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"This is Mr. Huffle. Mr. Huffle feels pain."

"The Return of Doctor Mysterio"

  • The Children in Need clip begins with an ominous scene of a man being sealed inside a laboratory, deadly-looking doctors grabbing hold of him... and then as the door's being sealed, the Doctor peers round the corner, eating sushi, and a jaunty little tune starts up. (The tune's removed in the final televised version, but the original scene can be viewed here.)
    • Gets an explanation later: The Doctor is so used to sneaking around and performing stakeouts on alien villains that he's started bringing snacks β€” "Mark of a pro." He even brings a burger when he goes back to the same location later.
  • Grant first encounters the Doctor swinging upside-down outside his window 60 floors up, having accidentally set off a trap he'd set on the roof.
    • After Grant gets permission from his mom (who thinks Grant's talking about Santa), he opens the window to let the Doctor in... just as the rope holding the Doctor snaps and he falls off-screen. (Don't worry, he manages to make it in.)
    • The Doctor deducing that Clark Kent is actually Superman while reading young Grant's comic books. He doesn't realise that it's common knowledge, and treats it like a major discovery. He's genuinely surprised nobody's put it together yet.
  • This conversation between Grant and the Doctor:
    Grant: It looks like a Christmas tree.
    The Doctor: Of course it does. It's science.
  • The Doctor tells off Grant for swallowing things. "What age are you, thirty-six?"
  • Teenage Grant can't turn off his X-ray vision. He spends a lot of time staring at the floor. Also funny for the implied Power Perversion Potential.
    Grant: I'm in Hell. Naked Hell.
  • Lucy interrogates the Doctor by torturing "Mr. Huffle", a rubber stress toy that makes a squealing noise. It works! Had Rassilon but known...
  • The Doctor and the Ghost's first meeting. Their facial expressions both lampshade the I Know You Know I Know situation.
  • Grant as the Ghost talking to Lucy on a cell phone is cool and all, but then the screen splits to show him still in his "ordinary guy" outfit. The dissonance is great. Then it splits a third time to show the Doctor standing in the hallway where he can see both of the others, who thinks a Two-Person Love Triangle is stupid.
  • Lucy thinks that the device the Ghost has is a Bat Signal; it's actually a baby monitor β€” a little of Grant's adorkableness seeps into his superhero persona.
  • Grant as the Ghost is briefly Mistaken for Gay by Lucy because, as she points out, he's flying out in tight black leather with a large letter 'G' on his chest.
  • Grant describes his situation to the Doctor; he's a nanny for the woman whom he's known for 24 years and crushed on for most of that time, the baby he nannies for is the daughter of his former best friend, his being her nanny leaves Lucy free to date his other friends, and no, Lucy has no idea that he's in love with her. The Doctor then thanks the universe for showing him someone with worse Cannot Spit It Out issues than he himself.
  • The villains are examining security camera footage of the Doctor. Then he gives them (and the audience) a Jump Scare by turning to the camera and shouting "Boo!" β€” revealing that he's actually in the room now and has successfully hacked the old footage of himself just to give them a fright.
    • Then, when one of his opponents has literally opened their head, the Doctor claims that it's "good to have an open mind." The Doctor's puns are glorious.
  • The Doctor gives Nardole free reign of the TARDIS briefly, and he has a stopover where he was emperor of 12th century Constantinople. "I ruled firmly, but wisely."
  • The Doctor clears out the Japanese headquarters of the aliens' company, simply by making a new PokΓ©mon GO hotspot right outside.
  • The entirety of the Doctor foiling Harmony Shoal's plan. It involves Nardole getting genre savvy and the Doctor becoming terrifying!
    Dr. Sim: [on a screen] [regarding the spaceship that the Doctor and Nardole are currently on] When the time is right, there will be no delay.
    The Doctor: Oh, you told me something there. You told me something useful. You shouldn't have done that.
    Dr. Sim: What did I tell you?
    The Doctor: You told me that the time is currently wrong.
    Nardole: Oh, it's the smile. I don't like the smile!
    The Doctor: The Sword of Damocles hanging over New York. I can't destroy it, I can't remove it, I can't stop it falling. There's only one thing I can do.
    Nardole: What?
    The Doctor: The unexpected! The thing about being in a room full of buttons and switches is, I LOVE BUTTONS AND SWITCHES!
    [The Doctor goes for every button and switch on the control panel and activates them randomly]
    Nardole: Oh, don't!
    Dr. Sim: What are you doing?
    Nardole: No!
    Dr. Sim: What are you doing?
    [cue the spaceship hurtling towards Earth way ahead of schedule]
    Spaceship computer voice: Thrusters engaged.
    The Doctor: Next stop New York. Say wheeee!
    Nardole: Ohhhhhhhh!
    • As a bonus, the Doctor's "Say wheeee!" is a Call-Back to "The Beast Below" (and possibly to the previous Christmas Episode as well; see above).
    • As the ship plummets, Nardole asks the gleeful Doctor why he can't cope with missing River Song by just writing a poem!
  • Why does Harmony Shoal have no chance against Grant? Because he actually is left-handed! (he's holding the ship up with his right hand because his left was occupied with holding the baby monitor).
  • Lucy declares that she likes Grant in his superhero costume. Given that he's holding up a spaceship with one hand, he points out that it's a bit hard for him to change right now. Lucy tells him that she'll do it for him, and Grant's face is...well, it's exactly what you'd expect from a guy who just had the love of his life announce she's going to take his clothes off. And then she puts his glasses back on and kisses him.
  • As they lift off, kissing, the Doctor awkwardly yells:
    Doctor: Grant! Grant! Remember, when you're...finished, throw that thing into the sun.
    • As this gets absolutely zero reaction, he desperately adds that Jennifer is still downstairs. The baby monitor lands at his feet.
  • The Doctor's snark is in as fine form as ever:
    Brock: So, Doctor, you think this is over?
    The Doctor: Yeah. Your bomb's gone, your plan's finished. And look, there's UNIT, on the way to close your head office. It's almost like they've been tipped off.
    Brock: The vengeance of Harmony Shoal is known and feared throughout the five star systems!
    The Doctor: [completely unimpressed] Ooo, is it. Is it really.

