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Vicars are inherently funny. British vicars are generally portrayed as docile and gentle elderly chaps, with white hair and little glasses and ever so prim and prissy ways that epitomize British Stuffiness. They take afternoon tea ("more tea, vicar?"), have a tendency to be a bit liberal with the altar wine and don't believe that anything remotely sexual happens ever, despite the fact that Church of England vicars are allowed to marry. So, to be caught in flagrante delicto—or even mistaken for being so—by the vicar is, of course, the second funniest thing ever. Catching the vicar in the act is the only thing funnier. The opposite of this, now largely a Forgotten Trope due to the decline of the social prestige of the Church, is the Sexy Vicar who appears mainly in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century works. He is young, handsome and idealistic, and often the romantic target of the heroine. He will usually be entirely aware of the lust he arouses in his female congregation, but attempt to deal with things by ignoring it and scrupulously avoiding even the appearance of having favourites. He will eventually fall in love with the heroine, but will still be self-denyingly concerned that she is attracted to him for himself rather than for the glamour of his office, and ready for the tougher aspects of being a clergy wife. A more recent trope is the "trendy" vicar, who is younger, and probably plays the guitar, but is really just as clueless, especially when it comes to attracting young people to the church. Expect them to make air quotes while using thirty-year-old slang. For those of you who are non-Brits: Vicar is a term used to refer to a parish priest of the Anglican Church. This is the official established religion of England, a faith that was designed — long, long story — to be Catholicism without the Papal allegiance. Eventually, other aspects of Protestantism immigrated over. Thus the clergy of the Church of England are often called "priests" and dress as such, but nevertheless are free to marry like Protestant ministers. The word "vicar" technically just means "deputy"; one of the Pope's titles is "Vicar of Christ," for instance. In the Middle Ages, the word 'rector' meant the person that had the right to collect the income of the parish (known as the 'living'), but this could be a bishop, a canon, an abbey, or a pluralist rector with multiple livings. The 'rector' would hire a deputy, the vicar, who was a priest who did the actual work that we associate with ministers and priests. So folks got into the habit of using the term 'vicar' to refer to any 'working priest,'note the officially 'done thing' is to call the rector 'vicar' in a parish that traditionally had one, which means the rich important ones that were formerly attractive to pluralist prelates. So, in one of the strange inversions of which British custom is so fond, the originally lower title of 'vicar' is now used by the rectors of the richer and more important parishes. even though today most 'vicars' are really 'rectors'. Since 1992, women have been able to become vicars. The first woman vicar in England was appointed (despite some serious strugglesnote Which reemerged in the 2010's when female Bishops began to be considered.) in 1994. However, female clergy have been ordained in the Anglican communion worldwide for some time, the first in 1944 in Hong Kong.note There was a substantial break after that, with the next jurisdiction of significance—the Episcopal Church of the United States—adopting the ordination of women in 1976. However, the American Episcopal Church has, ever since the acceptance of the ordination of women, accepted the election of women as bishops, and elected the first female primate—essentially Chief Archbishop of the whole country—in 2006. In Bonnie Scotland, they will be replaced by the Minister of the local Church of Scotlandnote The established national Church, of which Charles III is only a member, rather than leader, as he is with the C of E congregation, who is often portrayed as dour and grim, and generally the opposite of their prim English counterparts. He will frequently be from the isles. It is usually used in a religious context, but not always; a memorable exception is E.R. Eddison's Mistress of Mistresses, starring an Evil Chancellor known only as The Vicar. See Nuns Are Mikos, Naughty Nuns, Sexy Priest, and Nun Too Holy for other "subversions" of traditional Catholic clergy. In terms of rank, the Authority Tropes arguably equal are Badass Preacher, Corrupt Corporate Executive, Good Shepherd, Irish Priest, Preacher Man, Pedophile Priest, Schoolteachers, Sexy Priest, and Sinister Minister. For the next step down, see Student Council President. For the next step up, see Dean Bitterman. |
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Subverted also in Paul Whicker, the Tall Vicar in early issues of Viz. He's a a violent, dishonest, hard-drinking, lecherous, foul-mouthed hypocrite who has very little time for the usual Church activities. | |
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Lesbian Vampire Killers features a typical English vicar who attempts to be a Badass Preacher. | |
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The original Survivors did a Day in the Limelight episode about a man deciding to resume his pre-apocalyptic duties as a Vicar. Then in a Shoot the Shaggy Dog moment, a couple of episodes later he is casually murdered by a thug. | |
