YMMV / Doctor Who S34 E3 "Robot of Sherwood"

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In the opening sequence, the Doctor and Clara are arguing about trying to meet Robin Hood when, out of nowhere, the Doctor produces a large spoon covered with an unidentified food substance, licks the spoon and then apparently puts the spoon away in his pocket. No explanation is ever given for why he's carrying a spoon around - long shots in the same sequence reveal no food in evidence, and it really does seem as if the Doctor puts the spoon back in his pocket. Clara doesn't appear to notice, and the Doctor appears to lick the spoon with his back turned to her so she can't see. It is a truly puzzling moment. We do see the Doctor use a spoon in his comedic duel with Robin Hood a few minutes later, but the spoon is not only completely clean, but it looks like a different colored spoon than the one from earlier!
  • Due to the fact that an earlier moment in the final battle (that would have revealed that the Sheriff was a robot) had to be removed from the broadcast, his line about being "half man, half engine" becomes this.
• Bizarro Episode: While comedic episodes are nothing unusual, this episode, in which the Doctor and Clara somehow manage to locate Robin Hood (even though the Doctor is certain he's a fictional character) and engage in comedic goings-on, feels out of place given its placement early in the Twelfth Doctor's first season. It doesn't help that Peter Capaldi plays the Doctor differently than he plays the character the rest of the season and the episode as a whole takes on the feeling of something that could easily be explained away as All Just a Dream, though it isn't.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Doctor tries to dissuade Clara from going to Sherwood Forest by offering to take her to see the Ice Warriors, whom he does end up encountering two seasons later with Bill, Clara's television successor.
• Memetic Mutation: "This...is my spoon!"
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: An unused script idea for Season 16 of the classic show (aka "The Key to Time") saw the Doctor meeting Robin Hood, only to discover that the alleged hero was actually a blackhearted villain, and dealt with the notion that legendary heroes might, in reality, have been the antithesis of the way history would ultimately portray them.
• The Un-Twist: "Robin Hood" actually is the real deal. Only in a troperiffic show like Doctor Who can this count as a plot twist.

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