A Song for Europe (Father Ted) ultimately cut down to just long enough for people familiar with the out-take to get the reference. Ted mentions "Icy-Tea" and "Scoopy Scoopy Dog Dog" meaning Ice-T and Snoop Doggy Dogg. The tragic story of Nin Huguen and the Huguenotes' deaths in a plane crash could be a reference to similar events with past musician artists such as the "Day the Music Died" (deaths of The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, and Ritchie Valens) and the loss of multiple members of Lynyrd Skynyrd in the 1977 Convair CV-240 crash. Ted mentions that there was a priest named Father Benny Cake who
Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede is a 1991 comedic science fiction novel by Bradley Denton. It won the 1992 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Oliver Vale was conceived on February 3, 1959, the day that iconic rock & roll singer Buddy Holly died. Exactly thirty years later, Buddy Holly appears on every television set in the world, on every channel. Holly states that he is being held on Ganymede, and that Oliver Vale is to be contacted for assistance. He then begins performing. As