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** The exchange is well written, but it's really the actor playing Barclay who sells it.

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** The exchange is well written, but it's really [[Creator/DanielKaluuya the actor playing Barclay Barclay]] who sells it.
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-->''[The Doctor repeatedly opens and closes his fingers, jazz-hands style]''\\

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-->''[The --->''[The Doctor repeatedly opens and closes his fingers, jazz-hands style]''\\

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* The entire first half of the interrogation scene. Particularly when Agatha asks the Colonel, who promptly blurts out that he can walk, only to find that Agatha was going to say "You're completely innocent." Followed by Donna's interjections about who killed who.

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** The final item needed for the cure leads to another charades game even funnier than the first:
-->''[The Doctor repeatedly opens and closes his fingers, jazz-hands style]''\\
'''Donna''': Oh, it's a song! ''[a la Al Jolson]'' "Mammy!" \\
''[The Doctor grimaces and keeps moving his hands]''\\
'''Donna''': I don't know! "Camptown Races?"\\
'''The Doctor''': ''[Even angrier than before]'' '''''"CAMPTOWN RACES?!"'''''\\
'''Donna''': ''[Sarcastic]'' Oh, all right then--[[Film/TheToweringInferno "Towering Inferno!"]]
** Even better is watching the entire kitchen staff as they stare in utter (and silent) confusion at the bizarre scene playing out in front of them.
* The entire first half of the interrogation scene. Particularly when TheSummation. In one particular shocking moment, Agatha asks turns her attention to the wheelchair-using Colonel, who promptly blurts out who, after a moment of PerpSweating, reveals that he's actually been able to walk all along and was faking his disability to keep his wife from leaving him. When he can walk, only demands to find that know how Agatha learned the truth, she sheepishly admits that she ''didn't''--she was actually going to say "You're completely innocent." Followed by Donna's interjections about who killed who.that the Colonel is the only entirely innocent person in the house and furthermore that she had no idea of his secret.


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** Donna spends the entire scene assuming that everyone Agatha talks to is the murderer--and whenever Dame Christie reveals their actual secret, Donna follows up with "...so they're ''not'' the murderer?"
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** The fact that you-know-who's EvilPlan seems to be entirely for the sake of that IncrediblyLamePun (well, okay, no it's not) makes it even ''funnier''. The pun is even worse than you think. Think about what the Master Race really means. He just went and turned the entire planet into [[IncrediblyLamePun blonde Anglo Saxons]].

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** The fact that you-know-who's EvilPlan seems to be entirely for the sake of that IncrediblyLamePun {{pun}} (well, okay, no it's not) makes it even ''funnier''. The pun is even worse than you think. Think about what the Master Race really means. He just went and turned the entire planet into [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} blonde Anglo Saxons]].
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-->'''Ross:''' [[JustForPun Drives me around the bend]].

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-->'''Ross:''' [[JustForPun [[{{Pun}} Drives me around the bend]].
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* The Doctor's drive over to the Rattigan Academy with Ross, and his distrust for ATMOS.
-->'''Ross:''' [[JustForPun Drives me around the bend]].
-->''(Turns right to arrive at Rattigan Academy)''
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Oh, nice one]].
-->'''Ross:''' [[LampshadeHanging I timed that perfectly]].
-->'''The Doctor:''' ''(genuinely amused)'' Yeah, yeah you did.
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-->'''Donna:''' [[HeroicBSOD Wait, no. Jus- Hang on. So... This isn't the real me? This isn't my real body?]] [[MoodWhiplash But...]] ''[annoyed]'' I've been dieting!

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-->'''Donna:''' [[HeroicBSOD Wait, no. Jus- Hang on. So... This isn't the real me? This isn't my real body?]] [[MoodWhiplash body? But...]] ''[annoyed]'' [[MoodWhiplash I've been dieting!
dieting!]]



-->'''The Doctor and Sky:''' Just stop it, all of you. Stop it, please. Now then, Sky. Are you Sky? Is Sky still in there? Mrs Silvestry? You know exactly what I'm going to say. How are you doing that? Roast beef. Bananas. The Medusa Cascade. ''[{{beat}}]'' ''BANG!'' Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, TARDIS. Shamble, bobble, dibble, dooble. [[MoodWhiplash Oh, Doctor, you're so handsome. Yes, I am, thank you.]] A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O. First she repeats, then she catches up. What's the next stage?
* Jethro the space emo kid being so deadpan and, at best, morbidly fascinated with the whole freaky situation.

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-->'''The Doctor and Sky:''' Just stop it, all of you. Stop it, please. Now then, Sky. Are you Sky? Is Sky still in there? Mrs Silvestry? You know exactly what I'm going to say. How are you doing that? Roast beef. Bananas. The Medusa Cascade. ''[{{beat}}]'' ''BANG!'' Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, TARDIS. Shamble, bobble, dibble, dooble. [[MoodWhiplash Oh, Doctor, you're so handsome. Yes, handsome, yes, I am, thank you.]] A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O. First she repeats, then she catches up. What's the next stage?
* Jethro the space emo kid being so deadpan and, at best, [[NightmareFetishist morbidly fascinated fascinated]] with the whole freaky situation.
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-->'''The Doctor and Sky:''' Just stop it, all of you. Stop it, please. Now then, Sky. Are you Sky? Is Sky still in there? Mrs Silvestry? You know exactly what I'm going to say. How are you doing that? Roast beef. Bananas. The Medusa Cascade. ''[{{beat}}]'' ''BANG!'' Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, TARDIS. Shamble bobble dibble dooble. [[MoodWhiplash Oh, Doctor, you're so handsome. Yes, I am, thank you.]] A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O. First she repeats, then she catches up. What's the next stage?

