There is nothing wrong with anything in this episode. All the jokes are at the expense of racists, the Nazis die stupidly, even the moronic have a moment of enlightenment!
It's not even remotely controversial; Ted's impression is clearly in poor taste and wouldn't wash now, but the big deal Americans seem to make out of kind of bland references to swastikas etc in the name of surreal comedy never fails to baffle me. Can't imagine how sanitised popular culture must be over there, in contrast with the horrific stuff in *real life* that's normalised there.
@@garethm3242 Doesn't it make you think something is wrong in this world when you have to blur a visual, put "For copyright reason" over it and then edit the video as well. Don't even know where to start with all the wrong things going on here, from the creators, to YT, to the new authoritarian society.
The Chinese father Ozzie Yue is a friend of mine. He was born and bred in Liverpool and played lead guitar for a number of local groups in the city. He also has a strong Liverpool accent in real life.
You know some people just look like nice and decent people? Ozzie is one such person. Tell him for us he's a total legend for having played a part on Father Ted!
Vaughans is a real pub in Co. Clare and the barman in the episode is the real barman in Vaughans. I was there about five years ago, he still works there and is an absolute gent. The pub still had some of the Chinese decorations up since the episode was made. There's a Father Ted festival there every year, where people turn up dressed as characters from the show.... it's great fun.
Probably one of the strongest opening episodes of any series of a sitcom - it never gets old for me. Yet when originally broadcast, this was tinged with terrible sadness, since we already knew that Dermot had passed away. That initial broadcast run of S3 in early 1998 was essentially a long farewell to him. And to the series itself. You've got a lot of pleasure to come yet though.
There are just SO MANY best-of moments coming up soon in the next few episodes, I just can't wait. The boys are gonna rupture something from laughter 😂 What do milkmen do on your doorstep?!
Blurring over the Nazi imagery? C'mon lads! No need, other reaction channels haven't done this. It's within the context of a surrealist comedy. Also, Ted's impression aside which wouldn't be included nowadays, why would a comedy episode get cancelled for attacking racism and making racists the target of the joke. Misunderstanding the humour a bit I think.
Boy, I wouldn't want to see a reaction to the all time classic World at War. Somehow, even as kids we were able to watch the rise, success and fall of the Third Reich without becoming Nazis. It's amazing what people can do when left to think for themselves.
TBH, it’s the flakey RU-vid Content ID system that’s “misunderstanding the humour”. It doesn’t get context so it just blocks or demonetises videos when it picks up on certain imagery.
It's important, when reviewing this kind of episode, to note that it's not promoting racism or Nazis. It's about the awkwardness of putting your foot in it and trying too hard to make everything right afterwards. Most of us have done it and that's why we laugh. Seeing Spencer disappear into the background made me think of the bad guys being 'collected' in the Patrick Swayze movie Ghost! 😂👻 💚🐇🐴💚
Best season sadly , you guys are going to miss this show like us when you finish season 3 . And I agree with others "speed" episode is an absolute classic , you will enjoy that when you get to it
Years ago I worked in a warehouse and one of the supervisors drew the perfectly square bit of black dirt on his window. Sometimes he would stand there pointing sternly at people and trying not to laugh himself. He was actually a total prick and this one skit was his only redeeming quality!
Yes it would have, this is quite tame compared to things like Bojack Horseman or Rick and Morty for example, who holds no punches when it comes to offence. Yet that is being made today still. (BH ended recently) So the whole "this wouldn't pass by today's standards" they keep spouting is wholly off base.
My poor wife thought there was hundreds of seasons, and thousands of episode of Father Ted. When ever they where repeated on British TV, I watched them over and over.
I think what a lot of young people miss when reacting to this type of comedy is a word Daniel used at the start, context. You're laughing at the racists, not with them. Same with Alf Garnett. Remade as All In The Family in the US. Watren Mitchell (who played Alf) tells a story about someone who said to him, 'I love it when you have a go at the c...ns Alf'. Warren replied, 'Actually were having a go at people like you'. Other notable examples are the Major's story in the Germans episode of Fawlty Towers which has been removed from recent broadcasts (although still available on the dvd). Again you're laughing at him. There was a notorious sitcom from the 70's called Love Thy Neighbour which is pretty uncomfortable viewing, but even in that the black guy always made the white guy look stupid, and interestingly the wives got on like a house on fire. The writers intentions were good but it was admittedly very ham fisted. Al Murray has also talked about elements of his audience taking his character at face value, which obviously wasn't his intention. I'd hesitate throwing around the word woke though which some comments are. It's used so often to shut down argument and has become the right wing trope for anything they don't agree with. Like the term political correctness it's meaning has been hijacked, when all it is, is having some respect for your felllow human beings, just don't be a dick. Woke hae become the go to term for any batshit, screaming tabloid headline. In a few months time the shitsheets will be dusting off their 'Loony, woke, luvvy leftie council tries to ban Christmas' or change it's name to Winterval. It's as inevitable as, well, Christmas.
That Stephen Hawking line always cracks me up, too, but not many reactors pick up on it! Just those few short lines of dialogue and you can imagine it happening in your head.
You guys gotta find a different way around the copyright issue - having words over the image really doesn't work. Apart from that...keep up the good work!
the full episodes are on their Patreon. There is nothing they can do as they didn't start uploading them here before the new copyright rules were introduced
Cracking episode. Still at work we say with "The Greeks invented gayness" whenever Greece or anything possibly Greek related is mentioned. Another Irish comedy you should watch (just 1 episode) The Savage Eye - "The Catholic Church". It features another popular punchline at my work "A fucking drill!". Best wishes lads.
