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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace	comment	In the mid 1980s, prolific horror writer Garth Marenghi created a television series so horrifying that it was not until 2004 that it was deemed safe for general release to the British public. The show focuses on Darkplace Hospital in Romford, East London, which is apparently built over the very Gates of Hell. To be more accurate, the show is about Dr. Rick Dagless, M.D (played by Marenghi himself), who is the best doctor in the world ever, as well as a crack shot, action hero, and master warlock. Dr. Rick Dagless, M.D. and (to a lesser extent) his friends and co-workers are the only hope the planet has against the various evils that rise up in Darkplace Hospital, including mutant eye-babies, angry telekinetic women, and of course, Scotsmen.... okay, so that's not actually true. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a straight-faced spoof of B-Movie horror works and the whole idea of the Cult Classic. Its true origins are Cambridge Footlights alumni Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade's low-budget comedy horror Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight (2000) and Garth Marenghi's Netherhead (2001), in which Holness and Ayoade starred alongside fellow Cambridge graduate Alice Lowe in a parody of self-important horror writers and their work, with Holness as fictional writer Garth Marenghi and Ayoade as his partner in crime (in several senses), Dean Learner. Holness and Ayoade reprised their roles in the TV series alongside Lowe as Madeleine Wool and Matt Berry as Todd Rivers.The series is a rare example of an entire show deliberately composed of Stylistic Suck tropes, featuring terrible acting and dialogue, cheesy plots with Anvilicious and dubious morals (including Attack of the Killer Whatever), many a Special Effect Failure, and atrocious camerawork, editing, and audio mixing. Along with the "original footage", each episode is accompanied by present-day interviews with Marenghi and his co-stars, who cluelessly praise the Show Within a Show as ahead of its time, and offer insights into its production and (rather warped) meaning.In the UK the series ran on Channel Four. In America, the series first ran on the Sci-Fi Channel, then moved to [adult swim]. Currently can be seen on Prime Video and Peacock.The character of Garth Marenghi has been further spun off twice: The first is a series of books (Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome and Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat) purportedly written by Marenghi. The second is the series Man to Man with Dean Learner, which centers on Dean Leaner and has a special appearance of Marenghi in the first episode.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_108ad6d8	comment	Spiking the Camera: Happens from time to time with untrained cast members like the kids or Dean Learner.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_10f35f3a	type	Creator Breakdown
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_10f35f3a	comment	Creator Breakdown: In-universe, Garth lets his personal life and issues inform the scripts more than he perhaps should.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Garth Marenghi is like a cross between Stephen King (King's attempts at filmmaking in particular), Guy N. Smith, James Herbert and a few other horror writers.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: Reed consistently addresses the three main doctors as "Gentlemen and Liz".
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_15078c47	comment	Sniff Sniff Nom: Rick tastes the substance that was left behind at the crime scene in the forest. It turns out to be porridge pointing Rick into the direction of the Scotch Mist.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish: The Padre. "Dios Mio!"
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_1721f0f3	comment	Coitus Ensues: Between the doomed patient and nurse in "Scotch Mist" right before the Scotch kill them.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: While the show interviews give us a glimpse of what the production of Darkplace looked like, the supplemental interviews and commentary add more pieces to the puzzle, such as explaining that the production started with thirty extras and ended with seven because Dean ran out of money to pay them.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Garth states that the show was rejected by Channel 4 due to it being too intense and put it on due to an "artistic drought". Once you see Darkplace, it's implied that Channel 4 rejected the show due to quality, or lack thereof and they aired it as either filler or as a lark.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_1afa73e8	comment	Angels Pose: A promo shot (currently the page image) shows the male cast doing this pose. Liz is also in the shot somewhere.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Stephen Merchant (of Extras and The Office) works in the hospital cafeteria. The Padre is played by Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh fame. Noel Fielding also cameos as an ape in the monkey episode.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: As part of Rick's narration at the start of "Skipper the Eyechild", he acknowledges the fact that said child was given birth to by a man, only to then basically break character entirely as Garth openly states they aren't going to explain: On the DVD commentaries, Todd remarks on the Avalon Vanity Plate and wonders why he never had any interaction with the real-world production company (Dean Learner produced the show in-universe).
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: "That's strange. That cat just told me to leave." The cat is obviously voiced by Matt Berry. Of all the cast, he has the funniest voice.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_20b5cce7	comment	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Spoofed as the credits list the opening tune as being "based on melodies whistled by Garth Marenghi". "One Track Lover", an original song from the broccoli episode, is a straight example, sung by Matt Berry.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_21586e8c	comment	Padding: In-universe. Dean Learner states that so much slow-motion footage was used because the episodes often ran several minutes short and had to be padded out somehow, so "any scene without dialogue was considered for slow-mo". The fact that most of the dialogue is delivered in a rushed garble probably explains why each episode winds up short.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: When Dagless and Reed are discussing the notion of telekinesis over the phone, Liz is literally standing right in front of Reed, using said power with various objects floating near her. Reed doesn't even mention this to Dagless, instead just mentioning that "she's got a face like the proverbial" and she's probably on her period. Reed only figures it out when she gets even more blatant about it and boxes him into the corner of the room with his own desk. Nobody notices that the water in all the coolers is vivid green in "Apes of Wrath."
