History Recap / FatherTedS1E3ThePassionOfSaintTibulus

* FriendlyEnemy: Well, "enemy" might be overstating it, but the manager of the cinema which is showing ''The Passion of St. Tibulus'' reacts to Ted and Dougal's protest with friendly good humour and reasonable requests that they can keep the shouting down so as to avoid annoying other patrons (or, rather, the ''only other patron'' in the place). It probably helps that their protest is clearly half-hearted, reluctant and ends up racking in a load of cash for him, however.

* DirtyOldMonk: Saint Tibulus, according to the film.

* EpicFail: The priests’ protests.

* FriendlyEnemy: Well, "enemy" might be overstating it, but the manager of the cinema which is showing ''The Passion of St. Tibulus'' and that Ted and Dougal are protesting reacts to their protest with friendly good humour and reasonable requests that they can keep the shouting down so as to avoid annoying other patrons (or, rather, the only other patron actually there). It probably helps that their protest is clearly half-hearted, reluctant and ends up racking in a load of cash for him, however.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Brennan's (and by extension the Vatican's) decision to make Ted and Dougal protest against the film only results in it becoming incredibly popular. Seeing as the film had already been banned worldwide and nobody on the island seemed particularly interested in it, if Brennan had just done nothing then the film would've flopped and likely been completely forgotten about.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Brennan's (and by extension the Vatican's) decision to make Ted and Dougal protest against the film only results in it becoming incredibly popular. As the film had already been banned worldwide and nobody on the island seemed particularly interested in it, if Brennan had just done nothing then the film would've flopped and likely been completely forgotten about.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: Ted's, Dougal's and Jack's being on Craggy Island is revealed to already be an example of this, and it nearly gets turned UpToEleven after their protests against ''The Passion of Saint Tibulus'' have the opposite effect of what was intended.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The vague nature of Ted's and Dougal's protests just gets people to go and watch the film out of curiosity, and when Ted tries graphically describing the film's obscene and blasphemous content, it only gets people ''even more interested'' in going to see it.

* NoodleIncident: Jack has been sent to Craggy Island as punishment for apparently doing something horrible at a wedding in Athlone (judging by his reaction, it was probably something to with Jack's alcoholism, lecherous nature, or both), while Dougal was responsible for something called the "Blackrock Incident", in which he managed to severely damage the lives of a number of people (though Dougal claims they were "only nuns"), and Brennan was forced to call in personal favours to stop the Vatican from getting involved. The incident that saw Ted sent to the island isn't fully explained, but is indicated to be a more straightforward case of embezzlement (he appears to have stolen money meant to sent a sick child to Lourdes to go on a bender in Las Vegas).

** The idea of the church protesting against a film and unwittingly creating publicity for it is actually a somewhat common occurrence in Ireland, as bans aren't always practical to enforce nationwide, resulting in the few cinemas that do get away with showing said films raking it in. The main example in the writers' mind when making the episode was ''Film/LifeOfBrian'', though they point out in the series' script book that there was usually at least one film a year that had this happen to it.

* StreisandEffect: In-universe; prior to Ted and Dougal getting involved, ''The Passion of Saint Tibulus'' was playing ''in one cinema'' to virtually non-existent audiences. Afterwards, people come from as far as Gdansk to see it.

* ShoutOut: Brennan refers to Dougal as "Film/ForrestGump".

* StreisandEffect: In-universe; prior to Ted and Dougal getting involved, ''The Passion of Saint Tibulus'' was playing to virtually non-existent audiences. Afterwards, people come from as far as Gdansk to see it.