History Characters / FatherTed

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's shown to be fond and caring toward his secret son and mistress in America, even keeping incriminating home movies of them all having fun at the beach on his person. Pretty notable given that most Priests and Bishops with illegitimate children in real life refused to have anything to do with them to protect their careers.

!!Father Dougal Maguire

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Arse", "Drink", "Feck" and "Girls". When the bishops come to visit, his vocabulary gets upgraded to "that would be an ecumenical matter", a catch-all phrase that can be used in any conversation about religion.

* CatchPhrase: He often falsely reassures Ted that whatever he is attempting is very good, then shouts "NO!" when Ted asks him if he means it. [[BorrowedCatchPhrase Ted uses it against him after the Song For Ireland]].

-->'''Stack:''' I wanna listen to some music.
-->'''Ted:''' Oh! Go right ahead!
-->'''Stack:''' ''I wasn't asking for your permission.''

** GeniusDitz: Sometimes, he actually comes up with a decent plan much to Ted's (and his own) amazement.

* EmptyEyes: His usual expression is a wide eyed stare that suggests there's not much going on behind it.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Doesn't really do anything around the parish. Justified, though, since the one time he does a funeral, it ends up as a complete disaster.

* BeautyInversion: Jack is a truly hideous sight but Creator/FrankKelly is a charming, well-groomed older gentleman as we see in the final episode.

* BrokenPedestal: Ted seems to respect Jack in the early seasons despite having pretty much no reason to, even giving a glowing and blatantly false assessment of his character when he thinks he's died, but grows to hate him over the course of their time together, openly cheering when he finds out Jack will have to be sent away and relishing telling him as much.

* SinisterMinister: As shown in flashbacks, even before his alcoholism he was pure fire and brimstone preacher who terrified his students with threats of damnation and personally dished out regular beatings. PlayedForLaughs obviously.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's shown to be fond and caring toward his secret son and mistress in America, even keeping incriminating home movies of them all having fun at the beach on his person.

* ProtagonistCentredMorality: From what we see of him, Dick is no more vain and petty than Ted; and unlike Ted, he's not known to have engaged in any criminal activity. The only reason to root for Ted over him is that Ted is the protagonist.

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/DermotMorgan

* SinisterMinister: A milder example. While Dougal and Jack are both simply crazy idiots, Ted is legitimately corrupt -- being a known embezzler ([[CatchPhrase "the money was just resting in my account!"]]) and gambling addict. He's not generally malicious in his tendencies, and does have sympathetic values, but is not remotely virtuous enough for priesthood, having many vices and zero will-power.

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/ArdalOHanlon

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/FrankKelly

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/PaulineMcLynn

--> Played by {{Creator/Jim Norton|Actor}}

--> '''Brennan''': You address me by my proper title, ''you little bollocks''!

--> Played by Maurice O'Donoghue

--> Played by Graham Norton

--> Played by Tony Guilfoyle

--> Played by Michael Redmond

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Ah, no. I'm fine", said whenever Ted asks if he'd like to do anything other than sit in complete silence.

--> Played by Brendan Grace

--> Played by Gerard [=McSorley=]

--> Played by Jimmy Keogh

* CloudCuckooLander: To an incredible degree. He isn't aware that he's a priest, and may not even be aware that he's human.

--> Played by Pat Shortt

-->'''Played by:''' Pat Laffan

-->'''Played by:''' Niall Buggy

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/ClareGrogan

-->'''Played by:''' Patrick Drury and Rynagh O'Grady

--> Played by Creator/DermotMorgan

--> '''OH, I HATE FATHER DICK BYRNE!'''

--> '''Mrs Doyle:''' Father, while you were out for your walk, we had a phone call. I think you were supposed to do a funeral today...
--> '''Ted:''' The funeral! I completely forgot all about it!
--> '''Mrs Doyle:''' It's alright! Father [=McGuire=] said he'd do it.
--> '''Ted:''' That's ok so...''[{{beat}}]'' '''DOUGAL'S DOING A FUNERAL?!!''' '''''YOU LET DOUGAL DO A FUNERAL?!!!!'''''

--> '''Father Joe Briefly''': Oh yes! Because he had a big pile of fluffy white hair on his behind!
--> '''"Father Todd Unctious"''': Do you still have the big old hairy arse?

* LockedAwayInAMonastery / TheUnfavourite: The reason he became a priest.
--> '''Father Ted''': That would be quite common you know. The favourite son would become a doctor and then the idiot brother would be sent off to the priesthood.
--> '''Father Dougal''': Your brother is a doctor, isn't he?
--> '''Father Ted''': Yes, he is.

--> Played by Creator/ArdalOHanlon

-->'''Ted''': Dougal, how did you get into the Church? Was it, like, collect twelve crisp packets and become a priest?

