Recently, I let a friend of my borrow my Father Ted dvd collection. Upon returning my DVDs, my frined commented on why there aren’t anymore series of Father Ted being made, ignoring the fact that the star of the show, Dermont Morgan, is dead and that series writer, Graham Linenan, has stated that he thought that  series had gone as far as it could in regards of originiality. (Or something to that effect.)

Undeterred, my friend still thinks they can still make another series of Father Ted and pressed me into thinking up new plots for a series four. Never one to back down from a good intellectual excersise, I took my friend up on the challenge. After several weeks of thinking, I realized that Graham Linehan was right, Father Ted had gone as far it could go and that creating a new series is nigh impossible. Except… for the following short exchange that I managed to scrape together.

(Cut to establishing shot of the Craggy Island Parochial house living room. Father Jack is sitting in his chair asleep and Father Dougal is sitting at the dining room table looking quite absent minded, or in other words: looking quite normal. Father Ted enters the living room looking frantic, he walks up to Father Dougal, who turns to face him.)

Ted:

Terrible news, Dougal! I’ve just been accused of being… a pedophile!

Dougal:

Wow, really Ted? I didn’t know that you were a foot fetishist!

Yeah, I realize that joke might be a little too “high concept” for the average sitcom viewer. But hey, Father Ted wasn’t your typical sitcom and I’m not your typical would-be comedy writer.

jareddriskill