NOT FATHER JACK!!! Americans React To "Father Ted - S1E6 - Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest"

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  • @RCassinello
    @RCassinello ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I found Father Ted through my father, whose whilst being English like me, his mother was an Irish ex-pat, so he'd grown up with that surreal and anarchic Irish sense of humour. He watched the first episode on first broadcast on his own and loved it, then for episode 2 he gathered me and my mom around and insisted we watched it - he said "It's like 'The Young Ones' but with priests." Such an apt description!

  • @df1985
    @df1985 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    It was huge in Ireland, just some older generations didn’t like it. My dad wasn’t impressed but my mother loved it 😅

    • @paddymallory4080
      @paddymallory4080 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here dad loved it mum used to switch ‘the devils window’ off when father Ted came on

    • @bujin1977
      @bujin1977 ปีที่แล้ว

      One of my best friends is from Ireland, but had been here in Wales since he was about ten. When I first told him about it, he refused to watch it as he thought it was offensive to Irish people. When I finally convinced him to give it a go, he loved it! (His family are catholic, but he's not religious)

    • @Roz-y2d
      @Roz-y2d ปีที่แล้ว

      What? Floor polish?

    • @susangarvey9415
      @susangarvey9415 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love Father Jack, he spoke rather posh in real life.

  • @jen6879
    @jen6879 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Frank Kelly who played Father Jack was the antithesis of him in every way - very gentlemanly and articulate. The poor man had to be treated for bed sores because of the hours and hours he had to be sat in that same chair on set.

  • @fizzlers444
    @fizzlers444 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    It was never offered to Irish TV. It went straight to Channel 4 in UK. Father Ted is iconic in Ireland ❤🇮🇪☘️

    • @dewidavies9161
      @dewidavies9161 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Loads of Catholics were against it in Ireland

    • @Ozzpot
      @Ozzpot ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dewidavies9161 Amongst my Irish friends and family, those who are staunchly Catholic hate it (and insist that ALL of Ireland hates it), and those who aren't very religious, if at all, love it (and claim that ALL of Ireland loves it). Obviously it seems like conflicting information, but it's a combination of a mixed reception and people claiming to be part of a consensus.

    • @fizzlers444
      @fizzlers444 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well I'm from Dublin and have never met anyone who had a problem with Father Ted. Maybe the feeling was different elsewhere in the country. Our local priest Fr. Terry used be in a knot laughing at it 🤣🤣. By the way you can't put the words 'staunch' and 'catholic' in the same sentence in Ireland anymore. If you knew anything about the place you'd know that's a misnomer.

    • @thejohnkelly
      @thejohnkelly ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fizzlers444 Same - my folks loved it. Never encountered anyone who didn't like it.

  • @kimwexler9393
    @kimwexler9393 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The actor who plays Father Jack, Frank Kelly, is my 3rd cousin. My dad was his spitting image. When my dad was in a London pub, visiting, someone asked for his autograph.

    • @gabrielesolletico6542
      @gabrielesolletico6542 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's nice! Have you ever met Frank Kelly in person? :)

  • @slowerthinker
    @slowerthinker ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My favourite bit of this episode (which youngsters or Americans may be oblivious to) is Dougal reciting the names of Italian footballers when asked to speak Latin.

    • @gabrielesolletico6542
      @gabrielesolletico6542 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ahahahahahahah! As an italian man, who started to get into football just for the 1994 World Cup, that line had me rolling on the floor! :)

  • @jackiejo3812
    @jackiejo3812 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Here in England, Father Ted was hugely popular.
    My kids went to a Catholic school and before the youngest started (aged nearly 5), I had to give him a few very serious talks about not doing his Father Jack impressions in class.

    • @gabrielesolletico6542
      @gabrielesolletico6542 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! Why? He would have become so popular...

    • @universewithinart2838
      @universewithinart2838 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gabrielesolletico6542 I can see that definitely with the kids, but with the priests definitely not😅.

  • @kevinjones4559
    @kevinjones4559 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dougal represents all of us who find life a little confusing at time.

  • @Quessir
    @Quessir ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Hard to believe that decades later people are still talking about how the Irish broadcaster, RTÉ, rejected this show. It's not true, it was never pitched to RTÉ, it was always going to be produced by Channel 4. The show was an instant massive hit in Ireland and remains so to this day. You could definitely say if RTÉ produced it some changes would've been made, but given that it was during the time when a lot of scandals in the church were coming to light, possibly we might be surprised at how little might have changed in the end.

