No one but Berk knows what "Him Upstairs" looks like as he never leaves his room. Berk announcing his sudden departure from the castle after becoming so fed up from the creatures escaping through the trap door and the relentless demands of The Thing Upstairs in the Season 1 finale, shocking and saddening his friends (and the audience). Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Berk is a blue blob living in an ancient castle. The Thing Upstairs is the master of Berk and his full appearance have never been seen however Berk said he has wings in Slightly Weird a part of him was revealed to be a gooey mass in The Little Thing and he has multiple heads as revealed in Not Very Nice and The Pain. The show was set in a Haunted Castle owned by an unseen creature known only as 'The Thing Upstairs'. 15. He is never seen entirely, though a small portion of his body can seen briefly during a lightning flash  in "The Little Thing", appearing as a formless mass of lumpy flesh. The show would ultimately become a cult favorite and one of the most widely recognized family shows of the 1980's. Just before Berk could stop it, it gobbles the breakfast up, much to Berk’s annoyance. Berk soon catches the little orange blob, orders it to come downstairs with him, and to go back down the trap door, without any fuss. Berk has two companions, Boni and Drutt. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The Thing Upstairs The Thing Upstairs is a major but ultimately unseen character in the claymation series The Trapdoor - a cranky, hungry behemoth that lives upstairs, constantly shouting demands to his servent, Berk, to maintain the castle and prepare his meals. In the episode Slightly Weird, Berk mentions that the Thing Upstairs can fly, implying that he has wings. In the episode "Breakfast Time", the yellow thing emerges from the trap door as Berk opens it to let out some worms (for future cooking). Each time it stops it emits a loud fog horn. He is the protagonist of the show, and steward or caretaker of the monster's castle. However, the Little Thing obviously ignores Berk’s commands, and pushes him into the Thing Upstairs’ … The Yellow Thing notices the Thing Upstairs’ breakfast. His meals often consist of nasty things like bugs, worms, garbage, and other disgusting things that Berk cooks up in his kitchen and sends up via dumbwaiter. In order to help him complete his task, Berk must make use of the many objects lying around his part of the castle as well as the creatures that emerge from the trap door. A mix of horror, comedy and some fantasy, the series focused on the everyday life and mishaps of Berk, the overworked servant/chef to the mostly unseen Thing Upstairs. [1984] The Trap Door - 3D plasticine animation, featuring Berk, a blue creature who lives as a servant to the unseen 'Thing Upstairs' in an old dark house. Berk describes him as a "great giant carbuncle" or "wobbly lump of gooey blubber". A brief appearance of The Thing Upstairs. The Trap Door was a British Claymation show that first aired in 1984. He has also had a few body parts fall off, such as a giant fang in "The Pain", and one of his many detatchable eyeballs in "Not Very Nice". Every time the trap door opens a new adventure begins. He was voiced by Nick Shipley. Everyone is bored. The Thing Upstairs has a cold, so Berk makes him some of his special medicine. The Thing Upstairs is cranky, gluttonous, and even whiny at times, constantly shouting demands to Berk in every episode, mostly to feed him, but also to mend his clothes, give him baths, or simply to be quiet. They go and hide and leave Drutt with a pot on his head to make the game harder. There were also games "The Trap Door" and "Through the Trap Door" for 8-bit home computers. It originally aired on ITV between October 6, 1986 to July 28, 1990. The Thing Upstairs is a major but ultimately unseen character in the claymation series The Trapdoor - a cranky, hungry behemoth that lives upstairs, constantly shouting demands to his servent, Berk, to maintain the castle and prepare his meals. After such a satisfying meal, the Yellow Thing falls asleep. The Thing Upstairs ' Eyeball is an eyeball that Berk drops in Not Very Nice it ended up in The Trap Door but Berk got it back after finding it inside The Worm Beast. While the Thing Upstairs' appearance is never fully revealed, some hints about his physiology are dropped during the series. Slither, Wriggle and Writhe … Categories: Our hero "Berk" lives and works in the dungeons of the castle, forever striving to feed the 'Thing' upstairs that is always hungry! Deep within this dank and uninviting place lives Berk, the overworked servant of The Thing Upstairs. and "Sniff that!" The Trap Door is a British animated series. Meanwhile a little thing comes out of the trap door and zooms about so that Berk cannot catch it. Every time the trap door opens a new adventure begins for Berk and his pals; Boni (a talking skull) and Drutt (a mischievous spider)! — sibisi73 https://monster.fandom.com/wiki/The_Thing_Upstairs?oldid=48665. Throughout the series, he constantly makes demands of Berk such as cooking his meals, cleaning the castle, and other less savoury tasks like grooming him and cleaning his eyeballs. No one but Berk knows what "Him Upstairs" looks like as he never leaves his room. The Thing Upstairs is Berk's lord and master in the British children's show, The Trap Door. The Thing Upstairs is Berk's lord and master in the British children's show, The Trap Door. Play as Berk as you rush around an old castle preparing food for the thing upstairs and avoiding the ghoulish monsters that escape from the trap door. The Trap Door: The Trap Door - YouTube. To Berk's horror, it goes upstairs and into his master's bedroom. 