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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''Tenth Doctor Era'''\\
'''Series 2:''' [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion CS]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion 3]] | '''4''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet 8]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit 9]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer 11]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts 12]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday 13]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose <<< Series 1]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride Series 3 >>>]]''']]-]]]
!The Girl in the Fireplace




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->Written by Creator/StevenMoffat\\
Directed by Euros Lyn\\
'''Production code:''' 2.4\\
'''Air date:''' 6 May 2006



'''Original air date:''' May 6, 2006

'''Production code:''' 2.4
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---> '''Mickey:''' What's a horse doing on a spaceship?\\

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---> --> '''Mickey:''' What's a horse doing on a spaceship?\\
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-->'''The Doctor:''' ''(upon seeing a droid without its mask)'' Oh, you are ''beautiful!'' ''(puts on glasses to get a better look)'' [[{{Squee}} No, really, you are, you're GORGEOUS!]] ''(to Rose and Mickey)'' Look at that! Space-age clockwork, I love it! ''I got chills!''
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: As the trio observe Reinette talking to King Louis, the Doctor mentions that she has plans of becoming his mistress. Rose sarcastically muses that (since Louis is already married) the queen must have ''loved'' her, but the Doctor counters that the two women actually got on very well.
-->'''Mickey:''' The king's wife and the king's ''girlfriend?''\\
'''Doctor:''' ''France.'' It's a different planet.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: During the season's initial broadcast each episode would have a prologue clip on the BBC website before the episode proper aired, and the clip for this episode showed the moments after the ship was initially damaged, where one of the injured crew is initially glad to see the robots and begs them to help her, then screams when they move to attack her. Anyone who saw that clip could hazard a guess about what happened to the crew, and had their guess confirmed when the eye in the camera and the heart wired into the machinery showed up.

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: During the season's initial broadcast each episode would have a prologue clip on the BBC website before the episode proper aired, and the clip for this episode showed the moments after the ship was initially damaged, where one of the injured crew is initially at first glad to see the robots and begs them to help her, then screams when they move to attack her. Anyone who saw that clip could hazard a guess about what happened to the crew, and had their guess confirmed when the eye in the camera and the heart wired into the machinery showed up.
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* ArtificialStupidity: The Doctor points out that the robots could have used the windows to return to their repair yard, instead of wasting power by repeatedly punching through time and space to 18th century France. Then again, their programming apparently ''demanded'' Reinette's brain...

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* ArtificialStupidity: The Doctor points out that the robots could have used the windows to return to their repair yard, instead of wasting massive amounts of power by repeatedly punching through time and space to 18th century France. Then again, their programming apparently ''demanded'' Reinette's brain...
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* ArtificialStupidity: The Doctor points out that the robots could have used the windows to return to their repair yard, instead of wasting power by repeatedly punching through time and space to 18th century France. Then again, their programming apparently ''demanded'' Reinette's brain...


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** The Doctor interrogates one of the robots about what happened to the fifty people aboard the spaceship, growing infuriated by the robot repeating "We did not have the parts," until he pauses in horrified realization. "You didn't have the parts, so you ''used the crew."'' Rose and Mickey at once recall their own gruesome discoveries, and that the flight deck smelled of cooking meat...
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: During the season's initial broadcast each episode would have a prologue clip on the BBC website, and the clip for this episode showed the moments after the ship was initially damaged, where one of the injured crew is initially glad to see the robots and begs them to help her, then screams when they move to attack her. Anyone who saw that clip could hazard a guess about what happened to the crew, and had their guess confirmed when the eye in the camera and the heart wired into the machinery showed up.

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: During the season's initial broadcast each episode would have a prologue clip on the BBC website, website before the episode proper aired, and the clip for this episode showed the moments after the ship was initially damaged, where one of the injured crew is initially glad to see the robots and begs them to help her, then screams when they move to attack her. Anyone who saw that clip could hazard a guess about what happened to the crew, and had their guess confirmed when the eye in the camera and the heart wired into the machinery showed up.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: During the season's initial broadcast each episode would have a prologue clip on the BBC website, and the clip for this episode showed the moments after the ship was initially damaged, where one of the injured crew is initially glad to see the robots and begs them to help her, then screams when they move to attack her. Anyone who saw that clip could hazard a guess about what happened to the crew, and had their guess confirmed when the eye in the camera and the heart wired into the machinery showed up.
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'''Production code:''' 2.4
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-->'''Rose:''' ({{Beat}}) … Someone cooking.

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-->'''Rose:''' ({{Beat}}) (''{{Beat}}'') [[OhCrap Someone cooking.cooking]].
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-->'''Rose:''' ({{Beat}}) … Someone cooking.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Flesh plus heat. ''Barbecue.''
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Crosswicking Dismembering The Body.

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* DismemberingTheBody: The Doctor discovers that a group of clockwork androids killed and dismembered the crew of a damaged ship after taking the instructions to repair the place with anything available a bit too literally, hacking up the bodies and [[HumanResources harvesting the organs as substitutes for electrical parts]].
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** Averted in regards to the season’s Arc Words, as Moffat was not informed of the “Torchwood” arc.


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* TheEndingChangesEverything: The closing shot reveals that the ship was named the SS Madame de Pompadour, explaining their choice to pursue the HistoricalDomainCharacter.
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* TheSlowPath: TropeNamer.

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* TheSlowPath: TropeNamer.It's the {{Trope Namer|s}}.
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* SignatureLine: Just look at how many times the exchange between Mickey and the Doctor about the horse/pre-revolutionary France is quoted on this page. Just look at it!
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** Sexually aggressive women.
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The one where the Doctor gets an android drunk.

Hold on to your hearts — king of nightmares Creator/StevenMoffat is in the writer's seat. This episode was nominated for a Nebula and won a Hugo.

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The JustForFun/{{The one where w|ith}}here the Doctor gets an android drunk.

Hold on to your hearts — king of nightmares Creator/StevenMoffat is in the writer's seat. This episode was nominated for a Nebula UsefulNotes/{{Nebula|Award}} and won a Hugo.UsefulNotes/{{Hugo|Award}}.

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