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Somewhere on the wards of Darkplace Hospital, a man gives birth to a giant eyeball which brings out paternalistic instincts in Dr Rick Dagless, still grieving for the loss of his half-human, half-grasshopper son. But could the eyeball be a potential killer? Well, what do you think? Duh!moreless
  • A man gives birth to a mutant eye baby Dag hides the child and intends to raise him to replace his dead son. but is the baby dangerous

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    following a bizarre and quite frankly seriously unlikley events a patient give birth to a giant eyeball.
    We see dag flash back to happier times
    playing in the garden with his half grasshopper son.
    We later discover the boy is long dead and the despair has been eating up dag for years
    and we just didnt hear a word about it before now.
    Dag hide the child from his colleagues and doesnt help with there investigation into a possible monster in the hospital.
    Dag is eventually discovered and refuses to hand over skipper
    until that is he bite him.
    An enraged dag beat the baby to death off any hard surface he can find case closed

    The description of how the grasshopper boy died was brilliant
    the stupid death of the eye baby was great
    the strange and suspicous behaviuor of dag was so over the top
    an other classicmoreless
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    • Another Authenticity note: It's hard to be absolutely certain, but when Rick gives Sanchez a pound, it looks like he actually gives him a pound coin. If so, then in Garth Marenghi's universe this episode must have been made after June 1983, since that's when pound coins were introduced.

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    • Garth: When I impregnated my wife, Pam, she dutifully gave birth to twins; a huge relief. Though for years I couldn't shake off the fear that one of them might eat the other.

    • Thornton Reed: Dag! Any thoughts? Rick Dagless: I... don't know anything about it. Besides, i think there are more important matters at present. Thornton Reed: Could you give me an example? Rick Dagless: Like hospital bloody hygiene, I went into the gents and there was a big pube stuck to the pipe so i had to use the one in 'E' wing. Lucien Sanchez: It's true! I went there two month-back and there was a piece of shit stuck to the seat! Rick Dagless: Well someones gonna have to pick that pube off the pipe and it ain't gonna be me! Liz Asher: Come on, surely we can talk about something more sanitary! Rick Dagless: As if your fanny never graced a pan! Lucien Sanchez: Whats crawled up your crack? Rick Dagless: She has! Shes so up herself! Lucien Sanchez: You shut your mouth, or so help me god i'll punch your lights out! Lucien Sanchez: Dunno what the hell's gotten into him! Come on Liz, i'll help you apply some more make-up.

    • Thornton Reed: (After Rick goes mad trying to save Skipper and in a completely monotonous tone) Look out, he's got a stick!

    • Dr. Rick Dagless: What I couldn't work out was how he'd managed to make another man pregnant. I guess we'll never know. So, just to restate, that is something we'll never know, you're not going to find out later.

    • Rick Dagless: When you're different, people fear you. Look at Michael Jackson.

    • Liz Asher: What are you reading? Rick Dagless:Oh nothing just some horror novel by this guy, Garath Marungi.

    • Rick Dagless: At least he would be at peace now, on account of being dead.

    • Garth Marenghi: Other times I copied the storylines from dead authors whose copyright had expired. Bite me.

    • Garth Marenghi: She knew babies were meant to kick. But were they meant to scratch? No, they weren't.

    • Rick: He has born half boy, half grasshopper. He never had a chance. Rick: He was different too, and when you're different, people fear you. Just look at Michael Jackson - or The Krankies, although I think they're quite shrewd. Sanchez: She's a good girl. You're too hard on her, Dag. Rick: I know. I just don't find her physically attractive. Rick picks up a Garth Marenghi paperback and starts reading. Rick: "Romford is the cruelest of cities." Good start. "Beneath its skyline's tattered shards lay a million broken dreams." This is good. I've misjudged the genre like so many. Rick: Nothing could take the place of my son. Not even a pet, though I would like a Jack Russell - they're very clever dogs.

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    • Lots of back-story in this episode: we learn that Garth is married to Pam and has four daughters, the eldest of which are twins. And in the show-within-the-show, we learn that Rick fought in Vietnam, and is (was?) married and had a son named Skipper.

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