New Jack City (Father Ted)

"New Jack City" was the 9th episode of the second series of the Channel 4 television sitcom Father Ted. The episode was named after the film New Jack City.

At the inaugural Ted Fest in February 2007, it was voted the best Father Ted episode.

Synopsis

Father Jack contracts "Hairy Hands Syndrome" and is sent to a hospital for elderly priests (jokingly named "Jurassic Park" by the Clergymen of Craggy Island, after the film of the same title).

To replace Jack while he is on leave is a new priest, Father Fintan Stack, a very 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 (Ted labels him "worse than Hitler", because "you wouldn't find Hitler playing 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.

Trivia

• Fr. Stack listens to "Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb (Dj SS Remix)" by Marvellous Cain (the first tune he plays after announcing "I want to listen to some music") and "The Way" by DJ Taktix (when he is dancing alone in the living room and being offered tea by Mrs. Doyle.)
• Mrs. Doyle parodies the opening scene of the 1967 documentary film by D.A. Pennebaker "Dont Look Back" that principally covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour of the United Kingdom.

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