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->"He pulls a gun out of his ass and shoots them. [{{beat}}] [[NotHyperbole No, really]], he pulls'' a gun ''out of'' his ass ''and'' shoots them. ''I so wish [[MoralGuardians Mary Whitehouse]] was still alive to see this; her head would pop off, spin around three times and land on her neck upside-down again."
-->-- '''{{SFDebris}}'''
The casual viewer might be forgiven for assuming that he's ingested the wrong substances and is hallucinating a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/BigBrother'' crossover, but no -- the Doctor really ''has'' landed in the ''Series/BigBrother'' house. Of the 2002nd century. He's as confused as the casual viewer.
Rose, meanwhile, has ended up in a futuristic ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/TheWeakestLink'' crossover; and Jack Harkness in a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/WhatNotToWear'' crossover staffed by naked robots (with whom Jack flirts). The casual viewer may be forgiven for thinking that this is all rather ''strange''...
No, it's a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover. All three have landed in the Game Station, which [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame the Doctor and Rose visited back when it was called Satellite Five.]] The Doctor expected history to get back on course once the Jagrafess was removed, but is horrified to learn that the power vacuum caused human civilisation to collapse instead. It's 100 years later, Earth is a smog-covered hellhole, and the giant space station is now a home for more lethal versions of 21st-century reality TV [[note]]Such as "Call my Bluff" with real guns, "Stars in Their Eyes" (literally -- if you don't sing, you get blinded), "Wipeout" (speaks for itself), and "Ground Force" (the REALLY nasty one - losers get turned into compost)...[[/note]]. Anyone on Earth can be selected as a contestant and transmatted into a game with no warning, but the Doctor realises that any transmat beam capable of pulling him out of the TARDIS had to be far, far more powerful. Someone wants him here, and he's going to find out who.
The Doctor and Jack escape from their crossovers; the Doctor by realizing he's [[PlotArmor too important for the system to kill]], and Jack by...see page quote. The Doctor also takes a girl named Lynda along as a future companion. They all rejoin ''Series/DoctorWho'', but Rose is still stuck inside her game, and she's losing. In fact, [[MoodWhiplash she's lost, and the host robot vaporises her]]. Creator/ChristopherEccleston conveys more hurt and loss with his eyes than most actors can on a [[ChewingTheScenery steady diet of scenery]].
The Doctor, Jack and Lynda (with whom Jack flirts) are informed that they will be taken to a lunar penal colony to be held without trial or appeal. They respond by breaking out in five seconds and making their way to floor 500 -- ''still'' not made of gold -- where the Doctor demands to know who's in charge and who just killed his friend. Unfortunately, the Controller -- the human supercomputer in charge of the satellite, who was installed at the age of ''5'' -- can only communicate with members of staff. One such staff member (with whom Jack flirts), however, has been keeping a log of mysterious encrypted signals and unauthorised transmissions, and he agrees with the Doctor's theory that this is just a cover for something else.
The TARDIS turns up in one of the storage bays, but the Doctor's mood doesn't improve until Jack shows him that Rose wasn't disintegrated, merely transported (hug time!).
A solar flare interrupts transmissions long enough for the Controller to explain that she brought them all there, and that she knows who's been behind everything in this period but cannot speak their name. All she can tell the Doctor is that they fear him. As the flare subsides, she is teleported out of the room by an unknown force. The Controller emerges surrounded by her unseen "Masters", to whom she gloats, saying that she has destroyed them. As soon as she mentions Doctor, she screams in pain and her skeleton is breifly visible through her illuminated skin, before she collapses, dead.
Then Rose wakes up, face to eye-stalk with a Dalek.
The Doctor's going to be having one of those MoodWhiplash days because the Daleks come through on the comm system and the Doctor sees what he's up against; a full Dalek fleet.
!Tropes
* ArcWords: Bad Wolf reappears once more, as the corporation that runs the Game Station.
** The episode name.
* AskAStupidQuestion: Jack's response to one of the technicians protest.
--> '''Technician''': You're not allowed in there, Archive Six is out of bounds!
--> '''Jack''' *holds up his gun* Do I look like an out of bounds kinda guy?
* AssShove:
-->'''Trine-e:''' But that's a Compact Laser Deluxe.
-->'''Zu-Zana:''' Where were you hiding that?
-->'''Captain Jack:''' [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow You]] ''[[YouDoNOTWantToKnow really]]'' [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow don't want to know]].
* BadassBoast: The Doctor's line.
