Timeless comedy series made with UK money and filmed largely on location in north County Clare in the west of Ireland. Exterior shots of the main characters' house were near Mullaughmore in the Burren; other locations included the northwestern Burren coast towards Black Head and the villages of Ennistymon, Doolin and Corofin.
The setting is a remote, very four-square parish house in a field on the remote and fictitious Craggy Island, off the west coast. Main characters were Father Ted Crilly (Dermot Morgan), a relatively normal character with a certain proprietorial interest in parish funds: Father Dougal Maguire (Ardal O'Hanlon), the youngest priest, a complete imbecile: Father Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly), an old senile priest whose entire head once went septic and with a passion for alcohol, whose catch-phrases were DRINK!!!, GIRLS!!!, FECK!!! and ARSE!!! (occasionally enlivened with something more coherent): and their long suffering, self-effacing housemaid Mrs. Doyle (Pauline McLynn), with her catch-phrase when offering tea or biscuits, "ahh willya go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on!", and her pastime of falling out of the front window.
Various guest stars included Tommy Tiernan, Graham Norton and Brendan Grace. The most classic episode was probably "The Plague" (of rabbits), ending in that kind of comic epiphany that a comedian, with boundless talent and more than a sprinkling of luck, might just about manage once in a lifetime.
Ran to three seasons, cut short by the tragic loss of Morgan from a heart attack. He left us too early. We shall not see his like again.
The setting is a remote, very four-square parish house in a field on the remote and fictitious Craggy Island, off the west coast. Main characters were Father Ted Crilly (Dermot Morgan), a relatively normal character with a certain proprietorial interest in parish funds: Father Dougal Maguire (Ardal O'Hanlon), the youngest priest, a complete imbecile: Father Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly), an old senile priest whose entire head once went septic and with a passion for alcohol, whose catch-phrases were DRINK!!!, GIRLS!!!, FECK!!! and ARSE!!! (occasionally enlivened with something more coherent): and their long suffering, self-effacing housemaid Mrs. Doyle (Pauline McLynn), with her catch-phrase when offering tea or biscuits, "ahh willya go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on!", and her pastime of falling out of the front window.
Various guest stars included Tommy Tiernan, Graham Norton and Brendan Grace. The most classic episode was probably "The Plague" (of rabbits), ending in that kind of comic epiphany that a comedian, with boundless talent and more than a sprinkling of luck, might just about manage once in a lifetime.
Ran to three seasons, cut short by the tragic loss of Morgan from a heart attack. He left us too early. We shall not see his like again.
Lines from Father Ted:
"Go back to sleep, Your Grace. It's just a bad dream you're having." (From "The Plague"; I'll say no more.)
(After they have picked up the wrong very very very hairy priest from the old priest's home, commenting on the hair). Ted: "I never thought I'd see a Stage 12 before."
Ted: "You see, Tom, I think you were mistaken. When I said "take care of" the rabbits, I was thinking in a Julie Andrews kind of way. I now realise you thought I meant it in sort of an Al Pacino way. I think we'll just ... RUN, DOUGAL, RUN!!!"
Mrs. Doyle (looking beady-eyed at a shopping centre staff member over the top of a state-of-the-art gizmo that he has just told her can "take all the misery out of making tea"): "Maybe I LIKE the misery!"
"Go back to sleep, Your Grace. It's just a bad dream you're having." (From "The Plague"; I'll say no more.)
(After they have picked up the wrong very very very hairy priest from the old priest's home, commenting on the hair). Ted: "I never thought I'd see a Stage 12 before."
Ted: "You see, Tom, I think you were mistaken. When I said "take care of" the rabbits, I was thinking in a Julie Andrews kind of way. I now realise you thought I meant it in sort of an Al Pacino way. I think we'll just ... RUN, DOUGAL, RUN!!!"
Mrs. Doyle (looking beady-eyed at a shopping centre staff member over the top of a state-of-the-art gizmo that he has just told her can "take all the misery out of making tea"): "Maybe I LIKE the misery!"
by Fearman November 28, 2007
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1) noun: The protagonists of a classic slacker film, Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. They embark on travels across time to avoid failing a history test.
