Father Ted/Good Luck, Father Ted

Good Luck, Father Ted
Season 1, Episode 1
Airdate	April 21, 1995
Written by	Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan
Directed by	Declan Lowney
— N/A	1x02 → Entertaining Father Stone
Father Ted — Season One

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Good Luck, Father Ted is the first episode of the first season of Father Ted.

Starring: Dermot Morgan (Father Ted Crilly), Ardal O'Hanlon (Father Dougal McGuire), Frank Kelly (Father Jack Hackett), Pauline McLynn (Mrs. Doyle)

Guest Starring: Gerard Lee (Terry MacNamee), Pat Shortt (Tom), Noelle Brown (Teaching Nun), Blanaid Irvine (Tarot Reader), Patrick Drury (John O'Leary), Rynagh O'Grady (Mary O'Leary), Mark Murray (Surly Youth)

Plot Overview

While Father Dougal is excited for Craggy Island's fair, a television show asks to interview Father Ted, but he keeps it from the rest of the house.

Trivia

Allusions and References

The duel between the guitar player and the banjo player is an illusion to the duelling banjo scene from the film Deliverance.

Goofs

When Dougal and Jack are on the ride when Ted happens upon them, you can see a crew member turning the table just off to the left of the screen.

Quotes

• Mrs. Doyle: And what do you say to a cup?

Father Jack: Feck off, cup!

• Father Dougal: There's lost of ways you can praise God, isn't there, Ted? Like that time you told me to praise Him by, you know, just leaving the room.

• Tom: Father.

Father Ted: Yes, Tom?

Tom: I've killed a man.

Father Ted: Did ya, Tom? I'll, uh, I'll have to talk to you about that later. I'm doing an interview for the television!

• Father Ted: You're supposed to be taking Jack for his walk.

Father Dougal: Well, uh, the cliffs were closed for the day.

Father Ted: How can the cliffs be closed, Dougal?

Father Dougal: OK, no, it wasn't that. They were gone.

Father Ted: Gone? The cliffs were gone. How could they just disappear?

Father Dougal: Erosion.

• Father Ted: It's rubbish! How can anyone believe any of that sort of nonsense?

Father Dougal: Oh, come on, Ted. Is it anymore peculiar than 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!

Father Ted: Dougal, you are too meant to take it seriously!

Father Dougal: Are ya?

Father Ted: Yes!

Father Dougal: What, Heaven and Hell and everlasting life?

Father Ted: Yes, of course!

(Dougal chuckles)