History Series / FatherTed

* PatrioticFervour: Well, Francophile fervour. The decidedly un-French Jack's insistence on standing for the French national anthem is [[ExploitedTrope exploited]] when Ted needs to find a way to stop him crushing another priest by sitting on him.

-->'''Ted''': I am fearless. Like [[Fearless1993 that film]] with Creator/JeffBridges]].\\

-->'''Ted''': I am fearless. Like that film with Jeff Bridges.\\

--->'''Ted:''' I am fearless. Like [[Film/{{Fearless}} that film]] with Creator/JeffBridges.\\

* TakeThatMe: The ShowWithinAShow ''Father Ben''. Dougal especially finds TheDitz character Brendan hilarious.

'''Dougal''': [''very nervous''] he first one?\\

[[caption-width-right:286: This picture is just resting on this page before Ted moves it on. L-R: [[AntiHero Fr. Ted Crilly]], [[TheAlcoholic Fr. Jack Hackett]], [[CloudCuckoolander Fr. Dougal Maguire]], [[TeamMom Mrs. Doyle]].]]

[[caption-width-right:286: This picture is just resting on this page before Ted moves it on.]]

** While Ted is preparing for the all-priests over-seventy-five indoor football challenge match:
-->'''Ted:''' Jack's good, but if anything happened to Nick we'd be up to our necks in flip. And with this new fella on Dick's team, we need Nick at the very peak of his powers.\\
''[cut to Nick lying in a coffin]''\\
'''Ted:''' So, there's no way he'll be able to play?

* PatrioticFervour: Jack's insistence on standing for the French national anthem is [[ExploitedTrope exploited]] when Ted needs to find a way to stop him crushing another priest by sitting on him.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: "Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep" reveals that on leap years Jack turns into a cheerful, free-spirit whenever it's Autumn. Ted laments that it doesn't last long.

** Also the inspiration for the in-universe "My Lovely Horse" - a B-side to a runner up in ''A Song for Norway'' sung by a band no-one has ever heard of (Nin Huegen and the Huguenotes) in 1976, released shortly before everyone involved in writing, performing, producing and distributing the song was killed in a plane crash. Dougal must be one of the very few owners of this record and even ''he'' has only listened to the B-side once.

** In "Are You Right There, Father Ted?", when Ted is accused of being racist towards Craggy Island's new Chinese residents, Dougal tells him to hold a presentation praising Chinese culture, as a gesture of good faith. It may count as a subversion, though: when Ted asks Dougal to follow up on his brilliant idea, poor Dougal panics, as he didn't think coming up with a good idea would be so much work. And the Chinese family didn't actually ''enjoy'' the presentation, but they appreciated the free drinks afterwards.

** That could simply be a popular joke signifying that Craggy Island is a place that no-one wants to visit.

* WearingItAllWrong: One episode opens with a SelfParody joke about Ted and Dougal watching an episode of [[ShowWithinAShow Father Ben]], in which Ben's companion Brendan is wearing a pair of shorts on his head.

* SirSwearsALot: Two of the four words in Father Jack's usual vocabulary are "Feck!" (as close as the series can get to F-bombs without falling afoul of broadcast regulations) and "Arse!" They are second and third only to "Drink!" in frequency of use.

** Bishop Brennan is ''very'' punctilious about the correct way to address a Bishop: "Don't call me Len, you little prick! I'm a BISHOP!"

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The ending of "A Song for Europe" contains poor French (using the usual [[Series/EurovisionSongContest Eurovision]] use of 'nil points' as though it were actual French), poor German (the German for Ireland is "Irland", not "Irlande" as in French), poor Dutch (it should be 'Ierland, geen punten', not 'Irlande, nil punten') and random gibberish that is supposed to be various European languages.

* AnachronicOrder: Series 2 is explicitly set in the then-present day on 1996 with the opening episode, "Hell", taking place on the 19th of July. In the fifth episode, "A Song For Europe", it's mentioned that the competition is in May and there's a six week TimeSkip between the last scene and the end credits. The eighth episode, "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading", is set during Lent 1996, which began on the 21st of February (Ash Wednesday) and ended on the 7th of April (Easter Sunday). "Rock A Hula Ted", the sixth episode, is implied to take place at some point during the summer of 1996 as well, given that Craggy Island is having a Lovely Girls festival.