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: As with many tropes, parodied to hell and back.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_22f5d1b9	type	Some of My Best Friends Are X
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_22f5d1b9	comment	Some of My Best Friends Are X: Rick's half-arsed apology to the Scottish spirits in "Scotch Mist" involves insisting that some of his best colleagues have visited Glasgow once or twice during the day and said they'd had a good time.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_243c8078	comment	Spontaneous Human Combustion: Rick Dagless's old college buddy spontaneously explodes (though his head survives long enough to ask Rick to finish him off); in the commentary, Dean Learner mentions that while filming the scene it was clear to everyone that "someone close to Garth had exploded" in real life.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: At Renwick's funeral, his mother jumps in the way when Rick tries to shoot the undead corpse. Rick doesn't hesitate to gun her down in order to get to Renwick.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Watch closely near the end of the first episode and you'll see a fake gravestone next to Rick and Thornton wobble from the wind. Shortly after, as Rick is walking away, one can see Thornton groping Liz's behind while "comforting" her. At several points you can see extras in the background moving or standing in amusingly stiff ways in order to hit their marks.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_287083f7	comment	Power Floats: Liz, at the height of her anger induced telekinetic tantrum. This meant Dag could see up her skirt, and when he tells her to 'hide her shame' he gets an extinguisher in the face for it.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_2982798c	comment	Short Runner: Only one series of six episodes was made, and it wasn't renewed due to low ratings, though it did receive a spinoff in Man to Man with Dean Learner.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_299d33f2	comment	IKEA Erotica: Episode 6 opens with a hilariously bad sex scene from a Marenghi novel. Dean Learner later goes on a rant against IKEA Erotica, which instead veers towards Purple Prose.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Rick's Hand Cannon, which he carries at all times.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Jim. A redheaded doctor and peer of the core cast. He appears in multiple episodes and often doubles as the Chew Toy.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3033b958	comment	Giant Enemy Crab: The antagonist of Garth's book Crabs, which is briefly mentioned in Episode 5 and appears to be a reference to Guy N. Smith's Crabs series.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_30afb908	comment	Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?: Inverted, after Larry messily explodes (in slow motion) in 'Once Upon a Beginning'.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_335ac42e	comment	invoked Out of Order: In episode five, Thornton Reed mentions that Dagless opened the gates of hell "last week", meaning the episode was either supposed to be the second one broadcast, or the previous three episodes happened in just seven days.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: The exploding ambulance from the opening credits doesn't appear in show. We can only speculate as to why Dag was running away from it clutching a baby. On the commentary track we learn this is because they sank the budget for an entire episode just filming that single scene. Which would explain why the explosion of the ambulance truck is shown as a Repeat Cut.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3548fa0b	comment	Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: Rick offers his life to the three Scotsmen by kneeling down and baring his chest. This act impressed the Scotsmen enough to abstain from further revenge.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3699bf0a	comment	Eerily Out-of-Place Object: Darkplace Hospital is just sitting in the middle of a giant moor, with no roads or parking lots giving access to it. It seems to do pretty good business anyway.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_36a2827b	comment	Tragic AIDS Story: Parodied; Episode 6, "The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth", featuring a sexually transmitted infection that turns its victims into broccoli, is presented as a hard-hitting allegory for AIDS.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Sometimes merely otherwise inexplicable (why are doctors carrying around guns?), sometimes clearly a product of Marenghi's fanboyish replication of US media (the English Dag having fought in Vietnam "for [his] country").
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_37f9376a	type	Barrier Maiden
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_37f9376a	comment	Barrier Maiden: Renwick, Dagless's old friend and co-warlock, somehow became a living gateway to hell (or so we're told, mostly he twitches) and him exploding causes the gates to flood wide open. Burning the corpse doesn't seem to really fix matters, since from then on Darkplace becomes a Weirdness Magnet.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3862ebb9	type	When Props Attack
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3862ebb9	comment	When Props Attack: "Hell Hath Fury", in which the characters are fighting Animate Inanimate Objects. Including Sanchez struggling with his own gun, then battling a kitchen whisk trying to stab him in the neck, and then wrestling a garbage can.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38bf2f22	type	Narration Echo
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38bf2f22	comment	Narration Echo: In "The Apes of Wrath":
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38e4b69d	type	Mister Seahorse
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38e4b69d	comment	Mister Seahorse: "Look at that poor man, he's been screwed by a giant eyeball and now he's giving birth."
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Invoked. Garth claims in the DVD commentary that the actor playing the Padre was cast as a Shout-Out to the eponymous character he played in the (not actually real) Padre series of films from the 70s. Todd stubbornly contradicts this, claiming that the actor threatened him with violent reprisals should he not be cast and that this was the sole reason he was given the role.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The "drink-related mishap in Fulham" which resulted in the footage for the climax of "The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth" being lost for all time. At the end of "Once Upon A Beginning", Dagless is up on the roof of the hospital with his arm in a sling with no explanation as to why.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3c9267d2	type	Flatline
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3c9267d2	comment	Flatline: Linda dies from the broccoli infection on a flatline sound.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d29fed	comment	No Kill like Overkill: Combined with One-Woman Wail and a Big "NO!". After Renwick's (somehow reintact) corpse reanimates, Dag shoots it several times with his revolver, while Reed opens up with his shotgun, before taking a flamethrower to the body.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d88bcfb	type	MusicVideo
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d88bcfb	comment	Music Video: "One Track Lover" in episode 6.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: "I ran the only way I knew how. By placing one leg in front of the other in quick succession." Quoth Larry Renwick as his disembodied head lies in a pool of his exploded insides, "I think I'm gonna die!" 'I went for a drive to clear my head, which is why I'm in a car.'
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: Dean Learner and the extras often miss their cues or forget lines, resulting in awkward pauses in response to events. For example, at one point Dean answers a phone but forgets to say goodbye before setting it down, causing him to sheepishly splutter out a goodbye to the already hung-up phone.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The entire show runs on this.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Garth gives Ricky a run for his money in this department, for example saying the network "pulled the ax" on the show instead of "pulled the plug".
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_41d850a9	type	Miniature Effects
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_41d850a9	comment	Miniature Effects: The hospital is one of these. It's an awful one with model railway trees, shot with a lens that makes it extra unconvincing.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4219a300	type	Mysterious Mist
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4219a300	comment	Mysterious Mist: The "Scotch Mist".
