"I haven't acted since, some would say I DIDN'T act during. But uh, uh those would be unkind people, I did my best."

@Gunz97x

5 жыл бұрын

〈YellowDevil〉 fizz an.

@SaikoKujo

5 жыл бұрын

He says good... bye to a phone. HAHAHA

@BennyTygohome

3 жыл бұрын

I hadn't seen that before, or since

@Trixiesongzxoxo

2 жыл бұрын

Wait are you the pregnant man in the show ?

"Other times I copied the plots from dead authors on whose work the copyright had lapsed. [shrug] Bite me." (0:41) ~ Garth Marenghi, Dreamweaver

@monkeywad8562

9 жыл бұрын

Author, visionary, dreamweaver, plus actor. RIP

@ml-ws5bz

9 жыл бұрын

haha another fellow fan

I want to start a petition calling for Matt Berry to become the new 007.

@chanelevoncartiere4347

7 жыл бұрын

love him but it'd be too campy. Richard Ayoade on the other hand... speaking in his normal voice? (sighhhhh). catch his sideways look at the camera at 18:21 - he is a really good looking man.

@mayechilde2

7 жыл бұрын

Chanele von Cartiere YES he is...

@JD0x0

6 жыл бұрын

Checkout Toast of London: bonus Ball. in the episode he auditions for James Bond

@geensloth911

4 жыл бұрын

Dean Learner for 007

@crankyoldperson6871

4 жыл бұрын

geensloth911 how about dean Learner but dubbed by Matt Berry

"Based on melodies originally whistled by Garth Marenghi"

"He was born half boy, half grasshopper he never had a chance."

@jesterssketchbook

3 жыл бұрын

"end of"

"So just to restate, that IS something we'll never know. You're not going to find out later." haha! I wish television and cinema today would be so kind as to inform the audience of such things.

"...was a man whom he knew and, until that day, trusted."

@Esproth

3 жыл бұрын

"I think that scenes beautiful"

@keithmichael112

2 жыл бұрын

It always makes me laugh that they kept the crew down to tight 10 to 12 people lol

"Look at that poor man, not only has he just been screwed by a giant eye, he's now giving birth." o_o

@swine13

3 жыл бұрын

I love Graham Lineham's cameos. He didn't write this show, but you can tell he's really in tune with the style of comedy (as he would be, considering he's probably inspired Richard in some ways). I like this scene in particular because of the stagnant volume and monotony with which he delivers the lines. And the lines themselves are ridiculous. "Look at the size of that thing's rod!" - its just so jarring and shit, which - of course - makes it perfect.

@WinterS0lstice

2 жыл бұрын

LookAtTheSizeOfThatThingsRod" 😐

"I've misjudged the genre like so many." Oh Darkplace how I love you

"...you're too hard on her. -I know, I just don't find her physically attractive." haha

@PotholesInMyLawn

4 жыл бұрын

"she's a good girl..."

I love the way Dag stops at 7:36, then several seconds later Ayoade comes into view: "Not so fast, mister!" It's the subtle things that make this show amazing.

@TheOssumPawesome

5 жыл бұрын

Anansi the line delivery of “no” at 19:47 cracks me the fuck up too

@samm7098

4 жыл бұрын

Hardly subtle

@bramsteenhoek2674

4 жыл бұрын

@@samm7098 ikr

@davinci3478

4 жыл бұрын

This is my fifth time watching the show and I read this comment and want to give it a like but I had already liked it

@swine13

3 жыл бұрын

Another example is the episode with the apes. At one point Dag shoots around a corner and kills two guards with 2 consecutive shots, then it waits 0.5sec, cuts to the two guards standing, waits another 0.5sec then they drop one at a time but with a bigger gap than the bullets are shot at. Their ability to get so many individual elements wrong in every scene is nothing short of remarkable. I love it 😁

"And one day we'll all meet... in Valhalla." Dead. Brilliance.

@NobodyQuiteLikeMe

5 жыл бұрын

I was seriously not expecting it at all.

@Ninjat126

3 жыл бұрын

That line always surprises me every time I re-watch this.

"I think you better go Liz." "I think I better had." "Well, go then" "I'm going." "Bye." "Goodbye."

