Garth Marenghi's Darkplace S1 Ep5 "Scotch Mist" REACTION!
Added 2025-02-08 17:00:02 +0000 UTCThey did Scotland dirty!
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I live in Romford and yes I know Darkplace Hospital well you Muppets!
Tone Grumbt
2025-04-05 22:50:53 +0000 UTCThe best parts of Scotland are the bits where no scotch lives
Arthur Goonie
2025-03-30 15:31:28 +0000 UTCelucidate!
James West
2025-03-24 23:28:41 +0000 UTCThis wouldn't offend Scottish people because the joke isn't at their expense, it's at the expense of the Garth Marenghi character. Comedy that plays with ethnic stereotypes is funny as long as the joke is about the person being bigoted rather than the subject of the stereotypes, like Borat talking about Jews. There was an un-self-aware SNL sketch about Irish people being incestuous that was received very poorly here in Ireland, as an example of the opposite situation.
Christopher Langan
2025-02-17 15:53:39 +0000 UTCYes Scotland is known to be beautiful… but it was also Europes murder capital until recently 🤷🏼♂️😂
Ricky
2025-02-17 01:06:01 +0000 UTCPrestwick airport isn’t in Glasgow… it’s Ayrshire
Ricky
2025-02-17 00:58:10 +0000 UTCHow dare you. Us Australians fear drop bears
Sam Popplestone
2025-02-12 08:27:28 +0000 UTCI love the Scotch , my missus is one and we used to live up there its gorgeous. like anywhere it has rough parts
mav
2025-02-11 11:12:34 +0000 UTCCould I request a react to Brian Badonde on art available on yt very funny video
Mean Biters
2025-02-10 22:46:35 +0000 UTCThe scottish stuff was too silly to offend anyone. it was satirizing English snobbishness and xenophobia if anything.
R Lawrence
2025-02-10 21:51:53 +0000 UTCElucidate was the word, basically means to 'make things clearer'
Chris G
2025-02-10 20:45:30 +0000 UTCAppreciate the love for Scotland, KB! Howdy fae Edinburgh 👋
QueenKennaofStormholt
2025-02-10 12:05:48 +0000 UTCThe showdown with the three Highland Warriors is set to bagpipe music mixed with Clint Eastwood spaghetti western style music. Great work
Yaapsdad
2025-02-09 21:55:52 +0000 UTCThis is brilliant, as a "scotch" I can vouch for it's genius bigotry comedy value. " A 16 year old, mother of three... "
Yaapsdad
2025-02-09 21:47:05 +0000 UTCBraveheart as a piece of entertainment is good. Historically it's a bag of shit. So thanks Mel Gibson. One of the many inaccuracies, though not the most notable, is the face painting with wode. Although this did take place, it was several hundred years earlier that it was used. During the time of William Wallace it did not happen
Yaapsdad
2025-02-09 21:37:23 +0000 UTCWe mock each other but it's all in good fun. You can usually tell the difference between friendly banter and genuine bigotry, and after all, Garth Marenghi has already proven himself to be a most cringeworthy human being. So of course he's weird about people from other countries, even ones in the same union.
ALW
2025-02-09 21:10:15 +0000 UTCRight; the only way a Scot should be offended at this is if they took Marenghi at face value. And it's been five episodes, more than enough to show you what kind of knob he is.
ALW
2025-02-09 21:08:52 +0000 UTCI have definitely met many Scots who cringe at Braveheart. It's history is atrocious when it didn't need to be, and it made Scotland look poor and backwards instead of a country on a similar technological level to England.
ALW
2025-02-09 21:07:07 +0000 UTCAlthough the term 'soccer' as an abbreviation for association football originated in those English private schools that invented that form of football, just like they called Rugby football 'rugger'. It's just that 'soccer' caught on in North America and fell out of fashion in Britain.
Will
2025-02-09 19:42:55 +0000 UTCBut I'm Welsh.
