New Jack City (Father Ted)

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“New Jack City”
Father Ted episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 10
Guest stars	Gerard McSorley (" Fr. Todd Unctious"), Tony Guilfoyle (Fr. Larry Duff)
Written by	Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews
Directed by	Andy DeEmmony, Declan Lowney
Original airdate	3 May, 1996
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"New Jack City" was the 10th episode of the second season of the Channel 4 television sitcom Father Ted. It was named after the film New Jack City. At the inaugural Ted Fest in February 2007, it was voted the best Father Ted episode.

[edit] Synopsis

Father Jack contracts "Hairy Hands Syndrome" and is sent to a hospital for elderly priests (Called jokingly by the Clergymen of Craggy Island "Jurassic Park" after the film of the same title). To replace Jack while he is on leave is a new priest, Father Fintan Stack, a very incredibly obnoxious, rude and destructive priest, who torments Ted and Dougal, Jack's former house-mates. Stack's torments include deliberately driving Ted's car into a wall and then telling him all about it, drilling holes in the living room drywall for no particular reason and blasting Jungle Music at three in the morning (This labels him, in Ted's book, to be "worse than Hitler", as "Hitler didn't play jungle music at three in the morning"). Fed up with him, Ted and Dougal kidnap Father Jack back from Jurassic Park. Jack, upon returning to Craggy Island's parochial house, finds Father Stack in his beloved drink hoard. This angers Jack to do what are presumably terrible things to Stack, however he is stopped from taking his revenge when both Ted and Jack notice that Stack has caught the "Hairy Hands Syndrome". Stack is sent to the same hospital Jack was in, and everything returns to normal.

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New Jack City at IMDB

Father Ted
Characters
Main characters: Father Ted Crilly \| Father Dougal McGuire \| Father Jack Hackett \| Mrs. Doyle Minor and recurring characters: Bishop Brennan \| Father Noel Furlong \| Father Larry Duff \| Father Fintan Stack \| Eoin McLove
Episodes
Series 1: Good Luck, Father Ted \| Entertaining Father Stone \| The Passion of St Tibulus \| Competition Time \| And God Created Woman \| Grant unto Him Eternal Rest Series 2: Hell \| Think Fast, Father Ted \| Tentacles of Doom \| The Old Grey Whistle Theft \| Song for Europe \| The Plague \| Rock-a-Hula Ted \| Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading \| New Jack City \| Flight into Terror Christmas special: A Christmassy Ted Series 3: Are You Right There, Father Ted? \| Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep \| Speed 3 \| The Mainland \| Escape from Victory \| Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse \| Night of the Nearly Dead \| Going to America
Cast & Crew
Main cast: Dermot Morgan \| Ardal O'Hanlon \| Frank Kelly \| Pauline McLynn \| Main crew: Arthur Mathews \| Graham Linehan Recurring cast: Jim Norton \| Graham Norton \| Tony Guilfoyle \| Pat Shortt Minor Appearances: Brendan Grace \| Patrick McDonnell \| Jon Kenny \| Tommy Tiernan \| Joe Rooney \| Ed Byrne \| Gerard McSorley \| Clare Grogan \| Jason Byrne \| Barry Murphy
Other & Related Pages
Craggy Island \| Rugged Island \| "My Lovely Horse" \| Feck \| Ted Fest