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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
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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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Spiking the Camera: Happens from time to time with untrained cast members like the kids or Dean Learner. | |
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Creator Breakdown: In-universe, Garth lets his personal life and issues inform the scripts more than he perhaps should. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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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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My Friends... and Zoidberg | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg: Reed consistently addresses the three main doctors as "Gentlemen and Liz". | |
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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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Gratuitous Spanish: The Padre. "Dios Mio!" | |
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invoked Looping Lines: Often featured and played for comedy. The looped lines are much louder than the normal dialogue and stuck in regardless of whether they match the actor's lips or if his mouth is even moving at all. Most of the additional dialogue seems to be added to add exposition or address continuity errors. | |
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Plant Hair: Linda sports broccoli hair during the final stage of her infection. | |
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Coitus Ensues: Between the doomed patient and nurse in "Scotch Mist" right before the Scotch kill them. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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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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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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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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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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Chase-Scene Obstacle Course: Spoofed when a chase scene ends with the Monster of the Week running through a literal obstacle course before crashing into a huge mountain of cardboard boxes sitting in the middle of a forest for no apparent reason. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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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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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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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune | |
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"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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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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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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Chekhov's Gun: As with many tropes, parodied to hell and back. | |
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Some of My Best Friends Are X | |
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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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Spontaneous Human Combustion | |
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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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Go Through Me | |
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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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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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Nice Character, Mean Actor: Garth and Dean both play heroic characters, and Dean always looks so out of his depth as an actor that he can come across as adorable. However, in the behind-the-scenes retrospective, it's clear that they're both extremely shady and creepy guys. | |
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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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Short-Runners | |
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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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IKEA Erotica | |
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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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Revolvers Are Just Better | |
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Revolvers Are Just Better: Rick's Hand Cannon, which he carries at all times. | |
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Mauve Shirt | |
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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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Gratuitous Foreign Language | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language: Garth is fond of peppering his speech with foreign words, mostly French, (which he then translates) in an effort to make him sound more intelligent. | |
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Giant Enemy Crab | |
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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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Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"? | |
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Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?: Inverted, after Larry messily explodes (in slow motion) in 'Once Upon a Beginning'. | |
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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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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_337a0f4 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3548fa0b | type |
Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3548fa0b | featureApplicability |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3548fa0b | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3699bf0a | type |
Eerily Out-of-Place Object | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3699bf0a | featureApplicability |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3699bf0a | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_36a2827b | type |
Tragic AIDS Story | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_36a2827b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_36a2827b | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_36e63b81 | type |
Rule of Cool | |
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"). | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_36e63b81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_36e63b81 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_37f9376a | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_37f9376a | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3862ebb9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3862ebb9 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38bf2f22 | type |
Narration Echo | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38bf2f22 | comment |
Narration Echo: In "The Apes of Wrath": | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38bf2f22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38bf2f22 | featureConfidence |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38bf2f22 | |
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." | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38e4b69d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38e4b69d | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_392372f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_392372f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_392372f9 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3c0a4666 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3c9267d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3c9267d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3c9267d2 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d29fed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d29fed | featureConfidence |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d29fed | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d88bcfb | type |
MusicVideo | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d88bcfb | comment |
Music Video: "One Track Lover" in episode 6. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d88bcfb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d88bcfb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3d88bcfb | |
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.' | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3eee0728 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3eee0728 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3eee0728 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3fb6b526 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3fb6b526 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3fb6b526 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_415b3315 | type |
Stylistic Suck | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_415b3315 | comment |
Stylistic Suck: The entire show runs on this. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_415b3315 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_415b3315 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_415b3315 | |
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". | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4192763e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4192763e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4192763e | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_41d850a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_41d850a9 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4219a300 | type |
Mysterious Mist | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4219a300 | comment |
Mysterious Mist: The "Scotch Mist". | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4219a300 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4219a300 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4219a300 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_42f8ae38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_42f8ae38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_42f8ae38 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_481996bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_481996bd | featureConfidence |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_481996bd | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_48d94bb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_48d94bb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_48d94bb8 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_49b1fe0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_49b1fe0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_49b1fe0 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_49b3ebe5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_49b3ebe5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_49b3ebe5 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4aa62032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4aa62032 | featureConfidence |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4aa62032 | |
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 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4b8fae12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4b8fae12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4b8fae12 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4bfe435c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4bfe435c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4bfe435c | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4c851777 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4c851777 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4c851777 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4f4372e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4f4372e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4f4372e9 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4fdd0d29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4fdd0d29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_4fdd0d29 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_50269bae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_50269bae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_50269bae | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_504a1991 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_506bf16a | featureApplicability |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_506bf16a | featureConfidence |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_506bf16a | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5080221 | type |