Dave Roberts
2025-02-09 16:32:10 +0000 UTC"that's how badly we think of that movie here in the UK. " I'd amend that to "some", and primarily in England.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-02-09 15:58:12 +0000 UTCIt's ironic that people had to elucidate in the comments section.
Z is for Zed
2025-02-09 15:37:11 +0000 UTCEveryone's English in Matilda. Except in the 1996 film, but the book and musical are in England.
Stephen Williams
2025-02-09 10:21:07 +0000 UTCEveryone can take it. 0.1% that can’t that’s who this episode was made for.
Adam Druett
2025-02-09 06:59:04 +0000 UTCI agree... This is my second time of watching and I've noticed loads of fine details this time around that I missed the first time!
BigChanChan
2025-02-09 06:09:31 +0000 UTCSooo, was your niece PLAYING Matilda? Or was she IN Matilda, playing Miss Trunchbull? Because I'm pretty sure she's the only English character in it.
Joe Thornhill
2025-02-09 05:34:11 +0000 UTCIf they can’t handle the banter then tough luck. It’s all we have left. They may take out land but they’ll never take the bants
Adam
2025-02-09 04:54:21 +0000 UTCthe next episode has one of the best songs ever recorded in it
Doug
2025-02-09 04:39:33 +0000 UTChe said elucidate
Doug
2025-02-09 04:00:44 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, both of you. 😂 As a Scotsman, I can say this is very funny. Now let's get back to dissing the Welsh. 20:54 "It looked bad. It looked like I was going to have to spend the night in Glasgow." "Jesus Christ!" 🤣 I do that almost every night. 21:03 Queen B "Isn't Scotland beautiful?" Yes, very. ♥ If you both ever come to the UK and want to see Scotland, my missus and I would be honored to host you and tour guide. Save on accommodation and food. As much haggis and black pudding that you can eat. 😋
Jason Scade
2025-02-09 02:35:06 +0000 UTCIT sounds like he says "halucidate", which is on brand as it's a mis-spelling of the word "elucidate": "to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis"
Jon Chapman
2025-02-09 01:58:02 +0000 UTCI think it was pretty clear to most people that it was a satire of ignorant writers badly trying to address racism
Spoingus
2025-02-09 00:53:26 +0000 UTC15:50-ish Dean Lerner being very harsh there on the IT crowd types.
Jason Scade
2025-02-09 00:50:22 +0000 UTCWell this has been a fun exchange! I'm off to bed.
AdamMcAdamface
2025-02-09 00:28:03 +0000 UTCI mean. surely it's to be expected and accepted that there's a fair bit of rabid hate for the English in all the Celtic nations no? In Wales we still have a common saying which translates as 'All Englishmen are arseholes'! 🤣
Mark Jones
2025-02-09 00:12:38 +0000 UTC@Ash X Frothing at the gash.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-02-08 23:18:44 +0000 UTC@Fordy7169 That's true of people in both countries. The mere idea of the SNP existing unsettles some in England, who mistake something positive for Scotland, as something negative about England. We know how to take a joke. Just like most English people.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-02-08 23:13:00 +0000 UTCYeh defo him lol, boomer usually good at spotting such things it slipped past him!
Dave L
2025-02-08 22:38:09 +0000 UTCNice to see some fun poked at the Scots for a change 😉 (from proud Englishman, albeit one who secretly quite likes the idea of being Irish or Scottish) #stillgame #dubliners #flowerofscotland
Dave L
2025-02-08 22:34:15 +0000 UTCThe Scottish don’t hate the English. If we hate on you it’s because it’s personal 😎
Julian T
2025-02-08 22:28:05 +0000 UTCYeh we’re totally offended by Garth Marenghi hitting us where it hurts 😂
Julian T
2025-02-08 22:26:39 +0000 UTCYou do realize *you're* the only one displaying rabid anti-anything sentiments here don't you? I just want to make sure you get that irony.
