[TV] UKCC24 - Semi Final One - Fawlty Towers vs Father Ted

[Mellotron]

Semi Final One
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Shit gets real from this point onwards.

Fawlty Towers - 1975-1979, 12 episodes

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This show has consistently posted BIG numbers. But has it had an easy run?

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Father Ted - 1995-1998, 25 episodes

Very popular on here. I've seen many see it as a favourite to win the whole thing.

This should be a mammoth clash.

VOTE NOW!​

UKCC24 - Group Stage Round Up
UKCC24 - R16 Round Up

Can't be arsed to do a separate thread for Quarter Final Round Up;

Fawlty Towers battered Not The Nine O'Clock News (150 - 37)
Father Ted squeaked past I'm Alan Partridge (145 - 117)
Only Fools and Horses beat The Fast Show (154 - 103)
...and Blackadder is currently battering The Office (184 - 71 at last count).​

 

[dazzer6666]

 

[Mustafa II]

This is ridiculously tough.

Voted Father Ted, purely because there are twice as many episodes. Wouldn't be able to decide otherwise.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Father Ted, classic "I hear your a racist now father, is the official doctrine of the church now father"

 

[Mellotron]

Early exit polls are inconclusive.

 

[Hamilton]

In the past I would have voted Fawlty, but I increasingly see Father T as being far more valuable.

 

[US Seagull]

Oof, this is a hard one.

I really struggle to pick a winner here.

 

[Mellotron]

@Simster will not be happy with the voting so far...

 

[Guinness Boy]

I've always been Father Ted for the whole thing, but this is a tough draw and no mistake. A cracker.

 

[Triggaaar]

@Simster will not be happy with the voting so far...

Is he that bothered about which show is runner-up?

 

[Weststander]

Fawlty Towers for me, I still laugh without having to see it, thinking of many scenes.

Father Ted was special too, my favourite episode was all the priests 'trapped' on the department store lingerie floor.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

A Fawlty Towers v. Only Fools final shirley?

I wouldn't want to pick a winner though.

 

[keaton]

I think a few Fawlty Towers episodes (Communication Problems) are among the best TV ever made. But every episode of Father Ted is brilliant and there's more of them ( and a Christmas special) so I vote for that

 

[Eeyore]

Original odds from November. The top shows in the betting were the last standing.

I'm becoming a bookie


Spaced 40/1
Peep Show 12/1
The League of Gentlemen 16/1
Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights 20/1
The Royle Family 10/1
Early Doors 100/1
The Office 7/1
Fawlty Towers 3/1
Father Ted 5/1
The Young Ones 20/1
Drop The Dead Donkey 16/1
The Detectorists 25/1
This Country 40/1
The Fast Show 12/1
Breeders 25/1
Inside Number 9 33/1
Psychoville 66/1
The Inbetweeners 25/1
The Day Today 100/1
Nathan Barley 100/1
The IT Crowd 16/1
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle 25/1
Not The 9 O'Clock News 14/1
Fleabag 33/1
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 40/1
Only Fools & Horses 5/1
Blackadder 8/1
I'm Alan Partridge 20/1
The Mighty Boosh 33/1
The Thick Of It 33/1
Red Dwarf 25/1
Porridge 10/1

 

[Mellotron]

Original odds from November. The top shows in the betting were the last standing.

I'm becoming a bookie


Spaced 40/1
Peep Show 12/1
The League of Gentlemen 16/1
Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights 20/1
The Royle Family 10/1
Early Doors 100/1
The Office 7/1
Fawlty Towers 3/1
Father Ted 5/1
The Young Ones 20/1
Drop The Dead Donkey 16/1
The Detectorists 25/1
This Country 40/1
The Fast Show 12/1
Breeders 25/1
Inside Number 9 33/1
Psychoville 66/1
The Inbetweeners 25/1
The Day Today 100/1
Nathan Barley 100/1
The IT Crowd 16/1
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle 25/1
Not The 9 O'Clock News 14/1
Fleabag 33/1
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 40/1
Only Fools & Horses 5/1
Blackadder 8/1
I'm Alan Partridge 20/1
The Mighty Boosh 33/1
The Thick Of It 33/1
Red Dwarf 25/1
Porridge 10/1

Decent predicting.

Porridge will be disappointed to go out so tamely.

 

[Eeyore]

Decent predicting.

Porridge will be disappointed to go out so tamely.

Drawn away to Blackadder in the Round of 16. Not a kind draw that.

 

[Badger]

Ah, go on. Father Ted.

I want a Ted vs Blackadder final.

 

[Mellotron]

Drawn away to Blackadder in the Round of 16. Not a kind draw that.

Even so, given it was 10/1 vs 8/1, it was a battering.

 

[Eeyore]

Even so, given it was 10/1 vs 8/1, it was a battering.

In the finest NSC tradition, Porridge supporters are blaming a biased referee and saying the voting was rigged.

 

[JJ McClure]

Father Ted was special too, my favourite episode was all the priests 'trapped' on the department store lingerie floor.

It's Ireland's biggest lingerie section, I understand