Father DougalCome on, Ted. Sure it's no more peculiar than all that stuff we learned in the seminary, you know, Heaven and Hell and everlasting life and all that type of thing. You're not meant to take it seriously, Ted!
A character in Father Ted
Played by Ardal O'Hanlon
Father Ted · 281 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Father Ted: in 115 of its 281 quotes
Most scenes with: Father Ted (80), Father Jack (7), Bishop Brennan (7)
Father DougalCome on, Ted. Sure it's no more peculiar than all that stuff we learned in the seminary, you know, Heaven and Hell and everlasting life and all that type of thing. You're not meant to take it seriously, Ted!
(Dougal walks over to the window to check the weather)
Father Dougal(Smiling) God it's lovely out!
(A tropical hurricane is destroying things outside)
(Dougal is at the window looking through binoculars. Somehow he is able to see a close-up of an ants nest)
Father DougalThe ants are back Ted!
(Dougal is interviewed on television, discussing the Christian faith)
Father DougalSo... God. Does he really exist? I mean, who knows? I don't know. Personally I don't even believe in organised religion!
Father DougalLooks like rain, Ted.
Father DougalSo anyway, you're there now with Our Lord and Stalin and Bob Marley and my own parents...,
Father DougalGod Ted, he's probably very cold now that his towel has blown away!
Father DougalTed, I'm going mad.
Father Dougal(on struggling to make out the number eleven on his ticket) Sorry Ted, I was looking at the ticket upside down.
Father DougalD’know what this is like, Ted? It’s like The Sting. I’m Robert Redford and you’re Paul Newman (he leaves the room towards the right side of the open door, then he goes round before walking into the door)
Father Dougal(to Bishop O'Neill) So, if God has existed forever...you know, what did he do in his spare time, like, before he made the Earth and everything?
Father DougalIt's like a big rabbit rock festival!
Father DougalOh. That's the other thing Ted. I sold Niamh the house.
[After Father Dougal has encountered some naked women at the very begining of the episode; last line of the episode]
Father DougalThose women were in the nip!
Father Dougal"[after Ted puts the brick on the accelerator and tells him to step off the float, waving the brick in the air]" Ted! You forgot your brick!"
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Bishop BrennanJim Norton · 16 quotes
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Noel FurlongGraham Norton · 4 quotes
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