Quote: Aaron @ August 31, 2007, 7:53 PM

In the average Father Ted episode, what was there that was actually about being clergymen, or even particularly religious? It was all about the characters. One utter incompetent, one paralytic, and one undoubtedly well-intentioned, but really really fucking unlucky and put-your-foot-in-it. They were put in positions where people looked up to them, to a certain extent at least, and yet they were useless. Change the setting and it wouldn't lose any comedic value. No?

(Likewise most sitcoms really.)

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virtually every episode of Father Ted had stuff in it which was appropriate to the setting. such as scenes taking place in the parochial house, nuns, bishops, discussions about God, dougal doing a funeral etc
i agree that you could change the setting and still have comedic value but it wouldn't be called Father Ted. It would be called the IT crowd. probably.

Both are wonderful in my view. And this series of the IT crowd benefits massively from loosening its ties to the IT stuff and just being Father Ted set somewhere else.

 

Yes, unlike Father Ted, there's no relevance at all to the fact they are IT people - which somehow makes it better than if there was. But if the script had been submitted by a new writer...no chance.
 

Did anyone notice the reference to "Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Roller Blading" in the last episode?
 

No, at what point did this happen?
 

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Certainly did - 'lovely fags'. I hope there aren't too many more 'references' in future scripts.
 

I have to say, I'm really enjoying this series, and think it's a marked improvement on the the first series (thank god they've told the woman to stop shouting). Yes, there's still quite a few clunky lines, and it hasn't got the magic of Father Ted, but it's still very funny and refreshingly daft. And unlike Leevil, I'm glad Chris Morris has left. To me his presence always jarred slightly.
 

What can you say about the IT Crowd?

You either love it or hate it, luckily, I LOVE IT!!! ... most people see it as cheesey, but I figure, that's the hidden deliberacy in this comedy, they work hard to make it cheesey, that's why it's funny!!

Favourite lines from the latest episode:

"You brush your teeth in the bath? ... that's where your balls are!"
"I've totally pimped your phone girlfriend!"
"I'm not putting it up to eight Moss, it will blow my cock off!!"

ACE.

 

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I loved that first quote! amazing
 

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Chris Morris's suicide was genius. You think after Nathan Barley you've seen all the possible ways of jumping out of a window and then hes comes up with another hilarious way
 

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It's really great to see that the ratings have vastly improved as well.
 

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I feel trapped - like a moth in a bath.


 

All hail IT Crowd!
 

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Quote: Leevil @ September 3, 2007, 1:24 PM

No, at what point did this happen?

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During Denholm's funeral video. He lights a cigarette and blows the smoke onto the screen. All that was missing was the smoke turning into the phrase "lovely fags".

I hope it was a reference anyway. Or else he just ran out of ideas and dropped in something that worked in Father Ted.
 

Riight, yeah I remember.
 

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Quipped Leevil.
 

I was actually expecting the words Lovely Fags to appear on the screen at the point.
 

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Is this "reference" purely that he was smoking?
 

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