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Father Ted · Season 1

“Good Luck, Father Ted” quotes from Father Ted

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“Good Luck, Father Ted” · Season 1

In this episode: Father Dougal (14), Father Ted (10), Father Jack (5), Mrs Doyle (3), Tom (1)

(Father Jack Hackett is dreaming of his past. It is a sepia toned memory of him working in a catholic girls school)

(In the memory, Jack is accompanied by a nun, and is standing in front of a blackboard with "Natural Procreation" written on it)

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Girls (claps hands) Pay attention, we've got a special treat today.

(Father Jack is looking quite lecherous)

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Father Hackett has very kindly volunteered to take you all for volleyball practice.

(The schoolgirls roll their eyes. They know what Jack's like)

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And he's just reminded me that it's very warm today, so there'll be no need for your tracksuit tops.

(Father Jack tries not to grin)

(Ted is recovering from a fright because he thought he saw a vision of Mary. It was actually Dougal moving a statue of Mary at the window)

Ted, I'm so sorry. It was just a joke.

Try to avoid doing that again Dougal. I thought it was really... Herself. It's the last thing I need!

You're right there Ted.

(Dougal is about to take Father Jack for a walk. Dougal asks him if he is coming too)

You're not coming yourself?

(Evasively) No, I think I'll stay here and... pray for a while.

(Dougal becomes suspicious)

What are you after Ted?

(Funland, located at the Island's field, has opened)

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Patrons are reminded that parking facilities are unavailable. That's a reminder of the unavailability of the parking facilities.

Attractions at Funland include:

Freak Pointing (a person sits in a chair and people point at him)

The Ladder (a standard wooden ladder that people can climb up under strict supervision)

Whirly Go Round (a circular platform that people can stand on which slowly rotates)

The Pond of Terror (an infant-sized wading pool with a plastic crocodile in it)

Goading the Fierce Man (people are encouraged to approach a large man on a step ladder)

Car Rides (people are driven around the edge of the field in a car)

Leading animals around with buckets on their head

The Spider Baby (a spider in a pram)

The Spinning Cat (a stuffed cat placed on a record player)

The Cradle of Death (people on a chair are lifted up by a crane)

Tarot Card Reading

Duck Startling (which somehow involves pigs)

The Tunnel of Goats (which is slightly dangerous to children, nurses and goats)

(Ted is annoyed that Father Dougal and Father Jack are at Funland)

You're supposed to be taking Father Jack for his walk!

Well, um, the cliffs were closed for the rest of the day.

How would cliffs be closed Dougal?

Okay, no, it wasn't that. They were gone!

(disbelieving) The cliffs were gone? How can they just disappear?

Erosion.

(Dougal is annoyed that he has to go back home from Funland and is arguing with Ted)

Everyone else is here!

Dougal. You're a priest. You're supposed to show some decorum.

(barely audible) I wish I wasn't a priest.

(shocked) What?

I wish I wasn't a priest.

(motions towards father Jack in the wheelchair) Dougal! What if Jack heard you say that?

He told me one time he doesn't even believe in God!

(Ted has drawn three consecutive death cards from the tarot deck)

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This is really weird. There's only supposed to be one in each pack!

(Dougal is interviewed on television, discussing the Christian faith)

So... God. Does he really exist? I mean, who knows? I don't know. Personally I don't even believe in organised religion!

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