"The Pilot"

  • Nardole's Robotic Reveal at the beginning, where he walks in sounding creaky, and then when he holds his hand out to Bill a bolt falls out of his sleeve, and he tries to cover it up by surreptitiously kicking it under a table.
  • Bill stumping the Doctor, not by asking some grand question, but wondering what subject he's supposed to be teaching.
  • Bill describing a girl she had a small crush on. Her method of flirting was giving her extra chips in the canteen. Only to realise after several months of this, her crush naturally blew up like a blimp.
    Bill: I fatted her.
    • This could have come across as mean-spirited, except that Bill makes it clear that she was still into the girl, as they both liked chips, and they even showed a flirtatious wink between them in a brief clip later.
  • When Bill's foster mother is looking at her papers, at the top, next to the scores, is "Tutor: The Doctor".
  • Bill asks the Doctor if he knows any sci-fi. He looks at her incredulously, as if thinking "You have no idea".
  • The Doctor's usual introducing the new companion to the TARDIS is deflated by how Bill keeps assuming there's some mundane explanation for what she's seeing. It takes exiting into a completely new location for her to catch on. Gets lampshaded by the Doctor.
    The Doctor: Is it my imagination, or is this taking longer than normal?
    • It takes her quite a while to even realise she's even in a room that's Bigger on the Inside: She spends about thirty seconds staring back out the windows and complaining about the wooden doors!
    • And when she does realise:
      Bill: Doctor, it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside!
      Nardole: Yehey! We got there.
      [Nardole and the Doctor shake hands]
    • Which leads into this gem from Matt Lucas:
      Bill: How is that possible? How do you do that?
      Nardole: Well, first you have to imagine a very big box fitting inside a very small box.
      Bill: Okay...
      Nardole: Then you have to make one. It's the second part people normally get stuck on.
    • Followed by one for Bill:
      The Doctor: I need to know if there's any interest in what's inside this vault.
      Bill: Why, what's inside it?
      The Doctor: Something I don't want anyone being too curious about.
      Bill: So you put it in the middle of a university?
      Nardole: Ooo, valid point.
    • Nardole acts like he's watching a back-and-forth game and ends up actively trying to keep the banter going by telling Bill when it's her go again.
  • The Doctor is listening to Bill talking about the mysterious puddle pensively in his chair, hands clasped, brows knotted and staring at the opposite wall. The camera cuts to Bill's face for a few moments and when we cut back to the chair it is empty, spinning in place while the Doctor is already outside the building running at full tilt.
    • We get no explanation of how he got there so fast. Did he Doctor has just run so fast that he's made it all the way down there in second... or did he jump out of a second story window to get down there?
  • Bill comments on the Doctor's Girly Run.
    Bill: Why do you run like that?
    The Doctor: Like what?
    Bill: Like a penguin with its arse on fire.
    The Doctor: Ergonomics.
  • A little regeneration joke:
    The Doctor: (Looking at his face in the puddle) That's my face, yeah?
    Bill: You seem flexible on the subject.
    The Doctor: You've no idea.
  • This spectacular conversation between the Doctor, Bill, and Nardole. Matt Lucas's delivery of the final line is what really sells it.
    The Doctor: Basic sterilisation: we're gonna run [the water creature] through the deadliest fire in the universe!
    Nardole: Yes, that sounds excellent! The deadliest fire in the universe! That's definitely good!
    Bill: How do we do that?
    The Doctor: The only way we can: we run through it first.
    Nardole: Less good now!
    • Then Nardole finds out where the Doctor's taken them:
      Nardole: I don't like there!
      [the Doctor tosses him an old sonic]
      The Doctor: I want you running interference, can you do that?
      Nardole: Can I say no, sir?
      The Doctor: No.
      Nardole: Yes, then.
  • When the Doctor tries to escape the Pilot with Bill through the TARDIS. To Bill's shock, they emerge to bright sunshine, leading to the below exchange:
    Bill: It was night.
    The Doctor: Yep.
    Bill: Now it's day.
    The Doctor: Definitely day.
    Bill: Oh my God! Have we travelled in time?!
    The Doctor: No, of course not! [steps aside to reveal the Sydney Opera House] We've travelled to Australia!
    [cut to Bill bursting into a restroom to freak out]
  • Later, she asks if the Doctor is from outer space. The Doctor, being, well, the Doctor, tells her that no, he's not. No one's from outer space. He's from a planet, just like everyone else. Bill has to explain that she meant a different planet.
    • Then she points out that the acronym "TARDIS" wouldn't actually work in another language, a point that has the Doctor speechless.
  • When Bill asks "Doctor what?" the Doctor gives her an incredulous look, as if to say "you're doing it wrong".
  • The Doctor is in his office, chiding himself that, no, he should not make Bill a new companion and start showing her the universe. And then talking like he's being ganged up on for this decision, by three important women in his life: Susan's photo, River's photo, and (via blue-glowing windows) the TARDIS!
    • According to "Extremis", the TARDIS has been sat there for seventy years since that's how long the Doctor and Nardole have been guarding the vault. The TARDIS has officially become bored and just wants to get out there again. All of Time and Space and there's only so much you can look at before you get bored of it all.
  • The Doctor tells Bill that he is "very particular about time," and that she should never, ever be late. Which feels like a bit of Hypocritical Humor, given his relationship with punctuality.
  • How obsessed with the Doctor are the Daleks? Several of them detect when he and Bill arrive... while they're in the middle of a war with the Movellans! They have other things to be doing, namely attempting to kill off the Movellans, yet they still note his arrival.
  • Sneaking around the university, at least the Doctor fits in: Nardole, on the other hand, could not be anymore conspicuous if he tried.

