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* OnlySaneMan
* SurroundedByIdiots

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* OnlySaneMan
* SurroundedByIdiots
*KnowNothingKnowItAll
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** JerkAssWoobie

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** JerkAssWoobieJerkAssWoobie: Though he also has to put up with Dougal's stupidity, Jack's own jerkassery, and the fact that [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption nothing ever seems to go right for him.]]
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* ButtMonkey: On occassiona

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* ButtMonkey: On occassionaoccasion.
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*ButtMonkey: On occassiona


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**JerkAssWoobie
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* CloudCuckooLander: Believes that the Loch Ness Monster, MagnumPI, [[StarWars Darth Vader]] and "Non-Catholic gods" are real people.

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* CloudCuckooLander: Believes that the Loch Ness Monster, MagnumPI, [[StarWars Darth Vader]] and "Non-Catholic gods" are real people. Curiously enough for a Catholic priest he doesn't believe in the bible.
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* BadassCape: Not even Vader's cape can billow like Brennan's.


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--> '''Brennan''': ''And Crilly. If you ever try to bullshit me like that again: I will rip off your arms.''
* TheDreaded: Especially against Ted. Ted even takes advantage of this and is almost successful when he "kicks his arse" because he is supposeldy too afraid to actually do it.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: A skirt-chasing horndog who in one episode climbs naked into bed with Bishop Brennan(albeit while sleepwalking), but later wakes up, smiles at Brennan and then goes back to sleep still in the bed with him.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: A skirt-chasing horndog who in one episode climbs naked into bed with Bishop Brennan(albeit while sleepwalking), but later wakes up, smiles at Brennan and then goes back to sleep still in the bed with him.
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*AmbiguouslyBi: A skirt-chasing horndog who in one episode climbs naked into bed with Bishop Brennan(albeit while sleepwalking), but later wakes up, smiles at Brennan and then goes back to sleep still in the bed with him.


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*CloudCuckooLander: Being both senile ''and'' perpetually drunk, this is to be expected.
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-->'''Father Todd Unctious:''' It just seemed to be the way things were going.
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* ShoutOut: Wears an [[{{Dallas}} I Shot JR]] shirt and has [[TheShining Redrum]] painted in red on his walls.

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* ShoutOut: Wears an [[{{Dallas}} [[Series/{{Dallas}} I Shot JR]] shirt and has [[TheShining Redrum]] painted in red on his walls.
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* GenreSavvy
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* JerkAss / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's the most sympathetic character in some respects, in others, he's actually worse than Dougal and Jack, having misappropriated funds from "that Lourdes thing."

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* JerkAss / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's the most sympathetic character in some respects, in others, he's actually worse than Dougal and Jack, having misappropriated funds from [[NoodleIncident "that Lourdes thing.""]]
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* ShoutOut: Wears an [[{{Dallas}} I Shot JR]] shirt and has [[TheShining Redrum]] painted in red on his walls.

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* ShoutOut: Wears an [[{{Dallas}} I Shot JR]] shirt and has [[TheShining Redrum]] painted in red on his walls.walls.

!!Pat Mustard

--> Played by Pat Laffan

* TheDanza
* EvilLaugh: UpToEleven. He laughs for a [[OverlyLongGag ridiculously long time]] over the phone to Ted.
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Gets blown up by his own milkfloat bomb.]]]]
* KavorkaMan
* PornStache
* ReallyGetsAround
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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter
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* Jerkass / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's the most sympathetic character in some respects, in others, he's actually worse than Dougal and Jack, having misappropriated funds from "that Lourdes thing."

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* Jerkass JerkAss / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's the most sympathetic character in some respects, in others, he's actually worse than Dougal and Jack, having misappropriated funds from "that Lourdes thing."
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* Jerkass/JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's the most sympathetic character in some respects, in others, he's actually worse than Dougal and Jack, having misappropriated funds from "that Lourdes thing."

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* Jerkass/JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jerkass / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's the most sympathetic character in some respects, in others, he's actually worse than Dougal and Jack, having misappropriated funds from "that Lourdes thing."

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's the most sympathetic character in some respects, in others, he's actually worse than Dougal and Jack, having misappropriated funds from "that Lourdes thing."

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jerkass/JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's the most sympathetic character in some respects, in others, he's actually worse than Dougal and Jack, having misappropriated funds from "that Lourdes thing."


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* CloudCuckooLander
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* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: 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.
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* SpotOfTea: Absolutely ''obsessed'' with making tea (amongst other things). When being demonstrated a Tea Master, she is told that it takes the misery out of making tea. She states that maybe she likes the misery.
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: Has to keep a list of things that don't really exist and has a chart that shows real and not real.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Father Fluffy Bottom.



* TheStoic: Awakes from a coma after being struck by lightning and simply says that he's fine.

