There is a huge amount of local history around this episode. Ireland had won the Eurovision several years in a row and it was becoming incredible expensive (the winners each year are the hosts the following year) for the Irish television service RTE to produce. So it was rumored that we started purposefully entering rubbish bands and songs to ensure we couldn't win. This episode was a tribute that those times. :)

Love the scoreboard with "you dirty English bastards" as one of the songs 🤣 (and I'm English by the way)

the back story is that Ireland had several successes in Song for Europe at the time and it was costing them too much money to stage the event (winners host the next event in their own country), this was alluded to this episode and that is why they chose My Lovely Horse, so it would lose.

“Take this lump of sugar baby, you know you want it” kills me every time

The band, the Divine Comedy who does the Father Ted theme tune are the ones who also wrote the song My lovely horse

I love how the presenter is scruffy and incoherent until on camera. Plus it's the same guy who runs the cinema.

Ted losing his sh** during the songwriting scene has me gasping for breath! 😂😂 "JUST PLAY THE F-CKING NOTE!" The presenter's gibberish-speak is basically a caricature of some of the stronger accents you will hear in Ireland, particularly around where I live in County Cork!! 🇮🇪 Next time on Father Ted: the return of an old enemy!!

I love the presenter suddenly being not greasy and having his hair perfect when he goes out on stage lol

Dick Byrne was so good in this series.

I love that one of the songs is You Dirty English B*stards. 😂

You know they have TedFest every year in Ireland, I'd love to go. Lots of the old cast members attend, and they have bands playing My Lovely Horse on stage.

The actor who played Father Ted dermot morgan passed away one day after filming the last ever episode crazy 😮

I can't choose between this and Holiday as my favourite episodes, but Ted was the funniest comedy ever 😂

They won because the winning country gets to stage the event the next time. Dick Byrne suggested that it was becoming too expensive to stage as Ireland kept winning year after a year (they did win a lot), so deliberately set out to lose this time. The two hosts looked suitably embarrassed when this was mentioned..

Father Ted is too subtle for Americans to appreciate it - they do laugh at strange things!

All the times I've seen this, I've never noticed there's a song called 'You Durty English Ba****ds' on the board! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’m addicted to your channel, lots of love from Ireland 🇮🇪

Father Dick Byrne called it. They wanted Ireland to lose so they wouldn't have the expense of hosting again.

Dick Byrne said why they won - because it was costing Ireland so much to host the Eurovision show that they wanted to make sure Ireland lost. (The country that wins Eurovision has to host the competition the following year).

When ted was going nuts while writing the song, reminds me of when I was in a rock band. That was pretty common in rehersals

It’s funny watching you watch this now for the 1st time, when this is often being sung around our house. Everyone knows this song over here! Classic!!

ah ye skipped the bit where Jack shoots Ted's guitar with a sawn off double barrel shotgun, one of the funniest bits

This episode will forever be remembered for the visuals that accompanied that saxophone solo.

This was made when Ireland kept winning Eurovision for real and having to host it which did indeed cost a lot.

Queen Boomers face when Father Dick Burn started singing "The Miracle is mine" song! He did sing that awesome!!

You two have such a beautiful relationship 😭😄 💕. I've never known a relationship like this. I'm really enjoying your videos, and I wish you can always be as happy as you are in this video 😁.

Back in the 90's Ireland did wins 5 times in a row and it was costing a packet, there is some history there. Riverdance was born during this time as a halftime act, kinda hard to follow that masterpiece.

Oh god !!! Queen boomer,s song and turning her back trying to sing it ,absolutely hurt my stomach was laughing so much !!! And that's not a easy thing g to don't 3am in England, with my husband trying g to sleep next to me . I honestly couldn't breath . You both crack me up

This is hands down my favourite episode 🤣🤣

One of the funniest episodes ever. Watching you two crack up kills me loool I am Irish myself and love this show.

What's missing from the episode is the scene when Ted comes up with this idea to rip off another song and pass it off as their own because he thought it was obscure and that no one would notice. That's why he had the reaction in the elevator when he hear the sound being played knowing then it was more popular than he thought and would they would be found out. I don't know why the scene where he comes up with the idea is missing! It's should be as it puts the rest of the show in context

I hadn’t seen this episode for years, so seeing the horse appear after 11:14… I absolutely lost it 😭

Yessss! Been waiting for this one 😂 I think it's my favourite episode. Edit: aw man, gutted you cut the part where Jack shoots the guitar with a sawn-off 😂

This song actually got to number one in the UK charts.

A bit of context for the episode: Ireland won the Eurovison song contest in 92,93 & 94 and then again in 1996

It's actually really heartwarming to watch these reactions to our national treasure.