"Smile"

  • Just before Nardole shows up to tell the Doctor he can't leave Earth, the Doctor calls him "Mum".
  • Bill spots an obvious design flaw with the current TARDIS; the chairs are too far away from the console so you can't sit down and operate the controls at the same time. This is probably because the TARDIS knows the Doctor has the attention span of a goldfish and is never going to use the chair anyway!
  • The Doctor and Bill's first meeting with an Emojibot:
    Bill: Does it speak? Will we understand it?
    The Doctor: Well, depends upon what aspect of your language has survived over so many thousands of years.
    [Emojibot's eyes change to a smiley face]
    Bill: Emoji! It speaks emoji!
    The Doctor: Of course it does.
  • Bill getting stuck on the whole two hearts deal, while the Doctor rambles on.
  • Bill asks the Doctor why he sounds Scottish, and the Doctor's response includes stating that, in the future, the Scottish try to secede from every planet they land on (yet another contemporary slinging of Scotland's real-life bid for independence. By the Scottish Doctor and the Scottish showrunner, no less).
  • What does the Doctor tell Bill as the last thing before he heads off?
  • Bill watches the Doctor running off to deal with trouble from the TARDIS view monitor:
    • Prior to that is the Doctor’s reasoning for returning to the city despite having just reached safety.
  • When they're not scary, some of the emojibots' Wingding Eyes are hilarious, especially after the Doctor has realised they're an emergent life form and indigenous to the planet. He offers to negotiate a deal for the humans to stay in their city, prompting the bot's eyes to turn into pound signs with a "cha-ching" sound effect.
  • The emoji sensors on the Doctor and Bill are also pretty funny in general.
  • Bill cutting through the Techno Babble at the end:
    The Doctor: I reinitialised the entire command structure retaining all programmed abilities, but deleting the supplementary preference architecture.
    Bill: [to everybody else] He turned it off and on again.
  • Bill detailing how flimsy the Doctor's I Was Just Passing Through excuse is; he lives in a police box that says things like "immediate assistance" and "responds to all calls". The age-old and brilliant Doctor has no counter-argument to this other than the chameleon circuit being broken, but he's fixed it in the past and Bill guesses as much.
  • An algae emperor fancied the Doctor. What's extra funny is that Capaldi is using his wistful lots of gravitas voice for just a quirky line.

