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Look out there Mary! Doesn't Mary have a lovely bottom?
— Father Ted • 1995
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Ted's mistake is saying aloud what a priest should never even think, and the horrified recovery that follows is classic Ted: panic, then a hasty cover-up. It endures as a quotable for any gaffe made into a live microphone, and as the emblem of the Lovely Girls contest.
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In context
Spoilers for Father TedShow the scene
In "Rock-a-Hula Ted" (Father Ted, series 2, 1996), Ted is a judge at the Lovely Girls Festival, a parody of the Rose of Tralee, held in a tent on Craggy Island. The contestants parade round traffic cones for the walking round, and Ted, compering into the microphone, picks out one girl by name and remarks on her bottom. Father Liam hurries over to warn him he might offend the girls, and Ted covers by saying they all have lovely ones. Later Liam shows him a newspaper headline about it.
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- Wikiquote: Father Tedsection: Rock-a-Hula TedReference checked
- Father Ted Wiki: Rock-a-Hula TedStory and TriviaReference checked
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