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_42f8ae38	type	Cue Card Pause
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_42f8ae38	comment	Cue Card Pause: A staple of Dean Learner's depiction of the truth.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_481996bd	type	Gothic Punk
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_481996bd	comment	Gothic Punk: Garth tried to make Darkplace this. Emphasis on tried.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_48d94bb8	type	Creator Backlash
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_48d94bb8	comment	Creator Backlash: In-universe, it's strongly hinted that Todd Rivers knows full well how terrible the show is, unlike Garth and Dean who seem to be in total denial. The DVD commentary indicates that he never bothered to actually watch the show and when he finally sees it he's obviously unimpressed.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_49b1fe0	type	Beige Prose
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_49b1fe0	comment	Beige Prose: Garth's writing style is a bizarre mix of this and really strained attempts at Purple Prose.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_49b3ebe5	type	Special Effect Failure
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_49b3ebe5	comment	Special Effect Failure: invoked Intentional, and honed to an art form.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4aa62032	type	Scully Box
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4aa62032	comment	Scully Box: [invoked] The commentaries reveal Garth is quite insecure about his height and this shows in the editing. Most notably shown in Skipper the Eyechild when contrasted with the hospital porter Graham. Wide shots show Graham towering over Rick but whenever there's a close-up, Dagless is suddenly of equal or even greater height.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4b8fae12	type	Creator Killer
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4b8fae12	comment	Creator Killer: It's implied that Darkplace was this for Todd Rivers; it's noted that he hasn't gotten much work since and his interview segments imply he's become an alcoholic. invoked
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4bfe435c	type	Lobotomy
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4bfe435c	comment	Lobotomy: Apparently, Sanch gave one to Liz to heal her from her out-of-control telekinesis. This has no lasting effect on her faculties or even her other psychic abilities, as she's still able to read Dag's mind in a later episode.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: The eye-monster that rapes a man, causing him to birth another eyeball monster. The "behind the scenes" interview has Marenghi state that the giant puppet was operated by a man who the victim's actor "had previously trusted," indicating some in-universe Enforced Method Acting there.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Todd Rivers doesn't get interviewed until the third episode.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4fdd0d29	type	Place Worse Than Death
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Place Worse Than Death: Scotland, according to Garth Marenghi.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_50269bae	type	Blooper
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_50269bae	comment	Blooper: In-universe. Garth's poor direction and editing leads to characters often gaining objects from nowhere or randomly losing things they had in previous shots. At one point Thornton is holding a shovel only to have it wordlessly replaced with a cup in the next shot.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The eye-creature and its hellish spawn, as well as Dagless' half-grasshopper son, and of course the entire Planet of the Apes episode.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: The nurse and the patient who are about to make out in the forest in the opening of the fifth episode become Monster Munch when the Scotch Mist befalls them. They might have been able to avoid this fate if they didn't abruptly stop having sex in one of the hospital rooms to instead have sex on the creepy moor outside. One of the excerpts from Garth's novels has this happen to a couple.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5080221	type	Faux Horrific
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5080221	comment	Faux Horrific: Scotland.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_509f178b	type	Stand Your Ground
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_509f178b	comment	Stand Your Ground: "I can't hold these plates off much longer, Liz!"
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The three main male characters always seem to have firearms on their person for some reason. Special mention goes to Dagless bringing a flamethrower to Renwick's funeral.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_51561f43	type	Hurricane of Euphemisms
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_51561f43	comment	Hurricane of Euphemisms: The more tasteful (ie: purple) words to use in a sex scene.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5207e2b0	type	Stalling the Sip
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5207e2b0	comment	Stalling the Sip: How Rick and Thornton get spared from the ape mutation. Rick is about to drink the contaminated water but gets interrupted at the last moment. Thornton is overly preparing his glass of water and, Thank god he only took a tiny sip!
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_52db461d	type	Significant Anagram
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_52db461d	comment	Significant Anagram: The name "Garth Marenghi" came from rearranging the letters in the phrase ARGH NIGHTMARE.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5521ed05	type	No Animals Were Harmed
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5521ed05	comment	No Animals Were Harmed: "I believe that no living thing, be it human, animal or plant, should be hurt in the making of a TV show. So I personally feel very bad about that cat we killed."
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: While this could just be chalked up to misremembering, Dean Learner mentions that upon reading the script for the pilotnote and remember, Darkplace was "made" in the mid 1980s, he openly stated it would be "the most significant, televisual event since Quantum Leap", a show that premiered in 1989.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_57e8aed6	type	Shameless Self-Promoter
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_57e8aed6	comment	Shameless Self-Promoter: Parodied when Dagless picks up a Marenghi novel and spouts off several lines of dialogue concerning how he had "misjudged the genre".
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The authorities seem to have absolutely no interest in exploding patients, ape outbreaks, cosmic killer broccoli and murderous Scottish ghosts, leaving our heroes to get on with fighting the next Monster of the Week.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5addd374	type	Your Makeup Is Running
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5addd374	comment	Your Makeup Is Running: Liz bursts into (offscreen) tears every time Rick or Sanch says something remotely hurtful. Cut to panda eyes.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5c048cd9	type	Lip Lock
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5c048cd9	comment	Lip Lock: The actors frequently lose lip sync in their poorly looped dialogue. A good amount of dialogue seems to have been added or rewritten after filming.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Rick has one after getting knocked out with a club by ape Sanch. He dreams of himself getting chased in the woods by apes. He wakes up noting that he must have been out for a month.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: Marenghi's novel Afterbirth has a mutated placenta attack Bristol.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5d6710a	type	Pixellation
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5d6710a	comment	Pixellation: The Eye Rape scene. Parodied when Dean then goes into a long rant about it: "I think it's disgusting that we had to pixellate out an erection. I mean we've all got one. I could have one right now and you wouldn't know. I mean, I don't, but..."