"Thin Ice"

  • The Doctor and Bill just stare at the fact that yes, there is, in fact, an Elephant approaching them. If you look closely enough you can see Twelve's face go through the motions of realising they've missed the 21st century by a long shot, wondering why they missed, and then realising where they are.
  • Bill's Curse Cut Short after she and the Doctor discover the monster's excrement is being collected to use as fuel:
    Overseer: You know what else they say? They say it even burns underwater.
    Bill: No sh–
    [cut to a horse whinnying outside Lord Sutcliffe's mansion]
  • Bill attempting to scream for help. However, due to the noisiness of the fair, it works as well as one would expect.
  • Bill and the Doctor talking about the Butterfly Effect, with the Doctor saying that a friend of Bill's named Pete stepped on a butterfly and ceased to exist, with Bill asking who's Pete and the Doctor saying "And now you don't remember him."
    • Which gets even funnier when Bill asks if anything else happened to Pete, which prompts the Doctor to ask "Who's Pete?"
  • Bill calls the sonic screwdriver exactly what it is: a magic wand.
    Bill: How is that a screwdriver?
    The Doctor: In a very broad sense.
    Bill: How is it sonic?
    The Doctor: It makes a noise!
  • The Doctor getting information about Lord Sutcliffe from the overseer of a factory has such highlights as the Doctor telling him he will not be working there any longer if he keeps talking like he is (the overseer thinks he's alluding to a promotion) and pointing out how he should talk in code or else anyone would be able to walk off the street and find out what they are doing (in other words what the Doctor is doing now).
  • After the Doctor's lecture to Bill on the need for tact, it's no surprise that he's going to lose his temper. The funny part is that it happens so quickly.
  • In a deleted scene, the Doctor briefly tells Bill he had to put a piano under a bridge on the Thames because "my wife wanted to see Stevie Wonder" and then gets distracted by something and wanders off. Bill is surprised he was married and we finally see what distracted the Doctor: a man swallowing a sword on stage!

"Knock Knock"

  • The latest Mundane Utility of the TARDIS is as a moving van. Bill says the Doctor should hire it out.
  • The Doctor loudly eating a prawn cracker during the chat with the Landlord.
    • Earlier, the Doctor gets distracted in the middle of trying to figure out what's going on by the fact the food is there.
    Doctor: Is that Chinese food? I love Chinese food.
  • The Doctor being inside a cupboard with the sonic screwdriver. He seems just as spooked by the students as they are by him.
  • The Doctor plays some music on Bill's phone. Much to Bill's embarrassment, it's "Black Magic" by Little Mix.
  • The Doctor takes offense to Bill not finding bugs fascinating.
  • The nonchalant response of the Doctor to the house disintegrating in a swarm of bugs: "better lunch next time".
  • When the Doctor offers to have dinner with the entity inside the Vault and tell the entity about the events that ensued in the episode, he specifically mentions he bought Mexican and that "a lot of young people get eaten". The entity's response to this is to play an upbeat piano version of "Pop Goes the Weasel".

"Oxygen"

  • The Doctor tries to get rid of Nardole long enough to have a space adventure with Bill, how? By sending him to Birmingham for a packet of crisps.
    Nardole: Yeah, I saw through your cunning ruse.
    Doctor: Yes, well, if you will go thinking for yourself. What do you want?
    Nardole: I was given strict instructions to keep you at the university!
    Doctor: Who by?
    Nardole: You!
    Doctor: Well, you're not doing a very good job, are you? I'll overlook it this once.
    Nardole: Do you know what this is?
    Doctor: If it's not crisps, you're sacked.
  • Nardole knows the TARDIS fluid link is needed to fly the TARDIS, so he removed it. How does he know the fluid link is needed to fly? The Doctor told him; he was lying. Nardole, somehow, did not see that coming.
    • It also means that Ian and Barbara were right all those years ago and the group could have left the Dalek planet without getting the fuel link back! Apparently the Doctor's been telling that lie for over four and a half billion years!
  • Nardole demands the Doctor tell him the truth. His response?
    The Doctor: Don't be unreasonable.
  • Basically, this episode the Doctor and Nardole take their Snark-to-Snark Combat up to eleven.
  • Bill tests the gravity on the space station by hopping up and down, and is disappointed when she doesn't float off.
  • Bill's reaction to the Doctor's Brutal Honesty.
    Bill: What if you're wrong?
    The Doctor: Well, we'll be horribly murdered.
  • As everyone's putting on their helmet, Nardole can be seen huffing on the inside of his already-donned helmet and then trying to polish the outside! How do glass panes work again?
  • There's a blue alien among the survivors, and Bill just can't stop staring at him.
    Dahh'Ren: Great. We rescued a racist.
  • The Doctor reassures Bill he's got the situation under control despite him not being able to see because, "I do most of my best work ordering other people around."

"Extremis"

