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Never seen it, I'm afraid. It and Nathan Barley passed me by.

Only just caught up with Spaced.

Father Larry Duff.

Dick Byrne was the alternate Ted.

The reason it didn't cause trouble was because priests loved it---it showed them as being more than just the uniform.

I heard about a priest in my neck of the woods mentioning it to his congregation, who'd been muttering and moaning about the blasphemous thing for ages. He told them---you should watch it, it's brilliant. And amazingly, it turned out they were all fans of the show immediately.

I've changed my mind on the Top 5 already. The racism one and New Jack City...... too tough. If memory serves me correctly:

S1:

1. the first one, Ted on the telly, the Spiderbaby
2. Father Stone
3. The Passion of St Tibulus
4. The Stars in Your Eyes mickey-take (3 ages of Elvis; Diana Ross and '2 of the Supremes')
5. Ted meets the woman author, the Mrs Doyle 'bastard' rant
6. Jack overdosing on floorpolish

s2:

1. Hell, the caravan;
2. The rigged raffle; the dancing priest
3. The 3 bishops, the Holy Stone, Jack's elocution lessons
4. Father Damo and the missing whistle
5. The Lovely Girls contest
6. Eurovision
7. Lent; the call-centre nuns; sister Assumpta
8. The Plague; rabbits; Bishop Brennan
9. New Jack City; Jungle music; Jurassic Park
10. The flight; Jack escaping with the drinks trolley; Dougals 'joke telephone'

Christmas Special, The Golden Cleric award. "Ruud Gullit sitting on a shed?"

s3:

1. Racism, chinatown, Nazi memerobilia
2. Chris the Sheep
3. Speed 3
4. The Mainland; Richard Wilson, the caves
5. Rigged over 75's footie
6. Kicking Brennan up The Arse
7. Night of the nearly dead, the middle-aged women
8. Going to America (the visual gag with Ted's guilt, looking at Mrs Doyle, Jack and Dougal)

For me, the best sitcom ever written.

I've seen bits and pieces of Green Wing, and definitely liked what I saw.

Likewise Mitchell and Webb.

There have been a few pets/animals in the show:

Sampras, Dougal's Rabbit
Ronaldo, Dougal's hamster with his wee bike
Jack's brick
Larry Duff's rottweilers

Chris The Sheep

The Beast of Craggy Isalnd

warren zevon rip wrote:
> jj, I am not sure you have outlined the situation as
> accurately or as fairly as you could have. As you say, Magoo
> is your mate, so you are perhaps not quite the most appropriate
> person to attempt to adjudicate.
I'm not trying to adjudicate- that's the mods' job. I'm merely ASKING you
both to stop slagging each other pointlessly and endlessly for the entirely
personal reason that I'm sick of it. This sort of crap was one of the reasons
I 'disappeared' in the first place [admittedly, most of it was on the then
bgafd forum]. I imagine there is a silent minority/majority out there who
are equally sick of it. I come here for a bit of a laugh and some reasonably
intelligent [if occasionally heated] discussion, not a bar-room slanging-
match. If you reached the levels of bile attained here in a pub you'd both
be rightly ejected.


> All my posts that may seem to be anti-Magoo have been responses
> to his provocation, not instigatory.
It takes two to tango. The adult thing to do would be to loftily ignore it
when it passes a certain level of vehemence.


> I didn't see you jumping into ask him to "quit" there. He has
> done so on this thread as well.
I don't have the time or the inclination to 'police' every thread- and again
that's the mods' pigeon.....and if the thread-topic is of little interest to me
I don't read it anyway. I was honest enough to own that M is a long-
standing mate- but that does not mean that I haven't bollocked him in the
past, often much more severely than in this instance- because I DO know
him I in fact expect higher standards of behaviour from him than I do from
you, as a relative stranger. Don't assume because you see nothing here
re Magoo from me that I'm not making my view felt in other ways.


> A day or so ago, you were all for a bit of a barney -"that's
> what I pay my sub for" so why the volte face?
No v-f at all. Heated debate is fine; mere abuse is not. And of course it
doesn't take a genius to see that my original comment was less than
wholly serious.

> Because Magoo is losing it bigstyle for the second time in a week?
> Yes, he needs your help. That's no reason to help him at my expense.
Not worthy of you. This sort of presumptive 'reasoning' is exactly what
gets M's goat, I imagine- how precisely am I helping HIM by asking you
BOTH to give it a miss? That only works if one posits that you are in some
way 'winning', and no-one can win such an 'argument' as it completely
bypasses any logic.... you both just end up looking like berks. Anyway,
he's a big boy and can take care of himself perfectly well.


> Don't ask me to pretend that Magoo has any sort of moral higher
> ground here (or even equal ground!), considering his recent wee
> "inaccuracies" and offensive posts
I didn't. I asked only that one of you at least behave like a grown-up and
'walk away' from responding to the other's posts. Which one, I don't care.
Although naturally I'd have more respect for the one who did so first.


> If you really are his mate, have a private word and explain
> that if he can't take it, he really shouldn't give it.
See above.
> Us "newbies" have made you both welcome since your return to the
> forum, and we deserve to be treated fairly in return.
.... just as everyone else here deserves to be treated with some respect
in terms of not finding several threads contaminated by a stream of
irrelevant invective.


> Anyway, I am sure you were only trying to smooth things over....
No; it seems to have gone well past that. See above for motivation.
> .... but we all have our pride and we all have the right to stick up
> for ourselves here, and not have somebody taking advantage as
> soon as we "go to bed". If it is that boring for you and
> others, well, you won't be reading this, will you?
Not in future, no.
Unlike yourself, it's not in my 'job-description' to referee playground
fights :- )

Father Jack: "I love my brick!!!"

[to his pet rabbit]
Father Dougal: Come on, Sampras.
Father Ted: What did you call him?
Father Dougal: Sampras, like Pete Sampras.
Father Ted: Why?
Father Dougal: Well... you know, rabbits, tennis, you know that whole connection there.

Surreal and splendid.

Yeah, he had the 'idiot' and the 'armchair drunk' clones.