"Look out, he's got a stick!" ...The beauty of dubbing.

The flashbacks of him teaching weird karate chops to grasshopper kid just kill me.

@feliciak9968

4 жыл бұрын

Leo Rolando “daddy don’t forget me” 😫☠️😭

@TheUncomfortable

4 жыл бұрын

That "Grasshopper Kid" had a name ... he was called ... Skipper

"You can dissect a heart, but you'll never know what makes it skip a beat" Wow, such powerful writing from the master!

@lazyhomebody1356

3 жыл бұрын

(That line MAY have been from a book whose copyright has lapsed)

@GreenEyedDazzler

3 жыл бұрын

@@lazyhomebody1356 so bite me lmao great call back

@Ninjat126

3 жыл бұрын

"You can dissect a heart, but you'll never find out what makes it Skipper beat."

@lazyhomebody1356

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ninjat126 You may be a genius

@zerowastecalifornia

6 ай бұрын

That's because he's written more books than he's read.

"How's your head?" "It'll live".

Fun fact: the girl who plays Dagless's wife in the flashback is actually Richard's wife

@bramsteenhoek2674

4 жыл бұрын

Heard she is Garths wife aswell.

@PotholesInMyLawn

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome.

@elliewuzzup7689

2 жыл бұрын

She also has a Cameo in IT crowd!

I personally love how Garth only had daughters, and the only child Dag had in the show was a literal monster.

I'm sorry but i do believe the phrase "He was born half boy half grasshopper, he never had a chance." is the funniest thing ever committed to cinema.

@cksmith08

9 жыл бұрын

What about the other line: "Look Out! He's Got a Stick!"

@RedLegBlazer

7 жыл бұрын

"I have to close the gate to hell." "But you're overworked already!" "Yeah, it'll be a total hassle."

@AceAttorny

4 жыл бұрын

The best thing about it is the implication that it just sort of happened by chance.

@pipster1891

6 ай бұрын

It's TV, not cinema.

Straight up just punches Liz, but gently pushes Reed and Sanchez. XD

@VivaLaDnDLogs

2 жыл бұрын

He also threw another doctor off the roof.

“A man whom he knew and, until that day, trusted”… that one gets me everytime!

I love the story in the prelude about his non functional balls that kept dropping lower and lower until they were like "a pair of marbles in a hiking sock." Then he turned 30, and "they winched right up". This whole episode is fucking hilarious.

@mackdebruin999

7 жыл бұрын

Wow the way you describe shows is amazing, are you related to shows???

Anyone else find Dag's flashbacks, with the awesome music, just a little touching despite how ridiculous the half-grasshopper son was?

@BMF396

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. It's weird, like you've got all these meticulous things these guys put so much work into making intentionally bad, and yet the music somehow still fucking slaps.

@HeroRaze

3 жыл бұрын

@@BMF396 It's only natural. After all, it was based on melodies originally whistled by Garth Marenghi

@lazyhomebody1356

3 жыл бұрын

Watch the Sarah Silverman episode where the hippies build a robot son and have to kill him when he turns killer. It manages to be very sad!

@lazyhomebody1356

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gloth_Sang I don't like her at all either. Someone smart wrote this episode though. It is excellent

@Turt3752

2 жыл бұрын

The music is a joke too 😭 as a composer it made me laugh really hard, there’s jokes even in the composition

the most shameless book plug I've ever seen

@PALACIO254

2 жыл бұрын

It's quality literature for those with discerning and adventurous taste

Matt Holness who plays Garth Marenghi said the fly in 8:33 was actually not planned and did land on his nose. There were prop trash bins that everyone ended up using as real trash bins and it apparently attracted flies.

@gasjebasje99

2 жыл бұрын

Niiice That actually happens in the first indiana jones as well

@halfling49

2 жыл бұрын

Certainly the 'cherry on top' that adds another layer of that "KEEP ROLLING" spirit that had plagued the poorly-produced media of the 80s that Garth Marenghi's was parodying. I mean granted, film *was* expensive, and reshoots would eat into the budget

@ianritta

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you said that, because I saw it and thought, "How could they possibly plan that, without hours of reshooting it?". I think the universe has a sense of humor, and I love it.

