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2'''Eleventh Doctor Era'''\
3'''Series 6:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler 8]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors 9]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex 11]] | '''12''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong 13]] | [[Recap/DoctorWho2011CSTheDoctorTheWidowAndTheWardrobe CS]]\
4'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour <<< Series 5]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Series 7 >>>]]''']]-]]]
5!Closing Time
6[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Closing_Time_8213.jpg]]
7[[caption-width-right:350:Just a little pit stop on the farewell tour...]]
8->Written by Gareth Roberts\
9Directed by Steve Hughes\
10'''Production code:''' 2.12\
11'''Air date:''' 24 September 2011
12
13->''"You've noticed something. You've got your noticing face on. I have nightmares about that face."''
14-->-- '''Craig Owens'''
15
16JustForFun/TheOneWith '''''STORMAGEDDON, DARK LORD OF ALL.'''''
17
18The penultimate episode of the 2011 ''Series/DoctorWho'' season. It is a SequelEpisode to the 2010 episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]", bringing back Craig and Sophie.
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21Staff close up a contemporary department store at night, complaining of brief power flickers in the lights. One woman enters the changing rooms, appalled at the mess, but discovers someone still in one of the cubicles. She goes to open the door, telling them the store is closing up, but soon lets out a scream...
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23Craig now lives in a nice big house with his girlfriend Sophie and their baby boy Alfie. Sophie is not present for the weekend, leaving the baby with Craig. And although Craig insists he can be responsible, several of Sophie's friends and family call to check up on him, leaving him feeling quite unsure of himself as a father.
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25Someone knocks on his door, and Craig is surprised to find the Doctor there. He immediately suspects the Doctor is investigating something alien.[[note]]Well, that's the second thing he suspects. The ''first'' thing he suspects is that Sophie somehow got the Doctor to check up on him.[[/note]] The Doctor refutes this, and is only there to drop by and say hello. Why? No reason. He's just making a normal social call in Craig's normal house. That's what normal people do. After [[BabyLanguage speaking to little Alfie]] and learning that the boy really wants to be called [[AwesomeMcCoolName "Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All"]], the Doctor turns to leave as suddenly as he arrived.
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27Outside, the Doctor notices a brief flicker in the street lights. He tells himself he shouldn't investigate: he has spent the last two hundred years saying goodbye to friends and allies, knowing that he is destined to permanently die tomorrow in his relative timeline. But the lure of the mystery is too much for the Time Lord...
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29Craig takes Alfie with him shopping at the department store the next day, and is shocked to find the Doctor there, working in (where else?) the toy department. The kids love him. He's got a name badge and everything (just in case he forgets). The Doctor takes Craig aside, explaining that he's traced power fluctuations to the store, and has heard rumours of a "silver rat". While they investigate, Craig tries the same methods that the Doctor always uses: be bold, be confident, talk to everyone. He's immediately mistaken for a pervert. The baby doesn't help either, even though the Doctor claims that carrying a baby makes everyone act nice towards you. In fact, that's why he always takes a human along. The Doctor has to bail Craig out of a very awkward talk with the store's security guard, and everyone breathes a sigh of relief when they realise that Craig isn't a pervert -- he's obviously [[MistakenForGay just the Doctor's boyfriend]].
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31As the two step into a lift, they quite suddenly find themselves transmatted onto a spaceship -- one built by Cybermen hands. The Doctor's first instinct is to distract Craig from the approaching Cybermen by wrapping himself around Craig, [[HomoeroticSubtext declaring his passionate love for him and attempting to kiss him to prove it]], all the while configuring his screwdriver behind Craig's back. Craig is just extremely confused and dodges, reminding the Doctor that he's already taken. With the Doctor's plan failing quite spectacularly, Craig inevitably notices where they are.
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33The Doctor quickly reverses the transmat before they are discovered, and disables the device. As Craig departs, the Doctor spots a familiar couple in the department store: Amy and Rory. He stops himself from going to see them and instead hides himself behind some underwear. The two are doing well: Amy has become a famous model for a line of perfume called [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife Petrichor]], a scent for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "the girl who is tired of waiting"]].
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35That night, the Doctor and Craig sneak into the store after hours to track the "silver rat": [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen a Cybermat]]. Though they capture it, the Doctor is set on by a poorly-functioning Cyberman in the store's basement, but he is quick to disable it. However, the Doctor is curious as to how it got into the store with the transmat disabled.