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_61356a74	type	Almost Dead Guy
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_61356a74	comment	Almost Dead Guy: Parodied with the Temp, who, as he lies dying, manages to hold on long enough to explain Bermuda's political status in relation to the United Kingdom.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_61a84258	type	Deleted Scene
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_61a84258	comment	Deleted Scene: In-universe. Apparently, Garth was only willing to cut one scene from over 50 episodes of the show he had created. This one scene is a flashback/dream sequence set in a Scottish chip shop.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Dean Learner mentions that the fog in "Scotch Mist" was poisonous enough to kill two techies, but he is unrepentant, as he believes that you can always hire more, and one is very much like the last.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_62b65869	type	And I'm the Queen of Sheba
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_62b65869	comment	And I'm the Queen of Sheba: This exchange between Liz and Rick in the first episode:
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: The entire show is something of a gaping plot chasm, but even Garth seems aware of his lack of scope.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Darkplace ran for only one season with six episodes before getting canceled.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_67b9dd47	type	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_67b9dd47	comment	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Happens during a phone conversation regarding the broccoli infection between Rick and Gavin, the hospital's gas expert. First, the trope seems to be averted as there is a long pause of Rick listening to the other side but then it turns out nothing was said during that time. Played straight afterward when Rick repeats what the expert has to say on the subject.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: The passages read at the beginning of each episode.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6aa28a76	type	Overcrank
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6aa28a76	comment	Overcrank: Lampshaded when it was explained that the excessive use of slow-motion was because the episodes were so poorly scripted and paced that they frequently ran under time by up to eight minutes; and instead of doing reshoots, they were padded out in post by "considering any scene that didn't have dialogue for slow-mo".
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6aa28a76	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6abfb041	type	Mercy Kill Arrangement
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6abfb041	comment	Mercy Kill Arrangement: Sanch asks Rick to kill him if his transformation into an ape goes too far.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6b35bdff	comment	Garth takes a Serious Business approach, milking every mundane line as if it's the most terrifying thing in the world. He also believes that subtext is for cowards and you aren't a real actor if you have to do a second take.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6b35bdff	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble: Used frequently to justify the insane plots; most egregiously with Gavin, the hospital gas expert, and in "The Apes of Wrath" to explain how a scientist was able to turn people into monkeys.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6b723294	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6cb9eee2	type	Talking Heads
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6cb9eee2	comment	Talking Heads: Parodied. The episodes of the show are intercut with In-Universe interviews of the cast and crew. For the most part, the information they provide paints them all as truly horrible human beings on top of making clear that the production was an unmitigated disaster.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6d41b8da	type	Fantastic Aesop
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6d41b8da	comment	Fantastic Aesop: Marenghi says, "My books always say something. Even if it's just something simple, like "don't genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men"."
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6eb04f1	type	"Everybody Laughs" Ending
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6eb04f1	comment	"Everybody Laughs" Ending: Usually happens right before the roof scene (see below), and goes on for awkwardly long.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6f4af3e5	type	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6f4af3e5	comment	Todd is a "classically-trained actor" who has a habit of drawing out vowels and hamming up every line like Tom Baker on one of his drunk days. He has a tendency to break Lip Lock when re-dubbing his lines, pitching his voice nearly a full octave lower in the process. He also strikes a pose whenever entering a room, turning a corner, or even just when standing still; another trait lifted from Tom Baker. His character Lucien is written like an action hero, but in practice this just involves Todd holding his hands in stiff karate poses.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6f66bef7	type	But Not Too Foreign
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6f66bef7	comment	But Not Too Foreign: The Temp from "Hell Hath Fury" is obviously played by an American, but Garth decided to write him as Bermudan for this reason.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6f66bef7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: Sanchez stating, "That'll stop him" after Dagless has just fired eleven rounds from his Hand Cannon and used a flamethrower on Renwick's re-animated, and somehow once again intact, body.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7040b6bc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_722d0026	type	Vanity Plate
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_722d0026	comment	On the DVD commentaries, Todd remarks on the Avalon Vanity Plate and wonders why he never had any interaction with the real-world production company (Dean Learner produced the show in-universe).
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_722d0026	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_73d4b01a	type	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_73d4b01a	comment	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: Just to hammer in Garth's bloated sense of self worth, the proper title of the show is "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace". His name is also in bold print above the titles of any of his books.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_743437c4	type	Chroma Key
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_743437c4	comment	Chroma Key: Appropriately atrocious blue screening.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Darkplace. Dagless explains that it's really dark, hence the name.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_77552932	type	Character Shilling
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_77552932	comment	Character Shilling: It'd be easier to list the times Rick Dagless isn't being shilled to the audience. In the final episode, a line from the Padre seems to suggest that he's a better person than God.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_77552932	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_78f26d1c	type	A Wild Rapper Appears!
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_78f26d1c	comment	A Wild Rapper Appears!: Thornton Reed's brief stint as a rapper in the so-Eighties-it-hurts music video "One Track Lover."
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_78f26d1c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_79a80b74	type	Fair for Its Day
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_79a80b74	comment	Fair for Its Day: Discussed In-Universe. Garth Merenghi thinks he was this when making Darkplace in the Eighties.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: All three of the main male cast are given backstories of being veterans of war. Bonus points for Dag and Sanchez's backstories not even making sense; Rick claims they fought in Vietnam, but they're British and Britain wasn't involved in the Vietnam War.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7a143509	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7ab2a0ff	type	One-Handed Shotgun Pump
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7ab2a0ff	comment	One-Handed Shotgun Pump: Thornton does it at Renwick's funeral.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7b6e6602	type	Badasses Wear Bandanas
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7b6e6602	comment	Badasses Wear Bandanas: The Temp wears his tie as a bandana after he Took a Level in Badass.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7b6e6602	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: People read Garth Marenghi's books in Darkplace. This can be mainly put down to his enormous ego.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7c5960bf	type	Hall of Mirrors
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7c5960bf	comment	Hall of Mirrors: Clearly the budget wouldn't stretch to an entire hall, but we do get the tense shoot-out in the "water and mirror storage room." Well, where do you think hospitals store their water and mirrors?
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7c5960bf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: As seen in the photo above, nobody seems to know what "trigger discipline" is.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7f2427a6	type	Dawson Casting
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7f2427a6	comment	Dawson Casting: In-Universe Thornton Reed is pretty obviously supposed to be older than the rest of the cast, but Dean Learner looks to be a bit younger than Garth and Todd (in real life Ayoade was the youngest of the main cast, so this was probably meant to be spoofed too).