@vortexart5587

2 жыл бұрын

i wonder if that fly was intentional for that part of the show (I thought it was a computer or green screen effect) ... and now knowing it was not part of the show make the scene even more amazing how of how the actor matt did not even break character for such a random incident during filming that very scene ...bravo!

@jackbarnes4048

2 жыл бұрын

Thought it was a Troll 2 shout out.

“That’s a concussion you just gotta sweat it out” 👌😂

@SuperNintendawg

Жыл бұрын

-the NFL

14:32 the helicopter cutting the scene short symbolically represents what happened to Dagless' real son, what true thematic depth.

@mortemoccasus2412

2 жыл бұрын

That was a toy helicopter 🤣

@gamermasta525

2 жыл бұрын

His son or his dog because I believe the story is about him adopting A dog to replace his son that he never had.

"Whether it be in 'Nam, where I fought for my country" is such an underrated line

i just noticed how the height difference changes in the scene at 3:31 very subtle, clever use of forced perspective and/or wooden boxes.

@kylewindsor199

Жыл бұрын

I always thought the guard was just being a poor actor but he's actually caught off guard by the height hahaha

I love how at 11:07 Dag pulls a Sade Sweetest Taboo move by looking out a rainy window but when they cut back to a close up there a blinds in the window and no rain. Pure genius.

"Do you think that eye child took over Dags mind ?" "I don't know, but it took over his heart, for a while at least."

"If I saw him in the street I wouldn't even stop to slap his ass." That just may well be the best behind-his-back evaluation of another human being I've ever heard and I'm going to be using it as often as possible from now on.

The Star Trek-style fencing outfits had me in tears. Liz is even wearing heels.

"Look out he got a stick" so many damn quotables this episode

"you wanna come too?" Noo

@JAGNFL

7 жыл бұрын

clip calhoon He sounds like he was gonna say something like "no....I wouldn't want to" but just says the noo... part with the same tone haha

Dag freakin' kills another doctor ( 16:25 ) and no one mentions it or seems to care XD

@depolarization

3 жыл бұрын

In the episode before this Liz fucking MURDERS that temp with her psychic powers and it’s played sad but she’s still working there lol

@anthonypatriarca3190

3 жыл бұрын

Darkplace must have a hell of a surgical staff. The guy was back on his feet and helping out again at 18:04. Good on him. Dedicated to his craft

"Other times I copied the plots from dead authors on whose work the copyright had lapsed. Bite me."

richard ayoade looking at the camera at 18:20 is the best bit . i dunno why i loved that so much lol

I love how he mispronounces his own name

I love how Dr. Sanchez says he's going to call Reed at 12:28. He picks up the phone and instantly says, "get me Reed". Then his next line implies that Reed was the person who answered the phone. Why would Reed be answering all the phones? I love this show so much.

@mogueraguh

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha it’s definitely a highlight in this episode !

@sneedler8661

10 ай бұрын

I'm late to the party, but Holy shit this show is hilarious. It's like a smart version of Kung Pow or someshit. It's great. I've honestly been looking for a good comedy like this for so long

thornton reed is actually close to 'acting' in his scene where he's interrogating Dagless. he's really good, at least compared to all his other scenes

Don't eat when watching this program. I choked on my pizza.

@wonderpandimonium

4 жыл бұрын

During what scene?

@80swoodpanel

3 жыл бұрын

I was eating a cherry at 3:18 and I had to pause.

Richard Ayoade always has that same haircut. That takes real commitment.

@TheBokkelul

9 жыл бұрын

***** thats just his hair

How does one perform comedy on this level and still keep a straight face

@MTdaBlacking

3 жыл бұрын

Years of training, at least.

@SuperNintendawg

2 жыл бұрын

Multiple takes

@PALACIO254

2 жыл бұрын

It's not acting it's the truth

“I’m gonna give you 24 hours to get your sorry ship to shore” I actually love that line and I’m gonna start using it

I just noticed that Reed’s line at 16:28 was dubbed in later because they realized Dag’s clearly not wielding a stick until the following shot. Brilliant.

"That's a concussion, you just got to sweat it out."

