letter from Dick with a forfeit for cheating at the match. He is horrified to learn that he has to "kick Bishop Brennan up the arse". When Ted reads the forfeit out loud, Dougal faints from the shock, Mrs Doyle drops her teapot and Jack wakes up immediately. Continuity Dougal asks Ted if Jack might be "dead again", a reference to the series one episode "Grant unto Him Eternal Rest". Cultural references The title is a pun on the football movie Escape to Victory, about a football game played between prisoners of war and their guards in World War II. The frantic searching for bugs by Ted is stated by the writers in their scripts' book to be an allusion to the ending of the film The Conversation. Ted's angry ranting as a football manager is resemblant of three 1990s British documentaries about football: Cutting Edges An Impossible Job (1994) about Graham Taylor and England; Orient for a Fiver (1995), about John Sitton (and, to a much lesser extent, Chris Turner) and Leyton Orient; and Premier Passions (1998), about Peter Reid and Sunderland. All three of these documentaries contained a lot of swearing, from football managers leading struggling teams. The line "for missing the target from there you need shooting" is a direct quote from a piece of film featuring Brian Clough Dougal refers to Benito Mussolini, saying: "You remember that fella, who was so good at fashion, they had to shoot him?". A common misinterpretation is that the joke was referring to Gianni Versace who was shot the year before the episode aired — but the joke is actually that Father Dougal mixes up fashion and fascism. External links "Escape from Victory" on the IMDB Father Ted episodes 1998 British television episodes Association football on television