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* TheStoic: Awakes from a coma after being struck by lightning and simply says that he's fine.fine.

!!Father Fintan Stack

--> Played by Brendan Grace

* BeardOfEvil
* JerkAss: Ted reckons he's worse than AdolfHitler. You wouldn't catch Hitler playing jungle music at three o'clock in the morning.

!!Father Todd Unctious

--> Played by Gerard McSorley

* BaldOfEvil
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Parodied. He actually is a priest, but steals another priest's clothing for no real reason.

!!Tom

--> Played by Pat Shortt

* AxeCrazy
* BigOlEyebrows
* GunNut
* KatanasAreJustBetter
* ShoutOut: Wears an [[{{Dallas}} I Shot JR]] shirt and has [[TheShining Redrum]] painted in red on his walls.
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* AllWomenArePrudes



* SarcasmBlind

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* SarcasmBlindSarcasmBlind

!!Bishop Len Brennan

--> Played by Jim Norton

* BadassGrandpa
* BadBoss: Doesn't exactly hold Ted, Dougal or Jack in high regard.
* [[DirtyOldMonk Dirty Old Bishop]]: Has a secret son in America and has been carrying on affairs in secret
* [[DoNotCallMePaul Do Not Call Me Len]]: "You will address me by my proper title, you little bollocks!"
* KavorkaMan
* LargeHam
* TheRival: WordOfGod says he's this to Jack, rising to the position of Bishop where Jack failed.

!!Father Dick Byrne

--> Played by Maurice O'Donoghue

* EvilCounterpart: To Ted
* ThePsychoRangers
* TheRival: To Ted
* SimilarSquad

!!Father Noel Furlong

--> Played by Graham Norton

* CampGay / CampStraight: Depending on how you can interpret a priest in such a context.
* [[GenkiGirl Genki Guy]]
* LargeHam
* MotorMouth
* ThePollyanna

!!Father Larry Duff

--> Played by Tony Guilfoyle

* IronButtMonkey: Almost every time Ted phones him, he suffers some form of injury or misfortune.

!!Father Paul Stone

--> Played by Michael Redmond

* DullSurprise: Played for laughs.
* HeroWorshipper: To Ted.
* TheStoic: Awakes from a coma after being struck by lightning and simply says that he's fine.
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* SuperSenses: Zig Zagged. Sometimes he's deaf, other times, he can identify alcohol by the sound of clinking bottles alone.
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--> Played by Pauline [=McGlynn=]

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--> Played by Pauline [=McGlynn=]
[=McLynn=]
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist
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* TheUnfettered
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* SuperWindowJump: Tends to do this a lot. Gets lampshaded in the Christmas special, where Ted has had plexiglass installed to stop him doing this.
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!!Father Ted Crilly

--> Played by Dermot Morgan

* DeadpanSnarker
* InsistentTerminology: [[MemeticMutation That money was only resting in his account]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's the most sympathetic character in some respects, in others, he's actually worse than Dougal and Jack, having misappropriated funds from "that Lourdes thing."
* OnlySaneMan
* SurroundedByIdiots

!!Father Dougal Maguire

--> Played by Ardal O'Hanlon

* AdultChild
* BumblingSidekick
* CloudCuckooLander: Believes that the Loch Ness Monster, MagnumPI, [[StarWars Darth Vader]] and "Non-Catholic gods" are real people.
* TheDitz
** GeniusDitz: Sometimes, he actually comes up with a decent plan much to Ted's (and his own) amazement.
* SarcasmBlind

!!Father Jack Hackett

--> Played by Frank Kelly

* TheAlcoholic: Only appears to be sober once every twelve years or so. Whenever he does run out of booze, he'll drink whatever else he can find, including Toilet Duck and floor polish.
* BadAss
** BadassGrandpa
* BerserkButton: Do not even try to take his precious drink away from him.
* DirtyOldMan
** [[DirtyOldMonk Dirty Old Priest]]
* EinsteinHair
* {{Ephebophile}}: If his dreams about taking the girls in the convent school for volleyball practice are any indication.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: But only for a short period during leap years.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: "DON'T TELL ME I'M STILL ON THAT FECKIN' ISLAND!"
* {{Gonk}}
* LargeHam
* NoIndoorVoice
* NotQuiteDead: After drinking floor polish, he only appears to be dead temporarily.
* ThePigPen: Not only is his personal hygiene suspect, but it spreads to the chair he sits on and the wall behind him. In fact, he gets hairy hands because Dougal fails to disinfect his chair.
* SirSwearsALot

!!Mrs. [[spoiler: Joan]] Doyle

--> Played by Pauline [=McGlynn=]

* NoNameGiven / LastNameBasis: Her first name is only revealed in the original scripts.
* SarcasmBlind

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