New Jack City (Father Ted) New Jack City (Father Ted) "New Jack City" is the ninth episode of the second series of the Channel 4 television sitcom "Father Ted". At the inaugural Ted Fest in February 2007, it was voted the best "Father Ted" episode. Father Jack contracts "Hairy Hands Syndrome" (level 6 out of a maximum 12) and is sent to St. Clabbert's Hospital for wayward priests (jokingly named "Jurassic Park" by the Clergymen of Craggy Island, after the film of the same title). A new priest replaces Jack while he is on leave: Father Fintan Stack, an obnoxious, rude and destructive priest, who
Father Ted Crilly Geoffrey Perkins asked Linehan and Mathews to discard the mockumentary format and expand the Father Ted episode to a traditional sitcom. Linehan found the character of Ted easier to write if he imagined Mathews's version delivering the lines. "Every time I wrote Ted in the early days, I'd hear Arthur's voice... Ted was this very bland character who'd never curse except for saying a very quiet 'feck' to himself. That panic and turmoil under the surface defined Ted before we even started writing him. Years later, when we did, it was just like pressing 'play' on a tape recorder." One