Dryfesands
2025-02-08 22:20:00 +0000 UTCTop tip, guys: you're American, so just say the words "space ghettoes" in your own accent and you'll instantly sound like a Scot saying "Spice Girls". (Granted, this life hack has fairly limited applications, but if you ever find yourself trapped in a mist-shrouded hell-hospital hunted by ghostly highlanders who are trying to turn you ginger, you'll know what to do.)
Ian Richards
2025-02-08 21:28:59 +0000 UTCDark Place is one of them shows that u need to watch twice to appreciate all the mupperty
bdazzer85
2025-02-08 21:20:43 +0000 UTCKB doesn't even seem to get The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ending as well as the theme music. Thought he was a film fan.
Dave Roberts
2025-02-08 21:15:53 +0000 UTCDoesn't even seem to get The Good, The Bad and The Ugly joke and theme towards the end, thought KB was a film fan!!
Dave Roberts
2025-02-08 21:13:16 +0000 UTCbet you're a Brexit and Trump supporter, going well isn't it!!
Dave Roberts
2025-02-08 21:00:17 +0000 UTCThe depiction of the Scotts in this seemed more realistic to us in the UK than in Braveheart, that's how badly we think of that movie here in the UK. That's why the Oscars aren't taken seriously either.
Dave Roberts
2025-02-08 20:58:43 +0000 UTCAlmost certainly. Uncredited it seems.
Ash X
2025-02-08 20:55:06 +0000 UTCHe said frothingly...
Ash X
2025-02-08 20:52:47 +0000 UTCNo it's not! It is fairly well-known but old phrase: "Scotch mist" means something difficult to find or see. If you look into a cupboard to find something and cannot see it, but someone says it is definitely in there, you could reply "what does it look like? Scotch mist?"
Ash X
2025-02-08 20:51:36 +0000 UTCI thought that too!
Patrick Coyle
2025-02-08 20:43:25 +0000 UTCIt's to your credit that you can take the piss-taking from south of the border but you can't deny there aren't some Scottish people with rabid anti-English sentiments.
Fordy7169
2025-02-08 20:41:53 +0000 UTCwas one of the 'scotch mist' David Mitchell lol?
Dave L
2025-02-08 20:19:45 +0000 UTCI'm one of those SNP "numpties". I wasn't "frothing at the mouth". We know how to take a joke, though you sound pretty triggered by the idea of us taking any offence.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-02-08 20:06:12 +0000 UTCAs no one have mentioned yet, it's also a play on the soup, 'Scotch Broth'.
Jamie
2025-02-08 20:05:18 +0000 UTCI've read that too, although from what I understand "Scotch" was always used by a minority of people in Scotland to call Scots. Like some Eton type people call football "soccer", in England. but the majority never have, and they hate the term.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-02-08 20:05:09 +0000 UTCThe SNP (Scottish National Party) numpties will be frothing at the mouth. Well known for their sense-of -humour-bypass characteristics.
Fordy7169
2025-02-08 19:46:42 +0000 UTCCan't believe you didn't get the whole good, bad and the ugly part... With the music and everything... Especially with your cowboy posters 😂😂
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2025-02-08 19:45:37 +0000 UTCYeah, far more a mockery of English snobbishess or even stupidity because the stereotype is so obviously stupid.
R Lawrence
2025-02-08 19:43:46 +0000 UTCWalter Scott, the greatest scottish writer, in fact possibly the greatest writer period, used to use "scotch" but that was centuries ago. He's well worth reading if you haven't already though I'd say start with novel "Old Mortality" (NOT waverly) and use a dictionary. He was Dickens' favourite novelist. People say Walter Scott is "dated", but they are "Historical novels" so that's kind of the point. I don't need to be transported into the present: I'm already here.
R Lawrence
2025-02-08 19:40:50 +0000 UTCLoved the reaction but I think you took it at face value a bit too much if you think Scots would be offended by this. As a Scot, it seemed clear to me this was an English show poking fun at themselves, highlighting the typical English perception of Scots as beneath them, which is why Marenghi and Learner are written to be so comically bigoted towards us, and are patronising when it’s some great revelation to them that we’re people too. We have people that lack a sense of humour here too, but what they did in this episode isn’t that different from when we make fun of our own stereotypes, so I don’t think there’d be any big controversy if this came out today.