You say that "it would get cancelled so fast today" as if that's a good thing, but it's not. Cancel culture, and the "offended by everything" brigade, are a great example of all that's wrong with the world today. I appreciate that with 100,000 subscribers you must be careful what you say and do, but blurring out the flags, and trying to apologise for every joke, is just so woke. If people are offended by this they shouldn't be watching it.Let them binge on the kind of filth Disney are pushing out.
More like hypocritical. If it was "woke" they wouldn't be laughing at the joke and apologising they'd be "offended" by the joke surely. Laughing at comedy at the comedy while sensoring it isn't really woke its hypocritical.
Well said. It's all got way beyond ridiculous now. Can't say this. Can't say that. Can't have a sense of humour. Just one more generation and literally NO ONE will talk to anyone. We will exist in total silence! 😒
They actively supported the nazis...the Catholic Church in germany that is helped pass the enabling act in 1933 which helped hitlers party to power....very summarised btw
The Catholic Church also helped a lot of Jews to run to Israel, by giving them false documents and false credentials as Vatican City diplomats. Did you know that, my British friend?
Great reaction guys, Dingeenie and Spencer, I can imagine you both in an Irish pub/bar and laughing the night away having the banter and the craic with the locals, a night to remember! Great reaction and video, thank you both, love from Ireland
You joke about not being able to make this now. Sadly the co-writer of this Graham Linehan is currently embroiled in a 'Cancel culture' incident after having two shows cancelled at the Edinburgh Fringe due to his views being incompatible with the vocal 'woke'. Absolutely ridiculous!
Linehan was vociferous in criticising Count Dankula when the establishment held that show trial against Dankula. But to his credit whenever the woke turned on him, which they always do, he had the decency to publically apologise to Dankula for his past behaviour. Just a pity it took his fellow travellers to turn on him first before he realised his mistake
Linehan is so toxic and cruel that his own wife and children have disavowed him. He's been a viscious, ignorant asshole for over a decade and only now is he suffering the consequences.
Graham Linehan has become such a hateful person that his wife left him, and his adult children want nothing to do with him. He spends his entire life attacking people online, harassing people on dating apps and then whining that no-one will employ him. He's not a comedy writer anymore. He's a full time angry drunk.
My grandad had some souvenirs at the back of his wardrobe when i was very young. A greatcoat, a bayonet and a luger ( no bullets) and some medals. I was only young and really shouldnt have been there to find them. I liked swordfighting with the bayonet ! When he died my nan gave them away.
I don't know if it has been shown here on TV. The only comedy shows that I can think of with really controversial stuff here are ones like All in the Family, Maude, and the Jeffersons. They were all on in the 70s and early 80s. They are excellent at talking about difficult subjects in a funny and still serious way.
Father Ted was on PBS and there have been a few attempts at an American remake which never came together. Steve Martin and John Michael Higgins were both rumoured to play Ted in various projects.
@@gooshie3 I don't know about on a comedy show with visuals and not blatantly using the words, but it has happened in other RU-vid situations. On another RU-vid channel someone who usually interviews people, was referencing a documentary about modern day Nazis and the KKK. He got in trouble because he showed clips with words that RU-vid won't allow in the videos even though his was educational. He was specifically told that he was flagged for the word Nazi. You can't even get away with using the rape either. They had to talk in a weird awkward way all around that word on a channel that was talking about Scientology and the Danny Masterson case. I think Spencer and Daniel are being rightly overly cautious. They have a nice side hustle going here with this channel and aren't dumb enough to take any chances.
The Irish republic army supported the Nazi party during the war They sent troops on the call of the Pope for his Holy War supporting Franco fascist war
Be careful with "Irish republic army". The Irish republic has an army, yes, but it served the State, and the State was pointedly neutral in the war. There was a political/terrorist/paramilitary group which called itself the IRA, and they were very much not official.
@@stickytapenrust6869 Nope A green background has a much higher luminosity than a blue one and is the furthest from screen tone. That's why it went from blue to green
@@theblackwidowchronicles I know, but the fundamentals are still the same. Choice of colour is down to specifics of digital or analogue processing, but I’m not referring to specifics, I’m referring to the basic fundamentals on which the specifics are then built.
Well you looked quite embarrassed with your reaction during this episode ! ^^ I think you missed the humor in this one, everything was very well written, the nazis were ridiculous and died with ridicule, Father Ted was an imbecile but with good intentions, the episode denounces and laughs at rascism and fascism !
Only newer generations would find extremes in a show like Father Ted. It's just pandering to woke crap out of fear, and where do you go from there and what do you end up with, more bullshit. The show really is just a simple comedy with all sorts of absurdities, if you feel that you must you moralise your way through it then you don't know how to just enjoy yourself and nothing else. I mean, why bother if you have to pretend to be someone else, is it worth it?
I always get a kick out of the wokesters when they see something like Ted where they want to laugh but stop themselves to bow to the ideology that they have been brainwashed with. It must be a terrible struggle. Just to see the look on their faces when they know their reaction is phony and their mind is telling them two different things. This is funny, no, must not laugh at this. You can laugh at something and just say it's stupid without phony moralizing.
What absolute BS. I'm as woke as they come, and I've been a Father Ted fan for 26 years. I have never, ever been afraid to laugh at it, either alone or in company. This fantasy that woke people moralise their way through episodes of old comedy is nonsense. It just serves this notion that you have that woke people are sitting around complaining about stuff and feeling guilty all the time. We're not. We're having a great time laughing at people who use the word 'woke' as an insult without even knowing what it means.
