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What is it with the Irish and Father Ted?

  • 05-08-2014 3:48pm
    #1
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭


    Let me first start by saying it was a great show and will always be one of the very best tv series to come out of Ireland.

    Why is it though that it goes on and on and on and people act like it was the only thing ever shown on tv over here ?

    Everywhere you go there are quotes and catchphrases i mean you cant go a day on this site or most Irish sites without someone quoting something from it.

    Ive a pain in me hole with it at this stage theres nothing more annoying then something that becomes so over done and dragged out.

    Why do we cling to things so badly as if nothing else ever happened before or after it ?


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  • #2
    solomafioso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭solomafioso


    Careful now...


  • #3
    kingchess
    Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭kingchess


    that would be an ecumenical matter


  • #4
    dobman88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,538 ✭✭✭dobman88


    Down with this sort of thread.


  • #5
    twinytwo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,409 ✭✭✭twinytwo


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Let me first start by saying it was a great show and will always be one of the very best tv series to come out of Ireland.

    Why is it though that it goes on and on and on and people act like it was the only thing ever shown on tv over here ?

    Everywhere you go there are quotes and catchphrases i mean you cant go a day on this site or most Irish sites without someone quoting something from it.

    Ive a pain in me hole with it at this stage theres nothing more annoying then something that becomes so over done and dragged out.

    Why do we cling to things so badly as if nothing else ever happened before or after it ?

    Careful now!


  • #6
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Why is it though that it goes on and on and on and people act like it was the only thing ever shown on tv over here ?
    It's pretty much the only TV show to come out of Ireland that's worth talking about.


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  • #7
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    whats that? You want everyone to post their favourite ted quote?


  • #8
    WesternZulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    Because it's the only comedy that has ever come near to defining exactly what Irish humour is all about.


  • #9
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    :pac: Uhhh can see this was a bad idea.


  • #10
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Ride me sideways was another one


  • #11
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Why do we cling to things so badly as if nothing else ever happened before or after it ?

    That would be an ecumenical matter.


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  • #12
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    I love it when a plan comes together.


  • #13
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    Bambi wrote: »
    whats that? You want everyone to post their favourite ted quote?
    "F*ckin' hell!"


  • #14
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Why is it though that it goes on and on and on and people act like it was the only thing ever shown on tv over here ?

    I agree.

    I didn't get where I am today by quoting characters in a TV sitcom.


  • #15
    Slattsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Looks like a bad thread Ted.


  • #16
    BettePorter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭BettePorter


    You're absolutely right op! Down with this sort of thing!!!!!!


  • #17
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    ScumLord wrote: »
    It's pretty much the only TV show to come out of Ireland that's worth talking about.

    Didn't it come out of England? :p


  • #18
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Let me first start by saying it was a great show and will always be one of the very best tv series to come out of Ireland.

    Why is it though that it goes on and on and on and people act like it was the only thing ever shown on tv over here ?

    20 GOTO 10


  • #19
    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,215 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    Father Ted is an absolute classic and has stood the test of time so I think it's only right that the show should live on in the way you mentioned.


  • #20
    Cantremember
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Cantremember


    I thought the line was " how soon is soon"


  • #21
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    Because there's no real possibility of something like it again, in terms of budget. Val Falvey TD was a bastard child of sorts. There were only 6 episodes though. I'm sure if Dermot Morgan were still alive there would have sonething suutable to replace and surpass From Ted though.


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  • #22
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Well I'm very cynical as you know.


  • #23
    Kat1170
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,665 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    You're right, down with this sort of thing


  • #24
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Cantremember wrote: »
    I thought the line was " how soon is soon"

    Later maybe?


  • #25
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Ive a pain in me hole with it at this stage theres nothing more annoying then something that becomes so over done and dragged out.

    Why do we cling to things so badly as if nothing else ever happened before or after it ?

    Well........


  • #26
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    See already people are repeating the same quotes in the same thread....... Can you not see how this gets annoying when its been going on for years and years :pac:.


  • #27
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    See already people are repeating the same quotes in the same thread....... Can you not see how this gets annoying when its been going on for years and years :pac:.

    Careful now..


  • #28
    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,215 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    See already people are repeating the same quotes in the same thread....... Can you not see how this gets annoying when its been going on for years and years :pac:.