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The Vicar of Dibley is a highly noticeable subversion of this character type; the overturning of the stereotype being the main premise of the comedy. The vicar is not just a (gasp) woman, but a self-described "babe with a bob cut and a magnificent bosom". She's worldly-wise and boisterous with an earthy sense of humor, about as far from prim or stuffy as you can imagine. Naturally this requires a bit of adjusting for the quirky townsfolk. | |
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In Are You Being Served? he is never seen but often mentioned when Mr Humphries is speaking with his mother. | |
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Pictured is the Vicar of Wellsworth from Thomas & Friends who is featured in some episodes. The Railway Series writer Wilbert Awdry himself was a reverend (and often signed himself "The Rev. W. Awdry" on the books). | |
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Inverted in Bloodborne, Vicar Amelia and Laurence, The First Vicar are both downright terrible beasts. | |
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Sterotypical vicars are often used as one-off characters in The Beano, with them always ending up getting menaced or minxed by one of the comic's main characters. | |
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The Rector in To the Manor Born, the perfect archetypal vicar. | |
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The Missionary unit from the Dawn of War: Steel Legion mod seems to be a bizarre hybrid of this trope and Church Militant. | |
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Reverend John Witherspoon is portrayed this way in 1776 (though he was Presbyterian, not Anglican). He's noticeably polite and courteous, and rather shocked when one of Washington's dispatches describes a plague of whoring, drinking, and venereal disease in New Brunswick. | |
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Keeping Mum is Rowan Atkinson being this. | |
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Averted in Broadchurch. Reverend Paul Coates is a 30-something guy who is up on the times and teaches computers at the local school. He's also played by Arthur Darvill, so he might turn a head or two. | |
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Subverted in Father Spikes, a comic strip which circulated in various British "adult humour" publications during the 1990s. He appeared in a memorable send-up of The Exorcist, where he was more vile than the demon. | |
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The "Nice Little Vicar" terrorised by Fungus in Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs. A footnote explains that bogeys resent Vicars for conflating them with devils. | |
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles: Because Fotheringay cannot decide on how to use his newfound powers, he contacts Mr. Maydig, the local vicar. The vicar thinks up a plan to bring about a Golden Age and have Fotheringay abolish famine, plague, war and poverty—and, while they're at it, the British ruling class. | |
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Hot Fuzz has Reverend Shooter, who fully fits this trope, and exists to establish early on that Nicholas Angel is agnostic (but at least not atheist). He turns out to be a vicious killer, just like every other authority figure in the town. Being played by Belloq / Ivan Ooze might have been a giveaway. | |
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Tom Hereward (technically a curate) in Call the Midwife is a transitional form between the earlier "Sexy Vicar" and the later "Trendy Vicar". A young man of the cloth, he can, because it's the late '50s, be both as alluring as his natural handsomeness makes him and be actually "cool"—as evidenced by his relationship with the emphatically modern Trixie. | |
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Sidney Chambers, the main character on Grantchester, is a vicar who's become bored with life as a small town minister and starts solving murder mysteries to help pass the time. Unusually for such a character, the show also explores his personal life and depicts Sidney as sexually active, albeit frustrated at how his social standing limits his options in such endeavours. | |
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The Outer Worlds has Vicar Max, who belongs to the "Scientism" religion, a corporate religion meant to enforce docility and contentment within one's means. Max himself is at first a deeply frustrated man hiding behind the mask of a well-spoken religious leader whose personal storyline involves attempting to find meaning in his life according to the scripture he follows. This ultimately culminates in a hallucinogenics-induced vision that can potentially lead to him finding peace by embracing the present rather than finding a goal. | |
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Foyle's War - "Eagle Day". Samantha Stewart's father is a vicar (along with all her uncles) who is not happy about his daughter being in uniform and away from his protective gaze. However some of his concerns about women in the services being abused are shown to be justified in that episode. | |
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Andy Capp has one of these as a recurring character. | |
