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* ChekhovsGun: Clyde brings in a cold chip sandwich to eat at school as an alternative to the rotten canteen food, eliciting a terrified reaction from Jeffrey Slitheen, who hurriedly disposes of it in the fish tank. When Clyde recounts this to Sarah Jane when the power cuts out, this helped them figure out that vinegar kills the Slitheen.

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* ChekhovsGun: Clyde brings in a cold chip sandwich to eat at school as an alternative to the rotten canteen food, food after it goes rotten, eliciting a terrified reaction from Jeffrey Slitheen, who hurriedly disposes of it in the fish tank. When Clyde recounts this to Sarah Jane when the power cuts out, this helped them figure out that vinegar kills the Slitheen.
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* Chekhov'sGun: Clyde brings in a cold chip sandwich to eat at school as an alternative to the rotten canteen food, eliciting a terrified reaction from Jeffrey Slitheen, who hurriedly disposes of it in the fish tank. When Clyde recounts this to Sarah Jane when the power cuts out, this helped them figure out that vinegar kills the Slitheen.

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* Chekhov'sGun: ChekhovsGun: Clyde brings in a cold chip sandwich to eat at school as an alternative to the rotten canteen food, eliciting a terrified reaction from Jeffrey Slitheen, who hurriedly disposes of it in the fish tank. When Clyde recounts this to Sarah Jane when the power cuts out, this helped them figure out that vinegar kills the Slitheen.
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* Chekhov'sGun: Clyde brings in a cold chip sandwich to eat at school as an alternative to the rotten canteen food, eliciting a terrified reaction from Jeffrey Slitheen, who hurriedly disposes of it in the fish tank. When Clyde recounts this to Sarah Jane when the power cuts out, this helped them figure out that vinegar kills the Slitheen.
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* IncestSubtext: Between Glune, the headmaster Slitheen, and Kist, the science teacher Slitheen, which might help explain why [[IncestIsRelative the Slitheen are so screwed up]].

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* IncestSubtext: Between Glune, the headmaster Slitheen, and Kist, the science teacher Slitheen, which might help explain why [[IncestIsRelative the Slitheen are so screwed up]].up.
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-->'''Sarah''': Are you threatening me?
-->'''Janine''': Yes.

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-->'''Sarah''': -->'''Sarah:''' Are you threatening me?
-->'''Janine''': -->'''Janine:''' Yes.



--->'''Sarah Jane:''' ''(remembering)'' Slitheen in Downing Street.
--->'''Maria:''' What?
--->'''Sarah Jane:''' Something a friend said once.

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--->'''Sarah -->'''Sarah Jane:''' ''(remembering)'' Slitheen in Downing Street.
--->'''Maria:''' -->'''Maria:''' What?
--->'''Sarah -->'''Sarah Jane:''' Something a friend said once.



* DeathOfAChild: Implied but not shown; Korst, the young Slitheen, is disguised as one of the students at Maria and Luke's school. Ggiven what is revealed about Slitheen disguises in their first ''Doctor Who'' appearance (and the real Mr Jeffrey is seen meeting a similar fate at the beginning of the story), the real boy must have been killed and skinned, but this is not directly stated.
* DramaticIrony: The audience already knows that the Slitheen are weak to vinegar, but it takes Clyde and Sarah Jane a bit of AwesomenessByAnalysis to deduce it.

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* DeathOfAChild: Implied but not shown; Korst, the young Slitheen, is disguised as one of the students at Maria and Luke's school. Ggiven Given what is revealed about Slitheen disguises in their first ''Doctor Who'' appearance (and the real Mr Jeffrey is seen meeting a similar fate at the beginning of the story), the real boy must have been killed and skinned, but this is not directly stated.
* DramaticIrony: The audience already knows that the Slitheen are weak to vinegar, but it takes Clyde and Sarah Jane a bit of AwesomenessByAnalysis to deduce it.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Luke gives the Slitheen the equations they need in response to a transparent ploy that you'd have to have been born yesterday not to see through. Unfortunately for Luke, he ''[[ReallyWasBornYesterday was'' born yesterday.]]

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Luke gives the Slitheen the equations they need in response to a transparent ploy that you'd have to have been born yesterday not to see through. Unfortunately for Luke, he ''[[ReallyWasBornYesterday was'' born yesterday.]]ReallyWasBornYesterday.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Downplayed, but Mr. Jeffrey's death is unusually nasty for the show, and carries with it the clear implication that the real Carl, a boy the same age as Luke, Maria and Clyde, met a similar end.
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* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: Mr. Blakeman, the headmaster of Park Vale before Rani's father takes over the following year (Blakeman is mentioned as having "mysteriously disappeared" in the interim), as he's already been replaced by a Slitheen some time before the story starts.
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* AbusiveParents: Jeffrey Slitheen puts his son down in favour of Luke… in front of him.
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* AvengingTheVillain: The Slitheen are partly motivated by the loss of their family members on Earth in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree World War Three]]".



