There is a huge amount of local history around this episode. Ireland had won the Eurovision several years in a row and it was becoming incredible expensive (the winners each year are the hosts the following year) for the Irish television service RTE to produce. So it was rumored that we started purposefully entering rubbish bands and songs to ensure we couldn't win. This episode was a tribute that those times. :)
100% ^ Like much of this show (like Eoin MacLove being Daniel O'Donnell, Henry Sellers being Terry Wogan etc) it was based on exactly what was happening in Irish pop culture at that time
They also wrote The Miracle is Mine and pretty much every original piece of music in the series. I'll never stop being upset at how underrated and underappreciated Neil Hannon is as an Irish musician.
the back story is that Ireland had several successes in Song for Europe at the time and it was costing them too much money to stage the event (winners host the next event in their own country), this was alluded to this episode and that is why they chose My Lovely Horse, so it would lose.
eurovision is 200% political, since ireland is too scared to get involved in military justice in the world , they get voted to win, euro song contest is a scam alwys has been its nothing to do with talent its political popularity contest
You know they have TedFest every year in Ireland, I'd love to go. Lots of the old cast members attend, and they have bands playing My Lovely Horse on stage.
They won because the winning country gets to stage the event the next time. Dick Byrne suggested that it was becoming too expensive to stage as Ireland kept winning year after a year (they did win a lot), so deliberately set out to lose this time. The two hosts looked suitably embarrassed when this was mentioned..
Ted losing his sh** during the songwriting scene has me gasping for breath! 😂😂 "JUST PLAY THE F-CKING NOTE!" The presenter's gibberish-speak is basically a caricature of some of the stronger accents you will hear in Ireland, particularly around where I live in County Cork!! 🇮🇪 Next time on Father Ted: the return of an old enemy!!
The actors name is Jon Kenny. He was part of an Irish comedy duo called D’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt who played the guy with the “I Shot J.R” T-shirt in Father Ted. Both actors also starred in that Irish film The Banshees Of Inisherin recently.
Yessss! Been waiting for this one 😂 I think it's my favourite episode. Edit: aw man, gutted you cut the part where Jack shoots the guitar with a sawn-off 😂
Back in the 90's Ireland did wins 5 times in a row and it was costing a packet, there is some history there. Riverdance was born during this time as a halftime act, kinda hard to follow that masterpiece.
It was 3 times in a row - ‘92, ‘93 and ‘94. Then they had a rest in ‘95 when they came 14th before winning again in ‘96. But that’s still a good track record. Their ‘94 entry was Rock And Roll Kids, sung by two geezers in their late middle age. A lot of people thought it was awful and the rumour started that they deliberately chose them in order to lose on purpose. But they still won! John Lydon has put himself forward as a contender for Ireland this year. I don’t know how well he’s done or if he’s still in the running. Personally I don’t think the song shouts ‘winner’ but since it’s Johnny Rotten they may win again this year.
@GrilloTheFlightless That Rock and Roll kids WAS a shite song. Not a patch on Diri diri or We geben'Ne party. Still I think Michael Ball was robbed in 1992. One step out of time was awesome.
You two have such a beautiful relationship 😭😄 💕. I've never known a relationship like this. I'm really enjoying your videos, and I wish you can always be as happy as you are in this video 😁.
i love in the series how Dick Burn is a mirror image of Ted , with same idiot priest and old drunkard on another island.. it crops up repeatedly in their rivalry..
Father Ted and Dougal won because, as Dick Burn said, the organisers wanted Ireland to lose at Eurovision. That's because the winner hosts the next year's competition and it costs a lot of money. (Ireland won quite a lot.)
Yet these two appreciated every single episode if you could actually be bothered to watch all of their reactions. Instead of spouting generalised rubbish.
