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Rose, meanwhile, has ended up in a futuristic ''[[Doctor Who]]''/''[[The Weakest Link]]'' crossover; and Jack Harkness in a ''[[Doctor Who]]''/''[[What Not to Wear]]'' crossover staffed by naked robots (whom Jack flirts with). The casual viewer may be forgiven for thinking that this is all rather ''strange''...
 
But no: it's a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]. All three have in fact landed in the Game Station, which [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S1S27/E07 The Long Game|the Doctor and Rose visited back when it was called Satellite Five.]] The Doctor expected history to get back on course once the Jagrafess was removed, but is horrified to learn that the power vacuum caused human civilisation to collapse instead. It's 100 years later, and the giant space station is now a home for more lethal versions of 21st-century reality TV <ref>Such as "Call my Bluff" with real guns, "Stars in Their Eyes" (literally -- if you don't sing, you get blinded), "Wipeout" (speaks for itself)...</ref>. [[Smash TV|(Hmm... that sounds familiar...)]] Anyone on Earth can be selected as a contestant and transmatted into a game with no warning, but the Doctor realises that any transmat beam capable of pulling him out of the TARDIS had to be far, far more powerful. Someone wants him here, and he's going to find out who.
 
The Doctor and Jack escape from their crossovers; the Doctor by realizing he's [[Plot Armor|too important for the system to kill]], and Jack by... well, let's not dwell on where he pulled that gun from. The Doctor also takes a girl named Lynda along as a future companion. They all rejoin ''[[Doctor Who]]'', but Rose is still stuck inside her game, and she's losing. In fact, [[Mood Whiplash|she's lost, and the host robot vaporizes her]]. [[Christopher Eccleston]] conveys more hurt and loss with his eyes than most actors can even on a [[Chewing the Scenery|steady diet of scenery]].
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'''The Doctor''': I'm coming to get you. }}
* [[Call Back]]: This [[Doctor Who/Recap/S9/E01 Day of the Daleks|isn't the first time]] we've seen a character named "the Controller" turn against his Dalek masters and make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to help the Doctor defeat them.
** Bonus [[Call Forward]], for sounding [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S4S30/E13 Journeys End|so familiar...]]
** The Doctor [[Doctor Who/Recap/S13/E03 Pyramids of Mars|once again]] claims that nothing ''just gets'' into his TARDIS, and his horrified reaction that whatever ''can'' is definitely not anything good.
** The answer to one of the questions in The Weakest Link is "The Face of Boe". Rose gets it right because [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S1S27/E02 The End of the World|she met the Face of Boe before]].
* [[Come with Me If You Want to Live]]: The Doctor to Lynda after he breaks out of the Big Brother room.
* [[Deadly Game]]: Just about all the game shows in the episode except that the "disintegrator ray" is actually a teleporter. Not that it's much better than getting disintegrated when they're being processed into Daleks.
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* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: The Defabricator. Invoked by name by Jack.
* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: "Oh, my masters. You can kill me...for I've brought your destruction."
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Why, two hundred thousand years in the future, are there recreations of ''game shows'' from ''one specific time period''? Simple: they pulled them out of Adam's mind [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S1S27/E07 The Long Game|last time we were here]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: The Doctor after Rose (apparently) gets disintegrated. He snaps out of it in time to lead a jailbreak.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: The Controller, who gives the Doctor the last few numbers in the Daleks' co-ordinates even though the solar flares are no longer blocking transmissions. The Daleks promptly transmat her aboard and shoot her dead, but she's satisfied.
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The Big Brother eviction.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The Doctor's [[Badass Boast]] above sounds similar to [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] character Abslon Daak's [[Catch Phrase]], "I'm gonna kill every last stinking Dalek in the galaxy!"
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Turns out shutting down Satellite Five in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S1S27/E07 The Long Game|The Long Game]]" simply created a power vacuum, eventually giving rise to an even worse television-based regime as opposed to reinstating the Fourth Great Human Empire.
* [[The Nudifier]]: De-fabricator, which does [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. "Ladies, your viewing figures just went up!"
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: The Doctor and Jack's reaction to seeing the 200-ship fleet of the Daleks.
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* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The reveal of the Daleks appears in this episode's trailer.
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: The mysterious transmat
* [[Title Drop]]: For the episode, and also for [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S1S27/E07 The Long Game|"The Long Game"]], providing the context for that title.
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: As the Doctor put it, {{spoiler|he was being manipulated ''his entire life.'' Or his entire Ninth life, anyway.}}
 
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