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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

post #1 of 31
7/28/06 at 10:01pm
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Anybody watch this? I just found out about it a few days ago...a British parody of 80s/90s TV drama and horror shows now on the Sci-Fi Channel. After reading a few reviews, I couldn't wait and found the first season on-line...this show is absolutely hilarious. The production values and acting are all spot-on terrible and the theme song...oh the theme song. When Marenghi dives in front of the exploding ambulance with the baby in his arms...it gets me every time.
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post #2 of 31
7/28/06 at 10:53pm
coudl not agree more, it seems to be parodying italian horror movies as well. just saw the first episode on sci-fi, can't wait to see this again.
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post #3 of 31
7/28/06 at 11:52pm
I missed this on TV so I checked it out on Sci-Fi.com

Holy fuckin christmas........what a intentionally hysterical trainwreck.

The horrible editing......the painful acting......I can't wait to see more.

Between this and the amazing screw-on head I actually have hope for the Sci-fi channel.
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post #4 of 31
7/29/06 at 1:28am
It was pretty funny, the black guy firing the shotgun blindly in one scene, the next scene it's gone, and back again firing blindly.
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post #5 of 31
7/29/06 at 1:47am
I think I'm in love.
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post #6 of 31
7/29/06 at 8:53am
Believe we already kinda did this here
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post #7 of 31
7/29/06 at 6:22pm
On Sci-Fi but I don't recall seeing a single ad for it or Screw-On Head so I totally forgot about them airing this past Thursday.
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post #8 of 31
8/4/06 at 4:01am
It gets better. After one week on the air, they changed the timeslot of a show they never bothered to advertise in the first place. Now its on the graveyard shift on Sundays. So people tuning in today expecting to see it instead got an episode of that series where people with video cameras hang around in an old shack and hallucinate seeing Sharon Tate after breathing in too much musty cheese.

Hats off to Sci-Fi for a truly stellar marketing campaign.
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post #9 of 31
8/4/06 at 4:51am
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Originally Posted by PMR
It gets better. After one week on the air, they changed the timeslot of a show they never bothered to advertise in the first place. Now its on the graveyard shift on Sundays. So people tuning in today expecting to see it instead got an episode of that series where people with video cameras hang around in an old shack and hallucinate seeing Sharon Tate after breathing in too much musty cheese.

Hats off to Sci-Fi for a truly stellar marketing campaign.
Yeah I hit darkplace on my DVR tonight only to find that stupid ghost hunters crap on.

Then again we're talking about the channel that has done little in the way of promoting the amazing screw on head.......but has at least 6 commericals for "who wants to be a superhero" on every hour.

I mean what the hell.....You do nothing to promote Darkplace......and then after one week you stick it on sunday night against adult swim.......do these guys even have a fucking clue.
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post #10 of 31
8/4/06 at 5:26am
It sounded great so I went onto the scifi channel website to check it out.

The link is right here, for anyone interested.

EDIT: "We're doing all we can, but I'm not Jesus Christ. I've come to accept that now."
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post #11 of 31
8/4/06 at 10:31am
I finally watched the Screw-On Head episode from last week on my DVR (I had only caught the last 10 minutes when it first came on), and I saw the title of this show during Screw-On Head, and I was wondering what it was, as I'd never heard of it before.
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post #12 of 31
8/7/06 at 5:56am
Well I just watched Episode 2 and 3 of Darkplace.......Skipper the eyechild was hysterical.....this show gets better/worse with each episode.
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post #13 of 31
8/7/06 at 6:28pm
This show is pure evil in a very, very good way. That eyerape was extremely disturbing.
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post #14 of 31
8/9/06 at 3:42am
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That eyerape was extremely disturbing.
Yeah it'll take years of therapy to get that image out of my head.
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post #15 of 31
1/24/09 at 2:26am
This came up in a discussion about The Wire as one of my favorite shows, and so I threw on the DVD. Holy shit is this awesome.
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post #16 of 31
1/24/09 at 2:34am
It's perhaps a little too on the nose at times but yeah this is one of my favourite British comedy shows.

It's also fascinating because the current crop of comedians dominating British TV all make their big breaks here.
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post #17 of 31
1/24/09 at 2:34am
Best show ever.
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post #18 of 31
1/24/09 at 2:38am
Dre, it just gets funnier the more you watch it. The extras on the DVD run pretty deep, so be sure to check those out. I just ordered their follow up to this, Man to Man with Dean Learner, which looks pretty great. Would love to see more Darkplace, though.
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post #19 of 31
1/24/09 at 2:46am
This is easily my favorite bit from the show.
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post #20 of 31
1/24/09 at 2:50am
Man to Man is a bit of a miss. I've seen Darkplace a couple of times, but watching the music video of One Track Lover made me decide to go through the whole thing again.

"She smooth, like ice, cold to the touch and it isn't very nice." That kills me every single time.
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post #21 of 31
1/24/09 at 2:59am
My favourite moment has to be Sanchez's near fatal fight with an egg whisk in Episode 2. In fact I just love Sanchez in general, the ADR gag involving all of his lines makes him hilarious anyways.
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post #22 of 31
1/24/09 at 3:02am
Dean Lerner kills me every time. And his shotgun.
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post #23 of 31
1/24/09 at 3:05am
The constant cutaways to Learner aimlessly firing a shotgun during the funeral in Episode 1 is what made me love the show in the first place. What makes Darkplace superior to Man to Man is that Darkplace doesn't have that awful laugh track on it.

This clip, from Man to Man, would work so much better if they played it 'straight' rather than having the laugh track on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCYatdlV2QQ
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post #24 of 31
1/24/09 at 3:37am
Yeah, the laugh track throws me, but I like some of the skits I've seen on YouTube.

The whole battery discussion here kills me (at 1:10). When Sanch rips into Dagless. And his karate stance of course. And the whole episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnOiD...eature=related
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post #25 of 31
1/24/09 at 5:52am
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You need to see THIS
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post #26 of 31
1/24/09 at 6:28am
Man to Man got better as it went along. I like the music video, but the laugh track, and just a general aimlessness hurts it.
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post #27 of 31
1/24/09 at 5:43pm
Commentaries are fun. I'd seen it all before, and I laughed, though it doesn't really work as well in the marathon, because it's variations on a theme. I like the casual sexism of the show, so my biggest nitpick is that they kill off Liz/Madeline. I wish they just hadn't included her. But I always lose my shit over One Track Lover. It just nails everything. Everything.
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post #28 of 31
1/24/09 at 6:24pm
I just watched this for the first time, loved every minute. I fell in love with it as soon as Sanchez started screaming when he shook hands with Liz. Everything with Sanchez is genius.

But the aforementioned shotgun/funeral bit is pure gold. Also the gravestone wobbling behind Dagless and Thornton at the end.
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post #29 of 31
1/24/09 at 8:11pm
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You need to see THIS
That's pretty great and all, but "One Track Lover" will never topped. Thornton Reed's singing plus trying to put an ice cube in a cup will always get me.

I also echo the love of Reed and his shotgun.
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post #30 of 31
1/24/09 at 9:44pm
The bicycle chase does it for me. As does the DVD commentary for said sequence, in which Garth claims Return of the Jedi ripped it off.
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post #31 of 31
1/26/09 at 12:37pm
I have always liked the introductions at the beginning from Dean reading one of his own books
"blood, blood, blood, blood?, blood......blood. blood......and a bit of sick"

Also one of my all time favourites
"sit down, dim the lights. Or turn them off if you don't have a dimmer switch"
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