* ContinuityNod: Slitheen in Downing Street, which happened in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensofLondon Aliens of London]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree World War Three]]", and Sarah Jane learned about in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]".

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* ContinuityNod: Slitheen in Downing Street, which happened in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensofLondon Aliens of London]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree World War Three]]", and Sarah Jane learned about from Rose in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]".


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** Glune mentions Clom, twin planet of Raxacoricofallapatorius and homeworld of the Abzorbaloff from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters Love & Monsters]]". He also mentions the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Judoon]] and the Blathereen family, who appeared in the novel "The Monsters Inside", as enemies of the Slitheen.

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* DeathOfAChild: Implied but not shown; Korst, the young Slitheen, is wearing a twelve-year-old boy disguise that (given what is revealed about Slitheen disguises in their first ''Doctor Who'' appearance, and the real Mr Jeffrey is seen meeting a similar fate at the beginning of the story) must have been made by killing and skinning a real twelve-year-old boy.

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* CultureEqualsCostume: Several of the Slitheen who are summoned to the school are dressed this way to indicate the global scale of their plan.
* DeathOfAChild: Implied but not shown; Korst, the young Slitheen, is wearing a twelve-year-old boy disguise that (given disguised as one of the students at Maria and Luke's school. Ggiven what is revealed about Slitheen disguises in their first ''Doctor Who'' appearance, and appearance (and the real Mr Jeffrey is seen meeting a similar fate at the beginning of the story) story), the real boy must have been made by killing killed and skinning a real twelve-year-old boy.skinned, but this is not directly stated.
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* DramaticIrony: The audience already knows that the Slitheen are weak to vinegar, but it takes Clyde and Sarah Janee a bit of AwesomenessByAnalysis to deduce it.

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* DramaticIrony: The audience already knows that the Slitheen are weak to vinegar, but it takes Clyde and Sarah Janee Jane a bit of AwesomenessByAnalysis to deduce it.
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* BluntYes:
-->'''Sarah''': Are you threatening me?
-->'''Janine''': Yes.
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** Kist Magg Thek Lutiven-Day Slitheen said that Glune Fex Fize Sharlaveer-Slam Slitheen had bought the plans for the machine from a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Wallarian]].
** Mr Smith has data on [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays Abaddon]].
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Luke gives the Slitheen the equations they need in response to a transparent ploy that you'd have to have been born yesterday not to see through. Unfortunately for Luke, he ''[[YoungerThanTheyLook was]]'' [[NotHyperoble born yesterday.]]

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Luke gives the Slitheen the equations they need in response to a transparent ploy that you'd have to have been born yesterday not to see through. Unfortunately for Luke, he ''[[YoungerThanTheyLook was]]'' [[NotHyperoble ''[[ReallyWasBornYesterday was'' born yesterday.]]

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* DramaticIrony: The audience already knows that the Slitheen are weak to vinegar, but it takes Clyde and Sarah Janee a bit of AwesomenessByAnalysis to deduce it.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Luke gives the Slitheen the equations they need in response to a transparent ploy that you'd have to have been born yesterday not to see through. Unfortunately for Luke, he ''[[YoungerThanTheyLook was]]'' born yesterday.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Luke gives the Slitheen the equations they need in response to a transparent ploy that you'd have to have been born yesterday not to see through. Unfortunately for Luke, he ''[[YoungerThanTheyLook was]]'' [[NotHyperoble born yesterday.]]


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** The science teacher Slitheen mentions the children's rhyme that little girls are made from "sugar and spice and all things nice."
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* AdventureRebuff: Both Sarah Jane and Maria try to make Clyde go away for his own good. [[CaptainObvious It doesn't work]].

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* AdventureRebuff: Both Sarah Jane and Maria try to make Clyde go away for his own good. [[CaptainObvious It doesn't work]].work.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Mr Jeffrey getting his head stoved in by a Slitheen ''might'' not be appropriate for a childrens' show airing at 5 pm, so it cuts to Blakeman's reaction just before the claw makes contact.
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* KilledOffscreen: The real Blakeman and Janine were both killed prior to the events of the story; it is not clear if the "real" Carl is present in the canteen or at the science club, or if he has already been killed and replaced at this point.

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