What's missing from the episode is the scene when Ted comes up with this idea to rip off another song and pass it off as their own because he thought it was obscure and that no one would notice. That's why he had the reaction in the elevator when he hear the sound being played knowing then it was more popular than he thought and would they would be found out. I don't know why the scene where he comes up with the idea is missing! It's should be as it puts the rest of the show in context
Yeah I don't get why he edits out some scenes but leaves in when he pauses the episode to discuss random things with his mrs that have nothing to do with the episode, those are the parts he should edit out lol
Oh god !!! Queen boomer,s song and turning her back trying to sing it ,absolutely hurt my stomach was laughing so much !!! And that's not a easy thing g to don't 3am in England, with my husband trying g to sleep next to me . I honestly couldn't breath . You both crack me up
I think the US is gradually starting to hear about the Eurovision Song Contest, possibly due to Will Ferrell's affectionate spoof The Story Of Fire Saga. He's a genuine fan after being introduced to it by his Swedish wife. I'm sure I remember reading something about America doing a State song contest, don't know what happened though.
This rates 4th in best episodes of Father Ted .. 1st is the sheep contest , then all priests football match closely following by kicking bishop Brennan up the arse! All still to come .. still one of the funniest comedies ever written !
Dick Byrne said why they won - because it was costing Ireland so much to host the Eurovision show that they wanted to make sure Ireland lost. (The country that wins Eurovision has to host the competition the following year).
And I was today years old when I realised that I'm older than Queen Boomer (only just - 1994) This episode satirises how Ireland kept winning the Eurovision song contest, and how expensive it was for them to keep hosting it. Ted won only because they wanted to lose. 😂😂 For a small nation, the Irish are a talented bunch (I'm a part-Irish Scot, so I am just a little biased) :P
Queen Boomer's song was really going places! That's a quick mind! I was getting worried though, what with all the fuzz about not wanting to say the lyrics and "his dog jane and his girlfriend Callie" rhyming with something-something back alley 😂
For a little nerdy context, Ireland had won the Eurovision contest so often that the government could not afford to host it again. (the winner hosts it and it costs millions) so unofficially they just threw it, so they would not have a chance of hosting it. This was parodied in Father Ted
@Boomer: There's a Father Ted documentary available on youtube which is worth watching to get some background. It's called "Small, Far Away - The World Of Father Ted".
Black Books, starring Irish comedian Dylan Moran and written with one of the Father Ted writers, is another brilliant comedy series. I'm sure you will like it.
This show reminds me of growing up in an Irish household so much. 😂 The way Mrs. Doyle rips into Ted's song choice is so Irish. And the way Ted gets irrationally angry when asking for the guitar. 😂 So Irish.
The winners (country) of the annual Eurovision song contest are obliged to _host_ the big razzamattaz all night, competition final the next year. In the 1990s, Ireland kept winning the competition consecutively, and so Ireland got to host seemingly EVERY year. The Eurovision Final is a LIVE broadcast to over 30 countries (?) and costs a fortune in tech and satellite fees alone, before adding in the whole VIP experience for the nobs and dignitaries from nearly every country imaginable (except the USA!). Anyway, hosting doesn't generate a profit, it's just a prestige thing. The joke of this episode is that the Irish cynically wanted to deliberately lose the competition to spare themselves the enormous expense to what is a small GDP country. Ordinarily the Irish public would phone in votes for their favourite contending song, but the presenters said that _this_ year (1996), that they themselves would choose the winner, picking Ted & Dougal's abyssmal effort because it was 100% certain to lose the final, and relieve Ireland of any further financial burden.
This episode is by far the funniest thing l ever saw. I remember hoping for the ads to come as l was laughing so much it was painful. It could not be made in Ireland because it was so offensive to the Catholic Church but it was screened in the pubs via satellite from British tv and naturally packed the pubs out. It could never be screened in the US for the same reasons it was not broadcast in Ireland. You could not even buy compatible DVDs which was a shame as l know my American cousin would have loved it. But Father Ted is more than a TV show. Just as the Beatles heralded social change in the 69s, this series broke old taboos and epitomizes the transition of Ireland into a truly modern country. In my opinion among the best television ever made anywhere.
Yep - Ireland won 3 years in sucession... 1992-4. As the winning country hosts the next years competition it cost them a fecking fortune. That's the whole premise here..
