Ted acts like Dougal is an idiot for thinking that Terry Wogan is a nickname, but in Real Life his name was actually Michael.But the Catholic Church really does organise relics by tier, from First-class (directly related to Christ or the body parts of a saint), Second-class (objects owned or used by a saint), and Third-class (objects that have touched First or Second-class relics).

To non-Catholics, the idea of relics being organised into different tiers of holiness in 'Tentacles of Doom' sounds like an amusing setup to the episode's plot.A sip of champagne is enough to set him off. Guest character Henry Sellers is also this.He can identify bottles of wine just from the sound they make, and can down their contents in a split second while Ted's back is turned. 'Drink' is one of the four words in his regular vocabulary, and sobriety, to quote Ted, is like 'some mad hallucinogenic' - prior to his sobering-up in 'Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading', he'd been drunk for at least a decade.

To describe Jack as this would be the understatement of the century.

He even mimes putting the guitar back onto its stand!

Air Guitar: Dougal plays some air guitar to Tina Turner in the first episode.

The writers freely admit that 'Speed 3' is a blatant attempt to write a Speed sequel with the lowest possible stakes imaginable.

Dick Byrne's dramatic ballad ('When I was young, I had a dream / And though the dream was very small, it wouldn't leave me') is an affectionate parody of 60s MOR ballads by the likes of Lee Hazlewood or Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse (especially 'What Kind of Fool Am I').

Acquired Situational Narcissism: Ted, at the drop of a hat, more than once.

Although Jack did seem to enjoy the notion, as when Ted admonishes him he gleefully cries 'Nudey Father Jack!' The rest of the time he's a fully intentional pervert.

Star Dermot Morgan (who played Ted) died from a sudden heart attack one day after he finished filming of the final episode, resulting in the common misconception that the show was ended because of this.īrennan: What would the following describe to you: 'Jack', 'sleepwalking' and 'bollock naked'? The majority of episodes were Fawlty Towers Plots that involved Ted's efforts to either escape from the island or make a nice pile of cash, neither of which he ever succeeded in doing.Ī cult hit in Britain and Ireland, the writers never planned to continue it beyond its third season (due to running out of ideas). Doyle, who is really dedicated to serving tea. An unhinged Anglo-Irish sitcom (or perhaps more accurately, an Irish sitcom paid for with British money) by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, about a tiny parish on a miserable little island off the coast of Ireland where the Catholic Church has exiled three of its most embarrassing members: the embezzler Father Ted Crilly, the idiotic Manchild Father Dougal McGuire, and the drunken, violent, foul-mouthed skirt-chaser Father Jack Hackett.

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