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Sorry mum... I did a bad murder.
~ David's most famous quote.

David Sowerbutts is the deuteragonist of the BBC psychological horror, mystery sitcom show Psychoville and the main protagonist of the 2020 Inside No. 9 episode "Death Be Not Proud". He is the beloved son of Maureen Sowerbutts and a slightly mentally challenged serial killer fanboy who shares an uncomfortably intimate relationship with his mother.

Overtime David starts to clean up his act and become a better person due to his mother's untimely death forcing him to become more responsible until she began to influence him slowly down the dark path once again...

He was portrayed by Steve Pemberton who also played Oscar Lomax and Hattie in the same series as well as Tubbs Tattsyrup, Pauline Campbell-Jones, Harvey Denton Herr Lipp, Pop and Lemuel Blizzard in The League of Gentlemen, Eddie, Migg, Graham, Mr. Clarke, Professor Squires, Adrian and Galen in Inside No. 9 and one third of the Vogons in the 2005 film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Biography[]

Backstory[]

Psychoville season 1[]

Psychoville season 2[]

Death Be Not Proud[]

Personality[]

David is very childlike and immature man but still a reasonably friendly one with a moral conscious in spite of his murderous nature. He is shown to be mentally handicapped in some ways and shows signs throughout the series of emotional damage perhaps due to his father's death. He was incredibly close to his mother when she was alive as well and was devastated when she died as the two were essentially best friends as well as mother and son. He later matured somewhat after Maureen's death however and became a more relaxed and well rounded man, even falling in love and starting a relationship with Emily and having a son and steady job until his mother's ghost returned and started trying to corrupt him forcing him to lose everything and become a much more melancholic and weary man who would warn others moving into his old flat about his mother. He appears to have reversed somewhere between all of this after dying himself and becoming a ghost.

Appearance[]

In Psychoville David is 38 years old and appears as a fair skinned, slack jawed, pot-bellied man with ginger hair styled in an unflattering bowl cut, thick glasses and blue eyes. He is usually seen wearing a black quilted leather jacket over the top of everyday casual wear alongside a pair of old stained trainers.

By the time of "Death Be Not Proud" he looks mostly the same however has visibly aged due to the ten year time gap.

Trivia[]

  • David's obsession with serial killers is actually a reference to Reece Shearsmith's fascination with true crime (Which is ironic considering he played a real life serial killer a few years after Psychoville concluded).
  • David has two YouTube channels both of which tie into Psychoville.

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Psychoville
Mr. Jelly | David Sowerbutts | Maureen Sowerbutts | Oscar Lomax | Michael Fry | Joy Aston | Robert Greenspan | Kerry | Brian MacMillan | Mr. Jolly | Nurse Kenchington | Andrews Corporation (Grace Andrews, Detective Finney, Kelvin) | Peter Bishop | Hattie | Jeremy Goode | Silent Singer | Dr. Friedrich Ehrlichmann

Inside No. 9
Sardines: Pip Harrison | Andrew
A Quiet Night In: Ray & Eddie | Gerald | Paul
Tom & Gerri: Tom | Migg
Last Gasp: Graham Vickers | Sally | Si
The Understudy: Kirstie | Felicity
The Harrowing: Hector and Tabitha | Shell | Castiel
La Couchette: Dr. Maxwell
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge: Elizabeth Gadge | Mr. Warren | Sir Andrew Pike | Richard Two Shoes
Cold Comfort: George
The Devil of Christmas: Dennis Fulcher | Kathy | Krampus
The Bill: Archie | Craig | Karen | Kevin | Malcolm
The Riddle of the Sphinx: Professor Squires | Dr. Jacob Tyler | Nina Noona
Empty Orchestra: Connie
Diddle Diddle Dumpling: David
Private View: Jean Quinn
Zanzibar: Henry
Once Removed: Viktor | Charles
To Have & to Hold: Adrian
Tempting Fate: Keith | Hare Statue | Maz
Deadline: Ghosts of Granada Studios
The Referee's a W***er: Martin Rutherford
Death be Not Proud: David Sowerbutts | Maureen Sowerbutts | Beattie
Misdirection: Neville Griffin | Gabriel
Thinking Out Loud: Galen Landry | Bill Ryland
The Stakeout: SPC Varney
Wuthering Heist: Arlo, a Fool | Pantalone, a Rogue | Hortensia, his Daughter | Scaramouche, a Soldier | The Doctor | Mario, his Son
Simon Says: Spencer Maguire | Simon Smethurst
Lip Service: Iris
Hurry Up and Wait: Bev | Oona and Stan
How Do You Plead?: Webster | Urban Bedford | The Lift Attendant
Last Night at The Proms: Brian
Mr. King: Mr. Edwards | Winnie | Ceri Morgan
Nine Lives Kat: Ezra Jones | Matilda Gordon
Kid/Nap: Lara | Shane | Clifford
A Random Act of Kindness: Rudolph Brann
Wise Owl: Wilf
Mother's Ruin: Edward Blackwood | Frannie Stone | Reggie Stone
Love Is A Stranger: Vicky
3 by 3: Margaret Oakwood
The Last Weekend: Chas | Joe Madison
Boo to a Goose: Finn | Gerry | Harold
The Trolley Problem: Blake Chambers | Drew Dawson

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