@Boomer. This and the elderly priest football episode are the 2 best in my opinion. Ireland won the competition several times with really good songs. Boomer. A challenge Do 'My Lovely Dog' and the challenge is 'an original tune/song played on a badly tuned guitar or only has 3 strings' and 10 line lyrics why you love your dog. Or an instrument you have never played. And the singing has to be monotonous. A challenge for everyone on this channel to take part in the challenge and submit entries here. But the lyrics your case might be an another pet or some random things like favourite mug, kitchen utensil or furniture. Short, bad lyric monotonous tune contest. It is a cringe worthy moments to watch. Could be uploaded on Shorts.
Yeah, the "Priests over 80's 5 a side" (Or was it 6? I can't recall) is hilarious, followed by the one where the loser of the bet has to kick Bishop Brennan up the arse. Which is also a fantastic episode. Aptly named: Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse.. Has me crying with laughter every time..
Its missing a bit of the episode, or you skipped ahead by accident at 10:17. You missed the best bit. They ask what Father Jack thinks of the song and he pulls out a shotgun and shoots Ted's guitar out of his hands. Then they decide the songs shit till Ted hears Dougals record again from the beginning and persuades Dougal they should steal the tune, because its such an obsure song. That's why he freaks out when he hears the tune playing as lift music, he realises he's stolen a tune that's more famous than he thought.
The songs co-writers was Neil Hannon. In fairness, getting ‘when your arse is the size of a small country’ into a song is pretty impressive: th-cam.com/video/p_GLSgJ39Dc/w-d-xo.html
You should do a reaction to the Eurovision Song Contest. It's madder than a crazy sitcom can do justice to. Epic Sax Guy for starters. Or the Russian grannies. Poland's entry featuring milk maids...
I remember years ago my grandmother gave us a DVD of 2 episodes from a newspaper (she wasn't a fan) and it included this episode which we all watched a thousand times until we were a little older and bought the Complete Boxset. The other episode on the DVD was one that King Boomer wasn't seen yet, so in the interest of not spoiling anything, I'll just say this... ...milk
This is my absolute favourite episode so so good love that you’re both here today King And Queen Boomer when I see any 8 out of 10 cats I think of you 2 thanks for this clip
Absolutely loved this reaction, esp your queen was making up a song for you and could hardly breath for laughing. Not entirely sure how they got The Divine Comedy to voice over the song in the dream sequence - but I guess as he wrote the main theme. Mind you, the words on the version of the song used for main theme released by The Divine Comedy are… more than a little bit odd.
Ireland winning the Eurovision back to back three years in a row then winning it again two years later is the inspiration behind this episode. There was a lot of talk at the time that hosting the contest was costing the country an absolute fortune, and the quality of Irish entries to the contest took a suspiciously low dive in subsequent years. We have yet to win the contest again. Dick Byrne mentioning in an off the cuff comment that the show was getting too expensive to host and the ever so slightly delayed laughter of the showrunner and presenter is just so much great icing on the top of a very delicious cake.
@@carolthomas6334 Geez time flies even more than I've always known it does then. I'm usually spot on with years but that's in topics I have a lot more interest in like Sport, film, actual music/artists I'm into etc...I was only 8 so I guess I got mixed up as I had that particular teacher in 94/95 & 95/96. I remember telling her the next day Norway won because she didn't watch it but was interested to know who won. I can't say I've watched it thoroughly many times but at this stage I'd never really watched it. My mum was as always, so I was hearing the results half heartedly paying attention but not much more than that and I even half forgot Norway's name to the teacher so I said the winner began with an N and then the teacher named some countries and when she said Norway I was like yeah that was it. I may have given her some flag details as well but saying Red I'm guessing she must've guessed Netherlands first she didn't get it straightaway I know that. I was miles better with countries flags geography soon after as I got heavily into football in just over a year's time from there and learned loads from that.
@@carolthomas6334 Oh right. I guess 96 was quite a proud year for Ireland in Sports/Arts. They had that swimmer in Olympics winning golds. RoyKeane won the double etc...and that great Father Ted Christmas episode was that year as well.