-->'''The Doctor''': This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to rescue her. I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and THEN I'm going to save the Earth, and THEN, JUST TO FINISH UP, I'M GOING TO WIPE EVERY LAST STINKING DALEK OUT OF THE SKY!\\
'''Dalek''': But you have no defences, no weapons, no plan!\\
'''The Doctor''': [[IndyPloy Yeah, and doesn't that just scare you to death]]? Rose?\\
'''Rose''': Yes Doctor?\\
'''The Doctor''': [[Series/BigBrother I'm coming to get you]].
* BigBudgetBeefUp: We get to see an entire fleet of Dalek warships for the first time, with legions of them screaming for the Doctor's blood.
* CallBack: The trip to Raxicoracofallapatorius follows on from the end of Boom Town.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: The Doctor to Lynda after he breaks out of the Big Brother room.
* ContinuityNod:
** This [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks isn't the first time]] we've seen a character named "the Controller" turn against his/her Dalek masters and make a HeroicSacrifice to help the Doctor defeat them.
*** It also [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks isn't the first time]] the Daleks have plugged a young human girl into a supercomputer.
** The Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars once again]] claims that nothing ''just gets'' into his TARDIS, and his horrified reaction that whatever ''can'' is definitely not anything good.
** The answer to one of the questions in The Weakest Link is "The Face of Boe". Rose gets it right because [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E2TheEndOfTheWorld she met the Face of Boe before]].
** The Doctor, Jack, and Lynda are nearly sent to a Lunar Penal Colony. In Frontier in Space the Doctor is sent there. That episode also has a reveal that the Daleks are, well, the Man behind TheManBehindTheMan.
** When asked, The Controller states that The Doctor is [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame no-one]].
* DeadlyGame: Just about all the game shows in the episode except that the "disintegrator ray" is actually a teleporter. Not that it's much better than getting disintegrated when they're being processed into Daleks.
* DisintegratorRay: The evictions and declarations of the weakest link appear to be this at first, but it's actually a harvesting tool for the Daleks.
* EpiphanicPrison: The same one from ''The Long Game'', except it's grown even worse.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Defabricator. Invoked by name by Jack.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: "Oh, my masters. You can kill me...for I've brought your destruction."
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Parts of the Dalek's leitmotif is heard, Trine-e and Zu-Zana glide round like the Daleks, and Dalek bumps are seen in the Big Brother House.
* GambitRoulette: As the Doctor put it, he was being manipulated ''his entire life.'' Or his entire Ninth life, anyway.
* GoOutWithASmile: The Controller. ''[[http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110623130043/tardis/images/thumb/a/a3/DW20051x09BadWolf517.jpg/250px-DW20051x09BadWolf517.jpg LOOK AT IT.]]''
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Bad Wolf security team leaves Jack and the Doctor's equipment and weapons out in the open, on a table that is literally about an armsreach away from their cell. Three guesses to what happens.
* HeroicBSOD: The Doctor after Rose (apparently) gets disintegrated. He snaps out of it in time to lead a jailbreak.
* HeroicSacrifice: The Controller, who gives the Doctor the last few numbers in the Daleks' co-ordinates even though the solar flares are no longer blocking transmissions. The Daleks promptly transmat her aboard and shoot her dead, but she's satisfied.
* HollywoodSpelling: Averted with Lynda-with-a-y.
* HypocriticalHumor: The Doctor, on reality TV. "The human race. Brainless sheep, being fed on a diet of -- mind you, have they still got that program where three people have to live with a bear?"
* IKissYourHand: Jack and Lynda, immediately after he claimed he was "just saying hello".
* JustFollowingOrders
--> '''The Doctor:''' "That's the same staff who execute hundreds of contestants every day."
--> '''Staff member:''' "That's not our fault, we're just doing our jobs."
--> '''The Doctor:''' "And with that sentence, you just lost the right to even talk to me. Now BACK OFF!"
* LetsGetDangerous: The Doctor is rendered catatonic when he thinks Rose is dead. The first thing he does upon coming to his senses is turn to Jack, tells him, "Let's do it" and then proceeds to take down all of the guards.
* MadArtist: Trine-e and Zu-Zana start off simply giving Jack wardrobe advice. Then comes the "face off" segment, which Jack assumes means a competition until [[TearOffYourFace the sawblades come out]]. "Nothing is too extreme!"
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Daleks are behind all of Satellite Five's doings.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: With ''Series/TheWeakestLink'', ''Series/BigBrother'' and ''Series/WhatNotToWear''.
