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The Doctor and Mel decide to go and visit a famous housing project (because it has a nice pool), but it turns out that all of the fit adults left years before to fight a war. The block has devolved into a bizarre sort of anarchy, inhabited by color-themed all-female youth gangs called "Kangs" who use crazy terminology, rampaging janitor robots, cannibalistic old women, rule-obsessed security guys led by a guy who looks suspiciously like [[Adolf Hitler]], a lone quixotic draft-dodger, and the disembodied mind of the block's [[Ax Crazy]] architect.
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* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Fizzade
* [[Book Ends]]: The Doctor begins and ends the serial politely doffing his hat to what appears to be some kind of disused water pipe.
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'''The Doctor:''' Well, you never can tell. }}
* [[Bothering
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: the Kangs
** Possibly a subversion, given that, although they are certainly color coded, there is no actual difference between the three groups of Kangs.
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* [[Enemy Mine]]: All the warring factions have to pull together against the threat of Kroagnon.
* [[Evil Old Folks]]
* [[Fan Service]]:
* [[Future Slang]]
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Kroagnon on the Chief Caretaker
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* [[Large Ham]]: the Chief Caretaker, especially after Kroagnon possesses him.
* [[Lawful Stupid]]: the Caretakers
* [[Locking MacGyver in
* [[Mad Artist]]: Kroagnon
* [[Malevolent Architecture]]: Kroagnon was on the point of turning Paradise Towers into this when his clients caught him at it and imprisoned him. His previous project Miracle City did end up like this. [[Stealth Pun|It was a miracle anyone got out alive.]]
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* [[Ominous Multiple Screens]]
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: According to [[Word of God]] (and the novelization), both Tabby and Tilda.
* [[Putting
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Pex}}
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]
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* [[Strange Salute]]: the Kang's elaborate "how do you do" ritual, which looks like a [[Shout
* [[Teenage Wasteland]]
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?]]: as usual during this era, there are political subtexts, but [[Word of God]] has specifically denied fan theories that the red, blue and yellow Kangs were a reference to the colours of the UK's three major political parties at the time.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: acknowleged inspiration from the novel ''High Rise'' by [[
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