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Father Ted is one of those rare sitcoms that defies
categorization--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 favorite around the world. Exiled to remote Craggy
Island, Father Ted Crilley shares a house with the breathtakingly stupid Father
Dougal 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. |