--> Played by Creator/FrankKelly

-->'''Ted''': Don't drink that, father! That's--
-->'''Jack''': ''[spits it out]'' '''FECKING ''WATER!'''''

-->'''Mrs. Doyle:''' And what do you say to a cup?
-->'''Father Jack:''' [[NoIndoorVoice FECK OFF, CUP!]]

--> Played by Creator/PaulineMcLynn

--> Played by Pat Laffan

--> Played by Niall Buggy

--> Played by Creator/ClareGrogan

--> Played by Patrick Drury and Rynagh O'Grady

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--> Played by Pauline [=McLynn=]

--> Played by Frank Kelly

* BeautyInversion: Jack is a truly hideous sight but Frank Kelly is a charming, well-groomed older gentleman as we see in the final episode.

--> Played by Ardal O'Hanlon

* AnimalMotifs: Ardal O'Hanlan drew inspiration from dogs:

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's last seen buried under a pile of rocks, with the youth group having taken the opportunity to get away from him, even fleeing to Paraguay, and Ted and Dougal doing the same, only telling a sanitation worker who does nothing. We never find out what happens to him or if anyone digs him out.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Subverted for the large part. Not only are their spats PlayedForLaughs (if dark ones) but they tend to be pretty even handed in brutality.

* AndIMustScream: It's the only possible reaction to waking up and finding that Jack is in bed with him. Naked.

* AndNowIMustScream: It's the only possible reaction to waking up and finding that Jack is in bed with him. Naked.

* LethallyStupid: It's implied the NoodleIncident that got him sent to Craggy Island killed, or at least crippled a lot of nuns. He's also responsible for a plane dumping its fuel by pressing a BigRedButton. His actions at a funeral resulted in a hearse inside a grave and on fire.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Arse", "Drink", "Feck" and "Girls"

* DirtyOldMan: Is he ''ever?'' Has dreams about wet t-shirt contests and teenage girls playing volleyball.

** Though on occasions when Ted seems to injure himself, he often shows sincere concern (unless it's him whose hurting Ted).

* JerkassHasAPoint: He doesn't hold the main characters to high standards, but he has legitimate reasons of disliking them with Ted stealing money from the church, Dougal being LethallyStupid and Jack being a perpetual drunk and a skirt chaser. Although this comes off as somewhat hypocritical since his own corruption puts Ted's to shame.

* LastNameBasis: Almost always calls Ted by his last name.
* OnceASeason: He appears in person
* OnlySaneMan: While Ted is relatively sane compared to the others in the parochial house, he's still much goofier than the utterly straight-laced Bishop Brennan.

* InformedAbility: Is shown engaging in a great range of activities and is often called upon because he apparently has a good range of general knowledge on certain topics, but is never given the chance to show any of these because the call causes some kind of accident.

* AndIMustScream: Left static after being struck by lighting while holding a golf club. Although it's not as if he talks that much anyway. If his mind could have been read he probably would have been thinking no thanks i'm fine. [[spoiler:It doesn't seem to last long though.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: On top of the potraits he paints of Ted out of respect, and fact that he prefers to just sit quietly and stare off into space shows he wants for very litte in life, fitting the role of a priest far more than every other Priest in the series who (Even Doogle) are either selfish, two faced, hypocritical, greedy, overly indulgent in their vices, don't really care for or believe in Catholicism or just plain unpleasant.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: He used to hang out with another priest who dumped him on Ted.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: According to Brennan, he had to use this trope to stop "the Vatican getting involved" after [[NoodleIncident whatever Dougal did]] [[ReassignedToAntarctica to get dumped at Craggy Island]].

An alcoholic sub-human of a priest, with a vocabulary consisting of "Feck", "Arse", "Girls" and "Drink!"

* UndiscriminatingAddict: As long as it gives him an alcoholic buzz, [[GargleBlaster he does not cares]]. In the series' second episode alone he spends a whole act in the hospital after imbibing a cocktail of Babycham and Harpic cleaner, and in a latter episode, he [[NotQuiteDead is believed to be dead for a little while]] after drinking floor polish.

--> Played by: Graham Norton

* TheDreaded: Has earned this reputation on account of how annoying he is. Best seen in ''TheMainland,'' where Ted and Dougal scream upon realising they're trapped in the caves with him.

--> Played by Graham Norton

* TokenGoodTeammate: On top of the potraits he paints of Ted out of respect, and fact that he prefers to just sit quietly and stare off into space shows he wants for very litte in life, fitting the role of a priest far more than every other Priest in the series who (Even Doogle) are either selfish, two faced, hypocritical, greedy, overly indulgent in their vices or just plain unpleasant.