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7f9b12a6	type	Chairman of the Brawl
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7f9b12a6	comment	Chairman of the Brawl: During the Bar Brawl between Rick and Sanch in the last episode, Sanch breaks a bar stool on Rick's back.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Played with. Rick will occasionally give his coworkers respect for a witty remark, but he says it so bluntly it comes off as though Garth can't resist praising his own bad jokes.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8042e814	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: Rick drops a teddy bear in shock when seeing Sanch having mutated into an ape.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_875f008a	type	Psychometry
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_875f008a	comment	Psychometry: Liz has a vision of Renwick's demise in room 213 when shaking hands with Sanchez.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_89399ea2	type	Fake Nationality
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_89399ea2	comment	Fake Nationality (in-universe): Lucien Sanchez. He even wears some type of eye makeup to make him look like he might be Hispanic. The Temp is obviously being played by an American man, but a poorly written speech claims that he's from Bermuda.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_89399ea2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: As befitting an obvious Gary Stu, the story bends over backwards to make Rick Dagless be in the right. The Chef is an Asshole Victim for making misogynistic comments to Liz and slapping her tray out of her hand, but Dagless does the exact same thing seconds beforehand and is depicted as being entirely in the right. invoked
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_89434320	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8a16409a	type	Shovel Strike
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8a16409a	comment	Shovel Strike: Renwick implores Dagless to end his misery, and closes his eyes in anticipation. He opens them just in time to register that Rick has chosen a shovel to do the job.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Dagless' car is a weak attempt - it has flashing lights, shiny buttons and a go-fast button, but it's still a golf cart pretending to be a sports car. As such, we never actually see it move.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: True to its premise as an obscure '80s show.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8f7f2c6a	type	National Stereotypes
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8f7f2c6a	comment	National Stereotypes: A deliberately bad one of Scotland; their ghosts all wear kilts and string vests, have killer bagpipes in tow (which rip off your trousers, make your legs glow orange and dye your hair ginger), talk in "indecipherable" accents and are placated with shortbread. His description of non-phantasmic Scottish people is even LESS complimentary. At his most charitable, Garth seems to view the Scottish as some sort of Noble Savage.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_90138988	type	Putting the "Medic" in Comedic
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_90138988	comment	Putting the "Medic" in Comedic: The TV show is a downplayed example. Although the show isn't a comedy about doctors, the situations that the doctors get into (such as a monster invasion) are strange enough to be hilarious.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_90138988	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Episode 2, "Hell Hath Fury," is about Liz being so mistreated that her temper flares and begins psychokinetically pelting everyone in the hospital (and everyone really lays into Liz more than usual). Whatever lesson in treating women more equitably may have been learned is watered down into "women are just crazy, compliment them in some vague way every so often to keep them at bay" and Liz is treated with brain surgery rather than anyone else changing their behavior.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_915242d3	type	Pstandard Psychic Pstance
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_915242d3	comment	Pstandard Psychic Pstance: Liz strikes this pose when getting a psychic vision.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_915242d3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_917f5066	type	Stunt Double
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_917f5066	comment	invoked Stunt Double: Garth uses a stunt double for Rick for the arduous task of... running through some undergrowth. It's heavily implied that this is due to Garth having body odor problems.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Renwick's recently disembodied head telling Dagless, "It really hurts." Sanch getting his face burned by a hot iron in the Creepy Basement doesn't elicit any sign of pain from him. What's more, the burn marks are gone in the next scene.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_91d3ab1e	type	Ominous Pipe Organ
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_91d3ab1e	comment	Ominous Pipe Organ: The theme music features a chilling organ sound.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: The feel of an '80s tv series is replicated, from synthesizers to audio pitch artifacting, to many of the effects, right down to an old iteration of the Channel 4 logo.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_93be9d56	type	Monster Munch
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_93be9d56	comment	The nurse and the patient who are about to make out in the forest in the opening of the fifth episode become Monster Munch when the Scotch Mist befalls them. They might have been able to avoid this fate if they didn't abruptly stop having sex in one of the hospital rooms to instead have sex on the creepy moor outside.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_94163031	type	Short Run in Peru
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_94163031	comment	Short Run in Peru: Serendipitously the Trope Namer, but only In-Universe. In the first few minutes of the first episode, Marenghi mentions that although the show was never broadcast in its native land of Britain when first produced in The '80s, it did have "a brief run in Peru".
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: "The mist rolled relentlessly around Darkplace, much like smoke or fog."
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_95be648c	type	Creepy Basement
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_95be648c	comment	Sanch getting his face burned by a hot iron in the Creepy Basement doesn't elicit any sign of pain from him. What's more, the burn marks are gone in the next scene.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: Whenever Thornton busts his shotgun out, he just sort of hip fires it wildly in the general direction of whatever he's shooting at, which is also usually offscreen.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: In one episode, a man gets pregnant. No answer ever comes about how it happened, but Dagless (and thus Marenghi) makes a long Breaking the Fourth Wall diatribe about how it never will, so the audience better stop bothering.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Almost every scene is filled with so many ludicrous mistakes and failures that a viewer will likely rewatch them just to pick out the details.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: Sanchez drops this line before summarizing what he learned from Liz about the vision she conceived from shaking his hand.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9ab240e4	type	Rapid-Fire Typing
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9ab240e4	comment	Rapid-Fire Typing: An episode shows Liz looking up data on a computer, with the typical rapid clicking sounds, but then cuts to a shot of her fingers which are barely moving.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: Such as when Dagless' old college roommate explodes in the first episode, covering his hospital room in as much gore as the budget would allow. Fortunately, his head survives long enough to implore Dagless to finish him off with a shovel. At Renwick's funeral, his corpse, which is somehow intact again (though with the head stitched back on — nice touch by Deanamatronix), bursts out of the coffin and starts writhing around. Cue Dagless opening up on him with his Magnum with Reed supporting with his shotgun, before Dag whips out a flamethrower to finish the job.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: Garth, and by extension Rick, does this a lot. Each episode ends with a long, rambling monologue from Rick about some vague philosophical idea relating to what happened.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Dag's solution to dealing with Renwick's reanimated corpse. This after shooting it several times with both his revolver and Reed's shotgun.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Despite Garth's claims to the contrary, it's clear he doesn't think very highly of women. This leaks into Dagless's character (such as hiring Liz as a doctor and telling her to scrub his coffee mug in the same breath), but also in how Liz Asher is written with a scattering of empty "strong female protagonist" tropes ("I aced every semester and I got an A") but otherwise gets dumped on by every single character and event in the story.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Why doesn't Madeleine appear in any of the interviews or commentaries? She went missing after the filming of the show and is presumed dead. Also, in Skipper the Eyechild: "You're turning into an ape! A wild ape!"