    • @dyread
      @dyread ปีที่แล้ว

      I think they would have found it hard to pay to make it, but that would be the main reason it wasn't put to them.

    • @Quessir
      @Quessir ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dyread I don't know about that, it doesn't seem to have been an expensive show to make. But fair, the budget probably would have been less.

    • @Irish780
      @Irish780 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly heard so much shit about that with people making up there own ideas lol😢 I remember decontamination dermot Morgan saying he starting a new show on channel 4 he said it on late late show and nobody had a clue from rte

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dyreadIt wasn’t a big budget and RTE have no issues paying over the odds to their talent. But Linehan and Matthews were living in London and RTE had never produced a sitcom worth mentioning. There was no point coming home to make a half arsed version of it.

    • @lavery5000
      @lavery5000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree with you. I've watched quite a few Fr ted reactions, and they are fed the lie that it was hated in Ireland. It was massive here, and it is still loved to this day.

  • @Titanboru
    @Titanboru ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Greetings from Ireland. Great channel. 'Father Ted' was massive in Ireland but our national television station RTE wouldn't air it. But the majority of the country had access to cable TV by then which gave us access to English channels like Channel 4 and BBC.

    • @Titanboru
      @Titanboru ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @RaniaIsAwesome Yeah, I barely remember it eventually aired on maybe RTE2 after a few years. But definitelt not on it's first run.

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno ปีที่แล้ว

      RTE bought it 1 year after it was shown on Channel 4. It aired in autumn ‘96, less than 18 months after the original C4 run. They were criticised for wasting money because it was claimed most people had already seen it on Channel 4. There was no reticence on RTE’s behalf. They bought it as soon as they could.

  • @matthewoconnor5838
    @matthewoconnor5838 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It was watched it Ireland by a huge audience at the same time it was broadcast in UK

  • @tomjohnston1220
    @tomjohnston1220 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The speech that Ted says, just before Jack wakes up, is part of a famous story called The Dead, by James Joyce.

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno ปีที่แล้ว

      And adapted to film by John Huston. Filmed in the same house the story was set in.

  • @johnnypatrickhaus890
    @johnnypatrickhaus890 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    It was and still is HUGE in Ireland.
    There's a Ted Fest every year.
    They just went to England to get it produced, for obvious reasons. 😅

  • @Marzipan_Rocks
    @Marzipan_Rocks ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loved this show in New Zealand too. Huge Irish ancestry here. But we love British humour. We still say a few catch phrases from this.

  • @janicecostall5897
    @janicecostall5897 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I love Father Jack ♥️he’s the best 👍🏻

  • @garethm3242
    @garethm3242 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Yeah it was iconic in Ireland, more than anywhere else. I was starting catholic grammar school here when it was at its peak, and no one raised an eyelid, just laughed our asses off. It's quoted in daily conversation and has permeated culture and common vernacular here. [Edit: my school was actually called Saint Columb's, as is mentioned by Ted here 🙃]

  • @britblue
    @britblue ปีที่แล้ว +5

    re your comment about Fr Ted not being liked/shown in Ireland - it was immensely popular when shown on TV there!

  • @ClaireQuinn566
    @ClaireQuinn566 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Gentlemen, you are not meant to analyse Dougal like you do. His character is that of a young innocent Priest who's pretty clueless about lots of things, takes everything in his stride. I would love you to see how Fr. Jack was in real life, a real gentleman and beautifully spoken. He and Fr. Ted himself are very much missed. Fr. Ted left us way too soon. ❤️

  • @SneekySatan
    @SneekySatan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As an irish lad pushing 40, Trust me. It wasn't that it was frowned apon by the irish people. It was put down by (RTE) "basically a government run piece of shite TV that nobody cares for" and ignored even though it was an irish production with irish actors they straight up ignored. So an English channel "channel 4" took it on board and we all got to see the amazing talent and humour that was created by a great bunch of people. Shame poor ole Dermot passed when he did because we would of had so many more years of laughter. But yeah, long story short. No hate in Ireland, Completely the opposite. National treasure!

