 Jack does not have a single line in this episode, though he does have a memorable moment when he reacts to the initial performance of "My Lovely Horse" by blasting Ted's guitar to pieces with a sawn-off shotgun.Steve Coogan was intended to play "compère" Fred Rickwood, but could not make it, so Irish comic Jon Kenny stepped in.Kenny had appeared in "Father Ted" previously, as Michael the cinema owner in "The Passion of St Tibulus".