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9d67ad5c	type	Nuclear Mutant
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9d67ad5c	comment	Nuclear Mutant: The eye monster is apparently the result of a sex offender's eyeball falling into an experimental gamma-ray treatment for a cancer patient.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9f81bd21	type	Stealth Parody
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_9f81bd21	comment	Stealth Parody: What? You thought this was supposed to be serious? Shame on you!
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a110e36d	type	Campbell Country
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a110e36d	comment	Campbell Country: The final episode ("The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth") provides us with Marenghi's rather unique take on Lovecraftian Horror.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a1575551	type	Living Prop
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a1575551	comment	Living Prop: An extra with noticeable red muttonchops serves a number of different bit roles throughout the show.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When affectionately stroking Skipper the Eyechild, it bites Dagless. In response he goes crazy and beats the creature to death, only afterwards going all These Hands Have Killed and breaking down.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: As part of Garth's ineptitude as a writer, he frequently writes the hospital staff as though they are detectives in an urban police station instead of doctors, with Thornton Reed as their cantankerous boss, regularly berating Cowboy Cop Dagless for not doing things by the book and under constant pressure from the mysterious "Won Ton" to produce results. Unfortunately, he is played by atrocious actor Dean Learner, whose Nerdy Nasalness completely undermines his attempts to be overbearing and intimidating.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Hilariously frequent due to terrible acting and editing.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a5eb6c29	type	Vanity Project
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a5eb6c29	comment	Vanity Project: In-Universe, the whole show is a Garth Marenghi vehicle.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: The Temp dies in Rick's arms.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a72cc4d4	type	IHaveToWashMyHair
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a72cc4d4	comment	I Have to Wash My Hair: When Sanch asks Liz out on a date, she replies with this line.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a76de48b	type	Troubled Production
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a76de48b	comment	invoked Troubled Production: The interviews with Garth, Todd and Dean in the DVD extras reveal details about problems on set.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a8347b21	type	2-for-1 Show
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a8347b21	comment	2-for-1 Show: The "show" is interspersed with interviews with the "actors".
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: It apparently takes place in a universe where Britain joined the Vietnam War, seeing as Dag claims to have "served [his] country" there. It's more than likely that Garth is just genuinely unaware his country didn't actually participate in that conflict.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a8cb81ef	type	Based on a Dream
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a8cb81ef	comment	Based on a Dream: In-universe. Garth claims that he uses his dreams for inspiration for his writing... when he's not just stealing from dead authors whose work is out of copyright.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a8f3f520	type	Death Is Dramatic
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a8f3f520	comment	Death Is Dramatic: The Temp's death. Sappy music plays over Rick screaming out his guts. Too bad Garth overplays the scene completely.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_abdf7d09	comment	Weirdness Censor: No one seems to notice that the water dispensers at the hospital hold green water.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_abe0f934	type	Dissimile
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_abe0f934	comment	Dissimile
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Clive the temp, who wears a red cardigan.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ae254ead	type	Narrating the Obvious
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ae254ead	comment	Narrating the Obvious:
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_aebae11c	type	Viewers Are Morons
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_aebae11c	comment	Viewers Are Morons: In-Universe. Garth has a very low opinion of pretty much everyone that isn't him, and treats the audience and many of the people he works with like they have single-digit IQs.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Rick Dagless wins most fights with a single punch.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Explicitly Lampshaded— in one scene Dagless states that he has five bullets remaining in his six-chamber revolver, then in the next fires nine without reloading. There's also Larry Renwick's funeral, in which Dagless and Reed fire over a dozen shots from a revolver and a shotgun respectively, without reloading.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: Parodied. Garth complains during the third episode about only having daughters and his wife going through menopause, robbing him of a male "heir". His bizarre obsession with having a son bleeds through into that episode's obvious wish fulfillment regarding sons.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Dean Learner notes that two techies died making the fifth episode because the initial mist effect used produced mist that turned out to be poisonous. Garth and Dean also admit that the cat used in the first episode was accidentally killed during filming.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: There is a Title Card early on in episode one providing a quote from King Lear: "This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen." (Garth then cites the page number, which is a basic mistake; citations for Shakespeare plays should instead include the act, scene, and line numbers.)
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: The interviews with the (fictional) cast members sprinkled throughout sometimes act as this for ridiculous things (for instance, talking about a foundation to help underprivileged children learn psychokinesis). Also, it's occasionally mentioned that Garth Marenghi fills his novels with them. On one occasion, the show's action stalls to explain the importance of buying brand-name batteries.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: As spoken by Larry Renwick, now a bloodied, dismembered head after his body spontaneously explodes in "Once Upon a Beginning".
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Sanchez likes Liz, but she's clearly enamoured with Rick. Unfortunately, Rick is already in love with himself.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_bad22526	type	What If?
