Father Ted corrections

Father Ted (1995) - 14 corrections

starring Ardal O'Hanlon, Dermot Morgan, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn

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This fabulously funny show was briefly on American television. Didn't last, though: they just didn't get the humour or they possibly found it offensive. Either way, their loss. [Trivia should be about the show directly, not opinions about its reception in certain countries.] Corrected by Tailkinker

In reference to the scene where a soldier opens fire and no shell casings are seen, Father Ted is set in Eire. The rir would not patrol south of the border, let alone on an island. Any link to the north is irrelevant. [Very true - and Father Ted is in fact calling from the parochial house on Craggy Island. However, at no stage are we told where the scene with the soldiers is set. Obviously the priests Ted calls are visiting Northern Ireland when they encounter the Army patrol and the gun runners.]

How were Ted and Dougal able to understand Father Hernandez during the game of Cluedo, given that they couldn't speak Spanish? I know it was being translated at the time. Just puzzling. [Watch the scene again. He says nothing to them that requires a response, and all they do is nod and smile when he speaks.]

Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest (series 1)

When Father Jack is in the coffin on the table during the scene where all the other priests are there, you get a closeup of Jack as someone leans over him. Watch carefully and you'll see that he is breathing. [Jack was still alive at this point (he comes out of his detergent-induced coma at the end of the episode) so of course he was still breathing.]

Flight into Terror (series 2)

During this episode the aircraft the priests are travelling on changes from a four engined BAE 146 to a twin engined Boeing 737 and back again. [No, it doesn't. You see a BAE146 on the ground in an establishing shot, telling the audience that we are in an airport, then we see aeroplanes taking off, then we go to the interior of an airliner. There is no indication that the priests and nuns got onto the BAE146.]

The Plague (series 2)

Bishop Brennan says that Jack was seen by his friend to be wearing just a pair of socks and a hat. When this scene was shown earlier, Jack was not wearing a hat. [Jack had apparently been out sleepwalking for quite a few nights. We don't know that the people who saw him at the start are the same friends of Bishop Brennan, or even that he's talking about the same night.]

A Song for Europe (series 2)

The host of Eurosong instantly manages to tidy himself up before going on stage, shaved and all. Moments prior to that, he looks like he spent the night in a ditch. [This is actually the joke. You can hardly accuse Father Ted of being a show based entirely in reality.] Corrected by Gary O'Reilly

I don't want to sound picky, but in the lyrics of "My Lovely Horse," fetlocks cannot actually blow in the wind. They're part of the horse's leg. Wonderful song, though. [Fetlock: 1 a: a projection bearing a tuft of hair on the back of the leg above the hoof of a horse or similar animal. b: the tuft of hair itself 2: the joint of the limb at the fetlock. Definition 1b would blow in the wind. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetlock.] Corrected by Rlvlk

The Old Grey Whistle Theft (series 2)

If we go for the idea that there is one Parochial House on each island, Fr Frost's must be on a different island but we don't hear of where it is. (and wouldn't it take Dougal and Damo a while to get there?) [There are at least four parochial houses on Craggy Island, perhaps more. Father Ted's, Father Frost's, Fr Billy O'Dwyer's (visited in Think Fast, Father Ted) and Fr MacDuff's, (visited in Escape From Victory). We know next to nothing about Craggy Island, including its population and the number of priests serving the community.]

In the scene where the soldier machine-guns the fleeing priest, no actual spent cases are seen ejecting from the weapon. [The Army routinely uses caseless ammunition in Northern Ireland.]

Think Fast, Father Ted (series 2)

At the end of the episode, a tree falls through the roof, even though they don't live anywhere near a tree. [In a subsequent episode we are told that a storm 'took away the whole East side of the island'. Seems to me that the storms they get on Craggy Island wouldn't have much trouble shifting a tree a mile or two.]

Going to America (series 3)

When they are playing snakes and ladders with the depressed guy, right at the end Dougal grabs the wrong piece and moves it down the board. He was supposed to do it with the depressed guy's piece, but he does it with his own, and up until then he had been playing right, so we can't put it down to his stupidity. [We really don't know how well he had been playing up until then, since this is only the first or second move we see him make. With someone as stupid as Dougal, getting confused halfway through the game and moving the wrong piece is perfectly plausible.]

Night of the Nearly Dead (series 3)

In 'Night of the Nearly Dead', when Eoin's agent is talking to Ted at the end she says a lot of his behaviour is caused by his 'problem' and Ted replies 'Ah, yes, he mentioned that earlier', but Dougal was the only one who heard him talking about it. [Dougal is apocalyptically stupid. When told not to mention Bishop Brennan's son, it is the first thing he does - the same with Ted Seller's ridiculous toupee. Obviously he has told Ted about Eoin's 'problem'.]

Speed 3 (series 3)

Why doesn't Ted just push all the boxes out of the way of the milk float instead of rebuilding them one-by-one? [This was obviously done just so that they could get him smashing through them in the car.] Also, why would a stack of boxes be positioned like that on a road anyway? [This isn't a plot hole and it isn't a film mistake - it's a joke, wholly in character for a surreal show that includes bizarre elements.]