"Maybe not LINKED but they're definitely connected." 😂😂😂

Daglass' lullaby and "You know how I feel about Wonton. If I saw him in the street, I wouldn't even stop to slap his ass" might be the best 1-2 punch of jokes in the entire show

@zerowastecalifornia

6 ай бұрын

"Daddy don't forget me..."

I think the part where the Eye child bites Rick's hand and he proceeds to brutally murder it is the most I have laughed in months.

I just realized that the actors playing “Dag” and “Sanch” are wearing hair extensions to make their hair longer in the back.

"One Track Lover" is so memorable that people often forget Garth Marenghi's other great Darkplace musical moment (13:19): ♪♪ Day draws into nightfall Yonder stars shine bright You can be my baby I hope that is alright “Daddy, don’t forget me” I haven’t, but you’re dead You have a little brother now And one day we’ll all meet In Valhalla ♪♪

@magdamaluje262

8 жыл бұрын

I love it, it is beautiful. So sad.

I love how they cap off this allegedly emotionally moving episode with some worthless story about Garth seeing a pubic hair, and then it just trainwrecks into some weird political statement.

@Buy_My_Mixtape

6 жыл бұрын

love how you need to shut the hell up

@KNadoli

6 жыл бұрын

Tabitha Provan the more i rewatch this, the more i cant help but think that Garth Marenghi is Trump had he been a horror writer

@thekaiser4333

6 жыл бұрын

The NHS is in a terrible state.

@mikiecope

6 жыл бұрын

Tabitha Provan LMAO. I love you.

@guidadiehl9176

5 жыл бұрын

@@KNadoli haha yeah orange man bad😂

The lullaby in this episode is the the most emotional audio-visual presentation I've ever experienced in my 41 years on this planet.

"...author, dreamweaver, visionary, plus actor..."

I love how I keep noticing things, like the fact they have a view of a city off the balcony…which is nowhere near the hospital

"The pain shot thru her like a big bullet." Poetry is not dead. Not by a long... shot.

@suchiuomizu

Жыл бұрын

Nobody writes like Garth Marenghi, nobody.

I love how this episode is supposed to portray Dagless as the ultimate father but considering he throws a tantrum in the flashback and wrecks the backyard badminton thing it just makes him even more of a petulant child xD To say nothing of him thinking he's going to Valhalla for...some reason.

@gordondean9189

Ай бұрын

His reaction to being bitten by the baby is also a little out of the ordinary 17:52

At least so far they have remember that Liz has psychic abilities and not forgotten about it when the plot calls for it

this kills stephen kings kingdoms hospital .

@reallivebluescat

8 жыл бұрын

+fardaypu Riget :D

@Dr0dd

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's supposed to be more inspired by Riget, but by pure chance King happened to create his own adaption of that just at the same time (both shows premiered just two months apart even). So it became an unintentional parody of Kingdom Hospital too. Much more fitting, anyway.

@SaikoKujo

5 жыл бұрын

I was JUST watching Kingdom Hospital on DVD and it felt strangely familiar...(deja vue?) It took me a minute to think of THIS shows name (Darth... Garth?..?) and I HAD to come to youtube to see if it was here! (I noticed they came out the same year. I saw this originally on Adult Swim)

21:20 Lips don't move while he's speaking. Absolutely love it.

I don't know why the giant puff hat on the monster baby keeps making me lose it but I love it

"We'll never know." "Just to reiterate, that is something we'll never know, you're not going to find out later."

Now that she's gone, I can think about the eyechild.

I love how effortlessly Garth advertises his own novel in the show

I love how he punches Liz but shoves the men (and don't harm the other men on the roof) XD

@sleepCircle

3 жыл бұрын

except for one man who dives straight over the edge and dies (and NOBODY ACKNOWLEDGES HIS CHARACTER KILLED A DUDE, AFTERWARDS)

@yoursonisold8743

6 ай бұрын

@@sleepCircle If you pay attention, the same guy who flew over the edge appears again in the hallway fight.

@sleepCircle

6 ай бұрын

@@yoursonisold8743*excellent*

"If you want to grab me by the balls, at least have a decency not to wave a piece of paper at the same time." *PRICELESS QUOTE*

"Look out he's got a stick"

7:30 The way he prematurely stops, just to fake a badly made scene... it's just genius!