* MoodWhiplash: The Big Brother eviction. One second pleasant reality show and The Doctor saying how the evictee will profit from it and then disintegration.
* MythologyGag: The Doctor's BadassBoast above sounds similar to Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse character Abslon Daak's CatchPhrase, "I'm gonna kill every last stinking Dalek in the galaxy!"
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Turns out shutting down Satellite Five in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame The Long Game]]" simply created a power vacuum, which gave rise to an even worse television-based regime as opposed to reinstating the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire.
* TheNudifier: De-fabricator, which does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. "Ladies, your viewing figures just went up!"
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The Doctor and Jack's reaction to seeing the 200-ship fleet of the Daleks.
* OhCrap:
** Davitch after the Doctor's jailbreak.
--> "Oh my God, ''now'' we're in trouble. Clear the floor! He's on his way up here - with a GUN!"
** Even before the viewer sees the Daleks, we get to hear several beats of the loud electronic heartbeat that is associated with their ships.
* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Hebrew Chanting]]: What is heard as the camera pans down from the Dalek flagship to show the entire fleet.
* OneSteveLimit: There's a Lynda on ''Series/BigBrother'', and there ''used'' to be a Linda, but she was evicted for damaging the camera.
* PragmaticVillainy: Roderick does come across as a jerk for voting people good at the Weakest Link out so he'll go up against Rose, who he realises is bad at the Game Show, in the finale, meaning she'll get disintegrated and he'll get rich. However if he loses he'll get disintegrated so his actions make complete sense, even if he is unpleasant about it.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Controller, who was installed when she was five years old.
* PunnyName
--> '''Rose:''' My god, the android....''(stunned)'' the ''[[Series/TheWeakestLink Anne]]''-droid.
* RunningGag: [[Creator/JohnBarrowman Captain Jack]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Harkness]] hitting on every single character.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: ...wait, why is the ''American'' calling a tank top a "vest"?
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The reveal of the Daleks appears in this episode's trailer.
** Not only that, but the booklet the Radio Times had for Series 1 said there would be Daleks in the finale.
* TeleportersAndTransporters:
** The mysterious transmat
** Also, the so-called "disintegrator ray".
* TitleDrop: For the episode, and also for [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame "The Long Game"]], providing the context for that title.
* WetwareCPU: The Controller is a human plugged into a computer.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Said from the Doctor as he sits on the ''Big Brother'' ConfessionCam right before the opening credits.
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->"He pulls a gun out of his ass and shoots them. [{{beat}}] [[NotHyperbole No, really]], he pulls'' a gun ''out of'' his ass ''and'' shoots them. ''I so wish [[MoralGuardians Mary Whitehouse]] was still alive to see this; her head would pop off, spin around three times and land on her neck upside-down again."
-->-- '''{{SFDebris}}'''
The casual viewer might be forgiven for assuming that he's ingested the wrong substances and is hallucinating a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/BigBrother'' crossover, but no -- the Doctor really ''has'' landed in the ''Series/BigBrother'' house. Of the 2002nd century. He's as confused as the casual viewer.
Rose, meanwhile, has ended up in a futuristic ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/TheWeakestLink'' crossover; and Jack Harkness in a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/WhatNotToWear'' crossover staffed by naked robots (with whom Jack flirts). The casual viewer may be forgiven for thinking that this is all rather ''strange''...
No, it's a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover. All three have landed in the Game Station, which [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame the Doctor and Rose visited back when it was called Satellite Five.]] The Doctor expected history to get back on course once the Jagrafess was removed, but is horrified to learn that the power vacuum caused human civilisation to collapse instead. It's 100 years later, Earth is a smog-covered hellhole, and the giant space station is now a home for more lethal versions of 21st-century reality TV [[note]]Such as "Call my Bluff" with real guns, "Stars in Their Eyes" (literally -- if you don't sing, you get blinded), "Wipeout" (speaks for itself), and "Ground Force" (the REALLY nasty one - losers get turned into compost)...[[/note]]. Anyone on Earth can be selected as a contestant and transmatted into a game with no warning, but the Doctor realises that any transmat beam capable of pulling him out of the TARDIS had to be far, far more powerful. Someone wants him here, and he's going to find out who.
The Doctor and Jack escape from their crossovers; the Doctor by realizing he's [[PlotArmor too important for the system to kill]], and Jack by...see page quote. The Doctor also takes a girl named Lynda along as a future companion. They all rejoin ''Series/DoctorWho'', but Rose is still stuck inside her game, and she's losing. In fact, [[MoodWhiplash she's lost, and the host robot vaporises her]]. Creator/ChristopherEccleston conveys more hurt and loss with his eyes than most actors can on a [[ChewingTheScenery steady diet of scenery]].
