YMMV / Doctor Who S27 E12 "Bad Wolf"

• Best Known for the Fanservice: Everybody is fighting for their lives in game shows that try to kill you, and what does everyone remember? Jack Harkness, naked in front of millions of viewers. Their viewing figures just went up.
• Designated Villain: While Roderik is a bit of a jerk he is, like all the other players, just trying to survive the game. While Rose treats him as horrible because of the way he is voting, he points out he wants to go against her at the end so he doesn't get disintegrated. Bear in mind it's very likely all the contestants were forced into this game. Slightly justified, however, since he doesn't show any regret about killing other participants, but is actually quite gleeful about it. Every other participants we see is stressed and scared of the situation, and we even see them being supportive to each other, while Roderick only thinks about how much money he's going to win. It could be argued that he is basically just a Pragmatic Villain.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The fact that Countdown was still on the air was made more hilarious in 2021 when it was announced that Anne Robinson would be the new host of the show. It makes you wonder if the Anne-Droid was also hosting that in 200,100.
  • This wouldn't be the last time Paterson Joseph (Roderick's actor) appeared on TV playing the role of a quiz show contestant - he was also Simon on the "Numberwang" sketches in That Mitchell and Webb Look.
• Misaimed Fandom: When the episode aired, fans and critics talked of how funny it was for the spoofs of the various reality shows to be used as an example of how vapid and horrible they were. This came as a surprise to Russell T Davies as he liked these shows and put them in as a tribute.
• Narm: Captain Jack's very over-the-top yell of "YOU KILLED HER, YOUR STUPID FREAKING GAME SHOW KILLED HER!" becomes this when you know that Rose isn't really dead, and also because he sounds more like a teenager throwing a tantrum than a man who's just watched a friend die.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Russell T Davies fully admitted that this episode would not age well when the episode aired. As of 2022, the UK version of Big Brother is still going, but has been increasingly been pushed aside by other game shows, and has been tossed around multiple channels (started life on Channel 4, then move to Channel 5, then to ITV2) with an increasingly shrinking audience, while The Weakest Link was cancelled in 2012, but returned in 2021 with a new host. What Not to Wear is extremely obscure to modern viewers, never really being popular in 2005, and was cancelled in 2013, while Ground Force, a gardening show, was cancelled the week after the episode aired!. The reference to Wipeout is obviously one to the '98 game show, but the ambiguity could equally apply to the newer Wipeout series.

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