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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

  • 24-11-2010 12:30am
    #1
    DonOcelot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭


    One of the funniest shows ive ever seen.
    Most people probably never heard of this, which is a shame, but it was unique and just so god damn funny.
    The saddest part, it only lasted 6 episodes, crap like "Two and a half men" is still on tv while a hilarious show like this only lasted 6 episodes.

    There has to be fans on here......?


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  • #2
    RickBockwinkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭RickBockwinkle


    Yes absolutely brilliant.

    The best of 80s TV and crap horror, intercut with some of the funniest fake interviews since Spinal Tap.

    Skipper The Eyechild is my personal favourite episode.


  • #3
    DonOcelot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭DonOcelot


    RickBockwinkle wrote: »
    Yes absolutely brilliant.

    The best of 80s TV and crap horror, intercut with some of the funniest fake interviews since Spinal Tap.

    Skipper The Eyechild is my personal favourite episode.

    Indeed, the interviews were hilarious.
    Sanchez's voice was also brilliant, so dramatic. e.g:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6iJRNHUOT4


    Personally my favorite episode is "The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth" , the fight scene was one of the funniest things ive ever seen.


  • #4
    RickBockwinkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭RickBockwinkle


    "You and he were....buddies?"


  • #5
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Blood? Blood. Crimson, copper-smelling blood, his blood. Blood. Blood. Blood.

    And bits of sick.


  • #6
    Dr.Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭Dr.Sanchez


    You and he... were buddies, weren't you?


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  • #7
    artvanderlay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    I loved Garth Merenghi's Dark Place, one of the funniest comedies of the last decade. Matthew Holness created a character to rank up there with Alan Partridge, and Matt Berry was great too but I did think Richard Ayoade was a weak link in the show. He tried too hard to be funny and his character didn't work for me at all. First of all Dean Lerner is supposed to be a shady dodgy dealer character with a possible penchant for violence/murder yet it comes across as a 20-something actor playing dress-up. He didn't make much effort to look older or bulkier than he is in real life! Having said that Garth, Liz and Sanchez more than make up for it and to anyone who hasn't seen it yet " I sincerely hope you are disturbed...by the show"!


  • #8
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    "I had a cat once, dropped a sofa on it. It was a write off so I stood on it's head."

    There is no weak link in this show. This scene is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPqRpar4PyE


  • #9
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    Matt Berry is great in The IT Crowd too


  • #10
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    I loved that show, remember his kid was part grasshopper :D


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