  • Bill's date getting gatecrashed, in stages.
    • First, she and Penny (her date) are drinking tea in the kitchen when they hear the TARDIS materialising in Bill's bedroom, and she claims it's the pipes.
      Bill: Very noisy pipes. And sometimes I shout at them.
    • Then, shortly thereafter, when Bill is clearly hoping she can just ignore that the Doctor's parked in her bedroom... the Pope bursts into the room, which may qualify as the most spontaneous funny moment ever seen on Doctor Who.
      Bill: Are you okay?
      Penny: Yeah, sorry... I'm just not used to... all of this.
      Bill: Well, whatever this is and actually it's not anything yet... it is absolutely nothing to feel guilty about. Okay?
      Penny: Okay.
      [The Pope bursts in and starts ranting in Italian, while deadly serious organ music is playing in the background]
      The Pope: [in Italian] What is happening? Who are you girls? How did I get in this house? I thought we’d be back in the Vatican! This is madness! Doctor! Why did you bring me here?
    • Almost immediately afterwards, Bill bursts into her bedroom to see a whole group of clergy standing around, shrugging at her. When Penny sees this, she freaks out and leaves.
      Bill: You're all going to hell.
    • Enraged at the Doctor having ruined her date, Bill enters the TARDIS to call him out:
      Bill: Doctor! Here's a tip. When I'm on a date, when that rare and special thing happens in my real life, do not, do not, under any circumstances, put the Pope in my bedroom! (Bill then gestures towards the Pope, without even looking at him.)
  • After Missy has seemingly been executed, two of the guards go to remove her body... only for Missy to suddenly open her eyes and swat their hands away.
    Missy: Hands off! I've just been executed! Show some respect!
    • And before that, her trying everything she can to get out of being executed. Like inviting the Doctor to keep talking to Nardole to delay it. Knock himself out. No, really, knock himself out.
      • The fact that Missy ends up executed... and falls asleep. She's blown up and destroyed so much in the universe now that being executed is that boring to her. Plus, you know, The Master. Death is but a small inconvience to her.
  • When the Doctor refuses to tell Bill a secret because it would mean he'd have to deal with it.
    Nardole: You're an idiot.
    The Doctor: [big grin] Everybody knows that.
  • Upon seeing the Haereticum:
    Bill: Harry Potter!
    The Doctor: Language.
  • The Doctor tries to send Nardole and Bill off on a wild goose chase to check on someone who ran off with a gun, whom the Doctor knows is already dead because his vital signs are gone. Nardole argues by pointing out that he's sending them to go looking in the dark for someone who is armed and possibly Axe-Crazy. The Doctor says he's thought of that:
    The Doctor: Nardole, make sure that you walk in front of Bill.
    • The timing of the moment immediately preceding this is quite darkly funny:
      Bill: Oh, that's promising.
      Nardole: Promising?
      Bill: Yeah, at least one person read the Veritas and lived.
      [Gunshot]
  • Nardole's scream not even a minute after making a Badass Boast and getting some respect for it.
  • The simulated Doctor signs his last email to the real Doctor as "The Doctor X.", which was interpreted as sending himself a kiss.

"The Pyramid at the End of the World"

  • The real Bill's date with Penny goes a little better than her simulated counterpart's. Then the Secretary-General of the UN and some soldiers burst in.
    • The follow-up on the UN plane is gold as well.
      The Doctor: The last I heard you were on a date with Penny. What happened?
      Bill: The United Nations Secretary-General.
      The Doctor: Awesome.
      Bill: No, that wasn't a metaphor.
      The Doctor: Good, because I really wasn't following it.
  • The Doctor is playing his guitar on the TARDIS, and Bill asks him to come out because the UN's asked for his help. When he does, he finds himself not in his office but onboard a plane, because "the UN wouldn't say no." When the Doctor asks how they got the TARDIS out of his office, Bill says he'd told her that the windows were big enough for it to fit through, at which point the Doctor says that they weren't. And then:
    Colonel Brabbit: Well, they are now.
  • Nardole is hilarious in this episode.
    The Doctor: What do you depend on?
    Nardole: Air, food, water, beer.
    [Later...]
    The Doctor: Nardole, can you do this?
    Nardole: 'Course I can. I'm not just sexy.
  • The Monks sticking a Russian sub nose-first in the dirt.

"The Lie of the Land"

  • Bill's second question to verify Nardole's still an ally and his response: "What sound do space station doors make?" and "Shuck-Shuck", respectively.
  • Nardole once had an imaginary friend... who left him for someone else.
  • Missy describes Nardole as "that bald fellow who looks like an egg."
  • When Bill shoots the Doctor, he jerks back as each bullet hits him before hitting his desk and collapsing to the floor. Dramatic in context... but with the reveal that this was all part of the Doctor's Batman Gambit, it's easy to see that he's massively overacting.
    • As it turns out, one of the soldiers forgot to switch his bullets out for blanks. Just imagine if Bill had actually caused a regeneration at this point.
  • Bill says they could have quietly sneaked in but "The Doctor being the Doctor"... cue a massive tanker smashing into a dock and the Doctor cackling maniacally.
  • Bill never turned in her essay on free will because the world was invaded by zombie monks. The Doctor points out that was her fault.
  • Twelve has a massive understatement when he says that he's "not exactly thrilled" with the Monks messing with history β€” probably because "messing with history" is on the top of his résumé.
  • Bill says that Missy is "just a woman" and Missy gives her a "Yeah, no," look.
  • Missy and the Doctor both refer to the human race as "idiots"; Bill gives them a look of offence as she is the particular idiot in question.
  • Bill reveals she's the Lynchpin. Missy sits down on her chair and somehow manages land her hands on the piano keys so that they make a sound that very clearly is meant to be "awkward" (which is also what Missy says next).
  • It's blocked out by Nardole shrieking and the Doctor trying to cut her off, but Bill can audibly be heard saying "I'm going to beat the shit out of you!" when she threatens Nardole.
  • Some of the things Missy wants in return for her help include: A 3D printer... and a pony.
  • Missy claims the Doctor is so hot that he's literally on fire and randomly talks in Spanish, which she translates for Bill.
  • When the Doctor says he's already found the Lynchpin, Missy goes "Oh!" in a tone that implies she's thinking: You actually got something done without me?
  • The Doctor and Missy are bantering like a planetary invasion is a normal day for them. Then again, it probably is, though Missy is probably usually leading the invasions.