3D plasticine animation, featuring Berk, a blue creature who lives as servant to the unseen 'Thing Upstairs' in an old dark house. 38 "Nasty Beasty" 14 July 1990: It is the middle of winter and Berk has to mend the Thing Upstairs's heater. Berk (voiced by Willie Rushton) is an oviform blue creature who speaks with a West Country accent. The Thing UpstairsisBerk's lord and master in the British children's show,The Trap Door.No one but Berk knows what "Him Upstairs" looks like as he never leaves his room. Throughout the series, he constantly makes demands of Berk such as cooking his meals, cleaning the castle, and other less savoury tasks like grooming him and cleaning his eyeballs. The main character was this creature's servant, a blue blob named Berk, who lived in the castle's lower floors and did his master's bidding, such as tidying up and cooking his various disgusting meals. The "Splund" of the title comes out of the trap door and teases Boni and Drutt, while Berk is sewing the Thing Upstairs' pyjamas (they had split due to overeating). As such, Berk often goes about his duties with simple-minded glee, and enjoys cooking with ingredients such as mud, eyeballs, snakes, and worms. This article is a stub and is in need of expansion. Written by sibisi73 Plot Summary | … As the Thing Upstairs ’ breakfast is eaten by the Yellow Thing, Berk accidentally leaves the trap door open, and the Big Red Thing comes out. However, the Red Thing pursues Berk, and he finds him. It then runs into Berk’s kitchen, knocking several things over, before it rushes through the hallway again, and races upstairs, where it sneaks into the Thing Upstairs’ bedroom. First episode. Add a photo to this gallery. He must cook food (from mostly worms and other crawling things) and send it upstairs fr the Thing using dumbwaiter. In Trap Door, the player takes control of Berk, who must perform tasks for "The Thing Upstairs", a never-seen entity who lives in the upper floors of the castle where Berk works. Berk is often warned not to open the trap door by his friends, or forbidden by his master, but often does so nonetheless. Every time the trap door opens a new adventure begins for Berk and his pals; Boni (a talking skull) and Drutt (a mischievous spider)! He also (somehow) wears pajamas. Narrated by William Rushton. Beneath the castle are a series of dark and mysterious caverns inhabited by all manner of "horrible things", accessible by the eponymous trap door. Berk, startled by the aggressive monster, runs away from him, and hides in an empty chamber. Every time the trap door opens a new adventure begins for Berk and his pals; Boni (a talking skull) and Drutt (a mischievous spider)! Although the emphasis of the show was the humor and the program itself was made for children, it drew much from horror and dark fantasy. The master of the castle, "The Thing Upstairs", resides in the attic of the castle and remains an unseen character throughout the entire show, shouting orders to Berk when hungry or annoyed. Breakfast Time The Big Red Thing being frightened by his own reflection and retreating. Him Upstairs is out, so Berk decides to play hide and seek. The master of the castle, "The Thing Upstairs", resides in the attic of the castle and remains an unseen character throughout the entire show, shouting orders to Berk when hungry or annoyed. Rogg comes up from the trap door with a green fuzzy thing stuck to him. In the episode The Little Thing, Berk sneaks into his master's bedroom and a flash of lightning illuminates a strange, fleshy heap that could be one of Him Upstairs' appendages. But that's nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath The Trap Door. Him Upstairs is asleep and so is Boni. As Berk drags the little green thing back to the trap door, he finds the creature's mum has come out too - … https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/The_Thing_Upstairs?oldid=4013802. The Thing Upstairs resides within a massive and ancient castle "in the dark and nasty regions where no-one goes". ", implying that Him Upstairs has multiple heads. The Thing Upstairs. The Trap Door was a children's claymation animated series which initially ran on Channel 4 from 1984 to 1986, but has since been repeated a number of times. Collapse. The show was set in a Haunted Castle owned by an unseen creature known only as 'The Thing Upstairs'. In the episode Not Very Nice, Berk has to remove one of his master's eyeballs to clean it, and when he tries putting it back, he mutters "Which head did I get it from? His usual exclamations include "Oh, Globbits!" Read more. 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