# Garth Marenghi's Darkplace **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garth-marenghis-darkplace/786712 "2017-05-16T02:49:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garth-marenghis-darkplace/786712/1 "2017-05-16T02:49:22Z")
How the hell did I miss this show? Oh, I know, Adult Swim was too busy advertising Squidbillies or Tim and Eric Are Untalented Hacks. Watching this for the first time, and I love the hell out of it. It just feels like a perfect send up of shitty 80’s soap operas with supernatural overtones. Too bad it’s only six episodes. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garth-marenghis-darkplace/786712/2 "2017-05-16T02:54:34Z")
“Blood. Blood. Bright, copper-smelling blood. Blood. Blood. And bits of sick.” It’s a hilarious show. Have you watched the Australian series Danger Five? It has some of the same crazy parody appeal (a '60s type show for the first series and an '80s type show for the second series). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garth-marenghis-darkplace/786712/3 "2017-05-16T03:35:29Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > How the hell did I miss this show? Oh, I know, Adult Swim was too busy advertising Squidbillies or Tim and Eric Are Untalented Hacks. I think this should probably be the name of an official VOD channel, at least. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garth-marenghis-darkplace/786712/4 "2017-05-16T13:38:24Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > “Blood. Blood. Bright, copper-smelling blood. Blood. Blood. And bits of sick.” > > It’s a hilarious show. Have you watched the Australian series Danger Five? It has some of the same crazy parody appeal (a '60s type show for the first series and an '80s type show for the second series). Oh yes, both seasons. The recurring gag of Hitler escaping by diving through a window is a running reference for my circle of friends. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garth-marenghis-darkplace/786712/5 "2017-05-16T13:40:03Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I think this should probably be the name of an official VOD channel, at least. It really should. I’d love to see a little compacting of the fracturing streaming on demand market to go along with that… there are so many options, it’s hard to know what’s available sometimes. Roku’s built-in search is decent, but not comprehensive, and every website that tries to index streaming offerings seems pretty underwhelming. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garth-marenghis-darkplace/786712/6 "2017-05-16T16:48:33Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > How the hell did I miss this show? Oh, I know, Adult Swim was too busy advertising Squidbillies or Tim and Eric Are Untalented Hacks. Watching this for the first time, and I love the hell out of it. > > It just feels like a perfect send up of shitty 80’s soap operas with supernatural overtones. Too bad it’s only six episodes. Even sadder–if US ratings had been better they were going to make new episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Crybaby\_Boobie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crybaby_boobie/32/545_2.png) [@Crybaby\_Boobie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crybaby_Boobie)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garth-marenghis-darkplace/786712/7 "2017-05-16T17:00:51Z")
Have you sought out Man to Man with Dean Lerner then? Darkplace is amazing. I assume you are now watching it due to the MST3K reference 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garth-marenghis-darkplace/786712/8 "2017-05-17T13:26:44Z")
> [@Crybaby\_Boobie](#): > > Have you sought out Man to Man with Dean Lerner then? > > Darkplace is amazing. I assume you are now watching it due to the MST3K reference 🙂 That is what finally pushed me to seek it out. I’d tried to find it once about six months ago, after browsing Richard Ayoade’s Wikipedia entry, but I gave up. The MST3K riff bumped it up to ‘must-find’. Haven’t looked for Man to Man, but I was pleased to see that Youtube has some of the supplemental features from the Darkplace DVD set as well!