The Doctor, Jack and Lynda (with whom Jack flirts) are informed that they will be taken to a lunar penal colony to be held without trial or appeal. They respond by breaking out in five seconds and making their way to floor 500 -- ''still'' not made of gold -- where the Doctor demands to know who's in charge and who just killed his friend. Unfortunately, the Controller -- the human supercomputer in charge of the satellite, who was installed at the age of ''5'' -- can only communicate with members of staff. One such staff member (with whom Jack flirts), however, has been keeping a log of mysterious encrypted signals and unauthorised transmissions, and he agrees with the Doctor's theory that this is just a cover for something else.
The TARDIS turns up in one of the storage bays, but the Doctor's mood doesn't improve until Jack shows him that Rose wasn't disintegrated, merely transported (hug time!).
A solar flare interrupts transmissions long enough for the Controller to explain that she brought them all there, and that she knows who's been behind everything in this period but cannot speak their name. All she can tell the Doctor is that they fear him. As the flare subsides, she is teleported out of the room by an unknown force. The Controller emerges surrounded by her unseen "Masters", to whom she gloats, saying that she has destroyed them. As soon as she mentions Doctor, she screams in pain and her skeleton is breifly visible through her illuminated skin, before she collapses, dead.
Then Rose wakes up, face to eye-stalk with a Dalek.
The Doctor's going to be having one of those MoodWhiplash days because the Daleks come through on the comm system and the Doctor sees what he's up against; a full Dalek fleet.
!Tropes
* ArcWords: Bad Wolf reappears once more, as the corporation that runs the Game Station.
** The episode name.
* AskAStupidQuestion: Jack's response to one of the technicians protest.
--> '''Technician''': You're not allowed in there, Archive Six is out of bounds!
--> '''Jack''' *holds up his gun* Do I look like an out of bounds kinda guy?
* AssShove:
-->'''Trine-e:''' But that's a Compact Laser Deluxe.
-->'''Zu-Zana:''' Where were you hiding that?
-->'''Captain Jack:''' [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow You]] ''[[YouDoNOTWantToKnow really]]'' [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow don't want to know]].
* BadassBoast: The Doctor's line.
-->'''The Doctor''': This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to rescue her. I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and THEN I'm going to save the Earth, and THEN, JUST TO FINISH UP, I'M GOING TO WIPE EVERY LAST STINKING DALEK OUT OF THE SKY!\\
'''Dalek''': But you have no defences, no weapons, no plan!\\
'''The Doctor''': [[IndyPloy Yeah, and doesn't that just scare you to death]]? Rose?\\
'''Rose''': Yes Doctor?\\
'''The Doctor''': [[Series/BigBrother I'm coming to get you]].
* BigBudgetBeefUp: We get to see an entire fleet of Dalek warships for the first time, with legions of them screaming for the Doctor's blood.
* CallBack: The trip to Raxicoracofallapatorius follows on from the end of Boom Town.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: The Doctor to Lynda after he breaks out of the Big Brother room.
* ContinuityNod:
** This [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks isn't the first time]] we've seen a character named "the Controller" turn against his/her Dalek masters and make a HeroicSacrifice to help the Doctor defeat them.
*** It also [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks isn't the first time]] the Daleks have plugged a young human girl into a supercomputer.
** The Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars once again]] claims that nothing ''just gets'' into his TARDIS, and his horrified reaction that whatever ''can'' is definitely not anything good.
** The answer to one of the questions in The Weakest Link is "The Face of Boe". Rose gets it right because [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E2TheEndOfTheWorld she met the Face of Boe before]].
** The Doctor, Jack, and Lynda are nearly sent to a Lunar Penal Colony. In Frontier in Space the Doctor is sent there. That episode also has a reveal that the Daleks are, well, the Man behind TheManBehindTheMan.
** When asked, The Controller states that The Doctor is [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame no-one]].
* DeadlyGame: Just about all the game shows in the episode except that the "disintegrator ray" is actually a teleporter. Not that it's much better than getting disintegrated when they're being processed into Daleks.
* DisintegratorRay: The evictions and declarations of the weakest link appear to be this at first, but it's actually a harvesting tool for the Daleks.
