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Written by [[Mark Gatiss]]. The working title was "What Are Little Boys Made Of?", but the title length wasn't allowed.
A distress call from a terrified little boy breaks through all barriers of time and space, leading the Doctor to visit the scariest place in the Universe: George's bedroom. George is terrorised by obsessive-compulsive disorder, night terrors and by every fear you can possibly imagine, which all live in his bedroom cupboard. That's not a coincidence: his parents thought that locking scary toys safely away in the cupboard would help their son sleep. It didn't work, obviously, and now they're
Cue the distress call heard by the Doctor, Amy, and Rory, who visit an apartment complex. It's time for the Doctor to make a house call. And the Doctor admits one of the scariest places in the universe is a "child's bedroom." Team TARDIS splits up and interviews some of the residents with door-to-door asking and phony identities. This isn't where [[The Beautiful People]] live: little George and his neighbours really just look like ordinary English people, living in an ordinary English [[Crapsack World]].
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The Doctor leaves the happy family again, saying that he'll come back for another checkup around puberty. Team TARDIS goes off to more adventures, but not without a creepy ending tune, complete with the screen telling us of the {{spoiler|[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E08 Let's Kill Hitler|Doctor's death]].}}
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Even though he's [[Playing Against Type]], numerous to Danny Mays's [[Ashes to Ashes|best-known role]] - time-travelling, people thinking they're dead, Rubik's Cubes, a character named "Alex", an [[Evil Elevator]], and someone saying "you're not from [place you claim to be], are you?".
* [[Adult Fear]]: Partly with in the beginning parts with Alex, who neatly captures the struggles and frustrations of a parent of a child apparently suffering from some sort of disorder or syndrome he doesn't fully understand and is afraid he never will - and having to deal with all that as well as a [[Jerkass]] landlord extorting rent you have trouble paying.
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* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Rory's almost Doctor Lite at this point, he Buffies so much. "The TARDIS has gone funny again. It's some time... slippy... thing."
* [[Call Back]]:
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/
** The Doctor [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E02 The Beast Below|goes to the aid of a child. Also a crazy elevator to nowhere]].
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E03 Victory of the Daleks|The Doctor is still asking for Jammie Dodgers.]] [[And Zoidberg|And]] [[Trademark Favorite Food|tea.]]
** {{spoiler|The humans turning into dolls}} felt very [[Doctor Who/Recap/
*** Not to mention that Alex's speech to George at the end was a lot like {{spoiler|Nancy's to her son}} at the end of [[Doctor Who/Recap/
** {{spoiler|The kid victim being the source of all the power and not being fully human? [[Doctor Who/Recap/
** The Doctor makes [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E06 The Vampires of Venice|vampire teeth in a mirror]].
** The Doctor still thinks [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E11 The Lodger|kissing people on the cheeks is an acceptable greeting in 21st-century England.]]
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