Father Ted

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Father Ted is an Irish sitcom that follows the lives of 3 priests who are sent to Craggy Isle because of their failings as true priests. The main cast consists of Father Ted (the one who is normal (compared to the others)), Father Dougal (the dumb...really dumb one) and Father Jack (the one who is an alcoholic and swears a lot) and Mrs Doyle (the one who says go on, go on, go on, go on a lot and who likes to make the tea (and feels threatened by a tea maker)).

Part of the appeal of Father Ted are the characters. The characters who are meant to be priests are very "unstereotypical". First of all is Father Jack, practically the most humerous of the three priests. His favourite lines include "Feck!", "Gob-Shite!" and "Drink!". Father Jack is rarely sober and only becomes sober once every 12 years.

The second character who adds to the sitcoms appeal is Mrs Doyle, the tea lady. If you refuse anything from her, she will pester you with the lines "Go on, go on, go on, go on". She is obsessed with tea making and also cooking. Part of her character is humerous due to her sweet, good hearted nature coupled with her forcefullness.

Father Dougal who is the thickest of the three priests is arguabley one of the most thickest characters in sitcom history. His thickness doesn't come from the lack of knowledge, it comes from the lack of common sense.

And finally, Father Ted the most normal of the three priests. He seeks to re-establish himself in the community even with the hinderence caused by Dougal and Jack.

It is when these three characters combine in a plot that the true comedy is revealed. This is what appeals to the audience. The situations the characters are placed in are humerous in itself but when the characters add to the situation, then this becomes even more humerous. Father Ted was humerous because it reflected on society because it brought out the humerous aspects of being a priest. Father ted is still popular today, regardless of it's age. Whilst brought out in 1995, Father Ted is still a popular sitcom due to its appeal and variety of humerous situations the cast is put in.

Ftaher Ted Characters

Here is a link to the main and recurring characters in Father Ted.

http://www.sitcom.co.uk/father_ted/characters.shtml

Father Ted.

Synopsis: Based around the lives of Fathers Ted Crilly, Dougal Maguire and Jack Hackett, three Irish priests who have been banished from the mainland. They live on Craggy Island with their slightly crazed and tea-addicted house keeper, Mrs Doyle. Dougal isn't the brightest man ever, Ted has a knack of getting into awkward situations and the less said about Father Jack the alcoholic swear machine the better. Despite being in the middle of nowhere the trio find plenty of ways of causing chaos and confusion.

Father Ted Video's!

Here are a few Father Ted videos that i thought were really funny (especially the Brick one).

I Love My Brick:


Cake Jumper:


Mrs Doyle: Go on, go on, go on, go on, GO ON!

(I especially like the sandwiches bit!)

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Father Ted (TED!!!!) - Voted number 11 on sitcom.co.uk!

On Craggy Island, off the coast of Ireland, Fathers Ted Crilly, Dougal Maguire and Jack Hackett, the local priests, try to survive after being banished from the Mainland with help from the lovely Mrs Doyle (who loves to make the tea and i mean LOVES!).

Wednesday's Lesson: Back to NORMAL work!

The first lesson that wasn't about coursework! HOORAH!
To start with, we completed a quiz about our knowledge (or lack of) of British Sitcoms. Peepshow, Mighty Boosh, Scrubs and My Name is Earl are some of the sitcoms that featured on this quiz. We had to match up the dates, Genre (from IMDB) and tagline to the pictures of the sitcom. Taglines and Genre were realtively easy. Dates weren't however.

After disucssing our results, we began looking at Treatments, Synopsis and Loglines.

• Treatments are usually more informative than a Synopsis and more dramatic. They usually describe the settings, characters, key scenes and overall storyline.
• Synopsis are usually smaller and simpler than a treatment. They usually emphasise the story arc that takes the audience through the sitcom. They may focus on the journey of the main character.
• Loglines are the shortest of the three (which sounds easier than the others, but it's NOT). They are the most concise and are solely for selling purposes. They are in some respect similar to a pitch. Focus on the attractive aspects of the sitcom for both the Institution and the Audience.

After discussing this, we were given some humerous plots, characters and settings. We we're tasked with coming up with a sitcom from these. In my group (Me, Jake and...Jake) we were given 3 slips:

• Character - A comic drunk!
• Setting - Cruise Ship
• Premise - Someone owes money/is in debt.

With this, we decided that the character would be the Captain - who is a drunk who falls asleep at the "wheel" of the ship after guzzling down a bottle!

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