Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse Arthur Mathews, named "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse" as their favourite episode in a documentary aired during Channel 4's "Father Ted Night"; "Speed 3" was chosen by a vote on the Channel 4 website. Ted is extremely worried about the forfeit, and is convinced that Bishop Brennan will send him to a parish even worse than Craggy Island after he kicks him "up the arse". Dick Byrne has insisted that Father Dougal take a photograph as proof; he also calls Brennan, saying that his likeness has miraculously appeared in the skirting board of the Craggy Island parochial house; the
Father Ted Crilly attempts to remake the show for American audiences. In 2004, Steve Martin was reported to have signed on to play Ted in a new version. In 2007, John Michael Higgins was cast in the part. No remake has yet entered production. Considered his family's "idiot brother", Ted was sent off to the priesthood while his brother, the favourite son, became a doctor, as was the custom at the time. Ted attended Saint Colm's seminary, and was bullied by the other novices, who nicknamed him Father Fluffybottom after seeing his backside in the showers. Some time after being ordained, he was