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| Father Ted - The Definitive Collection [1995] | ![Father Ted - The Definitive Collection [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Fg9K4it0L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Declan Lowney
Actors: Dermot Morgan, Pauline Mclynn, Ardal O'hanlon, Frank Kelly
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 162
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 607 minutes
Number Of Items: 5
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.3
EAN: 5014138601652
ASIN: B000UZPM76
Release Date: October 29, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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. --Simon Leake
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If you don't laugh, check your pulse, you must be dead November 11, 2008
Father Ted is one of these things you can watch over and over again, and laugh each time. Whether your waiting at the airport, or just at home with a cup of coffee, it never fails to make you smile.
Along with all 25 episodes, there are commentries from Graham Linehan (writer), Arthur Mathews (other writer) and Ardal O'Hanlon (Dougal). As well as that there is "Ted and Dougal Do Comic Relief", "Ted Fest 2007: A Very Ted Weekend and Two Tribes Go to War" "Interview with the Writers (Part 1 & 2)", "Dougal's Soundtrack" and "Comedy Connections" to name but a few.
As for the actual comedy, you can't get much better. The swearing isn't vulgar and the gags are never cheap. Professional actors aren't missed, as Dermot Morgan and Ardal O'Hanlon's humour makes up for it.
Buy it! Ah go on. Go on, go on, go on, go on...
One of the Best Comedy Series Ever October 22, 2008
The best thing you can say about Father Ted is that even though it is being constantly repeated on British and Irish TV channels it is still very funny. There is an almost irrestiable temptation to watch an episode when you find one by accident while channel hopping.
This is hard to explain to someone who hasn't seen the programme. Of the four main characters three are completely cartoonish. Dougal is thick, Jack is manky, Mrs Doyle is bizarre. Their characters don't change in any way but this doesn't stop them being funny.
Perhaps it's the litany of even more bizarre characters that drop in on Craggy Island in each episode. The acceptance that the stories are surreal and not to look for any sense or realism in them will also help your enjoyment.
Too much analysis from me. Whether you buy this DVD or just stop flicking to watch the second half of a random episode you will get plenty of laughs from Father Ted.
Absolutely Brilliant August 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Father Ted - The Definitive Collection Box Set [1995]
This is by far one of the best box sets I've ever bought. Can watch it over and over. Is hilarious, thoroughly enjoyable, and well worth the money.
The best comedy about Irish priests living on a remote island ever made July 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A sitcom about four Catholic priests, living in a remote island community off the coast of Ireland? It doesn't sound the most promising of set-ups but Father Ted is pure comedy gold.
Brilliant from the first episode to the last, Father Ted is a laugh riot. Ted himself is a shallow, fame-seeking schemer who thinks he is too clever for his companions to appreciate him. Father Dougal is a naive idiot who simply speaks his mind ("I don't even believe in organised religion!" he says on television) and Father Jack is a degenerate drunk who does little more than sleep, shout, swear and drink. He does them brilliantly, mind. Their houselady, Mrs Doyle, is a tea and sand which obsessed woman who stands up all night in the dark by the living room door, just in case anyone fancies a cuppa.
One afternoon, some other priests visit. In the evening, Dougal wants to watch the director's cut of Jurassic Park "with extra dinosaurs!" They switch on the television, as the announcer introduces an extra-long mass, "in Latin." Their faces drop but instantly, to impress the other priests and to maintain a facade of religiosity, they feign enthusiasm: "Great! Mass!"
Father Ted is simply one of the best sitcoms ever made. Fantastic film parodies that wouldn't seem out of place in a Simpsons episode (the NYPD Blue parody does it for me, for some reason), excellently surreal supporting characters and sheer inventive Pythonesque looniness are combined in a warm-hearted, cynical, sitcom unlike anything else. The cast embody the characters in a way that made them irreplaceable, hence the show finishing after the tragic death of the brilliant Dermot Morgan. The writing is peerless. The finished product: endless enjoyment.
"NOW LET'S CLEAN THIS MUTHA!"
Complete brilliance May 28, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Hilarious stuff. The most accurate show ever made about religion and contains some of the funniest things I've ever seen. Watch this or rob yourself of a real treat.
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