Spencer's sadly mistaken about the "fashion" reference. It was actually referring to the murder of Gianni Versace which had recently happened (1997). Glad you're liking father Ted though! Thanks for the reactions -cheers fellas.
lol yeh, i came to the comments to say that - cos it's funny he was embarassed about a joke going over his head, and him laughing at spencer, but in fact the joke went over both their heads haha
Before you watch kicking Bishop brennan up the arse, just know that (Jim Norton) the actor who plays brennan hasn't watched the episode, as it was the last show he did before (dermot Morgans ) passing and he still cannot bring himself to watch it, it says a lot for the love he had for dermot and the show, And the kinda man he is himself,
@@terrowle5682 I've read & heard it in many places. Do you remember hearing about Versace being shot? It was a huge international news story. It was the world's second or perhaps third most publicised death of 1997. Why would Dougal be thinking of a shooting over five decades earlier rather than one seven months earlier? How would Dougal know that Mussolini was shot?
What ARE you talking about… Mussolini????? Dougal was referencing GIANNI VERSACE, the Italian fashion designer who was murdered/shot at Miami Beach in 1997. 🤷🏻♂️
Just watched fourteen seconds. Finally! I was soooooooo waiting for you two to get here. Big love from Spain. Might edit/add something after watching, but, with this spliff in my hand, I'm making no promises. Paz y amor Edit. Spencer... So sad you Dougled up the Versace reference... Keep at it mate.
Err.. (6:50) 'He was so _good_ at fashion, that they had to shoot him' were Dougal's exact words. Interesting that you'd interpret that to be Mussolini, but I reckon it was a reference to _Gianni Versace_ and his murder by Andrew Cunanan in July 1997, the same year this series was 'shot'.
The timing of it means it cannot be Versace. If it was the line would of been "like that italian who was so bad as fashion" not "remember that guy who was so bad as fashion". To say remember that guy when it had literally just happened would of been terrible writing.
@@philstansfield There was about a 9 month gap between versace's death and the filming of this episode plenty of time for the writers to write a joke about a recent event. bvut a big enough gap to refer to it in the past tense.
@@24magiccarrotYeah and you can tell by the outdoor shots where the trees are bare and the shadows are long that those parts were filmed around winter time, those aren't trees in the middle of summer of '97 got to be late '97 early '98, the last episode ( 8 ) finished filming on the 21st feb '98
@@evzevz06 Also Dermot Morgan died in Feb 98 and he died on the day of the last recording of the series so we know that it was early 98 or late 97 that they were recording the show. We have no idea of time frames as it isn't necesary that episodes are filmed sequentially, but ballpark figure it would have been recorded between December-February, Versace was shot in July, so a minimum of about 5 months between the incident, and at the time still fresh enough in peoples minds that that would be what they'd assume they were talking about.
We were brought up watching this I was in me early teens when it started, the family would all watch it every week together it was and still is brilliant it's very Irish it's our sense of humor still to this day
It’s a little known fact that some of the footballers shown later went on to play against the US women’s soccer team, where they beat them 12 - 0. True story.
6:55 No no Spencer. They're clearly referring to Versace's homicide, who happened in, I think, 1997, so it was really a big thing when this show was filmed.
Guys, it WAS meant to be about Mussolini - the joke was supposed to be Dougal confusing "fashion" with "fascism" - read up on it on the internet and you'll find out. The creators even noted how unfortunately people misunderstood that joke as a reference to Versace, when it wasn't meant to be.
Dougal refers to Benito Mussolini, saying: "You remember that fella, who was so good at fashion, they had to shoot him?". A common misinterpretation is that the joke was referring to Gianni Versace who was shot the year before the episode aired - but the joke is actually that Father Dougal mixes up fashion and fascism. --> wikipedia on that episode.
@@ZeXiOn26I tried to look up your claim on Wikipedia and found no reference to it on the Wikipedia for that episode, I did however find on the Gianni Versace Wikipedia entry, under, "In Popular culture" it states "In an episode of the Irish sitcom Father Ted, one of the main characters, Dougal, refers to Versace's death by saying, "God, Ted, do you remember that fella who was so good at fashion they had to shoot him?"" That's from the source you cited Wikipedia
@@evzevz06 it's no longer there for some reason, I know it sounds weird, but my guess is someone must have removed it from the page (maybe even in response to my comment). I can't prove it now, but it was on that page until yesterday. To be fair, my first thought was "Versace" as well, but the other interpretation is possible too.
