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LOUIS THEROUX: (shouting at ceiling) Hi Wallace, it's Louis. Are you coming down?
V.O.: I'd been told to expect the unexpected when Wallace came down for breakfast.
WALLACE: Be there in a minute! Enjoy the show!
LOUIS: (to Gromit) Is this normal?
![[Scene is a boardroom in the headquarters of the board game manufacturer, Parker Bros. The year is 1966]
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[show exterior of a factory building with 'PARKER BROS BOARD GAMES' written on the top]
PARKER 1:
Ok brothers - a quick run through our manufacturing schedule...
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[Switch to interior scene of the boardroom, in which the three Parker Brothers are having a meeting].
Parker 1:
So this year we'll be making: Monopoly, Cluedo, Risk, the portal to Hell thing,
Scrabble, and Tiddlywinks.
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Parker 2:
What was that?
Parker 1:
Tiddlywinks!
Parker 2:
No the bit about Hell
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Parker 1:
Ah yes - we're manufacturing ouija boards now
Parker 2:
What
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Parker 2:
Parker… we make *board games*...
Parker 1:
Yes, Parker! And this is a great family board game which may or may not be a portal to the Other Place.
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Parker 1:
You know, 2-6 players, summon a loved one, might be a daemon - great fun
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Parker 2:
Whose idea was this?
Parker 1:
Well I believe it was... Mr Shimmer?
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Parker 2:
Who is Mr Shimmer
[voice from off-scene]:
shimmmerrrrr...
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[Cut to a figure who is also sat at the boardroom table. It is a horrifying eldritch wraith, eyeless, pale, with a gaping, hissing black mouth drawn open in a foul, silent, endless grimace]
Mr Shimmer:
*sssshimmmerrrrr*...
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Parker 1:
Our new creative director! I met him at a seance, because it's 1966.
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Parker 1:
Mr Shimmer says he hopes there may soon be a set in every home in the land!
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Parker 1:
Come - shall we play?
[he shifts his body forward in his chair slightly, and we glimpse behind him the terrifying eyes of another demon sat behind him, a la this iconic bit in Insidious]
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