History Recap / FatherTedS3E4TheMainland

* NotWhereTheyThought: Jack wrongly assumes (at least at first) that the AA meeting place is a bar, largely due to not reading the sign in fully.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Ted tries to keep Jack and Mrs. Doyle in lockup by claiming he cannot afford to bail them out, only to be stopped by Dougal.

* ASimplePlan: A trip to the mainland from an Irish island would normally never involve getting lost in a cave, bailing someone out of jail or running afoul of a television star who had gotten tried of being reminding of their famous lines.

** Later, a hungry Dougal tries to order food from a Garda, first a lasagne, then a chicken curry, then a bag of chips with Fanta Orange. Despite the officer explaining that Dougal was in [[WhereDoYouThinkYouAre 'a police station']], Dougal responds "in that case, just the chicken satay and pilau rice."

* ArtisticLicense: The optician's boards are unrealistic. They should start with just one letter, after which the number of letters should increase as the said letters get smaller.

--> '''Garda''': Would you happen to know a Mrs. Doyle? First name Mrs. [''fire alarm goes off''] Doyle.
--> '''Ted''': Hmm, would I happen to know a Mrs. [''plates smash''] Doyle?

* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: By the time the episode was recorded, Creator/RichardWilson had heard people quoting "I don't believe it!" from ''Series/OneFootInTheGrave'' in front of him so often that he got fed up of it. This was incorporated in the story (with Ted doing it) after Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews discussed how 'tasteless and wrong' someone leaning forward to him in an audience and saying the phrase would be - while sitting behind him in the audience at a Creator/CirqueduSoleil performance.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Richard Wilson attacks Ted twice for uttering his Victor Meldrew catchphrase in his presence.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: There are no flights between Ireland and Paraguay and Aer Lingus most certainly don't go to South America. In 1998, no airline in Europe even went to Paraguay; the only direct connection today is Air Europa, which starts its flight in Madrid, Spain.

** Richard Wilson ''despises'' anyone coming up to him and using his catchphrase "I don't believe it!" and tends to react violently.

A trip to the mainland to get some new spectacles for Father Jack, who keeps losing them due to constant crow attacks, takes a turn for the worst when Jack ends up in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a disagreement between Mrs. Doyle and a friend of hers over who'll pay the bill in a cafe results in their arrest, and Ted and Dougal keep falling afoul of Creator/RichardWilson, who takes violent exception to the use of his [[Series/OneFootInTheGrave eponymous catchphrase]], "I don't believe it!"