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Summary: Excellent show. Best of the Three Series DVDs.
Review: IMHO, this is the best of the three series DVDs. The writing is sharper, the situations more surreal/insane, and the actors are more comfortable being themselves.
Very very funny, and shocking in parts too (like the first episode with the Nazi priests and Father Jack in an SS uniform).
Highly recommended for intelligent and open-minded people!!
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Summary: It just keeps getting better...
Review: My only complaint is that there aren't more episodes. My favorite has to be the Christmas episode when the priests get caught in the lingerie section of the department store. I recommend this video to everyone. :)
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Summary: It just keeps getting better...
Review: My only complaint is that there aren't more episodes. My favorite has to be the Christmas episode when the priests get caught in the lingerie section of the department store. I recommend this video to everyone. :)
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Summary: Father Ted Series 3 - 2 DVD Set
Review: Plain and simple - Its great! I finally got to see "The mainland" episode! I never saw it on BBC America, unless I missed it sometime, I don't think it was aired. This set has so many extras! The episodes even have sections that BBCA cut out from time to time, to make them fit in 30 minute time slots, I guess. If you love Father Ted as I do, you HAVE to get this!
Dermot, you are VERY MUCH missed! Too bad more of this wonderful show could not have been made! Series 1,2 and 3 plus the Christmas episode was not enough! This cast was perfect!
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Summary: Father Ted Series 3 - 2 DVD Set
Review: Plain and simple - Its great! I finally got to see "The mainland" episode! I never saw it on BBC America, unless I missed it sometime, I don't think it was aired. This set has so many extras! The episodes even have sections that BBCA cut out from time to time, to make them fit in 30 minute time slots, I guess. If you love Father Ted as I do, you HAVE to get this!
Dermot, you are VERY MUCH missed! Too bad more of this wonderful show could not have been made! Series 1,2 and 3 plus the Christmas episode was not enough! This cast was perfect!
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Summary: "Ruud Guillet, sitting on a shed?"
Review: The third and final series of Father Ted consists of 8 fantastic episodes. While possibly not quite as great as the second series, the series still bows out on a high note, as Father Ted himself (Dermot Morgan) died right after the season was shot - a poignant montage of highlights from all three series marks the end of the last episode, a fitting way to make his legacy.
None of this should overshadow 8 brilliant half hours that range from farcical to surreal. The running "phone" jokes from the second series are largely absent, but a bunch of old characters re-appear. Perhaps the best episode is Speed 3, where Dougal must keep a milk float above 4 mph or be blown to pieces ("The Poseidon Adventure - there was a priest in that!").
The second DVD includes the 1996 Christmas special, an hour-long episode that is equally hilarious -although at times one does get the feeling that the writers are knowingly stretching some jokes to fill time (a la the Simpsons), for example at the start when Ted opens the door to find a baby that has been left there by mistake and then the mother comes an picks it up "Oh can you imagine us looking after a baby? I'm sure there'd be all kinds of hilarious mistakes and funny incidents".
Classic, Postmodern, Ironic, Surreal and iconoclastic - long may Father Ted live on in our hearts and minds...
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Summary: "Ruud Guillet, sitting on a shed?"
Review: The third and final series of Father Ted consists of 8 fantastic episodes. While possibly not quite as great as the second series, the series still bows out on a high note, as Father Ted himself (Dermot Morgan) died right after the season was shot - a poignant montage of highlights from all three series marks the end of the last episode, a fitting way to make his legacy.
None of this should overshadow 8 brilliant half hours that range from farcical to surreal. The running "phone" jokes from the second series are largely absent, but a bunch of old characters re-appear. Perhaps the best episode is Speed 3, where Dougal must keep a milk float above 4 mph or be blown to pieces ("The Poseidon Adventure - there was a priest in that!").
The second DVD includes the 1996 Christmas special, an hour-long episode that is equally hilarious -although at times one does get the feeling that the writers are knowingly stretching some jokes to fill time (a la the Simpsons), for example at the start when Ted opens the door to find a baby that has been left there by mistake and then the mother comes an picks it up "Oh can you imagine us looking after a baby? I'm sure there'd be all kinds of hilarious mistakes and funny incidents".
Classic, Postmodern, Ironic, Surreal and iconoclastic - long may Father Ted live on in our hearts and minds...
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Summary: Genius!
Review: There's no such thing as a bad Father Ted episode. Fathers Ted, Dougal and Jack, along with the inimitable Mrs Doyle, all play equally important parts in the one-of-a-kind comedy. These episodes are superb, but all of them are. It's unrelentingly funny.
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Summary: Compression drop-outs ruin the fun
Review: This is by far the best fresh sitcom on DVD today. It's therefore sad the DVD compression is visible at times. I agree with another reviewer -- the compression of all episodes onto one single disc is leaving drop-outs and "slow-motion" incidents, probably because the full framerate cannot be kept. And what is up with the horrible non-skippable BBC commercial before the menu appears? Don't you just hate that? 5 stars if the mastering was done properly.
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Summary: This will have you laughing every time you watch it!!
Review: you must buy this, father ted is the funniest show ever( just ahead of simpsons and south park). ok, here's how i would rate the episodes:
1)Are You Right There Father Ted? 5/5 this is sooo funny. ted does a china man impression but little does he know chineese men are staring in the window at him. he is called a racist by the whole town. 2)Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep: 3/5 prob the worst episode on the dvd but still funny. the sheep's picture turned sideways to make it look different is classic. you have to see it. 3)Speed 3: 5/5 ,ok let me get something clear, this is the funniest episode of father ted ever. jack gets a pet brick and ted keeps gettin hit on the head with it - classic. 4)The Mainland: 4/5 mrs doyle gets into a fight with her friend over who will pay for their tea, jack sends a man to hospital and ted get beaten up by a famous actor. a must see. 5)Escape from Victory: 4/5 ted cheats in an over 75's soccer tournament and has to kick bishop brennan up the arse! 6)Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse: 4/5 ted finally kicks him up the ass and acts like nothing has happened. the bishop find out and comes back to get ted... 7)Night of the Nearly Dead: 3/5 loads of old women turn to zombies trying to touch a local young male celebrity. this episode has some good quotes 8)Going to America: 4/5 this episode has probably the best story and the lease laughs but that is not a bad thing. i loved this episode and it was the last one ever of an amazing series! just go buy this dvd now, i SWEAR you wont be dissapointed. actually after writing this i feel like going into wacth speed 3 again, that brick cracks me up!.....
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