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Am i the only one in Ireland who doesn't leghump Father Ted?

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  • #32
    AlmightyCushion
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    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    Seriously? That's the best you can come up with?

    Nah there are tonnes more, it's just the first one that came up with off the top of my head as myself and one of the Polish lads were talking about it.


  • #33
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    People were talking on her the other day about sabrina the teenage witch still on reruns

    You got me there. Sabrina the teenage witch, a milestone that was!


  • #34
    Jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    Fs. AD. AD is what I meant. I only said AE cause of your original typo.
    GET OUT OF MY MIND.


  • #35
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,970 ✭✭✭amacca


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    It's a meh comedy show, if it wasn't irish, i believe most irish people wouldn't be that pushed about it

    Well I'm sure you're not the only one but I think you would be in a minority.

    Its got mass appeal!

    I think its one of the funniest comedy shows of all time - its one of my all time favourites although way above it (cant really compare as its radio i suppose) for me in terms of belly laughs is something else Dermot Morgan was involved in...Scrap Saturday (just genius - utter genius)


  • #36
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    would anyone here say it is the best tv show ever?


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  • #37
    Jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    would anyone here say it is the best tv show ever?
    Not TV show no. One of the best comedies I have enjoyed ever, yes.


  • #38
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Nah there are tonnes more, it's just the first one that came up with off the top of my head as myself and one of the Polish lads were talking about it.

    The line you quoted is dumbed down comedy at it's best


  • #39
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    latenia wrote: »
    I'd rank it about 30 in my favourite sitcoms list

    You have an active ranking system for sitcoms?


  • #40
    WallyGUFC
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    Sh*t happens!


  • #41
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    amacca wrote: »
    Well I'm sure you're not the only one but I think you would be in a minority.

    Its got mass appeal!

    I think its one of the funniest comedy shows of all time - its one of my all time favourites although way above it (cant really compare as its radio i suppose) for me in terms of belly laughs is something else Dermot Morgan was involved in...Scrap Saturday (just genius - utter genius)

    So has religion ;)


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  • #42
    AlmightyCushion
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    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    The line you quoted is dumbed down comedy at it's best

    Who cares. Why does comedy always have to be intelligent? Why can't it sometimes be a little stupid and dumb as long as it makes you laugh?


  • #43
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    The line you quoted is dumbed down comedy at it's best

    How? Because of swearing? Youre missing the joke completely if youre looking at it that way


  • #44
    darragh16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭darragh16


    Mary: Tit Face, you've a face like a pair of tits.
    John: Well at least that's one pair between us...


  • #45
    scientific1982
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    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    It's a meh comedy show, if it wasn't irish, i believe most irish people wouldn't be that pushed about it
    Its a good enough sitcom but its really overrated. Black books was better.


  • #46
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    Father Ted is bloody brilliant but I would still rate Arrested Development and maybe I'm Alan Partridge higher.


  • #47
    amacca
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    Ultimate Chin wrote: »
    How? Because of swearing? Youre missing the joke completely if youre looking at it that way

    Hairy Japanese B#stards!


  • #48
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    I love Father ted.


  • #49
    ColeTrain
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    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Who cares. Why does comedy always have to be intelligent? Why can't it sometimes be a little stupid and dumb as long as it makes you laugh?

    Exactly. That was the appeal about Father Ted. It had an unusual setting with oddball characters, stupid lines and outlandish situations. Nothing made sense and that's what made it appeal to so many.


  • #50
    Professey Chin
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    Alter-Ego wrote: »
    Father Ted is bloody brilliant but I would still rate Arrested Development and maybe I'm Alan Partridge higher.

    Could never even take watching that. Always found it to be pure sh!te


  • #51
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    curb your enthusiasm

    You're correct. Fr Ted relied on catchphrases, contrived zany surrealism (which the writers themselves admit they swiped from the Simpsons) and just enough paddywackery to keep the Brits interested. The worst episode of Curb is better than the best Fr Ted and nothing Matthews and Linehan have written has come close to Larry David's skills at plotting, social satire, self-mockery and even scatology and off-colour humour concerning incest and paedophilia.
    I have never even smirked at Fr Jack or Mrs Doyle.


