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Takin' Over the Asylum
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Takin' Over the Asylum is a six-part BBC drama which asks the fundamental question "What measure is a non-looney?"Eddie (Ken Stott of Rebus fame) is a double-glazing salesman in Glasgow, who lives with his Grandmother (she lives with him!), drinks too much and whose dreams of being a DJ are dwindling fast with every passing year. After being pushed out of his unpaid spot on a community radio station, he is put in charge of revamping St. Jude's hospital radio - not knowing that St. Jude's is a mental institution. Once there Eddie encounters a slew of inmates; Rosalie the Obsessive Compulsive Neat Freak, Fergus the Schizophrenic electrical genius who puts Steve McQueen to shame, Francine the self-harming depressant with a tragic past and a soft spot for cats, and the enthusiastic manic-depressive Campbell, played by a young David Tennant who is determined that he and Eddie will break into the big-time.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Throughout the series we learn more and more about how the characters ended up in St. Jude's, Eddie learns more about his own problems and starts asking questions about where the line is drawn between sanity and madness. It also has a bunch of your favourite tunes and won more BAFTAs than you could shake a stick at.Not to be confused with Running the Asylum. | |
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Actually, That's My Assistant: A variation of this when Eddie first meets Campbell. Eddie arrives (with preconceived prejudices and notions about what mentally ill people and mental asylums are all like) and meets this normal-looking, smiling, attractive youth who introduces himself and shows Eddie around. Ed probably assumed he was some sort of employee or volunteer. After they come across the radio studio (which hadn't been used in years), the Head Nurse shows up and reminds Campbell that it's his time to take his medication. Eddie is surprised to learn that that young man is one of them. There's a more straightforward example with Fergus (who's usually scruffy with a shaggy dark brown◊ mullet) in a lab coat, nicely shaven, mullet in ponytail and wearing a pair of glasses.◊ The administrator lady checks up on them and assumes he's one of the staff. He does look convincing. It was his ploy to be able to fix or troubleshoot the mixing desk's issues without someone like Stuart restraining him. | |
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