The always at a loss for words, Father Stone, visits Craggy Island and over stays his welcome.The always at a loss for words, Father Stone, visits Craggy Island and over stays his welcome.The always at a loss for words, Father Stone, visits Craggy Island and over stays his welcome.
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- TriviaAccording to the writers, Dermot Morgan was a non-smoker but as Father Ted, he smoked very convincingly in his scenes.
- GoofsWhen Ted sits in the living room with Father Stone, the television can be seen behind him with a VCR placed on top of it. However, Ted and Dougal don't get the VCR until the following episode.
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Father Ted Crilly: God I hate hospitals.
Father Dougal McGuire: Do you ever notice it's usually sick people who end up in hospitals?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Father Ted: Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest (1995)
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Father's Ted and Dougal are not happy to find it's that time of year when the most taciturn priest in Ireland, Father Stone, arrives for his annual visit. Ted's efforts to get rid of him eventually backfires and leave him regretting his selfish motivations.
Quite a brave episode to use as the second in a completely new series that is yet to gain an established audience. Surely the idea of basing a whole episode around a priest who only utters the occasional word is akin to signing your own comedy death warrant but not here. Of course there are scenes with plenty of dialogue too, but strong performances from Dermot Morgan as Ted, and the hitherto unknown Michael Redmond as the titular Father Stone, make the quiet scenes almost as good as the more garrulous ones (not quite as good though). The acting is superb because you can feel Ted's frustration whilst you can't help but like the rather inoffensive Father Stone.
Throughout the three series, and I'm assuming this is done deliberately, Ted is portrayed as someone with no spirituality whatsoever, yet here we see him appealing to the heavens for help on two occasions. Ted's acknowledgement of an omnipotent being crops up throughout the show's run and confuses me. He obviously does have a sense of spirituality and, the thing here is, that Ted's prayers ARE answered ... on both occasions. Divine intervention or coincidence? I suppose we all take our own answer from that.
As I've said in previous reviews of the show, a major strength of the writing of Father Ted is the ability to take a simple subject, in this case an overly reserved priest, and milk it for a whole episode of comedy. Within the episode, the scene where Ted wants privacy in the bath is a classic and, for me, it's the first of many classics of the series.
It's good to see John and Mary are back, quite obviously having been through self-inflicted wars, with Ted and Dougal are fooled by their phoney intimacy, a gag that runs through the whole three series yet still remains funny. The injuries look to be the result of quite vicious actions, something more akin to a horror film, so again the writers are not afraid to head down a darker path. That said, it is a comedy and a jolly good at that.
Quite a brave episode to use as the second in a completely new series that is yet to gain an established audience. Surely the idea of basing a whole episode around a priest who only utters the occasional word is akin to signing your own comedy death warrant but not here. Of course there are scenes with plenty of dialogue too, but strong performances from Dermot Morgan as Ted, and the hitherto unknown Michael Redmond as the titular Father Stone, make the quiet scenes almost as good as the more garrulous ones (not quite as good though). The acting is superb because you can feel Ted's frustration whilst you can't help but like the rather inoffensive Father Stone.
Throughout the three series, and I'm assuming this is done deliberately, Ted is portrayed as someone with no spirituality whatsoever, yet here we see him appealing to the heavens for help on two occasions. Ted's acknowledgement of an omnipotent being crops up throughout the show's run and confuses me. He obviously does have a sense of spirituality and, the thing here is, that Ted's prayers ARE answered ... on both occasions. Divine intervention or coincidence? I suppose we all take our own answer from that.
As I've said in previous reviews of the show, a major strength of the writing of Father Ted is the ability to take a simple subject, in this case an overly reserved priest, and milk it for a whole episode of comedy. Within the episode, the scene where Ted wants privacy in the bath is a classic and, for me, it's the first of many classics of the series.
It's good to see John and Mary are back, quite obviously having been through self-inflicted wars, with Ted and Dougal are fooled by their phoney intimacy, a gag that runs through the whole three series yet still remains funny. The injuries look to be the result of quite vicious actions, something more akin to a horror film, so again the writers are not afraid to head down a darker path. That said, it is a comedy and a jolly good at that.
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- MrJRGO
- Jun 7, 2020
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