2) Adjective of 3)
2) plural: (sometimes written as billanted) Someone who resembles these protagonists; namely an endearing slacker who finds it difficult to do nothing, literally.
2) Adjective of 3)
2) plural: (sometimes written as billanted) Someone who resembles these protagonists; namely an endearing slacker who finds it difficult to do nothing, literally.
1) Ted: Bodacious, Bill!
Bill: Totally outrageous, Ted!
2) The Bill-and-Ted life is appealing to some young people who would like to copulate with 'that totally hot Joan of Arc'.
3) This guy I met at the bus stop, he was a real billanted. He was having a meaningful conversation with my sneakers.
Bill: Totally outrageous, Ted!
2) The Bill-and-Ted life is appealing to some young people who would like to copulate with 'that totally hot Joan of Arc'.
3) This guy I met at the bus stop, he was a real billanted. He was having a meaningful conversation with my sneakers.
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Get the papa ted mug.Guy 1: Dude, who the fuck is that guy?! He's always angry and he's always pissed at the world.
Guy 2: Oh that's The Red Ted.... His dad used to beat him.
Guy 1: Somebody needs to give that dude a Dairy Dan the Ice Cream Man or a puppy or something.
Guy 2: Oh that's The Red Ted.... His dad used to beat him.
Guy 1: Somebody needs to give that dude a Dairy Dan the Ice Cream Man or a puppy or something.
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Get the The Red Ted mug.A cheese sandwich that pairs most excellently with watching the Bill and Ted series.
Ingredients:
White Bread
Craft Cheese Singles
Recipe:
Place a slice of bread in the center of a microwave safe plate, add 1 slice of cheese, add 1 slice of bread. Repeat until you have a 4 tier tower of bread and cheese.
Cook:
Microwave on high until the cheese melts and you have a soggy tower of cheese and bread.
Enjoy!
Ingredients:
White Bread
Craft Cheese Singles
Recipe:
Place a slice of bread in the center of a microwave safe plate, add 1 slice of cheese, add 1 slice of bread. Repeat until you have a 4 tier tower of bread and cheese.
Cook:
Microwave on high until the cheese melts and you have a soggy tower of cheese and bread.
Enjoy!
I’ll be god damned if I don’t eat a mother fucking Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Cheese Sandwich every time I watch Bill and Ted!
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Get the Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Cheese Sandwich mug.Refers to a creepy (often theoretical) person who is usually an uncle by genetics or marriage, else is a close male friend of the family who has a strong pedophilia feeling, and sometimes appears to be homosexual too. This always applies to adult men who have been accused or convicted of sexual violence/rape, child molestation, or bestiality, likes pornography, lives in a cave, is over 40 w/ a receding hairline, excessive back hair, ear hair, and nose hair, and/or gets a boner every time he see's a person under 12 years of age. These people should generally be avoided.
Person 1: "Would Chuck Norris be considered My Uncle Ted, considering he has banged every female in existence, which implies that he had a boner while around people under 12 years of-"
Incoming Roundhouse Kick: *POW*
Person 1: *Gasps for breath as he/she dies on ground*
Person 2: "That's what you get for questioning Chuck Norr-"
Incoming Roundhouse Kick: *POW*
Person 2: *Gasps for breath as he/she dies on ground*
Chuck Norris: "That's what you get for being in the presence of someone who has questioned Chuck Norris."
Incoming Roundhouse Kick: *FAIL*
Chuck Norris: "Nice try Mr T., but only I can do that." *PWNZ*
Incoming Roundhouse Kick: *POW*
Person 1: *Gasps for breath as he/she dies on ground*
Person 2: "That's what you get for questioning Chuck Norr-"
Incoming Roundhouse Kick: *POW*
Person 2: *Gasps for breath as he/she dies on ground*
Chuck Norris: "That's what you get for being in the presence of someone who has questioned Chuck Norris."
Incoming Roundhouse Kick: *FAIL*
Chuck Norris: "Nice try Mr T., but only I can do that." *PWNZ*
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