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Dermot Morgan died 20 years ago today

  • 28-02-2018 5:28pm
    #1
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,557 ✭✭✭✭


    Wow...where does the time go? :(

    Mad, Ted.

    I’ll always remember listening to 2fm that Sunday afternoon (it was either Aidan Leonard or Michael Cahill dj-ing) when they broke the news - so shocking.


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  • #2
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Now I feel old.


  • #3
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Are we sure he didn't just drink an entire bottle of Dreamy Sleepy Nighty Snoozy Snooze?


  • #4
    eyerer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭eyerer


    I loved that show when I was a kid. I was sad when he died.. just after finishing the last show too.


  • #5
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,190 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    He left behind a great body of work and some very happy memories.

    What would he have had to say in the last 20 years?


  • #6
    Heres Johnny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Heres Johnny


    Yep remember where I was too. In my dad's car on way back from playing malahide in a rugby match. Shocked he was such an institution at the time. At least we won the match.

    I watch father Ted religiously if it's on tv, pardon the pun.


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  • #7
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Apt it snows on his anniversary..

    "It's beginning to snow again. The flakes, silver and dark, are falling obliquely against the lamplight. It's probably falling all over the island; on the central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the graveyards, upon the crosses and headstones, upon all the living and the dead..."


  • #8
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    valoren wrote: »
    Apt it snows on his anniversary..

    "It's beginning to snow again. The flakes, silver and dark, are falling obliquely against the lamplight. It's probably falling all over the island; on the central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the graveyards, upon the crosses and headstones, upon all the living and the dead..."

    I hear they've taken the roads in.


  • #9
    Four Phucs Ache
    Registered Users Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    Me and my brother would have a whole pack of custard creams to dip for the first half , tell mrs doyle (our ma)to make another cup of tea during the break and have a whole pack of chocolate creams for the second half.Good times.


  • #10
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    I'd only known him for Fr Ted, but I remember seeing him on the Late Late just before his death and he was hilarious!


  • #11
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    That very last scene of the last episode where the light goes off in the parochial house and Dougal says "Night Ted" always makes me a bit :(


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  • #12
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    valoren wrote: »
    Apt it snows on his anniversary..

    "It's beginning to snow again. The flakes, silver and dark, are falling obliquely against the lamplight. It's probably falling all over the island; on the central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the graveyards, upon the crosses and headstones, upon all the living and the dead..."

    "SHUT TO FECK UP"


  • #13
    Postgrad10
    Registered Users Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭Postgrad10


    What !! Unbelievable. How old am I? Right time for a cup of tea and a few episodes of Ted.


  • #14
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    It is difficult to believe it is twenty years.
    One day when driving to work at 7am I saw him walking in Donnybrook. He was wearing sunglasses but that was no disguise.
    My sister was related to him, and he was at a family funeral.
    When with my sister I met his mother a few times and she was lovely, very amusing and intelligent.
    He was one of the best Irishmen ever imo.


  • #15
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    elperello wrote: »
    He left behind a great body of work and some very happy memories.

    What would he have had to say in the last 20 years?

    Aaaaah, there's other reasons for living, ya know?


  • #16
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    valoren wrote: »
    Apt it snows on his anniversary..

    "It's beginning to snow again. The flakes, silver and dark, are falling obliquely against the lamplight. It's probably falling all over the island; on the central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the graveyards, upon the crosses and headstones, upon all the living and the dead..."

    One of my favourite moments in Ted, strangely moving.


  • #17
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    You'd miss him alright :( What a fantastic show, absolutely loved it and would watch it over and over.


  • #18
    barney shamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    FT was great then and is still great now. It's aged well unlike a lot of sitcoms.
    I was living in the UK when it first came out and remember English lads asking if people really said 'feck' instead of "the bad f word" in Ireland. 😠They thought it was made up for the show.


  • #19
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Fr. Ted use to be on on a Monday night as far as I can remember around 1996/7? The next day you'd go into school and everyone would be talking about it. We use to be in stitches reliving the jokes.


  • #20
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,964 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    One of the great Irish comedians.


  • #21
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    A cow called Daisy wrote: »
    "SHUT TO FECK UP"

    There's no need for that! :mad: You'll be hearing from my solicitors, Corless Corless and Sweeney!


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    I hear you're a racist now Fadder

    :D

    Time sure does fly. I was in my mid teens when Father Ted first aired. I had a little portable television in my room and that's where I would watch it. Along with a cheese samitch God love me :) I remember there was a thing called Central Park West on after it. It was about a newspaper and all the carrying on of it's staff I think.


  • #23
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Mrs Browne's Boys is funnier than Fr Ted



    Not really tho


  • #24
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Mrs Browne's Boys is funnier than Fr Ted



    Not really tho

    Jaysus no. No, no, no. Jaysus. No.


  • #25
    Philipx
    Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭Philipx


    And before that...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgTj_dHWfg


  • #26
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    One of my favourite moments in Ted, strangely moving.

    Very moving indeed, and an apt Joycean quotation. It's the last paragraph in 'The Dead'.

    Loved Scrap Saturday, listened to it religiously!


  • #27
    Clickbait
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Clickbait


    Father Jack died on the same day as well.


  • #28
    BBDBB
    Registered Users Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Its not been the same since they moved it to that Caribbean island and started solving unlikely crimes


  • #29
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    valoren wrote: »
    There's no need for that! :mad: You'll be hearing from my solicitors, Corless Corless and Sweeney!

    If they're your solicitors then I'm Boy George


  • #30
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users Posts: 19,019 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    eyerer wrote: »
    I loved that show when I was a kid. I was sad when he died.. just after finishing the last show too.


    Well, in fairness, it's kinda by definition that the last show was just finished before he died

    If he had died in the middle of series one he'd have died just after finishing the "last show"


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  • #31
    One_Of_Shanks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭One_Of_Shanks


    Donald Trump wrote: »
    Well, in fairness, it's kinda by definition that the last show was just finished before he died

    If he had died in the middle of series one he'd have died just after finishing the "last show"

    What?


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