Best episode of "Father Ted"

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Option	Votes
Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse	5
A Song For Europe	4
Speed 3	3
Are You Right There, Father Ted?	2
Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep	2
Rock-a-Hula Ted	1
Old Grey Whistle Theft	1
Think Fast, Father Ted	1
Hell	1
Escape from Victory	1
Flight Into Terror	1
The Mainland	0
Night of the Nearly Dead	0
A Christmassy Ted	0
New Jack City	0
Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading	0
Entertaining Father Stone	0
The Passion of St. Tibulus	0
Competition Time	0
And God Created Woman	0
Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest	0
Tentacles of Doom	0
The Plague	0
Good Luck, Father Ted	0
Going to America	0

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:47 (fourteen years ago)

can't vote, won't vote

― til the power failure (darraghmac), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:49 (fourteen years ago)

This is too much of a Sophie's Choice poll.

― Nicole, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:50 (fourteen years ago)

i could potentially vote for just about any episode in s2 or s3 except maybe "new jack city" but will probably vote for "flight into terror." favorite moment overall though is all of the priests having to escape out of the department store lingerie section, which i think is the first part of "going to america"?

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:51 (fourteen years ago)

DAMN YOU

― ENBB, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

I haven't seen all of these but I'm leaning towards "A Song For Europe"

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFXj7pEj4g

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

I love so many things about this episode, but this is probably my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbd3E6tK2U

― Nicole, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:55 (fourteen years ago)

YES

― ENBB, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:56 (fourteen years ago)

'Think Fast, Father Ted' - the whole episode from start to finish is so well put together.

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:59 (fourteen years ago)

Priests in the lingerie department is A Christmassy Ted, iirc.

― ailsa, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:59 (fourteen years ago)

"By committing this little sin, we'll actually be saving a bishop's soul!"

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:05 (fourteen years ago)

brb, watching all the episodes again.

Though New Jack Swing is great! The more so if you know Brendan Grace beforehand, perhaps.

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:07 (fourteen years ago)

I admit I cannot wait to foist these on my girlfriend. Thank you Netflix Instant.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:09 (fourteen years ago)

"Imagine anyone being so dishonest as to steal raffle money from a priest!"

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:15 (fourteen years ago)

which one ends with them bailing out mrs doyle? may be my fav fr ted scene

― til the power failure (darraghmac), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:18 (fourteen years ago)

i think that's The Mainland

― caek, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:21 (fourteen years ago)

That would be 'The Mainland'.

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:21 (fourteen years ago)

It is cause it's the one where they go shopping and she meets up with a friend and loses her glasses, right? Wait - is that the same as the lingerie store one?

― ENBB, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:22 (fourteen years ago)

i was pretty sure that lingerie store was going to america, because the position in america was a reward for getting the priests out without being seen?

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

but ailsa is right and it is the christmas special

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

xxp Different episode to the lingerie store. And it's Jack that loses his glasses (the scene in the optician's where he aces the eye test chart by saying "DRINK!" and it's reveaed that the chart was sponsored by Guiness or something, and every line on it is 'D-R-I-N-K')

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

Oh that's right!

― ENBB, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrj4qWg6Cko&feature=related

from 3:16 here

― caek, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

lol 3:16

― caek, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

Position in America is a reward for talking the depressed priest from jumping off a ledge.

― useless chamber, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

Might have to re-watch them all before deciding, The Mainland, A Christmassy Ted and Flight Into Terror early favourites.

― useless chamber, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:34 (fourteen years ago)

surprised more people aren't saying "a song for europe" since that's the canonical "best episode" right?

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:35 (fourteen years ago)

tentacles of doom has some epic lols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmJT0630ROw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUhrcmC9kXI

― omar little, Friday, 13 January 2012 19:56 (fourteen years ago)

That would be an ecumenical matter.

― ENBB, Friday, 13 January 2012 19:58 (fourteen years ago)

"Are you right there, Father Ted"

― encarta it (Gukbe), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:00 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBjPNShc2Q

― omar little, Friday, 13 January 2012 23:47 (fourteen years ago)

surprised more people aren't saying "a song for europe" since that's the canonical "best episode" right?

is it?

― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 13 January 2012 23:48 (fourteen years ago)

fucken hell

― caek, Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

"Funny how you get more right wing as you get older!"

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:06 (fourteen years ago)

"This video contains content from Channel 4, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

FUCK YOU CHANNEL 4 WE ARE IN THE SAME COUNTRY

― ledge, Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:07 (fourteen years ago)

"Now, I had an extension put on the house, and I put it on the extension, so the house is in a circle now"

― ledge, Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-rodeqmj7g

come the fuck on

― little blue souvenir (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2012 02:26 (fourteen years ago)

"God Ted, d'you remember that fella that was so good at fashion, they had to shoot him?"

