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* [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerisation]]: An odd example: [[Terrance Dicks (Creator)|Terrance Dicks]]'s [[Doctor Who Novelisations (Literature)|novelisation]] has the citizens immediately feeling guilty and regretful after Hade is thrown off the roof, presumably out of a retrospective feeling that a family show shouldn't really condone the casual murder of civil servants, even evil ones.
* [[Camera Spoofing]]
* [[Cold
* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]: For conveying Leela into the [[Sauna of Death]]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: This episode contains a plethora of sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes... and satire.
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* [[Plant Aliens]]: The Usurians turn out to be a species of poisonous fungus.
* [[La Résistance]]
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Goudry is played by Michael Keating, better known for his later role as Vila Restal of ''[[
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Villified]]: Initially subverted - the 'resistance' are depicted as brutal, self-interested and venal criminals out for themselves rather than any higher purpose until the Doctor effectively takes over.
* [[Sauna of Death]]: Leela is captured and sentenced to death by "steaming."
* [[Shout Out]]: Leela's attempted execution contains visual references to ''[[Metropolis]]'' (the pod she's confined in, and the control panels). The opening shots of Cordo are a copy of the opening shots of Winston Smith in the famous 1950s BBC version of ''[[Nineteen Eighty
* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: The Doctor plays chess with K-9. He's losing.
* [[Spell My Name With a "The"]]
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Gatherer Hade has an ostentatious manner of addressing The Collector (your Immensity, your Hugeness, your Supernal Eminence, etc), but as their relationship breaks down under the strain of events the honorifics become somewhat insulting, as in: "I fear the situation is worsening, your Grossness!"
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: The Collector, upon realizing the revolution has finally caught up with him, is reduced to a babbling wreck as he slowly (and literally) goes down the drain.
* [[Visual Pun]]: when Leela is captured the Collector orders her status to be set as "pending". When we next see her she's hung on a wall.
* [[Why Didn't You Just Say So?]]: After Leela attempts for several minutes to pull the Doctor's attention away from a riveting chess game:
{{quote| '''Leela:''' Doctor, can I speak now?<br />
'''The Doctor:''' What? All right, if you must. What is it?<br />
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