An unhinged Anglo-Irish {{sitcom}} (or perhaps more accurately, an Irish sitcom paid for with British money) by Creator/GrahamLinehan and Arthur Mathews, about a tiny parish on a miserable little island off the coast of Ireland where the Catholic Church has exiled three of its most embarrassing members: the [[{{Schemer}} embezzler]] Father Ted Crilly, the idiotic ManChild Father Dougal [=McGuire=], and the [[DirtyOldMan drunken, violent, foul-mouthed skirt-chaser]] Father Jack Hackett. Their housekeeper is Mrs. Doyle, who is ''[[SeriousBusiness really]]'' dedicated to [[BritsLoveTea serving tea]]. The majority of episodes were [[FawltyTowersPlot Fawlty Towers Plots]] that involved Ted's efforts to either [[CardboardPrison escape from the island]] or [[GetRichQuickScheme make a nice pile of cash]], neither of which he [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption ever succeeded in doing]].

** Father Ted: "The money was just resting in my account!"

* AmbiguouslyGay: Father Noel. He's super camp, and played by real-life CampGay Graham Norton, but is merely characterised as being annoyingly hyperactive.

At one point, a [[TheMusical musical adaptation]] (''[[TitleTheAdaptation "Pope Ted: The Father Ted Musical"]]'') was planned and written by Linehan and Mathews, but the production was cancelled by its producers after Linehan began expressing extreme transphobic views and eventually started campaigning full-time against transgender rights, bombing his reputation.

An unhinged Anglo-Irish {{sitcom}} (or perhaps more accurately, an Irish sitcom paid for with British money) by Creator/GrahamLinehan and Arthur Mathews, about a tiny parish on a miserable little island off the coast of Ireland where the Catholic Church has exiled three of its most embarrassing members: the [[{{Schemer}} embezzler]] Father Ted Crilly, the idiotic ManChild Father Dougal [=McGuire=], and the [[DirtyOldMan drunken, violent, foul-mouthed skirt-chaser]] Father Jack Hackett. Their housekeeper is Mrs. Doyle, who is ''[[SeriousBusiness really]]'' dedicated to [[BritsLoveTea serving tea]]. The majority of episodes were [[FawltyTowersPlot Fawlty Towers Plots]] that involved Ted's efforts to either [[CardboardPrison escape from the island]] or [[GetRichQuickScheme make a nice pile of cash]], neither of which he [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption ever succeeded in doing]].

At one point, a [[TheMusical musical adaptation]] (''[[TitleTheAdaptation "Pope Ted: The Father Ted Musical"]]'') was planned and written by Linehan and Mathews, but the production was cancelled by its producers after Linehan began expressing extreme transphobic views and eventually started campaigning full-time against transgender rights, bombing his reputation.

* HollywoodBoardGames: In [[Recap/FatherTedS2E8CigarettesAndAlcoholAndRollerblading "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading"]], Father Ted mentions something mind-boggling about his [[TheRival rival]], Father Byrne. Apparently, Byrne managed to insult Ted by forming a phrase in a ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' game. Priests are usually fairly knowledgeable people, but this also shows how crafty and spiteful can Byrne get at times.

An unhinged Anglo-Irish {{sitcom}} (or perhaps more accurately, an Irish sitcom paid for with British money) by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, about a tiny parish on a miserable little island off the coast of Ireland where the Catholic Church has exiled three of its most embarrassing members: the [[{{Schemer}} embezzler]] Father Ted Crilly, the idiotic ManChild Father Dougal [=McGuire=], and the [[DirtyOldMan drunken, violent, foul-mouthed skirt-chaser]] Father Jack Hackett. Their housekeeper is Mrs. Doyle, who is ''[[SeriousBusiness really]]'' dedicated to [[BritsLoveTea serving tea]]. The majority of episodes were [[FawltyTowersPlot Fawlty Towers Plots]] that involved Ted's efforts to either [[CardboardPrison escape from the island]] or [[GetRichQuickScheme make a nice pile of cash]], neither of which he [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption ever succeeded in doing]].