Was Father Ted the best ever Irish Comedy Show?

May have been produced by a British company but its writers were Irish and it was based on Irish priests and Irish life of that time so it should be classified as an Irish show. Certainly the best Irish comedy show of all time.

May as well add a quote:

Mrs Doyle: Are you looking forward to your lunch tomorrow, Father?
Ted: Hmmm? I suppose so.
Mrs Doyle: You do like pheasant, don't you Father?
Ted: Pheasant? I love pheasant.
Mrs Doyle: Well there's a little clue. The thing you'll be eating likes pheasant as well.

Take the word 'Irish' out of the thread title and it'd be more accurate.

Best ever bar none.

"It's only a bleedin' whistle"

Got to be honest. I don't find Fawlty Towers very funny.




/runs

brummytom wrote: »

Got to be honest. I don't find Fawlty Towers very funny.




/runs

:eek:

/runs after brummytom. with a stick.

Careful now.

Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »

"Butlers after winning two million quid, now he's off to Belvedere"
Quality, pure quality.

Actually, if they're on dvd I've figured out my secret santa

There was a programme on before it and i used to love it but the name escapes me. I remember watching them both on Friday evenings. What was the name of that programme?

Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »

Details...

Racking my brain here but can't think what it was about. Although i want to say it was set in a school.

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I do struggle to think of a sit-com better than it.

Fawlty Towers, The Phil Silvers show, Blackadder goes Forth, Cheers, The Larry Sanders show, Curb your enthusiasm, The Office...struggling after that.

Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »

Billy Connolly used to have some sitcom where he was a school teacher?

Head of the class.

super-rush wrote: »

It was an Irish show aimed at teenagers. Don't think he was in it.

Finbarr's class or something like that?

Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »

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

The "DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING!" "CAREFUL NOW!" combo is a mainstay at protests, there's always one or two. I think poor Graham Linehan's head is probably wrecked with people sending him photos of them.

That said, I was well impressed at the IMF march today, somebody went one further and broke out "IS THERE ANYTHING TO BE SAID FOR ANOTHER MASS?!?!"

super-rush wrote: »

We have a weiner.

Bizarrely, unless i've lost my mind, i think there was some controversy related to that show. I think there was some nudity shown at some point; in an art class or something.
Seem to remember it causing a bit of a stir.

Whether is is Irish or not, still it was the best show by miles at the time. Used to be on after poxy Friends I think on a Monday night? When I came to Korea the mammy sent me the DVD Box set. Might break that out again now.

Some quotes:

Father Clippit says a good long mass. Four hours he does. Since his stroke

You'd better get going, because milk gets sour. Unless it's UHT milk, but there's no demand for that. Because it's ****e.

Dougal: Watch this, Ted. (rubs letters off blackboard) You see? You can rub off the letters.
Ted: But, Dougal, you can do that with any blackboard.
Dougal: What?

Dougal: Can I stay up tonight to watch the scary film?
Ted: Ah, no no no. The last time you stayed up to watch a scary film you ended up having to sleep in my bed. I wouldn't mind, but it wasn't even a scary film.
Dougal: Come on, Ted. A Volkswagen with a mind of its own. If that isn't scary, I don't know what is.

Sheep, like all wool-bearing animals, instinctively travel north, where it's colder, and they won't be so stuffy.

Ted: Maybe he's agoraphobic.
Dougal: Jack? Scared of fighting? I don't think so, Ted!

Ted: What was it [Jack] used to say about the needy? He had a term for them.
Dougal: A shower of bastards.

So there he is. Risen from the dead. Like that feller.... E.T.

Put your clothes back on, Carol, I can't concentrate.

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

Of course... they all have lovely bottoms!

Dougal: (trying to pray) Hail Mary who art in heaven.......
Ted: Hallowed.
Dougal: Oh yeah. Hallowed Be....
Ted: Thy Name...
Dougal: Papa Don't Preach........
Ted: Dougal, you know you can praise the lord with sleep.
Dougal: Really Ted? You can praise him in lots of ways, like that time you said that I could praise him just by leaving the room.
Ted: Yes, that was a good one !

Jack: Where are the other two?

"Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats."

"I won't be happy until the last rabbit round here is the one inside your head, working the controls!"

Ted: Dougal, you can't sit around here watching television all day - chewing gum for the eyes!
Dougal: Oh no thanks Ted, I've got these crisps, here.

Dougal: Well, who cares anyway? They come in, they strip down the wallpaper, they fumigate the place and they're gone. What's so bad about that?
Ted: Dougal, they're bishops!
(pause)
Dougal: ...Oh right, yes.

Old priest: I really shouldn't be here.

From http://www.feck.net/splange/ftquote.html

Probably was the best.....loved Fergus's Wedding..

Without doubt the best. Any show that has so many catchphrases which enter into the national vocabulary as to be up there. I think what made it great was the combination of Irish writers and actors who knew all the quirks of Irish society inside out, backed up by the British ability to mercilessly rip the piss out of a subject and take no prisoners with people's sensibilities.