History Recap / FatherTedS2E5ASongForEurope

* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: "The Drums of Africa Are Calling Me Home" by Sean O'Brien

* KarmaHoudini: Not only does Charles Hedges get what he wants, it would appear he wasn't found out before the main Eurosong Contest.

Dougal has "Eurosong fever" months ahead of the competition. He suggests to Ted that they write a song together to represent Ireland, but Ted rejects this on grounds that they are not skilled in songwriting. However, Ted soon discovers his nemesis Dick Byrne will be entering a song and decides that if Dick Byrne can write a song, he and Dougal can write a better one. After working all night, they come up with "My Lovely Horse", a tuneless dirge with ridiculous lyrics lasting less than a minute. After trying the song out on Mrs Doyle and Father Jack, Jack is so infuriated he shoots Ted's guitar. Disillusioned, they ready to give up when Ted discovers the lyrics fit a tune by "Nin Huguen and the Huguenotes", an obscure B-side for an entry from Norway's Eurosong preselection from the 1970s. As Dougal recounts that whole band died in a plane crash (including all the record company staff and everyone involved in the copyright) Ted suggests that they “honor” the forgotten tune by performing it with their lyrics.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Ireland won the real Series/EurovisionSongContest in 1992, 1993 and 1994, and so had the costly obligation of hosting it in 1993, 1994 and 1995. This episode is said to based on attempts by RTÉ to do without hosting it for another year in that timeframe.

** Ted calls Music/IceT 'Icy Tea' and Music/SnoopDogg 'Scoopy Scoopy Dog Dog'. Similarly, he reckons that the song written by Father Benny Cake that made number one in England was called [[Music/{{Ultravox}} 'Vienna']]; that song actually went to number two in England. Also, none of the four members of Ultravox who wrote the song was a priest or called Benny Cake. However, the former was likely meant to show how clueless about music he is, and the latter an intentional joke.

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Technically Charles Hedges is trying to save money by ensuring Ireland loses the Eurosong Contest; in real life it costs a fortune to host the Series/EurovisionSongContest.

*** The way the Eurosong voting system works here is reversed. In the real contest, each country is called to give out their points for other contestants, not to have their scores read out to them jury by jury. Also the phrase "nul points" was never used in Eurovision; during the 1990s each country's jury spokesperson only announced which entries they were awarding points to from 1 to 12. A country receiving no points would not have the fact announced by the presenters or jury spokespersons (countries can receive Zero points from the public vote section that has been used since voting systems were decoupled in 2016 - no less than 4 did so in 2021’s real life contest, and 7 have done so in the final all-in-all, since this rule was introduced - but it was referred to as “zero points” and in any case, it was from the 38 other countries not having any of these 4 in their national public vote top tens, and the 4 songs placed anywhere from 12th to last in each list, and you vote FOR a song, not against it. Whilst the UK got nil points in both sections, they were 11th with one jury, so only narrowly missed out on a point). And jury spokespersons do not all read their votes in their native tongues; votes have to be announced in English or French.

** A German-speaking jury spokesperson uses the ''French'' word for Ireland, not the correct German (unless this jury spokesperson was Swiss and shifted between two of the country's tongues). A Dutch-speaking jury spokesperson uses the French name for Ireland and the wrong word for 'no'.

*** The way the Eurosong voting system works here is reversed. In the real contest, each country is called to give out their points for other contestants, not to have their scores read out to them jury by jury. Also the phrase "nul points" was never used in Eurovision; during the 1990s each country's jury spokesperson only announced which entries they were awarding points to from 1 to 12. A country receiving no points would not have the fact announced by the presenters or jury spokespersons (countries can receive Zero points from the public vote section that has been used since voting systems were decoupled in 2016 - no less than 4 did so in 2021’s real life contest, and 7 have done so in the final all-in-all, since this rule was introduced - but it was referred to as “zero points” and in any case, it was from the 38 other countries not having any of these 4 in their national public vote top tens, and the 4 songs placed anywhere from 12th to last in each list, and you vote FOR a song, not against it. Whilst the UK got nil points in both sections, they were 11th with one jury, so only narrowly missed out on a point).

* NoodleIncident: The plane crash that killed the members of Nin Huguen and the Huguenotes and ''their record label's staff''

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Technically Charles Hedges is trying to save money by rigging the selection process for Ireland's Eurosong entry; in real life it costs a fortune to host the Series/EurovisionSongContest, never mind participate in it.

** The French jury gives the score as "nul points", when the actual French for "no points" is "pas de points" or "zéro points". [[TheCoconutEffect Justified by "nul points" being used by fans and media reporting on the real Eurovision, although the real contest never uses it]].
** The German jury uses the ''French'' word for Ireland, not the correct German. A similar thing happens with the Dutch jury, who also use the wrong word for 'no'.

** Ted calls Music/IceT 'Icy Tea' and Music/SnoopDogg 'Scoopy Scoopy Dog Dog'. Similarly, he reckons that the song written by Benny Cake that made number one in England was called [[Music/{{Ultravox}} 'Vienna']]; that song actually went to number two in England. Also, it wasn't written by a priest called Benny Cake. However, these are likely intentional, and meant to show how clueless about music he is.

*** The way the Eurosong voting system works here is reversed. In the real contest, each country is called to give out their points for other contestants, not to have their scores read out to them jury by jury. Also (and likely due to the way the real contest's voting system works), a country cannot directly give "nul points" (a term not used by the real contest) to another like everyone does here (countries can receive Zero points from the public vote section that has been used since voting systems were decoupled in 2016 - no less than 4 did so in 2021’s real life contest, and 7 have done so in the final all-in-all, since this rule was introduced - but it was referred to as “zero points” and in any case, it was from the 38 other countries not having any of these 4 in their national public vote top tens, and the 4 songs placed anywhere from 12th to last in each list, and you vote FOR a song, not against it. Whilst the UK got nil points in both sections, they were 11th with one jury, so only narrowly missed out on a point).

* EpicFail: The FailureGambit succeeds so spectacularly, Ireland gets nothing from anyone!

*** The way the Eurosong voting system works here is reversed. In the real contest, each country is called to give out their points for other contestants, not to have their scores read out to them jury by jury. Also (and likely due to the way the real contest's voting system works), a country cannot directly give "nul points" (a term not used by the real contest) to another like everyone does here (countries can receive Zero points from the public vote section - no less than 4 did so in 2021’s real life contest - but it was referred to as “zero points” and in any case, it was from the 38 other countries not having any of these 4 in their national public vote top tens, and the 4 songs placed anywhere from 12th to last in each list, and you vote FOR a song, not against it. Whilst the UK got nil points in both sections, they were 11th with one jury, so only narrowly missed out on a point).

*** The way the Eurosong voting system works here is reversed. In the real contest, each country is called to give out their points for other contestants, not to have their scores read out to them jury by jury. Also (and likely due to the way the real contest's voting system works), a country cannot directly give "nul points" (a term not used by the real contest) to another like everyone does here.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Ted and Dougal plagiarise someone else's work without checking its history.

* AngstWhatAngst: Dougal is upset and about ready to give up because Fathers Dick Byrne and Cyril [=McDuff=] are competing in the same round as them. Ted tells him he's being a quitter, prompting Dougal to apologize and instantly go back to normal.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The moment Fred Rickwood announces that Ted and Dougal won is offscreen, but one can imagine Charles Hedges smirking when it happened.

* SpringtimeForHitler: Averted. Even though the producers picked "My Lovely Horse" in an attempt to make Ireland lose, their plot actually succeeds.

* TotallyRadical: Indicted by Dougal with his rapping.