracks. They ruin it for me. All my favourite comedies don't have them.

    Can't see your point disliking a show cause it has background laughter and how 10 minutes is better than 3 series. Each to their own obviously but a poor argument.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭caille


    I think the answer is, yes, those who were born from 1970 to mid 80s, will all have to die off before Fr Ted quotes die also.

    So won't be near, will be far away.

    Near...far away

    Near...far away


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭caille


    A few more -

    Fr Jack - 'more water'

    Spider baby.

    Fub off!

    I've had my fun, that's all that matters.

    Doesn't Mary have a lovely bottom? Oh, right, sorry. Don't all the girls have lovely bottoms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,505 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    caille wrote: »
    Fub off!

    Ya grasshole!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,524 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    can I put my big tool in your box


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    mickrock wrote: »
    Where did you get the idea for the thread, OP?

    Shoddy workmanship, that's what it is. Shoddy, shoddy, shoddy.

    Everyone who is replying with Father Ted quotes are just a bunch of cowboys.

    That was a brilliant episode, two of my mates were brilliant as impersonating him. We all knew people who were like him

    Craggy Island , yeah, Craggy Island is the place to be, away from the hypocrisy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭TheBiz


    Sure I don't know Ted ya big bollix


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    I'm so gorgeous they want to arrest me

    And now on BBC1: Jurassic Park. The Director's Cut. With extra dinosaurs.


    God, Ted. D'you remember that feller who was so good at fashion they had to shoot him?


    Aah! Brilliant. A load of people in a stable! It's the one thing I didn't expect.

    C'mere Ted, Ted, Teddy, Ted. God, I love being a priest. We're all going to heaven lads, wheeeyyyyyy!

    ARSEBISCUITS!!!!!!

    It's got cocaine in it.

    I'm a happy camper !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Tazio wrote: »
    I guess Father Ted reminds me of more innocent times in Irish society .. look at Ireland today... drive by shootings in the night, it be like Boys in the Hood. And hoes selling their wares in the middle of the street and the pimps be using crack cocaine to keep the whores under control... tis mad I tell ya.
    Nah, that's just the all Ireland fleadh....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    You can forget about Icey T and you can forget about Scoopy Scoopy Dogg Dogg.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    I'm a happy camper!


  • Registered Users Posts: 21 easyeasy


    DOUGAL'S DOING A FUNERAL?!! YOU LET DOUGAL DO A FUNERAL?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Ted, PLEASE get me loads of MATADOR stuff.

    father Dougal McGuire


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Clit Power? I knew a FR Clint Power once. Maybe she's having a go at him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    Those women were in the nip!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    How come all the rocks are different sizes?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    A one-word film. There can't be too many of those. Salem's Lot?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    Mary: You've a face like a pair o' tits!
    John: At least that's one pair between us!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    Ted: You haven't been up to your old tricks again have you Tom?

    Tom: No father, tis my money, i just didn't want to fill out the forms.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    I get it. It was a great show. But it ended in 1998.

    Do we have to wait for every single Irish person born in the 1970-80s to die before we can be freed from the shackles of hearing the same quotes over and over and over again?

    Yes, I do realise that many responses to this post will include Father Ted quotes. Well done, lads.

    I wouldn't know OP you big bollocks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Moo Moo Land


    D0NNELLY wrote: »
    A one-word film. There can't be too many of those. Salem's Lot?

    No I had Jaws 2 Ted! It's a different film! It's a very different film! It's a different shark!


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