- Angst? What Angst?: While the episode appears to follow immediately from "School Reunion", Steven Moffat says in the DVD Commentary that when he wrote the script he had not yet read the ending, hence the lack of Rose's continuing animosity shown towards Mickey after he joins the TARDIS crew.
- Bizarro Episode: Even by Doctor Who standards. The Doctor rides a horse through a portal in time in a mirror linking a spaceship to a girl 3000 years in the past (who he read the mind of, incidentally) because an army of robots want to steal her brain because the ship is named after her. And there's a rotating fireplace.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: "You're Mr. Thick Thickity Thick-Face from Thick Town, Thickainia... and so's your dad!" At the time of the episode airing, the Doctor calling the robot "thick" meant that he was calling the robot stupid (as in, "thick-headed"). The repeated use of the word "thick" to the point of Overly Long Gag was simply the Doctor being silly, as he often is. However, as of the latter half of the The New '10s in Real Life, "thicc" has become a widespread meme about expressing sexual attraction to someone with Hartman Hips. Taken in the context of "thicc" and not "thick", it would appear that the Doctor is very sexually attracted to both the robot and his dad, and being overly complimentary of their Hartman Hips.
- Retroactive Recognition: Angel Coulby is Reinette's friend on the other side of one of the windows.
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