History Recap / FatherTedS2E11AChristmassyTed

* AllJustADream: The intro, which has Ted imagine himself as part of ''Series/{{Ballykissangel}}'' only to be awoken by the sound of Dougal offering him peanuts.
* ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity: In this episode there's a mass on TV that's being broadcast from St. Martin's Cathedral, Dublin. Somewhat surprisingly, there are in fact no Roman Catholic cathedrals in Dublin; The two cathedrals in that city, St. Patrick's and Christ Church, are both owned by the Church of Ireland, which is Ireland's Anglican denomination [[note]] an unusual set-up even when you don't factor in the fact that the Church of Ireland has always had significantly less adherents than the Roman Catholic church in Ireland; Christ Church is the diocesan cathedral for the Church of Ireland's Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, while St. Patrick's is designated as the ''national cathedral'' for the Church of Ireland [[/note]]. The Catholic Church (which, like the Church of Ireland, has an Archbishop of Dublin) merely has a Pro-Cathedral, St. Mary's Church, in that city as -- officially -- it claims that Christ Church should be ''its'' cathedral.

* TheBore: Father Fitzgerald is not boring in himself, but he has a voice so boring others lose interest before he can even finish speaking.

* CallBack: If you listen carefully in the scene where Dougal talks over Ted, you can hear him saying that he's going to feed Sampras -- his pet rabbit from [[Recap/FatherTedS2E6ThePlague The Plague]].

* CurseCutShort: A visual example. When Jack is left in a department store creche, he assembles his three favourite words in alphabet blocks. Cut to him with only one gap remaining, "F-CK", hesitating to put down a block with both an "E" and a "U" on it...but he's called away before he can decide.

** When caught trying to get his hands on the Golden Cleric award, Dougal claims he was up in the middle of the night to "carry the milk around".

* BaitAndSwitch: When Mrs Doyle calls Ted the second best priest in Ireland, one might think she was talking another Catholic priest. However, she starts rambling about a Protestant minister after saying it.

* BerserkButton: REsponding to Ted's Golden Cleric Award by calling him maybe the second best priest in the country goes down about as well as one might expect.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Ted: Tea-riffic, bloody Hell Dougal.

* ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity: In this episode there's a mass on TV that's being broadcast from St. Martin's Cathedral, Dublin. Somewhat surprisingly, there are in fact no Roman Catholic cathedrals in Dublin; The two cathedrals in that city, St. Patrick's and Christ Church, are both owned by the Church of Ireland, which is Ireland's Anglican denomination [[note]] an unusual set-up to say the least; Christ Church is the diocesan cathedral for the Church of Ireland's Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, while St. Patrick's is designated as the ''national cathedral'' for the Church of Ireland [[/note]]. The Catholic Church (which, like the Church of Ireland, has an Archbishop of Dublin) merely has a Pro-Cathedral, St. Mary's Church, in that city as -- officially -- as it claims that Christ Church should be ''its'' cathedral.

** The bishop who calls from Rome to tell Ted he has won the Golden Cleric says the Vatican is too "strapped for cash" to offer a cash reward. All while he puffs a cigar in the middle of a nightclub full of clergy.
** Dougal claims he was up in the middle of the night to carry the milk around.
* TheBore: Father Fitzgerald is not boring in himself but has a voice so boring others lose interest before he can even finish speaking.
* CallBack: If you listen carefully in the scene where Dougal talks over Ted, you can hear him saying that he's going to feed Sampras. Sampras was his pet rabbit in [[Recap/FatherTedS2E6ThePlague The Plague]].

* ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity: In this episode there's a mass on [=TV=] in St. Martin's Cathedral, Dublin. Somewhat surprisingly, there are in fact no Roman Catholic cathedrals in Dublin; The two cathedrals in that city, St. Patrick's and Christ Church, are both owned by the Church of Ireland, which is Ireland's Anglican denomination [[note]] an unusual set-up to say the least; Christ Church is the diocesan cathedral for the Church of Ireland's Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, while St. Patrick's is designated as the ''national cathedral'' for the Church of Ireland [[/note]]. The Catholic Church (which, like the Church of Ireland, has an Archbishop of Dublin) merely has a Pro-Cathedral, St. Mary's Church, in that city as -- officially -- as it claims that Christ Church should be ''its'' cathedral.

* IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: The cold open is one of these; Ted is woken from his dream where he's in Series/{{Ballykissangel}} by Dougal offering him a peanut. When he tries to go back to sleep, he has a nightmare in which he is running for his life from giant peanuts.

* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Ted takes great offence at Mrs. Doyle saying that's he's only the second best priest in Ireland.