Trivia / Father Ted S 3 E 5 Escape From Victory

• Defictionalization: The "All Priests Over-75 Indoor Football Challenge Match" is played each year between inhabitants of two islands which lay claim to being the real-world inspiration for Craggy Island. (Although the participants are neither priests nor over 75, and the match is not played indoors.)
• What Could Have Been: In the version printed in the scripts book, the episode ends not only with Ted's cheating being exposed, but it being revealed that Dick Byrne had bribed the Craggy Island team to throw the match (which they forgot to actually do, thanks to their advanced ages). The two are forced to undergo each other's forfeits, and Dick actually has to go through with kissing Cyril... which he does in a nonchalant way that suggests he (and possibly also Cyril) is actually a closeted Straight Gay. This then leads into the cliffhanger ending and Ted being told he has to kick Bishop Brennan up the arse — which in this version was Dick's forfeit from the off, instead of him doing it as a response to Ted's cheating.

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