Talk:A Song for Europe (Father Ted)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Merge?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lovely_Horse

It has most of the same information on it... 87.113.53.90 (talk) 21:15, 24 May 2008 (UTC) Steve

I'd be inclined to agree about merging them - the song, although iconic in its own right at this point, is still part of the episode - merge the My Lovely Horse article into the section within this article and trim some of the fat. Mdb23b (talk) 13:12, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Removed "* Father Ted calls Ice-T "Icy T" and refers to "Snoopy Snoopy Dogg Dogg"." from goofs as this is clearly a deliberate mistake and not a goof. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.155.32.156 (talk) 11:19, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Just looking at a recording of that episode now - Ted says "scoopy scoopy", not "snoopy snoopy". These things matter ;)


 * 86.25.122.194 (talk) 00:33, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The item was removed but I restored and recategorised it as a "Cultural reference". Good Wikipedia television articles do not seem to include goofs/error sections and the error was clearly intentional to show Ted trying to be Trendy but getting it wrong. -- Horkana (talk) 01:20, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Song Title changed ?
The article stated that the song by "The Bowsie Boys" is titled: "Liam takes it up the ass from an englishman " Pausing a recording - made when the episode was broadcast in Britain on "More 4" at 23:40 on Sunday June 22nd, 2008 - shows the title to be the less graphic phrase: "You Dirty English Bastards".

Were there multiple versions recorded of this scene, or is this a Wikipedia-specific joke that I'm not in on ?

86.25.121.50 (talk) 11:57, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Video no longer on YouTube - so link removed - 2009-06-10
Removed the YouTube link to the video of "That's What Friends are For" by The Swarbriggs:


 * "That's What Friends Are For" music video

as it gives the YouTube error message:

"This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."

86.25.123.99 (talk) 07:00, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Lyrics To The Norwegian Song ?
When Dougal plays the single, there are lyrics audible - presumably in Norwegian. Has any English translation been published ? I'm guessing there is a joke in there - the obvious one being some version of: "if you can understand these lyrics, you are paying too much attention". :)

86.25.123.99 (talk) 08:52, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Life imitation art imitating life

 * Was trying to find sources to reinforce the article and instead found a later incident from 2003 which people saw as resembling the episode.
 * In 2008 Andorra were accussed of having plagiarized their song and again comparisons were made to Father Ted]. -- Horkana (talk) 01:20, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * In 2008 Andorra were accussed of having plagiarized their song and again comparisons were made to Father Ted]. -- Horkana (talk) 01:20, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Benny Cake/Billie Curry
Surely Father Benny Cake is a joke about Billie Currie (Curry) of Ultravox, not Midge. 2601:1C2:1B7F:E590:E9CA:5F1F:45E9:11AA (talk) 17:32, 23 February 2023 (UTC)