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If 'Red Dwarf' was the classic sitcom of the late 1980's, then 'Father Ted' lifted those laurels come the early 1990's.
You just can't fail (unless there's something wrong with your sense of humour) to laugh out loud at some of the set-piece gags in this series. Four completely disparate people, a mad old priest, a young imbecile priest, and Father Ted as the comparatively normal one with whom we can often identify, share home with an almost equally bonkers house-keeper.
Some of their adventures are quite surreal, whilst others are just grotesque parodies of the kind of normal dilemma most of us encounter from time to time.
You pays your money and you takes your choice. Some episodes were only 'very good' and deserving just 8 stars. Others were beyond reproach and justified 10 stars. My award strikes a balance.
Institutions are always good for poking fun. We saw this in 'Yes Minister' and many others. But religious institutions, with their overwhelming pompous vanity, are the stuff of absolute screams.
If only Muslims had a sense of humour, what joy they could bring to the world. And no-one would have to be blown-up to do it. Or then again...
score 9/10
screenman 21 June 2008
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