Current Events > I'm going to watch all episodes of Father Ted

(+) Yeah! (+)

Heard lots of good things.

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Watched it for the first time last year. It's pretty hilarious.

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Been pretty good so far. Just starting episode 4.

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One of my favorite shows to rewatch. If you enjoy it, I also suggest watching "Black Books"

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I like how more risqu this stuff is than a typical 90s sitcom. Just finished the ep with the novelist Ted was sweet on.



I wonder if the opening part where they kept meeting over and over was what was being parodied in a similar Mr. Show skit. Or maybe one got an idea from the other...I'd have to check the airing dates. If it was done independ of one another, that'd be pretty awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AISLBrQ-ODE


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Finished the Christms special -- pretty great. Best gag is the housekeeper getting down from the windowsill with those Mission Impossible wires, lmao.

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Wow, Jack really shoved the Holy Stone of Clonrichert up... ...lmao.

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Up to season two. Europe really goes gaga over those Eurovision contests, huh? Episodes like that are still relevant twenty-odd years later. The song about the pretty horse and taking the horse to the dentist was hilarious, as was the rival priests' big musical number (which lost). The episode about the stolen whistle was a pretty good parody of small towns having nothing going on. I grew up in one of those areas and sometimes you'd read the sheriff's report for goings-on, only to find things like "police responded to barking dog" and stuff.



BTW, I've always wanted to watch Fawlty Towers, so maybe I'll do that one next.

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if you haven't seen either spaced, black books books, or it crowd, i highly recommend getting round to one of those

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Hmm, haven't seen any of those shows. Honestly, the only BBC shows I've seen all episodes of are Sherlock and Luther. Back in the days of watching PBS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS), I've definitely seen eps of Are You Being Served? and Keeping Up Appearances, though. Not sure if they show any other British shows.

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is pbs where you've been watching father ted, too? if so, i'm not sure how you could watch the ones i mentioned outside of dvds or vpn usage

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father ted is a racist
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Be sure to let us know when you get to the "Elvis" bit.

Philoktetes posted...

father ted is a racist

i hear you're a racist now, father.

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TwoDoorPC posted...

is pbs where you've been watching father ted, too?

No, I was just using that as an example of how British shows show up in America. Haven't watched PBS in years, so I dunno what their scheduling is like. I doubt some of Father Ted's humor/language would jibe with our TV standards over here, haha.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Be sure to let us know when you get to the "Elvis" bit.

I already watched the episode where all the Craggy Isle priests dress up as Elvis. Pretty good one, especially the ending.

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Just saw the Ted = Racist episode, lol. I could guess a few punchlines, but it was still pretty good, especially the part where Ted takes refuge in the Irish pub and it's populated only by Chinese people playing the jigs. The short clip about this episode was the impetus to watching the series in the first place, actually.

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Shotgunnova posted...

BTW, I've always wanted to watch Fawlty Towers, so maybe I'll do that one next.

Allow me to suggest an alternative:

red dwarf is an interesting show in that the premise and the characters are good, but the writing and jokes are bad
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Philoktetes posted...

red dwarf is an interesting show in that the premise and the characters are good, but the writing and jokes are bad

Fine.
Jeeves & Wooster, then.

Or just go straight for Blackadder.

I'm curious if any Brits have ever gone through America's best-known sitcoms and watched all the seasons. M*A*S*H comes to mind, for instance.

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american sitcoms in europe are a lot more common than foreign sitcoms in america
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I meant seeing the older (pre-90s) sitcoms especially, but yeah, I'd imagine we have a ton of stuff in syndication.

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Welp, finished it -- pretty enjoyable. It's hard to believe that the lead actor died exactly one day after wrapping up the third season.

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Cant for the life of me get into Father Ted, IT Crowd, or Black Books just because of knowing how the creator is a ginormous fucking dipshit now. Sucks.

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Shotgunnova posted...

Finished the Christms special -- pretty great. Best gag is the housekeeper getting down from the windowsill with those Mission Impossible wires, lmao.

I love that Christmas Special but what's weird is the guy who wrote it absolutely hated it.

IF you listen to the audio commentary he spends the entire time embarrased, apologizing for how bad it is and begging for it to end as it's so awful.

And I'm like "But it's good doe.."

Philoktetes posted...

red dwarf is an interesting show in that the premise and the characters are good, but the writing and jokes are bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw6ndZNLYUA
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Shotgunnova posted...

I meant seeing the older (pre-90s) sitcoms especially, but yeah, I'd imagine we have a ton of stuff in syndication.

I've seen all of Mash multiple times (I even have the DVD boxset)

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It's kinda mad to me that americans would watch and indeed enjoy father Ted but go off

MrToothHasYou posted...

Cant for the life of me get into Father Ted, IT Crowd, or Black Books just because of knowing how the creator is a ginormous fucking dipshit now. Sucks.

@MrToothHasYou
What's going on with him now?

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indica posted...

@MrToothHasYou
What's going on with him now?

He's very vocally anti transgender

compared people who raise their kids as transgenders to Nazi medical experiments on Jews

If you watch any of his shows then this shouldn't surprise you. They're drenched in gender roles and his advice to depressed people is "just cheer up"
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MrToothHasYou posted...

Cant for the life of me get into Father Ted, IT Crowd, or Black Books just because of knowing how the creator is a ginormous fucking dipshit now. Sucks.