  • @MrDCWood
    @MrDCWood ปีที่แล้ว +10

    15:38
    I swear...all the reactions from American TH-camrs to THAT part of Father Ted are brilliant! You guys are no exception! One of the best Father Jack moments from the entire show!
    Get ready for Series 2 and Series 3! Enjoy! 👍

  • @GilesHellier
    @GilesHellier ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how invested you two were in the mortality of our beloved father Jack. Great reaction!

  • @daviddoyle4794
    @daviddoyle4794 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If memory serves, a new episode of Father Ted would attract an audience of 1m viewers in Ireland at a time when the population was 4m, confirming Fr Ted's phenomenal popularity in Ireland.

  • @markclarke317
    @markclarke317 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Jack is an absolute legend

  • @scottyourback
    @scottyourback ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was and still is huge here in Ireland.

  • @Niki-mp8qe
    @Niki-mp8qe ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Father ted was one of the highlights of my teens, never fails

  • @Fast_Eddy_Magic
    @Fast_Eddy_Magic ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dear Lord, we give you Fr Jack...try not to piss him off. Amen.

  • @claff88
    @claff88 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was never rejected in Ireland. Just channel 4 made it in England

  • @Cobalt-Jester
    @Cobalt-Jester ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My family name is 'Corless'. It's not a common name.
    So when I heard it being said on the show I was shocked.
    Most names have a correlation to a job.
    Smith would be a metal worker.
    Collier would be a coal digger.
    Johnson would be John's Son.
    The name Corless is just that, It's really 'Careless'. My ancestors were clumsy idiots. Knowing that, makes so much sense. I'm a clumsy idiot, too.

  • @hamilton9479
    @hamilton9479 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was a huge success in Ireland!!!!!!

  • @aidiess
    @aidiess ปีที่แล้ว +2

    " Hard to believe that " Dougal's " father was a senior Irish politician in the real world !

    • @dyread
      @dyread ปีที่แล้ว +1

      closed my hospital ......... I didn't blame Ardal though

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dyreadIn fairness, you had no formal medical training and that operating theatre was filthy. You were told a hundred times that mowing lawns was a better way to make pocket money.

  • @HarveyTwoFaceDent
    @HarveyTwoFaceDent ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Everybody in Ireland loved Father Ted, well everybody currently under the age of 80

  • @markandresen1
    @markandresen1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "We'll see him in the next world." "Oh yeah. Sure."

  • @vercoda9997
    @vercoda9997 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This was HUGELY popular here in Ireland, then as now. Catholicism's iron grip was loosening before Father Ted came out, as waves of immigration into Ireland from the early 90s also ushered in subtle societal shifts.
    Today, Catholicism is all but dead in the Republic - people still like the ceremony of traditional Catholic things, like church weddings, funerals, baptisms etc - but churches have usually only a small handful of mostly elderly parishioners regularly there; seminaries which would have churned out 200 priests a year are lucky if they can see 2 or 3 complete their studies - many Catholic churches in the Republic rely today on priests from Africa and other places, who have had to cut the amount of masses they hold so they can travel around as sometimes the sole priest for several churches.
    I don't think Americans truly grasp Irish culture, or how dead Catholicism largely is in the Republic at least (Northern Ireland is a different story - Christianity and society are 20-30 years behind the Republic on most things, so fundamentalists, pastors and the like are much more firmly still on the go up there).

    • @gabrielesolletico6542
      @gabrielesolletico6542 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh, I didn't know that! Italy is now the same, only old people gos regulary to Chuch. I go only for Christmas, and not even every year!

  • @catherinekenny3926
    @catherinekenny3926 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Never missed a show one of the funniest shows seen on British TV. I used to be peeing myself at father dougal. Classic!! Love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 x

  • @richardfurness7556
    @richardfurness7556 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The holy stone of Clonrichert will return in season 2...

    • @AlainnCorcaigh
      @AlainnCorcaigh ปีที่แล้ว

      They've finished all 3 seasons already a few months ago

    • @michaelcaffery5038
      @michaelcaffery5038 ปีที่แล้ว

      The episode where the 3 bishops come to upgrade the holy stone of Clonrickert was the best of all for me. I can't believe no-one else has recommended it.