You can check the edit history on Wikipedia and yes, it was there until late last night. Possibly it was someone from here who removed it! But it was still wrong though, and didn’t cite any source, so deserved to be removed. The joke is 100% a reference to Versace.
Fashion, fascism ... I always get the two things mixed up as they don't half sound alike. Makes for both an interesting and also disappointing scenario every single time. The amount of times I turned up to NF, BNP, EDL or Britain First meetings dressed to the nines in my best designer attire while everyone else there couldn't even be arsed to make an effort made me feel a tad overdressed. Similarly when I went to local university fashion shows dressed as Oswald Mosley, Mussolini, Hitler or Franco caused a stir and I deffo felt like a right twat. What am I like?
Interestingly Pauline McLynn who plays Mrs Doyle is in fact a big football fan and supports the same team as I do, Aston Villa who are (objectively speaking with no hint of bias) the greatest football team in the world 😜
Well... I hate to be that guy... but can't that slide... that is definitely up there in the history of mankind for terrible takes when getting a reference and/or joke. Forget A to B logic, that's like A to 87; how did you actually manage to get from one to other?! Especially when Daniel did get the reference, but just couldn't remember the name of which fashion designer it was
6:35 you were right Daniel, Dougal did say fashion, and it was an Versace reference.
Spencer's sadly mistaken about the "fashion" reference. It was actually referring to the murder of Gianni Versace which had recently happened (1997). Glad you're liking father Ted though! Thanks for the reactions -cheers fellas.
7.40 "I need this, Man. I need this"
Yes, definitely.
It was a pretty good interpretation though, since Mussolini was shot.
@@terrowle5682 No, it's definitely referencing Versace!
@@terrowle5682 How can you think Dougal's talking about Mussolini? He has no interest in politics & says fashion, not fascism.
lol It was a Gianni Versace reference! It had nothing to do with WW2! 😂
06:57 - Fashion, it was about Gianni Versace who was shot dead.
lol yeh, i came to the comments to say that - cos it's funny he was embarassed about a joke going over his head, and him laughing at spencer, but in fact the joke went over both their heads haha
The football tournament that leads to what's arguably the greatest Father Ted moment.
Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse.
Before you watch kicking Bishop brennan up the arse, just know that (Jim Norton) the actor who plays brennan hasn't watched the episode, as it was the last show he did before (dermot Morgans ) passing and he still cannot bring himself to watch it, it says a lot for the love he had for dermot and the show,
And the kinda man he is himself,
That's crazy I'm Irish and have been to there house and I didn't know that
Genuinely one of the most terrifying cliffhangers ever. Bishop Brennan was not to be Fucked with 😂
I think they were referring to Versace. He was so good at fashion, they had to shoot him.
In a normal country, a famous person being assassinated would be a notable historical fact. But not in America.
Confirmed. It's a Versace reference. I know someone who helped produce on Season 3.
It's Versace.
@@terrowle5682 Do you have anything to back that claim? Have you heard/read anyone claim that, other than in this comment section?
The joke has nothing whatsoever to do with fascism, being Italian or Mussolini lol.@@terrowle5682
@@terrowle5682 I've read & heard it in many places. Do you remember hearing about Versace being shot? It was a huge international news story. It was the world's second or perhaps third most publicised death of 1997. Why would Dougal be thinking of a shooting over five decades earlier rather than one seven months earlier? How would Dougal know that Mussolini was shot?
Versace was the Italian fashion designer who was shot.
The fashion designer who was assassinated was Gianni Versace. In 1997. Really guys, it was headline news, it happened outside Versace’s Miami mansion.
A load of men sitting around watching "Fr Ted". Great fun!
Fantastic! ..looking forward to part 2 before even starting this! ..enjoy Lads! 🤣
it's been on their patreon a few months
He meant Gianni Versace. Princess Diana attended his funeral and she was ironically killed about 1 month later in 1997.
What ARE you talking about… Mussolini?????
Dougal was referencing GIANNI VERSACE, the Italian fashion designer who was murdered/shot at Miami Beach in 1997. 🤷🏻♂️
Gianni Versace was the reference - not fascism dammit lol.
You got it wrong, the reference was for the shooting of Versace.
They are more likely to be talking about Gianni Versace..
and Armani is still alive.
Just watched fourteen seconds. Finally! I was soooooooo waiting for you two to get here.
Big love from Spain.
Might edit/add something after watching, but, with this spliff in my hand, I'm making no promises.
Paz y amor
Edit.
