No, Doctor, I expect you to dance!
The Halloween Apocalypse
- The episode starts with the Doctor and Yaz captured by a bad guy, suspended over an ocean of acid, on a planet that's 4 minutes away from being hit by a supernova. All the while, the Doctor insists that the bad guy hasn't come out on top in their little skirmish.
- The Doctor tricks Karvanista into using her own handcuffs, which are voice activated. However, she can't get them to "release", even when she tries a Scottish accent after presuming she programmed them as the Seventh or Twelfth Doctor (BBC iPlayer subtitles reveal she first imitates 12 and then 7). When she and Yaz land back in the TARDIS, she says, "What a relief"... and the cuffs finally come off.
- Vinder's sheer boredom as he makes the latest of over 21,000 reports, signing off with his usual request: "Go to Hell."
- Dan when he first meets Karvanista and mistakes him for a man in a Halloween costume.
- The conversation between the Sontaran Commander and the Psychic Surveyor. The Commander playfully mocks the Surveyor for looking old and disgusting. They're clones.
War of the Sontarans
- The mocking poses Swarm hits every time he teleports to avoid Vinder's blaster.
- Dan realizes that his parents have been sneaking around as part of La Résistance. His father's weapon of choice is a wok.
- Dan's mum's first words to her son... "WHERE THE 'ELL 'AVE YOU BEEN??!!"
- Dan's parents learned about the Sontarans' weak spot when a drunk man from Birkenhead hit one with a mallet. Dan's reaction is just "Of course it's someone from Birkenhead."
- Commander Skaak's reasoning for invading the Crimea? So much conflict, opportunity, and also... he wanted to ride a horse.
- The Doctor's clear You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! facial expression after Skaak mentions his desire to ride a horse.
- Dan thinks the Sontarans have a strange obsession with Japanese foodnote , telling the Doctor he heard them talking about a "tempura offensive"; the Doctor's face scronches when she hears that. When the Doctor asks if they might have been saying "temporal," he admits that probably makes more sense.
- Dan gets the drop on a Sontaran by pretending to be a lost tourist and claiming his commander was behind him. Then a squad of armed Sontarans show up and he tries it again, less successfully.
Village of the Angels
- The Doctor uses her Bizarre Alien Senses to sniff Gerald’s coat and determine that it’s 1949. When Gerald informs her that it’s actually 1967, she comments that his wife has had that coat a long time.
- The Doctor's sonic really wants to alert her attention to something, growing hot in her pocket. So she gingerly takes it out and starts following it, telling Yaz and Dan to assist the locals, and not to wander off. Dan realizes exactly what it's like traveling with the Doctor.Dan: Says she, wandering off.
- The Doctor gets into Jericho’s house because the door was open.Jericho: It most certainly was not!The Doctor: Well, it was was once I opened it, but let’s not get bogged down in the order of things.
- The Doctor finds Jericho's name fascinating, because the word "Eustacius" would give her a very high score in Scrabble (depending on whether she'd be allowed a proper noun).
- The Doctor is jolted out of her telepathic connection with Claire because Jericho throws a cup at her. Apparently his aim was good enough to hit her even when he couldn't look away from the Angels.
- While ascending on Jericho's house, the Angels ring his door bell, much to the befuddlement of the Doctor, Claire and Jericho, the last of whom even vocally states his confusion on the odd invasion tactic. One gets the impression from his tone that Jericho was a little offended that the Angels would think they would actually answer the door.
Survivors of the Flux
- The psychic hermit that Yaz, Dan, and Jericho meet in Nepal, who spends their whole meeting teasing and trolling them before giving them a three-word premonition: "Fetch your dog."
- Yaz is getting a teensy bit fed up with Dan's Patriotic Fervor for his hometown:Yaz: Dan, you're from Liverpool? Why have you never mentioned it?Dan: Alright, Sheffield, keep your cutlery on!
The Vanquishers
- A Sontaran commander has secretly gotten addicted to chocolate, so the Doctor bribes him with more to get his help.
- A Sontaran commander offers a truce with all species of the universe... except the Rutans.
- When the Doctor splits, one of her selves appears on the Williamson Tunnels and proceeds to be confused about where she is, gush about the presence of her companions and Kate, look confused at the presence of Jericho and Williamson ("A Victorian looking bloke"), gush again at the TARDIS, get distracted by the amount of the doors in the room... and then hug Yaz. The whole scene takes about ten seconds of the scene jumping between her reactions.
- Also, while the camera stays mainly focused on the Doctor, when she notices Jericho it briefly cuts to the professor giving her a little wave.
- Not surprisingly, the first thing The Doctor does when meeting her duplicate is to flirt with her.The Doctor: I have got a huge crush on her.
- Everyone's double takes when they see the multiple Doctors for the first time.
Eve of the Daleks
- Nick stores his ex-girlfriends' stuff in his unit, labeling it with their names. Sarah and Yasmin wonder if he's a serial killer.
