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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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Tone Grumbt
I live in Romford and yes I know Darkplace Hospital well you Muppets!
Arthur Goonie
The best parts of Scotland are the bits where no scotch lives
James West
elucidate!
Christopher Langan
This 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.
Ricky
Yes Scotland is known to be beautiful… but it was also Europes murder capital until recently 🤷🏼♂️😂
Ricky
Prestwick airport isn’t in Glasgow… it’s Ayrshire
Sam Popplestone
How dare you. Us Australians fear drop bears
mav
I love the Scotch , my missus is one and we used to live up there its gorgeous. like anywhere it has rough parts
Mean Biters
Could I request a react to Brian Badonde on art available on yt very funny video
R Lawrence
The scottish stuff was too silly to offend anyone. it was satirizing English snobbishness and xenophobia if anything.
Chris G
Elucidate was the word, basically means to 'make things clearer'
QueenKennaofStormholt
Appreciate the love for Scotland, KB! Howdy fae Edinburgh 👋
Yaapsdad
The showdown with the three Highland Warriors is set to bagpipe music mixed with Clint Eastwood spaghetti western style music. Great work
Yaapsdad
This is brilliant, as a "scotch" I can vouch for it's genius bigotry comedy value. " A 16 year old, mother of three... "
Yaapsdad
Braveheart 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
ALW
We 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
Right; 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
I 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.
Will
Although 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.
Dave Roberts
But I'm Welsh.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
"that's how badly we think of that movie here in the UK. " I'd amend that to "some", and primarily in England.
Z is for Zed
It's ironic that people had to elucidate in the comments section.
Stephen Williams
Everyone's English in Matilda. Except in the 1996 film, but the book and musical are in England.
Adam Druett
Everyone can take it. 0.1% that can’t that’s who this episode was made for.
BigChanChan
I 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!
Joe Thornhill
Sooo, 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.
Adam
If 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
Doug
the next episode has one of the best songs ever recorded in it
Doug
he said elucidate
Jason Scade
Great 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. 😋
Jon Chapman
IT 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"
Spoingus
I think it was pretty clear to most people that it was a satire of ignorant writers badly trying to address racism
Jason Scade
15:50-ish Dean Lerner being very harsh there on the IT crowd types.
AdamMcAdamface
Well this has been a fun exchange! I'm off to bed.
Mark Jones
I 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'! 🤣
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
@Ash X Frothing at the gash.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
@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.
Dave L
Yeh defo him lol, boomer usually good at spotting such things it slipped past him!
Dave L
Nice 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
Julian T
The Scottish don’t hate the English. If we hate on you it’s because it’s personal 😎
Julian T
Yeh we’re totally offended by Garth Marenghi hitting us where it hurts 😂
Dryfesands
You 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.
Ian Richards
Top 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.)
bdazzer85
Dark Place is one of them shows that u need to watch twice to appreciate all the mupperty
Dave Roberts
KB 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
Doesn'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
bet you're a Brexit and Trump supporter, going well isn't it!!
Dave Roberts
The 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.
Ash X
Almost certainly. Uncredited it seems.
Ash X
He said frothingly...
Ash X
No 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?"
Patrick Coyle
I thought that too!
Fordy7169
It'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.
Dave L
was one of the 'scotch mist' David Mitchell lol?
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
I'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.
Jamie
As no one have mentioned yet, it's also a play on the soup, 'Scotch Broth'.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
I'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.
Fordy7169
The SNP (Scottish National Party) numpties will be frothing at the mouth. Well known for their sense-of -humour-bypass characteristics.
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
Can't believe you didn't get the whole good, bad and the ugly part... With the music and everything... Especially with your cowboy posters 😂😂
R Lawrence
Yeah, far more a mockery of English snobbishess or even stupidity because the stereotype is so obviously stupid.
R Lawrence
Walter 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.
Mark Fraser
Loved 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.
Ash X
One of the "Scotch" was surely played by David Mitchell. Sure looked like him.
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
Dean 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
I know... Always worth a rewind after pausing
Rob G
The tune he’s playing on the bagpipes near the end sounds like the theme tune to Airwolf.
Tom Whitehurst
I love Richard so much, he does a great job of playing someone who can't act....nah wait everyone in this series is great.
AdamMcAdamface
Just 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!
David Lyons
'Brad Holmes' sounds like Sherlock's illegitimate American son. ...I'd watch that, actually.
R Lawrence
When 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"🙂.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
Another 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.
R Lawrence
Not hearing "elucidate": I'm afraid that one's on you two, not on unfamiliarity of dialect. Not this time folks. Soz.
R Lawrence
You hit the right note (so to speak) the 2nd time you said "Michael Caine".
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
I'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.
Michael
"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...
Richard Stokes
2 darkplaces in a week! A heroic effort. That's made my day!
Kirk Deighton
A classic. Allow me to elucidate, elucidate means enlighten by explanation.
Blair Carlton
I 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!