It was fun watching you guys. Great chemistry. Can I suggest the four candles sketch from the Two Ronnies? There's actually a lot of hilarious sketches from this British show
There is a huge amount of local history around this episode. Ireland had won the Eurovision several years in a row and it was becoming incredible expensive (the winners each year are the hosts the following year) for the Irish television service RTE to produce. So it was rumored that we started purposefully entering rubbish bands and songs to ensure we couldn't win. This episode was a tribute that those times. :)
Yes, I remember the Irish we so good for many years and kept winning. Like every thing in Europe, you just think f-this, just like RTE!
100% ^ Like much of this show (like Eoin MacLove being Daniel O'Donnell, Henry Sellers being Terry Wogan etc) it was based on exactly what was happening in Irish pop culture at that time
As a German, I'm really hoping our TV service choses our contestants for the same reason...
eurovision is transvestite looking crap TBH , the ONLY song thats good from it is from TATU , the russian DUO
^ yes im very biased ,im not even russian
The band, the Divine Comedy who does the Father Ted theme tune are the ones who also wrote the song My lovely horse
They also wrote The Miracle is Mine and pretty much every original piece of music in the series. I'll never stop being upset at how underrated and underappreciated Neil Hannon is as an Irish musician.
One of my absolute favourites adore Neil Hannon
@@MrPboys1 He’s doing the music to the new Willy Wonka movie released later in 2023!
Songs of Love is the song containing the theme by Divine Comedy
@@MrPboys1 Agreed, but shouldn’t that be Father Neil Hannon? Mrs Doyle seems to think so!
the back story is that Ireland had several successes in Song for Europe at the time and it was costing them too much money to stage the event (winners host the next event in their own country), this was alluded to this episode and that is why they chose My Lovely Horse, so it would lose.
eurovision is 200% political, since ireland is too scared to get involved in military justice in the world , they get voted to win, euro song contest is a scam alwys has been its nothing to do with talent its political popularity contest
I’m addicted to your channel, lots of love from Ireland 🇮🇪
Love the scoreboard with "you dirty English bastards" as one of the songs 🤣 (and I'm English by the way)
What number was this at id love to see lt?
Brilliant 😂
And the band is called the Hairy Bowsies. They were spoof of the Wolfes Tones
“Take this lump of sugar baby, you know you want it” kills me every time
You know they have TedFest every year in Ireland, I'd love to go. Lots of the old cast members attend, and they have bands playing My Lovely Horse on stage.
It’s funny watching you watch this now for the 1st time, when this is often being sung around our house. Everyone knows this song over here! Classic!!
I love that one of the songs is You Dirty English B*stards. 😂
They won because the winning country gets to stage the event the next time. Dick Byrne suggested that it was becoming too expensive to stage as Ireland kept winning year after a year (they did win a lot), so deliberately set out to lose this time. The two hosts looked suitably embarrassed when this was mentioned..
Ted losing his sh** during the songwriting scene has me gasping for breath! 😂😂 "JUST PLAY THE F-CKING NOTE!"
The presenter's gibberish-speak is basically a caricature of some of the stronger accents you will hear in Ireland, particularly around where I live in County Cork!! 🇮🇪
Next time on Father Ted: the return of an old enemy!!
@@garyhutton2654 the Derry accent is better:)
This is the inspiration for the songwriting scene. A legendary recording in British music. th-cam.com/video/En4ase-1-FA/w-d-xo.html
The actor who played Father Ted dermot morgan passed away one day after filming the last ever episode crazy 😮
Father Dick Byrne called it. They wanted Ireland to lose so they wouldn't have the expense of hosting again.
I love how the presenter is scruffy and incoherent until on camera. Plus it's the same guy who runs the cinema.
The actors name is Jon Kenny. He was part of an Irish comedy duo called D’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt who played the guy with the “I Shot J.R”
T-shirt in Father Ted. Both actors also starred in that Irish film The Banshees Of Inisherin recently.
Yessss! Been waiting for this one 😂 I think it's my favourite episode.
Edit: aw man, gutted you cut the part where Jack shoots the guitar with a sawn-off 😂
one of the best bits!
Queen Boomers face when Father Dick Burn started singing "The Miracle is mine" song! He did sing that awesome!!
Back in the 90's Ireland did wins 5 times in a row and it was costing a packet, there is some history there. Riverdance was born during this time as a halftime act, kinda hard to follow that masterpiece.