"Empress of Mars"

  • The Doctor, Bill and Nardole walking into a NASA control room. The scientists are as baffled as you would expect.
  • After failing to recognise any of the film and TV show references Bill is making, the Doctor finally realises Frozen is a movie. While making a declaration against the Ice Warriors. Bill's "Are you kidding me?" face sells it.

"The Eaters of Light"

  • Pooh-poohing the possibility that Bill could know a fraction of what he knows about ancient Romans, the Doctor mentions having been a Roman governor, farmer, juggler, and vestal virgin 2nd class. It's not so much the idea of the Doctor having been a vestal virgin that Nardole gets hung up on, as the notion that he was a 2nd class one.
  • Nardole remarks about how damp the area is. The Doctor's deadpan response is gold: "It's Scotland. It's always damp."
  • Upon finding a corpse that seems to have died from sunlight deprivation, Nardole's suggested cause of death is "Death by Scotland". The Doctor's reaction really sells it.
  • When talking to the Picts, the Doctor throws Nardole's bag of corn kernels in the fire, then continues talking down to the Picts, finishing off with:
    The Doctor: For now, would you mind awfully all just jumping out of your skins and allowing Nardole and I to escape in the confusion?
    Kar: Who are you?
    The Doctor: Let me explain.
    [corn starts popping in the fire, the Picts jump out of their skins, and the Doctor and Nardole escape in the confusion]
  • Bill's way of warning one of the Romans one of the void beasts is about to make a meal out of him.
    Bill: Shift your arse, Roman!
  • Missy was apparently watching the TARDIS crew on their adventure and got so bored that she started to read a book. The Doctor has apparently become so predictable to her that she got bored. Also, she's apparently doing free maintenance for the Doctor now too. Apparently the TARDIS's engines are in appalling shape.

"World Enough and Time"

  • Missy introduces herself as "Doctor Who", insisting it's the Doctor's real name. Even funnier if you're familiar with the credits for the original series, wherein the Doctor was indeed credited as "Doctor Who" (until season 19, that is).
    • Thing is, Missy also does know his real name, so she and the Doctor both know she is messing with Bill and Nardole because she finds it fun...
  • Missy refers to Bill and Nardole as "Exposition and Comic Relief". Apparently, that's their genders.
    • Especially hilarious if you consider that, yep, that's pretty much how every other she-and-he duo of companions has been treated, as far back as Jamie and Victoria.
    • During the same scene, Missy realises that the Doctor is eating crisps while watching her take charge of the events.
  • Mr. Razor tells Bill that he has "Good Tea" and "Bad Tea", and that the difference is that's what he calls them. Bill asks for the "Good Tea", and Razor gleefully tells her that a positive attitude will help with the horrors to follow, then insists he's referring to the tea itself.
  • The Doctor's explanation of the Time Dilation the black hole is causing is interspersed with Bill and Mr. Razor watching the still images of the explanation. Bill comments one pose is the Doctor being sarcastic and his lecture is going to go on for a while.
    Razor: The months will fly by.
    • It takes on a whole new level of funny when you discover that's actually the Master in disguise saying that. He knows from experience that this is true.
  • When he starts his explanation, the Doctor pulls out his sonic screwdriver and pulls off the top to reveal that it doubles as a marker pen.
  • Judging by the way he gives Missy a shocked glance, the Saxon Master seems genuinely disturbed over the fact he's going to become a woman for the first time. Or from the double entendre-laced dialogue they both exchange with one another, the two might actually be hitting on themselves.
  • When the Doctor is trying to convince Bill to go along with his plan to redeem Missy:
    The Doctor: Nardole agreed.
    Nardole: No, I didn't!
    The Doctor: You did in my head, which is good enough for me.
    • When the Doctor actually visibly shows an emotional response to the thought of getting his old friend back, Nardole is shocked and giddy at him "having an emotion". So much so that he takes a selfie of it.
  • Missy has a Sonic Umbrella. How many times has that accidentally gone off if she got caught in the rain and opened it? One has to wonder.