* EpiphanicPrison: The same one from ''The Long Game'', except it's grown even worse.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Defabricator. Invoked by name by Jack.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: "Oh, my masters. You can kill me...for I've brought your destruction."
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Parts of the Dalek's leitmotif is heard, Trine-e and Zu-Zana glide round like the Daleks, and Dalek bumps are seen in the Big Brother House.
* GambitRoulette: As the Doctor put it, he was being manipulated ''his entire life.'' Or his entire Ninth life, anyway.
* GoOutWithASmile: The Controller. ''[[http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110623130043/tardis/images/thumb/a/a3/DW20051x09BadWolf517.jpg/250px-DW20051x09BadWolf517.jpg LOOK AT IT.]]''
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Bad Wolf security team leaves Jack and the Doctor's equipment and weapons out in the open, on a table that is literally about an armsreach away from their cell. Three guesses to what happens.
* HeroicBSOD: The Doctor after Rose (apparently) gets disintegrated. He snaps out of it in time to lead a jailbreak.
* HeroicSacrifice: The Controller, who gives the Doctor the last few numbers in the Daleks' co-ordinates even though the solar flares are no longer blocking transmissions. The Daleks promptly transmat her aboard and shoot her dead, but she's satisfied.
* HollywoodSpelling: Averted with Lynda-with-a-y.
* HypocriticalHumor: The Doctor, on reality TV. "The human race. Brainless sheep, being fed on a diet of -- mind you, have they still got that program where three people have to live with a bear?"
* IKissYourHand: Jack and Lynda, immediately after he claimed he was "just saying hello".
* JustFollowingOrders
--> '''The Doctor:''' "That's the same staff who execute hundreds of contestants every day."
--> '''Staff member:''' "That's not our fault, we're just doing our jobs."
--> '''The Doctor:''' "And with that sentence, you just lost the right to even talk to me. Now BACK OFF!"
* LetsGetDangerous: The Doctor is rendered catatonic when he thinks Rose is dead. The first thing he does upon coming to his senses is turn to Jack, tells him, "Let's do it" and then proceeds to take down all of the guards.
* MadArtist: Trine-e and Zu-Zana start off simply giving Jack wardrobe advice. Then comes the "face off" segment, which Jack assumes means a competition until [[TearOffYourFace the sawblades come out]]. "Nothing is too extreme!"
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Daleks are behind all of Satellite Five's doings.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: With ''Series/TheWeakestLink'', ''Series/BigBrother'' and ''Series/WhatNotToWear''.
* MoodWhiplash: The Big Brother eviction. One second pleasant reality show and The Doctor saying how the evictee will profit from it and then disintegration.
* MythologyGag: The Doctor's BadassBoast above sounds similar to Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse character Abslon Daak's CatchPhrase, "I'm gonna kill every last stinking Dalek in the galaxy!"
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Turns out shutting down Satellite Five in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame The Long Game]]" simply created a power vacuum, which gave rise to an even worse television-based regime as opposed to reinstating the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire.
* TheNudifier: De-fabricator, which does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. "Ladies, your viewing figures just went up!"
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The Doctor and Jack's reaction to seeing the 200-ship fleet of the Daleks.
* OhCrap:
** Davitch after the Doctor's jailbreak.
--> "Oh my God, ''now'' we're in trouble. Clear the floor! He's on his way up here - with a GUN!"
** Even before the viewer sees the Daleks, we get to hear several beats of the loud electronic heartbeat that is associated with their ships.
* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Hebrew Chanting]]: What is heard as the camera pans down from the Dalek flagship to show the entire fleet.
* OneSteveLimit: There's a Lynda on ''Series/BigBrother'', and there ''used'' to be a Linda, but she was evicted for damaging the camera.
* PragmaticVillainy: Roderick does come across as a jerk for voting people good at the Weakest Link out so he'll go up against Rose, who he realises is bad at the Game Show, in the finale, meaning she'll get disintegrated and he'll get rich. However if he loses he'll get disintegrated so his actions make complete sense, even if he is unpleasant about it.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Controller, who was installed when she was five years old.
* PunnyName
--> '''Rose:''' My god, the android....''(stunned)'' the ''[[Series/TheWeakestLink Anne]]''-droid.
* RunningGag: [[Creator/JohnBarrowman Captain Jack]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Harkness]] hitting on every single character.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: ...wait, why is the ''American'' calling a tank top a "vest"?
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The reveal of the Daleks appears in this episode's trailer.
