History Trivia / DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JennaColeman was considered for Melody Pond. She would later play Clara Oswald.

* DeletedScene: One scene involving the Teselecta (disguised as a German soldier) chasing Amy and Rory on motorcycles through Berlin was cut from filming due to budget issues.

* DawsonCasting: Amy, Rory and Mels' high-school selves are played (briefly) by their regular actors.

* TroubledProduction: Creator/StevenMoffat was overseeing six episodes of ''Doctor Who'', making three film-length episodes of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' and writing ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011'', and was stretched too thin and overworked. When filming was due to commence on "Let's Kill Hitler", Moffat's only option was to hand the actors his first draft and hope for the best. Most of the problems people have with the episode (ignoring people who feel TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot due to Hitler being window-dressing despite that being the point of the episode, or who simply hate the arc it was in or Moffat's writing in general) are things like lazy filler jokes ("She's trying to kill me... plus, she's a woman!") and the lack of anything addressing the brutal finale of the last series, which likely would have been fixed had Moffat had more time to write it.

* TroubledProduction: Creator/StevenMoffat was overseeing six episodes of ''Doctor Who'', making three film-length episodes of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' and writing ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin'', and was stretched too thin and overworked. When filming was due to commence on "Let's Kill Hitler", Moffat's only option was to hand the actors his first draft and hope for the best. Most of the problems people have with the episode (ignoring people who feel TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot due to Hitler being window-dressing despite that being the point of the episode, or who simply hate the arc it was in or Moffat's writing in general) are things like lazy filler jokes ("She's trying to kill me... plus, she's a woman!") and the lack of anything addressing the brutal finale of the last series, which likely would have been fixed had Moffat had more time to write it.

* TroubledProduction: Creator/StevenMoffat was overseeing six episodes of ''Doctor Who'', making three film-length episodes of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' and writing several Hollywood movies, and was stretched too thin and overworked. When filming was due to commence, Moffat's only option was to hand the actors his first draft and hope for the best. Most of the problems people have with the episode (ignoring people who feel TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot due to Hitler being window-dressing despite that being the point of the episode, or who simply hate the arc it was in or Moffat's writing in general) are things like lazy filler jokes ("She's trying to kill me... plus, she's a woman!") and the lack of anything addressing the brutal finale of the last series, which likely would have been fixed had Moffat had more time to write it.

* ReferencedBy: This episode was referenced during the 84th UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, during a spoof of ''Film/MidnightInParis''. As Creator/JustinBieber ducks inside the vintage car, he finds Creator/SammyDavisJr holding a sonic screwdriver and announcing, "And then we're gonna kill Hitler!"

* ReferencedBy: This episode was referenced during the 87th UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, during a spoof of ''Film/MidnightInParis''. As Creator/OwenWilson ducks inside the vintage car, he finds Creator/SammyDavisJr holding a sonic screwdriver and announcing, "And then we're gonna kill Hitler!"

* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time Creator/MattSmith has gone to UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. In the TV movie ''Christopher and His Kind'', Smith played Christopher Isherwood, a homosexual writer who came to free-wheeling UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Berlin, but became disillusioned and left when Nazi Germany was formed.
* AwesomeMcCoolname:
** Ezekiel Wigglesworth as Young Rory.
** Maya Glace-Green as Young Mels and Nina Toussaint-White as Adult Mels. Both hyphenated colour names.

* RealitySubtext: Melody mentions taking her age down a bit. "Just gradually. To freak people out." Because, of course, it was a slightly younger Alex Kingston playing the older River Song.
* ReferencedBy: This episode was referenced during the 87th UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, during a spoof of ''Film/MidnightInParis''. As Owen Wilson ducks inside the vintage car, he finds Sammy Davis Junior holding a sonic screwdriver and announcing, "And then we're gonna kill Hitler!"

* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time Creator/MattSmith has gone to UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. In the TV movie ''Christopher and His Kind'', Smith played Christopher Isherwood, a homosexual writer who came to free-wheeling WeimarRepublic Berlin, but became disillusioned and left when Nazi Germany was formed.

** Maya Glace-Green as Young Mels and Nina Toussaint-White as Adult Mels. Both hyphenated color names.

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* ReferencedBy: This episode was referenced during the 87th AcademyAwards, during a spoof of ''Film/MidnightInParis''. As Owen Wilson ducks inside the vintage car, he finds Sammy Davis Junior holding a sonic screwdriver and announcing, "And then we're gonna kill Hitler!"

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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Ezekiel Wigglesworth as Young Rory.

* ShoutOut: This episode was referenced during the 87th AcademyAwards, during a spoof of ''MidnightInParis''. As Owen Wilson ducks inside the vintage car, he finds Sammy Davis Junior holding a sonic screwdriver and announcing, "And then we're gonna kill Hitler!"

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** Maya Glace-Green as Young Mels and Nina Toussaint-White as Adult Mels. Both hyphenated color names.