Best Father Ted episode?

[jj]

I just loved the idea of dozens of aged, alcoholic RC priests slowly
turning intop lycanthropes, and nobody finding it in the slightest bit
unusual.....could explain a lot about the Church.
Truly surreal in the best Python tradition.

[jj]

It gives me an idea for a sitcom, perhaps set in Finsbury Park, about the
inhabitants of a mosque, with a bunch of wacky-but-loveable characters....
one might have a hook for a hand and be a dole-embezzler, one could be
a thickie who can't get his bread-mix right, and one a housekeeper in a
pinny and chador.
D'you think C4 would go for it?

[fudgeflaps]

Very tough.

Top 5:

1. The Passion of St. Tibulus

2. Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse

3. Speed 3

4. Chirpy Burpy Cheep Sheep

5. Rock a Hula Ted (the rigged raffle for the car, and the dancing priest)

So many belters, tho:

Father Stone

The Holiday ("Hell")

The Plague (the one with the rabbits)

To be honest, there's only TWO mediocre episodes IMO: the very FIRST one, and "the old grey whistle theft".

[fudgeflaps]

Of the main four: Jack.

Best recurrent character: Bishop Brennan, by a mile.

Best 'baddie': Pat Mustard the milkman just pips Dick Byrne.

Best send-up: Clare Grogan as a piss-take of Louise Wener (she was a whining, feminist frontwoan of a band called 'Sleeper' at the time, always trying to get attention in the music press by saying she loves a wank.... clit power, all that guff)

Best one-off: the old woman who does the "I hate the feckin' Greeks rant" in the racism episode.

Best animal character: Ronaldo, Dougal's hamster.

Best non-dialogue character: The Monkey Priest.

....and what about the two old women in The Passion of St. Tibulus? They were talking to Ted and Dougal about The Crying Game in front of the cinema, about the bit where 'the woman who wasn't really a woman but a man, got his lad out'. One goes on to say that she barely recognised the 'lad' as she hadn't seen one for a while, but said it was like her husband's ('my Billy's') cock!! In front of a shocked Ted and Dougal, she replies, "Don't be daft, your Billy's is smoother and rounder at the top!". !laugh!



Best music: the jangle that the dancing priest was boogeying to. Anyone know what that was, btw?



Don't start me on Father Ted, I'll be here for years. !wink!

[fudgeflaps]

She was a nice lassie, to be fair... met her after a gig, very pleasant.

Has completely reinvented herself after the post-Britpop fallout; good on her- pity the likes of Gene, Shed Seven and Heavy Stereo didn't have the same foresight.