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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''Twelfth Doctor Era'''\\
'''Series 10:''' [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio CS]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot 1]] | '''2''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E3ThinIce 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E4KnockKnock 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorld 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand 8]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9EmpressOfMars 9]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E10TheEatersOfLight 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime 11]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls 12]] | [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime CS]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice <<< Series 9]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth Series 11 >>>]]''']]-]]]
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->Written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce\\
Directed by Lawrence Gough\\
'''Air date:''' 22 April 2017




Written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce.

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\nWritten by Frank Cottrell-Boyce.\n----
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* KillerRabbit: The emojibots are short, round, CuteMachines that will ''murder you'' of they detect unhappiness.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[TitleDrop Smile]] like you mean it. We're not joking.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[TitleDrop Smile]] [[Music/TheKillers like you mean it.it]]. We're not joking.]]
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: The city is beautiful and inhabited by friendly-looking and helpful robots, and food is plentiful. Too bad that the fertilizer is humans and if you show unhappiness the robots turn you into skeletons and grind that into said fertilizer.

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* CrapsaccharineWorld: The city is beautiful and inhabited by friendly-looking and helpful robots, and food is plentiful. Too bad that the fertilizer is humans humans, and if you show unhappiness the robots turn you into skeletons and grind that into said fertilizer.



* EternalEnglish: The Doctor is skeptical of a robot from Earth's far future sharing a language with 21[[superscript:st]] century Bill, even if both are speaking "English". It turns out that the robots speak emoji, which Bill understands but is still not English.

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* EternalEnglish: The Doctor is skeptical of a robot from Earth's far future sharing a language with 21[[superscript:st]] century Bill, even if both are speaking "English". It turns out that the robots speak emoji, which Bill understands understands, but is still not English.
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* BigBad: The Vardy. They're responsible for all the deaths that occurred, but not out of malice but out of simply fulfilling their purpose. Unusually when dealing with an out of control AI, the Doctor chooses to reprogramme them rather than destroy them.
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The one with emojis.

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The one with JustForFun/TheOneWith emojis.
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Definition Only now


* PlotHole: When the Doctor and Bill first arrive at the colony, the Doctor remarks that it's one of the first human colonies. However, when they explore it, they debate amongst themselves whether humans are supposed to live there. It's likely the earliest conversation (which involved the characters talking over wide shots) was added in ADR to make the plot clearer. Also, while the place looks perfect for humans, they don't see any, thus causing confusion in-universe.
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* SymbolFace: The titular Emojibots are humanoid service robots whose faces consist of LED displays that show various emojis to indicate their moods and intentions. Throughout the episode, the Doctor and Bill use these emojis to gauge how good of a job they're doing at pretending to be happy so that the Emojibots don't attack them.
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* AlienLunch: Bill isn't bothered when the Doctor says the food cubes are algae; after all, it means humans no longer kill for food. The Doctor of course has to chime in...
-->'''The Doctor:''' I met an emperor made of algae once. [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction He fancied me.]]
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* CallBack:
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* FadSuper: The story gives us killer robots with Emoji faces and a white, Apple Store-esque design.
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Still not an arc word!


* {{Arc Word|s}}: "Oath", which is related to "promise" from the preceding episode. Nardole reminds the Doctor that he has apparently taken an oath of some sort to not leave Earth except in emergencies. Which the Doctor breaks in order to travel a bit with Bill.
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581 The Gliese 581 system]] doesn't have two yellow suns, just one red one.

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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: ArtisticLicenceSpace: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581 The Gliese 581 system]] doesn't have two yellow suns, just one red one.
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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581 The Gliese 581 system]] doesn't have two yellow suns, just one red one.

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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: ArtisticLicenseSpace: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581 The Gliese 581 system]] doesn't have two yellow suns, just one red one.

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* GoLookAtTheDistraction:
** The Doctor tells Nardole to put the kettle on, planning to use his time machine to be back before he returns.
** The Doctor tells Bill to stay by the map and guide him through the spaceship, only for her to realise that he's already memorised it and is just keeping her out of harm's way.