Faux Horrific | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5080221 | comment |
Faux Horrific: Scotland. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5080221 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5080221 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5080221 | |
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!" | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_509f178b | featureApplicability |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_509f178b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_509f178b | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_50f66629 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_50f66629 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_50f66629 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_51561f43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_51561f43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_51561f43 | |
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! | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5207e2b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5207e2b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5207e2b0 | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_52db461d | featureApplicability |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_52db461d | featureConfidence |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_52db461d | |
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." | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5521ed05 | featureApplicability |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5521ed05 | featureConfidence |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_5521ed05 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_56515a39 | type |
Artistic License – History | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – 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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_56515a39 | featureApplicability |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_56515a39 | featureConfidence |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_56515a39 | |
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". | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_57e8aed6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | hasFeature |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_57e8aed6 | |
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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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_5addd374 | |
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_5c048cd9 | |
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_5d6710a | |
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_61356a74 | |
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_61a84258 | |
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_61c683d2 | |
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_62b65869 | |
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_6331ba26 | |
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_664bc28f | |
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_67b9dd47 | |
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_6977c45e | |
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". | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6aa28a76 | |
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_6abfb041 | |
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. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6b35bdff | |
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. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6b723294 | |
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_6cb9eee2 | |
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_6d41b8da | |
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_6eb04f1 | |
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_6f4af3e5 | |
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. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_6f66bef7 | |
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. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7040b6bc | |
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). | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_722d0026 | |
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_73d4b01a | |
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_743437c4 | |
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_76d6c3df | |
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. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_77552932 | |
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." | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_78f26d1c | |
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_79a80b74 | |
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. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7a143509 | |
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_7ab2a0ff | |
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. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7b6e6602 | |
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_7b8b3def | |
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? | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_7c5960bf | |
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_7d34f23a | |
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_7f2427a6 | |
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_7f9b12a6 | |
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. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_8042e814 | |
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_8163e2bb | |
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_875f008a | |
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. | |
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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 | |
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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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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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'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. | |
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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. | |
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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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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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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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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_94163031 | |
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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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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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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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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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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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_9ab240e4 | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mood Whiplash | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Hilariously frequent due to terrible acting and editing. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Weirdness Censor | |
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Weirdness Censor: No one seems to notice that the water dispensers at the hospital hold green water. | |
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Dissimile | |
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Dissimile | |
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Red Shirt | |
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Red Shirt: Clive the temp, who wears a red cardigan. | |
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Narrating the Obvious | |
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Narrating the Obvious: | |
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Viewers Are Morons | |
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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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Tap on the Head | |
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Tap on the Head: Rick Dagless wins most fights with a single punch. | |
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Bottomless Magazines | |
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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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Heir Club for Men | |
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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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No OSHA Compliance | |
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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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Epigraph | |
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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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Author Filibuster | |
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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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I Cannot Self-Terminate | |
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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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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Sanchez likes Liz, but she's clearly enamoured with Rick. Unfortunately, Rick is already in love with himself. | |
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What If? | |
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What If?: Garth states that exploring "what if" scenarios was a central theme in the show. | |
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Putting on the Reich | |
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Putting on the Reich: When Dag awakens from his coma, he looks outside Reed's office to see two jackbooted apes wearing Stahlhelms and carrying MP40s. | |
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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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Missing Episode | |
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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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Viral Transformation | |
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Viral Transformation: The ape regression mutation and the contagious infection with broccoli spores. | |
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When All You Have Is a Hammer… | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_bf698238 | comment |
When All You Have Is a Hammer…: 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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Dull Surprise | |
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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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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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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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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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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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And Starring | |
