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| “ | Not now Silent Singer! | „ |
| ~ Jeremy Goode every time he sees the Silent Singer. |
The Silent Singer is a minor antagonist in the BBC psychological horror, mystery, sitcom series Psychoville it is an enigmatic thought form encountered by Jeremy Goode who torments him during times of excessive stress, anxiety or emotional lows, usually forcing him to take extreme measures to regain composure and get rid of the entity.
He was portrayed by Reece Shearsmith who also portrayed Jeremy Goode himself, Mr. Jelly and Maureen Sowerbutts in the same series as well as Edward Tattsyrup, Geoff Tipps, Ross Gaines, Papa Lazarou, Bernice Woodall, Oliver Plimsoles, Judee Levinson, Cathy Carter-Smith and Father Halfhearte in The League of Gentlemen, Ray Tom, Hector, Dr. Maxwell, Mr. Warren, George, Dr. Jacob Tyler, David, Henry, Viktor, Neville Griffin and SPC Varney in Inside No. 9, Malcolm Webster in The Widower, Gagan Rassmussen in Doctor Who and one third of the Vogons in the 2005 film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Biography[]
The Silent Singer started life after Jeremy Goode began feigning schizophrenia so he wouldn't be discharged from Ravenhill hospital out of a desire to continue working with Edwina Kenchington to solve her equations in order to find a way of bringing her father back to life. However in the process of his faking he accidentally winded up genuinely getting schizophrenia and would regularly be haunted by the sight of the Silent Singer for the rest of his life. Eventually when he and Kenchington finally cracked the code he was discharged from Ravenhill and began work as a librarian having a severe obsession with order and control so to not be confronted by the Silent Singer. This didn't always work however and he would regularly be seen by him at the most inconvenient and annoying times.
When a woman claimed to have lost a copy of 50 Great Coastal Walks of the British Isles Volume 2 the Silent Singer came back even more frequently than usual, constantly goading a desperate Jeremy to take extreme measures to get the book back which included stalking the woman who borrowed it, intimidating her daughter into looking for it and dognapping their family pet just so he can get it back on time. Inevitably this led to Jeremy getting caught into trouble with the police and he was interviewed by Detective Finney who was perplexed as to how he entered Ravenhill with relatively minor symptoms of an unspecified anxiety disorder yet emerged as a recovering schizophrenic leading Jeremy to explain everything to him including the Silent Singer and the complicated equations he helped Kenchington uncover and how that connected to her locket and immortality.
After Jeremy finally got the book back he began flipping through it only to find nothing but blank pages causing a mental breakdown which to his dismay would mean the Silent Singer would never leave him alone.
Personality[]
The Silent Singer has no real personality, only existing as a relatively random and strange creature who haunts Jeremy Goode's every movement and seems to enjoy getting him to commit crimes, suggesting that it might be reasonably sadistic.
Appearance[]
The Silent Singer is a pale, androgynous entity with blue eyes, fang like teeth and blonde hair styled into twin braided pigtails. He wears a blue shirt along with red three quarter length slacks, black pumps, a leopard print scarf tied like a necktie and a pair of thin rimmed, large red glasses. He also wears white gloves on his hands and brandishes a walking stick that he uses as a microphone to sing into.
Trivia[]
- The Silent Singer was created by Reece and Steve back in the early 90s when they were living together in a flat which would later be used as inspiration for the setting of their play turned Inside No. 9 episode "Tom & Gerri" as well as partially for the creation of Papa Lazarou. At the time the creature was merely something both of them would use as an inside joke which involved one of them dressing up as him and dancing in the corner of the room until the other one noticed what they were doing.
- The Silent Singer as well as Jeremy's quote whenever seeing him "Not now Silent Singer!" has became a meme in recent years since Psychoville's end.
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