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37The Doctor and Craig return to Craig's home, and the Doctor starts to investigate and reprogram the Cybermat to locate the Cybermen. Craig has to go out to get milk. The Doctor checks on the baby, where he learns the child has very little respect for his father. The Doctor tells "Stormageddon" that Craig is trying really hard to be a good dad. And that Stormy is so, so young. He's got his whole life ahead of him. The Doctor doesn't, now being 1103 years old and very, very tired. However, during all this, the Cybermat has become active in the kitchen, and by the time the Doctor returns, it has started moving on its own. The Doctor and Alfie get locked out, and when Craig returns he smashes through the kitchen window to stop the Cybermat in time, leaving the place a mess.
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39With a newly-reprogrammed Cybermat, the Doctor leaves Craig a note and heads to the store himself. Craig finds the note and shortly follows with Alfie. The Doctor is surprised to find the Cybermat pointing to the changing room stalls, and in one discovers a tunnel leading underground. He follows the tunnel, discovering a centuries-old Cyberman ship buried in the ground. Aboard, he is caught by six Cybermen, their entire force at the time. The Cyberleader explains that they were awakened when the store was built, and are now siphoning small amounts of power to recharge themselves and to grow their army to take over the world.
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41Meanwhile, Craig learns where the Doctor has gone to, and leaves Alfie with one of the shop assistants. Finding the tunnel, he enters the ship and is also captured by the Cybermen. The Cybermen decide to convert Craig into a new warrior, and put him into the cybernetic transformation device. The Doctor pleads for the Cybermen to stop and to take him instead, but they refuse. As the process nears its end Alfie's cries, heard through monitors the Cybermen have in the store, echo through the ship. Craig, on hearing this, fights to be the best dad he can be, and rejects the cybernetic transformation. The emotional feedback of ThePowerOfLove causes the other Cybermen to regain their full consciousness and sanity. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel As happened before]], the ensuing BodyHorror causes them to overload, and they die in anguish. It sends the ship into a self-destruct cycle. The Doctor and Craig safely escape while the ship explodes, the damage confined to the rocky underground chamber. Craig quickly reunites with Alfie, and the Doctor comments that Alfie now finally considers Craig to be his dad.
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43After a long sleep, Craig wakes up to find his home spotless and the damage from the night before cleaned up. The Doctor appears and admits he time-travelled to complete all the work in time before Sophie arrived home. He explains, with sadness and resignation, that he is now [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut off to America]]. Craig gives him a Stetson hat from a mate's stag night, while the Doctor borrows four deep-blue envelopes. As Sophie arrives the Doctor vanishes, leaving Craig to explain what happened that weekend. And why Alfie's first word is "Doctor".
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45The Doctor walks slowly to his TARDIS, a slow, purposeful stride in his step. Three children watch him enter the TARDIS, and suddenly we're hearing their voices, as adults, commenting on how sad the Doctor looked that day.
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47Dr. River Song, in the 51[[superscript:st]] century, has earned her degree in archaeology, specialising in the Doctor's history. Now studying the last days of the Doctor, she reads the testimonies of those children. She is surprised when Madame Kovarian enters her room with two of the Silents. Her childhood memories have been quite thoroughly wiped, and she doesn't remember anything about the Silence from her first regeneration. Kovarian tells River that there was no place for her to hide, and that the Silence still have a use for her. They grab her, and soon we see River, trapped in an astronaut's suit, sinking to the bottom of Lake Silencio to wait for the Doctor's arrival.
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49----
50!!Tropes:
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52* AccidentalPervert: Craig comes off this way in the lingerie department, resulting in Kelly calling security on him. The Doctor accidentally opens the curtain on an occupied stall in the changing room, and then recommends she choose the red one.
53* TheAce: Once again, the Doctor shows up and handles everything wonderfully and everyone loves him and Craig can barely manage.
54* ActorAllusion: Creator/KarenGillan was a model in real life.
55* AliensInCardiff: Aliens in Colchester. ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger Again.]]''