Mark Fraser
2025-02-08 19:32:10 +0000 UTCOne of the "Scotch" was surely played by David Mitchell. Sure looked like him.
Ash X
2025-02-08 19:28:45 +0000 UTCDean learner has a series after this, again it's a 6 episode run. It's amazing, a bit like knowing me knowing you
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2025-02-08 19:28:31 +0000 UTCI know... Always worth a rewind after pausing
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2025-02-08 19:23:32 +0000 UTCThe tune he’s playing on the bagpipes near the end sounds like the theme tune to Airwolf.
Rob G
2025-02-08 18:49:43 +0000 UTCI love Richard so much, he does a great job of playing someone who can't act....nah wait everyone in this series is great.
Tom Whitehurst
2025-02-08 18:41:40 +0000 UTCJust remember that you reacted to that Stewart Lee routine where he was in front of a Glasgow audience basically calling William Wallace a paedophile, and the audience loved it! Yeah there might be the odd person who takes offence, but the only way a comedian is going to piss off a Glaswegian stand up audience is if the comedian is not funny or is dying on stage, in which case the audience will happily rip them to shreds!
AdamMcAdamface
2025-02-08 18:12:12 +0000 UTC'Brad Holmes' sounds like Sherlock's illegitimate American son. ...I'd watch that, actually.
David Lyons
2025-02-08 18:11:49 +0000 UTCWhen you paused it you missed that when he tasted what was on the ground he said "porridge". Porridge (or oatmeal as you call it) is more eaten in Scotland than England. That's what made him then say "it's scotch mist"🙂.
R Lawrence
2025-02-08 18:06:46 +0000 UTCAnother thing about British accents is they're affected by class, as well as region. Upper class people in all parts of England, will put on a sort of southern English (Queen Elizabeth / RP) accent, or something close to it, which is mostly associated with the south. They try remove as much of their local accent as they can. Yet Cockney and other southern English working class accents sound distinct from RP accent too. You'll find some posh families in Edinburgh do the same. They sound quite English to us. English accents had a vowel shift that never caught on in Scotland.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-02-08 18:01:58 +0000 UTCNot hearing "elucidate": I'm afraid that one's on you two, not on unfamiliarity of dialect. Not this time folks. Soz.
R Lawrence
2025-02-08 17:50:21 +0000 UTCYou hit the right note (so to speak) the 2nd time you said "Michael Caine".
R Lawrence
2025-02-08 17:28:38 +0000 UTCI'm Scottish, and like the idea of Scotch wind. You're right, we prefer Scottish/Scots to Scotch. Scotch is a drink. Yes, some tribes in Scotland (Picts) used to paint their bodies blue, and had tattoos, (that's where the name Picts came from). The Romans called them "the painted people". No idea what the picts called themselves. They didn't leave much in the way of written documents, except for symbols and such. Modern Scots are primarily the descendants of the Scoti (who came over from Ireland in the 3rd century) and the Picts. The Picts were forcibly assimilated into the Scotti-ish culture. This was long before there were countries in Britain, and just tribes.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-02-08 17:25:01 +0000 UTC"Tradies" is indeed short for Trades Person, we cant help but abbreviate everything for no reason - occasionally they catch on and Tradies is now entrenched, everywhere...
Michael
2025-02-08 17:24:35 +0000 UTC2 darkplaces in a week! A heroic effort. That's made my day!
Richard Stokes
2025-02-08 17:22:45 +0000 UTCA classic. Allow me to elucidate, elucidate means enlighten by explanation.
Kirk Deighton
2025-02-08 17:09:50 +0000 UTCI went to see Garth Marenghi in character at a show in Edinburgh last year and the audience Q&A part of the show was literally filled with people asking why he was in Scotland if he hated it so much!
Blair Carlton
2025-02-08 17:06:20 +0000 UTC
