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We're back from break to talk about series 9 episode 12, "Hell Bent"! Christmas is almost here, so the RNG gave us a break from Christmas specials, which is nice. A bird-involved incident has occurred and the Doctor became twisted about it. Will he be able to do a coup big enough to justify the Crisp Chipnall type numbers of years he spent in a pre-prison prison coin? Well, let's just sa...

The Christmas Era continues! Friend of the show Gigalithic joins us this week to talk about the 2011 Christmas special, "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe"! This is the episode where Steven decided to do festive gender essentialism for an hour, and not even Bill Bailey can salvage it. On the bright side, at least we invented a new word. Sam | Jordan | Gigalithic Cohost | Tumblr | T...

Just in time for November, we're deep in the Christmas Era, watching the fourth 2009 special, "The End of Time Part 1"! Donna's Gambit has worked once again, which of course means that she's in the episode for a few seconds. Meanwhile, we're hanging out with her funny grandpa Wilfred, who we love, and who has a gun. We also meet Harold Saxon (a regular guy) and Barack Obama (a Harold Sax...

Jodie's Gambit works at last, and the RNG has sent us back for more Flux with series 13 episode 4, "Village of the Angels"! We've both rewatched "Once, Upon Time" to try to remember what the heck was going on here, and we've got two entire opinions about it. It's classic Flux, in that Yaz fails the Yaz test (doesn't do anything) and Dan fails the Dan test (doesn't kill any Sea...

Finally, another Christmas special! We're getting festive once again with 2014's "Last Christmas", in which the Twelfth Doctor and Clara meet Santa Claus... or do they? Or don't they? Or do they? Steven Moffat watched Inception and Alien back-to-back one night and wrote this episode. It's got some cool ideas, and some jokes and lines that are so funny and cool that we get to hear them ov...

We're heading to Cardiff, for the first time but not for the first time, in series 1 episode 11, "Boom Town"! It's our first time officially meeting one of the funny green farting killer aliens on the podcast, and we're getting to know her over a romantic dinner. Meanwhile, Mickey gets a medal or two, Rose gets sad, Jack (Harkness) does something. One of the better episodes of Doctor Who...

We're kicking off Doctor Huhloween* with a classic monster movie monster episode: series 5 episode 6, "The Vampires of Venice"! We're coming back to the night that Amy kissed the Eleventh Doctor. How will he react? Embarrassing Rory at his stag party, of course! After that, we're off to 1850 I mean 1580 to meet some vampires I mean fish who burn to death in the sun I mean they don't I me...

Somehow, we've already completed the Trio of the Doctor! We learned his Name, we enjoyed his Day, and now we will celebrate his Time, in the second of the series 13 specials, "Time of the Doctor"! We're saying goodbye to the Eleventh Doctor forever. How will he die? Wood chipper? Head falling off disease? It's gotta be something festive for the holidays! Also, Steven Moffat is horny for...

After an agonizing wait of four weeks, we're finally going to learn about the backstory of the series 2 finale! We're heading to Pete's World for series 2 episode 6, "The Age of Steel"! Where did all of those Cybermen come from, anyway? Were any of them Parallel Jackie? We weren't asking these questions, but we'll get the answers. More importantly, we'll find out why Mickey was cool! Sam...

Two episodes in a row of Twelfth Doctor and Bill! In series 10 episode 8, "The Lie of the Land", we're getting some big answers, and for once on this podcast it's actually happening when we know what the questions are. Will the Doctor get his sight back after Oxygen? What's in that big scary vault? What's the worst thing the Doctor has done to a companion (so far)? Also, this episode fea...

We've got a great episode for you this week! 😀 It's series 10 episode 2, "Smile"! 😀 This is such a fantastic episode, and we truly loved every second of it! 😀 It's got everything you could want: thrills, chills, kills, and some political themes that are as well-executed as the colonists on [checks Tardis Wiki] Gliese 581d! 😀 Magic haddock! Haha! 😀 Please don't hurt us! 😀 Sam | Jord...

Don't get too excited, blood enjoyers... we may be watching series 3 episode 9, "The Family of Blood", but there's nary a drop to be found here! I guess the BBC weren't too thrilled about having a bunch of children firing machine guns at unarmed men, so they made them into scarecrows instead. They should call this episode "The Family of Straw" if you ask me! Haha! Anyway, this...