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The Rev. Playfair in The Quiet Man is a semi-subversion, in that he's a former lightweight champion boxer and still follows the sport avidly. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie did several sketches involving Church of England clergy, including the famous "Light Metal" sketch, featuring "The Bishop and the Warlord." With Stephen Fry as the Bishop reciting metal lyrics in a fashion describable only as "Stephen Fry as a vicar". | |
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An archetypal example is the Reverend Timothy Farthing in Dad's Army. The actor who played him, Frank Williams, also got to play him in the 2016 film adaptation, in addition to which he played a bishop in You Rang, M'Lord? note In Real Life, Frank Williams was a regular churchgoer who served as a lay member of the General Synod (the Church of England's legislative body) for many years. | |
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In a sketch in Not the Nine O'Clock News, Mel Smith plays a classic trendy young vicar with one eye on TV exposure, who argues that Satanism is wholly compatible with the Anglican Church and who expresses a hope that Satanists will one day be welcome in the Church family. He wonders if Christianity might have misjudged Satan and considers it's time for a re-evaluation of Church doctrines on the lord of all Evil. | |
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In Curse of the Crimson Altar, Eve rouses the local vicar in the middle of the night to comb through parish records. The very pleasant vicar helps her do this and turns up the information she needs, breaking the mystery wide up. He later unknowingly saves the day by making a phone call to Professor Walsh. | |
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In The Ghoul, Nigel Hartley presents himself as a bicycle riding country parson, who accuses Morlant of paganism and fears for the fate of his soul. However, it actually turns out to be a case of Bad Habits. | |
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The Nightside has a rogue vicarage, to do good among the evildoers. Originally Pew was the rogue vicar; Just Another Judgement Day introduces his replacement. She lives in a wholesome cottage whose windows show fields of wildflowers instead of the dark, grimy buildings of the Nightside, and she serves tea and biscuits while making polite conversation. She's also the daughter of a famous prostitute/assassin and has a demon for a live-in lesbian lover. | |
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The affable but woolly-minded Reverend Bishop, who gets roped into the show-within-the-show in The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Operatic Society's Production of The Mikado. | |
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In The Men from the Ministry the Vicar of One's hometown is mentioned frequently, with Lennox-Brown often participating in Noodle Incidents as they attempt to fix a hole in the roof of the village church. | |
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Michael from Keeping Up Appearances is a classic subversion. A young, handsome, well-adjusted man with an attractive wife, he is nevertheless in perpetual fear of Hyacinth—who keeps trying to strong-arm him into attending her innumerable social functions—and her sister Rose—the past-her-prime village bicycle who rather fancies the young, hot vicar. None of the other characters are remotely concerned about being caught mid-coitus, as many of the women besides Rose are attempting to get him into their own beds. His relationship with his wife makes it clear that sex itself doesn't unnerve him - he's just terrified of predatory women (while his wife finds it highly amusing). | |
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The Princess Bride contains a vewwy memowwable one played by Peter Cook. | |
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Reverend Hedges in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Basically a broad parody of this trope as applied specifically to early UK horror films. Albeit that doesn't exactly explain the "Nun Wrestling" magazine on his desk... | |
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Reverend Timms from Postman Pat who regularly quotes The Bible. | |
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The Laundry Files: Bob's brother-in-law Pete is fairly unique in not really fitting either of the stereotypes, being a pretty normal guy who just happens to work in a church. Bob (who knows very well that the gods of his world are of a different sort than Pete's) is dismissive of Christianity in general, but respects his brother-in-law for being a decent chap who does his best to be a Good Shepherd. Later in the series, Pete joins the Laundry, where his theological knowledge becomes a boon for the people tracking Apocalypse Cults, and the fact that he has both the training and the clearance needed to help people deal with seeing and doing Things Man Was Not Meant to Know make him a godsend for nearly everyone in the Laundry. | |
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Doctor Who: The Reverend Magister in "The Dæmons" is another matter entirely... "The Curse of Fenric" is a rare example of a Vicar character played straight and given genuine character development. "The Unicorn and the Wasp", being an Agatha Christie spoof (with Christie as a character) of course features a vicar. He's the killer, and an alien to boot. |
