The Mainland (Father Ted) Ted and Dougal flee deeper into the caves and get lost. Dougal complains of being hungry, having missed breakfast, and starts hallucinating. As Ted tries to find their way out, they run into Father Noel Furlong and the St. Luke's Youth Group, who have been lost in the caves for two days. Noel's overly optimistic manner and boundless energy leads him into singing a song that causes a cave-in that traps Noel beneath it. The Youth Group immediately depart and plan to make their way to Paraguay. Ted and Dougal continue to seek a way out, and Ted finds that
Father Dougal McGuire "Only Fools and Horses". In another interview, they mentioned Latka Gravas from "Taxi" as an influence and compared the relationship between Ted and Dougal to that between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza: "Alongside the wily priest who would lie at the drop of a hat we wanted a gormless idiot who was the very model of innocence." For his portrayal of Dougal, O'Hanlon turned to Laurel and Hardy and "Fawlty Towers"s bumbling waiter Manuel. O'Hanlon also drew inspiration from his child sister, as well as dogs, explaining: "Dougal had to be more than just stupid. He had to be otherworldly