** Not only that, but the booklet the Radio Times had for Series 1 said there would be Daleks in the finale.
* TeleportersAndTransporters:
** The mysterious transmat
** Also, the so-called "disintegrator ray".
* TitleDrop: For the episode, and also for [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame "The Long Game"]], providing the context for that title.
* WetwareCPU: The Controller is a human plugged into a computer.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Said from the Doctor as he sits on the ''Big Brother'' ConfessionCam right before the opening credits.
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->"He pulls a gun out of his ass and shoots them. [{{beat}}] [[NotHyperbole No, really]], he pulls'' a gun ''out of'' his ass ''and'' shoots them. ''I so wish [[MoralGuardians Mary Whitehouse]] was still alive to see this; her head would pop off, spin around three times and land on her neck upside-down again."
-->-- '''{{SFDebris}}'''
The casual viewer might be forgiven for assuming that he's ingested the wrong substances and is hallucinating a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/BigBrother'' crossover, but no -- the Doctor really ''has'' landed in the ''Series/BigBrother'' house. Of the 2002nd century. He's as confused as the casual viewer.
Rose, meanwhile, has ended up in a futuristic ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/TheWeakestLink'' crossover; and Jack Harkness in a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/WhatNotToWear'' crossover staffed by naked robots (with whom Jack flirts). The casual viewer may be forgiven for thinking that this is all rather ''strange''...
No, it's a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover. All three have landed in the Game Station, which [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame the Doctor and Rose visited back when it was called Satellite Five.]] The Doctor expected history to get back on course once the Jagrafess was removed, but is horrified to learn that the power vacuum caused human civilisation to collapse instead. It's 100 years later, Earth is a smog-covered hellhole, and the giant space station is now a home for more lethal versions of 21st-century reality TV [[note]]Such as "Call my Bluff" with real guns, "Stars in Their Eyes" (literally -- if you don't sing, you get blinded), "Wipeout" (speaks for itself), and "Ground Force" (the REALLY nasty one - losers get turned into compost)...[[/note]]. Anyone on Earth can be selected as a contestant and transmatted into a game with no warning, but the Doctor realises that any transmat beam capable of pulling him out of the TARDIS had to be far, far more powerful. Someone wants him here, and he's going to find out who.
The Doctor and Jack escape from their crossovers; the Doctor by realizing he's [[PlotArmor too important for the system to kill]], and Jack by...see page quote. The Doctor also takes a girl named Lynda along as a future companion. They all rejoin ''Series/DoctorWho'', but Rose is still stuck inside her game, and she's losing. In fact, [[MoodWhiplash she's lost, and the host robot vaporises her]]. Creator/ChristopherEccleston conveys more hurt and loss with his eyes than most actors can on a [[ChewingTheScenery steady diet of scenery]].
The Doctor, Jack and Lynda (with whom Jack flirts) are informed that they will be taken to a lunar penal colony to be held without trial or appeal. They respond by breaking out in five seconds and making their way to floor 500 -- ''still'' not made of gold -- where the Doctor demands to know who's in charge and who just killed his friend. Unfortunately, the Controller -- the human supercomputer in charge of the satellite, who was installed at the age of ''5'' -- can only communicate with members of staff. One such staff member (with whom Jack flirts), however, has been keeping a log of mysterious encrypted signals and unauthorised transmissions, and he agrees with the Doctor's theory that this is just a cover for something else.
The TARDIS turns up in one of the storage bays, but the Doctor's mood doesn't improve until Jack shows him that Rose wasn't disintegrated, merely transported (hug time!).
A solar flare interrupts transmissions long enough for the Controller to explain that she brought them all there, and that she knows who's been behind everything in this period but cannot speak their name. All she can tell the Doctor is that they fear him. As the flare subsides, she is teleported out of the room by an unknown force. The Controller emerges surrounded by her unseen "Masters", to whom she gloats, saying that she has destroyed them. As soon as she mentions Doctor, she screams in pain and her skeleton is breifly visible through her illuminated skin, before she collapses, dead.
Then Rose wakes up, face to eye-stalk with a Dalek.
The Doctor's going to be having one of those MoodWhiplash days because the Daleks come through on the comm system and the Doctor sees what he's up against; a full Dalek fleet.
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* ArcWords: Bad Wolf reappears once more, as the corporation that runs the Game Station.
** The episode name.
* AskAStupidQuestion: Jack's response to one of the technicians protest.
--> '''Technician''': You're not allowed in there, Archive Six is out of bounds!
--> '''Jack''' *holds up his gun* Do I look like an out of bounds kinda guy?
