| 1 | * HamAndCheese: The story features SpecialEffectFailure, NoBudget, [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign a kindly monster that happens to look like a giant cock and balls]], and Creator/TomBaker cracking himself up by cramming as many knob jokes and fellatio innuendos into his performance as possible. |
| 2 | * HarsherInHindsight: The Doctor jokes that Time Lords have 90 lives and that he has lived through 130 of them. [[spoiler:"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]" revealed that the Doctor has indeed lived many lives due to the Time Lords' erasing his memory to protect the secret of his true identity.]] |
| 3 | * NoYay: The creature has a staggeringly phallic character design, and Creator/TomBaker has an outrageous amount of fun exploiting that by playing his relationship with the monster as sexually as he could get away with. Particularly when he's looking at it while licking his lips and touching his mouth, going towards it and then seeming suddenly intimidated by the size. Or caressing it with his cheek with his eyes closed in ecstasy. [[RefugeInAudacity Or putting the end of its big tentacle in his mouth and sucking on it]]. |
| 4 | * {{Padding}}: Adrasta's death at the start of the fourth episode should by all rights resolve the story's main conflict, yet it continues with the newly-established threat of Erato's people having set in motion a plot to destroy Chloris, and then ''that'' subplot being further padded out when one of Adrasta's flunkies comes back into the story to further delay the solution to this new problem. The story could easily be edited down into a three-parter by cutting a few of the more extraneous parts from the first three episodes in order to make room for Adrasta's death and the final scene from the fourth episode, and it would lose very little. |
| 5 | * ReplacementScrappy: Creator/DavidBrierly's K9 voice is far less popular than Creator/JohnLeeson's, with most fans feeling it lacks the same charm. |
| 6 | * SpecialEffectsFailure: The titular Creature in the Pit bore an uncanny resemblance to a giant penis and scrotum, which led the whole crew to burst into laughter when they first saw it during taping[[note]]work on the prop fell behind schedule, meaning it was not available for rehearsals[[/note]]. After the first studio sessions were recorded, the Creature was hastily remodelled for the next by the simple expedient of changing its front end, but it was then easy to spot the join. |
| 7 | * UnfortunateCharacterDesign: The creature from the pit -- Oh '''God''' the creature! Take a look at [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/3b70dd8bbde2a83011d6e8302c83ab19/tumblr_inline_nddoowCmlC1slakn1.jpg this]] design of the alien, and what the Doctor is doing to "communicate" with it. The first line on the recap page is in no way, shape, or form an exaggeration. |
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