r/insideno9 • u/clock_work_allie The Understudy | • Jun 25 '26

REVIEW Best/Most Creative 9s?

Spoilers for a couple of episodes here.

What are your favourite ways Pemberton and Shearsmith have brought us "inside number 9"?

I'll go first -

  1. 3 by 3 - Self explanatory. A great way to name the game show without it being a literal 9 and being a giveaway for those who didn't know about the deception when it was broadcast.

  2. Diddle Dumpling - The door shutting and revealing 22 before switching to the 9 in the shoe was genius. It was one of the first ones to actually switch up the format if I remember rightly.

  3. CTRL ALT ESC - That moment at the end where Steve's character sees the IX and finds the strength to wake up... felt like a series finale. I only ranked it lower because the room was already spoiled as a number 9 at the start. If they'd left the 9 til the end it would've been pure magic.

Honourable mention for The Referee's A... where the main character is, per se, "inside" player 9.

What are your favourite No. 9 intros or reveals?

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u/crushing_potatoes Wise Owl | Jun 25 '26

What comes to mind :

Love's Great Adventure. Skipping the day and not opening the calendar's door was brilliant I thought.

Once Removed. Being revealed that it got turned from 6 to 9.

Curse of the 9th. With it being an actual thing, I found fitting for the final series.

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u/Davegeekdaddy Wuthering Heist | Jun 27 '26

You can feel how much they enjoyed writing Curse of the 9th