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* WeNeedADistraction:
** The Doctor tells Nardole to put the kettle on, planning to use his time machine to be back before he returns.
** The Doctor tells Bill to stay by the map and guide him through the spaceship, only for her to realise that he's already memorised it and is just keeping her out of harm's way.

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Misuse of the trope.


* BlobMonster: A variation. The Vardy make up the entire city.



* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Bill works out why the Doctor prefers the police box look.
-->'''Bill:''' You don't call the helpline because you ''are'' the helpline.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The Doctor tells Bill they've landed back in his office, the moment after they left. Bill opens the door and comments that it's snowing, at which point the Doctor steps outside, and deduces that they're in London, standing on the frozen River Thames... and then an elephant walks up.
* CommLinks: The nanomachines turn your ears into these. It's an upgrade to hear at a distance.
* TheComputerIsYourFriend: Happiness is mandatory, citizen. Failure to smile will be rectified with immediate death and subsequent recycling.
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Bill works out why the Doctor prefers the police box look.
-->'''Bill:''' You don't call the helpline because you ''are'' the helpline.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The Doctor tells Bill they've landed back in his office, the moment after they left. Bill opens the door and comments that it's snowing, at which point the Doctor steps outside, and deduces that they're in London, standing on the frozen River Thames... and then an elephant walks up.
* CommLinks: The nanomachines turn your ears into these. It's an upgrade to hear at a distance.
* TheComputerIsYourFriend: Happiness is mandatory, citizen. Failure to smile will be rectified with immediate death and subsequent recycling.
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* ExactWords: The robots were programmed to make sure the colonists were kept happy and their needs met. Computers can only follow instructions they have been given, and they follow those instructions exactly. They don't have morals or emotions. When the AI observed sadness "spreading" from person to person, it assumed it was dealing with a plague that contradicted its prime programming ("keep people happy"), so it started killing people to stop what it perceived as a disease from spreading. All because the AI hadn't been given instructions in how to react in that situation.

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* ExactWords: The robots were programmed to make sure the colonists were kept happy and their needs met. Computers can only follow instructions they have been given, and they follow those instructions exactly. They don't have morals or emotions. When the AI A.I. observed sadness "spreading" from person to person, it assumed it was dealing with a plague that contradicted its prime programming ("keep people happy"), so it started killing people to stop what it perceived as a disease from spreading. All because the AI A.I. hadn't been given instructions in how to react in that situation.



* HumanResources: The mineral fertiliser is made of ground human bones.



* HumanResources: The mineral fertiliser is made of ground human bones.



* LiteralGenie: Why the AI was killing people to prevent the spread of "sadness" which it perceived as a plague due to how it "spread". Just a reminder, computers don't have emotions or morals, they simply follow the instructions they are given [[ExactWords exactly]].

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* LiteralGenie: Why the AI A.I. was killing people to prevent the spread of "sadness" which it perceived as a plague due to how it "spread". Just a reminder, computers don't have emotions or morals, they simply follow the instructions they are given [[ExactWords exactly]].



* OneToMillionToOne: The Vardy have come together to form a city.



* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Vardy have come together to form a city.



-->''"[[GirlyRun ...Penguin with its arse on fire.]]"''

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-->''"[[GirlyRun ...->''"[[GirlyRun ...Penguin with its arse on fire.]]"''
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* EmbarrassingBrowserHistory: The Doctor tells Bill to stay away from his browser history.
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* ArcWord: "Oath", which is related to "promise" from the preceding episode. Nardole reminds the Doctor that he has apparently taken an oath of some sort to not leave Earth except in emergencies. Which the Doctor breaks in order to travel a bit with Bill.

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* ArcWord: {{Arc Word|s}}: "Oath", which is related to "promise" from the preceding episode. Nardole reminds the Doctor that he has apparently taken an oath of some sort to not leave Earth except in emergencies. Which the Doctor breaks in order to travel a bit with Bill.
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* ExactWords: The robots were programmed to make sure the colonists were kept happy and their needs met. Computers can only follow instructions they have been given, and they follow those instructions exactly. They don't have morals or emotions. When the AI observed sadness "spreading" from person to person, it assumed it was dealing with a plague that contradicted its prime programming ("keep people happy"), so it started killing people to stop what it perceived as a disease from spreading. All because the AI hadn't been given instructions in how to react in that situation.

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