Just credit it to Arthur matthews

Malfunction posted...

Just credit it to Arthur matthews

nah it was teamwork

Don't erase a man from history because he has detestable opinions, that's very Soviet

Just view him as a very funny and talented Irish Boomer
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I'll put Red Dwarf on my to-do list, along with IT Crowd. I kinda want to watch Fawlty Towers, though. BTW, is Vicar of Dibley good? I'm in a mood for religious humor.

Tom Clark posted...

I've seen all of Mash multiple times (I even have the DVD boxset)

Mah boi. Still my favorite sitcom after all these years.

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Shotgunnova posted...

BTW, is Vicar of Dibley good? I'm in a mood for religious humor.

kinda

It's more safe than Ted and a lot of the jokes are about life in small rural communities that might go over an urban metropolitan head. There are very few religious jokes, that's just a backdrop

Jokes in vicar of dibley are more "hey the old man is telling boring stories again, what a character. " and less shoving stones up peoples asses

plus the latter stuff they did was awful. Only the early stuff is good

Red Dwarf is 17.463 times better
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vicar of dibley is good, yeah. similar kind of humour as father ted

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I wasn't expecting it to be the exact same as Ted, just swimming in similar waters. So the Brit list is:

• Fawlty Towers
• Red Dwarf
• The IT Crowd
• Blackadder
• Vicar of Dibley
• Black Books
• Jeeves & Wooster

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Fawltt towers is glorious, there's not a great deal of it sadly so shouldn't take you long to get through it.

+1 for Red Dwarf, another classic

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Shotgunnova posted...

I wasn't expecting it to be the exact same as Ted, just swimming in similar waters. So the Brit list is:

* Fawlty Towers
* Red Dwarf
* The IT Crowd
* Blackadder
* Vicar of Dibley
* Black Books
* Jeeves & Wooster

Watch Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. It's a 6 episode horror comedy that's framed as the only surviving episodes of a hospital horror series from the 80s written by a ridiculous pulp horror writer.

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Im always surprised by how few episodes Fawlty Towers and Mr. Bean had.

And no love for 'Allo 'Allo! ?

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Shotgunnova posted...

I wasn't expecting it to be the exact same as Ted, just swimming in similar waters. So the Brit list is:

* Fawlty Towers
* Red Dwarf
* The IT Crowd
* Blackadder
* Vicar of Dibley
* Black Books
* Jeeves & Wooster

No Monty Pyhton ?

https://youtu.be/Ja06DJrFe5E

p-m posted...

Watch Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. It's a 6 episode horror comedy that's framed as the only surviving episodes of a hospital horror series from the 80s written by a ridiculous pulp horror writer.

I second this but first watch AD/BC

it's the same idea but a spoof of Joseph and the technocolor dreamcoat

A comedy musical from the 70s about the story of the nativity from the perspective of the innkeeper (who doesn't even exist in the bible)

that'll scratch your religious humor Itch too
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I'd dispute Dibley having the same sort of humour as Father Ted tbh.

It has a less risky (and risqu) type of humour, and none of the absurtist trappings of Father Ted.

It's not a bad show (a bit involving Christmas Dinner is brilliant in fact), but in general it's a much safer, cosier and more wholesome sort of comedy (a Sunday Evening to Ted's Friday Night).

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Foppe posted...

Im always surprised by how few episodes Fawlty Towers and Mr. Bean had.

And no love for 'Allo 'Allo! ?

The reason why is because John Cleese wrote them and he is a perfectionist. He says he is proud of all but 1 episode

He used all his best ideas and didnt want to continue at a lower standard

I think he is right, look at the Simpsons or friends or any show that goes on Forever
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Brass Eye is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3xUjw2BCYE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRz7UWsBl54

As is The Thick of It (it's what VEEP was based on)

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

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Also TC watch QI

I think it's all on YouTube

Not a sitcom but a panel show where comedians discuss Random interesting facts and historical events while poking fun at them

its great
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Jokes in vicar of dibley are more "hey the old man is telling boring stories again, what a character. " and less shoving stones up peoples asses

No No No No yes

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Foppe posted...

And no love for 'Allo 'Allo! ?

In my DnD game, my guy can speak orcish.
And i'm planning to have him talk it like the police officer in Allo Allo if i ever get the chance

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Tom Clark posted...

I'd dispute Dibley having the same sort of humour as Father Ted tbh.

upheld

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TwoDoorPC posted...

upheld

overturned reposted
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Started Fawlty Towers and have been having a good time with it. Even when it's not laugh-out-loud funny, the way all the little plot threads are being woven together is quite enjoyable.

Foppe posted...

And no love for 'Allo 'Allo! ?

Not sure what this one is, so I'll have to look 'er up.

I'll also look up The Thick of It and Brass Eye.

UnfairRepresent posted...

I second this but first watch AD/BC

it's the same idea but a spoof of Joseph and the technocolor dreamcoat

A comedy musical from the 70s about the story of the nativity from the perspective of the innkeeper (who doesn't even exist in the bible)

that'll scratch your religious humor Itch too

Noted. I've already seen Monty Python stuff, so that's why I didn't include that on my list.

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Shotgunnova posted...

I'll also look up The Thick of It and Brass Eye.

good man

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