-->'''Inspector''': This is how it all ends: us and Stephen Fry at the end of the universe. I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.


"Spacetime" is the name of not one, but two mini-episodes of JustForFun/InspectorSpacetime for the BBC's Red Nose Day. They feature much TimeTravelTenseTrouble, [[ContinuityNod continuity nods,]] and prime EpilepticTrees bait.

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'''Space(Time)'''

The Inspector, Angie, and Aiden are all squished inside the BOOTH mid-flight. After some major [[BuffySpeak flirtering]], the Time Wheel begins spinning, signalling a Level-5 cosmic terror. All of a sudden, the BOOTH grows bigger, as another BOOTH has merged with it.

"Oh dear", the Inspector says, and out of the wreckage comes the Seventh Inspector. [[CallBack But that's no problem, we've collided with a BOOTH before, we know what to do with that.]] But it isn't the Seventh Inspector at all, it's [[CelebrityParadox Stephen Fry]], who's hijacked Seven's BOOTH for his own purposes. And a BOOTH without a proper driver will automatically send out a distress signal for help...but if there are no Space Masters left-

Cue fifty phone booths crashing into the BOOTH. A [[OhCrap Blorgon]] climbs out of a BOOTH.

"Who are you?"

"I. AM. THE. INSPECTOOOOR!"

One final cut around the room shows us that the Inspectors, not just from this dimension, but every other dimension, have come to help.

[[MythologyGag YAAAAAAAAAAAY!]]

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'''Space/Time'''

The Inspector, Blorgon!Inspector, Stephen Fry, Angie, and Aiden are all inside the BOOTH. Inspectors begin emerging from their BOOTHs, including a [[DiscontinuityNod Turkish Inspector wielding a Batarang]] (and chatting with Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson through a Time Window), a [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]] Inspector, a Scottish, [[Franchise/HighLander Highlander]]-esque Inspector with a [[CallBack sword-wielding Aiden]], a bow-tie-wearing Not-Inspector played by [[Series/DoctorWho Matt Smith]] (who is immediately killed by the Blorgon), the Hugh Laurie Inspector from the comedy skit "Plague of Awful Disease", and an Inspector with bionic implements that resemble WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget's.

Cool as this may be for us, it's causing a time paradox which threatens to shatter reality. In order to stop this, the Inspector and the BOOTH crew need to find the perfect foil for Fry to balance out his powers over Seven's BOOTH. Laurie!Inspector offers to help, since his universe was destroyed in "Plague". But since Fry is a public figure, but needs constant watching, the Inspector will need a public identity, and Regular!Inspector offers the name "Hugh Laurie". The two head back to their BOOTH, and the other Inspectors disappear. But what about Seven? Won't he need his BOOTH? The Inspector says that the BOOTH will return to the Inspector just in time for his Eighth incarnation (as it did in the TV movie).

All appears to be good, but one final Inspector remains, a young, skinny fellow, who, when asked his identity, merely repeats [[ArcWords QUIET WILL RISE]], and then vanishes.

[[OnTheNext INSPECTOR SPACETIME WILL RETURN IN RISE OF THE QUIET!]]

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!!Tropes

* CelebrityCameo: Creator/MattSmith, current star of [[Series/DoctorWho that ripoff]], had the good humor to make a tongue-in-cheek appearance where he is instantly killed off by a Blorgon.
* CelebrityParadox: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] Stephen Fry/Seven is lampshaded, but it's subverted with Plague!Inspector, who turns out to be our Hugh Laurie.
* ContinuityNod
* EpilepticTrees: The identity of the Final Inspector has been widely theorized about.
* MythologyGag