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_bad22526	comment	What If?: Garth states that exploring "what if" scenarios was a central theme in the show.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_bd8aa92a	type	Negative Continuity
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_bd8aa92a	comment	Negative Continuity: While the in-universe series "Darkplace" has loads of intentional continuity errors as part of its parody, the show itself can't keep straight how bad of an actor Dean Learner is supposed to be. He veers between "bad, but on par with everybody else" to "the worst actor in human history" depending on the joke — sometimes even in the same scene. For instance, in The Tag to "Skipper the Eyechild", he delivers a perfectly-serviceable monologue to Liz and Sanchez about the Eyechild taking over Dag's heart, which is then capped off by the most awkward "No" in televisual history.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_be8cb2da	type	Missing Episode
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_be8cb2da	comment	Missing Episode: Implied to be a reason why only six episodes were shown. After Channel 4 cancelled the series, Garth Marenghi stated that he may have taped over one of the 44 or so remaining in-universe episodes with one of The Thornbirds. The DVD bonus interviews reveal that half of the show was destroyed by accident when Dean Learner accidentally tossed their master tapes into the River Thames during a customs raid on his London offices.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_bf26c02e	type	Viral Transformation
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_bf26c02e	comment	Viral Transformation: The ape regression mutation and the contagious infection with broccoli spores.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_bf698238	type	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_bf698238	comment	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦: The doctors rarely seem to solve problems with anything other than guns, fistfights, or fire. Any actual cures or science are done totally off-screen.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: When an actor isn't being a Large Ham or outright Chewing the Scenery, they're this. Especially true of Dean Learner (who isn't even a professional actor) and the extras.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": About seven per episode. Sanch's scream when he first shakes Liz's hand is so ridiculously long that even Sanch starts looking bored and glancing around.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: We're repeatedly told Dean Learner's acting is horrifically bad. While that's definitely true when the show wants to make a joke out of it, other times (such as "Skipper the Eyechild"), his acting is no worse than any of the others, and is actually on-par with Ayoade's other comedy roles of the period like Maurice Moss or Saboo.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c3b40ab8	type	Evil Redhead
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c3b40ab8	comment	Evil Redhead: The Scottish spirits are supposed to be this in "Scotch Mist."
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c3cdd2b8	type	Water Source Tampering
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c3cdd2b8	comment	Water Source Tampering: The epidemic in episode 4 was caused by a scientist who contaminated the water supplies with a serum to turn men into monkeys. Luckily, Rick was able to develop an antidote.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Dean Learner gets a "And Introducing" credit, given that he's "not an actor". Garth admits in the DVD extras that the casting was less about him seeing (completely unfounded) potential in Dean, and more that Garth couldn't even pretend to defer to another man as his character's boss.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c450b632	type	So Unfunny, It's Funny
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c450b632	comment	So Unfunny, It's Funny: The characters often spout what are supposed to be witticisms, and there are a few moments of friendly playfulness between the doctors that are intended as comic relief. They're all so cliched or poorly executed that it's funny.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c675d08c	type	Compliment Backfire
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c675d08c	comment	Compliment Backfire:
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c6eabb03	type	Gosh Dang It to Heck!
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c6eabb03	comment	Goshdang It To Heck: Any of Thornton Reed's rants are this. Especially his "You're a flipping fool!" rants from "The Apes Of Wrath".
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Garth's showdown with the Scots is an homage to the finale in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The soundtrack is a bagpipe cover of the film's climactic score, "The Trio." At the end of the same episode, Dag plays the theme from Airwolf on the bagpipes. One storyline involves an eye-monster getting born from the eye of a sex-offender getting caught up in an experimental gamma-ray surgery procedure. This sounds awfully familiar to the backstory of The Fly (1958). The green ooze in "The Apes of Wrath" that devolves people into hairy apes is lifted straight from the Doctor Who serial "Inferno". The appalling stunts inspired by some ropey episodes of the The A-Team. The bizarre long drives the characters take around the hospital are set to musical montages just like Miami Vice. One piece of background music in the fifth and sixth episodes is literally just a really shitty cover of the Halloween theme.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Rather than slapping Liz whenever she's "hysterical", Dagless punches her in the face. It's obvious Garth has "issues" with the fair sex. The fact that Madeleine's Dull Surprise acting means she looks as hysterical as someone on valium doesn't help much.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c89f0472	type	Troperiffic
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c89f0472	comment	Troperiffic: Almost every trope the show invokes is done so deliberately in order to parody it.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c8c00dc9	type	Obvious Stunt Double
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_c8c00dc9	comment	Obvious Stunt Double: During the chase scene in The Apes of Wrath, Dagless is repeatedly switched with a much slimmer double wearing a bad wig.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ca9c252f	type	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ca9c252f	comment	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Rick decides to take on the Scotch Mist by himself because It's Personal.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In "Skipper the Eyechild," none of the characters are fully sure if the eyechild brainwashed Dagless into adopting it or he was just projecting his emotional damage onto it (or both). He does completely ignore everything else (including the rape victim) once he lays eyes on it and immediately begins thinking of it as his baby, and assaults his friends when a "vision" warns him of them. Of course, since Darkplace is poorly-written in the first place, that would be ascribing subtlety to a writer who thinks it's "for cowards."
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_cbde3dfd	type	Took the Bad Film Seriously
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_cbde3dfd	comment	Took the Bad Film Seriously: Garth's obviously trying his best with his acting, playing everything as dramatically as he can. It doesn't work. Madeline is a decent actress but follows the direction too closely. The guy playing the Temp is a pretty good actor who is clearly struggling to make his terrible dialogue sound good. invoked
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Darkplace. Also most of Marenghi's novels including Slicer, Aftermath, Juggers, Slasher and R.I.P.P.E.R.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Spoofed in "The Apes of Wrath" when people start devolving into monkeys due to obviously green contaminated water. Dr Dagless suddenly puts all the pieces together — the fact that his friends turned into monkeys after drinking a cup of water, the only two people who haven't turned into monkeys aren't drinking the water, and that the water's a sickly green color — and concludes that he's thirsty.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d2aa7d09	type	Littlest Cancer Patient
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient: About Once an Episode, made all the more hilarious in one instance where the kid is a heroin addict.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d332bf54	comment	Explicitly Lampshaded— in one scene Dagless states that he has five bullets remaining in his six-chamber revolver, then in the next fires nine without reloading.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d56c9b8d	type	Eagleland Osmosis
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d56c9b8d	comment	Eagleland Osmosis: Garth has obviously based Darkplace on American shows he's seen. His character, Dagless, calls himself an M.D. and claims to have fought in 'Nam. Liz went to "Harvard College Yale," where she apparently "aced every semester," and at one point she says she didn't mean to "fall on my fanny" (something an English person would be extremely unlikely to say!).