I was born the same year as Riverdance (1994).
Riverdance was the best act of the night, it was wonderful.
It was 3 times in a row - ‘92, ‘93 and ‘94. Then they had a rest in ‘95 when they came 14th before winning again in ‘96. But that’s still a good track record. Their ‘94 entry was Rock And Roll Kids, sung by two geezers in their late middle age. A lot of people thought it was awful and the rumour started that they deliberately chose them in order to lose on purpose. But they still won!
John Lydon has put himself forward as a contender for Ireland this year. I don’t know how well he’s done or if he’s still in the running. Personally I don’t think the song shouts ‘winner’ but since it’s Johnny Rotten they may win again this year.
@GrilloTheFlightless That Rock and Roll kids WAS a shite song. Not a patch on Diri diri or We geben'Ne party. Still I think Michael Ball was robbed in 1992. One step out of time was awesome.
@@GrilloTheFlightless The winner in 95 was secret garden a Irish/Norwegian band representing Norway.
You two have such a beautiful relationship 😭😄 💕.
I've never known a relationship like this.
I'm really enjoying your videos, and I wish you can always be as happy as you are in this video 😁.
This episode will forever be remembered for the visuals that accompanied that saxophone solo.
When ted was going nuts while writing the song, reminds me of when I was in a rock band. That was pretty common in rehersals
Dick Byrne was so good in this series.
Dick Bird lol
i love in the series how Dick Burn is a mirror image of Ted , with same idiot priest and old drunkard on another island.. it crops up repeatedly in their rivalry..
This is hands down my favourite episode 🤣🤣
There was a segment missing in this reaction between the song played to Mrs Doyle and Father Jack and the music video
Father Ted and Dougal won because, as Dick Burn said, the organisers wanted Ireland to lose at Eurovision. That's because the winner hosts the next year's competition and it costs a lot of money. (Ireland won quite a lot.)
This was made when Ireland kept winning Eurovision for real and having to host it which did indeed cost a lot.
Father Ted is too subtle for Americans to appreciate it - they do laugh at strange things!
Yet these two appreciated every single episode if you could actually be bothered to watch all of their reactions.
Instead of spouting generalised rubbish.
I hadn’t seen this episode for years, so seeing the horse appear after 11:14… I absolutely lost it 😭
What's missing from the episode is the scene when Ted comes up with this idea to rip off another song and pass it off as their own because he thought it was obscure and that no one would notice. That's why he had the reaction in the elevator when he hear the sound being played knowing then it was more popular than he thought and would they would be found out.
I don't know why the scene where he comes up with the idea is missing! It's should be as it puts the rest of the show in context
I've got a feeling that they thought it was a real song so they cut that bit out because TH-cam often blocks reactions that feature real songs.
That could be true too
A bit of context for the episode:
Ireland won the Eurovison song contest in 92,93 & 94 and then again in 1996
Don't forget Dana in 1970. Not forgetting Johnny Logan in 1980 and 87!!!! Plus he wrote the winning entry in 1992!!!
Fun fact. Norway won in 95, but the duo was actually half irish.
All the times I've seen this, I've never noticed there's a song called 'You Durty English Ba****ds' on the board! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I noticed 2 scenes were deleted in this video you should show full episode, there are other reaction channels that do not cut scenes.
Yeah I don't get why he edits out some scenes but leaves in when he pauses the episode to discuss random things with his mrs that have nothing to do with the episode, those are the parts he should edit out lol
Oh god !!! Queen boomer,s song and turning her back trying to sing it ,absolutely hurt my stomach was laughing so much !!! And that's not a easy thing g to don't 3am in England, with my husband trying g to sleep next to me . I honestly couldn't breath . You both crack me up
Songs by the great Neil Hannon. A musical genius. Fantastic episode from one of the greatest ever sitcoms.
I think the US is gradually starting to hear about the Eurovision Song Contest, possibly due to Will Ferrell's affectionate spoof The Story Of Fire Saga. He's a genuine fan after being introduced to it by his Swedish wife.
I'm sure I remember reading something about America doing a State song contest, don't know what happened though.