* AssShove:
-->'''Trine-e:''' But that's a Compact Laser Deluxe.
-->'''Zu-Zana:''' Where were you hiding that?
-->'''Captain Jack:''' [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow You]] ''[[YouDoNOTWantToKnow really]]'' [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow don't want to know]].
* BadassBoast: The Doctor's line.
-->'''The Doctor''': This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to rescue her. I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and THEN I'm going to save the Earth, and THEN, JUST TO FINISH UP, I'M GOING TO WIPE EVERY LAST STINKING DALEK OUT OF THE SKY!\\
'''Dalek''': But you have no defences, no weapons, no plan!\\
'''The Doctor''': [[IndyPloy Yeah, and doesn't that just scare you to death]]? Rose?\\
'''Rose''': Yes Doctor?\\
'''The Doctor''': [[Series/BigBrother I'm coming to get you]].
* BigBudgetBeefUp: We get to see an entire fleet of Dalek warships for the first time, with legions of them screaming for the Doctor's blood.
* CallBack: The trip to Raxicoracofallapatorius follows on from the end of Boom Town.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: The Doctor to Lynda after he breaks out of the Big Brother room.
* ContinuityNod:
** This [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks isn't the first time]] we've seen a character named "the Controller" turn against his/her Dalek masters and make a HeroicSacrifice to help the Doctor defeat them.
*** It also [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks isn't the first time]] the Daleks have plugged a young human girl into a supercomputer.
** The Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars once again]] claims that nothing ''just gets'' into his TARDIS, and his horrified reaction that whatever ''can'' is definitely not anything good.
** The answer to one of the questions in The Weakest Link is "The Face of Boe". Rose gets it right because [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E2TheEndOfTheWorld she met the Face of Boe before]].
** The Doctor, Jack, and Lynda are nearly sent to a Lunar Penal Colony. In Frontier in Space the Doctor is sent there. That episode also has a reveal that the Daleks are, well, the Man behind TheManBehindTheMan.
** When asked, The Controller states that The Doctor is [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame no-one]].
* DeadlyGame: Just about all the game shows in the episode except that the "disintegrator ray" is actually a teleporter. Not that it's much better than getting disintegrated when they're being processed into Daleks.
* DisintegratorRay: The evictions and declarations of the weakest link appear to be this at first, but it's actually a harvesting tool for the Daleks.
* EpiphanicPrison: The same one from ''The Long Game'', except it's grown even worse.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Defabricator. Invoked by name by Jack.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: "Oh, my masters. You can kill me...for I've brought your destruction."
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Parts of the Dalek's leitmotif is heard, Trine-e and Zu-Zana glide round like the Daleks, and Dalek bumps are seen in the Big Brother House.
* GambitRoulette: As the Doctor put it, he was being manipulated ''his entire life.'' Or his entire Ninth life, anyway.
* GoOutWithASmile: The Controller. ''[[http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110623130043/tardis/images/thumb/a/a3/DW20051x09BadWolf517.jpg/250px-DW20051x09BadWolf517.jpg LOOK AT IT.]]''
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Bad Wolf security team leaves Jack and the Doctor's equipment and weapons out in the open, on a table that is literally about an armsreach away from their cell. Three guesses to what happens.
* HeroicBSOD: The Doctor after Rose (apparently) gets disintegrated. He snaps out of it in time to lead a jailbreak.
* HeroicSacrifice: The Controller, who gives the Doctor the last few numbers in the Daleks' co-ordinates even though the solar flares are no longer blocking transmissions. The Daleks promptly transmat her aboard and shoot her dead, but she's satisfied.
* HollywoodSpelling: Averted with Lynda-with-a-y.
* HypocriticalHumor: The Doctor, on reality TV. "The human race. Brainless sheep, being fed on a diet of -- mind you, have they still got that program where three people have to live with a bear?"
* IKissYourHand: Jack and Lynda, immediately after he claimed he was "just saying hello".
* JustFollowingOrders
--> '''The Doctor:''' "That's the same staff who execute hundreds of contestants every day."
--> '''Staff member:''' "That's not our fault, we're just doing our jobs."
--> '''The Doctor:''' "And with that sentence, you just lost the right to even talk to me. Now BACK OFF!"
* LetsGetDangerous: The Doctor is rendered catatonic when he thinks Rose is dead. The first thing he does upon coming to his senses is turn to Jack, tells him, "Let's do it" and then proceeds to take down all of the guards.
