Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest his body works differently from other people". The executives were bemused by an incomplete story where one of the main characters was dead, but commissioned the series soon after receiving the full script. In retrospect, Linehan and Mathews noticed that the plot was very similar to that of the "Fawlty Towers" episode "The Kipper and the Corpse". Despite being fans of the show, they only noticed the parallels afterwards, and would likely have abandoned the episode if they had seen them earlier. Kevin Sharkey, who plays the black Donegal priest, was a friend of the writers', and was brought in
Kipper months of the year. The sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy use the term "kippers" as a slang for members of the Royal Navy. The term "kippering" is used in slang to mean being immersed in a room filled with cigarette or other tobacco smoke. In recent years "Kipper" has become a nickname for a member of the British political party UKIP. In the popular children's books The Railway Series, and in the television show Thomas the Tank Engine and friends, The Flying Kipper is a nickname for a fast fish train usually pulled by Henry the Green Engine. This