56* AmbiguousSituation: The origins of the Cybermen in this episode are completely unexplored. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar Like the Twelfth Cyber-Legion shown earlier in Series 6]], they reuse the 2006 "Pete's World" props but lack the Cybus logo on their chests. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls With the much later revelation]] that Cybermen have multiple origins among countless civilisations thanks to parallel evolution plus the fact that the Cybermen are [[PlotIrrelevantVillain not the main focus of the episode]], [[MST3KMantra it's likely not too important to worry about.]]
57* AscendedFanGirl: River, working on her degree in archaeology, has been researching the Doctor.
58* AssimilationPlot: The Cybermen are upgrading again.
59* AwesomeMcCoolname: Craig's baby, Alfie, prefers "Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All".
60* BabysFirstWords: Alfie's first word is "Doctor".
61* BabyLanguage: The Doctor speaks it.
62-->'''The Doctor:''' It's not his fault he doesn't have mammary glands... No, neither do I.
63* BigBad: The Cybermen.
64* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The first two innocent deaths are black people; Shona and George.
65* BottleEpisode: This episode takes place mostly in an entirely pedestrian, modern-day department store and Craig's house.
66* BreatherEpisode: Quite light and fluffy in comparison to the last two episodes. The breather ends before the episode itself ends, however.
67* BrickJoke: When the Doctor first shows up at Craig's house, Craig sarcastically asks if there are aliens hiding in his fridge. At the end of the episode, the Doctor checks the fridge just to make sure.
68* BumblingDad: Craig starts out panicking over whether or not he can raise a child on his own. He ends up a PapaWolf.
69* CallBack: Amy's perfume being advertised in the store is called "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife Petrichor]]" -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited for the girl who's]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour tired of waiting]].
70* CallForward: We see how the Doctor got the Stetson and envelopes he used in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut The Impossible Astronaut]]". ItWasAGift from Craig.
71* TheCameo: The extent of Amy and Rory's involvement in this episode, although it still manages to be heart-wrenching.
72* CatchPhrase:
73** "Come along, Bitey."
74** "I'm the Doctor, here to help."
75* CharmPerson: Craig is certain the Doctor has this power because everyone loves him, thinking it's pheromones or something. Specifically, telling anyone to hush and them doing it.
76* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Even though he tries to tell himself that he's done saving humanity, the Doctor can't help himself.
77-->'''The Doctor:''' Not noticing, just going! Not noticing, just ''going!'' Not noticing, just '''going!'''
78* ComfortingComforter: The Doctor pulls a blanket over Craig and Alfie.
79* ConservationOfNinjutsu: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]", the Doctor and Rory are able to destroy the whole of the Twelfth Cyber Legion in the first five minutes. In this episode, six Cybermen are able to almost defeat the Doctor, kill Craig and assimilate the whole planet -- and are given the full forty minutes to do it. However, in the earlier story, the Cybermen were not expecting the Doctor and Rory to ambush them. The Cybermen in this episode have had ages to prepare for the assimilation of Earth. More to the point, the Doctor didn't have any time to prepare. Undoubtedly he went into the Cyber Legion with all his resources amassed and a plan in hand; this time he was, as is more usual, working on the fly.
80* ContinuityNod:
81** As we've already seen in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit The Satan Pit]]", the one thing the Doctor believes in after having SeenItAll is his companions.
82** The Doctor asking if Craig named the baby after him is reminiscent of when [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Jackie Tyler told the Tenth Doctor that she didn't name her baby boy "the Doctor"]].
83** The Doctor still hasn't figured out that [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger air-kissing isn't a normal way to greet people in the 2010s]].
84** The Doctor likes having a nametag in case he forgets who he is. [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie It happens sometimes.]]
85** The manner in which the Cyber-helmet closes on Craig's head is the mirror to how one opened in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]".
86** Sophie, once again, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger forgets her keys]] and has to knock on the door of her own home.
87** A robot-like alien menace makes their base of operations in a department store and slowly picks off staff members after closing time. What was the plot of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]", again?
88** The Doctor, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors once]] [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors again]], expresses his dislike of people redecorating.
89** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar I speak Baby.]]"
90** The scene where Craig opens the door in mid-sentence to find the Doctor is a nod to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]". As is Craig's remark to the Cybermen: "You don't want me!"