For a little nerdy context, Ireland had won the Eurovision contest so often that the government could not afford to host it again. (the winner hosts it and it costs millions) so unofficially they just threw it, so they would not have a chance of hosting it. This was parodied in Father Ted

It was a long time since i heard a song with Scoopy scoopy dog dog...

The theme music for the show and the My lovely Horse song were written by the band The Divine Comedy.

This rates 4th in best episodes of Father Ted .. 1st is the sheep contest , then all priests football match closely following by kicking bishop Brennan up the arse! All still to come .. still one of the funniest comedies ever written !

All hail Queen Boomer and the Father Ted jingle.

Father Ted and Dougal won because, as Dick Burn said, the organisers wanted Ireland to lose at Eurovision. That's because the winner hosts the next year's competition and it costs a lot of money. (Ireland won quite a lot.)

My lovely horse. Running through the fields.....

And I was today years old when I realised that I'm older than Queen Boomer (only just - 1994) This episode satirises how Ireland kept winning the Eurovision song contest, and how expensive it was for them to keep hosting it. Ted won only because they wanted to lose. 😂😂 For a small nation, the Irish are a talented bunch (I'm a part-Irish Scot, so I am just a little biased) :P

This show reminds me of growing up in an Irish household so much. 😂 The way Mrs. Doyle rips into Ted's song choice is so Irish. And the way Ted gets irrationally angry when asking for the guitar. 😂 So Irish.

Father ted = my exact life.😅

Queen Boomer's song was really going places! That's a quick mind! I was getting worried though, what with all the fuzz about not wanting to say the lyrics and "his dog jane and his girlfriend Callie" rhyming with something-something back alley 😂

Callie rhymes with marry. Hint, hint. ❤

This is one of the funniest,but u missed the part where Father Jack shoots at the guitar!! 😂

Its missing a bit of the episode, or you skipped ahead by accident at 10:17. You missed the best bit. They ask what Father Jack thinks of the song and he pulls out a shotgun and shoots Ted's guitar out of his hands. Then they decide the songs shit till Ted hears Dougals record again from the beginning and persuades Dougal they should steal the tune, because its such an obsure song. That's why he freaks out when he hears the tune playing as lift music, he realises he's stolen a tune that's more famous than he thought.

I noticed 2 scenes were deleted in this video you should show full episode, there are other reaction channels that do not cut scenes.

Songs by the great Neil Hannon. A musical genius. Fantastic episode from one of the greatest ever sitcoms.

The effing and blinding bit about playing the first note is a riff on the infamously sweary Troggs Tape and their attempt to record a particular song.

Really enjoyed your reaction guys! Keep the Father Teds coming 😅

There was a segment missing in this reaction between the song played to Mrs Doyle and Father Jack and the music video

Would have loved to see your reaction to jack pulling out the shotgun and shooting the guitar.

I think the US is gradually starting to hear about the Eurovision Song Contest, possibly due to Will Ferrell's affectionate spoof The Story Of Fire Saga. He's a genuine fan after being introduced to it by his Swedish wife. I'm sure I remember reading something about America doing a State song contest, don't know what happened though.

Made my afternoon, Thank you for sharing this ✅🇬🇧👵

Black Books, starring Irish comedian Dylan Moran and written with one of the Father Ted writers, is another brilliant comedy series. I'm sure you will like it.

I LOVE the fact you are reacting Father Ted, everyting about this is so great! You are definitly picking uk cult classics! Two programmes very close to my heart are Red Dwarf and Bottom if you have never seen before check it out. Boomerites assemble! Cheers!

This is my absolute favourite episode so so good love that you’re both here today King And Queen Boomer when I see any 8 out of 10 cats I think of you 2 thanks for this clip

Fun fact: "My lovely horse" is now officially the Irish national anthem.

Made my evening guys, walked in from work and you'd dropped a Ted within the hour! Brew time!!

@Boomer. This and the elderly priest football episode are the 2 best in my opinion. Ireland won the competition several times with really good songs. Boomer. A challenge Do 'My Lovely Dog' and the challenge is 'an original tune/song played on a badly tuned guitar or only has 3 strings' and 10 line lyrics why you love your dog. Or an instrument you have never played. And the singing has to be monotonous. A challenge for everyone on this channel to take part in the challenge and submit entries here. But the lyrics your case might be an another pet or some random things like favourite mug, kitchen utensil or furniture. Short, bad lyric monotonous tune contest. It is a cringe worthy moments to watch. Could be uploaded on Shorts.

Loving the Jim Cornette t shirt. He’s a legend.

