On a visit to the mainland, Mrs. Doyle and Father Jack get arrested while Ted and Dougal get lost in a cave.On a visit to the mainland, Mrs. Doyle and Father Jack get arrested while Ted and Dougal get lost in a cave.On a visit to the mainland, Mrs. Doyle and Father Jack get arrested while Ted and Dougal get lost in a cave.
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- TriviaThis is the final appearance of Father Noel Furlong (Graham Norton) on the series.
- GoofsMrs. Doyle gets her crimes wrong: instead of giving an amount or quantity when Ted asks if the criminals who supposedly 'robbed' her friend took much, she claims that the friend herself was stolen. This is called kidnapping, not robbery.
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Father Ted Crilly: God almighty! Look who it is, it's that actor!
Father Dougal McGuire: Who?
Father Ted Crilly: You know, your man from 'One Foot in the Grave', the "I don't believe it" man!
Father Dougal McGuire: Oh, wow!
Father Ted Crilly: God, that's amazing. Look at him there.
[sniggers]
Father Ted Crilly: Do you know what he'd love? He'd love it if somebody came up to him and said his catchphrase.
Father Dougal McGuire: Oh, yeah, Ted! He'd love that! You should definitely do that.
Father Ted Crilly: Should I?
Father Dougal McGuire: Oh, yeah. I'd say no one ever does that to him. He'll think you're hilarious. You know, this is one of these times where I'm absolutely, one hundred million percent sure that you'll be doing the right thing. I can safely say that you definitely, definitely won't regret doing that.
Father Ted Crilly: I'm going to do it.
Father Dougal McGuire: Brilliant!
Father Ted Crilly: Will I?
Father Dougal McGuire: Yeah, go on!
Father Ted Crilly: [hands his camera to Dougal] Hold the camera.
[Ted marches up to the actor Richard Wilson, of 'One Foot in the Grave' fame, who is in the middle of a conversation with a tour guide woman. Just before he's about to say the catchphrase, he looks back at Dougal and gives a thumbs up]
Father Ted Crilly: [loudly, in a bad Scottish accent] *I* DON'T BELIEVE IT!
[Richard Wilson is startled. He glares at Ted, then takes his hat off and hits Ted with it, then grabs Ted and wrestles with him. Two male bystanders pull Wilson away. Ted tries to apologise but Wilson goes for him again and gets him in a headlock. The men restrain Wilson again. All the while Dougal watches from a short distance away and takes photographs]
Richard Wilson: I'll bloody well kill you!
[Shaken and saddened, Ted walks back to Dougal]
Father Dougal McGuire: [cheerful as ever] Well, what did he say? Did he laugh?
Father Ted Crilly: No. No, no. No, not really. I'm going to sit down now.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Father Ted: Going to America (1998)
The Mainland is another of those amazingly funny episodes. Graham Linehan is obviously a man of great comedy taste, referencing the wonderful One foot in the Grave, even casting the brilliant Richard Wilson.
Father Jack gets big laughs without the need to even speak, so many funny aspects, such as the sign about crows, and Mrs Doyle's afternoon tea.
Funny throughout, but it's the scenes between Ted and Richard Wilson that really get the laughs, Wilson's annoyance at that catchphrase is played on to perfection.
Superb, 10/10.
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Dec 19, 2020
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- Runtime24 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1