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-->'''The Doctor and Sky:''' Just stop it, all of you. Stop it, please. Now then, Sky. Are you Sky? Is Sky still in there? Mrs Silvestry? You know exactly what I'm going to say. How are you doing that? Roast beef. Bananas. The Medusa Cascade. ''[{{beat}}]'' ''BANG!'' Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, TARDIS. Shamble bobble dibble Shamble, bobble, dibble, dooble. [[MoodWhiplash Oh, Doctor, you're so handsome. Yes, I am, thank you.]] A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O. First she repeats, then she catches up. What's the next stage?
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** Her line about worms becomes funnier when the Doctor "bigenerates" in ''The Giggle'', resulting in the Fifteenth Doctor without Fourteen dying.
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* "Check out this bone structure, cause one day you'll be shaving it."

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* "Check out this bone structure, cause one day you'll you're gonna be shaving it."it!"

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[CallBack "Are you]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild my mummy?"]]]]

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** To be fair, according to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E3ThinIce the Twelfth Doctor]], “making a noise” is about what defines the regular sonic screwdriver as sonic anyways.
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* "[[Creator/DavidTennant You're]]... A FAN." ([[AscendedFanboy Well, he's not wrong...]])

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* "[[Creator/DavidTennant You're]]...You]]'re... A FAN." ([[AscendedFanboy Well, he's not wrong...]])



** Steven Moffatt was, apparently, ''very'' proud that ''he'' got to make the gay joke after all these years!

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** Steven Moffatt Creator/StevenMoffat was, apparently, ''very'' proud that ''he'' got to make the gay joke after all these years!
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* Wilf goes to answer his phone, pulls out his revolver instead, and **still** attempts to answer it before realising.

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* Wilf goes to answer his phone, pulls out his revolver instead, and **still** ''still'' attempts to answer it before realising.
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* Wilf goes to answer his phone, pulls out his revolver instead, and **still** attempts to answer it before realising.
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'''The Doctor:''' ''[mouths through glass]'' [[CatchPhrase RUN!]]

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'''The Doctor:''' ''[mouths through glass]'' [[CatchPhrase [[CharacterCatchphrase RUN!]]



--->'''Eleventh Doctor:''' '''''[[CatchPhrase GERONIMOOOOOOOOO!!]]'''''

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--->'''Eleventh Doctor:''' '''''[[CatchPhrase '''''[[CharacterCatchphrase GERONIMOOOOOOOOO!!]]'''''

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* After Jenny seduces a guard to get them out of their cell, Donna offers to use her "feminine wiles" to distract another guard. The Doctor very awkwardly asks her to save her wiles for later, then distracts him with a wind-up mouse.

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* After Jenny [[GoodLookingPrivates Jenny]] seduces a guard to get them out of their cell, and the camera pans to Donna offers to use who's raised her "feminine wiles" to distract another guard. The Doctor eyebrows, impressed, and the Doctor, who's looking very awkwardly asks her to save her wiles for later, then distracts him with a wind-up mouse.embarrassed.



* Donna later offers to use her "feminine wiles" to distract another guard. The Doctor very awkwardly asks her to save her wiles for later, then distracts him with a wind-up mouse.



-->'''Harriet:''' Not now, Captain.

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-->'''Harriet:''' Not now, ''now'', Captain.



-->'''Jack:''' ''[after bursting out of an [[AirVentPassageway air vent]]]'' Just my luck. I climb through two miles of [[AirVentPassageway ventilation shafts]], chasing life signs on this thing, and who do I find — Mickey Mouse!\\

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-->'''Jack:''' ''[after bursting out of an [[AirVentPassageway air vent]]]'' Just my luck. I climb through two miles of [[AirVentPassageway ventilation shafts]], chasing life signs on this ''this'' thing, and who do I find — Mickey Mouse!\\
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-->'''The Doctor:''' You dishonor me, sir!

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-->'''The Doctor:''' -->'''General Staal:''' You dishonor me, sir!

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* The Doctor beautifully playing on the Sontarans' "[[BringIt Come at me, bro!]]" attitudes to lure Staal into a sense of false security. It doesn't work, but he ''does'' get Staal to reveal himself.
-->'''The Doctor:''' But this isn't typical Sontaran behaviour, is it? Hiding? Using ''teenagers'', stopping bullets? A Sontaran should ''face'' bullets! [[SchmuckBait With dignity!]] ''Shame on you!''
-->'''The Doctor:''' You dishonor me, sir!
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-->'''Donna:''' Um, ''veni, vidi, vici''. \\

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-->'''Donna:''' Um, ''veni, vidi, vici''. \\[[labelnote:Translation]]"I came, I saw, I conquered"[[/labelnote]]\\



-->'''Donna Noble:''' You. Have got. To be ''KIDDING ME!''\\

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-->'''Donna Noble:''' [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You. Have got. To be ''KIDDING ME!''\\be]] ''[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe KIDDING ME!]]''\\



-->'''The Doctor:''' ''[cornered by Lucius Petrus Dextrus and his guards]'' Oh. ''Morituri te salutant.''[[note]]If you were wondering, this translates to: we [those] who are about to die salute you.[[/note]]\\

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-->'''The Doctor:''' ''[cornered by Lucius Petrus Dextrus and his guards]'' Oh. ''Morituri te salutant.''[[note]]If you were wondering, this translates to: we ''[[labelnote:Translation]]"We [those] who are about to die salute you.[[/note]]\\"[[/labelnote]]\\
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** On a meta level, it's because David Tennant had a lot of trouble with the Judoon language, so they made him do it just to fuck with him.
* "Don't you have a webcam?" "She won't let me have one, says they're naughty."
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** The start of the running gag of ''everyone'' assuming Donna and Ten are married.

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** * The start of the running gag of ''everyone'' assuming Donna and Ten are married.

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