* MadArtist: Trine-e and Zu-Zana start off simply giving Jack wardrobe advice. Then comes the "face off" segment, which Jack assumes means a competition until [[TearOffYourFace the sawblades come out]]. "Nothing is too extreme!"
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Daleks are behind all of Satellite Five's doings.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: With ''Series/TheWeakestLink'', ''Series/BigBrother'' and ''Series/WhatNotToWear''.
* MoodWhiplash: The Big Brother eviction. One second pleasant reality show and The Doctor saying how the evictee will profit from it and then disintegration.
* MythologyGag: The Doctor's BadassBoast above sounds similar to Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse character Abslon Daak's CatchPhrase, "I'm gonna kill every last stinking Dalek in the galaxy!"
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Turns out shutting down Satellite Five in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame The Long Game]]" simply created a power vacuum, which gave rise to an even worse television-based regime as opposed to reinstating the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire.
* TheNudifier: De-fabricator, which does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. "Ladies, your viewing figures just went up!"
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The Doctor and Jack's reaction to seeing the 200-ship fleet of the Daleks.
* OhCrap:
** Davitch after the Doctor's jailbreak.
--> "Oh my God, ''now'' we're in trouble. Clear the floor! He's on his way up here - with a GUN!"
** Even before the viewer sees the Daleks, we get to hear several beats of the loud electronic heartbeat that is associated with their ships.
* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Hebrew Chanting]]: What is heard as the camera pans down from the Dalek flagship to show the entire fleet.
* OneSteveLimit: There's a Lynda on ''Series/BigBrother'', and there ''used'' to be a Linda, but she was evicted for damaging the camera.
* PragmaticVillainy: Roderick does come across as a jerk for voting people good at the Weakest Link out so he'll go up against Rose, who he realises is bad at the Game Show, in the finale, meaning she'll get disintegrated and he'll get rich. However if he loses he'll get disintegrated so his actions make complete sense, even if he is unpleasant about it.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Controller, who was installed when she was five years old.
* PunnyName
--> '''Rose:''' My god, the android....''(stunned)'' the ''[[Series/TheWeakestLink Anne]]''-droid.
* RunningGag: [[Creator/JohnBarrowman Captain Jack]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Harkness]] hitting on every single character.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: ...wait, why is the ''American'' calling a tank top a "vest"?
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The reveal of the Daleks appears in this episode's trailer.
** Not only that, but the booklet the Radio Times had for Series 1 said there would be Daleks in the finale.
* TeleportersAndTransporters:
** The mysterious transmat
** Also, the so-called "disintegrator ray".
* TitleDrop: For the episode, and also for [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E7TheLongGame "The Long Game"]], providing the context for that title.
* WetwareCPU: The Controller is a human plugged into a computer.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Said from the Doctor as he sits on the ''Big Brother'' ConfessionCam right before the opening credits.
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** The [[ArcWords Arc Word]] for Season 2 also pops-up in the Weakest Link segment.
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The casual viewer might be forgiven for assuming that he's ingested the wrong substances and is hallucinating a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''BigBrother'' crossover, but no -- the Doctor really ''has'' landed in the ''BigBrother'' house. Of the 2002nd century. He's as confused as the casual viewer.
Rose, meanwhile, has ended up in a futuristic ''Series/DoctorWho''/''TheWeakestLink'' crossover; and Jack Harkness in a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/WhatNotToWear'' crossover staffed by naked robots (with whom Jack flirts). The casual viewer may be forgiven for thinking that this is all rather ''strange''...
Rose, meanwhile, has ended up in a futuristic ''Series/DoctorWho''/''TheWeakestLink'' crossover; and Jack Harkness in a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/WhatNotToWear'' crossover staffed by naked robots (with whom Jack flirts). The casual viewer may be forgiven for thinking that this is all rather ''strange''...
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The casual viewer might be forgiven for assuming that he's ingested the wrong substances and is hallucinating a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''BigBrother'' ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/BigBrother'' crossover, but no -- the Doctor really ''has'' landed in the ''BigBrother'' ''Series/BigBrother'' house. Of the 2002nd century. He's as confused as the casual viewer.
Rose, meanwhile, has ended up in a futuristic''Series/DoctorWho''/''TheWeakestLink'' ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/TheWeakestLink'' crossover; and Jack Harkness in a ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/WhatNotToWear'' crossover staffed by naked robots (with whom Jack flirts). The casual viewer may be forgiven for thinking that this is all rather ''strange''...
Rose, meanwhile, has ended up in a futuristic
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