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  • #52
    Jim
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    latenia wrote: »
    You're correct. Fr Ted relied on catchphrases, contrived zany surrealism (which the writers themselves admit they swiped from the Simpsons) and just enough paddywackery to keep the Brits interested. The worst episode of Curb is better than the best Fr Ted and nothing Matthews and Linehan have written has come close to Larry David's skills at plotting, social satire, self-mockery and even scatology and off-colour humour concerning incest and paedophilia.
    I have never even smirked at Fr Jack or Mrs Doyle.
    You could also argue that CYE is the same thing every single episode. Which it is. Doesn't mean it's necessarily bad comedy though.


  • #53
    darragh16
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    latenia wrote: »
    Fr Ted relied on catchphrases.

    I don't remember Ted or Dougal having specific catchphrases, they've had memorable quotes, but not catchphrases...


  • #54
    ColeTrain
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    darragh16 wrote: »
    I don't remember Ted or Dougal having specific catchphrases, they've had memorable quotes, but not catchphrases...

    "That money was just resting in my account" :D


  • #55
    Alter-Ego
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    Ultimate Chin wrote: »
    Could never even take watching that. Always found it to be pure sh!te
    A lot of people seem to get put off by the character but once you get past that the comedy writing is top class.


  • #56
    starbelgrade
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm isn't really that funny at all. Just some grumpy oul shite in contrived situations trying to get a laugh.

    Victor Meldrew was miles better at it. Alf Garnet even better.


  • #57
    ArtSmart
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    latenia wrote: »
    You're correct. Fr Ted relied on catchphrases, contrived zany surrealism (which the writers themselves admit they swiped from the Simpsons) and just enough paddywackery to keep the Brits interested. The worst episode of Curb is better than the best Fr Ted and nothing Matthews and Linehan have written has come close to Larry David's skills at plotting, social satire, self-mockery and even scatology and off-colour humour concerning incest and paedophilia.
    I have never even smirked at Fr Jack or Mrs Doyle.
    yeah, but ,no ,but. yeah. -well not Curb - Seinfeld
    curb's tries too hard and relies on anger as an escape pod.

    anyhoo....
    Fr Ted. yup it has all the faults mentioned, but what is also has is a warmth, a warmth which people find pretty good about - and not a mawkish sort of thing, more a beast wrestled to the ground with humour sort of warmth.
    god bless it. :)


  • #58
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    Jim wrote: »
    You could also argue that CYE is the same thing every single episode. Which it is. Doesn't mean it's necessarily bad comedy though.

    So attending a support group for incest survivors is the same as playing the lead in a Broadway musical? Or having a black family come to live with you is the same as organising a Seinfeld reunion show? Sure, LD walks through these scenarios in his usual curmudgeonly fashion but I never get the sense of the show repeating itself, apart from squabbles over restaurant bills and tipping.


  • #59
    Jim
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    latenia wrote: »
    So attending a support group for incest survivors is the same as playing the lead in a Broadway musical? Or having a black family come to live with you is the same as organising a Seinfeld reunion show? Sure, LD walks through these scenarios in his usual curmudgeonly fashion but I never get the sense of the show repeating itself, apart from squabbles over restaurant bills and tipping.
    Larry begins story, pisses someone random off during story, continues story, needs random persons help to conclude story but happened to piss them off at the beginning and now cannot count on their help. End episode.


  • #60
    seanybiker
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    Bleeding brutal show. Was kinda ok the first time I saw it but not it just gives me ire.


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  • #61
    ringadingding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ringadingding


    I enjoyed father ted the first few times, I've since started to hate it since coming on boards and every AH thread has a quote on it.

    A post saying ' down with this sort of thing ' in every thread has made me weary of father ted.

    It's a good show, but not the best comedy. Fawlty towers destroys it.


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