Father Ted episode comes with 'trigger warning' on Channel 4 streaming service

Father Ted now comes with a trigger warning.

Channel 4's streaming service has placed a guidance note before the 1998 episode, Are You Right There, Father Ted?

The episode includes a sequence where Father Ted, played by Dermot Morgan, appears to mock Chinese people by wearing a lampshade on his head.

Later in the episode the priest looks like Hitler thanks to some furious arm gestures and a perfect square of dirt on the window.

The misunderstanding sees Ted spend the rest of the episode trying to convince people in his Craggy Island parish he was not “a bit of a racist”.

However, the plot point was found to be potentially offensive by Channel 4’s streaming service, with a note to viewers reading: “This episode was made in 1998 and contains language and racial impersonation which some viewers may find offensive.”