  • @aprilpembertonholden3047
    @aprilpembertonholden3047 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Unfortunately, don’t know if was due to copy right but you cut the best bit when Dougle recited the Italian football team when the nun asked him to do the last rights in Latin, inspired 🤣🤣🤣

  • @seamusgogan3641
    @seamusgogan3641 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This show is very big in Ireland father Ted is my favourite show love it to bittes

  • @anitahargreaves9526
    @anitahargreaves9526 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Father Dougal, plays a dim superman character, tv comedy, my hero. Taffe316 just reviewed, very funny too.

  • @taun856
    @taun856 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As far as Last Rites go, I might be mistaken but I believe anyone who knows the ritual can perform it if a Priest is not available. At least that's what I read once.

  • @tonyfleck3029
    @tonyfleck3029 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love you young Americans, loving the fact you get our British sense of Humour!!!..
    X

    • @squarecircle5522
      @squarecircle5522 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How could a show written by 2 Irish people, with a cast almost entirely irish be British humour.

    • @paulinegallagher7821
      @paulinegallagher7821 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It may be a British production, but the humour is 100% Irish made

    • @tonyfleck3029
      @tonyfleck3029 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry I didn't mean to say British/English humour!
      I'm part/American/English/Irish/Welsh and a bit of Native American, my wife's part French and our grandchild is half Mauritian!
      Such a Funny show that trandsends International boundaries!!
      Have loved it for Decades x

    • @GBURGE55
      @GBURGE55 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@squarecircle5522British & Irish humour IS very similar. We at least have the same outlook on jovial content . Irish comedy is popular in the UK (Father Ted was produced & partly filmed in London BTY) & Irish humour is popular here in Britain so I can see where @tonyfleck3029 was coming from🇬🇧🇨🇮😂

  • @Dreyno
    @Dreyno ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It was not rejected in Ireland. A complete myth.

  • @jacquilewis8203
    @jacquilewis8203 ปีที่แล้ว

    The boyo has arisen 😂

  • @staticcentrehalf7166
    @staticcentrehalf7166 ปีที่แล้ว

    No patience with Dougal McGuire...? Hmm, you have to admit, yer mate bears a passing resemblance.

  • @jethro1963
    @jethro1963 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    These reactors always think it is anti-Catholic, it isn't. One of the writer's uncles was a priest, he knew them as people. One of the premises was that the show would be about three guys on an island who happen to be priests. The total lack of religious knowledge by reactors and their willingness to offer uninformed opinion gets trying sometimes.

    • @Niki-mp8qe
      @Niki-mp8qe ปีที่แล้ว

      It could be seen as anti religion if you want to analyse it, its entertainment in my opinion, not meant to be taken literally just to have a good laugh

    • @jethro1963
      @jethro1963 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PHILD0 If you or they want to talk out of their ass you can expect to be criticized. If nobody cares why do I have five likes.

  • @taun856
    @taun856 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish they had made an episode where through some weird mistake Father Jack is (temporarily) made Pope. That would have been epic!

    • @Maccorcrain
      @Maccorcrain ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There was supposed to be a stage musical written by Linehan and Matthews a few years ago but it fell through. The plot was Ted became Pope.

    • @patricksexton702
      @patricksexton702 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Maccorcrain the woke folk cancelled it, because Graham Linehan took a stand against them

    • @slowerthinker
      @slowerthinker ปีที่แล้ว

      That sounds rather like the plot of the film _The Pope Must Die_ starring Robbie Coltrane.

    • @taun856
      @taun856 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@slowerthinker I missed that one, is it good? I really like Robbie Coltrane.

    • @slowerthinker
      @slowerthinker ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@taun856 I haven't seen it in 30 years. I vaguelly remember enjoying it. Although it has got bad reviews (possibly due to the contraversial subject matter??).
      It was done by all the Comic Strip Presents... gang. When they were good they were hilarious, but they were always a bit hit and miss.

  • @dnfkofficial4067
    @dnfkofficial4067 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A lot of Irish loved it, just the older generation maybe had problems with it

  • @InYourHeadChangedMan
    @InYourHeadChangedMan ปีที่แล้ว

    You should have watched till after the end credits they are always the best

  • @The.Android
    @The.Android ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pants. Collar. Same thing.

  • @Varksterable
    @Varksterable ปีที่แล้ว

    Dougal's almost painful naive stupidity is what makes his place as a priest on this show.
    Remember, the premise was; pick a trait you'd want in a priest and reverse it.

  • @pj_naylor
    @pj_naylor ปีที่แล้ว

    It's a different shark!

