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Was Father Ted the best ever Irish Comedy Show?

  • 27-11-2010 11:45pm
    #1
    mfceiling
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    Ten years from the last ever series.
    Even today when you talk to a stranger and it happens to come into conversation you will feel a connection as you laugh at some of the sayings, scenarios that unfolded in it.

    One of you will always mention the milk float episode with Pat Mustard


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  • #2
    mikemac
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    Is a Channel 4 show Irish?


  • #3
    Benny-c
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    It wasn't Irish-it was produced by UKs Channel 4.

    http://www.channel4.com/programmes/father-ted


  • #4
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    It was written by and starred irish people so yeah i would say it was Irish.


  • #5
    gamgsam
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    Was Father Ted the best ever Irish Comedy Show?

    Yes. Next.


  • #6
    W.Shakes-Beer
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    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Is a Channel 4 show Irish?

    No but the whole thing of it being three catholic priests off the coast of Clare gives a bit of a hint.


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  • #7
    baldbear
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    Without a doubt the best Irish comedy. What else was there? Kilnaskutter!


  • #8
    deereidy
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    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Is a Channel 4 show Irish?

    It had Irish writers. Imagine the atrocity it would have been if they'd given it to RTE. Also loved the Blizzard Of Odd, pity it was cancelled :(


  • #9
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    This debate is fresh and exciting.

    Oh and we're all going to heaven lads wheeeeyyyy


  • #10
    OPENROAD
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    Ten years from the last ever series.
    Even today when you talk to a stranger and it happens to come into conversation you will feel a connection as you laugh at some of the sayings, scenarios that unfolded in it.

    One of you will always mention the milk float episode with Pat Mustard

    That was the worst episode imo


  • #11
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    deereidy wrote: »
    It had Irish writers. Imagine the atrocity it would have been if they'd given it to RTE. Also loved the Blizzard Of Odd, pity it was cancelled :(

    If the situation was reversed, we would be claiming it :p


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  • #12
    W.Shakes-Beer
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    THERESA! I FORGOT ME FECKIN' TROUSERS!


  • #13
    krudler
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    OPENROAD wrote: »
    That was the worst episode imo

    GTFO


  • #14
    mikemac
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    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    It was written by and starred irish people so yeah i would say it was Irish.

    True but the producers own the show

    And Hattrick Productions is a UK independent production company
    And then Channel 4 acquired rights for it


  • #15
    sonic85
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    OPENROAD wrote: »
    That was the worst episode imo

    "he wants to put his big tool in my box" - classic!


  • #16
    Stained Class
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    Yeah, most likely the best comedy show of all time.

    I remember when it first came out there was a bit of a furore about it being made by a British company & how the Brits would be laughing at us etc..

    Still, can anybody name a better comedy show?

    Way better than Faulty Towers but Only Fools & Horses gives it a run though...


  • #17
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    In before someone claims that RTÉ were too afraid to take it on.


  • #18
    herisson
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    OPENROAD wrote: »
    That was the worst episode imo

    :eek:

    that is one of the best by far


  • #19
    Kimono-Girl
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    i have yet to meet someone who hasn't found it funny! so that to me would say yes! :D


  • #20
    OPENROAD
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    Stained Class wrote: »
    Yeah, most likely the best comedy show of all time.

    I remember when it first came out there was a bit of a furore about it being made by a British company & how the Brits would be laughing at us etc..

    Still, can anybody name a better comedy show?

    Way better than Faulty Towers but Only Fools & Horses gives it a run though...

    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:


  • #21
    OPENROAD
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    Pixie-Fairy wrote: »
    :eek:

    that is one of the best by far

    Yup, ok maybe the football one, actually no that one, it was pony imo.

    The best one has to be the Chinese one :D:D:D


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  • #22
    cml387
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    OPENROAD wrote: »
    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

    Me and OPENROAD grip each other and look on aghast!


  • #23
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:


    Nah, seriously FT dealt with British eccentricities & hangups in the same way that Fr Ted did with the Irish.

    So as an Irish dude, I'd relate more to Fr Ted.

    Fawlty Towers was good though.


  • #24
    brummytom
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    OPENROAD wrote: »
    That was the worst episode imo
    "Is there anything to be said for saying another mass?"


    One of the best episodes for me


  • #25
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Yeah, most likely the best comedy show of all time.

    I remember when it first came out there was a bit of a furore about it being made by a British company & how the Brits would be laughing at us etc..

    Still, can anybody name a better comedy show?

    Way better than Faulty Towers but Only Fools & Horses gives it a run though...

    Quite the opposite, it put us on the map, remember Frank Kelly telling a story that he was walking in London one day when a real cockney truck ddriver leaned out of his window and shouted Feck off at him :D:D

    Fawlty Towers was way better imo


  • #26
    krudler
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    "Those women were in the nip!!!"