This rates 4th in best episodes of Father Ted .. 1st is the sheep contest , then all priests football match closely following by kicking bishop Brennan up the arse! All still to come .. still one of the funniest comedies ever written !
One of the funniest episodes ever. Watching you two crack up kills me loool I am Irish myself and love this show.
It's actually really heartwarming to watch these reactions to our national treasure.
The theme music for the show and the My lovely Horse song were written by the band The Divine Comedy.
I can't choose between this and Holiday as my favourite episodes, but Ted was the funniest comedy ever 😂
Dick Byrne said why they won - because it was costing Ireland so much to host the Eurovision show that they wanted to make sure Ireland lost.
(The country that wins Eurovision has to host the competition the following year).
Unless they're getting bombed.
@@eclectica1
Ukraine hosted it in 2017 when it was bombing people in the east of the country.
ah ye skipped the bit where Jack shoots Ted's guitar with a sawn off double barrel shotgun, one of the funniest bits
Was fuming at that, guitar obliterated
This song actually got to number one in the UK charts.
And I was today years old when I realised that I'm older than Queen Boomer (only just - 1994)
This episode satirises how Ireland kept winning the Eurovision song contest, and how expensive it was for them to keep hosting it. Ted won only because they wanted to lose. 😂😂
For a small nation, the Irish are a talented bunch (I'm a part-Irish Scot, so I am just a little biased) :P
My lovely horse. Running through the fields.....
It was a long time since i heard a song with Scoopy scoopy dog dog...
All hail Queen Boomer and the Father Ted jingle.
Really enjoyed your reaction guys! Keep the Father Teds coming 😅
Queen Boomer's song was really going places! That's a quick mind!
I was getting worried though, what with all the fuzz about not wanting to say the lyrics and "his dog jane and his girlfriend Callie" rhyming with something-something back alley 😂
For a little nerdy context, Ireland had won the Eurovision contest so often that the government could not afford to host it again. (the winner hosts it and it costs millions) so unofficially they just threw it, so they would not have a chance of hosting it. This was parodied in Father Ted
This is one of the funniest,but u missed the part where Father Jack shoots at the guitar!! 😂
@Boomer: There's a Father Ted documentary available on youtube which is worth watching to get some background. It's called "Small, Far Away - The World Of Father Ted".
We won because ireland kept winning the eurovision in real life and the country couldn't afford another on. Its a skit on that.
Father ted = my exact life.😅
Made my afternoon, Thank you for sharing this ✅🇬🇧👵
Black Books, starring Irish comedian Dylan Moran and written with one of the Father Ted writers, is another brilliant comedy series. I'm sure you will like it.
Loving the Jim Cornette t shirt. He’s a legend.
This show reminds me of growing up in an Irish household so much. 😂 The way Mrs. Doyle rips into Ted's song choice is so Irish.
And the way Ted gets irrationally angry when asking for the guitar. 😂 So Irish.
The winners (country) of the annual Eurovision song contest are obliged to _host_ the big razzamattaz all night, competition final the next year.
In the 1990s, Ireland kept winning the competition consecutively, and so Ireland got to host seemingly EVERY year. The Eurovision Final is a LIVE broadcast to over 30 countries (?) and costs a fortune in tech and satellite fees alone, before adding in the whole VIP experience for the nobs and dignitaries from nearly every country imaginable (except the USA!).
Anyway, hosting doesn't generate a profit, it's just a prestige thing. The joke of this episode is that the Irish cynically wanted to deliberately lose the competition to spare themselves the enormous expense to what is a small GDP country.
Ordinarily the Irish public would phone in votes for their favourite contending song, but the presenters said that _this_ year (1996), that they themselves would choose the winner, picking Ted & Dougal's abyssmal effort because it was 100% certain to lose the final, and relieve Ireland of any further financial burden.