"The Doctor Falls"

  • When the Doctor is analysing the situation, he states that the Master was probably in disguise so that no one would recognise his "stupid round face".
    Saxon: Round?
    Missy: It is, a bit.
  • Nardole shows up on the hospital rooftop in a shuttle to rescue the Doctor and the two Masters. As Saxon's Master climbs in, he tells Nardole that the Doctor is dead and that he told him to tell Nardole that he (the Doctor) had always hated Nardole, then a few moments later Missy gets in and says the exact same thing.
    Nardole: Heard you the first time.
  • The Master tells the Doctor that he can handle the approaching army of Cybermen, now that the Doctor has put him on the menu. The Doctor tells him to knock himself out. So, Missy does.
    Saxon: Oh, you hit me really hard.
    Missy: You're telling me. I think... [feels her scalp] ...I think I've still got the bump.
  • The Master casually putting on eyeliner while Missy looks bored in the background, which is hilarious for multiple reasons, not the least of which the fact that he carries an eyeliner pencil on all his schemes so he can look suitably impressive (not that Missy can talk).
  • The Master explains to Missy that his TARDIS is broken because he burned out the dematerialisation circuit. Missy throws him up against a wall and tells him she remembers a very scary lady throwing her against a wall and telling her to never be without a spare, which she then produces.
    • And this act makes the Master a little flustered, leading to a Screw Yourself moment (which Missy immediately kills).
  • When the Doctor, the Masters, and Bill first face off against the upgraded Cyberman, everyone manages to keep their composure while blasting it into oblivion... well, all except for Saxon, who's repeatedly screaming "kill it" at the top of his lungs.
  • Nardole's little demonstration:
    "Is that windmill important?"
  • The entire fact that everyone else is hearing Bill's lines as the Mondasian Cyberman sing-song voice can lead to some quite inappropriate laughs throughout the episode if you put too much thought into it.
  • Nardole tries to get Bill to come with him and the other refugees by reminding her that he can kick her arse. Bill's response?
    Bill: You'll have to go back down there to that hospital and find it, then.
  • There's something darkly hilarious about the Master and Missy killing one another.
    "You see, Missy, this is where we've always been going. This is our perfect ending. We shoot ourselves in the back."
    • And even more so, about how they both agree about that, laughing hysterically as they expire.
      • An audio drama called The Lumiat makes it even funnier as it reveals Missy has a way around dying - she's laughing at her younger self's incompetence!
    • It also shows just why there hasn't been a multi-Master story before; the Doctor can't get through an episode without snarking at himself; the Master can't get through an episode without killing themself!

"Twice Upon a Time"

