this show is secretly a comedy

Always loved this wallpaper in George’s room, but only upon this rewatch it dawned on me where these gnomes come from: the Dutch The Secret Book of Gnomes book series illustrated by Rien Poortvliet. Which had a cartoon series in the 80s The World of David the Gnome.

In the behind the scenes video about the Pink House the set designer talked about how the thought would be that George ended up in a kids’ room by tossing a coin and that it was always too small to contain his werewolf. And it’s probably not a coincidence that the age of innocence ended for the trio in the episode when we see this wallpaper for the last time – in the end of the said episode Mitchell becomes the leader of the Bristol vampire clan and it’s the beginning of the end for all of them basically.

Hal: It goes in cycles. 50 years, then 55, from good to bad to good to worse.

Alex: Maybe we can stop the cycle. Force you to stay good and then you'll break it? Like a fever.

Hal: But I'll scream. And I'll shout and I'll plead and I'll threaten you.

Tom: We don't understand most of what you're saying anyway.

Hal: Then why are you doing this?

I was up in Totterdown in Bristol today wandering around an arts trail and cursing the hills in this area when I got distracted squinting at this place. They must have added the door on the corner at some point but I'd know it anywhere:

Look, why don’t you two go out? Let me finish up here, it’s the least I can do.