Callie rhymes with marry. Hint, hint. ❤
QB laughing was spot on, you you are a lovely couple, regards from Mal across the pond
John Kenny, RIP. He died last week. (He played the Eurosong host, Fred Rickwood)
This episode is by far the funniest thing l ever saw. I remember hoping for the ads to come as l was laughing so much it was painful. It could not be made in Ireland because it was so offensive to the Catholic Church but it was screened in the pubs via satellite from British tv and naturally packed the pubs out. It could never be screened in the US for the same reasons it was not broadcast in Ireland. You could not even buy compatible DVDs which was a shame as l know my American cousin would have loved it. But Father Ted is more than a TV show. Just as the Beatles heralded social change in the 69s, this series broke old taboos and epitomizes the transition of Ireland into a truly modern country. In my opinion among the best television ever made anywhere.
Interesting reaction from the Americans to the homosexual references!
Best Eurovison song ever created!! My lovely horse ❤️❤️❤️
Why did you miss bits? Like Jack shooting the guitar after they first performed the song?
At 17:00 we never got to hear number seven on the list, The Dirty English Bastards.
Yep - Ireland won 3 years in sucession... 1992-4. As the winning country hosts the next years competition it cost them a fecking fortune. That's the whole premise here..
Hey just wondering, what would you give father ted out of 10 and which is your favourite episode?! Hello from ireland i love your channell! 🇮🇪😊
@Boomer. This and the elderly priest football episode are the 2 best in my opinion. Ireland won the competition several times with really good songs.
Boomer. A challenge
Do 'My Lovely Dog' and the challenge is 'an original tune/song played on a badly tuned guitar or only has 3 strings' and 10 line lyrics why you love your dog. Or an instrument you have never played. And the singing has to be monotonous. A challenge for everyone on this channel to take part in the challenge and submit entries here. But the lyrics your case might be an another pet or some random things like favourite mug, kitchen utensil or furniture. Short, bad lyric monotonous tune contest. It is a cringe worthy moments to watch. Could be uploaded on Shorts.
Speed 3 is a close one with this episode
Yeah, the "Priests over 80's 5 a side" (Or was it 6? I can't recall) is hilarious, followed by the one where the loser of the bet has to kick Bishop Brennan up the arse. Which is also a fantastic episode. Aptly named: Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse.. Has me crying with laughter every time..
Father Dick Byrne was breaking Eurovision rules, maximum of 6 people on stage in an act...maybe he was disqualified on that technicality
in this episode, Father Ted has captured the essence of the Art of Song Writing.
Made my evening guys, walked in from work and you'd dropped a Ted within the hour! Brew time!!
when Dick Bryne was singing queen boomer looked like she was in a trance!
Its missing a bit of the episode, or you skipped ahead by accident at 10:17. You missed the best bit.
They ask what Father Jack thinks of the song and he pulls out a shotgun and shoots Ted's guitar out of his hands. Then they decide the songs shit till Ted hears Dougals record again from the beginning and persuades Dougal they should steal the tune, because its such an obsure song. That's why he freaks out when he hears the tune playing as lift music, he realises he's stolen a tune that's more famous than he thought.
hello, they didn't show that bit because TH-cam cant show violence against an innocent guitar lol
@@garethcain6855 Well the way the guitar was played was criminal
They did watch the whole episode but have to cut bits out to get it on YT
I dont understand why though, as other TH-camrs have reacted to full episodes without cutting bits out!
Having a big Eurovision party in May , can’t wait
Loving the song, Callie. I reckon you're on to something there. 👍😁
The songs co-writers was Neil Hannon. In fairness, getting ‘when your arse is the size of a small country’ into a song is pretty impressive:
th-cam.com/video/p_GLSgJ39Dc/w-d-xo.html
Check out What's Another Year and Hold Me Now by Johnny Logan.both won Eurovision for Ireland.
Did you recognise the eurovison compere? He was the guy who runs the cinema showing St Tibulus.
Would have loved to see your reaction to jack pulling out the shotgun and shooting the guitar.
Top 3 episodes for me:
Speed
A song for Europe
5 a side
You are lucky people to be experiencing this for the first time.
I would have loved to see your reaction to Jack shooting the guitar
You should do a reaction to the Eurovision Song Contest. It's madder than a crazy sitcom can do justice to.
Epic Sax Guy for starters. Or the Russian grannies. Poland's entry featuring milk maids...
Or Verka.. Ukraine’s answer to Sue Pollard.. also featured in the movie Spy
Season 2 is when Father Ted really kicks into high gear.