  • @BillySugger1965
    @BillySugger1965 ปีที่แล้ว

    Guys, why can’t I see this on Patreon? I’m signed up to your account.

  • @dssbfam
    @dssbfam 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They really need to do better research
    It was never offered to irish tv
    In fact father ted first ever appeared on irish tv the late late show multiple times before the father ted show was created
    I'm catholic and everyone I know is and we all grew up watching father ted majority of people in ireland loved this show
    There was a monk in my school that liked it

  • @charliegeorge9393
    @charliegeorge9393 ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you done episode 5?

  • @LoneCloudHopper
    @LoneCloudHopper 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Wearing the pants" isn't sexist. There is no hatefulness in the term itself. It just refers to a man taking charge of a situation. I've never used it myself because it may be insensitive. Everything is "sexist" and "racist" these days, so the words lose all meaning.

  • @Fast_Eddy_Magic
    @Fast_Eddy_Magic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Tongue Fish" was pretty good, but "Tongue Fish 2: The Licking Continues" sucked.

  • @vallee3140
    @vallee3140 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Funny I hated Father Jack, but Dougal was hilarious.

  • @timholder6825
    @timholder6825 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Father Ted was very popular in Ireland....with the people. It's the Catholic Church and the influence they had that stopped it from being broadcast on Irish TV. So....... I've heard stories of people cramming into pubs that had cable or satellite TV to watch it there.

    • @dyread
      @dyread ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't think anyone needed to cram anywhere as we have and did have at that time Channel 4. I don't know who makes up these stories. I watched it on Channel 4 at the time. I don't know if it was on satellite as it was made by Channel 4 they showed it.

    • @timholder6825
      @timholder6825 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dyread That's what I thought, Ireland gets Channel 4. I guess it's just a piece of apocrypha.

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolute nonsense 😂
      A big chunk of the population had C4 and watched it. RTE (the Irish state broadcaster) bought the rights to it a year later when they became available.
      The Catholic Church had lost it’s grip by then. I’ve heard young people who weren’t even born talking about the 1990s in ireland and it sounds like a different place than where I was a teenager.

    • @timholder6825
      @timholder6825 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dreyno somebody seems to have a bee in their bonnet about nothing. Religion and the Irish......FFS.

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@timholder6825 I couldn’t give a toss about religion. I’m just pointing out that you’re talking absolute nonsense in a topic you clearly haven’t a clue about. And now you’re trying to be condescending like a complete prat.

  • @gabrielesolletico6542
    @gabrielesolletico6542 ปีที่แล้ว

    14:50 Well, now, Dougal is obviously an exageration, a character made to be made fun of, but... it's actually a cliché, in Catholic Country (and I'm from italy), that A LOT of Catholic Priest tend to... lost their faith, the much they become older... so, if a young man was a fervent believer when he went to the Seminary when he was 18, by the time he turns... not too much old, let's say 40... he have probably lost his Faith! So, you can actually find A LOT of Father Dougal McGuire in real life... and if you're asking "Why they don't end their career in the Church, then?" well... you know, they're human beings too, and they need a job to live... if you graduated into Theology, and you're a 40 years old virgin man, who actually never worked... who will hire you? So, you better keep your opinions for yourself, and continue to do "your job" until retirement...

  • @johnbarbour8733
    @johnbarbour8733 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In real life, the actor who played Ted died. The actor who played Jack died. Exactly 18 years after Dermot. On the exact same day.

  • @jperky28
    @jperky28 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your guys reactions make my day.
    Love ya's from New Zealand.

  • @frozengamer3030
    @frozengamer3030 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who made dougle a priest

  • @anthonyholroyd5359
    @anthonyholroyd5359 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So when you are done with Father Ted . . .
    Watch. . .
    'Small, Far away - the story of father Ted'
    Then 'Black Books'
    Then 'The IT Crowd'

  • @Ozzpot
    @Ozzpot ปีที่แล้ว

    Who rewrites the titles for these episodes when they upload them to TH-cam? And why are they always so mundanely descriptive? Why don't they just use the episode titles the writers came up with?

    • @EmbraceTheSuck21
      @EmbraceTheSuck21  ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe go outside for once?

    • @Ozzpot
      @Ozzpot ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EmbraceTheSuck21 😕 Is everything ok?

  • @davidheart8912
    @davidheart8912 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dougal is the Irish equivalent of a Trump supporter.