We're going back for more How Rose Died! It's series 2 episode 13, "Doomsday", the part 2 of "Army of Ghosts"! The planet is at a critical mass of funny robot guys who want us all dead. We're finally going to learn what that plunger do, which is a real shame for the guy who gets plunged! Turns out Daleks are no joke, despite everything about them. Can the same be said for the C...

Hey, what's going on here? Am I watching an episode of House of the Dragon? No, it's just series 7 episode 6, "The Bells of Saint John"! The Eleventh Doctor is doing some funny monk cosplay and then oops never mind no he isn't. We were all getting excited for a fun time travel story but then he had to go do tech support for Clara. What if people were getting trapped in the Wi-Fi? Would t...

We've got a 100% success rate on Bill's Gambit so far! This week, we're watching series 10 episode 5, "Oxygen", and it's great! Sometimes this show really tricks you into thinking it's good by being good. Let's enjoy a tense space adventure with not-exactly-zombies and try not to worry about how good or bad the show might be next week. Also, play Hardspace: Shipbreaker! Sam | Jordan Twit...

We're heading back to the Satan Pit, and then back a little bit more, to watch series 2 episode 8, "The Impossible Planet"! It's our first time completing a two-parter on this podcast, so it's fitting that it would be the part 1. We'll try our best to be shocked as characters who weren't in part 2 die! We'll also try to forget that the resolution of the Ood is no good. Maybe we're misrem...

We're back, finally, watching our first episode of series 9, finally, with a guest, finally! Friend of the Show Roy joins us to discuss series 9 episode 6, "The Woman Who Lived"! What would happen if the Twelfth Doctor gave the gift of immortality to Maisie Williams? What if immortality was not a gift... but a curse? What if you could delay your execution by making dick jokes to a crowd...

We've got a good one this week! Series 11 episode 6, "Demons of the Punjab", an episode that dares to ask, "what if Yaz got to be the main character?" Well, not really, but almost! The Tardis Team(?!?!) are going back to 1947, moments before the announcement of the Partition of India, to investigate the mystery of her grandma's watch that we saw that one time. Just who are the...

Well! What can we say about series 6 episode 8, "Let's Kill Hitler"? First of all (and I think we all could've guessed this) they didn't do it. It turns out that's only 1% of what this episode is about! Please enjoy this week's episode where we get the answer to a mystery that we had yet to encounter. What an arc! Sam | Jordan Twitter | Cohost | Tumblr | Patreon | Discord | YouTube

This week, we're going back to school with series 8 episode 6, "The Caretaker"! The Twelfth Doctor is going deep undercover, which means he's wearing coveralls and holding a mop and telling everyone that he's an alien called the Doctor. Meanwhile, he and Clara's boyfriend Danny are fighting over her love! Sounds annoying, right? Wrong! We liked this episode! Also there was a robot in it...

Bad news for fans of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: this week's episode, series 3 episode 7, "42", has absolutely nothing to do with it! Instead, we've got a sweaty assembly of losers on a hot, hot spaceship hurtling into the sun. Fittingly, things get "heated" (ha ha) on the podcast as Jordan inexplicably refuses to hear Sam's very reasonable criticism of the episode. Unfor...

Submarine fans, sink down! We've got ourselves an extremely damp episode of Doctor Who this week: S7E9, "Cold War"! We just can't get away from Mark Gatiss lately, but at least this is some of his better work. We don't like it, but it could've been worse! On our bonus episodes, we've already met some Ice Warriors way back in the Second Doctor era! How will Skaldak skal-stack up? Well, he...

We're still on the lookout for the fabled Good Clara episodes, but this week we've got a Very Bad Clara episode - but not quite in the way we're used to! In S8E10, "In the Forest of the Night", Clara is actually totally fine, besides one thing she does that is absolutely nuts. Speaking of nuts, there's a massive forest covering the entire planet, and some of the trees have nuts! Well, th...

On this week's suspiciously timely episode, we swear the RNG selected for us series 2 episode 7, "The Idiot's Lantern"! The Doctor and Rose go back in time to Queen Elizabeth's coronation! It's not really about that though, it's more about how TV kills you. Mark Gatiss is writing this week, but was he thinking? We may never know! Sam | Jordan Twitter | Cohost | Tumblr | Patreon | Discord...

We've stepped back an episode after last week's anniversary special for S7E13, "The Name of the Doctor"! Will we learn his name? Will it be something cool, something funny, something sad? Will it win Name of the Year 2013? And just how much of a difference can one episode make in Steven's writing? Also, arguably more importantly, we finally find out what Clara's deal is! Well, that was f...