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In I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, the unnamed priest initially appears to be an ineffectual and camp stereotype, but reveals himself as a badass demon-slayer when he realises that he's facing a real supernatural evil. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus, of course, had the "Dirty Vicar", "Loony Vicar", wine merchant vicar, the black market vicar, failed action hero "The Bishop", the Church Police, the school Pastor delivering an incomprehensible sermon in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and the Bishop of Leicester sponsoring Treadmill Lager on a Python record. The church seems to have been a favourite target for the Pythons. | |
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Rev. is a comedy set in an inner London parish, so for once (OK, for twice) The Vicar is the main character. As a result it subverts a lot of the usual tropes, with Rev. Adam Smallbone being a youngish, married, ordinary modern bloke who tries to be the Good Shepherd but doesn't always have his heart entirely in it. | |
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In Wylder's Hand, the local vicar, the Reverend William Wylder (younger brother of the title character), is a humble and pious man with the happiest family life of anyone in the novel. | |
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Long before Dibley, a sketch on French and Saunders hung a lampshade on the trope when Dawn French announced she was to be the first female comedy vicar. Her "kit" included thick glasses, false buck teeth, an unflattering wig, etc. The outfit referred to was a clear reference to the comedy vicar played in the 1970s by Dick Emery. | |
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English punk band Toy Dolls makes fun of a vicar in their songs "Bless You, My Son" and "My Girlfriend's Dad Is A Vicar". | |
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The Sandman (1989): In the Hob Gadling arc, the story starts with the Orphaned Punchline "Hunting for rabbits again, friar?" At the end (several hundred years later, with almost the same dialogue), the friar is replaced with a vicar. | |
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Hellblazer: Entertainingly subverted, as Rick the Vic looks the part; quiet, neatly dressed and wearing half-moon glasses. However, he deals in blasphemous "foreskin bibles", collects "angel spunk" for unspecified reasons, does cocaine, laughs up his sleeve at the scriptures, fornicates in the vestry, is best friend of Violent Glaswegian Header, and on one occasion — and because of "a bet with the Pope" — asks his congregation to join in worship with a really bizarre group of Satanists, and STILL would've gone to heaven if he hadn't shot himself instead of facing Satan himself... | |
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Yorick of Tristram Shandy is the parson of a rural parish somewhere north of the Trent and close friends with the local squire, Tristram's father. | |
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Graham Oakley's The Church Mice series of children's books feature the peace-loving church cat Sampson and his flock of mice who tend to the church. They are given free rein by the kindly vicar who features prominently. The Church Mice at Bay sees the vicar go on holiday at which point he's replaced by a curate who fits the "Trendy Vicar" mould, right down to having hippies redecorate the vestry with rock'n'roll angels. The thrust of the book is Sampson and the mice plotting elaborate ways to get rid of him. |
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The Authority: The Hard Gay, sociopathic Midnighter ends up as one in one issue, while fighting a British reality altering villain. | |
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The affable Rev. Stephen Wentworth (played by Richard Briers) in the Midsomer Murders episode Death's Shadow embodies this trope down to a tee, although it turns out he is responsible for the brutal murders of several of his parishioners, to avenge the accidental death of the illegitimate son he fathered in a passionate affair with a young post office worker forty years previously. In fact, entering the clergy in Midsomer is generally equivalent to a death wish. If you're a vicar, and you appear in a substantial role other than at a wedding or a funeral, you're probably not going to finish writing that sermon. If you do, chances are you'll be unmasked as the killer before you get chance to preach it. | |
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Sherlock Holmes once went undercover as a vicar with an air of amiable cluelessness. A vicar also shows up in a later story, but this one is extremely rude and wants nothing to do with Watson and the Victim of the Week (for good reason: Holmes only sent the pair off to be able to find evidence that the "victim" was the murderer). | |
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The vicar in Deadly Advice has a habit of preaching sermons especially apposite of Jodie and Beth's situation without realizing it. | |
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A Vicar appears in the classic serial Quatermass and the Pit, but he's played straight as a decent man of the cloth confronted by forces which he can't begin to understand. | |
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