Father Ted is one of those rare sitcoms that defies categorisation--it owes as much to Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett as it does to Monty Python--and its blend of satire, character comedy and anarchic surrealism has made it a cult favourite around the world. Exiled to remote Craggy Island, Father Ted shares a house with the breathtakingly stupid Father Dougal Maguire and the constantly inebriated Father Jack, who has a small vocabulary and a taste for furniture polish. Their housekeeper, Mrs Doyle, takes care of them with a never-ending supply of tea and sandwiches:... "Go on now, Father, won't you try one? They're diagonal." Together they fight boredom by dressing up as Elvis, startling ducks at the fair and provoking nuns. This set compiles the entire three-year series. --Simon Leake [show more]
Father Ted: To me it seems that there is one comedy series per decade that is so excellent that it goes beyond classic and becomes, somewhere that defies easy definitions or superlatives. Father Ted is one such series. It is legendary. So well scripted, so wonderfully performed, timed, and directed, that it is as perfect as a comedy series could be. Absurd, surreal, irreverant and so very quotable. Go on, go on, go on, go on...
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