  • The first promo pic showcasing the First and Twelfth Doctors. Twelve is wearing one of his velvet jackets while sporting a pair of shades, pulling a rock star pose. One is standing behind him with a look that just screams "What is wrong with my future self?" Which is generally his attitude during the episode too.
  • You've heard of a Previously on…, yes? Well, we put the icing on the universe with this one!
    Previously on Doctor Who...
    709 episodes ago:
  • This exchange:
    The Captain: [to the Twelfth and First Doctors] So sorry, I don't suppose either of you is a doctor?
    Twelfth Doctor: You trying to be funny?
  • The First Doctor is not happy about how Twelve's TARDIS looks.
    First Doctor: Have I been burgled?
  • It takes seeing the glowing hands of Twelve for the First Doctor to acknowledge this is his future self:
    First Doctor: Do I become you?
    Twelfth Doctor: Well, there's a few false starts, but you get there in the end!
    First Doctor: But I thought...
    Twelfth Doctor: What?
    First Doctor: Well, I assumed I'd get... younger?
    Twelfth Doctor: I AM YOUNGER!
  • Twelve tells One that remembering where you parked is "going to come up a lot".
  • Bill declares that she knew the Doctor wasn't dead because he doesn't "have the attention span" to die. Kudos to Bill, it's true.
  • Twelve refers to One as "Mary Berry" and "Mr. Pastry" on two occasions.
  • Bill reacts to the original TARDIS just like a certain kind of hardcore fan: "The windows are the wrong size!"
    • The Doctor hustles her inside... then pauses to study the windows as if noticing it himself; judging by his reaction, he apparently agrees.
  • Watching Twelve cringe and try to hide his first incarnation every time One spouts something sexist, because his outdated comments and values are Flame Bait incarnate in the current age.
    • A key example is when Bill talks of how she misses being in the TARDIS, One says the Doctor misses her too... because "the place could use a good spring cleaning."
    • Then when One says something sexist in front of Bill, with the Captain chuckling in agreement, they both say that they have "experience" with women. Bill then states that she does too. The looks on both men's faces when they figure out what she means is absolutely priceless. Twelve just smirks proudly.
    • When Bill calls Twelve an arse, One pokes his head out of the TARDIS and threatens her with "a jolly good smacked bottom" if he hears her swearing again. For a moment, there's a brief beat where the two look incredibly awkward: Twelve is mortified and Bill looks absolutely horrified at the thought of it...
      Twelve: Can we just pretend that that never happened?
      Bill: I'm a broad-minded girl... I mean, I know we have this whole professor-student thing going on, but...
      Twelve: Can we just never, ever, talk about this again?!
    • The Novelization reveals that One is deliberately acting this way to piss off Twelve.
  • Twelve snarking at Testimony!Nardole.
    Twelve: When you're already dying, you're entitled to think that your day can't get any worse. But, here you are!
  • The Testimony version of Nardole claims that Nardole isn't bald like we all thought... he has invisible hair (which the database got wrong). And glass nipples.
  • How large is Clara Oswald's ego? A fake, memory created version of her is telling the Doctor not to forget her again because "quite frankly, that was offensive". We may have found someone with a bigger ego than either the Doctor or the Master...
  • As the Twelfth Doctor nears the end, he gives his successor a speech to remind them what the Doctor is all about. He also throws in the line, "And NEVER EVER eat pears!" Bonus points for the fact that Russell T. Davies actually removed the original "I HATE PEARS!" line from "Human Nature" because he thought it would encourage children not to eat them, but the line became so legendary that Steven Moffat decided "the hell with it".
    • Throughout her entire run, Thirteen has never eaten a pear.
  • In response to One's constant complaints about his sonic sunglasses, Twelve puts them on his face.
    One: [slightly disoriented] Why am I wearing these?
    Twelve: Because I love it. Never take those off!
    One: What's "browser history"?
    [Twelve quickly takes the glasses away with an Oh, Crap! face]
    • Made even funnier by the Novelisation which reveals it's images of River! Make of that what you will... we're not hinting at anything...
  • When offering the Captain some brandy aboard Twelve's TARDIS, One notes that the bottle is a little empty, with Twelve commenting that he might have had a nip "sometime in the last 1500 years". Later, on One's TARDIS, he offers another brandy, and notes the fuller bottle, commenting "So that's where it went."
  • The First Doctor spots the Twelfth's guitar, and the latter runs over and tries to hide it, claiming that someone left it there accidentally!
  • The following conversation occurs:
    Twelfth Doctor: There's just one little problem.
    Bill Potts: Which is?
    Twelfth Doctor: It wants to kill me. (Cue eyebrow raise and manic grin of enjoyment.)
  • A hilarious moment of Wrong Genre Savvy:
    Twelfth Doctor: It's not an Evil Plan. I don't know what to do if it's not an Evil Plan!
  • There's something comical about the fact that, despite the incredibly long time they've been apart, the first thing Twelve and Rusty do when the latter lets the former into his tower room is resume arguing over who's the "good Dalek". They both say it's the other guy.
  • When Rusty disarms himself, the Doctor snarks that this is the first time a Dalek's ever gotten naked for him.
    • Why Rusty agrees to help the Doctor: because it will piss off the Daleks he hates.
  • A bit of bleak humour from the Captain when the Testimony explains why he won't be able to see them or remember them any more:
    Testimony: When time resumes, you will not remember this. A perception filter will also render us invisible.
    Captain: Yes... One imagines some of those words were attached to actual meanings of some sort.
    • Even funnier, as Mark Gatiss makes pretty much the exact same face his descendant always did upon hearing the Doctor's technobabble, all those years ago.
  • You'd expect a sudden gender change to be something strange or upsetting. The Thirteenth Doctor doesn't think so.
    Thirteen: [with a bright, ecstatic grin] Oh, brilliant!
  • The very first thing the Thirteenth Doctor does after regenerating and getting a good look at herself? She presses a single button on the console... which causes the TARDIS to reveal that all of its mechanisms are basically messed up after Twelve blew up. The TARDIS tips over on its side, almost as if it's been taken by surprise and has face planted, flings the Doctor out the doors and then explodes, several thousand feet above the ground. Then just to make it worse, the TARDIS vanishes to repair itself and change the desktop once again, leaving the Doctor falling to her first adventure with the new body.
    • Normal service is resumed, then, eh? The Doctor may have changed faces and genders, but some things never change.
    • There's also the fact that as Thirteen is clinging onto the TARDIS console before she's thrown, she gets hit in the face by a piece of paper. The Doctor has, in order, hit the TARDIS with a pickaxe, a hammer and a building in 1938 Germany and the worst the TARDIS can do is hit the Doctor in the face with a tiny piece of paper!
    • The TARDIS starts shaking up and down when it's on its side β€” this throws the pages of the books from the wide open doors as if the TARDIS is trying to throw away something icky; it's like a child with a booger on their finger trying to get rid of it.
    • Plus, the very first thing we see of Jodie Whittaker's performance in the role is a hammy "What the hell?" face. That should serve her pretty well.
  • Shortly before he dies, when he's talking with Bill who asks him if he knows "what the hardest thing about knowing [the Doctor] was", Twelve's first two guesses are: "my superior intelligence" and "my dazzling charisma". His third is "my impeccable dress sense". His entire outfit is torn to pieces having been through the events of World Enough And Time, The Doctor Falls, an explosion, a partial regeneration, a very long and stressful period of two weeks without any repair and the events of this entire goddamn episode, followed by falling for half an hour and crashing into a train, then continuing to wear it for days until she finally switches clothes towards the end of The Woman Who Fell To Earth (only after being prompted to by her new friends).


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