- Harsher in Hindsight: Mickey claiming he was questioned by the Police due to being suspected of kidnapping and murdering Rose can come across this way after Noel Clarke was accused of sexual harassment by twenty women in 2021.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- When discussing Jackie's distress, the Doctor adds "Well, she's not coming with us. I don't do families." Give it five seasons, Doctor.
- Jackie did indeed end up traveling in the TARDIS in the next series finale.
- The Doctor tries to talk his way out of the trouble he's in for "borrowing" Rose for a year instead of a day, saying he'd hired her as his "companion." Cue the immediate question about the nature of that relationship. Billie Piper would later star in Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
- The Doctor repeatedly refers to Mickey Smith as "Ricky". In "Rise of the Cybermen", it is discovered that Ricky Smith is the alternative version of Mickey in Pete's World.
- Christopher Eccleston and Naoko Mori would later star as John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Lennon Naked.
- Memetic Mutation: "Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?"
- Narm: General Asquith's death is meant to be a horrifying moment. Unfortunately, his death screams play out on a reaction shot of Harriet Jones, whose open-mouth expression of horror makes it look like she's the one screaming.
- Visual Effects of Awesome: That model of Big Ben being torn apart by a model of a Slitheen spaceship. Pictures of the act of building the clock face prove that the staff took a lot of time trying to build it just right. Unfortunately, the clock face was turned around the wrong way in the moment of truth.note
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