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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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So Unfunny, It's Funny | |
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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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Compliment Backfire | |
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Compliment Backfire: | |
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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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Shout-Out | |
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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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Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! | |
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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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Troperiffic | |
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Troperiffic: Almost every trope the show invokes is done so deliberately in order to parody it. | |
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Obvious Stunt Double | |
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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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This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself | |
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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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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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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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Took the Bad Film Seriously | |
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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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One-Word Title | |
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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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"Eureka!" Moment | |
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"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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Littlest Cancer Patient | |
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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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Lampshaded | |
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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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Eagleland Osmosis | |
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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_d848560f | |
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 Padré, quite understandably, flees the scene. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_d9cf40fa | |
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_dae815bb | |
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_dbb414ed | |
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_dbc93276 | |
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_e3cee2e7 | |
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_e4062526 | |
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_e4c89b67 | |
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_e52a0cac | |
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_e545d293 | |
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_e563bf09 | |
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_e572b14b | |
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_e5b75009 | |
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_e624f0e8 | |
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_e640b487 | |
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_e8760868 | |
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_e88e8a8f | |
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_ecb480a4 | |
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_edfacbac | |
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. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ee7a60e9 | featureApplicability |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_ee7a60e9 | |
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_ee7ed46e | |
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_ee8451b | |
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_f0f410bf | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f19e8a55 | type |
Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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_f19e8a55 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f3ff199a | type |
Missing Trailer Scene | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f3ff199a | comment |
Missing Trailer Scene: Invoked. The exploding ambulance from the opening credits is conspicuously absent from any episodes in the series. The commentary track lampshades and handwaves this by claiming that it cost so much to blow the ambulance up in the first place that it took up the entire budget for the episode it was supposed to feature in. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f3ff199a | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f466c9b1 | type |
Overly Long Scream | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f466c9b1 | comment |
Overly Long Scream: Sanch when shaking hands with Liz in the opener. At one point, he looks around with a "How much longer do I have to keep this up?" expression. Rick and the Temp when the latter gets pierced in the torso with screwdrivers. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f466c9b1 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f4cc32ce | type |
Creepy Twins | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f4cc32ce | comment |
Creepy Twins: Garth admits in the third episode that he was scared his own twin daughters would be this. Naturally he still finds a way to make it about himself being amazing, claiming that they only avoided this trope because of his good parenting. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f4cc32ce | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f4fcc961 | type |
TV Telephone Etiquette | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f4fcc961 | comment |
TV Telephone Etiquette: Parodied in "Hell Hath Fury", among others; | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f4fcc961 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f50c4557 | type |
Viewer-Friendly Interface | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f50c4557 | comment |
Viewer-Friendly Interface: The main characters will often hand each other meaningless charts and graphs, usually with the conclusion simply written out on the page in giant letters. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f50c4557 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f511ea9b | type |
Product Placement | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: During one episode, the characters go into a lonnnnnng tangent about the superiority of name-brand batteries such as Duracell or Eveready over cheap "£1 bags" of batteries. Note that Ofcom didn't like this kind of thing at all. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f511ea9b | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f59bfc23 | type |
Motherly Scientist | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f59bfc23 | comment |
Motherly Scientist: Rick develops feelings for the Giant Eye baby and protects it from being dissected. His behavior is explained by his Dark and Troubled Past with his deceased son. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f59bfc23 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f695821b | type |
Oh, Cisco! | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f695821b | comment |
Oh, Cisco!: | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f695821b | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f6e10f3e | type |
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f6e10f3e | comment |
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: invoked Intentionally invoked with the song "One Track Lover". | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f6e10f3e | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f8a4527f | type |
Sitting on the Roof | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f8a4527f | comment |
Sitting on the Roof: Every episode ends with Dagless navel-gazing on the roof at sunrise. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f8a4527f | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f9f2c33 | type |
Running Gag | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Rick and Sanch play a prank on Thornton in episode four with the result that the latter is constantly pestered by phone calls from clients asking for a massage. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_f9f2c33 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fabef10f | type |
Don't Explain the Joke | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fabef10f | comment |
Don't Explain the Joke: Marenghi's narration frequently steps in to explain something that only an idiot wouldn't understand. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fabef10f | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fadf1efc | type |
Happy Flashback | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fadf1efc | comment |
Happy Flashback: Rick has fond memories of playing with his dead boy in the front yard of his house. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fadf1efc | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fb60e9a2 | type |
He's Got a Weapon! | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fb60e9a2 | comment |
He's Got a Weapon!: At Renwick's funeral, Sanchez shouts "Look out, he's got a gun!" when Rick pulls out his revolver. Some obviously dubbed-in dialogue has Thornton yell, "He's got a stick!" to explain why Dagless is suddenly holding a stick in the next scene. To make the situation even more absurd, the "stick" in question is a thick branch that is completely out of place in a hospital. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fb60e9a2 | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fbd285b7 | type |
Comically Missing the Point | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: In "Scotch Mist" | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fc0e4e49 | type |
Styrofoam Rocks | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fc0e4e49 | comment |
Styrofoam Rocks: A fire extinguisher thrown at Liz bounces about a foot in the air when it hits the ground. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_fc151e9d | type |
Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: Liz is a graduate of Harvard College Yale. She aced every semester and got an "A." Dr. Rick Dagless, M.D. expands to "Doctor Rick Dagless, Medicinae Doctor". Doctors in the U.K. don't even use the term M.D. Also this delightful exchange from "Scotch Mist": | |
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China Takes Over the World | |
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China Takes Over the World: Thornton Reed's The Unseen boss "Won Ton" is presumably meant to be this trope. It could also possibly be Japan Takes Over the World despite wontons being Chinese; Garth Marenghi doesn't seem like the type to know the difference. | |
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Fun with Subtitles | |
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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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DVD Commentary | |
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DVD Commentary: Done by Garth, Dean and Todd. It quickly becomes evident that Todd has never actually watched the show and only vaguely remembers filming his scenes. He's not impressed by it. They also (loudly) eat toffees and drink beer during the commentary. invoked | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Parodied, when Rick cradles a dying minor character in his arms and it's obvious that the only dialogue Garth could think of was a very skimpy rework of the research he'd done to explain the character's accent: | |
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