History Recap / DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw

'''Original air date:''' April 22, 2006

'''Production code:''' 2.2

Written by Creator/RussellTDavies.

* BriefAccentImitation: The Doctor adopts a fake Scottish accent in order to fool Queen Victoria. Creator/DavidTennant's natural accent is Scottish, though not quite the same as the one he uses in the episode. Rose also attempts a Scottish accent, but hers is so bad the Doctor tells her "don't do that" after only three or four excruciating words.

* AllMonksKnowKungFu: Inverted; British monks generally aren't known for their martial arts skills, and the household staff are completely taken aback when Father Angelo and his monks turn on the kung fu (that being said, since we don't see most of it, it's unclear if the monks were actually practicing Eastern or Western styles of quarterstaff fighting).

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Rose spends the whole episode egging Queen Victoria into saying "we are not amused" as a reaction to what is going on. The Queen finally says it... And then explains that she is not amused by the way ''they'' were running around acting like the whole thing was some sort of game, sentencing Rose to be banished from the British Isles (hundreds of years before she's born) and declaring Britain's everlasting enmity to the Doctor from that day forward, which will bring some problems down the line through the Torchwood Institute.

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The Doctor remembers that Prince Albert kept insisting on having the diamond cut down and was never satisfied with the shape or size. Tthe Doctor has an epiphany: the diamond, the telescope, Prince Albert and Sir Robert's father are all connected. The Doctor asks, what if the two men were not just exchanging stories, but treated it all as real and had a trap for the wolf? Just then, the werewolf crashes through the skylight, forcing the others to flee the library. The werewolf nearly catches up with Rose, but Lady Isobel appears, throwing the mistletoe broth in the werewolf's face and forcing it away. Sir Robert kisses his wife and tells her to take the women back downstairs, while he and the others climb the stairs to the observatory.

* NeverMessWithGranny: 60-ear-old Queen Victoria, having already had several attempts on her life, carries a gun in her purse.

The one where the Doctor [[DoubleEntendre licks wood...]] [[ThatCameOutWrong err...]] [[DiggingYourselfDeeper and notes his sonic screwdriver doesn't work on wood]]. [[VerbalBackspace Uhh...]] it's a ''[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant door]]'' we're talking about, by the way.[[note]]Though of course, [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor whatever the Doctor does in the privacy of his own TARDIS is no one's business but his]] and the fanfic writers.[[/note]]

'''Original air date: April 22, 2006'''

* RoyallyScrewedUp: The episode strongly implies that eventually the British Royal family might become werewolves. However at the time Victoria had already had all her children, and the Doctor is on good terms with UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen, so it's clearly a joke.

* EvilPlan: The alien wolf parasite thing wants to create "the empire of the wolf" on Earth, and the monks want to help him/it accomplish it because they worship it as a god.

-->'''Rose Tyler:''' But the Wolf needs moonlight, it's ''made by'' moonlight!\\

--->'''Rose Tyler:''' Uh, uh... ''[adopts an extremely terrible Scottish accent]'' och aye, I've been oot and aboot!\\

'''Rose Tyler:''' Hoots, mon!\\

-->'''Rose Tyler:''' How much is that worth?

-->'''Rose Tyler:''' Good job my mum's not here. She'd be fighting the wolf off with her bare hands for that thing.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: All of the werewolf's victims are the men of the house. It passes over Lady Isobel and the maids, because they had the good fortune to wind up in the mistletoe-filled kitchen. The lower-ranking monks standing guard outside the house aren't seen to be killed, but it's not all that likely they'd have survived for long in Victorian Britain, at a time when they were only too happy to punish traitors to the crown by hanging.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Queen Victoria, having already had several attempts on her life, carries a gun.

* UnderdressedForTheOccasion: Rose is wearing a denim overall miniskirt and a tight-fitting, low-cut shirt that's appropriate for their intended destination of 1979. But the TARDIS does one of its famous missed landings and ends up in 1879 when such attire would be very inappropriate, and so the other characters see her as being "naked".

* AnachronismStew: There were evidently pump-action muskets in 1879.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Victoria might seem a tad ungrateful to respond to the Doctor and Rose saving her life by banishing them, but she does have a point about their glib attitude in the face of the wolf — to attempt to get her to say her CatchPhrase all while people are dying horribly around them and treat it all as a game, to say nothing of the Doctor's NightmareFetishist tendencies, is beyond inappropriate. She also has a point when she wonders how long they'll survive their madcap lifestyle. (And her criticism does have an impact; although the Doctor and Rose continue to laugh in the face of danger in subsequent adventures, they never again act as blasé as they do here, nor does the Tenth Doctor with his subsequent companions Martha and Donna.)