Spencer... So sad you Dougled up the Versace reference... Keep at it mate.
Love the Brian Clough quote "missing the target from there, you need shooting!"
All that football jargon reminds me of my dad; he was particularly fond of: 'Close him down!' when he was roaring at the TV
How did Spencer turn fashion into fascism? especially when Daniel already said what he said. The Irish accent can't be to blame it was quite mild
Before I watched this, I hadn't heard anyone get that reference wrong. It's unlikely Dougal knows who Mussolini was, let alone that he was shot.
Well Joey from friends thought people who did fashion were called fashists.
@alpinenewtplaysgames4509 that's encouraging 😂
Nooo the fashion joke was gianni versace 😂😂
Err.. (6:50) 'He was so _good_ at fashion, that they had to shoot him' were Dougal's exact words.
Interesting that you'd interpret that to be Mussolini, but I reckon it was a reference to _Gianni Versace_ and his murder by Andrew Cunanan in July 1997, the same year this series was 'shot'.
Oh ...and so says _everyone else_ ...I now read : )
The timing of it means it cannot be Versace.
If it was the line would of been "like that italian who was so bad as fashion" not "remember that guy who was so bad as fashion".
To say remember that guy when it had literally just happened would of been terrible writing.
@@philstansfield There was about a 9 month gap between versace's death and the filming of this episode plenty of time for the writers to write a joke about a recent event. bvut a big enough gap to refer to it in the past tense.
@@24magiccarrotYeah and you can tell by the outdoor shots where the trees are bare and the shadows are long that those parts were filmed around winter time, those aren't trees in the middle of summer of '97 got to be late '97 early '98, the last episode ( 8 ) finished filming on the 21st feb '98
@@evzevz06 Also Dermot Morgan died in Feb 98 and he died on the day of the last recording of the series so we know that it was early 98 or late 97 that they were recording the show. We have no idea of time frames as it isn't necesary that episodes are filmed sequentially, but ballpark figure it would have been recorded between December-February, Versace was shot in July, so a minimum of about 5 months between the incident, and at the time still fresh enough in peoples minds that that would be what they'd assume they were talking about.
The second Spencer fucked up I instantly took to the comments 😂😂, I knew he'd be roasted hard lol.
Who knew Daniel was the clever one all along... Versace was shot in Miami so no excuse Spencer! Mussolini FFS 🤣🤣🤣
The "so good at fashion they had to shoot him" was in reference to Gianni Versace, who was unfortunately shot dead in 1997.
Spot on.
Prescient reference to Dougal "He's like a puppy dog"
Not adding anything new here, but the Versace gag misunderstanding........holy shmoly
We were brought up watching this I was in me early teens when it started, the family would all watch it every week together it was and still is brilliant it's very Irish it's our sense of humor still to this day
It’s a little known fact that some of the footballers shown later went on to play against the US women’s soccer team, where they beat them 12 - 0.
True story.
6:55 No no Spencer. They're clearly referring to Versace's homicide, who happened in, I think, 1997, so it was really a big thing when this show was filmed.
So big that they were not afraid to make fun of it. Same with Kurt Cobain
Exactly.@@paulinegallagher7821
Gianni Versace guys! 😂
One of my favorites from the series 😅🤣
"You need shooting" is of course the ol' Brian Clough reference.
"Walking Football" is a thing in the UK now, with it's own governing body in England.
Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse is one the best Ted episodes. Cannae wait boys.
I'd say the spoiler is built into the end of the episode. Not as if I published the script.@joshcahill9551
One of the best father ted episodes next.
And there's the setup for Bishop Brennan being kicked up the arse
Guys, it WAS meant to be about Mussolini - the joke was supposed to be Dougal confusing "fashion" with "fascism" - read up on it on the internet and you'll find out. The creators even noted how unfortunately people misunderstood that joke as a reference to Versace, when it wasn't meant to be.
Dougal refers to Benito Mussolini, saying: "You remember that fella, who was so good at fashion, they had to shoot him?". A common misinterpretation is that the joke was referring to Gianni Versace who was shot the year before the episode aired - but the joke is actually that Father Dougal mixes up fashion and fascism. --> wikipedia on that episode.
@@ZeXiOn26Whats Wikipedia's source
@@ZeXiOn26I tried to look up your claim on Wikipedia and found no reference to it on the Wikipedia for that episode, I did however find on the Gianni Versace Wikipedia entry, under, "In Popular culture" it states
"In an episode of the Irish sitcom Father Ted, one of the main characters, Dougal, refers to Versace's death by saying, "God, Ted, do you remember that fella who was so good at fashion they had to shoot him?""