    It never gets old! :D


  • #29
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    jebforever wrote: »
    It never gets old! :D

    It got old a long time ago. Things dont stay funny and clever if u keep repeating them over and over and over everywhere!.


  • #30
    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    I want to kick to OP up the arse


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  • #31
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Word of advice to OP.

    Never ever think about opening a thread complaining about The Simpsons.

    Trust me. It'll back fire.


  • #32
    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,215 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    It got old a long time ago. Things dont stay funny and clever if u keep repeating them over and over and over everywhere!.

    Father Ted is the exception to the rule.


  • #33
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    What would us students shout at protests if we couldn't say 'Careful now'......

    Idiots.. :D


  • #34
    kingchess
    Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭kingchess


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    I agree.

    I didn't get where I am today by quoting characters in a TV sitcom.

    reggie perrin ???


  • #35
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Lapin wrote: »
    Word of advice to OP.

    Never ever think about opening a thread complaining about The Simpsons.

    Trust me. It'll back fire.

    Its been done many a time all over the internet id only be copying someone else :p


  • #36
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    solomafioso wrote: »
    Careful now...
    kingchess wrote: »
    that would be an ecumenical matter
    dobman88 wrote: »
    Down with this sort of thread.

    I laughed out loud. :D

    There'll be young people watching Father Ted in 20 years time who enjoy it just as much as their Grandparents did 40 years earlier.


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  • #37
    Godeatsboogers
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭Godeatsboogers


    What are we supposed to talk about, Love/Hate? Id prefer to deep fry my feet


  • #38
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    I laughed out loud. :D

    There'll be young people watching Father Ted in 20 years time who enjoy it just as much as their Grandparents did 40 years earlier.

    Never mind twenty or forty years time there be a reference to it in another thread somewhere or any irish site somewhere in Ireland in the next twenty or forty minutes....


  • #39
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Godeatsboogers wrote: »
    What are we supposed to talk about, Love/Hate? Id prefer to deep fry my feet

    They show tv from other country's as well right?


  • #40
    mirekb
    Registered Users Posts: 193 ✭✭mirekb


    Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition! Hang on...


  • #41
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    WesternZulu wrote: »
    Because it's the only comedy that has ever come near to defining exactly what Irish humour is all about.

    and Irish society of the last 40 odd years


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  • #42
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    We're all going to heaven lads, waaaaaaayyyyy...


  • #43
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Anyway OP in 15 years we will all be quoting Mrs. Browns Boys


  • #44
    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Let me first start by saying it was a great show and will always be one of the very best tv series to come out of Ireland.

    Why is it though that it goes on and on and on and people act like it was the only thing ever shown on tv over here ?

    Everywhere you go there are quotes and catchphrases i mean you cant go a day on this site or most Irish sites without someone quoting something from it.

    Ive a pain in me hole with it at this stage theres nothing more annoying then something that becomes so over done and dragged out.

    Why do we cling to things so badly as if nothing else ever happened before or after it ?

    Why do we have to talk to this fascist?


  • #45
    Geomy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭Geomy


    Ah go on, go on, go on go on.....


  • #46
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Never mind twenty or forty years time there be a reference to it in another thread somewhere or any irish site somewhere in Ireland in the next twenty or forty minutes....

    It's deeply embedded in Irish culture at this point for sure.


  • #47
    SterlingArcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,767 ✭✭✭SterlingArcher


    Ted was awesome. For me it showed exactly why Rte are a bunch of usless twats. The old dusty farts in rte were too afraid to air Ted. Considered too controversial. it was way ahead of rtes time (the 1960's) , so it had to be pitched in the uk.

    And thank god. Rte would have ruined it. Made some dumbed down, safe, type dribble abomination trying hard to not offend anyone.

    A show staring the mad cap Jayson Byrne as Ted and Brian Ormand as Dougal . Makes me queasy.a show much like Jason Byrne's recent attempt which nobody would remember a year later never mind 15 years.


  • #48
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I was watch Fr Ted 24/7 on Netfix, or my DVD Boxset... Wayhey!


  • #49
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    They show tv from other country's as well right?

    Who's a bit of a Moaning Michael tonight?


  • #50
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Jason Byrne even Fr Ted made him appear funny


  • #51
    Ishmael
    Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    We are addicted to it because there's cocaine in it......em, no wait, i mean raisins!


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