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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. |
Written by [[Mark Gatiss]]. The working title was "What Are Little Boys Made Of?", but the title length wasn't allowed. |
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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 |
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 desperate—George needs a doctor. |
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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]]. |
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]].}} |
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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== Tropes == |
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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?". |
* [[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?". |
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* [[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. |
* [[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. |