That's from the source you cited Wikipedia
@@evzevz06 it's no longer there for some reason, I know it sounds weird, but my guess is someone must have removed it from the page (maybe even in response to my comment). I can't prove it now, but it was on that page until yesterday. To be fair, my first thought was "Versace" as well, but the other interpretation is possible too.
You can check the edit history on Wikipedia and yes, it was there until late last night. Possibly it was someone from here who removed it!
But it was still wrong though, and didn’t cite any source, so deserved to be removed. The joke is 100% a reference to Versace.
Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot dead. Nothing to do with Mussolini....Lmfao C'mon.
We do now have 'walking football' in the UK for older enthusiasts
Fashion, fascism ... I always get the two things mixed up as they don't half sound alike. Makes for both an interesting and also disappointing scenario every single time. The amount of times I turned up to NF, BNP, EDL or Britain First meetings dressed to the nines in my best designer attire while everyone else there couldn't even be arsed to make an effort made me feel a tad overdressed. Similarly when I went to local university fashion shows dressed as Oswald Mosley, Mussolini, Hitler or Franco caused a stir and I deffo felt like a right twat. What am I like?
Say what you like about nazis: they were always well dressed.
@@fintonmainz7845 They wore it like a Hugo Boss.
fashion = Versace (who was murdered)
No, it was Versace
If you think this one is good, wait for the next one. Its one of the best
In parts of Northern Ireland we call the ice cream van the poke van and ice cream cone is a poke.
Spenser so far right in the fashion joke 😂😂😂
Yep 😂
Simpsons said Flowers By Irene😂
I don't know if it showed it on this edited vid but Fr Ted was caught using a remote control for the wheel chair under his coat
It went over my head too😅
Fuckkkkkkkkkkkkk I forgot about this one, here we go, cheers chaps!
I thought it was about Mussolini
escape to victory is a great ww2/football game film that we get in the uk on tv almost every xmas. is it shown in the u.s. on tv?
Yeah it was definitely about Versace's death, not Mussolini, sorry.
Interestingly Pauline McLynn who plays Mrs Doyle is in fact a big football fan and supports the same team as I do, Aston Villa who are (objectively speaking with no hint of bias) the greatest football team in the world 😜
@joshcahill9551careful now:)
Didn't one of the Versace family get shot?
Jeez Spencer. So far off the mark 😊
The next episode he has to kick bishop Brennan up the arse
It is one of the best episodes
More water 😂😂😂😂
Father Ted is so so good
Dick Burn is now curable.
I'm just here to say nothing about Versace, nothing at all.
Versace❤
No….it was a reference to Versace who had recently been murdered.
@5:33 that's a quote of legendary manager Brian Clough. Look him up, because he's honestly one of strangest and most hilarious people to ever life.
Brian Clough was a genius and was utterly mad (like most geniuses are)
Clough used to hang out (and met his wife) at the Middlesbrough ice cream shop owned and operated by musician Chris Rea's family.
The English called him Cloughy as they put Y on popular footballers. Cloughy, Barnsey, Giggsy, Rooney
@@shredder9536 I think that is universal in sports. Hockey players call each other the "ie" names all the time.
Father Ted Lasso
Sorry dude Daniel was closest with the fashion joke
Musselini was hung i believe
Shot dead, then hung.
Versace Versace Versace Versace Versace Versace Versace
They'd still beat my pub football team
Is not a reference to Gianni Versace
Well... I hate to be that guy... but can't that slide... that is definitely up there in the history of mankind for terrible takes when getting a reference and/or joke.
Forget A to B logic, that's like A to 87; how did you actually manage to get from one to other?! Especially when Daniel did get the reference, but just couldn't remember the name of which fashion designer it was
The Bishop Brennan arse kicking is probably the best episode.
the fashion reference was for Armani & not a fascist reference for Mussolini! - carry on!
The reference was to Gianni Versace who had just been shot by Andrew Cunanan which made all the news cycles.
It can't be Giorgio Armani - he hasn't been shot.
reading far too much into it, it is what they say
😂😂👍🏽🙌🏽
A spoof on the title 'Escape To Victory', probably the worst ever WWII filum.
Versaci
No no he’s dead 😂😂
You're making very serious accusations against members of the clergy.
Its was versace
Oh I REALLY hate Father Dick Byrne!
I love your reactions but unfortunately the fashion thing he's wrong about:(
first comment feck yeah!
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