91** The Doctor tries to give a rational explanation as to why Craig was able to overcome the Cyber-conversion process, but gives up and just passes it off as ThePowerOfLove. He attempted something similar in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]", only to be told to just go with the simple explanation.
92** The Cybermen state that six of them is enough to take over Earth -— a nod to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]", where (because of the number of costumes available) at most six Cybermen are seen together at any time.
93** Once again, the Cybermen undergo [[YourHeadASplode headsplosion]] when [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel overwhelmed by emotions]].
94** Even K9 gets a nod when the Doctor gushes over a toy robot dog he dubs "Yappy" and claims that it's not quite as fun as before.
95** The Doctor has also made the observation "Not a rat; a Cybermat" [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations at least once before]].
96** Sophie's absence is due to her needy friend Melina, who was mentioned [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger in her first episode]].
97* ContrivedCoincidence:
98-->'''The Doctor:''' It's a coincidence! It happens; it's what the universe does for... ''[sees Rory and Amy shopping]'' ... fun.
99* CoolCar: The Doctor leans over a Lamborghini Gallardo toy while looking for the Cybermat.
100* CuteCreatureCreepyMouth: Craig actually considers the Cybermat to be sort of cute... until it reveals its sharp, organic fangs.
101--->'''Craig:''' [[MadnessMantra Metal rat, real mouth! Metal rat, real mouth!]]
102* CutenessProximity: Not even the Doctor is immune to babies. Of course, being [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} the Doctor]], his inanity is still more profound than most.
103* DangerousKeyFumble: The Doctor manages to lock himself outside of Craig's house when the Cybermat attacks him, by dropping his sonic screwdriver right as the door closes.
104* DarkestHour: The Doctor is forced to watch helplessly as Craig, struggling and screaming for help, is sealed into a Cyberman suit, with his face going calm as his emotions are deleted right before the mask closes... and then [[PapaWolf he]] hears [[ThePowerOfLove Alfie crying]] over the monitor.
105* DeathbringerTheAdorable: Meet Craig's infant son: Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All. Also known as Alfie.
106* DemotedToExtra: An interesting example with Craig's girlfriend Sophie. Sure, she wasn't in all of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]", but she was at least a major plot point. This time, she just appears at the beginning to hand off Alfie to Craig and reappears at the end in time for her son's first word.
107* DidYouActuallyBelieve: Madame Kovarian revealing that the Silence have always known where River was.
108-->'''Madame Kovarian:''' You ''never'' escaped us, Melody Pond...
109* DoubleMeaningTitle: The Cybermen take people from the shop after closing time; the Doctor dies tomorrow.
110* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The buried Cybership.
111* EyepatchOfPower: The Doctor wears a jeweller's loupe.
112* FakeOutMakeOut: The Doctor tries one with Craig. Craig dodges. In a inverted twist, the one the Doctor was trying to fake out was Craig, to keep him from looking around and seeing a Cyberman.
113* FlatWhat: The Doctor's response when told about the "silver rat thing", A.K.A. a Cybermat.
114* FluffyTheTerrible: The Doctor calls the reprogrammed Cybermat "Bitey".
115* {{Foil}}: The Doctor to baby Alfie[=/=]Stormageddon. One's just been born, and has his whole life ahead; the other is about to face his death.
116* FriendToAllChildren: The Doctor is a big hit in the toy department because all the kids love him.
117* FryingPanOfDoom: The Doctor uses a saucepan in an attempt to batter the Cybermat off of Craig, but winds up hitting Craig instead.
118* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During Craig's AccidentalPervert incident described above, a man can be seen looking up, alarmed, when Kelly calls security on Craig.
119* GenreBlindness:
120** Honestly, River. A woman wearing [[ObviouslyEvil all black and an eyepatch just mysteriously appears from the shadows singing a creepy nursery rhyme]], who seems to know all about you, and you're not the least bit suspicious?
121** "Alfie, why is there a sinister beeping coming from behind me?"
122* GoombaStomp: The Cyberman stepping on Bitey the Cybermat.
123* HappilyMarried: Craig and Sophie are a strange case. From all appearances (loving relationship, living together, raising a child) they are married, but they're not officially married. They talked about it and decided it was "just a piece of paper".
124* HenpeckedHusband: Rory and Amy are only in the episode for a handful of seconds, and he still manages to be this by carrying her many, many bags of clothes.