- “I am not Nick.”
- Dan pretends to mistake a Dalek for some type of customer service robot.Dan: I've got some stuff I need storing, and I just wanted to see what was available.Dalek: DALEKS DO NOT STORE STUFF!Dan: You're in the wrong job, then, aren't you?
- Also:Dan: I'll report you to your manager.Dalek: DALEKS DO NOT HAVE MANAGERS!Dan: Yeah, well maybe that's part of your problem.
- When looking through Jeff’s stuff, the Doctor and Yaz find a supply of tinned beef and beans.Yaz: Who seriously eats this stuff?
- Nick uses his ex-girlfriends' stuff as a barricade, which a Dalek destroys.Nick: Thanks for the therapy. Ex. Terminate.
- The Dalek doesn't even dignify that one with a response, opening fire on him without a single word.
- On the third loop:Yaz and the Doctor: Time loop.Dan: Groundhog Day.
- Sarah's mum insists on calling her before midnight because otherwise "all the lines will be busy." Despite Sarah repeatedly pointing out that mobile phones don't even use lines.
Legend of the Sea Devils
- During the initial confrontation with the Chief Sea Devil, the Doctor refers to it as such; the Sea Devil- clearly offended by the term- counters by calling the humans present "land parasites". The Doctor immediately responds that there's no need for name-calling.
- The Doctor's "No ship, Sherlock!"
- Dan's ridiculous pirate outfit.
- The Doctor's sheer exasperation that Dan has broken the cardinal rule: Don't wander off!
- The Doctor has taken Dan's advice, and shows off for Yaz, remarking "See. I'm not a bad date, am I?"
- Even when they are captured by the Sea Devils, the Doctor is unusually smug, almost as if she wants to show off for her date.
- It's in the middle of a sad scene, but Yaz's Flat "What" reaction to 13 mentioning "my wife" (River), as well as 13's "why did I say that" mood right after.
The Power of the Doctor
- Yaz having her "meet the ex-girlfriends" moment. Thirteen, who still hasn't told her much, is stunned at seeing Tegan and Ace, the latter appreciating her professor's new body a lot.
- After Tegan rips into Thirteen for never visiting her all those years, Tegan thinks for a moment and concludes, "I think I handled that quite well."
- The Master, still irritated about being shot in the back when he was Missy, takes time to tell Kate "Your dad was an idiot".
- When the Master is taunting Ace and Tegan, Ace fires back by replying that he was half-cat the last time she saw him. The Master pauses a bit before saying: "A man's allowed to experiment."
- As the Rasputin-disguised Master dances to "Rasputin", a Dalek and Cyberman both look at the other like "This man is crazy."
- Honestly, the entire scene, with the Master ominously pulling out a control for the Forced Regeneration Machine, pressing the button...and then "Rasputin" starts playing while the chandelier starts flashing like a disco light before we're treated to a solid minute of the Master badly dancing while everyone looks on in sheer bafflement.
- The Master's stint as "The Doctor" involves wearing a mish-mash of as many different previous Doctor outfits as possible. And playing the recorder, to boot.
- The Eighth Doctor's reason for not wearing any ceremonial robes? He's only a piece of the Doctor's consciousness, so he can automatically wear whatever he likes. Seven rolls his eyes at this, saying "there's always one."
- Graham shows up in the Dalek base, apparently having decided to investigate on his own, and runs into Ace. He tries to use the psychic paper the Doctor gave him, and fails miserably.Graham: Arnold Palmer...son, Volcano Inspector.
Ace: [reading the paper] "Graham, Friend of the Doctor." Oh! "Former bus driver, worried about the amount of Daleks in here and what he's going to do about it."
Graham: [turning the paper back to himself] I can't get the hang of this! - Tegan is still a mouth on legs."Yes, I would like to go in the TARDIS!" *flounces onto the TARDIS and away from a perplexed Thirteen*
- Kate, who has fought otherworldly aliens on multiple occasions, has trouble believing why or how the TARDIS is Bigger on the Inside. Just like her dad in that respect.
- Ian, Mel, and Jo making brief appearances in the meeting of former companions is simultaneously awesome, heartwarming, and funny, for their reactions to Dan’s recount.Ian: Sorry, did you say “her”?
Mel: How many Doctors are there?
Jo: I think we’re going to be here quite some time. - The Doctor stepping outside to regenerate instead of doing it within the TARDIS, while heartwarming, almost reads as the Doctor's in-universe apology for every regeneration since "The End of Time".
- The Doctor’s regeneration. We see Thirteen glow and burn away and see a suit replacing her regular clothes. You expect Ncuti Gatwa there and it’s… David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor. As the Fourteenth Doctor?! The three Flat "What" reactions easily mimic fans' reactions to seeing this.
- Also, his first line after regenerating: "I know these teeth..."