I just realized we never met wonton!!

3:31 - I completely missed Dagless's changing height during the intro scene with Linehan haha

So good...Rick is magically much taller than the Guard at 3:36 when in the rest of the show he is shorter than his wife and Thornton and most everyone else... what a great show

"...whether it be in 'Nam where I fought for me country or right here on the streets of Romford."

Where we learn that you just have to sweat out a concussion.

@SuperNintendawg

2 жыл бұрын

The NFL hired Dagless as Chief Medical Advisor

I can't stop singing "Day Draws Into Nightfall" when I'm by myself and cracking up at the "...in Valhalla" part.

The acting in this episode is particularly well done, the pain when Garth is looking out the window is palpable. One can tell that he is able to draw on the pain of his past and bare it all on the screen. I also believe that this episode Mark's when Dean becomes comfortable in his role as actor. The scene on the roof really shows his versatility.

“Here’s a pound” he forgot he was playing an American I-

@LucyWest370

3 жыл бұрын

Des Alex ? No

"Look at the size of that thing's rod!"

@nomukun1138

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely disgusting they had to pixelate it. Absolutely disgusting.

@dipdop9734

3 жыл бұрын

@@nomukun1138 We've all got one. I could have one right now, you wouldn't know...

@LucyWest370

3 жыл бұрын

Dip Dop (checks) I’ve not got one now

@lazyhomebody1356

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to know it is pixelated. I've seen this episode unpixelated...you don't want to see that thing! And no, you haven't got one of those!!

The sweet poetry makes me cry. I've misjudged the genre like so many.

I only just now noticed that the title card reads "presents". Singular. I assume this goes with the running joke about the 'producer' ("Dean Learner") being brought on at the last minute to add a little extra cash, but I always appreciate the subtler jokes. Savor.

My favorite things: (1) "Daddy, don't forget me..." "I haven't but you're dead." (2) "All I know is...the pube weren't mine." (3) "All I'm saying is it involved a hop and the blades of a helicopter."

a massively underrated production, perfect in every way.

"... they went str.. right back up" That fly gets me every time

"She's a good girl Dag, you're too hard on her" "I know. I just don't find her physically attractive."

@nomiddlenamenmn427

11 ай бұрын

I love how they constantly refer to her as a girl, but then I realize nearly woman is referred to as a girl in 2023 with one notable exception: an underage girl is automatically elevated to young woman status after a wealthy, powerful man is accused of sexually molesting her.

"Now that my cheeks are freshly rouged, I feel like a real human woman again!" 💀💀💀💀💀

So seamless the transitions starting at 11:07 from the window having blinds to seeing the rain on the window and no blinds... is pure art in motion.... no matter how many times I watch this show and I watch it almost weekly... I find or see something new. Its stuff like this that makes it art.

“One day we will meet..... in valhalla” 😢

'like a couple of marbles in a hiking sock'

From 13:00 and onwards.. You see the building's shadow against the background or should I say city view. Hahaha. Brilliant. You discover new things about Darkplace everytime you watch it. It's just so brilliantly horrible in a deliberate way.

The ADR on Sanchez is incredible lmao

@DrJuice1

3 жыл бұрын

I wish there was video of them recording the ADR for some of the scenes in this series. I want to watch him say "hey, this cat's got claws" and "get me Reed" LOL. They must have their lips pressed right up against the mic while recording

"One day we'll all be, in Valhalla" i fucking lost it when he said that

Darkplace & mighty boosh are great series

15:29 "it won't be harmed" "It has a name. It's called Skipper."

They continue to get the early-mid 80s UK clothing just right. Liz's fishtail skirt, with wide belt...yup..had those. Plus the mock turtle collar blouse and chunky necklace....I remember those well, though didn't wear them myself, my flat mates looked exactly like Liz.

15:00 Unironically amazing delivery

4:53 "The guy who was behind him in the eye, was a man that he knew and, until that day, trusted."

notice how "locked" those doors were, haha

I’ve only just realized that Graham isn’t meant to be a security guard - he’s dressed as a porter. A station porter. Because Garth and company didn’t know what a hospital porter was!

"A man he knew and until that day, trusted" ooh :(