Trivia / Father Ted S1E3 "The Passion of Saint Tibulus"

• Defictionalization: Signs with "Down With This Sort Of Thing!" and "Careful Now!" have become staples of just about any protesting crowd in Ireland and the UK.
  • In 2014, fans of the show shot a short black-and-white film called Saint Tibulus and the Bog Water, in which the titular saint transforms bog water into an alcoholic beverage which goes on to be marketed as Guinness.
• Technology Marches On: The mess that Ted's and Dougal's protest turns into would likely have been even worse in the modern day. Whereas in the episode their protests only result in people coming from all over Europe to Craggy Island to watch the film, nowadays you can bet that they'd have attracted the attention of an enterprising movie pirate and end up causing the film to become available worldwide, thanks to online movie piracy now being so common (they'd have probably attracted a pirate or two during the episode's timeframe, but this was when pirate copies of outlawed films still relied on Keep Circulating the Tapes).

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