- Genius Bonus: Adipose make sense if you have anatomical knowledge.note
- Harsher in Hindsight: Sylvia tells Donna "It's not like the 1980s. No one's unemployed these days except you!" The episode aired in April 2008. The economic meltdown later that year and subsequent recession would sadly render that line incredibly dated.
- To make it even harsher, the episode is set in May 2009, by which point the economic slump had been in place for months.
- Jerkass Woobie: Stacey Campbell certainly didn't deserve her fate of being dissolved into pure fat, but the fact that she was about to head out on a date in which she planned to dump the guy, due to her thinking she could now get a better guy thanks to her weight loss, made her hard to sympathise with.
- Special Effect Failure:
- Well, more of a continuity error, but during the scene where the Doctor and Donna are in the window washers' cart, and Foster is on the roof, she cuts one of the cables. In the shots focusing on her, she cuts the right cable, but in the shots of the Doctor and Donna, the left cable is the one that breaks.
- Look closely when The Doctor and Donna are talking outside the TARDIS; the interior is clearly just a matte painting.
- Ugly Cute: The Adipose babies are living, walking fat and yet they're as adorable as plush toys. In fact plush toys exist of them
◊. (RTD jokingly noted that he'd lost a fortune in merchandising by creating them under a BBC contract.)
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