Your reactions always make me feel better thanks for that 🐕❤😂

Yep - Ireland won 3 years in sucession... 1992-4. As the winning country hosts the next years competition it cost them a fecking fortune. That's the whole premise here..

The winners (country) of the annual Eurovision song contest are obliged to _host_ the big razzamattaz all night, competition final the next year. In the 1990s, Ireland kept winning the competition consecutively, and so Ireland got to host seemingly EVERY year. The Eurovision Final is a LIVE broadcast to over 30 countries (?) and costs a fortune in tech and satellite fees alone, before adding in the whole VIP experience for the nobs and dignitaries from nearly every country imaginable (except the USA!). Anyway, hosting doesn't generate a profit, it's just a prestige thing. The joke of this episode is that the Irish cynically wanted to deliberately lose the competition to spare themselves the enormous expense to what is a small GDP country. Ordinarily the Irish public would phone in votes for their favourite contending song, but the presenters said that _this_ year (1996), that they themselves would choose the winner, picking Ted & Dougal's abyssmal effort because it was 100% certain to lose the final, and relieve Ireland of any further financial burden.

Loving the song, Callie. I reckon you're on to something there. 👍😁

QB laughing was spot on, you you are a lovely couple, regards from Mal across the pond

Father Dick Byrne was breaking Eurovision rules, maximum of 6 people on stage in an act...maybe he was disqualified on that technicality

I would have loved to see your reaction to Jack shooting the guitar

Best Eurovison song ever created!! My lovely horse ❤️❤️❤️

in this episode, Father Ted has captured the essence of the Art of Song Writing.

The list of song entries on the stage is hilarious. I wonder how The Hairy Bowsies got on with their entry "You Dirty English B@st@rds".🤣

Check out What's Another Year and Hold Me Now by Johnny Logan.both won Eurovision for Ireland.

Did anyone notice while they were in the bedroom writing the song there was a picture of Pat Mustard on the bedside locker. This episode went out before the milkman/Pat Mustard episode. So pretty strange to see it there.

Having a big Eurovision party in May , can’t wait

when Dick Bryne was singing queen boomer looked like she was in a trance!

I've been waiting for this one!!!!!!

This might be one of my fave episodes. Bu father ted has so many classic moments.

MY LOVELY HORSE is a godsend. It's my go to song to hum when you hear a terrible song and want to get it out of your head. Perfectly absurd and catchy.

Based on a true story!

It was fun watching you guys. Great chemistry. Can I suggest the four candles sketch from the Two Ronnies? There's actually a lot of hilarious sketches from this British show

@Boomer: There's a Father Ted documentary available on youtube which is worth watching to get some background. It's called "Small, Far Away - The World Of Father Ted".

This was a great episode

i love in the series how Dick Burn is a mirror image of Ted , with same idiot priest and old drunkard on another island.. it crops up repeatedly in their rivalry..

Queen Boomer should record her 'Father Ted Song'

The songs co-writers was Neil Hannon. In fairness, getting ‘when your arse is the size of a small country’ into a song is pretty impressive: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/psV3f7aYr5mddJc.html

This episode is by far the funniest thing l ever saw. I remember hoping for the ads to come as l was laughing so much it was painful. It could not be made in Ireland because it was so offensive to the Catholic Church but it was screened in the pubs via satellite from British tv and naturally packed the pubs out. It could never be screened in the US for the same reasons it was not broadcast in Ireland. You could not even buy compatible DVDs which was a shame as l know my American cousin would have loved it. But Father Ted is more than a TV show. Just as the Beatles heralded social change in the 69s, this series broke old taboos and epitomizes the transition of Ireland into a truly modern country. In my opinion among the best television ever made anywhere.

Absolutely loved this reaction, esp your queen was making up a song for you and could hardly breath for laughing. Not entirely sure how they got The Divine Comedy to voice over the song in the dream sequence - but I guess as he wrote the main theme. Mind you, the words on the version of the song used for main theme released by The Divine Comedy are… more than a little bit odd.

I now sing along with QB when she does the jingle.

Quite simply, the country that wins the song contest has to stage it the following year.

Top 3 episodes for me: Speed A song for Europe 5 a side You are lucky people to be experiencing this for the first time.

Damn, it skipped the bit where jack blew the guitar away with a sawn off shotgun 🤣🤣

We have to lose that sax solo!!!! Gets me everytime

Great reactions you two, so funny, but you must check out Julie Felix singing 'Moonlight' & then Eddie Friel singing "Dreaming' & it'll all come clear! Lol!

"Scoopy scoopy Dogg Dogg"....👀🤦🏻‍♂️👏👏🤣🤣🤣💜

One of the funniest episodes I’ve seen

At 17:00 we never got to hear number seven on the list, The Dirty English Bastards.