― little blue souvenir (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2012 02:28 (fourteen years ago)

for some reason 'Those are FAKE arms!' gets yelled around by either me or my o/h about every week on average

― kinder, Saturday, 14 January 2012 03:03 (fourteen years ago)

hands! stop getting Father Ted wrong

― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 14 January 2012 03:10 (fourteen years ago)

shit. Maybe it's conflated in my head with Rod Hull's real arms on Fist of Fun.

― kinder, Saturday, 14 January 2012 03:17 (fourteen years ago)

"What possible situation could require a pair of fake arms and a remote controlled wheelchair?"

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Saturday, 14 January 2012 09:17 (fourteen years ago)

kicking bishop brennan up the arse

― gyac, Saturday, 14 January 2012 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

"HE DID KICK ME UP THE ARSE!"

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Saturday, 14 January 2012 12:57 (fourteen years ago)

surprised more people aren't saying "a song for europe" since that's the canonical "best episode" right?

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, January 13, 2012 6:35 PM (Yesterday)

I just voted for it without thinking about it too much.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Saturday, 14 January 2012 14:24 (fourteen years ago)

'Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse', but they are all really really funny.

― phuturephase, Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:34 (fourteen years ago)

I have a love for 'Good Luck, Father Ted' after visiting an ILXor outside Dublin and the directions to their house being remarkably similar to how Ted gets the TV crew to meet him by using Tom as a reference point.

― Sugary pee is not normal (aldo), Saturday, 14 January 2012 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

when were you hanging out w/ d-mac?

― judith, Saturday, 14 January 2012 17:54 (fourteen years ago)

Not him, one of the others.

― Sugary pee is not normal (aldo), Saturday, 14 January 2012 17:55 (fourteen years ago)

once pon a time there were quite a few rural irish ilxors iirc

― til the power failure (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 January 2012 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

driven out by the hated Brits

― little blue souvenir (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2012 18:05 (fourteen years ago)

well obv

― til the power failure (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 January 2012 18:07 (fourteen years ago)

I voted for Speed 3 but most of these would trump the best episode of most other sitcoms.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 January 2012 10:38 (fourteen years ago)

"I LOVE MY BRICK!"

― Celebrating In The Ndzone (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 15 January 2012 10:41 (fourteen years ago)

I'm leaning towards Think Fast, Father Ted tbqh but I'll change me mind by Tuesday.

"We run the gas off the electricity and the electricity off the gas and we save two hundred pounds a year..."

― Celebrating In The Ndzone (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 15 January 2012 10:46 (fourteen years ago)

The one with the sheep competition is the one I've watched most often, so that. There's at least half a dozen that are right up there with it though.

― Mr Andy M, Sunday, 15 January 2012 10:56 (fourteen years ago)

"That wasn't a banana, Dougal."

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Sunday, 15 January 2012 11:20 (fourteen years ago)

old grey whistle was also good, just for father damien

― Summer Slam! (Ste), Sunday, 15 January 2012 12:58 (fourteen years ago)

and the scene with the swearing censoring at the park

― Summer Slam! (Ste), Sunday, 15 January 2012 12:59 (fourteen years ago)

I did see and get reminded of the least good scene of FT.

Where they find a baby left on their doorstep, but it gets claimed immediately by a woman.

At which point, Ted and Dougal laugh about the 'hilarious' escapades that would have ensured, before deciding that it wouldn't have been funny at all.

Which made me think "That's the writers getting wayyy too pleased with themselves there."

― Mark G, Sunday, 15 January 2012 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

This is far too hard. I don't think I could even pick a worst episode, let alone a best. Whatever you click is a diamond.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:49 (fourteen years ago)

This is far too hard. I don't think I could even pick a worst episode, let alone a best. Whatever you click is a diamond.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:49 (fourteen years ago)

sorry 'bout the double post.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

so tough, but went with "song for europe" without knowing it was the canonical best

― Just to the left of her pelvis is Lord of the Flies (los blue jeans), Monday, 16 January 2012 01:36 (fourteen years ago)

song for europe but with misgivings, i don't think i can really choose, but that was my favourite when the show was first broadcast, and i was still a kid.

― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 16 January 2012 02:32 (fourteen years ago)

impossible to choose

― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Monday, 16 January 2012 03:10 (fourteen years ago)

song for europe but with misgivings, i don't think i can really choose, but that was my favourite when the show was first broadcast, and i was still a kid.

Except for being a kid, this

― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 00:15 (fourteen years ago)

"fucken hell"

― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 00:35 (fourteen years ago)

Which one had "down with this sort of thing"?

― stet, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 00:44 (fourteen years ago)

"The Passion of St. Tibulus"

― Number None, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 00:45 (fourteen years ago)

Careful now!

― ENBB, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 00:46 (fourteen years ago)

"And here's Father Jack actually WATCHING the filum"

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 01:48 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

You know what, this is one poll I'll be entirely happy with whatever the results.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:19 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 27 January 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

YEAH

Surprised at some of the episodes that didn't get any votes though.

― gyac, Friday, 27 January 2012 09:45 (thirteen years ago)

Didn't vote, just impossible.

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 27 January 2012 10:09 (thirteen years ago)

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