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'''Mandrel''': ''Stuff the company!'' }}
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* [[Author Tract]]: Writer Robert Holmes based this story on some of the troubles he was having with England's revenue office<ref>Due to having been simultaneously paid by the BBC as a salaried worker in his role as script editor, and as a freelancer for the scripts he was credited writer on</ref>. Some of the floors are numbered based on tax forms.
* [[Badass Boast]]: Leela gets several, but most memorably when the Others threaten to kill her.
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* [[Book Ends]]
* [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerisation]]: An odd example: [[Terrance Dicks]]'s [[Doctor Who Novelisations|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.
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* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: This episode contains a plethora of sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes... and satire.
** When Leela and The Doctor bicker over why both of them ran when told "The Gatherer was coming!"
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** Gatherer Hade's malapropisms alone put this episode atop the Funniest ''Who'' Episodes list.
* [[Curiosity Is a Crapshoot]]
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* [[Loan Shark]]: tax arrears are dealt with like this
* [[Loves the Sound of Screaming]]: the Collector anticipating Leela's painful execution.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: The Usurians are usurers.
* [[Mega Corp]]
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* [[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:
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'''The Doctor:''' What? All right, if you must. What is it?
'''Leela:''' Well, the column has stopped moving.
'''The Doctor:''' So?
'''Leela:''' It is not important?
'''The Doctor:''' WHAT?! We might have gone right through the time spiral, why didn't you tell me?
'''Leela:''' I tried to, but you wouldn't let me.
'''The Doctor:''' You didn't!
'''Leela:''' I ''did!'' }}
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