125* HiddenDepths: Craig, BumblingDad and chubby FirstGirlWins, is immediately chosen as the new Cyber-Controller. He immediately destroys the Cybermen through ThePowerOfLove.
126* HomoeroticSubtext: The Doctor and Craig being MistakenForGay is a running plot thread.
127* ImpairmentShot: Used when the Doctor regains consciousness after being knocked out by a Cyberman, and then when Madame Kovarian and the Silence knock out River Song.
128* IronicNurseryTune: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors Tick Tock Goes the Clock]]" is reprised to chilling effect:
129-->''Tick tock goes the clock\
130And all the years they fly\
131Tick tock and all too soon\
132Your love will surely die\
133Tick tock goes the clock\
134He cradled her and he rocked her\
135Tick tock goes the clock\
136Till River kills the Doctor...''
137* KickTheDog:
138** A Cyberman destroys the Doctor's reprogrammed Cybermat by stomping on it.
139** The Doctor snaps at Craig for literally kicking a dog. A robot dog, admittedly not as awesome as his [[ContinuityNod last dog]].
140* KillerRabbit: The Cybermat is tiny and cute and has real metal teeth! It's also strong.
141* LampshadeHanging: The Doctor is, once again, [[MrExposition explaining everything]] for the audience to a random shop girl.
142-->'''Kelly:''' Why are you telling me this?\
143'''The Doctor:''' I don't know.
144* LargeHam:
145** It would appear Madame Kovarian had been holding back on us a bit before, eh? That's quite the villainous and creepy entrance.
146** If the Doctor's translation is accurate, [[AwesomeMcCoolname "Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All"]] would also be a good candidate.
147* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Kovarian implies the Silence have erased River's memories of her past with them, explaining why she doesn't recognise the woman who trained her to be an assassin.
148* TheLastDance: The Doctor is on a "farewell tour" since it is the day before his prophesied death.
149* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Craig insists on helping the Doctor for two reasons, and this is one of them. He doesn't need a MoralityChain; he needs a friend.
150* MadeOfExplodium: The cybership blows up as soon as Craig "loves" the Cybermen to death.
151* MadnessMantra: A smaller example than usual. "Metal rat! Real mouth! Metal rat! Real mouth!"
152* MeaningfulEcho: "I'm the Doctor. I was here to help."
153* MenCantKeepHouse: Played with. The beginning of the episode has Craig trying to reassure Sophie and his family that he can cope if she leaves for a couple of days, and it seems at first that it is this trope being invoked. Then it is revealed that "coping" involves taking care of a baby, something for which two people is not too much.
154* MistakenForGay: The Doctor and Craig. "There's no need to be coy these days." Val has more reason than most do for this trope, what with the way Craig and the Doctor act throughout the episode. She sees them hug, and overhears [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Doctor telling Craig he's his baby]].
155* MoodWhiplash: The episode easily has some of the funniest moments of the series, but also features a baby in mortal danger and a nigh-immortal alien coming to terms with his imminent death. Not to mention the ending...
156* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: [[http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Cybermats-front-closing-time.jpg The Cybermat.]] Real metal teeth!
157* NoNameGiven: The Doctor, as usual, but this makes a joke out of it by having him get a job at a shop with the name "The Doctor". He even gets a nametag, and everyone in the shop calls him "The Doctor" without question. Just like last time, Craig is left flabbergasted.
158* OhCrap: "Alfie... why is there a sinister beeping coming from behind me?"
159* PapaWolf: Craig eventually awakens those paternal instincts and destroys the Cybermen for his son.
160* PetTheDog: The Doctor really loves his companions. He missed a once in a lifetime event just to clean Craig's house up for him.
161-->'''Craig:''' You used up your time for me?\
162'''The Doctor:''' Of course I did.
163* ThePowerOfLove: Craig isn't turned into a Cyberman because he hears Alfie crying. [[LampshadeHanging The Doctor tries to explain that's really overly sentimental; it was the Power of the Human Instinct to Protect Their Own Genes, but simplifies it to Love when he sees his explaination going over everyone's heads]]
164* RecognizableBySound: The sound of his baby crying keeps Craig from full cyber-conversion into a Cyberman.
165* RedHerring: The Doctor reprograms the Cybermat to use it as a weapon. The Cybermen simply stomp on it.