  • #27
    OPENROAD
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    brummytom wrote: »
    "Is there anything to be said for saying another mass?"


    One of the best episodes for me

    In fairness I loved that line :D


  • #28
    Celtise
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    Let's all eat Tony!

    No contest, simply the best. Can't believe it's been ten years though.


  • #29
    chin_grin
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    No Irish comedy shows are funny. The UK shows are far superior.

    Fawlty Towers, Boosh, Peep Show, Mitchell and Webb Look, Stewart Lee, Black Books, Spaced, Monty Python, Brasseye, Look Around You, Time Trumpet, Garth Merenghis Dark Place, Nathan Barley, etc, etc.


  • #30
    cml387
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    As mentioned in another thread today,what other comedy program used a James Joyce quote.

    Quality or what?


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  • #31
    The Floyd p
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    Ted! You forgot your brick!


  • #32
    mfceiling
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    chin_grin wrote: »
    No Irish comedy shows are funny. The UK shows are far superior.

    Fawlty Towers, Boosh, Peep Show, Mitchell and Webb Look, Stewart Lee, Black Books, Spaced, Monty Python, Brasseye, Look Around You, Time Trumpet, Garth Merenghis Dark Place, Nathan Barley, etc, etc.

    *goes into kitchen for can opener for the can of worms that chin_grin is going to open*


  • #33
    mfceiling
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    Did you get that dougal?
    I'm just going to turn it up ted, at this volume you could a pin dro*&^***^^£"!(**&


  • #34
    themandan6611
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    Was Father Ted the best ever Irish Comedy Show

    no twas the fianna fail ard fheis


  • #35
    W.Shakes-Beer
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    Crilly, if you ever bullshít me like that again, I will rip off your arms.


  • #36
    fonecrusher1
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    Change the title of this thread to loads n loads of lines from Father Ted.

    something something something ted.....


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  • #37
    OPENROAD
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    :D:D:D


    I'm not a fascist, I'm a priest. Fascists dress in black and go around telling people what to do, whereas...priests... More drink!


  • #38
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    Obviously you have all forgotten the brilliance of "Upwardly Mobile"


  • #39
    cml387
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    Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »
    Obviously you have all forgotten the brilliance of "Upwardly Mobile"

    At last the voice of reason.


  • #40
    FouxDaFaFa
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beN7FftWNCM

    Possibly my favourite tv moment ever.

    "What's going on?"
    "I think Ted has a plan"
    "No...I mean, in general?"


  • #41
    Aldebaran
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    Fcukin' hell


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  • #42
    W.Shakes-Beer
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    Wooooo....Bye Girls!........Pair of ****.


  • #43
    ascanbe
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    Definitely the best ever Irish sit-com.
    But, as i heard someone else say about something else, that's like being exalted for being the tallest dwarf.
    Genuinely great show, though.


  • #44
    EverEvolving
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    Are you sure you won't try some cake father?? It's got cocaine in it.

    What Cocaine????

    Ooh no, not cocaine ... whats that ya call them ... oh yes raisins.

    _________________________________________________


    Dougal - I'm not good at judging the size of crowds, but I'd say there's about 17 Million of them out there.


  • #45
    Aldebaran
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    When it yawns it sounds like Liam Neeson chasing a load of hens around inside a barrel.


  • #46
    bronte
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    They lie in wait like wolves. The smell of blood in their nostrils. Waiting. Interminably waiting. And then...


  • #47
    FoxT
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    Father Ted was as Irish as Yorkshire Pudding. I think the best Irish comedy show ever in the whole world was.....

    TV - Halls Pictorial Weekly

    Radio - Scrap Saturday (OK not TV, but it was better than TV, and it was Irish:D)


  • #48
    ascanbe
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    Stained Class wrote: »
    Yeah, most likely the best comedy show of all time.

    I remember when it first came out there was a bit of a furore about it being made by a British company & how the Brits would be laughing at us etc..

    Still, can anybody name a better comedy show?

    Way better than Faulty Towers but Only Fools & Horses gives it a run though...

    In no way is it 'way better' than Fawlty Towers.


  • #49
    yesno1234
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    They say it's as big as four cats, and it's got a retractable leg so as it can leap up at you better and you know what Ted, it lights up at night, and it's got four ears. Two of them are for listening and the other two are kind of back-up ears, and it's claws are as big as cups and for some reason it's got a tremendous fear of stamps and Mrs. Doyle was tellin' me that it's got magnets on it's tail so's if you're made out of metal it can attach itself to you, and instead of a mouth it's got four arses


  • #50
    baldbear
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    "JUST PLAY THE ***ING NOTE", Brill episode.

    I wish Dermot Morgan was alive! He'd have a field day with our crooked politicians.


  • #51
    Ardennes1944
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    at the recent student protest in dublin there was obviously many signs but about a third of them were two people holding separate signs saying....down with this sort of thing....careful now:D


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