'My Lovely Horse' would be good put to a Country 'n' Western tune, I think. Me and my girlfriend used to sing it in the car - it's so bad it's good!
It's not "Me and my girlfriend", it's "My girlfriend and I"
Did you totally miss the final scene which explains why they won? I think you need to give it a rewatch.
I remember years ago my grandmother gave us a DVD of 2 episodes from a newspaper (she wasn't a fan) and it included this episode which we all watched a thousand times until we were a little older and bought the Complete Boxset. The other episode on the DVD was one that King Boomer wasn't seen yet, so in the interest of not spoiling anything, I'll just say this...
...milk
Quite simply, the country that wins the song contest has to stage it the following year.
Your reactions always make me feel better thanks for that 🐕❤😂
This is my absolute favourite episode so so good love that you’re both here today King And Queen Boomer when I see any 8 out of 10 cats I think of you 2 thanks for this clip
It's Dick Byrne not Dick Bird!
"Scoopy scoopy Dogg Dogg"....👀🤦🏻♂️👏👏🤣🤣🤣💜
Absolutely loved this reaction, esp your queen was making up a song for you and could hardly breath for laughing. Not entirely sure how they got The Divine Comedy to voice over the song in the dream sequence - but I guess as he wrote the main theme. Mind you, the words on the version of the song used for main theme released by The Divine Comedy are… more than a little bit odd.
Ireland winning the Eurovision back to back three years in a row then winning it again two years later is the inspiration behind this episode. There was a lot of talk at the time that hosting the contest was costing the country an absolute fortune, and the quality of Irish entries to the contest took a suspiciously low dive in subsequent years. We have yet to win the contest again. Dick Byrne mentioning in an off the cuff comment that the show was getting too expensive to host and the ever so slightly delayed laughter of the showrunner and presenter is just so much great icing on the top of a very delicious cake.
You couldn't afford to host Eurovision? Jesus wept, how poor are you people?
I now sing along with QB when she does the jingle.
This might be one of my fave episodes. Bu father ted has so many classic moments.
The list of song entries on the stage is hilarious. I wonder how The Hairy Bowsies got on with their entry "You Dirty English B@st@rds".🤣
Love father Ted and I love the eurovision song contest. Funnily enough Ireland won again in 1996.
I think I recall Norway won in 1996, then UK following year
@@FootkerSnooball norway 1995 ,Ireland 1996 100%
@@carolthomas6334 Geez time flies even more than I've always known it does then. I'm usually spot on with years but that's in topics I have a lot more interest in like Sport, film, actual music/artists I'm into etc...I was only 8 so I guess I got mixed up as I had that particular teacher in 94/95 & 95/96. I remember telling her the next day Norway won because she didn't watch it but was interested to know who won. I can't say I've watched it thoroughly many times but at this stage I'd never really watched it. My mum was as always, so I was hearing the results half heartedly paying attention but not much more than that and I even half forgot Norway's name to the teacher so I said the winner began with an N and then the teacher named some countries and when she said Norway I was like yeah that was it. I may have given her some flag details as well but saying Red I'm guessing she must've guessed Netherlands first she didn't get it straightaway I know that.
I was miles better with countries flags geography soon after as I got heavily into football in just over a year's time from there and learned loads from that.
@@FootkerSnooball My mum loved the winner in 96 she got the cassette.
@@carolthomas6334 Oh right. I guess 96 was quite a proud year for Ireland in Sports/Arts. They had that swimmer in Olympics winning golds.
RoyKeane won the double etc...and that great Father Ted Christmas episode was that year as well.
It was fun watching you guys. Great chemistry.
Can I suggest the four candles sketch from the Two Ronnies?
There's actually a lot of hilarious sketches from this British show
Father Ted - Dermot Morgan 1952-1998 (45)
Father Jack - Frank Kelly 1938 - 2016 (77)
Mary O’Leary - Rynagh O’Grady 1951 - 2021 (69)
Dermot was 45
@@jackcarter5101 Sorry. Yes I’ll amend. I posted this but it didn’t appear - so I typed again from memory - and I have a bad one .