166* TheReveal: The final scene solves one of the 2011 season's major ongoing mysteries by revealing the Impossible Astronaut is not River as a child, but River when she's already Dr. Song.
167* RightForTheWrongReasons: Craig appoints himself as a companion because the safest place is with the Doctor because the Doctor always wins. Sure enough, the Doctor is victorious, but it is due to Craig's actions. The Doctor always wins because he has people like Craig helping him.
168* RobotBuddy: Bitey the Cybermat, after he's reprogrammed by the Doctor.
169* RunningGag: The Doctor "Shhh"-ing people and Craig wanting to be taught how.
170* ShapedLikeItself: It's a ''sonic'' screwdriver; of course it doesn't have a quiet mode!
171* ShoutOut:
172** There's a poster for Creator/StevenMoffat's [[Series/{{Sherlock}} other series]] in one of the exterior shots of the department store.
173** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is mentioned again when the Doctor is explaining [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleportation]] to Craig.
174** The Cybermat is shielded. Don't worry, there's an app for that. Better yet, the sound that "App" makes is a sound the RealLife toy version makes. It could do this even before this episode aired!
175** The Doctor quotes the second and third lines of the title song for ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines''.
176** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' and [[Franchise/{{Cars}} Lightning McQueen]] Lego can be seen over the Doctor's shoulder in the toy shop.
177** Bitey's name may reference the Monorail episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ("I call the big one Bitey").
178* SleepCute: Craig falls asleep with Alfie [[TummyCushion on his belly]]. A chubby little man on his chubby little man.
179* SoftGlass: The Doctor jumps through a sliding glass door. Not a mark on him.
180* StaringKid: A group of them watch the Doctor leave at the end.
181* StealthHiBye:
182** The Doctor disappears on Craig and Val as they talk in the store.
183** Sophie knocks... on her own door (she still forgets her keys) and by the time Craig has turned back, the Doctor has once again disappeared.
184* StealthInsult: The Doctor stating that the "Shhh" trick only works on underdeveloped brains... moments before he uses it on Craig. Also, the "Shhh" trick is said to only work once on someone. The Doctor uses it numerous times on Craig.
185* {{Sting}}: When the Doctor announces that Alfie prefers to be called... Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All! the music briefly turns ominous.
186* StoutStrength: Craig, according to the Doctor -- when Craig holds off the Cybermat attacking him, the Doctor notes he must be much stronger than average to have managed it, because it "should have had [Craig] easy."
187* SuperWindowJump: The Doctor comes to rescue Craig from the Cybermat by leaping through a closed glass door.
188* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
189** The Doctor is ''done'' noticing things. He didn't even notice ''[[EpilepticFlashingLights that]]'', for example. And [[BlatantLies he is]] ''[[BlatantLies not]]'' currently scanning around for electrical fluctuations.
190** Craig tells Sophie that "Nothing happened. Nothing weird."
191* TemptingFate: Heh, you're right, Craig, the Cybermat is kinda cu-- '''[[KillerRabbit OH GOD TEETH]]'''.
192* TimeSkip: WordOfGod states that between "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]" and this episode, the Doctor spent the 200 years engaged in the wacky hijinks shown at the beginning of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut The Impossible Astronaut]]".
193* VillainDecay: The Cybermen have taken quite a hit in terms of threat level, what with them being relegated to a LighterAndSofter BottleEpisode this time around. It's somewhat justified as they are portrayed as a remnant apparently from an unseen past invasion attempt.
194* WhamEpisode: Turns into this in the last scene, with Madame Kovarian kidnapping River Song and putting her in the astronaut suit.
195* WhenPropsAttack: In the scene where Craig is attacked by the Cybermat, James Corden is clearly mostly manipulating the [[OffTheShelfFX suspiciously toy-like]] prop himself, balancing the sequence possibly deliberately between humour and horror.
196* YourHeadASplode: Emotions prove too much for the Cybermen, as usual.
197* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The Doctor is in a bad place right now because of the previous episode, and thinks himself a "stupid and selfish" man. Craig tells him that is far from the truth. "Without you, this place would be in absolute ruins".
198----
199->''Tick tock, goes the clock, he cradled and he rocked her. Tick tock goes the clock, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong till River kills the Doctor.]]''

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