Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth

Season 1, Episode 6, Aired 3/4/04

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Dr Sanchez's life is in danger from a patient with a fairly bad cosmic broccoli infection. It's down to Dr Rick Dagless, MD to save his buddy - and the world. Or if all else fails, come up with a delicious way of using excess broccoli. It won't come to that, though.moreless

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Alice Lowe

Madeleine Wool / Dr Liz Ascher
Matthew Holness

Garth Marenghi / Dr Rick Dagless, M.D.
Richard Ayoade

Dean Learner / Thornton Reed

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Sanchez falls in love with a woman who has been infected with cosmoc brocoli

7.4

"Good"

By dregj, Mar 30, 2007 Report Abuse

A relationship develops between sanchez and one of his beautiful female patients.
But the strage growths on her finger indecaate she is not long for this world.Dagless comes to the conclusion that she is infected by a space vegetable.
Only boiling her alive can stop her infecting others.
Unfortunately sanchez has already screwed her rotten.
Dagless needs to remove his little man in an attempt to save his friends life.Sanchez resists and a fight ensues
He awakens once the surgery has already been performed.
Fab episode
the fight sequence
the bad special effects
the idea of having a brocoli infected penis infected.
A classic of Darkplace like prportions
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What comedy should be!

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By jacksback21, Dec 17, 2006 Report Abuse

This episode pretty much sums up everything that makes Garth Marenghi's Darkplace great. Poor acting, terrible effects, bizarre script, no real plot, but fantastic humour. Obviously the terrible acting etc is on purpose, but its odd to say it, but the actors do a great job.

In this episode there are 2 classic scenes for which every Darkplace fan will remember, the cheesy 80's song where Sanchez reveals his real feelings about Liz and the epic fight scene between Sanchez and his 'buddy' Dagless. Both of which are pure comedy but the latter does end with a classic 'pointless shotgun' scene from Reed.

This episode alongside the pilot are two pinnacles in a great series of original comedy. Definatly something to look into.moreless

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- Stephen Merchant reprises his role as the hospital chef in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo near the end of the episode. But since he doesn't speak and his character isn't identified, the joke will be lost on anyone who hasn't seen his previous appearance in episode two. Edit
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- Thornton Reed: Now if Dag thinks the only way to contain this is to boil her, then I'm behind him one hundred and ten percent. That means I can backtrack ten percent and I'll still be completely behind him. Edit
- Padre: (to Rick Dagless) You're the most sensitive man I know, and I know god. Edit
- Garth Marenghi: The broccoli had gone. But the hurt remained. Edit
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- Doctor Who: This episode has a relation to the Doctor Who episode, "The Seeds of Doom". In that episode, plant creatures infect humans to change them into plant creatures. And when a blood sample is seen under a microscope, plant bacteria is seen to be growing within it. Here, people are being turned into broccoli creatures, and broccoli is seen to be growing in the microscope sample. Edit
- H. P. Lovecraft: The name of the episode, "The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth" combines several facets of Lovecraft's creeping amoeboid creatures known as Shoggoth, and the living fungoid creatures from the planet Yuggoth, except that in this episode, living broccoli replaces fungus. Edit