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Thornton Reed is prone to making a lot of these. "My arse is grass and he's got a lawnmower, dig?"
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Dag pulls out a flamethrower at Renwick's funeral, the PadrÃ©, quite understandably, flees the scene.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_dae815bb	type	A Glass in the Hand
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_dae815bb	comment	A Glass in the Hand: Thornton Reed crushes a styrofoam coffee cup in anger... which is completely clean, and had also been a shovel in the previous shot.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: As part of Garth's poor writing, blatant plot holes will often have quick, lazy explanations thrown in. Reed only taking a tiny sip of the contaminated water is apparently enough to not be infected, never mind the fact that he apparently went the entire month Dagless was in a coma without drinking any water.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_dbc93276	type	This Is Going to Be Huge
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_dbc93276	comment	This Is Going to Be Huge: Dean Learner, Garth's publisher, believed that Darkplace would become a bigger cultural phenomenon than Quantum Leap.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: There is rain running down the window when Rick has a bittersweet flashback to his deceased son.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e4062526	type	Demonic Head Shake
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e4062526	comment	Demonic Head Shake: Renwick shakes his head uncontrollably in a flashback scene when he gets possessed by evil spirits during an occult ritual gone bad.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e4c89b67	type	Attending Your Own Funeral
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e4c89b67	comment	Attending Your Own Funeral: During his funeral, Renwick raises from his coffin as an undead.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: Won Ton, ballbusting boss of the hospital is never seen, only spoken of.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e545d293	type	Narm
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e545d293	comment	Narm: invoked All of the dramatic moments deliberately invoke this.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Rick/Garth continually refer to the Scottish as "Scotch" rather than "Scots".
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e572b14b	type	No Budget
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e572b14b	comment	No Budget: In-universe.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e5b75009	type	"Psycho" Strings
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e5b75009	comment	"Psycho" Strings: They play when Liz uses her telekinesis powers on the chef.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Dean Learner's comments regarding Madeleine Wool's disappearance. He not-so-subtly suggests that if she'd died she might be found somewhere "buried in the Eastern Bloc. If she got a burial."
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e640b487	type	Infodump
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e640b487	comment	Infodump: Played for comedy in "The Apes of Wrath" where the plot was so badly written that by the end of the show Garth has to talk non-stop for nearly a minute in order to explain what the hell has been happening. Made even more hilarious when it becomes obvious that this scene was never filmed, as we hear Garth delivering a voiceover at breakneck speed whilst the screen displays stills of inanimate objects from Thornton's office.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e8760868	comment	Space Whale Aesop: "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards. OK? What I was asking in that scene is: what if politicians continue to pay doctors peanuts, could they literally turn into monkeys? And no-one's asked that before." "[...]my books always say something, even if it's something simple like 'Don't genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men'. There's always a message or a theme."
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: In-Universe. Marenghi's opinions on various subjects are very obvious in his writing.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ecb480a4	type	Two Words: I Can't Count
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ecb480a4	comment	Two Words: I Can't Count: Dagless splits "telekinesis" into two words.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_edfacbac	type	Covert Pervert
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: Reed is seen groping Liz's behind while supposedly comforting her at the end of the first episode.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Amusingly averted; Rick names both his biological son "Skipper" then later names the eyeball monster baby the same thing, having to note which one he's referring to a few times. The end of the episode reveals that both were named after Garth's deceased dog, Skipper.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Very little doctoring is seen.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ee8451b	type	Nightmare Retardant
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ee8451b	comment	Nightmare Retardant: invoked Pretty much the whole point of the series.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f0f410bf	type	Filming for Easy Dub
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f0f410bf	comment	Filming for Easy Dub: There's a sequence in which the camera cuts back and forth between a wall and a potted plant while Looping Lines of the off-screen cast give an Info Dump on the plot so far. It's obviously added in post to correct some serious plot problems.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Impressively, every character does this in a distinctly different way. Garth takes a Serious Business approach, milking every mundane line as if it's the most terrifying thing in the world. He also believes that subtext is for cowards and you aren't a real actor if you have to do a second take. Dean is (in his own words) "not an actor" and simply blurts out his lines with no understanding of what he's saying. He frequently stares off-camera, presumably at cue cards, or glances down the barrel of the camera itself. He also makes other basic mistakes, such as turning towards the next person to speak before they start speaking. There are also lots of obvious edits in his scenes which make it clear he couldn't manage his longer speeches in one take, and his gestures and expressions are stiff, exaggerated, and completely without force or presence. Making things even worse is how Thornton Reed is given some of the longest, most complicated, and most intensive monologues in the show. Todd is a "classically-trained actor" who has a habit of drawing out vowels and hamming up every line like Tom Baker on one of his drunk days. He has a tendency to break Lip Lock when re-dubbing his lines, pitching his voice nearly a full octave lower in the process. He also strikes a pose whenever entering a room, turning a corner, or even just when standing still; another trait lifted from Tom Baker. His character Lucien is written like an action hero, but in practice this just involves Todd holding his hands in stiff karate poses. Madeleine is (relatively) the best actor of the core four and really commits to the material, but seems to stick precisely to the script and her marks, even when others miss their cues or when the direction she's given is patently ridiculous. Given the way Garth writes women, this means her character Liz Asher responds to everything with breathless shock, admiration, and instant deference to Rick Dagless. The "labourers" and nameless extras react to everything with blank expressions and bored voices: "Let's do it here. I'm really horny." They often move mechanically, apparently taking great concentration to hit their marks, and take their cues much too late. In general, characters talk quickly, rushing through their stilted dialogue. The cook, played by Stephen Merchant, is a notable example. The Temp in "Hell Hath Fury" is, by comparison, a rather good actor who has simply been given bad material to work with.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: If you have closed captioning turned on, when the intro music starts the subtitles display "CHEESY '80S SYNTHESISER MUSIC". The Scotsmen have all their lines subtitled despite not being very difficult to understand.
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