Apparently, there is more to Ted's original dream than mere romantic fantasy, as he confesses the next day that he is dissatisfied with his current station in life, feeling that he does not receive enough recognition or excitement.

As they try to find the exit, they run into six other priests and Ted ultimately leads their escape in an unusually heroic fashion, parodying the style of troops in typical war movies.

He uses the speaker system to tell shoppers that the store is about to close, forcing them out so that the eight priests cannot be spotted by women during their escape, which they successfully complete.

He returns to find that, in his absence, Mrs Doyle has allowed Dougal to perform a funeral he was meant to do, with predictably disastrous consequences.

Meanwhile, Ted composes a vindictive acceptance speech for the award ceremony, pouncing on his chance to get back at everyone who has "fecked him over" in the past.

Andy Riley, who previously collaborated with Linehan and Mathews, is one of the names mentioned, along with Neil Hannon, in Mrs Doyle's guessing game.

In 2013, Riley noted the scene's similarity to a passage in Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, where the protagonist attempts to guess the name of the person who previously held his soul.

Riley also suggests that this passage is inspired by the early Irish myth Togail Bruidne Dá Derga, where the hero Conair asks for a woman's name, only for her to list dozens.