I Think a Lot of It Is Tied Up with Food Somehow (Religion on TV)

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Was just randomly thinking how four of my favourite TV shows--no doubt there were/are others--had Fathers and Pastors in occasional but sometimes important roles. I listed the one thing about each character you're most likely to remember. Who was the most interesting?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Pastor Tim (The Americans) - tried to save Paige	5
Father Jack (Six Feet Under) - closeted	2
Father Phil (Sopranos) - weird flirtation with Carmela	1
Father Gill (Mad Men) - tried to save Peggy	0

― clemenza, Thursday, 26 May 2022 00:45 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTNA6U13rNY

― clemenza, Thursday, 26 May 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnHDum8sG4o

― clemenza, Thursday, 26 May 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFKEdLhJImU

― clemenza, Thursday, 26 May 2022 00:49 (two years ago) link

Only a couple of Father Jack clips of him presiding over funerals.

― clemenza, Thursday, 26 May 2022 00:52 (two years ago) link

I mean when you say Father Jack I immediately think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI-WRb2u4po

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 May 2022 02:24 (two years ago) link

Voting for Pastor Tim, but that's at least in part because the same actor played "Dollar" Bill on Billions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2HUdyG5300

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 26 May 2022 02:28 (two years ago) link

Is Father Jack the one that David and Keith ran into as he was renting Back to the Crack?

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 May 2022 03:02 (two years ago) link

That was him. I think that came after an episode where David (almost laughingly) confronted him about being closeted, and Father Jack insisted he wasn't gay.

― clemenza, Thursday, 26 May 2022 03:21 (two years ago) link

Paul Schulze, the guy who plays Father Phil, showed up in an episode of Mad Men as the drifter who explained the Hobo Code to young Dick Whitman.

― clemenza, Sunday, 29 May 2022 02:38 (two years ago) link

Keep thinking thread title is a misquote from “Workin Class Hero.”

― The Code of the Wilburys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 May 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link

Working Class Hero Sandwich

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 May 2022 03:15 (two years ago) link

Two votes will take this, so I'm going for Pastor Tim, whose involvement with Paige produced the most intense drama among the four. The scene where Phillip and Elizabeth look excerpts from the Pastor's diary in the darkroom was one of the series' greatest.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link

"look at"

― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link

Other than the clip above, Father Gill was just kind of annoying. In what I think is his final appearance, Peggy gracefully walks all over his self-righteousness.

― clemenza, Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link

Obvious, but I don't think I'd ever noticed this before: in the JFK episode, you see an Aqua-Net storyboard near the end, and it looks just like the Zapruder film.

― clemenza, Thursday, 2 June 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link

Wrong thread.

― clemenza, Thursday, 2 June 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link

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