As if one Father Jack wasn't enough...
You wouldn't find Hitler playing jungle music at three o'clock in the morning.
Father Jack has a severe case of 'the hairy hands' and is sent to a priest's care home for what could be forever. Ted and Dougal are pleased with him gone until his replacement, Father Fintan Stack, turns out to be even worse.
Tropes featured in the episode
- Body Horror: Played for Laughs with Jack's hairy hands.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Discussed. Ted theorises that Father Stack is worse than Hitler, as the latter probably wouldn't have played jungle music all night.
- Failed a Spot Check: Dougal took Jack out for a walk without realising Jack hadn't even been in his wheelchair the whole time.
- Fish out of Water: The well-spoken priest at St Clabbert's.
- From Bad to Worse: The raging, filthy, violent, foul-mouthed Father Jack is replaced by an obnoxious, rude and destructive priest who is even worse.
- Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Ted's reaction to the horse he had a wager on spectacularly losing the race.Ted: Oh, flip! You flipping, flipping flipper! Oh it's the knacker's yard for you, pal!
- I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday: Dougal says this about Jack being around, before Ted points out that that's because it was yesterday.
- It's All About Me: As Father Stack succinctly puts it after going on a bender with Dougal and trashing Ted's car in the process, "I had my fun, and that's all that matters".
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": Ted, Jack and Fintan Stack's reaction to the latter contracting the hairy hands from sitting in Jack's chair.
- Noodle Incident: "D'you remember the time his head went septic?"
- Oh, Crap!: Dr Sinnot when he sees his hotline phone to Craggy Island Parochial House flashing. Also Jack when he's told he has to go to St Clabbert's.
- Pet the Dog: As horrid as Father Stack is to the priests, he responds to Mrs Doyle offering tea with a polite shake of the head.
- Running Gag: Discussion of Father Shortall that began in Entertaining Father Stone in series 1.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: The priests launch into a conversation about various priests including two Father Windy Shepherd Hendersons, a priest who can no longer wiggle their ears and a priest who looked dead but wasn't.
- Shout-Out: The priests refer to St. Clabbert's as 'Jurassic Park'.
- Summon Bigger Fish: Ted and Dougal bust Jack out of St. Clabbert's with the intention of getting him to beat up Father Stack. It probably would have happened, given Jack's fury with Stack helping himself to the former's whisky, were it not for Father Stack contracting the hairy hands...
- Too Much Information: Dougal and Ted forestall Mrs Doyle discussing her previous 'women's problem'.
- We Want Our Jerk Back!: Father Jack being the jerk, of course.
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